Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Scientist in the Forum (December 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69341 69341-17310091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:32:18 -0500 2019-12-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-15T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Catching Your Breath (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64792 64792-16444950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A free monthly program for caregivers of adults with memory loss. Designed for learning skills for continued health and well-being. Info and to register: 734.936.8803.

Presented by MI Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:40:03 -0400 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T11:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Two stories: Insights into regulation of chromatin architecture by cryo-EM and cryo-ET (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69860 69860-17474745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Two stories: Insights into regulation of chromatin architecture by cryo-EM and cryo-ET

Vignesh Kasinath, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Berkeley

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:22:24 -0500 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
RNA Innovation Seminar, Silvie Rouskin, Whitehead/MIT (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65144 65144-16541444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Silvie Rouskin, Ph.D., Andria and Paul Heafy Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead/MIT

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:08:39 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
CLEM FACULTY CANDIDATE Seminar: The nanoscale shapeshifting of clathrin mediated endocytosis viewed by super-resolution light and electron microscopy (December 17, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69626 69626-17368343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

Hosted By: Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) Search Committee and CDB

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:46:37 -0500 2019-12-17T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-17T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CLEM FACULTY CANDIDATE Seminar
BIONIC Lunch: Death Positivity (December 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63779 63779-15873597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion in the mere hours we have remaining.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/HK2mP7nMLiB6L9w3A

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:01:00 -0400 2019-12-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Death Positivity
CDB Seminar: Normal and Disordered Human Erythropoiesis (December 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69624 69624-17368341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted By: Doug Engel, PhD

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:28:01 -0500 2019-12-18T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-18T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CDB Seminar - Narla
U-M Structure Seminar: Raymond Trievel, Ph.D. (December 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65707 65707-16629967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:21:34 -0400 2019-12-20T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-20T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
In Conversation: Travel into Infinity with artist Chul Hyun Ahn (January 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69276 69276-17279444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Korean artist Chul Hyun Ahn uses mirrors and light to create geometric shapes that repeat infinitely into the distance. Ahn’s repetitions of circles, squares, and lines resonate with Zen Buddhist ink painting, which aims to transmit complex teachings through minimalist brushstrokes and basic shapes. In this informal gallery talk, Ahn will discuss the techniques and concepts behind his mesmerizing works which have fascinated many visitors to the UMMA exhibition Copies and Invention in East Asia. The exhibition challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation, through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:16:51 -0500 2020-01-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cryo-EM/ET, a Tool to Dissect Structural Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases (January 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69862 69862-17474746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-EM/ET, a Tool to Dissect Structural Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Qiang Guo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:24:40 -0500 2020-01-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Social Media Research: What We Know Now (January 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70694 70694-17619584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This talk will cover how social media has been studied academically over the past decade, focusing on how systematic research is conducted on such a heterogeneous environment. In addition, the talk will describe some of the major research findings regarding social media use including why people use it, under what conditions that use is good and bad, and the social effects of social media use.

Cliff Lampe, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He has researched social media for the past 15 years. His work with colleagues on Facebook use and social capital has been cited thousands of times. He is a member of the Social Media Research Lab and Center for Social Media Responsibility. Dr. Lampe regularly consults with policy makers, tech leaders and the press on issues related to social media.

This is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next lecture will be January 16, 2020. The title is: Mobile Media and Parenting.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:56:14 -0500 2020-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Religion and Politics in Japan: Mapping a Shifting Terrain (January 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69650 69650-17376502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan today, a wide range of religious actors are now shaping educational curricula, social policies, and defense postures promoted by Prime Minister Abe Shinzō and his governing coalition. So profound is religious influence on the coalition that one cannot understand Japanese politics without understanding its religious dimensions. In this talk, McLaughlin will draw on his ongoing ethnographic research on Shinto-, Buddhism- and Christian- aligned participants within Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), as well as his work within the Buddhist lay organization Soka Gakkai and its affiliated party Komeito, to bring to life religion-inspired people who compete to guide Japanese policymaking.

Levi McLaughlin is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University. He is co-author of Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (IEAS Berkeley, 2014) and author of Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawai`i Press, 2019). Currently, he is the 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor in the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:01:53 -0500 2020-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University
Shane McCrae Roundtable Q&A (January 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69426 69426-17318592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Shane McCrae’s book of poems, The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), puts the news in poems and fits the news into history and futurity. His poems speak of both the ridiculousness and the unnerving familiarity of today. Dan Chiasson, writing for the New Yorker, praises McCrae’s “beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality―and often the brutality―of American speech.”

McCrae is also the author of Sometimes I Never Suffered (to be published in spring, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux); In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award, and won the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry; The Animal Too Big to Kill, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness; Blood; and Mule. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the 2017 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:04:01 -0500 2020-01-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Shane McCrae
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Seth Claudepierre (January 9, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70889 70889-17732906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Seth Claudepierre of UCLA will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.
Please join us!

Title: "What's up (and down) in the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts?"

Abstract: The high-energy tail of the plasma in near-Earth space is trapped by the geomagnetic field, forming the Van Allen radiation belts that encircle the Earth. Various physical processes can rapidly accelerate these charged particles to prodigious energies, in excess of one megaelectron volt, on timescales of one day or less. Owing to the hazard that this radiation poses to manmade technologies in space, there is considerable interest in understanding the processes that govern the particle dynamics. To that end, NASA launched the twin Van Allen Probes in 2012 to improve radiation belt predictability, and radiation belt science has evolved significantly over that time. With the recent conclusion of the mission, it is time to survey the landscape to take stock of where we have been, and where we are going. We will thus present an overview of recent advances in radiation belt science, highlighting current research trends and several unresolved issues, with an emphasis on what has been revealed in the Van Allen Probes observations.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:13:39 -0500 2020-01-09T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
Shane McCrae Reading & Book Signing (January 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69428 69428-17318595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Shane McCrae’s book of poems, The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), puts the news in poems and fits the news into history and futurity. His poems speak of both the ridiculousness and the unnerving familiarity of today. Dan Chiasson, writing for the New Yorker, praises McCrae’s “beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality―and often the brutality―of American speech.”

McCrae is also the author of Sometimes I Never Suffered (to be published in spring, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux); In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award, and won the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry; The Animal Too Big to Kill, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness; Blood; and Mule. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the 2017 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:03:27 -0500 2020-01-09T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-09T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Shane McCrae
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (January 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71157 71157-17783470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

How does information affect how autocratic governments make concessions to subnational protest campaigns? I argue the strategic purpose of concessions varies depending on the level of information about the grievance available to the government. In cases where the government has little prior awareness of the motivating grievance, protests convey valuable new information, and concessions are used as a long-term adaptation strategy, to eliminate grievances and prevent citizens from becoming regime opponents. In many cases, however, the government already possesses information that policies it desires to pursue are unpopular and will produce protest. Here, the government has sufficient information that it deliberately avoids or manipulates consultative institutions. Concessions are then used as a short-term demobilization strategy to disrupt a campaign’s capacity to mobilize. Once mobilization diminishes, the government can renege, or deliberately fail to implement the promised concession and pursues its desired policies unchanged. I test the implications of this theory with an original dataset, Protest Campaigns of Moscow (PCoM), which contains observations on 64 protest campaigns held in Moscow, Russia, against the city government, from 2013-2018. Based on extensive data collection from Russian-language social networking sites, mass media, and interest-group specific websites, this is the first campaign-level dataset to include detailed information about the implementation of concessions up to four years after the initial government promise. I find that when the government deliberately avoided acquiring public opinion information, reneging occurred in 61% of cases, whereas when consultation was not avoided, reneging occurred in 38% of cases.

Sasha de Vogel's research in comparative politics focuses on the dynamics of authoritarian regimes in the former Soviet Union. She is interested in the relationship between mass mobilization, state repression, institutional reform and regime stability. Her dissertation considers concessions as a strategy of protest demobilization.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:55:59 -0500 2020-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Sasha de Vogel
HistLing Discussion Group (January 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70206 70206-17547400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HET Seminar | Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology (January 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70973 70973-17760246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

There is a substantial effort in the physics community to search for dark matter interactions with the Standard Model of particle physics. Collisions between dark matter particles and baryons exchange heat and momentum in the early Universe, enabling a search for dark matter interactions using cosmological observations in a parameter space that is complementary to that of direct detection. In this talk, I will describe the effects of scattering in cosmology and show constraints using Planck 2015 data and SDSS-identified satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. I will also discuss the implications of late-time scattering during the era of Cosmic Dawn.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:50:40 -0500 2020-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group: "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact" (January 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70220 70220-17549983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista, Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, will give a talk on "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact: A View from Creole Genesis."

ABSTRACT
From the early years of Contact Linguistics (Schuchardt, 1882), linguists have noted that when two or more languages come into contact, whether it is in the context of L2 acquisition (Ellis & Sagarra, 2011;Tolentino, L. C., & N. Tokowicz, 2014), bilingualism (Silva-Corvalán, 1994; Toribio, 2004), trilingualism (Rothman, 2010, 2015; Rothman & Cabrelli Amaro, 2010; Rothman et al., 2015) or multilingualism leading to language creation (Rougé, 1986; Kihm, 1990; Corne, 1999), it is often (but not always!) the case that the features that the languages in contact have in common promote acquisition or language creation. More precisely, the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes or syntactic structures that speakers perceive as being similar in the languages in contact, what we will call here, congruent features or domains, are likely to be acquired more easily in L2 (or L3/L4...) or are more likely to contribute to the grammatical make-up (and lexicon) of the emerging language in the case of creole genesis.

This paper represents a first step in a long-term research program exploring how new languages emerge in a multilingual setting. It examines the role of convergence in Creole formation and development, using a competition and selection framework. Specifically, it illustrates how morphosyntactic and semantic features are more likely to be selected into the grammatical makeup of a given Creole when they preexist and are shared by some of the source languages present in its linguistic ecology. This is empirically supported in this paper by numerous case studies and a survey of congruent features in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical and lexical domains. In order to show how convergence operates, I propose an algorithm and a model of matter and pattern mapping, adapted to the multilingual setting in which Creole languages emerge. In addition to a set of variables, the model includes both the linguistic ecology (linguistic factors) and speakers' attitudes (non-linguistic factors) (Thomason, 2001) to predict (in a non-deterministic fashion) the features that are more likely to win within a competition and selection framework (Mufwene, 2001). It shows that even when a given feature is traceable to two or more sources, it readily diverges from the original sources and is innovative. The paper also explores cases where convergence does not take place and examines the conditions underlying such outcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:32:14 -0500 2020-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 10, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67246 67246-16829008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:50:20 -0500 2020-01-10T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Kiela Crabtree
Smith Lecture: What Can Little Faults Tell Us About Big Earthquakes? (January 10, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63129 63129-15578780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The physics of fault growth governs the evolution of faults within the Earth’s crust and ultimately, the behavior of devastating earthquakes. With carefully scaled physical experiments that use analogs for crustal materials, we can speed up and scale down crustal processes so that they occur within hours on a table-top rather than millennia within the Earth’s crust.  This experimental study examines the evolution of fault systems with particular attention to temporal variations in fault slip rate associated with interaction and reorganization of faults. If faults slip at the same rate throughout time, then we could use the record of past earthquakes to guide earthquake forecasts. However, with recent improvements to the fidelity of slip rate records, we see increasing geologic evidence for non-constant fault slip rates in regions of multiple active faults. The experiments show that with deformation, the faults can interact and evolve so that their slip rates may vary by ~30% through time even when the loading rate is constant. The observed variations in slip rate under constant loading rate in our experiments imply that earthquake forecasts along complex fault networks, such as southern California or the Marlborough area of New Zealand might not be able to rely on past records of slip.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 08:17:47 -0500 2020-01-10T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (January 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69899 69899-17482964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:44:32 -0500 2020-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (January 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo- Life: How do we find it? (January 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69900 69900-17482970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Discover how scientists search for life on other planets. Explore the field of astrobiology and re-evaluate your definition of life. Observe a re-creation of an experiment from the Mars Viking Lander expedition, and learn about what kinds of planets might support life.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:49:17 -0500 2020-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T15:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (January 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69899 69899-17482967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:44:32 -0500 2020-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-12T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (January 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-12T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo- Life: How do we find it? (January 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69900 69900-17482973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Discover how scientists search for life on other planets. Explore the field of astrobiology and re-evaluate your definition of life. Observe a re-creation of an experiment from the Mars Viking Lander expedition, and learn about what kinds of planets might support life.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:49:17 -0500 2020-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-12T15:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Cryo-ET Seminar: Architecture of the human nuclear pore complex (January 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69863 69863-17474748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-ET Seminar: Architecture of the human nuclear pore complex

Shyamal Mosalganti, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:26:30 -0500 2020-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 11:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
Utopia vs. the City Keynote: Saskia Sassen, Columbia University (January 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70919 70919-17819286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014) now out in 15 languages. Recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 5th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2018). Among older books are The Global City (Princeton University Press 1991/2001), and Guests and Aliens (New Press 1999). Her books are translated into over 20 languages. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, including multiple doctor honoris causa, named lectures, and being selected as one of the top global thinkers on diverse lists. Most recently she was awarded the Principe de Asturias 2013 Prize in the Social Sciences and made a member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Netherland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:39:28 -0500 2020-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Saskia Sassen
RNA Innovation Seminar, David Mathews, University of Rochester (January 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65145 65145-16541445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

David Mathews , MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:03:20 -0500 2020-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: Dynamic Lakes and Lake Dynamics (January 13, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70984 70984-17762333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:44:01 -0500 2020-01-13T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Great Lakes Theme
Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: Dynamic Lakes and Lake Dynamics (January 13, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70287 70287-17564361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:24:08 -0500 2020-01-13T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Great Lakes Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion GLTS
My Brothers Empowerment Series (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70219 70219-17549991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:13:55 -0500 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion -
FellowSpeak: "The Roman-period Theater as Cognitive Microecology: Setting, Seating, and Costume" (January 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69968 69968-17489275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk examines the Roman-period theater as a cognitive ecology, one that supported and engaged different modes of thinking and learning by its occupants during nondramatic, civic and political gatherings. Using cognitive theory as a heuristic framework, this talk argues that the architecture and sculptural displays worked in tandem with controlled seating and specific manners of dress to promote effective learning about social class and cultural and civic identities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-01-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Roman theater at Sabratha, Libya
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (January 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68419 68419-17080051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

Professor Lauderdale will present his working paper "The Emergence of Stable Political Choices from Incomplete Political Preferences” which uses a panel conjoint experiment to look at the stability of self-reported issue positions and issue-based candidate choices over time.

Abstract: "Survey research finds that citizens often give temporally unstable responses when asked their positions on policy issues, indicating a lack of 'real' attitudes on many issues. For some, this casts doubt on prominent conceptions of democracy that involve citizens making political choices based on policy considerations. In this paper, we show that despite average instability in issue opinions, voters can nevertheless make meaningful, stable multidimensional political choices based on issue considerations. We draw on a new three-wave survey of the UK public that includes repeated measurements of issue-specific opinions and of the political choices respondents make when confronted with hypothetical candidates taking positions on those issues. We show that candidate choices made after 6 months and 12 months have nearly as strong relationships to self-reported issue positions as do the candidate choices made in the same wave as those self-reports, and that choice stability is high when respondents choose between candidates who take clear and contrasting positions on the issues that respondents tend to care more about. Our findings demonstrate the mechanics underlying long-hypothesized theories of 'issue publics': stable political choices can arise from individuals making choices on the basis of the issues that they care about, even when most people lack real attitudes on many issues.”

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:37:41 -0500 2020-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion Ben Lauderdale
“Evolution of vertebrate gill covers through shifts in an ancient gnathostome Pou3f3 enhancer" (January 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71205 71205-17785645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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

Dr. Barske is an Assistant Professor, Divisions of Human Genetics & Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

The talk is entitled, “Evolution of vertebrate gill covers through shifts in an ancient gnathostome Pou3f3 enhancer”.

Trainee Host: Martha Echevarria-Andino, Ph.D. Candidate-Allen Lab

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:24:44 -0500 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Dr. Barske Seminar Flyer
How Yiddish Tales Are Told (January 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69844 69844-17474727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture will explore how first-generation tellers of tales in Eastern Yiddish learned to message their competing truth claims through dialogical means. The competing and contradictory voices within the stories, and the voices mediated by other voices became keys to their narrative poetics. The lecture will begin at the beginning, with Rabbi Nahman of Braslav, the teller of allegorical fairytales; will eavesdrop on the first Yiddish work by S. Y. Abramovitsh, alias Mendele the Bookpeddler. From there, it will proceed to I. L. Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem, who invented the modern Yiddish story, and will conclude by looking ahead to their greatest disciples, Der Nister and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:39:30 -0500 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Portraits of Aleichem & Peretz
Job Talk (Collegiate Fellow) (January 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70302 70302-17564376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Job Talk

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:17:03 -0500 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
The 1619 Project Podcast: Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy (January 14, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70993 70993-17766493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one.


