Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation: From the Holocaust to the Capitol Riots (March 25, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83029 83029-21257027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Community Conversation is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome!

A screening of A Night at the Garden, a 7-minute documentary about a 1939 fascist rally with more than 20k people attending at Madison Square Garden. A panel discussion will follow the screening.

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:54:44 -0400 2021-03-25T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Assertiveness Skills (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82322 82322-21068595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive. Assertiveness is a learnable skill and mode of communication using verbal and non-verbal skills, with an understanding that assertive responses are based on an individual’s comfort levels. This workshop will provide options to consider when one feels the need or desire to use their voice to express their opinions or if they need to set a boundary. Candace Dorsey, Empowerment Self Defense Program Manager, will demonstrate ways that a person can physically reposition themselves to a more comfortable position when uncomfortable situations are presented intentionally or unintentionally. Attendees will learn various skill sets to increase their awareness, self-confidence, and self-esteem.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QA42q.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:16:11 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
LHS Collaboratory March Session (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82008 82008-21006745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speakers Stefan Boes, PhD and Sarah Mantwill, PhD from the university of Lucerne will discuss the Swiss Learning Health System.

Promoting and supporting uptake of evidence and evidence-informed decision-making in health-systems related policy and practice is a challenge. In Switzerland, the need to address this matter has been increasingly emphasized by different actors in the health system. In particular, the lack of comprehensive coordination efforts in the field of health services research, and subsequent knowledge translation activities, has been stressed. In response, the Swiss Learning Health System (SLHS) was established as a nationwide project in 2017, currently involving 10 academic partner institutions. One of the overarching objectives of the SLHS is to bridge research, policy, and practice by providing an infrastructure that supports learning cycles by: continuously identifying issues relevant to the Swiss health system, systemizing relevant evidence, presenting potential courses of action, and revising and reshaping responses. Key features of learning cycles in the SLHS include the development of policy/evidence briefs that serve as a basis for stakeholder dialogues with actors from research, policy and practice. Issues that are identified to be further pursued are monitored for potential implementation and eventually evaluated to inform new learning cycles and to support continuous learning within the system.

Dr. Boes and Dr. Mantwill will provide an overview of the SLHS and its key features, as well as its capacity building efforts to train young researchers in the field of learning health systems, and the development of a centralized metadata repository in support of creating a sufficient large evidence basis to support learning cycles in the Swiss health system. Further, they will discuss lessons learned from the past and the newest developments of the SLHS in light of a second funding phase supported by the Swiss government.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:57:27 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory Logo
Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81090 81090-20846550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Speakers:
- Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Sociology, U-M
- Gary W. Harper, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, and Global Public Health, U-M
- Jennifer Dominique Jones, Assistant Professor of History & Women's and Gender Studies, U-M

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women’s transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of “dying from” AIDS to “living with” it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS every day.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:47:28 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Remaking a Life
Alum Connections: Kristin Robinson (March 25, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83161 83161-21282847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Kristin Robinson, Vice President, Brand Marketing and Communications at Shondaland

Getting your foot in the door in the entertainment industry is a competitive endeavor on it’s own but it can be especially challenging to break through into the industry’s PR and marketing realm. Join the Opportunity Hub on Thursday, March 25th to connect directly with experienced communications and marketing professional Kristin Robinson (Org Studies ‘02). Robinson’s LSA education took her to Fox Entertainment Group, Oprah Winfrey brands, and now to Shondaland. Along the way she acquired knowledge about the power of internships and volunteer opportunities, the variety of roles available in communications and PR, and how you can differentiate yourself in a very competitive field. RSVP today for your chance to gain valuable advice from Kristin and understand how to convert your LSA education into a communications career in the industry.

About Kristin:
Kristin Robinson is Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications at Shondaland, a pioneering storytelling company founded by award-winning writer and producer Shonda Rhimes. She is known for creating groundbreaking series like Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal. Robinson oversees all marketing and communications across Shondaland’s digital content as well as its streaming and broadcast content with ABC and Netflix. Most recently, Robinson helped create the marketing and publicity campaigns for Bridgerton, Netflix’s most watched series ever, and the launch of Shondaland Audio, a network of scripted and unscripted podcasts in partnership with iHeartMedia.

Robinson joined Shondaland after working under Oprah Winfrey for over five years, where she was responsible for the communications and marketing for Oprah’s Book Club and Winfrey’s book catalog. She also executed the media moguls’s podcast expansion with the 2017 launch of Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations and Oprah’s Master Class. She also helped lead campaigns for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, specials and documentaries including Queen Sugar, Greenleaf, and Emmy-nominated series SuperSoul Sunday, among others. Her previous brand work include the Kellogg Company, Jack Daniel’s, and the J.M. Smucker company

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Interested in learning more about Communications, Brand Marketing, and PR careers in entertainment and beyond
Wondering how your LSA education can prepare you for the business world

What you’ll gain by attending:
Get first-hand access to information about how to differentiate yourself in a very competitive field
Gain a better sense of the variety of roles that you can explore in the Communications, Brand Marketing, and PR space
Get an understanding of what a career in Marketing and Communications looks like through the lens of a well-versed and experience executive like Kristin

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:33:32 -0400 2021-03-25T12:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Kristin Robinson Photo
EEB Virtual Seminar: The plant mating system and the evolution of resistance (March 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80095 80095-20556872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The mating system, or who mates with whom, and how often, is a critical trait that influences the distribution of genetic variation among populations as well as fitness and the ability of populations to respond to selection. Although we know that the plant mating system is strongly influenced by environmental factors, we do not understand if and how the mating system may be shaped by anthropogenic forces. In this talk, I give a brief overview of the ongoing ecological genetics/genomics projects within the lab and focus on our attempts to understand how the mating system may evolve given regimes of strong human-mediated selection.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:19:48 -0400 2021-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Evolution of resistance
Fat Bodies Go Abroad (March 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80590 80590-20759747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

All bodies are good bodies, and traveling abroad as a fat person brings extra challenges and opportunities. There are lots of things that fat travelers may have to think about that their thin or straight-sized peers do not. This brief uses a fat-positive approach to discuss travel preparations and daily realities of life abroad for plus-size students, including clothing, transportation, navigating fat bias and fat acceptance through new cultural lenses and languages, and accessibility of housing.

RSVP Today: https://myumi.ch/ovPvX

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:06:29 -0500 2021-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Fat Bodies
Food Justice for the 21st Century (March 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82988 82988-21235276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join the University of Michigan Campus Farm (CF) for an interactive discussion on topics relating to food justice, food access, and CF efforts to combat food insecurity on our campus. You will also be given a brief history of the farm and an overview of our current approaches to and involvement in campus wide initiatives such as DEI, sustainability and carbon neutrality. If you’re interested in reflecting upon your current role as a DEI practitioner or advocate, this workshop is specifically designed for you. We hope you will join us for this engaging talk!
An online or in person tour of the campus farm will be available for all participants. If you have any questions please reach out to us at campusfarm@umich.edu.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/jx9oN.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:15:46 -0500 2021-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Resolution Office: Transition Story Circle (March 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82084 82084-21024865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

A Story Circle is a small group of individuals sitting in a circle, sharing stories—usually from their own experience or imagination—focusing on a common theme. As each person in turn shares a story, a richer and more complex story emerges. By the end, people see both real differences and things their stories have in common. Story Circles are often understood as deriving from indigenous traditions. There are many variations (https://usdac.us).
In this session participants will be invited to share a story around the theme of Transition. Staff from the Rackham Resolution Office will serve as facilitators for the process and will end the session by sharing campus resources and information related to the theme.
The prompt for this story circle is: Share a story about a transition you have experienced in coming to Michigan or in navigating your degree.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/9o0BW.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:16:10 -0500 2021-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Sparkle Malone (March 25, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80424 80424-20719759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Sparkle Malone of Florida International University will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a zoom virtual event. Please contact lhopkins@umich.edu to request zoom access.

"Focus on the carbon: Understanding the conditions that facilitate resilient ecosystems"

ABSTRACT:
Although wetlands are valued for their capacity to support the resilience of coastal communities, these ecosystems are at risk due to anthropogenic pressure and sea level rise (SLR). In one of the most dynamic wetland complexes in the world, the Florida Everglades, changes in freshwater supply and accelerated rates of SLR are changing historical landscape patterns, including the carbon (C) cycle. The hydrology and disturbance regime in the Everglades region developed a rich diversity of communities. Productivity across the Everglades peaks near the coast (Mangroves Riverine Forests; 1200 g C m-2 yr-1) where the supply of P from seawater is balanced by freshwater supplies. Further inland, long- and short-hydroperiod freshwater ecosystems range from being a small sink to a small source of CO2 (-11– -110 g CO2 m-2 yr-1) annually. With the future of South Florida tied to the management of natural resources, it is essential that we understand how shifts in climate, land management and disturbance regimes influence the resilience of South Florida.

Dr. Malone’s primary research focus is to improve our understanding of how climate and disturbance regimes influence spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem structure and function. Using remote sensing, eddy covariance, and spatial and temporal models she explores questions related to ecosystem condition, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate extremes.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:00:25 -0500 2021-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Sparkle Malone 2 - updated
Enjoy the Planetarium from Home! (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82986 82986-21233299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

A thirty-minute, lighthearted review of the current night sky, including constellations, visible planets, and other current astronomical events. Short Q&A session follows.

Groups of 7 or more should consider booking a private show for the best experience.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:11:40 -0400 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Livestream / Virtual
The Humanities at Work (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81915 81915-20990896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Today: Peggy McCracken, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, talks to Robert Blecher (PhD, Middle East History, Stanford University), Chief Strategy Officer at the International Crisis Group.

The Humanities at Work is a new series from the Institute for the Humanities that features the variety of careers pursued by Humanities PhDs. Organized as a series of conversations, these one-hour sessions will include a 30-minute informational interview in which the invited guest traces their trajectory, describes the extent to which graduate education prepared them for their current work, identifies things they wish they'd known or explored as a graduate student, and explains the qualifications their organization would seek in an applicant. We'll also ask our guests to describe how the humanities matter in the work they do. The second half of the hour will be devoted to questions from the audience.

About Robert Blecher:
As Chief Strategy Officer at the International Crisis Group (www.crisisgroup.org), Robert Blecher advises the President & CEO on the organization’s priorities, increasing its impact and raising its profile through new forms of output, outreach, advocacy, and partnerships. He oversees the strategic planning process, leads special initiatives, and directs the Economics of Conflict workstream, which integrates empirical approaches into Crisis Group’s traditional method.

Robert previously served as deputy program director of Crisis Group’s MENA Program and before that as project director for Israel/Palestine. He has a Ph.D. in Middle East history from Stanford University.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:36:20 -0500 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Robert Blecher
Monuments of Resilience: A Virtual Tour of Sites of Enslavement (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82619 82619-21145771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In this live Zoom event for the U-M community, Joseph McGill, founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project, conducts a virtual tour of the slave cabins and burial ground at Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the tour, McGill will lead a group conversation about American slavery and its legacy today.

Learn more about Joseph and the Slave Dwelling Project at http://slavedwellingproject.org

Open to U-M students, staff, faculty, and those with U-M login credentials

Co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Anthropology

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:53:40 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Rooting for Change! (March 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81828 81828-20967184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) connects food, environmental, and social justice-oriented clubs on campus to create a network of empowered students working to better our food system both on-campus and in the surrounding community.

The UM Sustainable Food Program is inviting you to attend Rooting for Change: Student Food Summit! The two-day event will consist of student-led learnshops, a storytelling event Tiny Talks about Food Justice, and a keynote address Food as Healing with Shane Bernardo. Also on the program are a networking happy hour on Wednesday evening and well-being breaks to cultivate personal resilience on both days.

U-M students are welcome to attend some or all of this free event. Register for learnshops along one track (Identity, Equity, & Justice | Hands-on Learning | Resources for Student Orgs) or pick and choose individual learnshops based on your interests.

Staff, faculty, and community members are invited to join in for Tiny Talks at 7pm on Wed, 3/24 and the keynote event at 7pm on Thurs, 3/25.

Our objectives in hosting this summit are to:
* Foster collaboration between UMSFP Member Groups, Working Group participants, UMSFP, Campus Farm, Maize and Blue Cupboard students
* Inspire deeper engagement with co-curricular opportunities to engage with sustainable food at U-M
* Promote a sense of personal and organizational connectedness to one another and to the food we grow, buy, sell, cook, and eat
* Challenge attendees to explore all aspects of the food system through the lens of social justice
* Center fun, relationship-building, and well-being in this work

Please don't hesitate to contact umsfp.core@umich.edu for more information!

DAY 1 - Wed, March 24 (5-9pm)
5:00 - Opening
5:30 - Share Out from Student Orgs
6:00 - Learnshop Session 1 (Equity & Food Access | Nutrition Label Literacy | Grants for Student Orgs)
6:45 - Meditation with Mac Realo
7:00 - Tiny Talks About Food Justice
8:00 - Networking Happy Hour

DAY 2 - TENTATIVE: Thurs, March 25 (5-8pm)
5:00 - The Future of UMSFP
5:15 - Learnshop Session 2 (Food Futures | Recycling & Composting | Food Policy Advocacy)
6:00 - Yoga break
6:15 - Learnshop Session 3 (Food & Social Identity | Campus Farm Flavors | Student Food Access)
7:00 - Keynote: Food as Healing with Shane Bernardo
7:50 - Key Takeaways & Closing

Register: bit.ly/rfcsign

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:14:57 -0400 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Livestream / Virtual Rooting for Change! 5-8pm Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25 2021
The Ocean in the School: How Pacific Islander Students Transformed their University (March 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82934 82934-21225230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

In this talk, we will explore the ways in which Pacific Islander Students learned how to understand and engage with their isolation and alienation from school to eventually transform it into a place of discovery and meaningfulness. Building against the historical contexts of imperialism as well as the structural forms of domination that students lived through, we will touch on the values of collective work and cultural activism that Pacific Islanders and their allies enhanced to enable resistance and institutional change. We will learn what it meant to embrace the ocean in their school. This talk will then be followed by a discussion with the audience.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:00:13 -0500 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Picture of ocean wave washes on sandy beach
Alum Connections: Kit Maher (March 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83163 83163-21282849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Kit Maher, Associate Producer at CNN

As a transfer student to U-M, LSA alum Kit Maher learned quickly to make the most of the career learning resources available at Michigan and make the most of her degree in English ('17). Kit has held numerous media roles since graduating and is currently an Associate Producer for CNN Newsroom, working in the control room for live broadcasts. She is responsible for clearing, editing, and preparing video elements for the show, ready to pivot at a moment's notice during breaking news. Join Kit as she shares with students her tips for finding resources at Michigan; networking and making connections during the pandemic; identifying next steps at every stage of the career journey; moving to new places to follow opportunities; and breaking in the journalism industry.

About Kit:
Kit is an Associate Producer for CNN Newsroom, working in the control room for live broadcasts based at CNN’s World Headquarters in Atlanta. During live broadcasts, she is a pivotal part of the control room team, responsible for all video elements, making sure they are ready for air. This involves cutting, editing and coding the strongest videos, photos and soundbites, as well as monitoring live events for breaking news. Kit works across a variety of CNN show teams — including CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera, Brooke Baldwin, Brianna Keilar and Pam Brown. She also worked on special weekend editions of the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer throughout 2020.

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Interested in pursuing a career in journalism or media
Looking to learn how to use Michigan resources to your advantage

What you’ll gain by attending:
Gain insights about networking and making connections during a pandemic
Get first-hand knowledge about the highly competitive journalism industry
Get tips on moving to a new place to pursue new opportunities

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:41:31 -0400 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Kit Maher Photo
Stammtisch (March 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83680 83680-21454198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Join German Club for Stammtisch! All proficiency levels welcome! German students (German 101-231) can make up absences by attending any German Club event!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:41:46 -0400 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Stammtisch
Drop In and Get to Know CCL (March 25, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82081 82081-21020930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby is the local chapter of a national organization advocating for federal legislation to tackle climate change. Would you like to know more about our work and how you can get involved? Join our casual drop-in session to meet a few members of our chapter, learn about our group, and ask questions. All are welcome and able to contribute - you don't need to be an expert!

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsc-6oqj8oGtApi6u6PkbngoX-3DMVIzuo

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:24:28 -0500 2021-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting
Trombone Ensemble (March 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82772 82772-21175580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

David Jackson, conductor

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Women's History Month Screening: RBG Documentary (March 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83074 83074-21264982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The Mosher Jordan DPE has planned an opportunity for all residents to watch the Ruth Bader Ginsberg documentary. The goal of this program is to learn more about her contributions and center her legacy during Women's History Month. All community members are invited to join via zoom. Mosher Jordan and Couzens residents specifically can fill out this form to pick up snacks for the movie:

https://forms.gle/tNJBQ9caiHsCvVpz7

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:24:44 -0400 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Follow the QR code or the link below to register: https://myumi.ch/3qkOE
UM Structure Seminar: "Structural Studies of the Mitochondrial GTPase, Miro1" (March 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76222 76222-19677551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Emily Eberhardt
Graduate Student
Michael Cianfrocco Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:02:29 -0500 2021-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Alum Connections: Savannah Stephens (March 26, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83160 83160-21282846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Savannah Stephens, Programming Coordinator at NBC Sports Bay Area & California

Our lives are replete with professional opportunities and challenges and LSA alum Savannah Stephens attributes preparation, practice, and persistence as key elements in achieving your career goals. Savannah Stephens (History ‘18) has a wealth of experience when it comes to leveraging all three along the journey from LSA undergrad to Programming Coordinator for NBC Sports in the Bay Area & California. Join us on Friday, March 26th to hear directly from Savannah about how persistence, practice, and preparation situated her for success, and how you can leverage university and external resources to do the same. RSVP today for your chance to learn more about the sports broadcasting industry and to ask questions directly to Savannah!

About Savannah:
Savannah Stephens currently serves as Programming Coordinator for NBC Sports Bay
Area/California. In her current role, Savannah helps onboard, deliver, and manage the network’s linear content. She also manages 10+ schedules and creates/conducts ratings reports
and analyses. During her freshman & sophomore year at Umich, Savannah participated in the Success Connects program (formerly Leaders & Best), played club soccer, studied abroad (in Salamanca, Spain), and conducted research through UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program). As a junior/senior, she held two on-campus jobs, interned for NBC (in NYC), attended a Media/Sports Employer Immersion (in Atlanta), and was invited to join the Career Center’s Student Advisory Board.