“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:58:04 -0500 2020-01-14T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Food Literacy for All (January 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-01-14T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Others (January 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52724 52724-12974157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on us and them, but mostly them.

Readings to consider:
1. Neuroethics and the Problem of Other Minds: Implications of Neuroscience for the Moral Status of Brain-Damaged Patients and Nonhuman Animals
2. Undocumented Patients: Undocumented Immigrants and Access to Health Care
3. Bioethics and International Human Rights
4. Against culturally sensitive bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/038-others/.

I hear every one else is reading the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:54:03 -0500 2020-01-14T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Others
UNICEF at the University of Michigan- First Meeting of Winter 2020 (January 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71298 71298-17810790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School 4th Floor East Conference Room
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

UNICEF's first meeting of the Winter 2020 Semester will be on Tuesday January 14th from 7-8pm in Rackham Graduate School's 4th floor East Conference Room! Swing by our meetings in January where we will be specifically talking about the situation in Iran and the Australian fires! Join us this semester as we will be discussing a variety of global health/humanitarian crises including, climate change, the global housing crisis, women's health, and more!  UNICEF at UM is a campus initiative that partners with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help educate, advocate, and fundraise for UNICEF's child survival work in over 190 countries.Interested in joining? Come to one of our upcoming meetings or complete this form to get updates: https://tinyurl.com/unicefinterest.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:00:16 -0500 2020-01-14T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School 4th Floor East Conference Room Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
CDB Seminar: Developmental vs Neoplastic Invasion Programs In Vivo: Insights from Branching Morphogenesis and Metastasis (January 15, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70640 70640-17611225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2020 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted By: Doug Engel, PhD

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:27:34 -0500 2020-01-15T09:30:00-05:00 2020-01-15T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CDB Seminar - Weiss
Cryo-electron tomography visualizes the ciliary complexes in action (January 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69864 69864-17474749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-electron tomography visualizes the ciliary complexes in action

Jianfeng Lin, Ph.D.
Field Applications Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:28:18 -0500 2020-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Brown Bag Lecture | Rethinking Roman Nutrition (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71265 71265-17794065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This paper presents some of the first results of the project *Rethinking Roman Nutrition: Assessing the nutritional biochemistry and stable isotope chemistry of archaeobotanical cereals and pulses from Roman Egypt,* a collaboration between the Free University Brussels and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. The project aims to obtain nutritional data from ancient seeds so as to establish a baseline for nutritional values of food in antiquity as there is overwhelming evidence that modern data are not representative for the past.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:04:52 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Wheat Field
HET Brown Bag | Effective field theory near and far from equilibrium (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71081 71081-17774965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss effective field theories for two classes of non-equilibrium systems, one far and one near equilibrium. In the first part I will present an effective response theory for topological driven (Floquet) systems, which are inherently far from equilibrium. As an example, I will discuss a topological chiral Floquet drive coupled to a background $U(1)$ field, which gives rise to a theta term in the effective action. In the second part, I will discuss an ongoing project using effective field theories for hydrodynamics. I will show that chiral diffusion for interacting systems in 1+1 dimensions, which may be relevant to edge transport in quantum Hall systems, has an infrared instability. I will then discuss the fate of this instability.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:25:14 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
MIPSE Seminar | Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty (January 15, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70791 70791-17644316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Solar electric propulsion (EP) is a key technology for human and robotic space missions, and is part of NASA’s vision for expanding human presence beyond low earth orbit. The high specific impulse of EP enables reductions in propellant mass, but at the price of long burn times. Deep space missions re-quire operating times of many 104 hours. Demonstrating that the thruster meets this requirement is a challenge. Multiple life tests of the full mission duration are not practical. The life capability must be demonstrated by combining physics-based modeling and short duration testing.
JPL developed the CEX2D and CEX3D codes to model erosion of ion accelerator systems in ion engines, a dominant failure mechanism. The codes model a primary ion beamlet and charge exchange (CEX) ions from the beamlet. Impingement of main, beamlet, and CEX ions on the grids then determine erosion rates. The models predict time-to-failure, but key questions include: What is the uncertainty in those estimates? How much margin is needed to account for the uncertainties? Estimating uncertainty in experiments is routine, but the modeling community is still developing techniques for estimating errors. In this talk we discuss the physical processes of ion engine grid erosion, how they are modeled, and methods for quantifying model uncertainty and required life margins.

About the speaker:
Dr. Polk is a Principal Engineer in the Propulsion, Materials, and Thermal Engineering Section at the Jet Propulsion Lab, and a lecturer in Aerospace Engr. at Caltech. He received a BS in Aero. Engr. at Georgia Tech and a PhD in Mech. & Aero. Engr. from Princeton. Dr. Polk is an expert in high-current cathode physics, EP wear processes, high power EP, and probabilistic methods to analyze engine life. He was the task manager for an 8200 hour wear test of a 2.3 kW ion engine as used on the Deep Space 1 mission, was a co-investigator in the Next Generation Ion Propulsion Program and principal investigator of the Nuclear Electric Xenon Ion System program. From 1997 to 2001 he was supervisor of the Advanced Propulsion Group at JPL. He now manages JPL’s high power EP tasks and is the Deputy Ion Propulsion System Lead for the Advanced EP System for the Lunar Gateway. He has authored over 100 papers and has received 7 best paper awards at the Intl. EP Conference and the Joint Propulsion Conference.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=mbd38de4eb55d697d214347b83b23fbd7
Meeting number: 621 559 684
Password: MIPSE20

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:20:47 -0500 2020-01-15T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-15T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Jay Polk
DCMB Weekly Seminar (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70964 70964-17760238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:39:08 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Media, Information, and the U.S.-Russia Relationship: A Conversation with Yevgenia Albats and Amb. Susan Elliott (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69579 69579-17368296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

This event will feature a conversation between noted Russian journalist and scholar Yevgenia Albats and Ambassador Susan Elliott, a recently retired U.S. diplomat, on the role of media and information in the evolving relationship between Russia and the United States. Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, professor of international policy and practice at the Ford School, will moderate.

About the Speakers:

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. She is a 2019-20 Distinguished Fellow at the UM International Institute and Weiser Centers for Europe and Eurasia. Since 2007, she has been the Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly. It went digital in June of 2017 when its distribution and sales were severed by the Russian authorities. Since 2004, she has hosted Absolute Albats, a talk-show on Ekho Moskvy, the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the Chicago Tribune in 1990, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980, and received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists since its founding in 1996. Albats taught at Yale in 2003-2004, and she was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, where she taught institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy until 2011 when her courses were cancelled at the request of top Kremlin officials. In 2017, she was chosen as inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. Albats is the author of the four independently researched books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today.

Ambassador Susan Elliott (ret.) is President & CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, a position she assumed in August 2018. Ambassador Elliott is an accomplished diplomat who held a variety of leadership positions at the U.S. Department of State during her 27 year career as a Foreign Service officer. From 2015 to 2017, Ambassador Elliott served as the Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of the United States European Command. Ambassador Elliott was the U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan from 2012 to 2015. Prior to her Ambassadorial appointment, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Elliott worked in a variety of overseas and Washington-based assignments. Her previous overseas assignments include Moscow, Russia (twice); Belfast, Northern Ireland; Athens, Greece; and Lima, Peru. In Washington, Ambassador Elliott worked on the staff of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Earlier in her career she reported on conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union when she worked in the Office of the Coordinator for Regional Conflicts in the New Independent States.

Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky (ret.), a retired career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is a professor of international policy and practice at UM’s Ford School of Public Policy. He also serves as senior associate of the school's International Policy Center, senior advisor to the Weiser Diplomacy Center, and faculty associate of the university's Center for Russian and East European Studies. Before joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2006, Ambassador Levitsky taught for eight years as professor of practice in public administration and international relations at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. From 2003 to 2012, Ambassador Levitsky served on the International Narcotics Control Board, an independent body of experts headquartered in Vienna and responsible for monitoring and promoting standards of drug control established by international treaties. During his 35-year career as a U.S. diplomat, he was ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held such senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, executive secretary of the State Department, ambassador to Bulgaria, deputy director of the Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. Ambassador Levitsky also served as director of the State Department's Office of UN Political Affairs and as officer-in-charge of U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Relations. Earlier in his career he was a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and a consul at U.S. Consulates in Belem, Brazil and Frankfurt, Germany.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:33:11 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Weiser Diplomacy Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of US and Russian Flags
The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Diasporic Dialogues with E. Patrick Johnson (Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies, Northwestern University) (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70998 70998-17766498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

with reception and book signing by Literati
Cosponsored with the Women’s Studies Department and the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies and the Curator for Black Arts in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing Arts at Northwestern University. He has additional appointments in the Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies programs. A scholar/artist, Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality and performance. Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar, and an inspiring teacher, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies, Performance studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several award-winning books, including his most recent two: Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) and, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (Duke UP, 2019).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:33:32 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
ASP Lecture | Overwhelming Absurdity: Vahé Oshagan’s Discourse of Diasporic Culture (January 15, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69036 69036-17220017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This lecture investigates how an obsession with the absurd informs Vahé Oshagan’s (1922-2000) vision of diasporic Armenian culture across his poetry, prose, and criticism. How has the absurd shaped Oshagan’s works over time? How has it influenced his paradoxical and provocative reappropriation of myth as a mode of witnessing the tragically absurd human existence? Dr. Jallatyan will elaborate on the problematic of the absurd (meaninglessness) as being inspired by a post-World War II European preoccupation with existentialism. By tracing the transformations of these configurations in Oshagan’s meta-historiographic and meta-allegorical works from the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Jallatyan will pay special attention to how the problematic of the absurd shaped Oshagan’s poetics and conception of language. The lecture will conclude with a discussion on decisive and singular features of Oshagan’s dynamic mode of negotiating difference for a diasporic culture.

Karen Jallatyan received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine in 2019. His dissertation, entitled “Becoming Diaspora: Global Armenian Literature and Film after 1950,” draws attention to the specifically post-national and post-catastrophic nature of diasporic Armenian culture in Western Armenian. It argues that finding ways to let Western Armenian language and literature thrive in a multicultural context is the only adequate response to the needs of this surviving culture.

Image: Cover of Crossroads («Քառուղի»), Vahé Oshagan, Beirut, 1971. Painter: Vahé Barsoumian

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:04:43 -0500 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Cover of Crossroads («Քառուղի»), Vahé Oshagan, Beirut, 1971. Painter: Vahé Barsoumian
DEI/EXCEL Talk: Navigating and Advocating Queerness in the Performing Arts (January 15, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71171 71171-17785572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The offices of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, EXCEL and the Spectrum Center are excited to be hosting a student visioned event.

This event will feature an SMTD faculty panel facilitated by the Spectrum Center. All are welcome to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:59:51 -0500 2020-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Navigating and Advocating Queerness in the Performing Arts
Mobile Media and Parenting (January 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70695 70695-17619585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This presentation will discuss the research on modern media, parenting, and early childhood. Dr. Radesky will review her research regarding how the mobility and interactivity of smartphones and tablets have fundamentally changed the way parents and children use technology, and its effects on family interactions. Implications for improved digital design and parenting guidance will be discussed.

Dr. Radesky received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, trained in Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and completed subspecialty training in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Her NIH-funded research focuses on the use of mobile/interactive technology by parents and young children and how this relates to child self-regulation and parent-child interaction. She was the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines about media use by young children.

This is the second in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next lecture will be January 23, 2020. The title is: How Do Online Social Networks Influence People’s Emotional Lives?

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:09:43 -0500 2020-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69568 69568-17366248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood streets in Japan. Against the background of long-term economic downturn, growing social precarity, and nuclear anxiety, Abe’s recently published book investigates how this seemingly outdated means of advertisement has recently gained traction as an aesthetic, economic, and political practice after decades of inactivity. Drawing on the book, this presentation will address the central analytic hibiki (resonance), which highlights the processes in which chindon-ya’s sound is designed to elicit an affective response from a listener who simply “overhears” chindon-ya in public spaces.

Marié Abe is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. Broadly speaking, her scholarship explores the intersection of sound, space, and sociality, bridging sound studies and cultural human geography. Her recent projects examine the politics of sound in social movements, in the contexts of anti-US military movements in Okinawa and post-3.11 Japan, as well as the musical and historical affinity between Japan and Ethiopia in the 20th century.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:42:21 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University
Interdisciplinary Advances in Palaeoethnobotanical Research in Egypt and Sudan. New perspectives on diet, nutrition and agricultural strategies. (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71479 71479-17834191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This paper presents some recent interdisciplinary advances in the study of ancient agriculture in Egypt and Sudan through the lens of palaeoethnobotany. It will engage with the rich tradition of the study of crop selection of the region, looking at longue durée changes from the mid-2nd millennium B.C. until the late Islamic period through a series of case studies from the authors’ own archaeological sites. It will also briefly reflect on some of the first results of biochemical analyses of ancient cereals and pulses from Roman Karanis.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:04:38 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Kibitz & Nosh: NYC’s Vanished Cafeterias (January 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69848 69848-17474728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, self-service eating establishments, during the early to mid-20th Century. Their growth paralleled the rise of the office worker, women’s evolving roles in the work force, immigration, American love of efficiency and novelty, the growth of cities, the impact of Prohibition and the Depression, the labor movement, and American eating habits. Not one cafeteria from that era remains in New York City today. One particular restaurant, Dubrow’s Cafeteria in Brooklyn, was a legendary institution that served as a second home for many of the neighborhood’s elderly residents. Along with another Dubrow’s, a hub of the Garment Center, they provided a restaurant cum social club or “third place” for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers.
New York City-based photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin documented Dubrow’s and other cafeterias in their waning days, drawn to the memorable faces and the liveliness and sorrow of urban life in that vanished world.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:39:26 -0500 2020-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dubrow's Cafeteria, Brooklyn, NY 1975
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Mathieu Lapôtre (January 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70891 70891-17732908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Mathieu Lapôtre of Stanford University will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.
Please join us!

Title: "Paleoenvironmental constraints from quantitative sedimentology and geomorphology: Canyon erosion and sand-ripple formation on Mars"

Abstract: The geologic records of terrestrial planets in our Solar System attest to the volatility of habitability. The history of Mars, in particular, is one of dramatic change that transformed a hospitable environment into the barren land we know today. Deciphering Mars’ geologic past using data from orbiting and landed spacecraft requires using and adapting theory and techniques that were developed for Earth. In return, Mars offers a unique test for Earth-based theory under alien boundary conditions. In this presentation, I demonstrate how a mechanistic understanding of surface processes sheds light onto Martian paleohydrology and paleoclimate through two examples: the erosion of bedrock canyons by water, and the formation of sand ripples by winds. Our results have surprising implications for our understanding of terrestrial landscapes and Mars’ potential as a refugium for early life in the Solar System.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:42:22 -0500 2020-01-16T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
BME 500: Brian Aguado, Ph.D. (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70417 70417-17594466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

he future Aguado Research Group will develop “precision biomaterials” that enable the evaluation of a patient’s unique biology to diagnose and treat a variety of health disorders as a function of sex, age, and/or ancestry. Precision medicine is a movement in clinical practice that seeks to develop therapies tailored for specific patients or subsets of patients. As mounting evidence suggests that the “one size fits all” approach to medicine is ineffective, my future lab seeks to exploit biomaterials as in vitro culture tools or implantable devices in vivo to understand how patient-specific variables may impact disease onset, progression, and treatment. In my talk, I will describe my past, present, and future work in precision biomaterials. During my graduate training with Prof. Lonnie Shea at Northwestern University, I developed implantable biomaterial scaffolds for the recruitment and early detection of metastatic cancer cells, which may serve as a platform to capture disseminating tumor cells for downstream precision medicine applications. My current postdoctoral research with Prof. Kristi Anseth at the University of Colorado Boulder is focused on engineering personalized in vitro disease models of aortic valve stenosis using serum from individual aortic valve stenosis patients to culture valve and cardiac fibroblasts and hydrogels as extracellular matrix mimics. I will also share my outlook for future work in exploring sex differences in cardiovascular disorders using precision biomaterials. In sum, precision biomaterials may serve as tools to improve our understanding of how patient-specific variables impact disease mechanisms and guide more effective diagnostics and treatments for individual patients or subsets of patients.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:27:07 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Brian Aguado
Communication and Media Speaker Series (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70280 70280-17564352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

Since the introduction of smartphones in 2007 and tablets in 2010, the nature of children’s media use has changed dramatically. Given the limitations of parent-report measures for assessing the intermittent, interactive, and immersive modern media experiences, Dr. Radesky’s research has attempted to develop novel methods for assessing media use within the family context. Dr. Radesky will review her initial research examining parent mobile device use in public settings and through videorecorded interactions; discuss development of novel passive sensing methods for assessing the daily patterns of family mobile device use; and present results from content coding and data privacy analysis. Implications for future research and clinical recommendations will be discussed.