Born in Rochester, NY, and raised in Dallas, Texas, Savannah has lived in four different states and traveled to eight different countries. In her free time, she enjoys cuddling with her dog, reading, and watching basketball. Savannah graduated from the University of Michigan in 2018 with a BA in History and a Minor in Spanish.

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Exploring careers in television programming and production
Wondering what resources you can leverage to help prepare you for your next professional steps

What you’ll gain by attending:
Take advantage of an opportunity to expand your LSA alum network
Learn the how and who of building your network and ask for help
Understand that everyone gets a “No” during their career journey, and you are not alone in looking for the one “Yes”

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:15:45 -0400 2021-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Savannah Stephens Photo
Russian Conversation Club (March 26, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Do you study Russian and want more opportunities to develop your speaking skills in a welcoming and low-stakes environment? Are you looking for an opportunity to socialize with your peers and bond over the difficulties of learning a foreign language? Would you like to learn more about the culture of one of the most politically important and fascinating regions of the world with the coolest undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan?

If the answer to any or all of the above questions is "yes", then you should check out the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures weekly Russian conversation club (called КРЯ - Клуб Русского Языка)! Every Friday at 11:00, we convene for lighthearted discussion of ourselves, our language studies, and of course, the culture of the Russophone world. Regular attendance is not mandatory - you can drop in and out as you wish, and club participants are always willing to help each other out with questions about the language during our discussions. We meet in two groups, the first aimed at first-year students or any who are beginning their language study, and the second targeted towards students who have studied the language for at least a year. Participants are also encouraged to join our discord server, where we post weekly meeting announcements and other Russian-language related content.

Introductory Group Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94164643618

Advanced Group Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99310708629

Link to join our discord: https://discord.gg/FHguFGY

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
"RNA boogie: Structural Dynamics by NMR" (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83217 83217-21314485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

ABSTRACT: Many functions of RNA depend on rearrangements in secondary structure that are triggered by external factors, such as protein or small molecule binding. These transitions can feature on one hand localized structural changes in base-pairs or can be presented by a change in chemical identity of e.g. a nucleo-base tautomer. We use and develop R1ρ-relaxation-dispersion NMR methods for characterizing transient structures of RNA that exist in low abundance (populations <10%) and that are sampled on timescales spanning three orders of magnitude (µs to s).
The characterization of three different types of transient structures is going to be presented. 1) The HIV-1 dimerization initiation site (DIS) undergoes large secondary structure rearrangements that provide the basis for a molecular zipper, which can be crucial for genome packaging (Nature 2012). 2) The GU wobble base-pair undergoes a change from standard wobble GU geometry to appear like a Watson-Crick base-pair stabilized by Keto-Enol tautomerization (Nature 2015). 3) a microRNA – mRNA complex changes conformation to activate the RISC complex (Nature 2020). I will furthermore give an outlook on recent efforts to measure in-cell NMR of nucleic acids in functional complexes. www.petzoldlab.com

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:09:51 -0400 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Katja Petzold
Genius Passion Pathways: Charting Non-Linear Career Pathways (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82170 82170-21048572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join Tonya M. Matthews as she draws from pivotal moments from her own career to facilitate an interactive session about weighing academic vs. non-academic career opportunities and translating your scholarship into impact that matters. She will also address the art of using free time to balance your humanity and multiple interests. This session is appropriate for both graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across STEM, humanities, and social sciences disciplines.
Tonya M. Matthews, Ph.D. is a thought-leader and convener in STEM education and engagement, organizational equity and inclusion, and informal, community-driven learning. Her diverse background includes academic and professional work as a scientist, educator, volunteer, and award-winning writer and poet. She holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and she is the recipient of a Whitaker Foundation Award for Engineering Excellence and an alumni member of National Society of Black Engineers and Society for Women Engineers. She is also the founder of the STEMinista project and formerly served as President and CEO of the Michigan Science Center. Matthews currently sits on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/2D0dv.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:16:15 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Scratch the Surface: The Analysis of Prehistoric Pottery Found in the Shkodër Region, North Albania (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82948 82948-21227217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Culture history remains the principal paradigm of archaeological thought in northern Albania and its adjacent areas. Within such a framework, particularly given the absence of written records and radiocarbon dating, the diagnostic features of the late prehistoric pottery in this territory become a tool for building blocks of relative chronology. In this way, such artifacts are valued primarily as markers for a given settlement’s strata and possible cultural links with other areas. However, various anthropological studies show that pottery represents a multifaceted component of daily social practices. With this in mind, the present study endeavors to challenge the dominant regional paradigm and to do so it adopts a methodology that goes beneath the surface of late prehistoric pottery. Petrography and paradigmatic classification have been used to examine the pottery excavated from three settlements and two tumuli in the Shkodër region to answer questions related to provenance, production organization, and possible exchange patterns.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:14:18 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual mara
AIG (the American Institutions Group) (March 26, 2021 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80636 80636-20769607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:05pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

Jonathan Cohn, an Ann Arbor-based journalist for the Huffington Post, will join AIG on March 26th to discuss his new book on Obamacare: The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage.

AIG is a group of graduate students and faculty who meet to discuss American institutions. For the first half of our meetings, we talk about our research, happenings in the field, and politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper.

To join the meeting via Zoom, email Jared Cory and Benjamin Lempert (blempert@umich.edu) for the meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:05:00 -0500 2021-03-26T12:05:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institutions Group (AIG) Livestream / Virtual 10 Year War
Alum Connections: Heather and Seth Gladstein (March 26, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83002 83002-21235292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Celebrity Personal Assistant & Tour Manager Heather Adelman Gladstein and Trial Lawyer Seth Gladstein

Are you wondering what being a trial lawyer has in common with being a celebrity assistant and concert tour manager? Beyond their love for U-M, Heather (Econ, Music ’99) and Seth (PoliSci ’97) are husband and wife, successful entrepreneurs in their respective fields, and business owners. Both credit their LSA experience, along with mentors and internships, and their ability to think critically, to find careers that combine each of their passions and skills, and to create businesses that serve unmet needs in their respective fields.

Join Heather and Seth for an upbeat, insightful conversation about pursuing your interests, making career changes along the journey, and everything in between!

About Heather Adelman Gladstein:

As a Celebrity Assistant, Consultant and Tour Manager, Heather works with some of the world’s top classical music and theater stars, including Broadway legend Audra McDonald. Before establishing her own business in 2005, Heather worked in New York for six years as the Director of Artist Services in the Vocal Division of IMG Artists, the premier classical music management agency. A geographical change prompted Heather to consider a potential career shift. She recognized that artists at the highest level of their craft needed more direct support and she started her business to provide these services. In 2019, Musical America recognized Heather as a “Professional of the Year” for having created a unique business and for being an industry innovator, independent thinker and entrepreneur. Heather graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts where she double majored in Music and Economics.

About Seth Gladstein

Seth is a medical malpractice and trial lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky. Seth is AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell and has been selected as a Kentucky Super Lawyer for six consecutive years. While at Michigan, Seth majored in Political Science, and served on the LSA Student Government during his junior year. He interned for one of Kentucky’s United States Senators in Washington, D.C and after graduating from Michigan in 1997, taught English in Prague, Czech Republic. Seth received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2001 and practiced medical malpractice defense for four years in New York City before returning home to Louisville. In 2011, Seth opened his solo practice, which has a singular focus of giving a voice to injury and malpractice victims throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In January 2022, Seth will begin his term as President of the Louisville Bar Association.

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Interested in becoming a lawyer or working in the business side of the performing arts
Exploring taking a gap year between college and graduate school
Learning about the law school process and experience
Wondering about how to get your foot in the door working with musicians and celebrities
Looking to understand how to make the best of mentorships and business relationships
Curious about the challenges and joys of having your own business

What you’ll gain by attending:
Hear advice from LSA alums who created their own businesses
Get actionable suggestions on how to formulate your next steps, regardless of where you are in your journey
Gain insights into the specific fields of law and the performing arts industry
Get a glimpse into what it’s like to have a dual-income household where both individuals own their own businesses

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be mailed to you after you RSVP.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:32:56 -0500 2021-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Heather and Seth Gladstein Photo
Centering People and DEI in Engineering Research (March 26, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83189 83189-21290776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential for a modern workforce and indicators of the development and sustainability of an industry. Construction is yet to be considered a fully diverse, equitable, and inclusive industry sector (Sang and Powell 2012) due to pervasive structural prejudices and unconscious biases. The construction workforce is dominated by men; in the US, women make up only 1/10 of the overall construction workforce (CPWR 2018) even though 50.8% of the US population are females and 21.9% of civil engineering bachelor’s degrees in the US were earned by females over the last two decades (Hickey and Cui 2020). These statistics demonstrate the lack of gender equality within the construction industry (Navarro-Astor et al. 2017).

Furthermore, challenges related to masculinity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, language, age, and other stereotypes have negatively impacted the experience of underrepresented groups working within the construction industry. With the high turnover rate and increased labor shortage across different work classifications, construction organizations must overcome the aforementioned challenges and to achieve and sustain a safe, productive, and inclusive work environment. Inclusion is essential at work and results in everyone having the opportunity to fully apply themselves, contribute to the success of the company, and be valued for their specific skills, experience, and vision.

During the presentation, Dr. Simmons will discuss her funded interdisciplinary construction engineering and management research which centers people across three themes: DEI, interactions between humans and technology, and competency development via education and training. She will also describe her motivation for this work from her perspective as an African-American woman with decades of experience in the construction industry.

Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, PMP, LEED-AP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant; nearly 15 years of experience in academia; and extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related research and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating professional formation of civil engineers, with an increasing focus on project managers and the practical strategies that transform and sustain inclusive and productive organizations. While overseeing the Simmons Research Lab, her current research focuses on three areas: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); interactions between humans and technology; and competency development via education and training.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:21:20 -0400 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Denise Simmons
Early Career Scientists Symposium: Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation (March 26, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81362 81362-20887842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A virtual symposium held on five consecutive Fridays beginning March 5, 2021.

REGISTRATION required for Zoom entry. Registrants will receive the Zoom link and passcode via email. See links this page to register and for more information.

Session IV (Moderator: Teresa Pegan)

1 pm Eric LoPresti

1:30 pm Laurel Yohe

2 pm Panel discussion: Eric LoPresti and Laurel Yohe

Eric LoPresti, Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University

Talk title: Plants and the materials that stick to them: an ecological and evolutionary investigation

Abstract
A pressed plant specimen in an herbarium has long been the source of morphological, chemical, genetic and other sorts of data on the plant. However, that physical specimen
also includes incidental collections of other material which can inform conclusions about the plant’s ecology and interactions. My research uses collections of sticky plants to study plant interactions by examining material that sticks to the plant during its lifetime; I have found sand, dead bugs, bird feathers and ash on the surfaces of plant specimens. My recent work has demonstrated that certain substances–biological or not–stuck to plants mediate both simple and complex interactions with both arthropods and mammals, resulting in major fitness implications for the plant. However, the ubiquity of these interactions is unknown. My research links the ecological functioning of sticky plant interactions with the breadth and evolutionary history of stickiness. I will detail ecological interactions of stickiness, broad patterns of stickiness across the plant phylogeny, as well as in more detail across a single clade of plants endemic to western North America.

Laurel Yohe
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

Talk title: Morphological and developmental basis of olfactory evolution: evidence from museum-collected iodine-stained bat specimens and embryos

Abstract
The sense of smell is essential for finding food in animals, but whether olfaction has evolved in relation to diet is not understood. Animals that more heavily rely on smell should have increased olfactory tissue than those that rely on other senses, yet this assumption is rarely tested. I investigated whether smell was associated with diet in a group of neotropical leaf-nosed bats known for their dietary diversity. Using iodine-stained museum specimens of both adult and embryo bats, I quantified the olfactory epithelium of nasal turbinate bones in species with divergent diets. Embryo specimens were obtained from museum-deposited adult females unknown to be pregnant during accession, providing a wealth of new specimens unbeknownst to science. I tested whether plant-visiting have more well-developed olfactory epithelium compared to animal-feeding bats. I discovered: [1] two of the five turbinate bones have increased epithelium in plant-visiting bats; and [2] development of turbinates remains simple earlier in ontogeny, but the two bones with increased epithelium develop at very late stages in plant-visiting bats. This discovery suggests olfactory adaptation in plant-visiting bats, and the accompanying morphology occurs at late developmental stages, supporting the notion that natural selection acts upon phenotypes appearing later in ontogeny.

Read more, including about the speakers and their talks, on the ECSS website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/

REGISTER: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/register/

Illustration: John Megahan. Image credits: Eric LoPresti, John Megahan, Timothy James, Linda Garcia

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:11:29 -0500 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Illustration of museum drawers opened and boxes on top containing the following: shell, plant, grasshopper, mushroom, snake, skull and owl.
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79896 79896-20511619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:29 -0500 2021-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (March 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82450 82450-21100196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan Shayla Olson will present her co-authored book chapter, "Political Content in Sermons and Changes in the Trump Era." Her research fits broadly within American political behavior, with a specific interest in the interaction between race and religion.

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.

Email zcwalker@umich.edu/ for meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:48:11 -0400 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Livestream / Virtual Olson
CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt (March 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80219 80219-20601995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Over the last two decades, the pace and scale of private extractive industry in central and eastern India’s mountainous regions has intensified, producing a profusion of open cast mines, power plants, refineries, and steel plants that have converted vast agricultural and forestlands to new extractive and industrial use. Through the activities of their Corporate Social Responsibility units, firms become embedded in the countryside through what I call “company villages.” These are inversions of the “company town” of the past, which emerged in the 20th century as companies were forced by labor mobilization to enact programs for social welfare, redistribution, and development—what we might consider corporate social ethics—within the body of the firm itself. In a sector that is now heavily mechanized and capital-intensive, firms attempt to demonstrate their social ethics on sites and on behalf of communities that are exterior to and on the periphery of their plants and mines. In place of the labor-capital dynamics that produced hard-won welfare for workers in yesterday’s company towns, today’s extractive economies are marked by these company villages, as firms build and operate rehabilitation settlements, hospitals, schools, and cottage industries, extending the spatial reach of their presence far beyond the perimeters of mine pitheads and industrial plants. This talk will illustrate the dynamics of the “company village” by drawing on fieldwork at several locations in Odisha, India.

Sunila S. Kale is Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where she also serves as Chair and Director of South Asia Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Indian and South Asian politics, energy studies, the political economy of development, and the history of capitalism. Her books include *Electrifying India* (Stanford 2014) and *Mapping Power* (OUP 2018). She is currently working on two book-length projects: one on corporate social responsibility and socio-economic change in the mining areas of eastern India, and a second on yoga in the world of politics (with Christian Lee Novetzke).

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vc-qsrzIoEtywZcPyRnhns5YjokKT0grE

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:55:49 -0500 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt
Pipilotti Rist: Kind (of a) Talk (March 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80904 80904-20818980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, a pioneer of spatial video art, has been a central figure within the international art scene since the mid-1980s. Rist’s career rise coincided with the vast technical advancements seen over the past four decades, a reality that Rist has responded to through playful exploration of new possibilities. Through large video projections and digital manipulation, she has developed immersive, color vivid installations. With her curious and lavish recordings of nature and her investigative editing, Rist seeks to justify the privileged position we are born with in nature, simply by being human. Her installations and exhibition concepts are expansive, finding within the mind, senses, and body the possibility for endless discovery and poetical invention. For Rist, showing vulnerability is a sign of strength on which she draws for inspiration. As she herself puts it, “beside the energy-intensive exploration of the geographical world, pictures, films, and sounds have been and are the spaces into which we can escape… The projector is the flamethrower, the space is the vortex and you are the pearl within.”

Rist has had countless solo and group exhibitions, and video screenings worldwide. Her recent solo exhibitions Come On Honey… at Kunsthalle Krems (2015); Your Saliva is My Diving Suit of the Ocean of Pain at Kunsthaus Zürich (2016); Pixel Forest at New Museum New York (2016 – 2017) and ‘Sip My Ocean’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2017-2018) all resulted in record-breaking attendance numbers for each institution. Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor  is the first West Coast survey of the internationally renowned Swiss media artist, on view during winter 2021 at LAMOCA.

In partnership with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

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

Image: Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000, video installation by Pipilotti Rist (video still) © Pipilotti Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:10 -0500 2021-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Rist-Pipilotti.jpg
Chamber Music Master Class: Mark Steinberg (March 27, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83036 83036-21259006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

watch online at https://myumi.ch/yKBwR

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
TEDxUofM 2021 Conference: Ignite (March 27, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82449 82449-21100195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: TEDxUofM

SIGN UP FOR ZOOM LINK HERE: https://www.universe.com/tedxuofm2021

Ignite plays on the idea of rising from the ashes: the chance to destroy existing norms and create new ones. To us, Ignite represents our hope for a brighter future. We have the power to ignite whatever we so choose within ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities—it all starts with one idea worth spreading.

This year's conference will feature 6 amazing TEDx Talks, engaging performers, and interactive learning activities. We will be revealing our exciting lineup of speakers on tedxuofm.com and our social media links throughout February and March!

TEDxUofM: Ignite will be hosted via Zoom. Sign up for a FREE ticket through Universe! https://www.universe.com/tedxuofm2021

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:59:03 -0500 2021-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location TEDxUofM Livestream / Virtual Conference Logo
Violin Studio Recital (March 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83041 83041-21259011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Danielle Belen

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
Kickoff Tour Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82882 82882-21209386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us as we kick off Family Week at the Kelsey with a kid-friendly virtual tour. We will explore how the people of the ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamia took care of their bodies and minds, and introduce some of the activities for the week.

Kelsey Family Week is a free virtual program.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910

Navigate to https://myumi.ch/zx90O to participate in Kelsey Museum Family Week!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:36:59 -0400 2021-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (March 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Find out what it means to be a Lloyd Scholar!
Meet our Student Leaders!
Ask questions!

Email us at LSWA@umich.edu to receive the Zoom link.

Current LSWA students will present an overview of our program during the following scheduled Zoom information sessions:
FEBRUARY:
Thursday, 2/18 - 6:00 pm
Saturday, 2/20 - 11:00 am
Sunday, 2/21 - 12:00 Noon & 3:00 pm
Monday, 2/22 - 7:00 pm
Saturday, 2/27 - 3:00 pm

MARCH:
Sunday, 3/7 - 12:00 Noon
Sunday, 3/14 - 3:00 pm
Wednesday, 3/17 - 6:00 pm
Friday, 3/19 - 6:00 pm
Sunday, 3/21 - 4:00 pm
Sunday, 3/28 - 4:00 pm

APRIL:
Saturday, 4/10 - 11:00 am
Saturday, 4/17 - 11:00 am
Thursday, 4/22 - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 4/28 - 6:00 pm

MAY:
Sunday, 5/2 - 1:00 pm

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
Myanmar Speaker Event (March 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83203 83203-21306574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

On February 1, the Myanmar military forcefully seized control of the country, its latest power grab in a country whose history is marked by countless such attempts. Until 2011, Myanmar had spent over 40 years under military rule, bringing the country into deep poverty and isolating it from the rest of the world. Despite a transition to democracy in the early 2010s, the political climate has remained unstable.

The situation has escalated since the coup, with the Myanmar military and police attempting to take control through inhumane violence. However, despite the risks, people of all ethnicities, ages and professions are marching in protest against the coup. Many essential workers, including truck drivers and train station workers, have also gone on strike to protest.


In this talk, we will discuss Myanmar’s political history, its historical heritage, and specific events that have happened since the start of the coup. In addition, we will discuss ways in which we - and you - can help the peaceful protesters in Myanmar.

The speaker’s bios, as well as links to fundraising efforts to help the protesters in Myanmar, are included in this flyer. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWpkcVKaJugckgqYAq1imz-bMIFMiuDW9vBkpxGPLM4/edit?usp=sharing)

This speaker event is organized by Tau Beta Pi. To register for this event, please fill out the form linked here. (http://tbpmi.ga/myanmar)

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at tbp.campusoutreach@umich.edu. We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:53:54 -0400 2021-03-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Livestream / Virtual Myanmar Speaker Event
Sweetland Write-Together (March 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82171 82171-21048573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:16:15 -0500 2021-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79897 79897-20511620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:29 -0500 2021-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Crucial Conversations: The Pandemic's Disproportionate Impact on Women (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83159 83159-21282859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Public Engagement & Impact

For a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we learn, work, and interact while also causing many to experience job loss, economic hardship, and wellness challenges. From college students learning at home, to struggling to maintain mental wellbeing, to mother’s working remotely while attempting to serve as teachers to their children, studies have shown that the stressors caused by the pandemic have increased the gender inequality gap in a variety of ways.

In recognition of Women’s History Month, and one year since the pandemic began, there is no better time than now to discuss the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women. This live conversation will bring together U-M experts and community members for an authentic and engaging dialogue on the myriad ways the pandemic has impacted women and what can be done to address these issues.

Join via Zoom: myumi.ch/jx9E3
Watch Live: YouTube.com/UM
Submit a question for the panel: myumi.ch/Bobz7

Moderator:
Betsey Stevenson, PhD
Professor of Public Policy and Professor and Economics
Ford School of Public Policy, the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Panelists:
Reshma Jagsi, MD
Deputy Chair of Radiation Oncology, Newman Family Professor of Radiation Oncology, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences
Michigan Medicine

Shawna Lee, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work, Faculty Associate of Research Center Group Dynamics
School of Social Work, Institute for Social Research

Tabbye Chavous, PhD
Associate Vice President for Research, Director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity, Professor of Education and Psychology
School of Education, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences
School of Nursing

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:47:49 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Public Engagement & Impact Livestream / Virtual Crucial Conversations: The Pandemic's Disproportionate Impact on Women
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 2: Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81552 81552-20925406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy in Early Modern Isfahan

In seventeenth-century Isfahan, the authorship of anthologies was a male prerogative. This talk wonders about women who have been excluded from the act of writing their own anthology to consider gendered literacy and female friendship through an anthology collected in the library of the Urdubadi family of bureaucrats and poets. The decisive role of a female family member, the Urdubadi widow, whose pilgrimage to Mecca is recorded in this anthology, divulges her love for a female companion who was forced to leave Isfahan due to rumors circulating about their friendship. How are we to interpret this inclusion? Reading this family history as an archive, we will see how anthologies document social and affective bonds with kin and with friends, acts that make the city legible for us and for themselves.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:36:19 -0500 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Urdubadi Majmua, Tehran University Library
Arab Heritage Month 2021: The Art of Emotional Resilience (March 29, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83022 83022-21251100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Najwa Zebian is joining us to share her personal story, the experiences she had as an Arab growing up, as well as touching on the struggle to fit in with her own community. Through this, she will teach ways on how you can practice emotional resilience.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:35:59 -0400 2021-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual AHM 2021: Najwa Zebian
Saxophone Studio Recital (March 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82773 82773-21175581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Timothy McAllister

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dancing Productive Missteps: the American Dance Festival at China’s Reform Era (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80189 80189-20594130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk explores the paradoxical role that the US played in China’s dance modernization during the Reform Era through a paradigmatic case: for four years (1987-1991), teachers from the American Dance Festival, at the invitation of the Guangdong Dance School, taught dance techniques and composition and trained the first group of professional modern dancers in China, most of whom continued on to establish the country’s first modern dance company in 1992. Contesting the presumption that a smoothly-communicated physical and spiritual liberation defined the program, Professor Miao argues that recurrent reciprocal misunderstandings deeply marked the exchange, because of the American teachers’ and Chinese students’ profoundly different conceptions of kinesthesia, pedagogical approach, and freedom. These missteps generated new methods of dance modernization and significantly shifted the history of Chinese modern dance.

Fangfei Miao, dance scholar, choreographer, and dancer, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from UCLA and MFA from the Beijing Dance Academy. Dr. Miao is working on her book manuscript that investigates the productivity of embodied cross-cultural missteps in transforming dance history in China’s Reform Era. Her publications, in both English and Chinese, have featured in Dance Research Journal, Asian Theater Journal, Journal of Contemporary Research in Dance, and Journal of the Beijing Dance Academy. With extensive professional training in both western and Chinese dances, she has toured internationally and staged her choreography in New York City, Los Angeles, Auckland, and Beijing, among others.

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

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_roHoUTD2TEiO10rP7UhLkA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:49:20 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Fangfei Miao, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan
DEI Workshop: Allies at Work (March 30, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79162 79162-20217722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.*


In this session, participants will learn:

- The role of allies in creating inclusive environments and creating change
- The best practices for being an ally
- How to apply these best practices in a work environment
- To identify unique obstacles towards being an ally in a remote working environment
- To challenge their own practices to be more intentional and effective allies

You will benefit by:

- Raising self-awareness and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:31:43 -0500 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Hands linking pinky fingers
Data Feminism Faculty Reading Group (March 30, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80428 80428-20719767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Faculty Reading Group led by Prof. Libby Hemphill on the book, "Data Feminism" by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. The group's goals are to read and discuss research, develop research collaborations, and eventually seek funding for future work.


FAQ
Q: When/where will meetings take place?
A: We'll start on Zoom, on Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. ET, beginning January 19, 2021. Our plan is for this group to grow and expand to continue into the future and not just the winter term.

Q: Is the group for faculty only?
A: We may expand in the future, but for starters, the group is for faculty, including postdocs and research investigators, on any track and in any discipline(s).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:01:11 -0500 2021-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual book cover, Data Feminism
Network with the SE Michigan LSA Young Alumni Council (March 30, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83031 83031-21257029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Network with the SE Michigan LSA Young Alumni Council

Join members of the SE Michigan Young Alumni Council for a casual virtual networking opportunity of March 30, 6-7pm. These talented LSA alums represent the breadth of liberal arts and sciences majors from Psychology to BCN to Poli Sci to Org Studies to Gender & Health to German! You’ll also have the opportunity to ask about their careers in education, healthcare, nonprofits, and project management. We hope you’ll join us for a conversation about life at U-M and beyond! RSVP Today!

About YAC: The LSA Young Alumni Council was created to give alumni of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts a meaningful way to stay connected to the community they established while on campus. Whether living in a bustling city on the East Coast, adventuring in the Pacific Northwest, or staying in Ann Arbor, our young alumni continue to have a positive and valuable impact on the college. It is LSA’s hope that with other members of the Young Alumni Council, you are able to find an extension of the LSA community no matter where you are.

YAC Mission Statement: Members of the LSA Young Alumni Council (YAC) are ambassadors of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts who deeply believe in the value of their liberal arts education, engage meaningfully with the college and within their communities, and work to create a culture of giving among LSA’s young alumni.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:20:05 -0400 2021-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 31, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (March 31, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds mindful meditation sits virtually on Wednesdays at 12:15.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis and is especially important during these trying times. Psychological stress can damper your overall health, affecting your ability to remain resilient in the face of challenges. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to also reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns.

Free and open to all levels of practice.

After registering, please check your email confirmation for the Zoom link!

Click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcumtpzIoHNdRoCz-lPKz9X7fb-Jp844o

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-03-31T12:15:00-04:00 2021-03-31T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
Robotic Manipulation under Transparency and Translucency from Light-field Sensing (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83269 83269-21328379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

From frosted windows to plastic containers to refractive fluids, transparency and translucency are prevalent in human environments. The material properties of translucent objects challenge many of our assumptions in robotic perception. For example, the most common RGB-D sensors in robotic applications require the sensing of an infrared structured pattern from a Lambertian reflectance of surfaces. As such, transparent and translucent objects often remain invisible to robot perception. Thus, introducing methods that would enable robots to correctly perceive and then interact with the environment would be highly beneficial. Light-field (or plenoptic) cameras, for instance, which carry light direction and intensity, make it possible to perceive visual clues on object surfaces from reflection and refraction. In this dissertation, we explore the inference of transparent and translucent objects from plenoptic observations for robotic perception and manipulation. We propose a novel plenoptic descriptor, Depth Likelihood Volume (DLV), that incorporates multi-view plenoptic observations to represent depth. The depth of a pixel is then represented as a distribution rather than a single value. Through the DLV distribution, we can infer the layered translucency structure of the scene with transparent and translucent objects for robot manipulation tasks. Building on the DLV, we present the Plenoptic Monte Carlo Localization algorithm, PMCL, as a generative method to infer 6-DoF poses of objects in settings with translucency. PMCL is able to localize both isolated transparent objects and opaque objects behind translucent objects using a previously computed DLV. We evaluate PMCL by comparing x estimated poses against ground-truth poses and demonstrate the use of these pose estimates for object pick and place tasks. The uncertainty induced by transparency and translucency for pose estimation increases greatly as scenes become more cluttered. However, robot grasping does not necessarily require estimation of 6-DoF object poses. Given multi-view plenoptic observations, we propose GlassLoc to localize feasible grasp poses over a pile of transparent objects. In GlassLoc, a convolutional neural network is introduced to learn DLV features for classifying grasp poses with grasping confidence. GlassLoc also suppresses the reflectance by checking pixel consistency over multi-view plenoptic observations, which leads to more stable DLV representation. We evaluate GlassLoc in the context of a pick-and-place task for transparent tableware in a cluttered tabletop environment. We further observe that the transparent and translucent objects will generate distinguishable features in the light-field epipolar image plane, which provides information about the object location. With this insight, we propose Light-field Inference of Transparency, LIT, as a two-stage generative-discriminative refractive object localization approach. In the discriminative stage, LIT uses convolutional neural networks to learn reflection and distortion features from photorealistic-rendered light-field images. The learned features guide generative object location inference through local depth estimation and particle optimization. With the LIT pipeline, we also create the light-field dataset for the task of transparent objects recognition, segmentation, and pose estimation. We compare LIT with three state-of-the-art pose estimators to show our efficacy in the transparent object localization task. We also perform a robot demonstration by picking champagne cups up from a textureless table and building a champagne tower using the LIT pipeline.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:48:06 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Livestream / Virtual Robot holds a champagne glass
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 31, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79898 79898-20511621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:29 -0500 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 31, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83395 83395-21369780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Large, deeply phenotyped cohorts are reshaping the world of environmental epidemiology. Two such “big data” resources that are reshaping how we understand environmental health are electronic health records and human cohorts with genome-wide molecular phenotyping. Each provides a unique perspective that is moving the field closer towards “personalized” insights into environmental health risks. Here I will talk about a series of studies which utilize electronic health records and molecularly phenotyped cohorts to investigate vulnerable populations, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetic biomarkers of environmental sensitivity. Together these studies are helping us to understand environmental health risks in a new light.

Short bio:

Dr. Cavin Ward-Caviness is a Principal Investigator in the Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division of the US Environmental Protection Agency. With a background in computational biology and environmental epidemiology, Dr. Ward-Caviness seeks to understand the environmental factors which influence health in vulnerable populations and the molecular mechanisms that influence environmental health risks. The Ward-Caviness lab uses a variety of “big data” approaches, and Dr. Ward-Caviness is the PI of the EPA CARES research resource, which allows researchers to study environmental health effects in vulnerable patient populations, e.g. individuals with heart failure, using large electronic health record databases. Dr. Ward-Caviness is also interested in how epigenetics and metabolomics can serve as an early indicator of adverse health effects from chemical and social environmental exposures and in particular how molecular biomarkers can give us insight into how the environment may accelerate the aging process and thus contribute to chronic disease. By integrating molecular and clinical data, Dr. Ward-Caviness seeks to understand environmental health as a way to advance personalized medicine and reduce health disparities.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:15:11 -0400 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
MCAIM Colloquium - Inference for Circadian Pacemaking (March 31, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83216 83216-21320455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Organisms have evolved an internal biological clock which allows them to temporally regulate and organize their physiological and behavioral responses to cope in an optimal way with the fundamentally periodic nature of the environment. It is now well established that the molecular genetics of such rhythms within the cell consist of interwoven transcriptional-translational feedback loops involving about 15 clock genes, which generate circa 24-h oscillations in many cellular functions at cell population or whole organism levels. We will present statistical methods and modelling approaches that address newly emerging large circadian data sets, namely spatio-temporal gene expression in SCN neurons and rest-activity actigraph data obtained from non-invasive e-monitoring, both of which provide unique opportunities for furthering progress in understanding the synchronicity of circadian pacemaking and address implications for monitoring patients in chronotherapeutic healthcare.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:36:41 -0400 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Mathematics Livestream / Virtual Bärbel Finkenstädt Rand, University of Warwick, Department of Statistics
Hub Panel: Navigating your Identity in the Workplace (March 31, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80166 80166-20572612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Have you ever had to wrestle with changing your name to assimilate at work? Or debated how to wear your hair to an interview? Maybe you’ve considered adjusting the way you speak, or which parts of your experience to share in your application materials? Join us for a virtual roundtable discussion with LSA alums that explore what it means to be authentically ourselves in the workplace and what happens if we face conflict or pushback in these situations.


You should attend this panel if you are:

Encountering instances when you feel unsure about expressing your full self at work
Looking to learn from others’ experiences so you can advocate for yourself, your peers, and your colleagues
What you’ll gain by attending:

Explore the tension between social and professional identities and understand how that can shape your experience in professional settings
Gain awareness of existing oppressions and privileges in the workplace and how to respond to challenges like these
Connect with LSA alums who can answer questions you have
Interaction Level: Low

Video and audio presence is not necessary
The event will mainly consist of passive viewing with the opportunity for small interactions like asking questions
NOTE: Students who cannot meet participation expectations are still encouraged to attend
About the panelists:


Kameron Brackins (English ’05), In-House Counsel at McKesson Specialty Health

Born and raised in Flint, Kameron earned her bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature with a minor in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2005. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University in 2010 and now resides in Houston (Texas) where she serves as in-house counsel for McKesson, the leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies and equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology solutions. In her free time, Kameron enjoys volunteering in her community, traveling the world, and spending time with family.


Sheldon Johnson (General Studies in Black Studies, Education, and Political Science ‘08), Vice President of Community Development at Community Building Partners

Sheldon’s life’s work is to build and sustain inclusive and equitable neighborhoods that allow all residents to thrive. Sheldon approaches this work with a lens of racial equity and addressing the social determinants of health. He currently serves as the Vice President of Community Development for Community Building Partners, an enterprise of Praxia Partners that works to empower communities through innovative collaboration with nonprofits and community organizations.


Sheldon is a 2008 LSA graduate of the University of Michigan where he received a Bachelors in General Studies with concentrations in Black Studies, Political Science, and Education. He also holds a Master of Public Policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School.

Sheldon loves neighborhoods, vibrant public spaces, and believes that strengthening third places is a key ingredient for building a sense of community and the people's power necessary for social and political change. He lives in Columbus, OH with his wife, LC, his two children, Sheldon Junior and Karah, and a furry mutt named Huey.


Judy Kehler (General Studies ’98), Chief Strategy Officer for the City of Lansing

Born and raised in Lansing, Judy earned her General Studies degree from the University of Michigan. She now serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for her hometown. She recently obtained her Certified Public Funds Investment Manager (CPFIM), Advanced Certified Public Funds Investment Manager (ACPFIM), and Business Process Management (BPM) certifications. She also is a member of the Association for Strategic Planning.


Kehler served as the first woman and African American Treasurer & Income Tax Administrator during Mayor Hollister’s administration. Kehler’s past professional experiences include working for KPMG Peat Marwick as a Senior Management Consultant, as well as serving as Finance Director for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Department of Environmental Health. Kehler returned to the City of Lansing as the City Treasurer and Income Tax Administrator in April 2019.


Ira Brandon (History ‘16), CX Solution Designer for North American SMB Solution Engineering at Oracle

Ira Brandon III is a 2016 LSA graduate who during his time at the University of Michigan, majored in History and minored in Music. He was a three-year member of the Michigan Marching Band and a four-year member of the Michigan Cheer Team, with whom he won four consecutive National Championships. Since graduating, Ira has worked at Oracle in Austin (Texas) and currently works as a Solution Engineer for North American Applications. In the meantime, Ira has also served LSA students with professional development support related to career fairs, interview prep, and virtual discussions. In his free time, he enjoys playing bass guitar, roughhousing with his Golden Doodle, Ginger, and working outside.