Dr. Radesky is an Assistant Professor of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. She received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, trained in Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and completed subspecialty training in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Her NIH-funded research examines parent smartphone use and parent-child interaction, as well as how child self-regulation, mobile device use, and interactive media content interact through the preschool years. She was the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines about media use by young children in 2016. Dr. Radesky also sees patients in Developmental Behavioral Pediatric Clinic at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Ypsilanti Health Center, where her clinical work focuses on autism, traumatic stress, ADHD, and self-regulation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:01:16 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion J Radesky
Taubman Tech Talk: DNA Methylation (January 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71321 71321-17817081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

pigenetic modifications are important drivers of development, health, and disease. DNA methylation is one type of epigenetic mark that can be measured in blood or other human samples. DNA methylation marks are associated with genetics and environmental exposures, which represents a useful tool for public health and medicine.

This presentation will give an overview of current technologies for DNA methylation measurements, describe methodological challenges associated with these methods, and provide evidence-based opportunities for future DNA methylation studies.

Kelly M. Bakulski, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Bakulski’s research goal is to understand the environmental and genetic etiologies of neurological disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Bakulski incorporates population approaches and laboratory experiments to develop biomarker and cell type tools to better inform epigenetic inferences.

CME credit is available to physicians.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:57:27 -0500 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Lecture / Discussion Kelly Bakulski, PhD
Oskar Eustis: Theater and Democracy (January 16, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70386 70386-17594433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Oskar Eustis has served as artistic director of The Public Theater in New York City since 2005. In the past four years, Eustis has produced two Tony Award-winning productions in the category of best musical (Fun Home and Hamilton), as well as two productions that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton and Sweat). Prior to his role at The Public, Eustis enjoyed a storied career that began at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco (1986–1989), where he commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. At The Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff’s Compulsion and The Ruby Sunrise; Larry Wright’s The Human Scale; Julius Caesar; Public Works Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park; and Suzan-Lori Parks’ White Noise. Additionally, he has founded numerous groundbreaking programs at The Public, including Public Works, Public Forum, the Emerging Writers Group, and the Mobile Unit. Over the course of his career, Eustis has directed the world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado, among many others.

Co-presented with University Musical Society (UMS).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:43:30 -0500 2020-01-16T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Eustis.jpg
The 1619 Project Podcast: Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built (January 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70996 70996-17766496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cotton plantation was America’s first big business. Behind the system, and built into it, was the whip. On today’s episode: Matthew Desmond, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of “Evicted,” and Jesmyn Ward, the author of “Sing, Unburied, Sing.”


“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:55:04 -0500 2020-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
MAS Lecture | Rotted Meat, Scurvy, and Neanderthal Foodways (January 16, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71449 71449-17827803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In this lecture, I discuss the importance of rotted (putrid) meat in the diet of modern hunter-gatherers throughout the northern latitudes. Putrefaction "pre-digests" meat without the need for cooking. Anaerobic bacteria rapidly colonize decomposing meat, inhibiting the germination of pathogens such as *Clostridium botulinum* (botulism). Bacterial fermentation also prevents fats from becoming rancid and preserves vitamin C, eliminating the threat of scurvy. Psychological studies indicate that the revulsion shown by Euro-Americans toward putrid meat is learned, not hard-wired, and emerges surprisingly late in children.

Abundant ethnohistoric evidence shows that rotted meat was not a starvation food but a prized and nutritionally vital component of forager diets in northern environments. I suggest that eating rotted meat would have been of similar importance to Eurasian Neanderthals and modern humans occupying broadly similar environments and subsisting on heavily meat-based diets. I then briefly explore the implications of these ideas for understanding the later Pleistocene archaeological and isotopic record in northern Eurasia.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:21:29 -0500 2020-01-16T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-16T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Northern tundra
U-M Structure Seminar: Aaron Landry, Ph.D. (January 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65708 65708-16629969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Research Fellow, Biological Chemistry, Banerjee Lab,
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:30:13 -0400 2020-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Electronics in the Brain – Literally (January 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71584 71584-17842691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Reading the human mind by electronic means used to be the domain of science fiction – and is still largely so. At the same time, technologies collectively labelled as brain-computer interfaces have moved forward, motivated by needs for assistive tools for neurologically impaired people and to advance our fundamental understanding of the brain. An applied example would be the use of electronic means to read out directly from the brain the intention to move an arm or a hand, and to decipher such signals to actuate an external robotic device. Another example is the
reading out brain signals produced when listening to or formulating speech. To access brain’s microcircuits at high space-time resolution requires implantation of electronic listening posts, call them nodes, at a number of nearby locations in a given functional area of the cortex. Which brings up the question of the day for neuroengineers: how many nodes might be required or are possible to implant, and how does one physically implement arrays of microscale electronic probes? What are the data rates involved in extracting brain signals and how to design a communication link to send the data onward for decoding by external computing platforms? What about reversing the direction of the process to use implanted probes to deliver signals directly into the brain (‘write-in’)? Through contemporary examples, this presentation will review recent accomplishments in the field from an electrical engineer’s viewpoint and discuss both the challenges and opportunities ahead to build next generations of brain-computer interfaces while explicitly exploiting many of the early 21st century advances in microelectronics, telecommunication, and high end computing.

Bio

Arto V. Nurmikko, a native of Finland, is a L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown. He received his degrees from University of California, Berkeley, with postdoctoral stays at MIT and Hebrew University. Professor Nurmikko conducts research in neuroengineering, brain sciences, nanophotonics and microelectronics, especially for the translation of device research to new technologies in biomedical, life science, and photonics applications. His current interests include development of implantable brain communication interfaces, microscale neural circuit sensors, compact semiconductor lasers, and high resolution acoustic microscopy. Professor Nurmikko is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Academy of Letters and Science of Finland. He was the co-recipient of the Israel Brain Prize in 2013.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:10:47 -0500 2020-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T14:30:00-05:00 Gerald Ford Library Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Gerald Ford Library
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (January 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71161 71161-17783478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Tom O'Mealia is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research spans international relations and comparative politics. He studies autocratic politics and political violence, with a specific emphasis on civil-military relations, bureaucracies, and leadership survival in sub-Saharan Africa. O'Mealia also researches United Nations peacekeeping operations and other international interventions seeking to stop violence.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:58:05 -0500 2020-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Tom O'Mealia
The Role of Authenticity in Motivating Collective Identification: Insights from a Study of NASCAR Fans (January 17, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70693 70693-17619582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

ABSTRACT

Through two studies of fans who identified with the collective known as NASCAR (the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), I examine why stakeholders identify with collectives that are perceived as only moderately prestigious (given that high prestige has been shown, empirically, to be the primary predictor of collective identification because it enhances identifiers’ self-esteem). Findings indicate that identifiers did not perceive NASCAR to be high in prestige (compared to other similar collectives) and that their identification was predicted, primarily, by “Perceived Opportunity for Authentic Self-Expression” with NASCAR. In addition, across both studies, evidence indicates that “patriotism” – a personal value that was difficult for fans to affirm elsewhere – was the most important value that fans perceived they could “self-express” when interacting with NASCAR. These findings suggest that individuals may identify with moderate prestige collectives because they provide rare opportunities to express values that are part of their authentic selves, and thus, satisfy these individuals’ “needs for authenticity.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:39:29 -0500 2020-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought (January 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71005 71005-17766505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Sara E. Jackson's current book project, "The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought," focuses on the actress as a key figure in a complex of intersecting discourses concerned with gender and subjectivity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her research is interdisciplinary, incorporating a diverse range of published and archival materials including literature, philosophical texts, sexological and criminological works, and theoretical treatises on the actress, as well as letter exchanges, autobiography, turn-of-the-century journal articles, and stage performances. Her dissertation, "Staging the Deadlier Sex: Dangerous Women in German Text and Performance at the Fin de Siècle," was awarded a 2013 Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award at the University of Michigan as well as the Women in German Dissertation Prize for 2014. She is also co-founder of GTPR: German Theater and Performance Research.

2-5pm, 3308 MLB

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:11:28 -0500 2020-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Jackson
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 17, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67247 67247-16829009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:51:48 -0400 2020-01-17T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: Understanding Large-Scale Mantle Convection (January 17, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63131 63131-15578781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Over the past several decades, the geoscience community has made great strides toward discovering the kinematics and dynamical processes associated with plate tectonics. Convection of the Earth’s silicate mantle is qualitatively regarded as the primary driving force for tectonic processes; however, the manner in which this integrated system operates remains fundamentally unclear. A critical obstacle is our lack of understanding the first-order, dynamical nature of mantle convection. Seismological observations are increasingly finding evidence for compositional and thermal heterogeneity over multiple length scales within Earth’s mantle. However, the manner in which this heterogeneity affects mantle dynamics remains poorly understood, and several competing hypotheses of large-scale, thermochemical mantle convection currently exist. It is important to distinguish which, if any, of these conceptual models are representative of the actual Earth because each has significantly different consequences toward our understanding of heat and mass transport, thermal and chemical evolution, and the driving forces that generate plate tectonics. Numerical modeling of mantle convection, combined with seismic, geochemical, and geologic observations, provides a powerful tool to explore the dynamical feasibility of particular hypotheses and to provide observational predictions that can be tested by geophysical methods. Here, I will review recent progress toward discovering the nature of large-scale mantle convection within Earth’s interior by combining geodynamical modeling with geochemical and seismological observations of compositional heterogeneity within the mantle.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:52:51 -0500 2020-01-17T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Linguistics MLK Colloquium (January 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68927 68927-17197025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

As part of the university's Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Joseph Hill, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). NTID is part of Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

The title of Dr. Hill's lecture is "Black, Deaf, and Disabled: Navigating the Institutional, Ideological, and Linguistic Barriers with Intersectional Identities in the United States." The lecture will be given in American Sign Language. Spoken English interpretation will be provided.

ABSTRACT
The term “intersectionality” appears frequently in the popular and academic discourse, but the definition is unclear to many people. Intersectionality, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, is defined as “the interlocking nature of social categorizations that are relevant to a given individual or group subjected to systemic oppression and discrimination.” Through the case of Black ASL and Black Deaf individuals’ experiences, the audience will better understand the elements of intersectionality and the interconnection of the U.S. educational, political, and cultural institutions from 1860s to present. The audience will come away with a deeper understanding of the relationship between systemic oppression and intersectionality and with a willingness to move toward social justice and liberation.

Accessibility:
Ramp entrances are located on the NE and NW side of building. Elevator is adjacent to NE entrance; NW entrance has stairs with lift near doorway.
Gender inclusive restrooms on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors.
ASL-English interpreting & CART captioning provided.

Please contact Linguistics (linguistics@umich.edu) with any additional access needs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:50:08 -0500 2020-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joseph Hill
CSAS Lecture Series | Managing Migrants: Class and Emigration from India (January 17, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70019 70019-17497474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Professor Agarwala is the author of the award winning book,* Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013). She is the author of numerous articles and volumes on class, gender and the state in India. She has also been engaged in multiple collaborative research projects on labor and social movements.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, she worked on international development and gender issues at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in China, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, and Women’s World Banking (WWB) in New York.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:25:38 -0500 2020-01-17T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (January 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69899 69899-17482965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:44:32 -0500 2020-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (January 18, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Taking a Stand Exhibition Tour + Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series (January 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70658 70658-17613299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an exhibition tour of Taking A Stand with Stamps Gallery Director, Srimoyee Mitra, followed by a talk by Detroit-based artist, curator, and founder of the studio and residency space Habibi House, Noura Ballout. Following their presentation, Ballout will lead a group discussion on the book Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volume 1.

Recommended reading: King, Nia. Queer & Trans Artist of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

Noura Ballout is an artist, curator, and entrepreneur. They work in a wide range of creative mediums, maintaining a primary practice in photography. Their work is about constructing and finding home while navigating an intersectional identity in diaspora, which often manifests in the meeting of art and community. Noura is the founder of Habibi House, a studio and residency space in Detroit and is the recipient of the 2019 Gilda Award, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit, a program of The Kresge Foundation. Noura has exhibited their work across Detroit, NYC and Philadelphia, including The Arab American National Museum, Wayne State University, Flux Factory, Salon AlMahjar, and Vox Populi.

Image: Detail of Noura Ballout, Dirty Savage, Construction of the Savage series, 2018. Courtesy the artist.
 
About the Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series
The Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series is centered around queer, mixed-race writer, artist, filmmaker, and activist Nia King’s book series Queer & Trans Artists of Color Volumes 1, 2 & 3. In the books, King interviews fellow queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and “making it” - both in terms of success and in terms of survival. Each event features a guest artist who will speak about their own practice and lead a group discussion on a topic from the book. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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

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

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

About Taking a Stand

Taking a Stand is a group exhibition that brings together lively and energetic work that highlights the ways in which artists build solidarity and shape contemporary culture as active participants in our society. The works in the exhibition encompass photography, interactive drawings, augmented reality, and 3-D film installation. The collectivist impulse of the projects recast the gallery as a catalyst, a site of action and possibility for urgent and meaningful dialogue on culture and politics. The immersive and interactive installations don’t just represent social concerns from our cosmopolitan present, they delve into playful and poetic exchanges with public audiences on empathy and decoloniality to imagine just and equitable futures. Drawing on the themes of science fiction, artists in the exhibition invite audiences to time travel, blurring fact with fiction, weaving fantastical narratives and desires with ancestral knowledge, collective memories, and stories from their natural and urban environments. They acknowledge the vitality of recuperating Indigenous, migrant, and LGBTQ subjectivities and practices to better understand how to heal our damaged planet. Even though these installations are temporary and ephemeral, they foster vibrant liminal spaces for the public to explore what could be done during this time of ever-present ecological and political change. Taking a Stand is curated by Srimoyee Mitra.

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

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-tour-queer-trans-artists-of-color-book-read-event-1-tickets-85182975573

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:15:34 -0500 2020-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Jan_18_2020_QTAOC_Book_Read_Event_1.jpg
Science Forum Demo- Life: How do we find it? (January 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69900 69900-17482971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Discover how scientists search for life on other planets. Explore the field of astrobiology and re-evaluate your definition of life. Observe a re-creation of an experiment from the Mars Viking Lander expedition, and learn about what kinds of planets might support life.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:49:17 -0500 2020-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T15:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (January 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69899 69899-17482968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:44:32 -0500 2020-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (January 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo- Life: How do we find it? (January 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69900 69900-17482974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Discover how scientists search for life on other planets. Explore the field of astrobiology and re-evaluate your definition of life. Observe a re-creation of an experiment from the Mars Viking Lander expedition, and learn about what kinds of planets might support life.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:49:17 -0500 2020-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T15:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Whose King?: Claiming the Man who Died for America's Soul (January 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71072 71072-17774937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

The Director of the Center for Social Solutions and Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy, Dr. Earl Lewis, is presenting the keynote at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History's annual event commemorating the life and times of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The day's events begin with a breakfast at 8 a.m. (museum doors open at 7 a.m.), with an invocation by Rev. Nicholas Hood III, Senior Pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ. Followed by musical selections from Mr. Ken Boyd and vocalist Ms. Shahida Nurullah. The presentation will begin at 9:00am and be followed by a day of free museum-wide family activities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:41:32 -0500 2020-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium | The (Mis)Education of Us (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71521 71521-17836335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The University of Michigan will host the 34th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on Monday, January 20, 2020 beginning at 10 a.m. at Hill Auditorium.

This year’s theme, “The (Mis)Education of US,” will feature keynote speaker Angela Davis, educator, political activist, and author. Dr. Davis is known for her work surrounding social, economic, racial, and gender justice.

Since 1986, the University of Michigan has hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Symposium, one of the largest celebrations by colleges and universities in the nation.

The theme is composed by faculty, staff and students across campus based on its relevance to current social justice issues and the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.

This year’s theme, “The (Mis)Education of US,” acknowledges that although we live in a diverse society, we have not been adequately educated on who we are and how we can best learn, live and prosper together.

The Keynote lecture is coordinated by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives
under the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and co-sponsored by the Stephen M. Ross School of Business with support from the William K. McInally Memorial Lecture Fund, and Michigan Athletics.

The U-M MLK symposium is open to the University community and the general public. For those who are unable to attend in person, they are encouraged to watch the event online or as part of a group watch party by visiting mlksymposium.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:42:09 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T11:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion angela-davis
MLK Day at the UMDC (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70355 70355-17586181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

10:00 AM: Livestream of Keynote Lecture
11:30 AM: Luncheon
12:30 PM: Panel Discussion: Whose Huddled Masses?