Jenna Cortis (Communication & French ‘11), Development Assistant at Twentieth Century Fox


Jenna Cortis is a queer television writer, comedian, and podcaster living in Los Angeles. A native Michigander, she began her quest for the stage in high school when she enrolled in classes at The Second City Detroit. Later on, she dabbled in stand-up comedy, eventually competing in The University of Michigan's Funniest Student on Campus competition in 2011.


In 2012, Jenna moved from Chicago to Vegas for a teaching post while also performing at comedy venues both on and off the strip. She also headlined the Vegas HER event in support of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). In 2016, she moved to Los Angeles to perform stand-up and pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a TV writer. Jenna teamed up with Kevin Sullivan to create the podcast Two Broke Gays which provides a platform to LGBTQ+ emerging artists. She also co-wrote Generation Z which received numerous short content awards. Jenna currently works at Twentieth Century Fox as a development assistant where she provides project support and reviews original pitches. Aside from writing profusely, Jenna loves to watch reality TV with her friends, FaceTime her parents relentlessly, and lay on top of her pekilear, Malone.


Cindy Lin (Political Science and Asian Studies ‘20), Organizing Director for David for NYC Comptroller Campaign

Cindy Lin is an organizer and has spent her entire young-adult life working in government and electoral politics to ensure racial justice for all marginalized communities. After graduating from Michigan in May 2020 with a degree in Political Science, she worked on two national campaigns back to back as a field organizer recruiting and managing volunteer teams. Cindy was on the ground with the Michigan Democratic Party where she helped flip Michigan blue during the General Election and then organized Georgia’s virtual field team program where she helped flip Georgia and the United States Senate blue as well. Currently, she is the Organizing Director at David for NYC Comptroller, where she is executing a robust field plan on a competitive citywide race in her hometown of New York.



The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:50:40 -0400 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Judy Kehler, Ira Brandon Kameron Brackins, and Sheldon Johnson
MAP Cesar Chávez Day Lecture: Andrea Pitts (UNC Charlotte) (March 31, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82433 82433-21098213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Information on how to participate in this virtual event will be added closer to the event date.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s writings and life place her somewhat precariously within discussions of both American Philosophy and disability studies. Yet, to borrow a concept from Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (2011), it is precisely due to the “misfit” character of Anzaldúa’s career-long activism, coalition building, and writings, that she is an important figure to analyze within these areas of study. Accordingly, to place Anzaldúa’s work in relation to American philosophy and disability critique, I turn specifically to several key concepts from Anzaldúa’s oeuvre that center questions of embodiment, illness, and colonial history in a manner that, I argue, add resources to a queer crip critique of the ablebodied heteronormativity of institutional medicine across the Americas.

SPEAKER BIO

Andrea Pitts (they/them) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Their research interests include women of color feminisms, critical prison studies, and decolonial theory. They are the author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (SUNY Press August 2021), and co-editor with Mariana Ortega and José Medina of Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance (Oxford University Press 2020) and Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson with Mark Westmoreland (SUNY Press 2019).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:43:12 -0500 2021-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Philosophy Livestream / Virtual Andrea Pitts - Gloria Anzaldua and Crip Futurity in the Americas
German Convo Home Edition (March 31, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83673 83673-21454161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The "German Convo Home Edition" will provide fun and play games. Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu) will host the remotely held weekly session. Her Zoom link is: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99570729139.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:58:14 -0400 2021-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual German Convo Home Edition
Picture a Scientist: Screening, Panel and Discussion (March 31, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82480 82480-21108101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Join us in a series of university-wide events to view and discuss the groundbreaking documentary film *Picture a Scientist* by Ian Cheney and Sharon Shattuck. This film spotlights women scientists in academia and chronicles the harassment and discrimination they have faced, as well as their ideas and recommendations to make the STEM fields more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We welcome students, faculty, and staff to participate in the screening, faculty panel, and/or discussions as we explore these important issues.

This event is presented by: The College of LSA, College of Engineering, and Rackham Graduate School

A VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING - REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!

*Wednesday, March 24*

9:00 AM Welcome
9:02 AM Introductory Remarks by Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion Rob Sellers
9:15 - 11:00 AM Film Screening
11:00 - 11:10 AM Break
11:10 - 12:00 PM Faculty Panel
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:50 PM Faculty, Staff & Student Discussion Group

*Wednesday, March 31*

6:00 - 7:00 PM Student Discussion Group
6:30 - 7:30 PM WISE RP + WISE Discussion Group

This event is open to the U-M community only, and registration is required through Sessions. Please visit the linked websites for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:04:26 -0500 2021-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Picture A Scientist Event Flyer
Reflections on the Past Year (March 31, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83333 83333-21344233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Wondering how other student organizations have approached work this year? Want to hear stories about adjustments made and lessons learned that you can apply to your own org's plans for Fall 2021? Interested in learning what it's been like to be in a student org for this past year?

Join us on March 31 for a panel conversation with student leaders about what they tried and how it worked. Get ideas and ask questions for your peers!

Register here to participate in the Q&A: http://bit.ly/cci-panel

We will also be livestreaming our discussion to Facebook Live with no registration required!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:53:54 -0400 2021-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Studen Org Panel Discussion
Picture a Scientist: Screening, Panel and Discussion (March 31, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82480 82480-21219291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Join us in a series of university-wide events to view and discuss the groundbreaking documentary film *Picture a Scientist* by Ian Cheney and Sharon Shattuck. This film spotlights women scientists in academia and chronicles the harassment and discrimination they have faced, as well as their ideas and recommendations to make the STEM fields more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We welcome students, faculty, and staff to participate in the screening, faculty panel, and/or discussions as we explore these important issues.

This event is presented by: The College of LSA, College of Engineering, and Rackham Graduate School

A VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING - REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!

*Wednesday, March 24*

9:00 AM Welcome
9:02 AM Introductory Remarks by Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion Rob Sellers
9:15 - 11:00 AM Film Screening
11:00 - 11:10 AM Break
11:10 - 12:00 PM Faculty Panel
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:50 PM Faculty, Staff & Student Discussion Group

*Wednesday, March 31*

6:00 - 7:00 PM Student Discussion Group
6:30 - 7:30 PM WISE RP + WISE Discussion Group

This event is open to the U-M community only, and registration is required through Sessions. Please visit the linked websites for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:04:26 -0500 2021-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Picture A Scientist Event Flyer
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 31, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81926 81926-20990907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:33:25 -0500 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (April 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
Qigong and Tai Chi: Personal Power Through Moving Meditation And Yoga for Retirees (April 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82318 82318-21068592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Learn and perform the internal empowerment arts of qigong and tai chi. Learn how to incorporate a yoga practice into your day.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:12:56 -0500 2021-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (April 1, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83374 83374-21367802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Community Conversation is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome!

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:01:32 -0400 2021-04-01T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
CJS Lecture Series | Contrasts in US-Japan Global Supply Chain Management during the Coronavirus Pandemic (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79940 79940-20517546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Stark differences exist between the ways in which U.S. and Japanese multinational firms manage global production. Trump’s China policy and the coronavirus pandemic have made U.S. firms acutely aware of the consequences of sudden supply chain disruptions caused by their heavy dependence on China over the years. On the other hand, Japanese firms have been methodically diversifying and localizing their supply chain and production strategies.

Masaaki Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has lectured widely at various business schools in 20 countries around the world. For his research, he has worked closely with leading companies such as AT&T, Kohler, NEC, Nissan, Philips, Sony, and Seven&i Holdings (parent of 7-Eleven stores), and served as advisor to the United Nations’ and World Trade Organization’s Executive Forum on National Export Strategies. Dr. Kotabe also served as President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-7.

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

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CrscjSk8Sma4AWf7oTOjCQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:28:45 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | A Stark Contrast in Global Supply Chain Management between U.S. and Japanese Multinational Firms as Evidenced during the Coronavirus Pandemic
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79922 79922-20515555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Many protein function databases are built on automated or semi-automated curations and can contain various annotation errors. The correction of such misannotations is critical to improving the accuracy and reliability of the databases. We proposed a new approach to detect potentially incorrect Gene Ontology (GO) annotations by comparing the ratio of annotation rates (RAR) for the same GO term across different taxonomic groups, where those with a relatively low RAR usually correspond to incorrect annotations. As an illustration, we applied the approach to 20 commonly studied species in two recent UniProt-GOA releases and identified 250 potential misannotations in the 2018-11-6 release, where only 25% of them were corrected in the 2019-6-3 release. Importantly, 56% of the misannotations are “Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor (IBA)”, i.e. reviewed computational annotations based on phylogenetic analysis. This is in contrast to previous observations that attributed misannotations mainly to “Inferred from Sequence or structural Similarity (ISS)”, probably reflecting an error source shift due to the new developments of function annotation databases. The results demonstrated a simple but efficient misannotation detection approach that is useful for developing taxonomic constraints in large-scale comparative protein function studies.

Tool Link: https://zhanglab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/RAR

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:17:31 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Livestream / Virtual
Environmental Justice Seminar Series (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83095 83095-21266977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Jalonne White-Newsome, affiliated faculty at George Washington University in Environmental and Occupational Health, and University of Michigan SPH, Former Senior Program Officer for Environment at the Kresge Foundation, CEO and Founder, Empowering a Green Environmnet and Economy, LLC.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:32:33 -0400 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Livestream / Virtual SEAS Logo
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
EEB Virtual Seminar/student evaluation: Take it or leaf it: new approaches for quantifying leaf shape (April 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79787 79787-20493916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

William presents his preliminary seminar

Image: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

See your email or email us eeb-webinfo@umich.edu for the passcode.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:38:03 -0400 2021-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual purple flowers Herbarium specimens from Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Enjoy the Planetarium from Home! (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82984 82984-21233294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

A short look at our solar system with planets, moons, orbits, and a little about their formation. We'll also take a brief look at how planets appear in our current night sky. Short Q&A session follows.

Groups of 7 or more should consider booking a private show for the best experience.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:12:34 -0400 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Livestream / Virtual
BLI Career Workshop (April 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83099 83099-21377668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

NEW DATE!

Hosted by two BLI alums — Scott Rola and Sanjee Choudhuri, this workshop will coach students on how to integrate their BLI experiences onto a resume, cover letter, interview, and more! 

We are also offering meal reimbursements up to $15 for the first 10 people that sign up and attend the event (unfortunately, U-M employees are not eligible for meal reimbursement). 

Learn more:
Sanjee www.linkedin.com/in/sanjee-choudhuri/
Scott www.linkedin.com/in/scott-rola-737938107/

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:21:04 -0400 2021-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Livestream / Virtual BLI
#FunnyAsHAIL Wellness Evening with Magician Eric Jones (April 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83408 83408-21371764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Get ready for this #FunnyAsHAIL wellness break with The Magic of Eric Jones. Take a study and work break and prepare to be amazed as he shares his life-changing pandemic story and takes us on an exciting journey navigating this year's racial political challenges as a showman in today’s climate. This wellness break is free and open to all UM students, staff and faculty. Register: https://myumi.ch/2DbVG

From his start performing simple coin tricks on the streets of Philly, to America’s Got Talent (Semi-Finalist), Penn and Teller (he beat them), and Masters of Illusion, Eric did it all with a few coins and these brilliantly crafted routines. Eric teaches methods, nuances and theory for creating magic that resonates deeply with the people watching it. He gives you coin magic that, for the first time ever, translates as well on stage as it does in person. Whether it’s an audience of 1 person or 1 million, he teaches the skills required to take your coin magic to a level you never thought.

#FunnyAsHAIL is sponsored by the student organizations Here Earning a Destiny (H.E.A.D.S) and Support for Incoming Black Students (S.I.B.S.) along with U-M Library and in partnership with the My Brothers Empowerment Series.

*This event will not be recorded.

For the best experience please be sure to;
1. Have the latest version of Zoom installed on their device.
2. Feel free to turn your cameras on so you can interact with Eric and participate in the show/ conversation.
3. Be sure to watch in speaker view.
4. Eric will teach a magic trick with a regular deck of cards. If you want to follow along, be sure to have a deck near you. It doesn't have to be a full/complete deck.
5. Try to watch from a laptop or desktop. It is preferred over mobile devices for a magic show so you don't miss a THING!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:13:00 -0400 2021-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual The Magic Of Eric Jones
Stammtisch (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83680 83680-21454199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Join German Club for Stammtisch! All proficiency levels welcome! German students (German 101-231) can make up absences by attending any German Club event!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:41:46 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Stammtisch
Oboe Studio Recital (April 1, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82775 82775-21175583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Nancy Ambrose King

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (April 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes (April 2, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80584 80584-20759737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Full conference details and schedule here:
https://myumi.ch/xm2B4

Registration for this Zoom workshop is required:
https://myumi.ch/0Wn4k

Religious identity in South Asia has been shaped within the context of a fraught and contentious history, ranging from issues of “communalism” in colonial India to the question of “radicalization” and political Islam in post 9/11 Pakistan. Yet, religious practice has developed in relation to longstanding sacred geographies and networks in South Asia, intersecting with modern identity formations in unusual and unexpected ways. In this conference, we will explore the relationship between religion, identity, historical networks and sacred landscapes to understand the formation of religious thought and practice in Pakistan. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this conference aims to cultivate a discussion of transnationalism, sectarianism, marginality, inter and intra-religious dynamics. We will engage with the work of scholars and artists from Pakistan, Europe and the United States concerned with a variety of religious groups in Pakistan, and the complex ways that religious practice has been shaped through interactions between distinct identities, not only along the lines of religion, but also gendered and social difference. While focusing on Pakistan, we hope to challenge prevalent assumptions about the current configuration of borders and explore deeper and continually relevant connections between distinct religious spaces and practices in South Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:47 -0400 2021-04-02T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
Russian Conversation Club (April 2, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Do you study Russian and want more opportunities to develop your speaking skills in a welcoming and low-stakes environment? Are you looking for an opportunity to socialize with your peers and bond over the difficulties of learning a foreign language? Would you like to learn more about the culture of one of the most politically important and fascinating regions of the world with the coolest undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan?

If the answer to any or all of the above questions is "yes", then you should check out the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures weekly Russian conversation club (called КРЯ - Клуб Русского Языка)! Every Friday at 11:00, we convene for lighthearted discussion of ourselves, our language studies, and of course, the culture of the Russophone world. Regular attendance is not mandatory - you can drop in and out as you wish, and club participants are always willing to help each other out with questions about the language during our discussions. We meet in two groups, the first aimed at first-year students or any who are beginning their language study, and the second targeted towards students who have studied the language for at least a year. Participants are also encouraged to join our discord server, where we post weekly meeting announcements and other Russian-language related content.

Introductory Group Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94164643618

Advanced Group Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99310708629

Link to join our discord: https://discord.gg/FHguFGY

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
“Be of Good Cheer”: The Colorful Grave Markers of Ancient Terenouthis (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81824 81824-20961285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In 1935, U-M excavators recovered hundreds of grave markers—also known as funerary stelae—from a cemetery outside the ancient town of Terenouthis, Egypt. The stelae are carved with images of ordinary Roman-Egyptians and many are also inscribed with their names, ages, death dates, and messages of comfort and cheer to mourners. Maybe more surprising to modern museum-goers is that the grave markers were also brightly painted with a life-like palette of colors.

In this talk, conservators at the Kelsey Museum will describe their work to preserve and study the stelae, including the scientific techniques they’re using to study paint colors and some of the surprising discoveries their work has revealed.

Kelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by Kelsey curators, staff members, researchers, and graduate students talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Flash Talks are free and open to all visitors. They take place at noon on the first Friday of every month.

Join us via Zoom at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94856640990
Passcode: Kelsey

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:11:02 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual KM 21169, limestone funerary stela with Greek inscription
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80951 80951-20824880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The primary function of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Science Methodology (I3SM) is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for students and faculty to present their current projects and to receive feedback on either the methodological component of their project or a methodology under development. Presenters can also present new research questions and ideas and receive ideas about which methodologies would work best to tackle such questions. We define methodology broadly as the approaches to which data is collected and/or organized to give empirical content to social science research. It includes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

To join the meeting via Zoom, email skuzushi@umich.edu for the meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:45:40 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Methodology
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
Autonomy | Harnessing Digital Technologies to Build a More Water-Secure and Sustainable Future with Albert Cho (April 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83304 83304-21338280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

While water challenges are intensifying around the world, from climate change to urbanization and beyond, powerful new digital technologies are driving step-change – helping cities protect and optimize water management, build resilience and advance sustainability and equity. Hear examples of how modern cities are using data and automation that transform their water systems, while fueling their economy and creating social value for their residents and for future generations.

Albert Cho is Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Digital Officer at Xylem. In this role, he is responsible for driving Xylem’s efforts to digitize water infrastructure, as well as the continued development of business strategies to achieve Xylem’s vision and create social and economic value. Before joining Xylem, Al worked as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the State Department, where he was a White House Fellow and served on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. He has also been an executive at Cisco Systems, worked at McKinsey & Company, and served at the United Nations on a global plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Al serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Water Alliance and the Canadian Water Network, and the Programme Committee for Singapore International Water Week. He is also an Honorary Research Associate of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Panelists:

Barry Liner, Chief Technical Officer, Water Environment Federation
Ting Lu, Business Practice Leader – Digital Solutions, Clean Water Services

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:31:21 -0400 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Albert Cho
Early Career Scientists Symposium: Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation (April 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81373 81373-20887848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A virtual symposium held on five consecutive Fridays beginning March 5, 2021.

REGISTRATION required for Zoom entry. Registrants will receive the Zoom link and passcode via email. See links this page to register and for more information.

Session V (Moderator: Brad Ruhfel)

1 pm Welcome and introduction: Brad Ruhfel

1:05 pm Closing remarks: Hernán López-Fernández

1:15 pm Keynote presentation: Pamela Soltis

2 pm Panel discussion: Pamela Soltis, Hernán López-Fernández

Abstract
Emerging cyberinfrastructure and new data sources provide unparalleled opportunities for mobilizing and integrating massive amounts of information from organismal biology, ecology, genetics, climatology and other disciplines. Key among these data sources is the rapidly growing volume of digitized specimen records from natural history collections. The world’s herbaria house an estimated 400,000,000 specimens, and as the number of online records – currently at ~60,000,000 – continues to grow, these data provide excellent information on species distributions, changes in distributions over time, phenology and a host of traits. Integration of information from specimen records with phylogenies, climate data and other resources enables new questions to be addressed while also providing new perspectives on longstanding questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. Although challenges to linking heterogeneous data remain, new advances are enabling the use of herbarium and other museum data in novel ways. Through a series of case studies, I will illustrate some of the many uses to which herbarium specimen data are currently being applied as well as some of the resources being developed to enable their use. These case studies link and analyze specimen data and related heterogeneous data sources to address a range of evolutionary and ecological problems.