Immigration has been a hot topic in the news. Migrant caravans, demands for a wall, and ICE raids have dominated headlines across the country. One could easily see the current environment as hostile to emigrants. However, from "No Irish Need Apply" signs posted in stores in the 1850s to the Chinese Exclusion Act of
1882 to restricting the entry of Arabs after 9/11, the US has always been a challenging place for immigrants to enter. Join us as we place today’s events into historical perspective of US immigration policy and learn about measures to support immigration and immigrants around Detroit.

Moderator:
Dr. Judith Pennywell, Director of the U of M International Center

Panelists:
Deborah Drennan, CEO of Detroit Freedom House
Dr. Ann Lin, Associate Professor of Public Policy for the U of M Ford School of Public Policy
Kevin Piecuch, Executive Director of Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center
Alan Reiter, Detroit Immigration Attorney

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:41:41 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion MLK Day at the UMDC 2020
Susan Rice on Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For (January 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69774 69774-17417492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 am: Please RSVP. Dessert reception to follow.

This event will be livestreamed. Please check fordschool.umich.edu just before the event for viewing details.

Join us for an arm-chair conversation between Ambassador Susan Rice and Michael Barr, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, as they discuss Ambassador Rice's distinguished career and her book, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy—as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—Ambassador Rice's memoir delivers an inspiring account of a life in service to family and country.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:59:42 -0500 2020-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T13:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Susan Rice
Minorities and Philosophy MLK Day Lecture: Tommie Shelby (Harvard) (January 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63899 63899-15979785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

This talk tackles one of the biggest challenges to contemporary black political solidarity in the United States: class differences among blacks. Although they favor class-based solidarity, many Marxists are sharply critical of race-based solidarity and antiracist identity politics. They believe, for example, that this form of politics largely serves the interests of the black professional-managerial class. The black working class should, these leftists think, seek allies among the broader multiracial working class and in the labor movement. Such Marxists also maintain that race-based politics wrongly subordinates class to race rather than viewing race and class as inextricably related and fundamentally structured by capital-labor relations. I share some of the skepticism that thinkers on the left have toward identity politics and antiracist activism. But they often take their criticisms too far. I offer a partial vindication of black solidarity by responding to what I take to be the most powerful Marxist critiques of it.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:00:31 -0500 2020-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion A Tale of Two Tenths Tommie Shelby
University of Michigan Health Sciences 2020 MLK Lecture: The (Mis)Education of US on Climate and Health (January 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70652 70652-17611240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed
Organized By: School of Public Health

The University of Michigan Health Sciences Committee presents its 30th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Lecture featuring Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome.

Dr. White-Newsome is a senior program officer at The Kresge Foundation, responsible for the Environment Program's grant portfolio on Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS). She is a researcher on climate, health, and equity, and is also a core team member of Kresge's Climate Change, Health and Equity Initiative, supporting grantmaking across the public health sector. Dr. White-Newsome earned her PhD from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

There will be refreshments served both before and after the lecture.

The event is sponsored by the Health Sciences Planning Committee, which includes the School of Dentistry, the School of Kinesiology, the School of Nursing, the School of Public Health, the School of Social Work, the College of Pharmacy, the Medical School/Office for Health Equity and Inclusion (OHEI)/Michigan Medicine, the U-M Flint College of Health Sciences, and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:23:50 -0500 2020-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Brown v. Board of Education: The Legacy Continues (January 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69506 69506-17333396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: University Library

Cheryl Brown Henderson talks about her personal experience with segregated schools and the story of how Brown v. Board of Education came to be.

The case was elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in May of 1954 ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within their jurisdictions. The decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.

Brown Henderson is the daughter of the late Reverend Oliver L. Brown who in 1950, along with 12 other parents in Topeka, Kansas, and led by attorneys for the NAACP, filed suit on behalf of their children against the local Board of Education. Their case joined with cases from other states on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and became known as the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:30:50 -0500 2020-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League University Library Lecture / Discussion Cheryl Brown Henderson
MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research: Perspectives from New Scholars (January 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70636 70636-17611219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Program for Research on Black Americans present:

MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research:
Perspectives from New Scholars

Jan 20 || 2:30 pm
ISR 1430 Thompson
Reception immediately following panel discussion

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Lloyd M. Talley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work

Taylor W. Hargrove, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DeAnnah R. Byrd, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

MODERATED BY:
David C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Delaware

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:03:54 -0500 2020-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CDB Seminar: Fat tissue development, renewal and remodeling (January 21, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70942 70942-17758099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2020 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted By: Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D. and Ben Allen, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:13:23 -0500 2020-01-21T09:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CDB Seminar - Seale
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70199 70199-17547232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In the first decade of the new millennium, many educated and ambitious young Tibetans aspired to work in NGOs to promote community development, cultural preservation, and environmental protection. A decade later, the figure of the entrepreneur has replaced the figure of the NGO-worker, and hopes and dreams are now pinned on the private sector. This talk asks why this has come to be, and explores the practices and cultural politics of Tibetan youth entrepreneurship.

Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. She researches development and nature-society relations, particularly in Tibetan parts of the PRC. This has included studies of the political ecology of pastoralism, vulnerability to and indigenous knowledge of climate change, ideologies of nature and nation, and emerging environmental identities and grassroots environmental activism. Her book "Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development" explored the intersection of the political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization. She has also co-edited a number of books and special issues including "Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands," "The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Development and Investment in Asia," and "Rural Politics in Contemporary China."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:55:07 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67992 67992-16977586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Michael Lerner's research focuses on topics in comparative environmental politics, with a broad interest in questions related to adaptation to environmental change, the responsiveness of government, and disaster recovery and prevention.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:34:31 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T13:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Lerner
Three Failure Fables | A CID Lecture (January 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70112 70112-17532719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

John Maxwell’s book Failing Forward states: "The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

Too often, the word “failure” has a negative connotation. We’re conditioned to the binary options of either failure or success. In reality, failure is a lot more nuanced and can even be intentional – to “test things out.”

Peter Adriaens is a professor of engineering, finance and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan with appointments in three Schools. Join him as he tells three short stories from his career on failure and risk taking - and the lessons learned to achieve positive outcomes.

Failure and risk taking are close cousins. It’s those risk takers who embrace this relation who can flip the fear of failure into the anticipation of opportunity.

Food will be provided. Limited capacity.

RSVP today!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:57:49 -0500 2020-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Peter Adriaens
Q & A: Raquel Salas Rivera (January 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64530 64530-16386893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Raquel Salas Rivera is Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, winner of the 2018 Ambroggio Prize, & winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Free to attend and open to all!

We invite all to join in this event; if you have any accessibility questions or requests about attending, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:36:32 -0500 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Poet Raquel Salas Rivera wearing a floral shirt and hoop earrings
“MLK Jr.'s Legacy and the Crisis of Racial Capitalism - What's Next?” (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71080 71080-17774959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and scholarly venues. She is most notably the author of an award-winning biography of civil rights activist Ella Baker, entitled Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision(University of North Carolina, 2003), which won no less than six major awards.
Barbara’s most recent book is "Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21st Century" (2018). She serves on the editorial boards of The Black Commentator (an online journal); the London-based journal, Race and Class; the Justice, Power and Politics Series at University of North Carolina Press; and the Scholar’s Advisory Committee of Ms. magazine. In the summer of 2012 she became the second Editor-in-Chief of SOULS, a critical journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society published quarterly.
Professor Ransby received a BA in History from Columbia University and an MA and PhD in History from the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:23:14 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
CMENAS Event. International Liberation and Nonviolent Noncooperation: Martin Luther King and Afro-Asia (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70041 70041-17499535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The nonviolent activism of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is associated in the minds of many primarily with the Civil Rights Movement against institutionalized racism in Jim Crow America. King was, however, a keen observer of decolonization and the awakening of colonized peoples in Afro-Asia to aspirations for self-determination. This anti-colonial perspective led to his opposition to the Vietnam War. Although King was little involved in the Middle East per se, having been more focused on African countries such as Ghana, his vision and his methods have gone on to inspire many civil rights activists in Egypt, Palestine, and elsewhere in the region.

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of *Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires* (Bold Type, 2018), *The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East* (Simon & Schuster, 2014), and *Engaging the Muslim World *(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), among many other works. He also writes on current affairs for *The Nation and Truthdig*, and maintains the *Informed Comment *news and analysis site. He has appeared widely on radio and television as a commentator on the Middle East, including on Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes' *All In,* CNN, ABC's *Nightline*, NBC's *Today Show*, *Democracy Now! *and many others.

This lecture is cosponsored by the U-M African Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:03:27 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion cole-image
Functional MRI Speaker Series (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70943 70943-17758139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Title: High-dimensional Multivariate Mediation with Application to Neuroimaging Data

Abstract: Mediation analysis is an important tool in the behavioral sciences for investigating the role of intermediate variables that lie in the path between a randomized treatment/exposure and an outcome variable. The influence of the intermediate variable on the outcome is often explored using structural equation models (SEMs), with model coefficients interpreted as possible effects. While there has been significant research on the topic in recent years, little work has been done on mediation analysis when the intermediate variable (mediator) is a high-dimensional vector. In this work we introduce a novel method for mediation analysis in this setting called the directions of mediation (DMs). The DMs represent an orthogonal transformation of the space spanned by the set of mediators, chosen so that the transformed mediators are ranked based upon the proportion of the likelihood of the full SEM that they explain. We provide an estimation algorithm and establish the asymptotic properties of the obtained estimators. We demonstrate the method using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of thermal pain where we are interested in determining which brain locations mediate the relationship between the application of a thermal stimulus and self-reported pain.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:18:50 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Lindquist Photo
Word and Deed: The Peripety of Logos in the New European Culture (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70020 70020-17499536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The binary opposition of “word” (logos) and “deed” (ergon) underlay the development of European Civilization. This lecture will follow the birth of this opposition since Heraclitus and Aristotle to the Gospel of John and Early Rabbinic Literature (II-VII centuries). In the XVIII through XX centuries, this opposition modeled European aspiration to translate theory into practice, to embody philosophical logos into life.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:06:56 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Cartoon Illustration
The 1619 Podcast: Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started (January 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71000 71000-17766500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the nation’s first federal health care programs. On today’s episode: Jeneen Interlandi, a member of The New York Times’s editorial board and a writer for The Times Magazine, and Yaa Gyasi, the author of “Homegoing.”


“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:34:10 -0500 2020-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Food Literacy for All (January 21, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-01-21T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment. (January 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71473 71473-17829920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan History Club

The History Club presents “A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment.” During the event, we seek to answer questions undergraduates have regarding presidential impeachment while situating the process in a deeper historical context. Our esteemed panelists come from a variety of backgrounds to offer students a nuanced view of impeachment today. We are excited to welcome Dr. Valerie Kivelson, Dr. Matthew Lassiter, and Charles Adside, Esquire.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:53:41 -0500 2020-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall University of Michigan History Club Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Mary Kamidoi: My journey from Stockton, through the WWII Rohwer Internment Camp, to Michigan (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69832 69832-17433860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Mary Kamidoi recalls her childhood in Stockton, California, her memories of internment camp life in the Rohwer (Arkansas) internment camp, and enduring anti-Japanese and anti-Asian discrimination upon her arrival in Michigan.

Mary Kamidoi serves as Treasurer of Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter, as Treasurer of American Citizens for Justice, and is the trustee for the Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter's scholarship program.

This event is free and open to the public and organized in association with AMCULT 301-001: "A/PIA in the Civil Rights Movement"

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:45:24 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
CREES Noon Lecture. Lethal Provocations: Anti-Jewish Violence in French Algeria and Ukraine (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70626 70626-17611207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Jeffrey Veidlinger and Joshua Cole will discuss Prof. Cole's new book, *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria,* with Prof. Veidlinger offering his expertise on Ukrainian pogroms for a comparative perspective.

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, *Lethal Provocation* is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. It reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people.

Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army. Later a member of a notorious French nationalist group that threatened insurrection in the late 1930s, El Maadi became an enthusiastic supporter of France's Vichy regime in World War II, and finished his career in the German SS. The book cracks the "cold case" of El Maadi's participation in the events, revealing both his presence at the scene and his motives in provoking violence at a moment when the French government was debating the rights of Muslims in Algeria. Local police and authorities came to know about the role of provocation in the unrest and killings and purposely hid the truth during the investigation that followed. *Lethal Provocation* brings into high relief the cruelty of social relations in the decades before the war for Algerian independence.

Joshua Cole is professor of history at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria* (2019) and *The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France* (2000), as well as articles on colonial violence and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. He is also the author, with Carol Symes, of *Western Civilizations* (20th ed., 2019).

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the award-winning books *The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage* (2000), *Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire* (2009), and *In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine* (2013). Prof. Veidlinger is a vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies, associate chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is currently working on a book about the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:03:08 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Lethal Provocation book cover
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67589 67589-16900777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

Margaret Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego. She co-directs the China Data Lab at the 21st Century China Center. She's also part of the Omni-Methods Group. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political methodology and the politics of information, with a specific focus on methods of automated content analysis and the politics of censorship and propaganda in China.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:33:20 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion Margaret Roberts
Teaching Contemporary Media (January 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65122 65122-16517536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our first panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary art and culture.

The broad goal of this session is to think collectively about the possibilities, challenges, and pleasures of teaching contemporary media in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. To that end, each panelist will briefly discuss an object, activity, strategy, or syllabus they have already or want to use in their teaching. These presentations will then be followed by conversation with the audience. We hope you can join us!

Additional support generously provided by the Teaching & Learning RIW

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:14:35 -0500 2020-01-22T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T15:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Schedule of sessions for Teaching Contemporary Art & Culture
EER Seminar Series (January 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70268 70268-17556192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Team-based pedagogies are pervasive in higher education, especially in engineering. Some instructors choose group work for logistical reasons, such as “we only have five testbeds.” Others seek to provide a particular student experience: students can teach and learn from each other, they can undertake more complicated projects, and they can develop collaboration skills that will benefit them later in their careers. Whatever the reason for using team-based pedagogies, instructors must be cognizant of team dysfunctions – some of which are invisible to the instructors or even to members of the team – that can affect certain students’ experiences in our classes.

In this talk, I will (1) present evidence that particular groups are more likely to have negative team experiences (and that teamwork is inherently gendered and raced), (2) suggest mechanisms for identifying and remedying some team dysfunctions, and (3) argue that instructors have a moral obligation to critically examine teamwork practices in an attempt to equitably serve our diverse student population.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:48:31 -0500 2020-01-22T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Robin Fowler
Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and Modern Urban America (January 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69239 69239-17269243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

The history of racism in the South is well known—the chain gangs, lynch mobs and views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow period are, for the most part, common knowledge today. But what do we know about the role the urban North played in shaping views on the intersection of race and crime in American society?

In this talk, Khalil Gibran Muhammad reveals how the idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. In the North, crime statistics, immigration trends, and references to America as the “land of opportunity” were woven into a cautionary tale about the threat Black people posed to modern urban society. Excessive arrest rates and overrepresentation in Northern prisons were pointed to by whites—liberals and conservatives alike—as proof of Blacks’ inferiority. The prevailing feeling was that, in the heyday of “separate but equal,” what else but pathology could explain Black people’s challenges in the “land of opportunity”?

Chronicling the beginning of the deeply embedded notion of Black people as a dangerous race of criminals, Muhammed explores a different side of the history of racism, weaving a narrative that is both engaging and educational.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is author of *The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America*, which won the John Hope Franklin Best Book Award in American Studies. Also the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Muhammad is a contributor to a National Research Council study, *The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences*. Recently, he also appeared in several popular documentaries, lending his expertise to Ava DuVernay’s Netflix feature, *13th , Slavery By Another Name* (PBS), and *Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football*.

Muhammad is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history. Much of his research focuses on racial criminalization in modern U.S. history. His work has been featured in a number of f national print and broadcast media outlets, including *The New York Times*—notably as one of the contributors to its’ viral *1619 Project*, which explores and exposes the true history of slavery in America—*The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR*, and *MSNBC*. Muhammad was an associate editor of *The Journal of American History* and prior Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice. He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, two honorary doctorates, and is on the board of The Museum of Modern Art, The Barnes Foundation, and *The Nation* magazine.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:55:56 -0500 2020-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Study-Abroad and Spring/Summer Opportunities for German Students (January 22, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71779 71779-17879431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This information session focuses on study-abroad options for German and opportunities that you can pursue during Spring/Summer 2020. These latter opportunities include taking upper-level German classes here or interning in Germany or studying in Middlebury (Vermont) or at a Goethe Institut in Germany during spring/summer.

If you have any questions please contact Mary Rodena-Krasan mkrasan@umich.edu or Kalli Federhofer kallimz@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:15:19 -0500 2020-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
Financing a Sustainable Future: Next-Generation Investing (January 22, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70584 70584-17609083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Erb Institute / Ross Business School and School for Environment & Sustainability

Join us for an evening exploring new ways to mobilize capital for large-scale sustainability-focused transformations.

"The sustainability revolution, coupled with the technology revolution, will be the most significant event in economic history."
- David Blood

How can we harness capitalism for good? Can new investment strategies prioritize planet and yield higher returns? And how can we best finance a net zero economy?

We're honored to welcome leaders across sectors to the University of Michigan to dig into financing change. Our keynote will be delivered by David Blood, co-founder and Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management. Since its founding in 2004, Generation has played an integral role in the development of sustainable investing and in demonstrating the long-term commercial and societal benefits of this approach.

Following his keynote, David Blood will be joined on stage by a set of panelists who bring additional real-world experience leveraging a market economy to create sustainable change. Joining on stage will be:

Liesl Clark, Director, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

Michael Dorsey, Partner, IberSun Solar & Member, Club of Rome

Jennifer Haverkamp, Graham Family Director

Chad Spitler, Founder and CEO, Third Economy

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:45:02 -0500 2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Erb Institute / Ross Business School and School for Environment & Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Image detailing the David Blood Keynote event on January 22
Science Café (January 22, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69882 69882-17482937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

If you stretched the DNA in one human cell all the way out, it would be about two meters long. How does all that DNA fit into one tiny cell? How does the way it is packaged matter for human health? Join Gyorgyi Csankovszki of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology for a discussion of current research into basic cellular biology and the implications this research may have on human health. This Science Café is part of a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Science Cafés provide an opportunity for audiences to discuss current research topics with experts in an informal setting. Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.; program 6:00-7:30 p.m. Seating is limited—come early.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:41:12 -0500 2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion
Water Quality Forum (January 22, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71806 71806-17888043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Join the Lenawee Conservation District, Lenawee County Farm Bureau, Erb Family Foundation, Michigan Farm Bureau, University of Michigan, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, The Nature Conservancy, and Lenawee County farmers for a panel discussion with the opportunity for questions and answers about how agriculture in Lenawee County and Michigan is working to protect water quality in the Western Lake Erie Basin, and opportunities for the future of agricultural and environmental stewardship.

This forum will discuss research, activity, and collaborations on agricultural water quality conservation, and will provide the public with the opportunity for questions and answers.

This event is FREE to attend!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:09:42 -0500 2020-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion Water Quality Forum Announcement
How Do Online Social Networks Influence People’s Emotional Lives? (January 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70744 70744-17627843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Within a relatively short time span, online social networks have rapidly changed the way people interact, providing new opportunities to study socio-emotional dynamics. This talk will review findings from a multi-method program of research that examines how interacting with these networks influences people’s emotional lives, focusing specifically on Facebook.


Ethan Kross, PhD is an award-winning Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and the Director of the University of Michigan Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD from Columbia. His research explores how people can control their emotions to improve our understanding of how self-control works, and to discover ways of enhancing self-control in daily life.

This is the third in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next lecture will be January 30, 2020. The title is: Restoring Justice to Targets of Online Harassment.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:13:28 -0500 2020-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69572 69572-17366251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East Asia since the 1970s. Now, however, the fundamental conditions of the trilateral relationship are changing because of a shift in the balance of power, a loss of confidence on American diplomacy, US-China competition and the overwhelming importance of the Chinese economy. How will a change in the relationship between Japan, the United States and China affect the order of Asia? What does improving Japan-China relations mean? Is the Japan-U.S. relationship still strong?

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. He serves as Research Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange, and has been Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. He received his BA from International Christian University and his PhD from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He also studied at the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:09:40 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
LSI Seminar Series: Wen-Xing Ding, Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70179 70179-17540934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Liver cells can adapt and protect themselves in response to stress by activating cellular protective mechanisms such as autophagy, which is a lysosomal degradation pathway that degrades cellular organelles and/or proteins as well as lipids inside the autolysosomes. To meet the needs of autophagic degradation, it is critical to maintain sufficient numbers of lysosomes to fuse with autophagosomes that form autolysosomes. Lysosomal biogenesis is regulated by the transcription factor EB (TFEB), which is a master transcription regulator of lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy.

Studies from our lab revealed that TFEB is impaired in alcoholic hepatitis and pancreatitis as well as in acetaminophen-induced liver injury. Overexpression of TFEB protects against alcohol and drug-induced tissue damage whereas deletion of TFEB exacerbates tissue damage. Studies from our lab also demonstrated that Nrf2, a transcription factor regulating antioxidant response, promotes liver injury and liver tumorigenesis in autophagy defective livers. More recently, our work suggests that both hyper- and hypo-activation of MTOR are detrimental to the liver resulting in the development of liver tumors. Together, our studies indicate that autophagy and lysosome play critical roles in maintaining liver homeostasis. Approaches to boost autophagy and TFEB pathways, which are often impaired in chronic liver diseases, may be promising for treating and preventing liver disease including alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, drug-induced liver injury and liver tumorigenesis.

About the Speaker:
Wen-Xing Ding is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at The University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2002 and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh. Ding has devoted his research career to elucidating mechanisms for regulation of cell death and the adaptive response to cellular injury in the liver. Since 2009, his laboratory has been working on the role of autophagy in alcohol- and drug-induced liver injury. They are particularly interested in how autophagy selectively removes cellular damaged/excess organelles, such as mitochondria and lipid droplets in hepatocytes. Ding has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and his work is currently supported by NIAAA and NIDDK.

In addition to research, Ding has demonstrated outstanding leadership for service. He has been a program committee member of ASIP (American Society of Investigative Pathology) and the AASLD (American Association for the Studies of Liver Disease) 2015 annual meeting. He organized several meetings and symposia for EB meeting, AASLD and GRC. He serves as an associate editor for the journal Autophagy and an editorial board member for several journals, including Hepatology, Cell and the American Journal of Pathology. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for NIH grants and a standing member of XNDA.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:27:09 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
On Black Technoculture (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71326 71326-17817094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Where does Blackness manifest In the ideology of Western technoculture? Technoculture is the American mythos (Dinerstein 2006) and ideology; a belief system powering the coercive, political, and carceral relations between culture and technology. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS), reorienting Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as-technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things”. Hence, Black technoculture. Utilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis (Brock 2018), Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this presentation employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.

André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. His scholarship examines racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His forthcoming book titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures will be published with NYU Press in February 2020, offering an innovative approach to understanding Black everyday lives mediated by digital technologies.

Free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS: Video from this talk will be streamed live. For video, during the event visit this URL: http://umsi.info/black

Hosted by ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.
This event is co-sponsored by the Digital Studies Institute.

This lecture is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:45:44 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion andre
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (January 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17905475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:00pm
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Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

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 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (January 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17905476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

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 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
Rion Amilcar Scott Roundtable Q&A (January 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69429 69429-17318596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love—all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.

Scott’s debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Rumpus, among others. One of his stories was listed as a notable in Best American Stories 2018 and one of his essays was listed as a notable in Best American Essays 2015. He was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and earned an MFA from George Mason University where he won both the Mary Roberts Rinehart award and a Completion Fellowship. He is currently a Kimbilio fellow and lives in Annapolis, MD.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:03:08 -0500 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rion Amilcar Scott
CLASP Seminar Series: Meghan Burleigh of CLASP (January 23, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71581 71581-17842687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP Research Fellow Meghan Burleigh will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

Title: “High-Latitude Ionospheric Dynamics: Impacts of Gravity Waves, Aurora, and Low-Altitude Wave Heating”

Abstract: Ionospheric plasma plays an important role in the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system. Energetic ions from the ionosphere are routinely observed in the magnetospheric plasma sheet and ring current. Significant amounts of ionospheric plasma can be transported to high altitudes in response to DC electric fields and auroral precipitation. Neutral winds affect ionospheric motions and can help or hinder ion upflow. Once ions have been lifted to high altitudes, transverse wave heating can give the upflowing ions sufficient energy for the mirror force to propel these ions to escape to the magnetosphere. GEMINI-TIA, a 2D anisotropic, multi-fluid, ionospheric model, has been used to examine these upflow and outflow processes in great detail. This versatile model is well suited to accept, as model inputs, data from sounding rockets, ISR, FPI, and all-sky imagers, and to be coupled to models of neutral dynamics making it ideal for case studies of interesting events

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:43:20 -0500 2020-01-23T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
Webinar: Engaging Communities in Role-Playing Simulations to Advance Climate Planning (January 23, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70738 70738-17621678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Coastal communities face tough decisions about how to manage flooding risks associated with rising seas and extreme rain events. Two project teams have developed an innovative planning tool that allows community leaders and residents to make sense of local climate projections and experiment with collaborative decision making in a safe environment.

The New England Climate Adaptation Project tested the use of role-play simulations, or “games,” to engage community members in climate adaptation planning. In a structured workshop setting, participants receive background information describing a fictional place - typically with a striking resemblance to their own - and must assume a fictional role in which they work collaboratively to prioritize actions that help the community manage climate risks. Following the framework developed in New England, the Georgetown Climate Adaptation Project produced a customized set of local climate projections and role playing materials for the coastal southeast. In this webinar, presenters will discuss lessons learned from planning and leading simulation workshops in two different coastal regions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:55:08 -0500 2020-01-23T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Digitizing Archives of Abolitionists: The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Papers (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70024 70024-17497480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Rochester (NY) Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers (1848-1868) consist of the society's incoming correspondence about slavery, fugitive slaves, the conditions of freemen, and other progressive issues; printed annual reports; and other items. Abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Julia Wilbur, Julia Griffiths, and others are among the collection's writers. The William L. Clements Library selected this collection to be fully digitized and made accessible online in a new digitized manuscripts platform that launched in 2019: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/r/rochester/

In this presentation, Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray will provide an overview of the collection and digitization process, as well as an opportunity to examine some of the materials in person.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:48:00 -0500 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Detail from the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Classical as Contemporary: Choreography and New Media in China Today (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71638 71638-17851287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In China today, dance and new media are merging in experimental choreographies for the stage, open-air spaces, galleries, and other site-specific works. In this talk, Tian Tian will discuss recent trends in Chinese contemporary stage performance and choreography through a review of her own recent stage productions. As a practitioner and researcher of Chinese classical dance, Tian draws on historical artifacts, texts, paintings, and operatic theater to create her dance works. She is the creator of a dance movement system based on Liyuan opera, as well as a leading young choreographer in the field of Han-Tang style Chinese classical dance. Her recent series "YONG," inspired by Chinese tomb statues, has received praise from across the dance world in China and represents a merging of classical forms with contemporary media aesthetics. Tian's dance films have recently won awards in Latin America and Europe. Tian will also discuss her experiences working on the artistic team of renowned filmmaker and director Zhang Yimou.

Tian Tian is a choreographer, scholar, and teacher with a specialization in Chinese classical dance, dance and new media, and design and aesthetics. Tian received her undergraduate and master's degrees in Han-Tang Chinese Classical Dance at the Beijing Dance Academy in under the direction of the renowned choreographer and scholar Sun Ying. In 2015, Tian received her PhD from Peking University under the direction of eminent scholar of Chinese aesthetics Ye Lang. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of Design Science in the School of Design, Hunan University, specializing in Indoor and Outdoor Mega-Event Directing/choreography under the supervision of Zhang Yimou and He Renke. 
Tian is the author or editor of three books and more than thirty academic papers. She is also an award-winning choreographer. Tian's works have been commissioned or sponsored by the China Dancers Association, China National Arts Fund (CNAF) Young Art Talents Creation Project, CNAF Dance Creation Project, Beijing Culture and Arts Fund Work Creation Project, and others. Her representative works include short dance drama “The Role,” dance duet "Co-Existence," group dance "YONG," suite dance "YONG II," etc. Tian's recent research project "The Imaginative Reshaping of Ethnic Body" was selected for the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) Youth of Art Science Project. In 2014-15, Tian was a visiting scholar in the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati.

Note: This talk will be given in Chinese with interpretation by Emily Wilcox, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:11:16 -0500 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tian Tian 田湉, PhD, Deputy Professor of Choreography and Chinese Classical Dance, Beijing Dance Academy; Managing Editor, Journal of Beijing Dance Academy; Visiting Scholar, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M
Artist Talk with Cullen Washington, Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68749 68749-17147137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Cullen Washington, Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing together seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality – a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction.

In the exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora”— the ancient Greek public space — as a "gathering place" for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city. Washington describes the contemporary agora as an “area of convergence, where the displaced can find a place.”

Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Saatchi Gallery London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yaddo, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. He is also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25 - May 17, 2020.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cullen Washington Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70387 70387-17594434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Cullen Washington Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses nonrepresentational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality — a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction. In the exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square,his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora” — the ancient Greek public space — as a central “gathering place” for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city, where the displaced can find a place. Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yaddo artists’ community in New York, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Presented in partnership with UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25–May 17, 2020.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Department of the History of Art.

Image: Cullen Washington, Jr., “Agora 1,” 2017, mixed media collage on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Cullen Washington, Jr. Photography: Andrea Feldman

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:44 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Washington2.jpg
CogSci Community: Evolving the Human Mind: What Our Primate Cousins Reveal about Human Cognition (January 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71733 71733-17877247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Professor Alexandra Rosati will be giving a talk on "Evolving the Human Mind: What Our Primate Cousins Reveal about Human Cognition."

Why do humans exhibit flexible, intelligent behavior? Comparative studies of primates, our closest relatives, can help us understand the evolutionary origins of complex human cognition. I will present research examining how other primates like chimpanzees think about the world to address three main questions: how do other animals solve ecological problems like finding food, how do they solve social problems like finding friends, and how do their abilities change and develop over their lifetime? By integrating cognitive science with evolutionary theory, we can understand humans in the context of the natural world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:26:43 -0500 2020-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
Rion Amilcar Scott Reading & Book Signing (January 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69430 69430-17318597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love—all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.

Scott’s debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Rumpus, among others. One of his stories was listed as a notable in Best American Stories 2018 and one of his essays was listed as a notable in Best American Essays 2015. He was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and earned an MFA from George Mason University where he won both the Mary Roberts Rinehart award and a Completion Fellowship. He is currently a Kimbilio fellow and lives in Annapolis, MD.

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:19:43 -0500 2020-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rion Amilcar Scott
PCCN Commuting Analysis Team Town Hall (January 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71640 71640-17851289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality

The President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality Commuting Analysis team is holding a town hall to discuss their key findings on where the University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students commute from, how they do it, and how the University improve upon it.

Key topics of interest include housing, promoting alternatives to driving, improvements to the carpool and vanpool programs, parking, lowering the carbon intensity of the commute, and campus land-use planning.

The team plans to give a 10-20 minute presentation covering their key findings and methodology followed by an hour of breakout sessions.

The team has 2 goals: 1) to inform the campus community about our progress and remain accountable, and 2) to find any overlooked angles in our research.

We look forward to hearing what the campus community has to say about their commute! All current University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend.

Light refreshments provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:19:02 -0500 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T19:30:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality Lecture / Discussion Orange cyclist
The 1619 Project Podcast: Episode 3: The Birth of American Music (January 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70999 70999-17766499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. On today’s episode: Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for The New York Times.


“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:53:00 -0500 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
AIAA Distinguished Lecture Series | Exploring Pluto and Beyond (January 23, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71485 71485-17834198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Pizza, salad, soda provided at 6:30
Lecture and discussion to begin at 7:00

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:55:17 -0500 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion GG Brown Laboratory
Exploring Pluto and Beyond (January 23, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71483 71483-17834193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Alice Bowman, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and New Horizons Mission Operations Manager (MOM), talks about the voyage of NASA’s historic mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt– which culminated with the first flight past the distant dwarf planet on July 14, 2015 and the first encounter with a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) on January 1, 2019.

She’ll speak about this continuing journey through the eyes of the APL mission operations team and describe some of the technical, scientific, and personal challenges of piloting the New Horizons spacecraft across the solar system on its voyage to the farthest reaches of the planetary frontier.

Food and beverages will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lecture / Discussion Alice Bowman, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, New Horizons Mission Operations Manager
Echoes of the Exodus in Dr. King’s Work (January 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70882 70882-17732901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

A discussion of Dr. King’s work from the perspective of Judaic understanding of the Biblical Exodus and an examination of the pastoral and social implications of Dr. King’s use of Exodus imagery in his work. Following presentations and audience questions, the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies will host a light refreshments reception in the Kalamazoo Room of the Michigan League.