Read more, including about the speakers and their talks, on the ECSS website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/

REGISTER: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/register/

Illustration: John Megahan. Image credits: Eric LoPresti, John Megahan, Timothy James, Linda Garcia

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:12:50 -0500 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Illustration of museum drawers opened and boxes on top containing the following: shell, plant, grasshopper, mushroom, snake, skull and owl.
Differences Beyond Identity: Perceived Construal Distance and Interparty Animosity in the United States (April 2, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79645 79645-20438364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Professor Sameer's research unpacks the complex interrelationships among the culture of social groups, the cognition of individuals within these groups, and the connections that people forge within and across groups.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 14:28:53 -0500 2021-04-02T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (April 2, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79899 79899-20511622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
"The Barbarians at the Gate: Early Black Historiographical Attempts to Redefine Nubia's Place in World History" (April 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81788 81788-20959278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and The Department of Anthropology present:

The "From the 'New Archaeology' to Equitable Archaeologies: Global Lessons from Black Scholars" Series

"The Barbarians at the Gate: Early Black Historiographical Attempts to Redefine Nubia's Place in World History"

Friday, April 2, 2021

3:00 PM

Zoom webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91766825227

Debora Heard, Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:11:13 -0400 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Anthropology Livestream / Virtual Flyer for talk. Text is available in event description.
Raney Aronson-Rath: A Conversation (April 2, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80905 80905-20818981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Raney Aronson-Rath is the executive producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series, and a leading voice on the future of journalism. Aronson-Rath oversees FRONTLINE’s acclaimed reporting on air and online and directs the series’ editorial vision, executive producing over 20 documentaries each year on critical issues facing the country and world. Under her leadership, FRONTLINE has earned two Oscar nominations, and has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, an Institutional Peabody Award, and the first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Gold Baton awarded in a decade. For 16 years, Aronson-Rath has served as a Livingston Awards judge honoring reporters under the age of 35 and identifying the next generation of journalism leaders.

At a time when broad skepticism of the news media has reached new highs, Aronson-Rath has cemented FRONTLINE’s reputation as a source of trustworthy and consistent investigative journalism. She has expanded FRONTLINE’s reporting capacity, spearheaded an initiative to bolster local journalism in news deserts, and guided FRONTLINE’s evolution from a longstanding documentary series to a timely, multi-platform journalism organization that is committed to uncovering vital stories and telling them in new ways. The New York Times described Aronson-Rath’s collaborative model for investigative journalism as “increasingly important … as a way to reach new viewers and produce more in-depth reports.”

Aronson-Rath has led an ongoing charge for transparency in journalism – including through the FRONTLINE Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind FRONTLINE’s reporting. She served as the sole public media representative on the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy, a blue-ribbon panel that published a landmark report on the causes and consequences of growing distrust in democratic institutions, including the press.

For this speaker series event, Aronson-Rath will be in conversation with Lynette Clemetson, the Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society.

This program is brought to you with support from Wallace House and our series partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Subscribe to receive weekly email reminders for Penny Stamps Speaker Series events.

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

 

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Aronson-Rath-Raney.jpg
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (April 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes (April 3, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80584 80584-20759738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Full conference details and schedule here:
https://myumi.ch/xm2B4

Registration for this Zoom workshop is required:
https://myumi.ch/0Wn4k

Religious identity in South Asia has been shaped within the context of a fraught and contentious history, ranging from issues of “communalism” in colonial India to the question of “radicalization” and political Islam in post 9/11 Pakistan. Yet, religious practice has developed in relation to longstanding sacred geographies and networks in South Asia, intersecting with modern identity formations in unusual and unexpected ways. In this conference, we will explore the relationship between religion, identity, historical networks and sacred landscapes to understand the formation of religious thought and practice in Pakistan. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this conference aims to cultivate a discussion of transnationalism, sectarianism, marginality, inter and intra-religious dynamics. We will engage with the work of scholars and artists from Pakistan, Europe and the United States concerned with a variety of religious groups in Pakistan, and the complex ways that religious practice has been shaped through interactions between distinct identities, not only along the lines of religion, but also gendered and social difference. While focusing on Pakistan, we hope to challenge prevalent assumptions about the current configuration of borders and explore deeper and continually relevant connections between distinct religious spaces and practices in South Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:47 -0400 2021-04-03T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference Keynote | Glimpsing History through Literature's Window: Religious Sentiments, Emotional Styles, Punjabi Poets (April 3, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83276 83276-21330361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Part of the 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes

Full conference details and schedule here:
https://myumi.ch/xm2B4

Registration for this Zoom workshop is required:
https://myumi.ch/0Wn4k

Much of the discussion around Sufi poets and poetry emphasizes their appeal to a broad audience that transcends religious community, caste and class. Reading and listening audiences take this ecumenical or pluralistic message as characteristic of such poets and of Sufism at large. The purpose of my talk is to examine this premise through a focus on specific Sufi poets from the Punjab, using their work to analyze how they imagined and configured Muslim identities. Important questions emerging from such an investigation include how religious identity is configured, what purposes lie in behind choices of linguistic register, and how one expresses emotions and values in different contexts.

Jamal J. Elias is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A recipient of many grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the (U.S.) Social Science Research Council (among others), he has lectured and published extensively on a broad range of subjects relevant to the medieval and modern Islamic world. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books and numerous articles dealing with a range of topics in Islamic history, thought, literature, and art and his writings have been translated into at least ten languages. His most recent books are *Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies* (Berkeley, 2018); *Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam* (Cambridge Massachusetts, 2012); and *On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan* (Oxford, 2011).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:50:30 -0400 2021-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour | Rome Through the Eyes of Its Emperors (April 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82677 82677-21155691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Saturday Sampler tours are back! We've missed you and are thrilled to begin offering our Saturday Sampler tours virtually! Join us over Zoom to explore the Kelsey Museum from the comfort of your home.

The theme of this week's tour is "Rome Through the Eyes of Its Emperors."
For over 500 years, Rome was ruled by emperors. Some emperors enjoyed decades in power; others lasted less than a year. Being an emperor could be a dangerous job! Join us on this live Zoom tour to learn what the early emperors of Rome saw when they looked out over their vast empire, and what contemporary Roman writers had to say about them. Decide for yourself if you would have liked living in the early Roman empire, whether or not togas and sandals are your style.

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98615763784

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:26:02 -0500 2021-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Roman emperor
Honors Admissions AMA (April 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82624 82624-21147748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

This event is open to anyone looking for more information about the LSA Honors Program or life at U-M in general.

You can access the Zoom meeting via the following link: https://myumi.ch/mnVrz

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:22:45 -0500 2021-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Livestream / Virtual Student standing on the U-M football field with text that reads: "Honors Admissions Q&A. Chat with admissions staff. Talk with peers."
Sweetland Write-Together (April 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82370 82370-21080448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:16:17 -0500 2021-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Keynote Speaker—Melanie Sinche (April 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83170 83170-21284835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Keynote Speaker
Melanie Sinche, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Career Development Center, and the Executive Director of the Women’s Leadership Center at the University of Saint Joseph
Melanie Sinche currently serves as the interim assistant dean for academic affairs, the director of the Career Development Center, and the executive director of the Women’s Leadership Center at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in West Hartford, Connecticut, where she works with university undergraduate and graduate students to help them achieve their career goals. Prior to joining USJ, she served as Director of Education at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT, developing programs for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows and assisting all trainees with career transitions. Melanie is the author of Next Gen Ph.D.: A Guide to Career Paths in Science, published by Harvard University Press in August 2016. While working on Next Gen Ph.D., she served as a senior research associate in the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, where she conducted survey research on careers for Ph.D.s in science. She also served as the founding director of the FAS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard University, held the same position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health in building the first NIH Career Center for over 9,000 intramural trainees.
Melanie began her career as a graduate student peer advisor in the University of Michigan’s Career Center and is thrilled to be reconnecting with U-M. Melanie received her bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and North Carolina State University. She is a National Certified Counselor with a career development focus on Ph.D.s.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/jx9Yw.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:38 -0400 2021-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (April 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79900 79900-20511623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2021-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Honors Admissions Q&A (April 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82464 82464-21106114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

This event is open to anyone wanting to learn more about the LSA Honors Program.

You can access the Webinar via the following link: https://myumi.ch/51erp

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:19:18 -0500 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Livestream / Virtual Student standing on the U-M football field with text that reads: "Honors Admissions Q&A. Chat with admissions staff. Talk with peers."
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80190 80190-20594131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Over the last few decades, scholars from several disciplines have shown increasing interest in moving beyond anthropocentric studies to explore how animals have played a role in their own right in shaping larger social and historical outcomes. At present, China studies scholars have just begun this work. Dr. Hathaway’s talk describes some of these efforts and introduces his own studies on how wild elephants motivate and challenge international conservation efforts, as well as how a wild mushroom is shaping an important part of the rural economy in Southwest China, thus expanding attention beyond our animal kin.

Michael Hathaway received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2007, and shortly thereafter began teaching at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor, director of SFU's David Lam Centre for the Asia-Pacific, and the editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist (with Stacy Pigg). His award-winning first book, "Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China," was published in 2013 by the University of California Press. One of the three core members of the anthropological collaborative, the Matsutake Worlds Research Group, he has led research in China on the social worlds made through the creation of the wild matsutake mushroom economy. Anna Tsing's book, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" was the first book in the trilogy, and Michael has just completed the second volume.

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

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9X1xRzcxSkaywiAFMwwKtg

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:25:42 -0500 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Career Panel—Healthcare, Biotech, and Pharma (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83171 83171-21284836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The combined impact of the biotech, pharma, and healthcare industries on the future of human health outcomes is huge. Ph.D. degree holders have several career options in these industries in areas that are related, but not limited to, scientific research. Panelists will discuss lessons from their career trajectories, describe their daily professional lives, and provide tips and tools to best prepare for launching new careers in these industries.
Speakers
Marta Gonzalez-Hernandez
Group Leader (Principal Scientist), Celsee, Inc.
Sibu Kuruvilla
Senior Manager, Portfolio Strategy and Planning, Genentech
Sibu Kuruvilla did his Ph.D. in the materials science and engineering department with his research lab being in biomedical engineering. He went on to do a postdoc at Stanford in oncology before transitioning to the business side of drug development at Genentech. He is currently a senior manager on the gRED Portfolio Strategy and Planning team, conducting portfolio and industry analyses to help shape Genentech’s R&D pipeline.
Marc Sze
Associate Principal Scientist, Merck
Marc Sze completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan under the guidance of Professor Patrick Schloss. He is currently an Associate Principal Scientist at Merck Research Labs where he is a computational biologist in early discovery oncology. His current work involves the support of targets moving to phase 1 clinical trial, target discovery, and helping to oversee the integration of single-cell RNA sequencing modalities into the Merck discovery pipeline.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/1peZ9.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:39 -0400 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
Opposition to Nazi Rule in Experience and Memory (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79713 79713-20460252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The rescue that we know is the rescue of memory. Driven by the search for heroes and "righteous gentiles," and relying on interviews, conducted decades after the event, the public commemoration and the academic scholarship of rescue have been largely oblivious to the ways in which the experience of rescue has been refracted and reworked in postwar memory. Using the remarkable archive of the League of Socialist Life, this talk seeks both to understand the wartime experience of helping Jews and to historicize the postwar remembrance of resistance and rescue.

Zoom Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016070931551/WN_8Djh86UrQOCHrjEg8LDtfQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:45:47 -0500 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Mark Roseman Publicity Image
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Career Panel—Finance (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83172 83172-21284837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Panelists will describe “a day-in-the-life” in their roles and provide examples of their work that taps the transferable skills gained through their doctoral programs. You will gain insights into how to apply a Ph.D. from a variety of disciplines to the fast-paced industry of finance.
Speakers
Sean Law
Senior Applied Research Scientist and Lead Data Scientist, Charles Schwab
Sean Law is a senior applied research scientist and lead data scientist currently working with a multi-talented R&D team at Charles Schwab, a Fortune 500 finance firm. He has experience producing cutting edge methodologies, developing rapid prototypes, and has patented several finance-related inventions. Law holds an Honors B.Sc. degree from York University in applied mathematics and biology, received his doctorate from Michigan State University, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. As a scientist, Law’s work focused on protein-protein interactions, protein-nucleic acid interactions, and developing state-of-the-art computational tools for understanding complex biological systems.
Paritosh Singh
Head of Business Development, U.S., Millennium
Kristin Ko
Biotech Equity Research Analyst, Piper Sandler
Kristin Ko is an assistant vice president and research analyst at Piper Sandler covering Biotechnology. Prior to joining Piper, she worked as a science advisor for A2A Pharmaceuticals and at the Ruth Group, helping emerging biotech companies raise financing. Kristin has a Ph.D. in chemistry from University of Michigan.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/gjDeY.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:39 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Visions of Global Solidarity: Anti-Imperialism in Colonial Korea and the Diaspora (April 6, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77261 77261-19828140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

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How did people analyze and criticize colonial oppression a century ago? How did they find connection and imagine solidarity with others in distant parts of the world experiencing social injustice? This talk reconsiders the “global” dimensions of Korean anti-imperialism during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45), discussing several primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, and the work of intellectuals. The Korean anti-imperial movement and its thought were inherently transnational in its scope. Such transnationality developed under shifting political conditions in which the movement leaders, participants, and supporters wrestled with Japanese colonial domination. As officials censored criticism of the colonial regime, activists and writers negotiated the interventions by the colonial power. While some were involved in clandestine organized activities, others offered critical analyses of colonialism in academic studies, socialist literature, and journalistic accounts.

This talk pays particular attention to the ways that Korean intellectuals developed an interest in colonialism and racism in other parts of the world like India, Taiwan, and the United States. During the 1920s and early 1930s, as people traveled outside of Korea in spite of the border control and surveillance by colonial authority, intellectuals shaped their transnational perspectives. Through publications and media coverage about empire and global social movements, interwar Korean intellectuals and readers situated their colonial experience in world transformations and explored the possibilities for decolonization. Socialists, in particular, envisioned decolonization in tandem with other forms of social justice, namely socioeconomic equity for workers. Female leaders on the left, importantly, also argued for women’s liberation. In the places where they relocated or visited, migrants, international students, and exiled intellectuals witnessed and participated in different forms of social movements, which contributed to their visions of global solidarity.

Hiroaki Matsusaka is an intellectual and cultural historian of migration, social movements, and race and ethnicity across modern East Asia and North America. He is working on a book manuscript that traces the paths of several anti-imperial migrant activists across Korea, Japan, and the United States from the early to mid-twentieth century. He received a BA and an MA in Political Science from Waseda University and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Korean Studies at Yonsei University, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies at UCLA, and an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In April 2021, he is starting a tenured position as a lecturer of global studies at Osaka University of Economics.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:44:36 -0500 2021-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Hiroaki Matsusaka, Incoming Lecturer, Department of Information Technology and Social Sciences, Osaka University of Economics
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Career Panel—Government and Federal Agencies (April 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83173 83173-21284838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Panelists from the Government Accountability Office (the audit function supporting Congress); the State Department (responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy and international relations); and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will discuss their agencies, opportunities and challenges they face, and insights into launching a governmental career.
Speakers
Alicia Puente Cackley
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Alicia Puente Cackley is a director in the financial markets and community investment team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She oversees policy research and program evaluation on a broad range of consumer protection, insurance, housing, and finance issues. Cackley received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, and has been with GAO since 1990.
Lou Fintor
Diplomat in Residence, North Central Region, U.S. Department of State
Lou Fintor is a career foreign service officer representing the U.S. Department of State as diplomat-in residence for Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. His assignments have included Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen, Kosovo, and NATO. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and graduate degrees from the American University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Layne Scherer
Study Director, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Layne Scherer (she/hers) is a study director and senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences with the Board on Higher Education and Workforce. Her policy portfolio includes undergraduate and graduate education; mental health and wellness in higher education; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and medicine. Her previous work experiences also include federal service, grants management, and the non-profit sector. She earned her B.A. in English and history of art and her master of public policy from the University of Michigan.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/kxVo9.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:39 -0400 2021-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
PICS Career Event. Careers in the U.S. Federal Government and the United Nations (April 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83182 83182-21288793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Interested in careers with the U.S. Federal Government and the United Nations? Join us to learn from Ambassador (ret.) Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School; former U.S. Ambassador, Republic of South Sudan. Ambassador Page will share her career and life experiences working in the Federal Government (State Department and USAID), United Nations (UNDP and UN Peacekeeping), international regional organizations (Intergovernmental Authority on Development, IGAD), and international NGOs (National Democratic Institute, NDI).

Please note: This session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to students, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/0WEb4

Ambassador Susan D. Page possesses deep expertise in international relations, particularly in Africa, excellent French language skills, and the political, legal and analytical acumen of a Harvard-trained lawyer – her first career.

Page was sworn in as ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan on November 16, 2011. Following her historic tenure as the first U.S. ambassador to the world’s newest nation, she served as Acting Permanent Representative to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., to the U.S. Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She also chaired the U.S. Government’s multi-agency Security Governance Initiative (SGI) team for Ghana. Among her numerous positions in international affairs, Ambassador Page was Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) to Haiti, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Rule of Law, Global Focal Point (GFP) Review Implementation, deputy assistant secretary of State for African Affairs covering Central Africa, Southern Africa and Sudan, and Legal and Political Adviser to the Horn of Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat for Peace in Sudan where she co-drafted essential elements of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) for Sudan. In addition, she was Director of the Rule of Law and Corrections Advisory Unit of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), Regional Director for Southern and East Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Washington, DC, and senior legal expert in Rwanda and Sudan for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ambassador Page is the recipient of several top awards from the State Department for her work on Sudan, South Sudan and the Great Lakes region of Africa. In 2015, she won the Sue M.Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service for “leading the U.S. Mission to South Sudan under extremely challenging circumstances and advancing the President’s goals.” Amb. Page gifted the $5,000 award to a local South Sudanese organization to support its community-led work in the fight against gender-based violence in South Sudan.