With Dr. Aaron Chapman, Professor in Homiletics at Ashland Seminary and Dr. Brian Roby, Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies/Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 08:41:44 -0500 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T23:59:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture of Dr. Martin Luther King with event details
Telling the Truth About the Liberal Arts: Histories and Futures (January 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70653 70653-17611242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Terrence McDonald, historian and former dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, will explore the often misunderstood history of the liberal arts at Michigan and elsewhere and will discuss their future prospects -- at a time when those prospects are often called into question. The lecture is part of the new monthly series on U-M history sponsored by the Bentley.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:37:33 -0500 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:30:00-05:00 Gerald Ford Library Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Students leaving classes at Angell Hall, 1935 - Michiganensian
Twitter Chat: How to organize transgender health services (January 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71498 71498-17834211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Annals of Family Medicine

Are you interested in health care access for trans and gender diverse folks? Join our online Twitter chat with clinicians and health educators from Fenway Health, Harvard Medical School, and the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute on Thursday, January 23, 2020, from 7 to 8PM EST on Twitter using the hashtag #AnnalsChat.

The chat is hosted by the U-M Medical School-based peer reviewed research journal, the Annals of Family Medicine. http://www.annfammed.org/. Our invited guests published this free, open access blueprint for planning and implementing a transgender health program: http://www.annfammed.org/content/18/1/73

To join the conversation on Thursday, follow the Annals on Twitter @annfammed: https://twitter.com/annfammed.

You can follow along with the discussion by searching for the hashtag #AnnalsChat on Twitter. Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/ (Search for #AnnalsChat).

For more questions, contact Noa Kim at annfammed@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:05:42 -0500 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Annals of Family Medicine Lecture / Discussion a transgender pride flag with the background of architectural blueprints
Craft Lecture: Building a Fictional World That is Both Strange & Recognizable (January 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71940 71940-17903277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love—all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.

Scott’s debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Rumpus, among others. One of his stories was listed as a notable in Best American Stories 2018 and one of his essays was listed as a notable in Best American Essays 2015. He was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and earned an MFA from George Mason University where he won both the Mary Roberts Rinehart award and a Completion Fellowship. He is currently a Kimbilio fellow and lives in Annapolis, MD.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:30:01 -0500 2020-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rion Amilcar Scott
Psychology Methods Hour: Analysis of Sex Differences in Pre-Clinical and Clinical Data (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69618 69618-17368333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

With the inclusion of sex as a biological variable in research, it has become increasingly important to consider how data are analyzed so that the presence or absence of sex differences can be assessed. Dr. Becker will discuss the analysis of sex differences data sets obtained from research with both animal and human subjects. The group will then discuss provocative questions in this area, including whether females are more variable than males, what constitutes a sex difference in any given trait, the point at which sex differences should be considered, potential times in which sex differences should not be considered, and the role of the estrous cycle/ menstrual cycle.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:49:47 -0500 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Becker
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
ESC PLAN: The Center for Ethics, Society and Computing Launch Event (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71852 71852-17894527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

A half-day launch event for the new Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC, pronounced "Escape") will feature a number of prominent panelists.

Julia Angwin, founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit accountability journalism organization and publication focused on investigating the tech industry.

danah boyd, technology and social media scholar, partner researcher at Microsoft Research, founder and president of Data & Society Research Institute, and a visiting professor at New York University.

André Brock, associate professor of literature, media and communication at Georgia Tech, is the author of the forthcoming book "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures."

Marc DaCosta, co-founder and chairman of Enigma, an open data infrastructure company. He is also a software artist focusing on data, privacy and identity.

Jen Gennai, lead for responsible innovation at Google, the group responsible for implementing Google's AI principles.

Holly Okonkwo, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Purdue University, studies the culture of the computing industry and the experience of women technologists of color, most recently in Africa.

Monroe Price, professor, founder and former director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on the freedom of expression and media technology in international contexts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:27:31 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion ESC Center Launch
From Africa to Patagonia: Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71197 71197-17785627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Humanities Collaboratory

We offer an overview of our collaborative project entitled “From Africa to Patagonia: Voices of displacement” (http://umich.edu/~aacollab/). Since 2017, we have been funded through the Humanities Collaboratory, a cutting-edge research initiative established at the University of Michigan. Our interdisciplinary team includes eight faculty, eight graduate students, and 32 undergraduate students. Our mission is to analyze how language is entangled with cultural identity through the Patagonian Boers, a community that traces its roots to the South-African Boers who settled in Argentina after the Anglo-Boer War of 1902. We have disseminated our findings through six research articles, five public essays, and a digital archive. Our public essays, published in outlets such as Babel, The Conversation, Clarín (Argentina), Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed epitomize our goal of engagement beyond the academic sphere. In this talk, we will explain how our collaboration emerged, how we refined our collaborative process, and how we fostered undergraduate involvement in our research. Altogether, we demonstrate that altering the traditional educational structure while encouraging agency and creativity yields new forms of learning for all involved.

Please join us for this talk by Ana Silva Campo, with Nick Henriksen, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Ryan Szpiech, and Matthew Neubacher.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:21:15 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Humanities Collaboratory Lecture / Discussion From Africa to Patagonia: Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71163 71163-17783479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Hojung is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her main interests are the causes and legacies of conflict and violence. She received both her BA and MA in Political Science from Yonsei University.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:59:16 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Institutional change and the rise of win-win ideology in annual reports of US firms, 1960-2010 (January 24, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70715 70715-17619597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:30pm
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Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Despite the historical tension between social and economic goals, contemporary US firms routinely depict such aims as synergistic. Analyzing 300 annual reports from a sample of 80 large US public firms between 1960 and 2010, we examine the rise of “win-win” conceptions of social and economic value, which include both the social benefits of economic activities and economic gains from social responsibility. Our findings support arguments that win-win

ideology is a culturally contingent rhetoric tied to the emergence of a neoliberal socio-economic context. Macro-level indicators of firms’ changing institutional context including financialization of the economy, rationalization of the social sphere, and the rise of voluntary regulation schemes such as ratings and rankings, are associated with the rise of win-win rhetoric. The general socioeconomic influence is mediated by firm-level attention to its environment, which is reflected in mentions of external evaluations in annual reports. The study contributes to institutional theories of the historical development of corporate responsibility and to understanding heterogeneous organizational responses to macro-level institutional change

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:41:22 -0500 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion
Institutional change and the rise of win-win ideology in annual reports of US firms, 1960-2010 (January 24, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70751 70751-17642222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Despite the historical tension between social and economic goals, contemporary US firms routinely depict such aims as synergistic. Analyzing 300 annual reports from a sample of 80 large US public firms between 1960 and 2010, we examine the rise of “win-win” conceptions of social and economic value, which include both the social benefits of economic activities and economic gains from social responsibility. Our findings support arguments that win-win

ideology is a culturally contingent rhetoric tied to the emergence of a neoliberal socio-economic context. Macro-level indicators of firms’ changing institutional context including financialization of the economy, rationalization of the social sphere, and the rise of voluntary regulation schemes such as ratings and rankings, are associated with the rise of win-win rhetoric. The general socioeconomic influence is mediated by firm-level attention to its environment, which is reflected in mentions of external evaluations in annual reports. The study contributes to institutional theories of the historical development of corporate responsibility and to understanding heterogeneous organizational responses to macro-level institutional change

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:06:42 -0500 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Political Theory Workshop (January 24, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71088 71088-17774975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:08:43 -0500 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (January 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70208 70208-17547483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:48:32 -0500 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Department Colloquium: Olufemi Taiwo (Georgetown) (January 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70869 70869-17724619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The constructive view of reparations for global racial empire is a view about distribution. It is, specifically, a view about what should inform the distribution of the benefits and burdens of a particular process: the transitional process of creating a just world order out of the material and opportunities set by our current unjust status quo and its attendant history. In this talk I will discuss my positive view of reparations, sketch the space of alternatives, and discuss the constructive view's implications.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:29:29 -0500 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Olufemi Taiwo - The Constructive View of Reparations
HET Seminar | Bit threads and holographic monogamy (January 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71113 71113-17777078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Entanglement entropies are well-studied in holographic field theories thanks to the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. Bit threads offer a conceptually and technically powerful new way to think about this formula. In this talk, after introducing bit threads, I will use them to give a new understanding of the so-called monogamy property of holographic entropies. The resulting picture will lead to an intriguing conjecture about the general entanglement structure of holographic states.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:28:52 -0500 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group: "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact" (January 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70220 70220-17549984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista, Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, will give a talk on "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact: A View from Creole Genesis."

ABSTRACT
From the early years of Contact Linguistics (Schuchardt, 1882), linguists have noted that when two or more languages come into contact, whether it is in the context of L2 acquisition (Ellis & Sagarra, 2011;Tolentino, L. C., & N. Tokowicz, 2014), bilingualism (Silva-Corvalán, 1994; Toribio, 2004), trilingualism (Rothman, 2010, 2015; Rothman & Cabrelli Amaro, 2010; Rothman et al., 2015) or multilingualism leading to language creation (Rougé, 1986; Kihm, 1990; Corne, 1999), it is often (but not always!) the case that the features that the languages in contact have in common promote acquisition or language creation. More precisely, the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes or syntactic structures that speakers perceive as being similar in the languages in contact, what we will call here, congruent features or domains, are likely to be acquired more easily in L2 (or L3/L4...) or are more likely to contribute to the grammatical make-up (and lexicon) of the emerging language in the case of creole genesis.

This paper represents a first step in a long-term research program exploring how new languages emerge in a multilingual setting. It examines the role of convergence in Creole formation and development, using a competition and selection framework. Specifically, it illustrates how morphosyntactic and semantic features are more likely to be selected into the grammatical makeup of a given Creole when they preexist and are shared by some of the source languages present in its linguistic ecology. This is empirically supported in this paper by numerous case studies and a survey of congruent features in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical and lexical domains. In order to show how convergence operates, I propose an algorithm and a model of matter and pattern mapping, adapted to the multilingual setting in which Creole languages emerge. In addition to a set of variables, the model includes both the linguistic ecology (linguistic factors) and speakers' attitudes (non-linguistic factors) (Thomason, 2001) to predict (in a non-deterministic fashion) the features that are more likely to win within a competition and selection framework (Mufwene, 2001). It shows that even when a given feature is traceable to two or more sources, it readily diverges from the original sources and is innovative. The paper also explores cases where convergence does not take place and examines the conditions underlying such outcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:32:14 -0500 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 24, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67248 67248-16829010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:14:36 -0500 2020-01-24T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Cikanek
Van der Voo Lecture: Paleo/Geomagnetism and Geobiology: Case Studies from the Ediacaran and Jurassic (January 24, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63132 63132-15578782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Paleomagnetic research relies on two fundamental assumptions. The first is that rocks can faithfully document the structure of the Earth’s magnetic field in recent and deep time. The second assumption is that the field recorded in rocks closely approximates a Geocentric Axial Dipole (GAD) field. If we are correct, then the paleomagnetic record provides important information regarding the past geometry of continental distributions and possible connections to biological evolution. Furthermore, the magnetic field shields the planet (and living organisms) from incoming solar and inter-galactic radiation. In this talk, I will present two case studies that outline how paleomagnetic studies were used to evaluate important evolutionary changes. The first case study is from the Ediacaran where the Earth’s magnetic field appears to have undergone a lengthy interval of hyperactive reversals in the Ediacaran. Hyperactivity results in a decrease in the overall strength of the dipole field and a concomitant collapse of the ‘shield’ that protects the planet from incoming radiation. We suggest that prolonged interval with a weakened dipole caused the collapse of the Ediacaran habitat and set the stage for the Cambrian radiation. The second case study examines rapid changes in paleolatitude of the North China Block during the Late Jurassic. New paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks indicate that East Asia moved from intermediate to lower latitudes during the Late Jurassic. That movement coincided with the aridification of East Asia and the demise of the Yanliao biota. The Yanlioa biota contain the first feathered dinosaurs, eutherian mammals and a diverse entomofauna.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:15:07 -0400 2020-01-24T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton (January 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69966 69966-17489271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Abstract:
This essay considers the ways that Edmund Spenser and John Milton focus their considerable epics on the scrupulous calibration of physical sensation with a range of environmental textures. Spenser, I argue, offers a lush topography of corporeal temptation; he is primarily concerned with how environments can pollute individuals. Milton, by contrast, is concerned both with the ways that environments can pollute individuals, and the ways that individuals pollute environments. The landscapes of Spenser and Milton challenge individuals to manage their responses to sensuous environmental stimuli. While Spenser creates a lush paradisal garden that must be boisterously razed by a knight representing the virtue of Temperance, Milton proposes that if humans behave temperately, they might erect within themselves the infrastructure of a lost paradise.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:30:53 -0500 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
LACS Event. Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Conversation with Jeffrey Parsons (January 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70963 70963-17760237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he studied were on the brink of destruction. The rural landscapes through which he traveled were, in many cases, destined to be plowed under and paved over. In his new book *Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961–2003*, hundreds of photographs taken by Parsons give readers a chance to see archaeological sites that were hundreds or thousands of years old and have since vanished or been irrevocably altered. In this public interview, Howard Tsai will speak to Dr. Parsons about the sites, the people, and the landscapes he had encountered during four decades of research in Latin America.

Jeffrey Parsons served as the University of Michigan’s Curator of Latin American Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology from 1966 until his retirement from the University in 2006. Parsons served as Director of the Museum of Anthropology from 1983 to 1986. Jeff Parsons has been a fundamental innovator in regional studies of the early New World civilizations. He began his research career in the Valley of Mexico in 1963, perfecting the technique of archaeological surface survey now used in many areas of the world. Working closely with Mexican colleagues, his teams walked over almost every square kilometer of the Valley of Mexico that was not sealed by asphalt and concrete. The results were detailed reports on the settlement sites of every period from 1200 BC to AD 1520—more than 2500 hamlet, village and town sites. These published data allowed archaeologists to address broader theoretical issues such as the roles of population growth, irrigation, and conflict. In 1975 Parsons introduced the regional archaeological approach to Peru, undertaking a major survey in the Junin area of the central Andes, which has recently been published as a major monograph. In 1998 he received the highest honor given New World archaeologists, The Alfred V. Kidder Award from the American Anthropological Association.

Howard Tsai is lecturer in the Program in International and Comparative Studies and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tsai received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, specializing in Peruvian archaeology. He has directed a team of archaeologists in excavating the 1000-year-old village of Las Varas in northern Peru. His works on labor organization, pottery style, and ethnic interaction have been published in academic journals and edited volumes. His upcoming book *Las Varas: Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes *will be published by the University of Alabama Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:30:21 -0500 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion ParsonEvent_poster
Distinguished Lecture Series in Musicology: Prof. Charles Garrett, University of Michigan (January 24, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65627 65627-16623833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Recent technological advances have ushered artificial intelligence into everyday musical life, from Spotify predicting what songs you like to Google generating customized music with the click of a mouse to Amazon streaming AI-produced music through its virtual assistant Alexa. As AI moves from the research lab into the mass marketplace, debates have shifted from the philosophical to the pragmatic. Expansive questions probing consciousness and creativity have taken a backseat to corporate concerns about efficiency, price points, and scale. Whether AI will surpass the ability of human creativity has become less pressing than whether AI-generated music can be copyright protected. Most notably, to assuage anxieties sounded across the music world, industry leaders have come to embrace collaboration as a model for how AI can enhance, rather than replace, human creativity.

This presentation explores the mechanics and theorizes the challenges of computer-human interactivity through the lens of singer/songwriter Taryn Southern’s I AM AI (2018), billed as the first AI pop album. Co-produced with cutting-edge software developed by AIVA, Amper, Google, and IBM, the album reveals how AI helps to extend, automate, and supplement Southern’s musical abilities while enabling her to maintain claims of artistic agency. Recent writings on virtuality and interactivity, complemented by interviews with AI industry professionals and musicians who use AI, reveal similarly productive tensions involving collaboration, control, credit, and creative independence. Coming to terms with new forms of intelligence challenges us to explore how we characterize, distinguish, and understand musical relationships between human and virtual beings.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:15:23 -0500 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Friday Night AI (January 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70966 70966-17760239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Advances in Artificial Intelligence are being felt throughout society and our economy. Some of the most significant impacts are in the domain of finance, including financial markets, financial services, and the financial system more broadly. Autonomous agents have made major inroads through algorithmic trading in financial markets, and AI methods are playing an increasing role in lending decisions and detecting financial malfeasance. Understanding the implications of AI for finance is important in its own right, and as a case study for AI implications more broadly. Join Michael P. Wellman, the Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, as he discusses Artificial Intelligence & finance, focusing on:

What are the ways that AI may impact finance: present and future?
What are the benefits and risks of AI in finance?
How can we understand and regulate AI systems in finance?
Michael P. Wellman received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 for his work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic planning. For the past 30 years, his research has focused on computational market mechanisms and game-theoretic reasoning methods, with applications in electronic commerce, finance, and cyber-security. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery.