Ambassador Page is a member of The Carter Center Board of Trustees and an elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD). She serves as a board member of Road Scholar, is on the Advisory Council of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) and on the Advisory Board of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She is a member of the Association of Black American Ambassadors and numerous other professional organizations.

In August of 2020, Amb. Page joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as Professor of the Practice of International Diplomacy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy/Weiser Diplomacy Center with a concurrent appointment as Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a Faculty Associate of the African Studies Center, the Donia Human Rights Center (DHRC), and member of the DHRC Faculty Steering Committee. Ambassador Page was a Visiting Professor of Practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at University of Notre Dame in 2019-2020.

Ambassador Page began her foreign affairs career at the U.S. Department of State in 1991 as attorney adviser for Politico-Military Affairs in the Office of the Legal Adviser following the conclusion of her Rotary International Postgraduate Fellowship to Nepal where she conducted research on women’s and children’s rights. Page was also a foreign service officer/regional legal adviser for East and Southern Africa for USAID, based in Kenya and Botswana, and political officer in Rwanda.

Originally from the Chicago area, Ambassador Page received her Juris Doctor (JD) from Harvard Law School, her A.B. in English With High Distinction from the University of Michigan, and Certificates of Distinction (English) and Merit (Psychology) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland before attending law school. She loves reading, traveling, learning about other cultures, and playing euchre.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:30:26 -0400 2021-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual Ambassador (ret.) Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School; former U.S. Ambassador, Republic of South Sudan
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (April 7, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds mindful meditation sits virtually on Wednesdays at 12:15.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis and is especially important during these trying times. Psychological stress can damper your overall health, affecting your ability to remain resilient in the face of challenges. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to also reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns.

Free and open to all levels of practice.

After registering, please check your email confirmation for the Zoom link!

Click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcumtpzIoHNdRoCz-lPKz9X7fb-Jp844o

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-04-07T12:15:00-04:00 2021-04-07T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (April 7, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79901 79901-20511624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2021-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
POSTPONED: Rackham Minority Serving Institutions Coffee Chat Series—Inclusive Teaching Practices to Promote a Welcoming Climate (April 7, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82566 82566-21120061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Our presenter has experienced some unforeseen challenges and unfortunately will be unable to join us this afternoon. Therefore this session has been postponed and we will reschedule at a later date.
The coffee chat series will serve as a space for scholars and practitioners to share ideas, best practices, and other resources related to R1 and Minority Serving Institutions relationships and mechanisms of support for students that transition from MSIs into R1 for graduate and professional education. The series will highlight examples from U-M, exemplars from across the country, and scholars and practitioners that explore and implement practices that foster positive experiences and outcomes for students from MSIs.
Inclusive teaching practices to promote a welcoming climate is the topic of discussion for this session.
Speaker: Jasmine D. Collins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
This series is primarily intended for faculty and staff that have existing relationships with MSIs, or for those who do not but are interested in forming relationships, as well as graduate students who have interest in this topic.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/DE2xD.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:15:25 -0400 2021-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T15:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83241 83241-21320453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: More than 3,000 new Marine recruits were studied prospectively during their initial Marine-mandated two-week quarantine and their subsequent basic training at Parris Island. The COVID Health Action Response for Marines (CHARM) studied completed 20,000 study visits and obtained more than 70,000 biosamples including pre- to post- SARS-CoV-2 infections in more than 1000 recruits. Serological, transcriptomic, and epigenetic analyses identify the response signature to SARS-CoV-2 infection in these largely asymptomatic young adults. Phylogenetic analysis and modeling provide insight into epidemiology and guidance for public health measures.

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Specialty: Neurology

Research Topics: Addiction, Apoptosis/Cell Death, Basal Ganglia, Bioinformatics, Brain, Cellular Immunity, Cerebral Cortex, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuro-degeneration/protection, Receptors, Reproductive Biology, Signal Transduction, Theoretical Biology, Vaccine Development, Viruses and Virology

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:23:58 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Black Feminisms and Human Rights in Brazil (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83122 83122-21274899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Please note: This event will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/88bzV

This event honors the memory of Marielle Franco (1979-2018).

Featuring: Jurema Werneck, MD, PhD, Director, Amnesty International Brazil

Moderator: Sueann Caulfield, Associate Professor of History and Residential College, University of Michigan

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Jurema Werneck is a Black physician, author and human rights activist. She received her MD from the Federal Fluminense University and her PhD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She founded one of Brazil's first Black women's rights organizations, Criola, in 1992, and has more than 20 years of experience in the struggle for racial and gender equality, sexual rights, and equal access to education and health. She has published widely in scholarly and public venues on women's sterilization and bioethics; race and public health in Brazil; and Black women's health. Currently, she is President of the Administrative Council of the Brazil Fund for Human Rights (Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Fund for Women. She has been Executive Director of Amnesty International, Brazil, since 2017.

Sueann Caulfield is Associate Professor of History and Residential College at the University of Michigan. She specializes in the history of modern Brazil, with emphasis on gender and sexuality. Her publications include In Defense of Honor: Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, the co-edited volume Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin American History, and various articles on gender and historiography, family law, race, and sexuality in Brazil. Her current research focuses on family history with a focus on paternity and legitimacy in Brazil from the early nineteenth century to the present. She is also involved in collaborative research on feminisms and human rights and has participated in a number of trans-national teaching projects and exchanges on the history of human rights in Latin America.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:15:02 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Donia Human Rights Center Livestream / Virtual Black Feminisms and Human Rights in Brazil
MCAIM Colloquium - Deep Neural Networks for High-dimensional Uncertain Decision Problems (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83243 83243-21322430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Stochastic optimal control has been an effective tool for many decision problems. Although, they provide the much needed quantitative modeling for such problems, until recently they have been numerically intractable in high-dimensional settings. However, several recent studies that use deep neural networks report impressive numerical results in high dimensions when the structure of the uncertainty is assumed to be known. The main tool is a Monte-Carlo type algorithm combined with deep neural networks proposed by Han, E and Jentzen. In this talk, I will outline this approach and discuss its properties; in particular, the difficulties that data-driven problems face as opposed to model-driven ones. Numerical results, while validating the power of the method in high dimensions, they also show the dependence on the dimension and the size of the training data. This is joint work with Max Reppen of Boston University.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:31:39 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Mathematics Livestream / Virtual Mete Soner Institution, Princeton University, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Career Panel—Technology (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83174 83174-21284839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Panelists from Google, Microsoft Research, and Facebook will share lessons learned from their own career paths and provide insights into applying your Ph.D. in the technology industry.
Speakers
Elnaz Ansari
Research Scientist, Facebook
Elnaz Ansari has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and is currently a research scientist in Facebook Reality Labs, working on new hardware architectures for AR/VR applications. Prior to Facebook, and right after graduate school, Ansari joined Microsoft Research to work on quantum controllers and cryogenic logics.
Alexandra Olteanu
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Alexandra Olteanu is a social computing and responsible AI researcher. Currently, she is a principal researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Group. She is interested in how data biases and methodological limitations delimit what we can learn from online social traces, and how we can make the systems that leverage such data safer, fairer, and generally less biased. The problems she tackles are often motivated by existing societal challenges such as hate speech, racial discrimination, climate change, and disaster relief. Olteanu holds a Ph.D. (2016) from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Umang Varma
Software Engineer, Google
Umang Varma completed his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2019, working under Professor Anna Gilbert. As his dissertation neared completion, Varma grew interested in incorporating his long-time hobby, coding, into his everyday work and started thinking seriously about working in the software industry. After graduating, he joined Google, working on efficient network allocations and recently moved to a team within Google developing network security products.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/zx5rq.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:39 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Yoga auf Deutsch (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83669 83669-21452191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Caitlin, the Max Kade RA, will host a virtual "Yoga auf Deutsch" session. She will stream a 30-60 minute yoga video from a German-speaking yoga instructor for you!

Weblink: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97965393213

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:57:30 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual
Hub Workshop: “I need to land an internship” (April 7, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80167 80167-20572613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

This workshop is designed to keep you on track with your internship search, to provide you with helpful resources, and to connect you with peers who are also looking for internships. After a coach-led introduction, you’ll then connect with internship program coordinators in breakout rooms to get insider tips on distinguishing yourself in your applications and interviews.


You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
- Looking to land an internship(s) for spring and/or summer 2021
- Seeking opportunities in health and science, business and tech, arts and nonprofits, or government and public policy.

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Learn about internship opportunities offered through the Hub’s Internship Program
- Gain career clarity and improve your internship search strategies
- Enhance application materials, networking, and interview skills
- Hear how Hub coaches and your peers have overcome internship/job search challenges

Interaction Level: Full
- Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
- The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As
NOTE: Students who cannot meet participation expectations are still encouraged to attend

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:21:28 -0500 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual LSA students working on laptops
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: International Faculty Panel (April 7, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83440 83440-21379662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Considering a career in academia in the United States? Join GRIN and GISO for a discussion panel with current U-M (Ann Arbor and Dearborn) faculty members who once were international graduate students. Listen to how they transitioned to their current positions, get advice on how to develop a career in academia, and ask questions of our panelists. Plus, win a prize in one of the raffles happening during the event! Sponsored by Graduate Rackham International (GRIN) and Graduate International Student Organization (GISO).
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/mnwkl.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:15:37 -0400 2021-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
BLI Poetry and Contemplative Writing Workshop (April 7, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83547 83547-21420816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

On Wednesday, Apr 7 (6pm-7:15pm) the Mindful Leader program will host poet and creative writer, Zilka Joseph as she leads the cohort through a one-hour poetry and contemplative writing workshop. This inspiring event is open to the entire BLI community!

Some additional info about Zilka Joseph; She was awarded a Zell Fellowship (Zell MFA program) and the Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship (Centre for the Education of Women) from the University of Michigan. She was nominated twice for a Pushcart, and for Best of the New, has won many honors, participated in literary festivals and readings, and has been featured on several radio programs and online interviews. Her third chapbook, Sparrows and Dust, was recently published in March 2021. She teaches creative writing workshops and is a freelance editor and manuscript advisor. She is dedicated to coaching, lifting, and encouraging every writer she works with and creating a unique community of writers/students wherever she lives and teaches.

We are also offering meal reimbursements up to $15 for the first 10 people that sign up and attend the event (unfortunately, U-M employees are not eligible for meal reimbursement).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 17:03:24 -0400 2021-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Livestream / Virtual Poetry Workshop with Zilka Joseph
German Convo Home Edition (April 7, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83673 83673-21454162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The "German Convo Home Edition" will provide fun and play games. Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu) will host the remotely held weekly session. Her Zoom link is: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99570729139.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:58:14 -0400 2021-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual German Convo Home Edition
CAS Workshop | Trauma, Memory, and the History of Mental Health in Armenian Studies Past and Present (April 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83313 83313-21338291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

By invitation only. Full participation requires the reading of pre-circulated papers. If you are interested in joining the meeting, please contact armenianstudies@umich.edu.

Full workshop schedule at: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2021-workshop.html

In recent years, the history of trauma, memory, and mental health, as well as the literary, anthropological, and sociological studies of madness have gained a remarkable momentum internationally. Still, there have been virtually no substantial studies of a premodern and modern understanding of trauma, memory, and mental health in Armenia and its Diaspora. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to interrogate the stories of both medical and psychiatric sciences as well as that of the concepts of trauma and madness in Armenian political, historical, literary, and cultural discussions in the past and present. The workshop will focus on the histories of medicine, trauma, and psychiatry and the portrayals of madness as a form of behavior, marker of difference, and tool of body politics across periods and geographies. The workshop organizers are interested in the broader history of medicine, but they would like to draw particular attention to the historical and contemporary landscapes in which medical professionals sought to exercise their authorities over mental illnesses and the mind itself.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tools and theories have provided medical professionals with renewed opportunities to intervene in the social, political and cultural spheres with the shared objective of devising and implementing therapies of madness. In this, the workshop will initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the concept, diagnosis, treatment, “The Genius and the Crowd” (1909) by Yeghishe Tadevosyan (1870-1936) and social construction of “madness.” The goal is to consider new perspectives, methodologies and crossdisciplinary frameworks that will put Armenian Studies in conversation with, among others, the growing fields of history of medicine, science, and technology studies. We are also interested in a comparative study of genocides and trans-generational transmission of trauma by underlining both parallel mechanisms and unique features of the legacies of various historical and social traumas, such as the Holocaust, the historical oppression and colonization of native peoples in America and African-American slavery. As such, an examination of the loops between various forms of colonial, structural and ethnic violence, socio-political discourses and embodied individual experiences are of interest for our discussion.

In the course of the workshop, the hope is to call into question what was and is culturally defined as madness as well as medical and societal interventions to “cure” madness and “contain” the mad. Therefore, this meeting will situate the notion of madness at the intersection of politics, medicine, literature, sociology, and anthropology and seeks to explore the changes in its definition and the underpinnings of perceptions of mental illnesses at critical junctures of history in Armenia and amongst its diasporic communities across the globe.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:35:24 -0400 2021-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Workshop | Trauma, Memory, and the History of Mental Health in Armenian Studies Past and Present
What’s Next? How the COVID-19 Vaccines Can Change Our Lives (April 8, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83403 83403-21369801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Join infectious disease experts from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Michigan Medicine for a panel discussion on the COVID-19 vaccines and what we can expect in the weeks and months ahead. The panel will include:

Dr. Arnold Monto, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Dr. Sandro Cinti, Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases, Michigan Medicine and Ann Arbor VA Health System
Dr. Laraine Washer, Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Michigan Medicine
Moderated by: Dr. Emily Martin, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health

* This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. https://sph.umich.edu/events/event.php?ID=8842

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:12:47 -0400 2021-04-08T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Livestream / Virtual Event promotion graphic
What’s Next? How the COVID-19 Vaccines Can Change Our Lives (April 8, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83403 83403-21369802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Join infectious disease experts from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Michigan Medicine for a panel discussion on the COVID-19 vaccines and what we can expect in the weeks and months ahead. The panel will include:

Dr. Arnold Monto, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Dr. Sandro Cinti, Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases, Michigan Medicine and Ann Arbor VA Health System
Dr. Laraine Washer, Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Michigan Medicine
Moderated by: Dr. Emily Martin, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health

* This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. https://sph.umich.edu/events/event.php?ID=8842

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:12:47 -0400 2021-04-08T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Livestream / Virtual Event promotion graphic
A Week in London: Diving into the CoLab Festival at Trinity Laban Conservatoire (April 8, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82210 82210-21054510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Hannah Dickinson, Head Of Student Recruitment And International Relations, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Faculty Lead: Jonathan Kuuskoski (he/his)

For two weeks every February, Trinity Laban’s usual creative atmosphere gets supercharged. There are no lectures, no classes, no assignments. That’s because it’s time for CoLab, their eccentric two‑week festival of creativity and innovation. For the 2021 CoLab, 10 SMTD students spent a week at Trinity Laban working alongside students to devise and perform interdisciplinary works through the city of London. Join SMTD faculty supervisor Jonathan Kuuskoski and a member of the Trinity Laban team to learn more about the CoLab experience, understand how SMTD students are selected for this opportunity, and share our hopes for what SMTD participation might look like in the February 2022.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/4pQ5X

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-08T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (April 8, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83555 83555-21422779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Community Conversation is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome!

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 17:32:41 -0400 2021-04-08T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic *Bonsai* Inspire Iconoclastic Futures (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79854 79854-20509612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

The University of Michigan's emergence as a steward of nationally significant bonsai marks an inflexion point in the Academy for engagement with this international art form. While exhibited specimens are inherently focused on both this moment and change, the discipline itself is undergoing renewal in the United States. Today's presentation places this emergent collection in icontemporary academic and cultural contexts, including the necessity of exhibiting outstanding canonical specimens reflective of bonsai's Japanese heritage.

David Michener is the Curator at the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. After receiving his PhD in Botany from the Claremont Graduate School he was at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum before coming to the University of Michigan. He is most widely known for his work on historic peonies. He has been active in the reinterpretation of the Freer House's Garden at Wayne State University.

Carmen Leskoviansky has been caring for the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum's Bonsai and Penjing collection since 2011. Her degree in horticulture is from MIchigan State University. Carmen began studying with American bonsai artist Michael Hagedorn, of Crataegus Bonsai, in 2018 and will begin a 3-year apprenticeship in May 2021.

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

Registration for this Zoom event is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v-ukyjuuQs2zDUR7MsshEg

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:52:36 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic Bonsai Inspire Iconoclastic Futures
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79923 79923-20515556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:19:03 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Livestream / Virtual
Gardens in Containers (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82316 82316-21066625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

It's not just an annual show anymore! Shrubs, trees, vegetables, perennials, even water gardens can be comfortable and beautiful in a container. The containers themselves have evolved into an array of forms and materials that are mind-boggling to consider. Learn about practical and novel ideas on how to choose a container and the plants to fill it, plus how to plant and maintain a stunning, out of ground display on patio or deck or yard.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:25:15 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
P&SC/G&FP Colloquium: Legacy of Slavery or Extreme Poverty: Narrating Black Pessimism (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83548 83548-21420819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: The focus of the current work is the long-held assumption that captive Africans exited slavery exhibiting a level of cultural and psychological backwardness that made adjustment to freedom problematic. This legacy of slavery trope is said to be a major factor causing contemporary black-on-black violence. As a counter narrative, extreme poverty, revealed from the perspective of black political economy covering the Great Depression to the present, is shown to provide a better platform from which to understand challenges faced by black people.

Bio: William E. Cross, Jr., PhD received his doctorate in social psychology from Princeton University and is the author of Shades of Black, an important book on black identity published by Temple University Press in 1991. Dr. Cross’s new book Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia (view publisher page; view book flyer) will be published by Temple University Press in June 2021. In 2017 Dr. Cross was accorded emeritus status by the University of Denver, where he held a joint appointment in Counseling Psychology and Higher Education. The first twenty years of his academic career were spent at the African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. There followed appointments at Penn State, UMass-Amherst, and UNLV, and ten years with the Critical Psychology Program at the Graduate Center-CUNY, in New York City.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:36:08 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Livestream / Virtual William Cross
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Career Panel—Nonprofit (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83175 83175-21284840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Panelists working on issues such as youth development, lung cancer research, and public humanities will share their own career stories and provide insights on careers in the non-profit field.
Speakers
Jill Daigneault
Program Manager, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
Jill Daigneault received her bachelor’s from Rutgers University in genetics and completed her Ph.D. in cancer biology. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the RNA Biosciences Institute. She currently works as a program manager for the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer where she manages multiple scientific committees and designs programming for their international meetings.
David Merkowitz
Assistant Director, Ohio Humanities
David Merkowitz is the assistant director of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has a Ph.D. in urban and religious history from the University of Cincinnati. Before joining Ohio Humanities, Merkowitz taught at a variety of colleges and universities in Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. He is currently at work completing an M.A. in public policy and administration at the John Glenn College of Ohio State University.
Malcolm Tariq
Programs and Communications Manager, Cave Canem
Malcolm Tariq is a poet, playwright, and nonprofit arts administrator from Savannah, Georgia who writes about intersections of Blackness, queerness, and the American South. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf, 2019), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and Extended Play (Gertrude Press, 2017). A former apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company and a 2020-2021 resident playwright with Liberation Theatre Company, Malcolm has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, the Social Science Research Council, and Imagining America. He is a graduate of Emory University and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. Malcolm lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is the programs and communications manager at Cave Canem, a home for Black poetry.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/E30bK.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:39 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
Alum Connections: Alana Waisbrot (April 8, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83337 83337-21344240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection with Ivy School Career Advisor, Alana Waisbrot

Meet Alana Waisbrot, a Psychology grad (‘03) who as a student, was overwhelmed and unclear about how she wanted to use her LSA degree post-graduation. After a few years working on Wall Street in HR and recruiting, Alana realized she loved helping others find and fulfill their own career goals. With over 15 years of experience in career management at two top MBA programs in the country, Alana is excited to answer your questions about formulating a career strategy, constructing résumés, networking, interviewing, and everything in between. As an expert on all things MBA, Alana can also discuss careers in human resources, recruiting, and pre-business school prep, and post-business school opportunities. Find out how to carve out a rewarding career path.

About Alana:
Alana Waisbrot is an experienced career coach who advises on a range of topics including self-assessment, strategy planning, résumé, and cover letter review, interview preparation, and negotiation. Alana has been a part of the Career Management Center at Columbia Business School since 2008, most recently as part of the Experienced Professionals team focused on Executive MBAs and Alumni coaching. Prior, she served as the Associate Director of Career Education and Advising for the Full-Time Program. Before joining Columbia, Alana managed the on-campus recruiting program at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern). Alana began her career on Wall Street working in HR at Citigroup’s Investment Bank and as a campus recruiter for Lehman Brothers.

Alana is also a coach for admissions consulting firm, Ivy Advisors, helping clients better define their interests, skills and career goals. Alana completed Masters level coursework in psychological counseling at Teachers College (Columbia University).

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM Literature, Science, and the Arts undergraduate student
Exploring the fields of human resources and/or consulting
Looking for general career advice related to résumés, preparing for an interview, and job searching
Considering the pursuit of an MBA after graduation

What you’ll gain by attending:
Get professional and credible advice on career planning and development
Receive expert guidance on preparing for a graduate degree after college
Gain first-hand insights and tips on how to navigate professional life after graduation

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:14:10 -0400 2021-04-08T12:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Alana Waisbrot Photo
Pathways for Bipartisanship with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell & Fred Upton (April 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83464 83464-21383599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join us the afternoon of April 8th at 3:00 PM for two congressional updates and Q&A sessions with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI 12th District) and Fred Upton (R-MI 6th District).

During this virtual event, Representative Upton will provide an update on his priorities for Michigan, including his work in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Representative Dingell will also provide an update on her concurrent work on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Natural Resources. In this joint panel, both representatives will discuss present opportunities to work across the aisle in bipartisan decision-making among the current political vitriol and economic climate. Students will be given the opportunity to ask questions to both speakers on issues of bipartisanship, their joint efforts in the House, their commitment to their constituents in Michigan, and future opportunities for collaboration and compromise.

This event will be held virtually on April 8th at 3:00pm ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the zoom link and information will be sent to your email. Please contact msolom@umich.edu if you have any additional questions.

Register at: https://linktr.ee/umichcsg

Speaker Bio:
U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell, U.S. House of Representatives
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell represents the 12th District of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before being elected to Congress, Debbie was the Chair of the Wayne State University (WSU) Board of Governors. An active civic and community leader, she is a recognized national advocate for women and children. For more than 30 years Debbie served one of Michigan’s largest employers, the General Motors (GM) Corporation, where she was President of the GM Foundation and a senior executive responsible for public affairs. In her commitment to job creation, Debbie led the effort to bring the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a $20 million partnership designed to help create jobs and economic growth, to southeast Michigan. She is a past chair of the Manufacturing Initiative at the American Automotive Policy Council. Debbie resides in Dearborn. She holds both a B.S.F.S. in Foreign Services and an M.S. in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University.

Speaker Bio:
U.S. Representative Fred Upton, U.S. House of Representatives
Congressman Fred Upton is proud to represent the common-sense values of Southwest Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District. A diverse section of the state that stretches from the shores of Lake Michigan, the Sixth District is home to key industries that range from agriculture to auto parts manufacturing to high-tech biomedical innovation centers. It includes all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren counties, and most of Allegan County. Prior to his election to Congress, Fred worked for President Ronald Reagan in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). While at OMB, he learned from President Reagan’s example that it does not matter who gets the credit, as long as the job gets done. That has been Fred’s approach since he was first elected to Congress in 1986 and continues today. Fred holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Amey, have two adult children.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:10:29 -0400 2021-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Livestream / Virtual
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Whitney Lohmeyer of Olin College of Engineering (April 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76675 76675-19735035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Olin College of Engineering Prof. Whitney Lohmeyer will give a virtual lecture as part of this week's Seminar Series. Please join us!

Prof. Lohmeyer's presentation is titled "The LEO Communications Systems Landscape: Technological Advances and Interference Mitigation" and will take place this coming Thursday, April 8 at 3:30 p.m. EDT.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Please contact lhopkins@umich to request zoom access.

ABSTRACT:
In a connected society, it is challenging to fathom that the year 2019 marked the first year in which more than half the world had access to the Internet. For decades, but in particular the past five years, tremendous efforts from government and private sector entities have been made to bring more individuals online, and to realize the economic and arguably social benefits of a connected culture. In her seminar, Whitney Lohmeyer will discuss the technological progress of the satellite communications sector, focusing on low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications systems including those of OneWeb, SpaceX, and Amazon along with coexistence issues amongst LEO megaconstellations, terrestrial and radio astronomy services (RAS), and the potential for public-sector + academic partnerships to progress science. Additionally, she will discuss her postgraduate school journey in the private sector and the process of returning to academia as a faculty member at Olin College of Engineering. In doing so, she will share lessons learned along the way, and strategies for pursuing careers in either or both the private sector and academia.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:08:11 -0400 2021-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Whitney Lohmeyer
Enjoy the Planetarium from Home! (April 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82986 82986-21233300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

A thirty-minute, lighthearted review of the current night sky, including constellations, visible planets, and other current astronomical events. Short Q&A session follows.

Groups of 7 or more should consider booking a private show for the best experience.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:11:40 -0400 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Livestream / Virtual
Ph.D. Connections Conference: Career Panel—Consulting (April 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83176 83176-21284841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Panelists will share insights about the business challenges they take on in their consulting roles. The session will speak to what is required to uncover solutions for clients, the skills drawn upon to address issues, and the approaches used to solve complex problems. You will gain a better sense of how advanced degrees from a myriad of fields may translate to the consulting arena.
Speakers
Jennifer Miller-Gonzalez
Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting
Jennifer Miller-Gonzalez is a senior consultant in Deloitte’s human capital practice and is a manager at the Survey Research Center. At Deloitte, her work focuses on improving customer and workforce experience in the federal sphere. Prior to joining Deloitte, she managed survey research projects for clients in the technology, financial services, and defense industries. Jennifer received her Ph.D. in political science in 2013.
McKinsey Representative
McKinsey & Company
Vahid Rashidi
Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group
Vahid Rashidi received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a master’s in electrical and computer Engineering, and a master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan. His research at U-M was focused on machine learning and molecular simulations. Rashidi joined Boston Consulting Group in 2018.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/bvG9Y.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.
The Ph.D. Connections Conference is co-sponsored by the University Career Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan Medical School. For more information about the conference visit the website.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:15:40 -0400 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band (April 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83042 83042-21259012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

A Renaissance Set
Antoine Bonelli, “Toccatta” from Il primo libro de Ricercari et Canzoni
Samuel Scheidt, “Galliard battaglia” from Ludi Musici

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in E-flat, K.166

David Gillingham, Serenade for Winds and Percussion 

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Notturno

Rob Smith, Catalytic Concerto

Evan Chambers, Crazed for the Flame, chamber winds version, premiere performance

watch online at https://myumi.ch/yK1g3

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Gender in Chinese Studies: A Conference in Honor of Wang Zheng (April 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83286 83286-21336289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Join us as we celebrate the career and contributions of Wang Zheng, pioneering feminist and scholar, beloved teacher, and esteemed colleague!

This conference features papers by her former students as well as current UM graduate students, and a keynote address by Gail Hershatter (Distinguished Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz). We will reflect on the development of Chinese gender studies, past and present, and explore future directions for research. This conference is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.

Schedule overview (times in EDT):

FRIDAY, APRIL 9
9:30 am--Welcome
10:00 am--Panel #1 (“Archives and History”)
12 noon--Keynote address, Gail Hershatter
2:00 pm--Panel #2 (“Scholarship and Activism”)

SATURDAY, APRIL 10
10:00 am--UM graduate student panel (“Future Directions”)
11:10 am--Lunch and mingle
1:00 pm--Panel #3 (“Interspecies, Affects, and Boundary Pushing”)
2:45--Closing remarks by Wang Zheng

NOTE: Advance registration is required for this free Zoom event. Visit this link to register: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudOCqqDkiHtZsl57iHzsUvr_penoHlxki

For the most up-to-date details on participants, papers, and abstracts, please see our Google Doc schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJsoaiVnFCS65MR5MeuzcnIJDgIBgSSxhebCPE9KkmE/edit?usp=sharing

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:34:29 -0400 2021-04-09T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women's and Gender Studies Department Livestream / Virtual Wang Zheng
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (April 9, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83429 83429-21377659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Wendy K. Tam Cho, Professor of Political Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Asian American Studies, and the College of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be delivering the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Science Methodology's virtual keynote this year on Friday, April 9 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am EDT. She will be presenting a talk titled "A Parallel Evolutionary Multiple-Try Metropolis Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm for Redistricting Analysis."

Abstract:

Important insights into redistricting can be gained by formulating and analyzing the problem within a large-scale spatial optimization and sampling framework. Redistricting is an application of the graph-partitioning problem that is NP-Hard. We develop an Evolutionary Markov Chain Monte Carlo (EMCMC) algorithm for sampling spatial partitions that lie within a large, complex, and constrained spatial state space. Our algorithm combines the advantages of evolutionary algorithms as optimization heuristics for state space traversal and the theoretical convergence properties of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for sampling from unknown distributions. Local optimality information that is identified via a directed search by our optimization heuristic is used to adaptively update a Markov chain in a promising direction within the framework of a Multiple-Try Metropolis Markov Chain model that incorporates a generalized Metropolis-Hastings ratio. We further expand the reach of our EMCMC algorithm by harnessing the computational power afforded by massively parallel computing architecture through the integration of a parallel EA framework that guides Markov chains running in parallel. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm to utilize hundreds of thousands of processors for the redistricting problem. The massive computing power allows us to extract new substantive insights that closely mesh with the framework that the Supreme Court has elucidated for electoral reform.
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The primary function of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Science Methodology (I3SM) is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for students and faculty to present their current projects and to receive feedback on either the methodological component of their project or a methodology under development. Presenters can also present new research questions and ideas and receive ideas about which methodologies would work best to tackle such questions. We define methodology broadly as the approaches to which data is collected and/or organized to give empirical content to social science research. It includes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

To join the meeting via Zoom, email skuzushi@umich.edu for the meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:25:14 -0400 2021-04-09T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Wendy K. Tam Cho
CAS Workshop | Trauma, Memory, and the History of Mental Health in Armenian Studies Past and Present (April 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83313 83313-21338292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

By invitation only. Full participation requires the reading of pre-circulated papers. If you are interested in joining the meeting, please contact armenianstudies@umich.edu.

Full workshop schedule at: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2021-workshop.html

In recent years, the history of trauma, memory, and mental health, as well as the literary, anthropological, and sociological studies of madness have gained a remarkable momentum internationally. Still, there have been virtually no substantial studies of a premodern and modern understanding of trauma, memory, and mental health in Armenia and its Diaspora. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to interrogate the stories of both medical and psychiatric sciences as well as that of the concepts of trauma and madness in Armenian political, historical, literary, and cultural discussions in the past and present. The workshop will focus on the histories of medicine, trauma, and psychiatry and the portrayals of madness as a form of behavior, marker of difference, and tool of body politics across periods and geographies. The workshop organizers are interested in the broader history of medicine, but they would like to draw particular attention to the historical and contemporary landscapes in which medical professionals sought to exercise their authorities over mental illnesses and the mind itself.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tools and theories have provided medical professionals with renewed opportunities to intervene in the social, political and cultural spheres with the shared objective of devising and implementing therapies of madness. In this, the workshop will initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the concept, diagnosis, treatment, “The Genius and the Crowd” (1909) by Yeghishe Tadevosyan (1870-1936) and social construction of “madness.” The goal is to consider new perspectives, methodologies and crossdisciplinary frameworks that will put Armenian Studies in conversation with, among others, the growing fields of history of medicine, science, and technology studies. We are also interested in a comparative study of genocides and trans-generational transmission of trauma by underlining both parallel mechanisms and unique features of the legacies of various historical and social traumas, such as the Holocaust, the historical oppression and colonization of native peoples in America and African-American slavery. As such, an examination of the loops between various forms of colonial, structural and ethnic violence, socio-political discourses and embodied individual experiences are of interest for our discussion.

In the course of the workshop, the hope is to call into question what was and is culturally defined as madness as well as medical and societal interventions to “cure” madness and “contain” the mad. Therefore, this meeting will situate the notion of madness at the intersection of politics, medicine, literature, sociology, and anthropology and seeks to explore the changes in its definition and the underpinnings of perceptions of mental illnesses at critical junctures of history in Armenia and amongst its diasporic communities across the globe.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:35:24 -0400 2021-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Workshop | Trauma, Memory, and the History of Mental Health in Armenian Studies Past and Present
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Let’s Talk About Mental Health—Developing Skills to Support Peers (April 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83442 83442-21379664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

GRIN is organizing a training workshop for people to develop skills surrounding mental health. The workshop is conducted by Taylor Pahl, M.S.W., Outreach and Education Program Coordinator at the University of Michigan Depression Center.
This training will teach participants some of the common signs and symptoms of depression and anxiety. We will also spend some time discussing how culture impacts mental health and can contribute to stigma around discussing mental health and help-seeking. The second half of the training will focus on how to talk to a peer, colleague, or friend about mental health. This will include practicing reflective listening and sharing appropriate resources for help-seeking. Sponsored by Graduate Rackham International (GRIN).
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/ZQ9VE.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:15:38 -0400 2021-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
U-M Structure Seminar: "Structural study of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm T4SS using cryo-electron microscopy" (April 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76184 76184-19671616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Clarissa Durie, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Melanie Ohi Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:55:39 -0400 2021-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Alum Connections: Nicole Teddone (April 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83338 83338-21344241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Landing your First Opportunity at a Talent Agency, with Assistant at William Morris Endeavor, Nicole Teddone

Find out what you can do today to get your foot in the door at a talent agency from Nicole Teddone, a recent grad and new hire at global talent agency, William Morris Endeavor (WME). Through this hour-long conversation, Nicole will share personal anecdotes from her transition from LSA undergrad to WME; give students a peak behind the curtains to see what her work week is like; advise students on how to keep their fingers on the pulse of what’s current when it comes to tailoring applications and interviews; and more.

About Nicole (FTVM ‘19):
Nicole Teddone serves as an Assistant at William Morris Endeavor, one of the world’s largest global talent agencies focusing in entertainment, fashion, and sports. Working with the Commercials and Brand Endorsements Department, the TV Scripted Department, and the TV Non Scripted Department, Nicole services the company’s team of agents by redlining agreements and contracts for their clients, which includes, but is not limited to, actors, producers, directors, and influencers. As a part of her new role with WME, she aids Talent through getting them auditions and jobs and builds a business around them. When Nicole is not working or spending time with family and friends, she loves to catch up on her writing, favorite stand-up specials and comedy shows, meditation, and her mentoring of others!

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Eager to learn how to leverage your LSA education into a career in entertainment
Wondering what opportunities exist within a talent agency beyond the work of representation and contracts

What you’ll gain by attending:
Get a sense of the activities and learning experiences you can engage in now that will help position you for success in earning a position within a talent agency
Gain an understanding of the importance of staying in-the-know in order to distinguish yourself from other candidates
Realize the importance of authenticity when building your network and seeking out mentors

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:46:08 -0400 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Nicole Teddone Photo
Russian Conversation Club (April 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Do you study Russian and want more opportunities to develop your speaking skills in a welcoming and low-stakes environment? Are you looking for an opportunity to socialize with your peers and bond over the difficulties of learning a foreign language? Would you like to learn more about the culture of one of the most politically important and fascinating regions of the world with the coolest undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan?

If the answer to any or all of the above questions is "yes", then you should check out the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures weekly Russian conversation club (called КРЯ - Клуб Русского Языка)! Every Friday at 11:00, we convene for lighthearted discussion of ourselves, our language studies, and of course, the culture of the Russophone world. Regular attendance is not mandatory - you can drop in and out as you wish, and club participants are always willing to help each other out with questions about the language during our discussions. We meet in two groups, the first aimed at first-year students or any who are beginning their language study, and the second targeted towards students who have studied the language for at least a year. Participants are also encouraged to join our discord server, where we post weekly meeting announcements and other Russian-language related content.