Prof. Rada Mihalcea, Director of Michigan AI, will moderate the discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:52:17 -0500 2020-01-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lecture / Discussion Friday Night AI
Cheikh Lô | Artist Q&A (January 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71438 71438-17827790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Saturday, January 25, Noon-1:30pm
Blue Llama, 314 S. Main St
Free & Open to the Public

Cheikh Lô is one of the great mavericks of African music. A superb singer and songwriter as well as a distinctive guitarist, percussionist and drummer he has personalised and distilled a variety of influences from West and Central Africa, to create a style that is uniquely his own. Incorporating Senegalese mbalax with elements of salsa, Zairian/Congolese rhumba, folk, and jazz, Lô has created an infectious, hook-laden style of pop music. Born in 1955, to Senegalese parents in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, not far from the border with Mali, where he grew up speaking Bambara (language of Mali), Wolof (language of Senegal) and French. At 21 he started singing and playing percussion with Orchestra Volta Jazz in Bobo Dioulasso, and spent much of the 1980s working as a session musician in both Dakar, Senegal and Paris, France, while also developing his own repertoire. In 1995, Youssou N’Dour helped to produce his second solo record, and signature sound – a semi acoustic, Spanish-tinged take on the popular mbalax style – was an instant success in Senegal, gaining him a dedicated local following and subsequent international success.

Cheikh Lô will also perform two sets at the Blue Llama Jazz Club on Saturday, January 25 (7pm & 9pm). Visit https://www.bluellamaclub.com/event/cheikh-lo for ticket information for these performances.

This Artist Q&A is co-sponsored by Center for World Performance Studies and African Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:10:01 -0500 2020-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Cheikh Lo
Scientist in the Forum (January 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
A Conversation with Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Hope of Abstraction and the Possibilities of the Public Square (January 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68754 68754-17147142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Artist Cullen Washington, Jr. uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, and social relationships. His practice makes use of the grid to physically and metaphorically flatten hierarchies and rank to create a new conception of the possibilities for a public square. Washington sees this public space as an ideal "gathering place" for activated assembly and inclusive democracy. Historically, the public square has also been the site of spectacles and public humiliations; today, the internet holds out the promise of a level playing field with access for all that also includes space for extreme views and falsehoods.  Please join Mr. Washington and exhibition curator Vera Grant on opening day for a conversation about the role of art, artists, and the “hope of abstraction” within our current battles for the public square.

Light refreshments to follow.  

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
ASP Public Talk| A Personal Introduction to Diaspora Armenian Art (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70366 70366-17586193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

What challenges and opportunities does the Armenian diaspora have? In this presentation, Dr. Karen Jallatyan will address this question by talking about his personal journey towards becoming a scholar of the Armenian diaspora, some of the specific research paths that he is taking as well as the way he sees the broader significance of it all. To this end, he will briefly allude to some works of art by the writer Vahé Oshagan, among other artists, to demonstrate the creative potential at the heart of diaspora. He will close his talk by making some general remarks about the centrality of Western Armenian literary language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:12:57 -0500 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Karen Jallatyan, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
Scientist in the Forum (January 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
In Conversation: Disability and Power with Dessa Cosma (January 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68755 68755-17147143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Dessa Cosma is a social justice activist and the founding director of Detroit Disability Power, which works to bridge the gap between the disability community and social justice movements. For Cosma, disability is a key part of her identity and of critical importance socially and politically—just like race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. In this informal gallery talk, she will respond to the works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama and reflect upon her experiences and political expression as a disability activist. Mari Katayama uses her disabled body as the subject in her provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Katayama was born with two fingers on one hand and had both of her legs amputated by the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and her physicality in the context of contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art.   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques (January 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71734 71734-17877249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

CDB Faculty Candidate Seminar: Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee & the Department of Human Genetics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:27:44 -0500 2020-01-27T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques - Junyue Cao, Ph.D
Heating Up for the Press: An Exchange of Writing & Research (January 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71152 71152-17783464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Speakers: Heidi Hilliker, Nadav Linial, Shachar Pinsker, Kathryn Babayan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:55:36 -0500 2020-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-27T19:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo of MES Lecture series poster
WCEE Distinguished Fellow Lecture. The Russian Media: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall (January 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70723 70723-17619605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Moscow-based “New Times” and a radio host with more than 40 years experience with Soviet, Russian and international media, will give a lecture on the rise and fall of the Russian free press over the last 30 years. Despite perestroika and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, censorship has since returned and the once-famous Russian TV networks have turned back into Soviet-style propaganda machines. The few independent media outlets that remain are struggling to survive in the absence of advertising and financial support, while under pressure from the omnipotent state.

Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author and radio host. Since 2007, she has served as Political Editor and is now Editor-in-Chief and CEO of “The New Times,” a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly. The New Times is digital-only as of June of 2017, when Russian authorities severed its distribution and sales.
Since 2004, Dr. Albats has hosted “Absolute Albats,” a talk show on “Echo Moskvy,” the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the “Chicago Tribune” in 1990, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980, and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She has been a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996.
Albats taught at Yale from 2003 to 2004 and was a full-time professor at the Moscow-based university The Higher School of Economics, where she taught institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy until her courses were canceled at the request of top Kremlin officials in 2011. In 2017 Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. Albats is the author of four books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today. Yevgenia Albats is the inaugural International Institute Distinguished Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020 in partnership with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Michigan.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:03:12 -0500 2020-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Yevgenia Albats, radio host, Ekho Moskvy and International Institute/WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M
CSEAS Event. Book Discussion of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas (January 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71111 71111-17777077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Monday, January 27, 2020 / 6:00-8:30 pm / 555 Weiser Hall
Light refreshments from Silvio’s Organic Ristorante will be served at 6:00-6:30 pm

*Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen* by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a book discussion followed by a Q&A, with Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies at the Department of Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, CSEAS outreach coordinator.

CSEAS will give away 25 complimentary copies of Dear America before our book event. To request your copy, contact Rima Hassouneh (at rhassoun@umich.edu; Pick-up location: Weiser Hall, Fourth Floor, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

*Books will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis.*

Additional 25 complimentary copies will be given to the audience members during the book discussion.

Free and open to the general public, faculty, students, and staff, the event highlights the 2020 Washtenaw Reads event on January 30, 2020, at Washtenaw Community College, at which Jose Antonio Vargas will speak about his experiences as an undocumented citizen.

Washtenaw Reads is a community initiative that promotes reading and civic dialogue through the shared experience of reading and discussing a common book. Participating libraries include Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Dexter, Milan, Northfield Township, Saline, and Ypsilanti. For more information about this year's Washtenaw Reads, go to https://aadl.org/washtenawreads.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:04:37 -0500 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion book_discussion-image
The 1619 Project: Episode 5, part 1 and 2: The Land of our Fathers (January 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71001 71001-17766501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Part 1: More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of loss and dispossession. June and Angie Provost, who trace their family line to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this story well.

On today’s episode: The Provosts spoke with Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619.”
Part 2: The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to keep hold of that land, June Provost and his wife, Angie, didn’t know why — and then a phone call changed their understanding of everything. In the finale of “1619,” we hear the rest of June and Angie’s story, and its echoes in a past case that led to the largest civil rights settlement in American history.


On today’s episode: June and Angie Provost; Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619”; and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University and the author of “The Condemnation of Blackness.”

“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:31:33 -0500 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
(Mis)Education of Religion (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71535 71535-17836351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This dialogue will engage misconceptions about religious/spiritual and secular groups and tackle how difficult conversations like this to help ignite the movement for social change.

Registration link: https://myumi.ch/mnAnk

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:51:57 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020 (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72053 72053-17922808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

2019 was a year of global mass protest in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, France, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Haiti and many other countries. Millions of people filled the streets against social inequality.

This global wave of social struggle swept through the United States, where 50,000 autoworkers engaged in the largest auto strike in more than forty years.

The word “socialism” is gaining popularity, especially among young people and workers. Billions are opposed to unending war, unprecedented levels of social inequality, the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, environmental degradation and all the consequences of capitalism.

But does socialism mean working within the same capitalist political parties who are responsible for inequality and war, as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claim? No. Genuine socialism means mobilizing the strength of billions of workers, dismantling the militaries, seizing control of the corporations and reorganizing the world economy to meet social need, not private profit.

This meeting will review the state of world politics and outline a program and perspective for the working class to fight back.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:09:46 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020. 7 PM Monday, January 27. University of Michigan. Michigan League, Vandenberg Room.
“Overcoming biological barriers to nucleic acid delivery” (January 28, 2020 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71237 71237-17794025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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

Dr. Mitchell is a Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation, Department of Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

The talk is entitled, “Overcoming biological barriers to nucleic acid delivery”.

Trainee Host: Sajedeh Nasr Esfahani, Ph.D. Candidate-Jianping Fu Lab

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:00:47 -0500 2020-01-28T04:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T05:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Mitchell Seminar Flyer
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70201 70201-17547233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

States in Asia and the Pacific have been talking about “hedging” and “not choosing sides” between the United States and China since the 1990s. Their aim was to moderate potential tensions between Washington and Beijing and promote cooperation, but this has not appeared to work. Instead, these disparate efforts to find a middle way between the two major powers resulted in greater levels of uncertain that have exacerbated security dilemma dynamics between the United States and China and created greater incentives for rivalry rather than cooperation.

Chong Ja Ian is an Associate Professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2008 and previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the externalities of major power competition, nationalism, regional order and security, contentious politics, and state formation. He works on US-China relations, security and order in Northeast and Southeast Asia, cross-strait relations, and Taiwan politics. Chong is author of "External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893-1952" (Cambridge, 2012), a recipient of the 2013 International Security Studies Section Book Award from the International Studies Association. His publications appear in the China Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, Security Studies, and other journals. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Chong will examine how non-leading state behavior collectively intensifies major power rivalries, paying particular attention to the US-China relationship. He has concurrent projects investigating how states react to sanctions on third parties by trade partners and the characteristics of foreign influence operations.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:11:43 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Towards Humanity: A Conversation on Humanism and Antiracist Organizing (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70967 70967-17760240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

On behalf of the School of Social Work, CASC Undergraduate Minor Program, and Semester in Detroit, we invite your participation to the following MLK Symposium lecture and discussion.

The following session will explore themes presented in Tawana Petty’s book Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-Racism Organizing. Through a lecture and panel discussion, the presenter will explore pressing issues facing antiracist organizing and her vision and approach to a humanistic philosophy. Following the lecture, the speaker will host a conversation with community development organizer Lauren A. Hood to discuss how Detroit based organizers navigate questions, themes, and challenges in ant-racist organizing, applications of humanism, and other guiding philosophical principles toward change.

This event is co-sponsored by the Community Action and Social Change Minor Program, SSW Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Semester in Detroit Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:08:58 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion Towards Humanity
FellowSpeak: "Down and Out and Pregnant in Medieval France" (January 28, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69972 69972-17491319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk will address the meaning and consequences of extramarital pregnancy for women in medieval France, married and unmarried, low and high status, nuns, wives, widows, prostitutes, wet nurses, and domestic servants.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:54:13 -0500 2020-01-28T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Diane chassent Callisto, Ovide moralisé 1380-1395 Lyon, BM, 0742 (0648), f. 030
Critical Conversations: Rhetoric (January 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70160 70160-17540901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:35:42 -0500 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (January 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71531 71531-17836345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

For this TDLS event, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician whose research broke the news about the Flint water crisis and launched her into worldwide advocacy for clean water and better lives for children in Flint, Michigan. The event will be moderated by, Jacob Carah, an independent investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. His recent film "Flints Deadly Water," for PBS FRONTLINE was focused on the water crisis and local development in the city of Flint, Michigan.

The event will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the Trotter Multicultural Center on Tuesday, January 28th. Lecture will be 3-4:30pm with a reception following the event 4:30-5:30 pm. We will have copies of Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha's latest copy "What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City" available for the first 30 students.

Registration link: https://myumi.ch/Boq2Z

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:44:39 -0500 2020-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer with event information
Africa Workshop with Robert Launay (Northwestern) (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71004 71004-17766504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Biography
Robert Launay is a social/cultural anthropologist trained in the United States, England, and France. He has conducted extensive field work in West Africa (specifically in Côte d’Ivoire) with Muslim minorities historically specializing in trade. His first book, Traders without Trade (Cambridge University Press), focused on how this minority was able to adapt to its loss over its former trade monopoly. His second book, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town (University of California Press), which won the Amaury Talbot Prize for best African ethnography in England in 1992, dealt specifically with religious change and controversy. He has recently edited a volume on Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards (Indiana University Press, in press).

After years of teaching the history of anthropology to undergraduates and graduates alike in the department, he has begun research on the history of the discipline, publishing several articles on the history of ethnography in Africa (particularly in French) and, more extensively, on the ‘prehistory’ of the field. His recently publishd book, Savages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology, traces the ways in which “modern Europeans” came to define themselves with reference to non-moderns (ancient Greeks and Romans in particular) and non-Europeans from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. He has edited an anthology of early sources in anthropology, Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From classical antiquity to the eighteenth century (Wiley/Blackwell 2010)

Most recently, he has begun a project on French foodways in the Midwest, in collaboration with Aurelien Mauxion, a graduate of the program who wrote his dissertation under his supervision. The project takes as its starting point the fact that the Midwest was colonized by France before it became part of the United States. They are looking at how early French settlers adapted to specifically American foods and environments, and how contemporary descendants of French settlers express their identities in terms of what they cook and eat.

In Spring 2018, Prof. Launay spoke at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Universities of Bayreuth and Gottingen in Germany.
Research and teaching interests
The history and ‘prehistory’ of anthropological theory, as well as its contemporary developments; the anthropology of scriptural religions, with particular focus on Islam; the historical ethnography of West Africa; the anthropology of food, particularly French foodways in the American Midwest.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:19:47 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Distinguished University Professor (DUP) Lecture (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71783 71783-17879434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Page was named in 2019 as the John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management. He also is the Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration and professor of management and organizations in the Ross School, and a professor of political science, complex systems and economics in LSA.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:46:08 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Scott Page
Distinguished University Professorships: Insights into Distinguished Careers (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71681 71681-17855681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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Three recipients will present on their career work and answer audience questions, followed by a reception for all awardees.
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Human Conditions from Defective DNA Mismatch Repair
John M Carethers
C. Richard Boland Distinguished University Professor
John G. Searle Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of Human Genetics, Medical School
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Elimination of Viral Hepatitis: A Tale of Two Viruses
Anna Suk-Fong Lok
Dame Sheila Sherlock Distinguished University Professor of Hepatology and Internal Medicine
Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
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Cognitive Diversity and Collective Intelligence
Scott Page
John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Management and Organizations, Stephen M Ross School of Business
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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:17:00 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption (January 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71465 71465-17827817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

This presentation investigates the origins and the development of transnational adoption of Korean biracial children, including the symbolic meanings they carried in Korean society. It would demonstrate the status and representation of biracial children in Korea during the 1950s, analyze the state policies towards them, and trace the historical origins of transnational adoption of Korean children. The biracial children, known as “mixed-blood children,” honhyŏra, became the main representation of the questionable children in the 1950s that could not be “appropriate” members of the nation. The process of rescuing and regulating biracial children would illuminate how Korean society made biracial children into adoptable orphans, which was closely related to the formation of citizenship as well as kinship.

Young Sun Park is an assistant professor in History at the Department of History and Social Sciences at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Her research concerns the history of children in need and their institutionalization in Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her B.A. from Seoul National University, M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. She was a 2018-2019 postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:02:43 -0500 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption
Wallace House Presents “The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy of Slavery and the Building of a Nation” (January 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70101 70101-17530518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Journalism is often called the first draft of history. But journalism can also be used as a powerful tool for examining history.

Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia, establishing the system of slavery on which the United States was built.

With The 1619 Project, The New York Times is prompting conversation and debate about the legacy of slavery and its influence over American society and culture. From mass incarceration to traffic jams, the project seeks to reframe our understanding of American history and the fight to live up to our nation’s central promise.

Wallace House Presents the project’s creator, New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, in conversation with Rochelle Riley, longtime journalist and columnist.

About the Speaker:
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine focusing on racial injustice. She has written on federal failures to enforce the Fair Housing Act, the resegregation of American schools and policing in America. Her extensive reporting in both print and radio on the ways segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy has earned the National Magazine Award, a Peabody and a Polk Award. Her work designing “The 1619 Project” has been met with universal acclaim. The project was released in August 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of American slavery and re-examines the role it plays in the history of the United States.

Hannah-Jones earned her bachelor’s in history and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About the Moderator:
Rochelle Riley was a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Fellow and is the Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. For nineteen years she was a columnist at the Detroit Free Press. Riley is author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery” and the upcoming “That They Lived: Twenty African Americans Who Changed The World.” She has won numerous national, state and local honors, including the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve and the 2018 Detroit SPJ Lifetime Achievement Award alongside her longtime friend, Walter Middlebrook. She was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

This is a 2020 Annual U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:04:06 -0500 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Nikole Hannah-Jones
Food Literacy for All (January 28, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Michigan (January 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52725 52725-12974158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our state.

Readings to consider:
1. 2019 State of the State
2. Michigan Health Policy for the Incoming 2019 Gubernatorial Administration
3. ACA Exchange Competitiveness in Michigan
4. Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why?

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/039-michigan/.

For the ever-present state of things, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/




...Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:55:44 -0500 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Michigan
Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series: Willard Martin (January 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72129 72129-17942175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

At heart, the lautenwerk is a harpsichord with gut strings instead of metal strings, and has a sweeter sound. It was also probably Johann Sebstian Bach's favorite instrument.

Prof. Joseph Gascho will perform several pieces on a lautenwerk that Willard Martin built in 1989, and Martin will discuss the history and acoustic properties of the instrument.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
HET Brown Bag | Statistical inference of dark matter substructure with weak and strong gravitational lensing (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71096 71096-17777057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Dark matter structures are expected to exist over a large range of scales, and their properties and distribution can strongly correlate with the underlying particle physics. In this talk, I will describe two separate methods to statistically infer the properties of dark matter substructure using (astrometric)-weak and strong lensing observations, respectively. In the first part of the talk, I will describe how the motion of subhalos in the Milky Way induces a correlated pattern of motions in background celestial objects---known as astrometric weak lensing---and how global signatures of these correlations can be measured using the vector spherical harmonic decomposition formalism. These measurement can be used to statistically infer the nature of substructure, and I will show how this can be practically achieved with future astrometric surveys and/or radio telescopes such as WFIRST and the Square Kilometer Array. Next, I will describe a novel method to disentangle the collective imprint of dark matter substructure on extended arcs in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems using likelihood-free (or simulation-based) inference techniques. This method uses neural networks to directly estimate the likelihood ratios associated with population-level parameters characterizing substructure within lensing systems. I will show how this method can provide an efficient and principled way to mine the large sample of strong lenses that will be imaged by future surveys like LSST and Euclid to look for signatures of dark matter substructure. I will emphasize how the statistical inference of substructure using these techniques can be used to stress-test the Cold Dark Matter paradigm and probe alternative scenarios such as scalar field dark matter and enhanced primordial fluctuations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:11:30 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Chinese Co - optation: Doing Business in the Era of Xi Jinping (January 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70712 70712-17957404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

The cost of doing business in China today is a high one, and it is paid by any and every company that comes looking to tap into its markets or leverage its workforce. Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one. As someone who has lived and worked in China, advised companies about investing there, and quite happily been described as a China bull, I have struggled to accept this fateful conclusion in the era of Xi Jinping. Like some other China Bulls, I had believed the early promises of Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Zhu Rongji about China’s fair and open future, open markets, the emergence of a rule of law system. To be clear, I am still very bullish on the strength and trajectory of the Chinese economy – China *will* continue to grow and it *will* surpass the US as the largest economy in the world. However, the current era is just a much darker period for everyone, including Multinational Corporations (MNCs). There is no free lunch for doing business in Xi's China – especially for technology companies. China *will* get its pound of flesh as the cost of operating there: you get to operate here and gain access to the the most innovative supply chain in the world and world's largest marketplace; and China gets what it wants in terms of benefits to Chinese economy and society (as defined by the Chinese Government). Based on three decades of China research — including thousands of interviews — and, most recently, my time as an executive for Apple in China (2014-19), this talk attempts to lay out what my views on how China has co-opted the business community in the era of Xi Jinping.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:41:31 -0500 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion
HET Seminar | Spacetime fluctuations in AdS/CFT (and experiment) (January 29, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71579 71579-17842686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Please note special time and location:
Wednesday 29th January, 2:30 - 3:30
3481 Randall Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:25:41 -0500 2020-01-29T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T15:30:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
DCMB Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71998 71998-17911963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Experimental and computational strategies to aid compound identification and quantitation in metabolomics

Abstract: Over the past two decades, metabolomics as a technique has moved from the primary domain of analytical chemists to more widespread acceptance by biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians alike. Metabolomics offers systems-level insights into the critical roles small molecules play in routine cellular processes and myriad disease states. However, certain unique analytical challenges remain prominent in metabolomics as compared to the other ‘omics sciences. These include the difficulty of identifying unknown features in untargeted metabolomics data, and challenges maintaining reliable quantitation within lengthy studies that may span multiple laboratories. Unlike genomics and transcriptomics data in which nearly every quantifiable feature is confidently identified as a matter of course, in typical untargeted metabolomics studies over 80% of features are frequently not mapped to a specific chemical compound. Further, although many metabolomics studies have begun to stretch over a timeframe of years, data quantitation and normalization strategies have not always kept up with the requirements for such large studies. Fortunately, both experimental and computational strategies are emerging to tackle these long-standing challenges. We will report on several techniques in development in our laboratory, ranging from chromatographic fractionation and high-sensitivity data acquisition, to computational strategies to aid in tandem mass spectrometric spectral interpretation. These developments serve to facilitate analysis for both experts and novice users, which should ultimately help improve the biological insight and impact gained from metabolomics data.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:07:13 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Wallace House Presents Davey Alba of The New York Times with Ceren Burdak of the School of Information and College of Engineering (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70103 70103-17530519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

In 2018, journalist Davey Alba traveled to the Philippines to investigate Facebook’s breakneck proliferation in that country and President Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power. She revealed how the politician’s incendiary style aligned perfectly with the tech company’s algorithms that reward entertaining, inflammatory content. From maligning opponents to espousing hardline policies to combat the drug trade, Duterte’s operatives created memes, propaganda and egregious libel that flourished on Facebook. Join Alba and Ceren Budak, associate professor, University of Michigan, for an examination of how demagogic political campaigns worldwide have weaponized the social media platform.

About the Speakers:
Davey Alba is a reporter for The New York Times covering technology. Prior to joining the Times, she was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News. She has been a staff writer at Wired and an editor at Popular Mechanics. Alba grew up in the Philippines and holds a B.A. degree from De La Salle University in Manila and an M.A. in science journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She received the 2019 Livingston Award for international reporting for her BuzzFeed investigation “How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War“.

Ceren Budak is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and the College of Engineering. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science, a discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New York. Burdak received a PhD from the computer science department at University of California, Santa Barbara and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Bilkent University in Turkey.

This Livingston Lecture event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is a co-sponsor of the event.

This event is produced with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:09:45 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Davey Alba
A Conversation On Children's Literature and Writing with Author Brigit Young (January 29, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71149 71149-17783447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Brigit Young is the author of the middle grade novels Worth a Thousand Words and The Prettiest (forthcoming in April, 2020) from Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan. Worth a Thousand Words was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year for ages 12-14. Before beginning her work as a novelist, Brigit’s poetry and fiction appeared in multiple literary journals including The North American Review, The Pinch, Midwestern Gothic, Gargoyle Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Word Riot, The Common, and 2 River View. Through the non-profit organization WritopiaLab, Brigit spent many years teaching creative writing to children of all ages, in settings ranging from classrooms to a pediatric hospital. A native Michigander, she currently resides in Brooklyn.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:14:11 -0500 2020-01-29T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Brigit Young and Worth a Thousand Words
LHS Collaboratory: Applications of AI/Machine Learning in Gastroenterology (January 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71218 71218-17959605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr. Waljee’s research focuses on tailoring treatment to the specifics of the individual (precision care) with gastrointestinal and liver diseases. He uses artificial intelligence methods such as machine learning and deep learning to improve decision-making for tailored and individualized care to facilitate the delivery of efficient, effective and equitable care, especially in costly diseases and in limited resource settings.
Discussant 1: Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Learning Health Sciences and Department of Internal Medicine

Discussant 2: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:36:03 -0500 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
Local Learning at Literati: The Art of Cullen Washington Jr. (January 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70733 70733-17621673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Vera Grant, curator of the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, presents an expansive look at the exhibition, and the artist’s recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly, through the dual lens of race and humanity.

Vera Ingrid Grant is an art consultant, curator, and writer, living in Ann Arbor, MI. Grant served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in 2018-19. Previously, she was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. She most recently curated Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square; Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University with a concentration in comparative studies of race and visual culture and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburg. She was the Associate Director for the Program in African and African American Studies (2001-2007) at Stanford University. She was a fellow (2015-16) at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). January 29th. 

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:03 -0500 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Restoring Justice to Targets of Online Harassment (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70745 70745-17627844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Most social media sites sanction online harassment by removing content or banning users. However, these approaches largely write the targets of online harassment out of the justice-seeking process. If a person is harassed on social media, they are given no opportunity for acknowledgement or reparation. This talk will discuss how theories of justice can help social media sites to better support people who are targets of online harassment.

Dr. Schoenebeck is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She directs the Living Online Lab and co-directs the Social Media Research Lab. Her research
focuses on promoting more equitable and inclusive experiences online in domains ranging from online harassment to gender equity to children’s privacy. Her research has been covered in global media including the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and elsewhere.

This is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next lecture will be February 5, 2020. The title is: Why We Use Social Media: Evolution, Neuroscience, and Problematic Use.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:29:37 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71370 71370-17903275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Michael S. Roth — historian, curator, author, and public advocate for liberal education — is the 16th president of Wesleyan University and former president of California College of the Arts. He is the author of six books, including Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters (Yale University Press, 2014), winner of AAC&U’s 2016 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. President Roth’s newest book is Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness (Yale University Press, 2019), which addresses some of the most contentious issues in higher education in the US, including affirmative action, safe spaces, and questions of free speech.

This event is part of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Research and Scholarship Seminar Series, which features scholars who advance our understanding of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality.

The series also highlights how research and scholarship can address current and contemporary social issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:40:41 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Headshot of Michael Roth
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70163 70163-17540919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Professor Lisa Heinzerling from Georgetown Law will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Meditation on Juliana v. United States."

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her specialties include administrative law, environmental law, food law, and torts. She has published several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:30:24 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71590 71590-17842696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few documents detailing the organization of those trade networks remain – if indeed they were ever written. Using geospatial analysis (GIS) of evidence from written and archaeological records, it becomes possible to trace the flow of goods and people within the Inland Sea region. The environment and geography are central players in this story, affecting the trade routes, networks, and even shipping practices that develop during the late medieval period.

Michelle Damian is an Assistant Professor of History at Monmouth College, IL (USA). She has published chapters in several edited volumes and articles in Japan Forum and Education About Asia. She is also on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Museum of Underwater Archaeology (http://www.themua.org).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:46:42 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
LHS Collaboratory: Applications of AI/Machine Learning in Gastroenterology (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71218 71218-17787742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr. Waljee’s research focuses on tailoring treatment to the specifics of the individual (precision care) with gastrointestinal and liver diseases. He uses artificial intelligence methods such as machine learning and deep learning to improve decision-making for tailored and individualized care to facilitate the delivery of efficient, effective and equitable care, especially in costly diseases and in limited resource settings.
Discussant 1: Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Learning Health Sciences and Department of Internal Medicine

Discussant 2: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:36:03 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Zama Katamzi-Joseph of the South African Space Agency (SANSA) (January 30, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72165 72165-17948642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Zama Katamzi-Joseph will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

Title: “Climatology of Thermospheric Neutral Winds and TIDs over South Africa: Observations from 630 nm Fabry-Perot Interferometer and All-sky Imager”

Abstract: Nighttime traveling ionospheric disturbances are detected from 630 nm airglow measurements from an all-sky imager in Sutherland, South Africa (geographic coordinates: 32.4° S, 20.8° E; magnetic latitude: 40.7° S). To understand the influence of the background winds on the propagation of the TIDs, we used wind data from a co-located Fabry-Perot interferometer. For this study the measurements used were taken during the period of September 2018 and August 2019. A total of 52 TIDs were identified, the majority occurring during the local winter season. The overall speed, azimuth, wavelength and periods of the majority of these TIDs were 50 – 200 m/s, 0 – 338 degrees, 150 – 400 km, 19 – 106 minutes, respectively. There was no detected seasonal trend on their characteristics. The TIDs propagated mostly in the west direction regardless of the season. Analysis of the FPI wind data revealed that the mean background zonal winds varied between -72 and 126 m/s and were strongly eastward before midnight. They reversed flow direction to westward around local midnight in summer whereas in winter the reversal occurs closer to local sunrise. In addition, zonal winds have lower (higher) magnitudes in summer (winter). Meanwhile the mean background meridional winds are mostly equatorward for most of the year until around winter where they flow poleward in early evening and then reverse direction around 22 UT (00 LT). The meridional winds varied between -52 and 109 m/s, and contrary to the zonal winds their amplitudes were higher in summer and lower in winter. The dominance of westward propagating TIDs is explained by the fact that the TIDs mostly had higher velocities and/or propagate against or perpendicular to the background wind.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:29:09 -0500 2020-01-30T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
BME 500: Meghan Driscoll, Ph.D. (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70418 70418-17594468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Signaling is governed not only by the expression levels of molecules, but by their localization via mechanisms as diverse as compartmentalization in organelles, phase separation, and directed transport by motor proteins. Cell morphology likely also modulates the localization of signaling molecules, and recent advances in high-resolution light-sheet microscopy, such as lattice light-sheet microscopy, now allow imaging at the spatiotemporal resolution needed to capture the many undulations and quick dynamics of the 3D cell surface. However, these microscopes generate large datasets with detailed 3D movies that are impossible to interpret without a dedicated computational pipeline. In this seminar, I will introduce u-shape3D, a computer graphics and machine-learning pipeline to probe molecular mechanisms underlying 3D cell morphogenesis. U-shape3D includes a generic morphological motif detector that automatically finds lamellipodia, filopodia, blebs and other motifs in order to test the intriguing possibility that morphogenesis itself affects intracellular signaling.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:24:58 -0500 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
EIHS Lecture: Ecology and Empire on the Yellow River (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63592 63592-15808573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This presentation introduces Ruth Mostern’s work on the imperial and ecological history of the Yellow River, a five-thousand-year history of the relationship between people, water, and sediment. Her work reveals how gradual changes (for instance in climate and population) intersect with sudden cataclysms (such as wars and floods). Interweaving the history of the river’s moist floodplain with that of the erosion zone hundreds of miles away, it demonstrates how social and political transformations can have unintended ecological consequences very far from the locations where they transpire. This research combines maps and timelines with historical documents, archaeological information, and environmental science.

Ruth Mostern is associate professor of history and director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE), the coeditor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, and the principal investigator for the World-Historical Gazetteer, a digital ecosystem for sharing information about historical places.

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:36:26 -0500 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion “A Map of the Lower River,” Zheng Penghe
Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, Len Niehoff, and John de Lancie: Theater of Justice (January 30, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70388 70388-17594435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This event brings together Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, legal scholar and practitioner Len Niehoff, and acclaimed actor John de Lancie to explore the work of the courts and the law; how the human impulse for narrative performance and drama informs the inner workings of the courtroom; and how the courtroom is represented on stage and screen.

Chief Justice Bridget McCormack joined the Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013, and became chief justice in January 2019. As the chief justice, McCormack has promoted statewide initiatives devoted to improving the courts’ service to the public, and in particular delivering on a promise that courts are independent, accessible, engaged with their communities, and efficient. Len Niehoff is a nationally prominent law practitioner, professor, and scholar in three fields: media law and the First Amendment; higher education law; and trial and appellate litigation. Niehoff is working on a book about the Salem witch trials. John de Lancie is best known for his role as “Q” on Star Trek: The Next Generation, however, his credits are numerous and include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Fisher King, Breaking Bad, and The West Wing.  He was recently in a national tour of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” with Ed Asner where he played Clarence Darrow, and is the first recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award. De Lancie is currently at work on a play about the 2005 Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District trial.

Presented in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). This event heralds Witness Lab, a project by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15 through May 17, 2020, in UMMA’s Stenn Gallery.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:01 -0500 2020-01-30T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/McCormack.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
FAST Lecture | Assessing Mechanisms of Mobility and Exchange in the Prehistoric Cyclades (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71613 71613-17844816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Recent research in the Bronze Age Cycladic archipelago has documented the widespread evidence for the distribution of imported products — especially ceramics — throughout the region. In addition, consensus has grown that human mobility was a key feature in driving technical and stylistic changes in Cycladic assemblages. Indeed, the operation of different sorts of mobility seems to be a key feature underlying major patterns of material culture change in the islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. In this era, Cycladic islanders adopted and adapted material culture and practice from the palatial Minoan society of Crete. This presentation discusses human and object mobility in the context of changing patterns of consumption and production in the islands in order to provide new perspectives on the so-called Minoanization phenomenon.

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

FAST lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:35:12 -0500 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion detail of the Miniature Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri, Crete