Introductory Group Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94164643618

Advanced Group Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99310708629

Link to join our discord: https://discord.gg/FHguFGY

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
“Ions and proteins: the essential partners that fold RNA and DNA” (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81780 81780-20959267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Abstract: The nucleic acids, RNA and DNA, play versatile and critically important roles in biology. The information storage capacity of DNA has long been recognized, and awareness of RNA’s prominence in biology continues to grow. Because both RNA and DNA carry large negative charge, interaction with oppositely charged partners is required for folding and function. Despite the important roles of these partners, little is known about how they structure, or interact with nucleic acids. We design experiments to reveal the role of partners, ranging from ions through proteins, in systems ranging from single stranded DNA or RNA through large assemblies, like viruses. Simulation and computation are important components of our work, and often offer surprising insight into our results.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Apr 2021 11:29:54 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Lois Pollak
ALC Colloquium - Interrogating Logics of Violence: Sikhs, Think-Tanks & Resistance (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83346 83346-21346226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97501032943

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:40:19 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
AIG (American Institutions Group) (April 9, 2021 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80637 80637-20769608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:05pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, and a Senior Fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. She studies the politics of redistribution, with a focus on attitudes about taxation. She is the author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes.

AIG is a group of graduate students and faculty who meet to discuss American institutions. For the first half of our meetings, we talk about our research, happenings in the field, and politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper.

To join the meeting via Zoom, email Jared Cory and Benjamin Lempert (blempert@umich.edu) for the meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:06:35 -0500 2021-04-09T12:05:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institutions Group (AIG) Livestream / Virtual Vanessa Williamson
Alum Connections: Dr. Gina Fundaro (April 9, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83335 83335-21344238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Women’s Health leader & Entrepreneur, Dr. Gina Fundaro

In January 2020, Dr. Gina Fundaro found herself at a crossroads. She was a successful breast imaging radiologist with Henry Ford Health System, while her children were also succeeding athletically in their early teenage years. After a twenty-year career impacting patients’ lives, Gina made the decision to stop practicing medicine and open three Goldfish Swim Schools in Virginia. Just over a year later, Gina is back working with patients part-time. A proud U-M Dearborn graduate, Gina attributes her liberal arts education for giving her both a desire to serve others through her medical vocation and the agility to pivot into entrepreneurial pursuits. Join Gina for a conversation about exploring a medical career in service to others--and having the courage to make life changes as an established adult and professional.

About Dr. Gina Fundaro:
A lifelong native of Michigan, Dr. Gina Fundaro spent the majority of her career at Henry Ford Health System. She was also the site director of the Henry Ford Fairlane Breast Center. Prior to this, she worked at the Alexander Walt Comprehensive Breast Center of the Karmanos Cancer Institute from 2005 to 2007. She specializes in breast imaging and breast interventional procedures. She joined a private group, Regional Medical Imaging in January 2021.

Her passion for women’s healthcare arose while in college following her grandmother’s death from preventable breast cancer. It highlighted the need to catch breast tumors early, spurring her to enter radiology and help women fight the disease.

Being a physician, it was important to Gina that her kids learned how to swim. This passion also drove Gina to learn how to swim at age 39, and in 2012, she completed an Ironman Triathlon. Two years later, Gina and her husband opened their first of three Goldfish Swim Schools in Northern, VA.

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM Literature, Science, and the Arts undergraduate student with interests in working in the field of healthcare
Interested in medical school and/or pursuing a career in medicine, specifically radiology
Hoping to learn from an alum about navigating life in medical school, as well as finding work-life balance as a practicing physician

What you’ll gain from attending this session:
Get insights from an experienced physician who currently sits on the Mott Hospital Council and Women's Health Leadership Council at Michigan Medicine
Learn about the career possibilities within medicine prior to applying to medical school.
Gain critical advice about pursuing both a lifelong career but also shorter professional pursuits

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:25:45 -0400 2021-04-09T12:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Dr. Gina Fundaro Photo
The Culture of Anticipation in a crime laboratory: How occupational captivity shapes work (April 9, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79646 79646-20438365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

An ethnographer who studies interactions and dynamics at organizational and occupational boundaries.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 14:34:44 -0500 2021-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (April 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79902 79902-20511625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (April 9, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82025 82025-21006763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

U-M Doctoral Student in Political Science Amir Fleischmann will present "Popular Problems: Towards a Post-Liberal Conception of Popular Sovereignty.” Fleischmann's work is focused on critical and continental political theory. He is interested in questions concerning critical history, the history of capitalism, and democratic theory.

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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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:12:33 -0500 2021-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Amir Fleischmann
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out (April 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83246 83246-21322431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exploring community connection through the performing arts, UMS President Emeritus Ken Fischer and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis come together in a conversation moderated by Lisa Richards Toney, president and CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

Marsalis wrote the introduction to Fischer&#39;s book, Everybody in, Nobody Out (Michigan Publishing, 2020), which offers a reflection on the power of the performing arts to engage and enrich communities — not by handing down cultural enrichment from on high, but by meeting communities where they live and helping them preserve cultural heritage, incubate talent, and find ways to make community voices heard. In this talk, Fischer and Marsalis will also discuss the important relationship between presenter and artist in moving the artist&#39;s work forward.

Ken Fischer is President Emeritus of the University Musical Society (UMS) of the University of Michigan (U-M), a position he held from June 1, 1987 to June 30, 2017. UMS, an independent multidisciplinary performing arts presenter with a long and deep affiliation with U-M, is in the center of the Ann Arbor campus and offers 60-90 concerts each season, performed in up to nine University and community venues. On September 10, 2015, Fischer accepted the 2014 National Medal of Arts on behalf of UMS from President Obama at the White House. UMS is the first university presenter to receive the National Medal of Arts, which is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. Under Fischer’s leadership UMS greatly expanded and diversified its programming and its audiences; deepened its engagement with the University and southeast Michigan communities; created exemplary partnerships with leading corporations, arts organizations, educational institutions, and community organizations; and received significant endowment grants awarded by the leading foundations in the arts. In December 2019, Fischer received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan.

Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader and composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and soon thereafter joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He recorded more than 103 jazz and classical recordings, which have won nine GRAMMY® awards. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs® in the same year, repeating the distinction the following year. Today, Wynton is the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® in five consecutive years (1983-1987). In 1997, Wynton became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer in Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. Marsalis has received honorary doctorates from over 25 of America’s top academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton and Yale. In 2001, he was appointed Messenger of Peace by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In 2005 Wynton received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

Lisa Richards Toney is the President & CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Richards Toney brings more than 20 years of experience leading a range of small and large arts and humanities organizations, managing change and building stability. Most recently she served as the Executive Director of the Abramson Scholarship Foundation, and prior to that, as the Interim Executive Director and Deputy Director of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was also the first Executive Director of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and Director of Literature to Life for The American Place Theatre. She currently serves on the boards of Performing Arts Alliance and Mosaic Theatre Company of DC, co-chair of the Jack and Jill DC Chapter Jumoke Black History Festival, and on the Advisory Board of the American University Graduate Program in Arts Administration. She holds an M.A. in educational theater from NYU with coursework in arts administration and a B.A. as a presidential scholar from Spelman College.

This event is co-presented by PBS Books and Detroit Public Television, with support from UMS and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Ken-and-Wynton_1920x980.jpg
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Movie Night with GRIN—Screening of The Secret of the Kells (April 9, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83445 83445-21379667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join GRIN virtually to watch The Secret of the Kells, an Irish-Belgian animated fantasy film about The Book of Kells. We will bring the kettle corn and ginger ale! Pick up your snacks for movie night first and then settle in to watch the movie at 8:30 p.m. Register below and we will send you the specific details! Sponsored by Graduate Rackham International (GRIN).
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/4pER7.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:15:33 -0400 2021-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Gender in Chinese Studies: A Conference in Honor of Wang Zheng (April 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83286 83286-21336290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Join us as we celebrate the career and contributions of Wang Zheng, pioneering feminist and scholar, beloved teacher, and esteemed colleague!

This conference features papers by her former students as well as current UM graduate students, and a keynote address by Gail Hershatter (Distinguished Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz). We will reflect on the development of Chinese gender studies, past and present, and explore future directions for research. This conference is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.

Schedule overview (times in EDT):

FRIDAY, APRIL 9
9:30 am--Welcome
10:00 am--Panel #1 (“Archives and History”)
12 noon--Keynote address, Gail Hershatter
2:00 pm--Panel #2 (“Scholarship and Activism”)

SATURDAY, APRIL 10
10:00 am--UM graduate student panel (“Future Directions”)
11:10 am--Lunch and mingle
1:00 pm--Panel #3 (“Interspecies, Affects, and Boundary Pushing”)
2:45--Closing remarks by Wang Zheng

NOTE: Advance registration is required for this free Zoom event. Visit this link to register: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudOCqqDkiHtZsl57iHzsUvr_penoHlxki

For the most up-to-date details on participants, papers, and abstracts, please see our Google Doc schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJsoaiVnFCS65MR5MeuzcnIJDgIBgSSxhebCPE9KkmE/edit?usp=sharing

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:34:29 -0400 2021-04-10T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women's and Gender Studies Department Livestream / Virtual Wang Zheng
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (April 10, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Find out what it means to be a Lloyd Scholar!
Meet our Student Leaders!
Ask questions!

Email us at LSWA@umich.edu to receive the Zoom link.

Current LSWA students will present an overview of our program during the following scheduled Zoom information sessions:
FEBRUARY:
Thursday, 2/18 - 6:00 pm
Saturday, 2/20 - 11:00 am
Sunday, 2/21 - 12:00 Noon & 3:00 pm
Monday, 2/22 - 7:00 pm
Saturday, 2/27 - 3:00 pm

MARCH:
Sunday, 3/7 - 12:00 Noon
Sunday, 3/14 - 3:00 pm
Wednesday, 3/17 - 6:00 pm
Friday, 3/19 - 6:00 pm
Sunday, 3/21 - 4:00 pm
Sunday, 3/28 - 4:00 pm

APRIL:
Saturday, 4/10 - 11:00 am
Saturday, 4/17 - 11:00 am
Thursday, 4/22 - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 4/28 - 6:00 pm

MAY:
Sunday, 5/2 - 1:00 pm

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-04-10T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
2021 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80911 80911-20818987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is an annual event featuring leaders in the transportation and mobility sector from across the globe. The 4th Annual Symposium will feature panels covering the FCC reallocation of the 5.9GHz spectrum, transportation equity, mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and mobility-on-demand (MoD), and much more! A second track will also be offered that will provide findings from recently-completed CCAT research.

New for 2021: The 2021 Global Symposium will be returning to the two-day, two-track format while remaining entirely virtual. Expect all of the excitement of an in-person conference from the comfort of your home. A new and improved version of the Student Poster Competition will also be offered. The virtual setting will provide attendees with plenty of time to speak with budding researchers about their work. The first 195 people to register have an opportunity to have unique, CCAT swag delivered to them ahead of the event (U.S. residents only).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:31:16 -0500 2021-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Sweetland Write-Together (April 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82604 82604-21135890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:15:50 -0500 2021-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
Virtual Lunch with the Deans (April 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82605 82605-21135891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham Student Government is hosting a virtual lunch with the Rackham deans. This will be a chance for graduate students to talk directly with the deans and to provide thoughts on planning for the 2021–22 academic year, among other topics. Students can submit questions ahead of time when they register.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/pdnYm.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:15:25 -0400 2021-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (April 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79903 79903-20511626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2021-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Calling In the Calling Out Culture (April 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83101 83101-21268958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This presentation will be on challenging the Call Out culture of social justice movements and academic spaces in order to build a united human rights movement.
The lecture will cover five topics:

Understanding what Calling In/Calling Out is
Exploring why people should care about building a human rights movement through Calling In
Discussing what it feels like to Call people in
Examining what Calling In looks like
Learning where, when, and how to use Calling In techniques in the future

Speaker: Loretta J. Ross
Loretta J. Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender for the 2019-2021 academic years. She is an activist, public intellectual, and a scholar.
She started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s, working at the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, until retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism.
Her most recent books are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction co-written with Rickie Solinger, and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique, both published in 2017. Her forthcoming book is Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2021.
She has appeared on CNN, BET, “Lead Story,” “Good Morning America,” “The Donahue Show,” the National Geographic Channel, and “The Charlie Rose Show.” She has been quoted in the New York Times, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among others.
Her activism began as a rape and incest survivor as a teen mother. She graduated from Agnes Scott College at age 55. She is from San Antonio, TX and lives in Atlanta, GA. She is a mother and grandmother, and an avid pinochle player. Her dream is to see Venus and Serena Williams play tennis in person. Her website is https://lorettajross.com/.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKjz7.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:15:42 -0400 2021-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Media Studies Interest Group (April 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83343 83343-21346218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for a talk with Professor Eugenie Brinkema on radical formalism and fascination with violence in the horror film Martyrs. We will be pre-circulating two readings by Professor Brinkema and, after a brief introduction to her work, will use the majority of the hour for discussion.

Eugenie Brinkema is Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in texts ranging from the horror film to gonzo pornography, from structuralist film to the visual and temporal forms of terrorism. Her articles have appeared in the journals Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Criticism, differences, Discourse, film-philosophy, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, qui parle, and World Picture. Her first book, The Forms of the Affects, was published with Duke University Press in 2014. Her second book, Life-Destroying Diagrams, explores radical formalism's relationship to horror and love, and will be coming out in November of this year (2021), also with Duke.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:26:49 -0400 2021-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual Brinkema Poster
A Fireside Chat with Steven O. Roberts on Hierarchy, Racism, and Cognition (April 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83392 83392-21369782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Roberts is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, and first author of (among other publications) "The psychology of American racism," which appeared in The American Psychologist in 2020. This event is organized by the Social Psychology Area.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:16:52 -0400 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Livestream / Virtual Roberts
STS Speaker. A Conversation on COVID-19 (April 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83501 83501-21393426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Details to come.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:06:53 -0400 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Livestream / Virtual Prof. Parthasarathy
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82263 82263-21068628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Monday, April 12

7:00-7:10pm Welcome Remarks
7:10-8:10pm Panel 1: History, Industry, and Policy

Chair: Sangjoon LEE (Nanyang Technological University)

South Korea’s Film Policy (1993-2020)
CHO Junhyoung (Korean Film Archive)

Evolution of the Korean Film Industry in the Hallyu Era
Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University)

8:20 – 9:30pm Keynote Lecture

KIM Hong-Joon (Korea National University of Arts)

Moderator: Sangjoon LEE (Nanyang Technological University)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:50:37 -0500 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21
2021 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80911 80911-20818988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is an annual event featuring leaders in the transportation and mobility sector from across the globe. The 4th Annual Symposium will feature panels covering the FCC reallocation of the 5.9GHz spectrum, transportation equity, mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and mobility-on-demand (MoD), and much more! A second track will also be offered that will provide findings from recently-completed CCAT research.

New for 2021: The 2021 Global Symposium will be returning to the two-day, two-track format while remaining entirely virtual. Expect all of the excitement of an in-person conference from the comfort of your home. A new and improved version of the Student Poster Competition will also be offered. The virtual setting will provide attendees with plenty of time to speak with budding researchers about their work. The first 195 people to register have an opportunity to have unique, CCAT swag delivered to them ahead of the event (U.S. residents only).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:31:16 -0500 2021-04-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards (April 13, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83356 83356-21348208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Of the more than 800 dissertations submitted each year, only ten are selected. The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards recognize highly accomplished graduate students who have produced exceptional dissertations of outstanding scholarly quality in any field of study.
This virtual event provides a valuable opportunity for the U-M community to celebrate the achievements of the ten recipients and engage in lively conversations around their research and scholarship.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/VP4jw.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:15:38 -0400 2021-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80588 80588-20759744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The notion that gardens might offer a private space, apart from the larger public world and even family responsibilities, dates to the middle Tang (late 8th-early 9th c.). Dr. Kile’s talk offers an introduction to the first two works in the Chinese tradition to consider the making of the garden itself as an art: Ji Cheng's Yuanye (Fashioning Gardens, 1631-34) and Li Yu's Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes, 1671). Both men create a middle category between manual laborer and garden proprietor: that of the garden designer, who, they both argue, is the true master of the garden. The work of raising garden design to the status of an expressive art, rather than mere craft, followed the model by which literati painting had been elevated in status during the Song dynasty (960-1279), when literati borrowed from theories of poetry to argue that painting, too, could express the "hills and valleys" in their hearts.

SE Kile is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A specialist in Ming and Qing literature and culture, Dr. Kile is finishing a book that theorizes early modern mediation and entrepreneurship through a synthesis of Li Yu's (1611-1680) cultural production.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YJwm_w_JS_iHdY3mpQLHZg

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:26:23 -0500 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual SE Kile, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
Reforming Remembrance (April 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82863 82863-21203327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Dutch artist Hans van Houwelingen will reflect on his ongoing research on commemorative monuments. Apart from the hardware of monuments, he explores how to reform the practice of commemoration itself. Van Houwelingen and the Indonesian artist Iswanto Hartono (Ruangrupa) are currently collaborating on a research project to investigate both the presence and the absence of monuments in colonial locations. Among his case studies are monuments in Indonesia removed after 1945 Independence. The Van Heutsz monument in Jakarta, designed by the Dutch architect Willem Marinus Dudok, was destroyed just after the Independence of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the Van Heutsz monument in Amsterdam exists today as the Indie Nederland Monument. These and other monuments enter into the discussion of commemoration and its erasure.

Bio: Hans van Houwelingen (Harlingen 1957) attended Minerva Art Academy in Groningen (Netherlands) and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. His work is manifested in the form of interventions projects in public space, exhibitions, films, lectures and publications, in which he investigates the relations between art, culture and politics. He publishes regularly in newspapers and magazines. The monograph STIFF Hans van Houwelingen vs. Public Art (Artimo, 2004) offers an overview of his projects and texts and an extensive reflection on his work. The publication Update describes the permanent update of the Lorentzmonument in Arnhem (NL) during the exhibition Sonsbeek 2008. In 2011 Undone (Jap Sam Books 2011) was published, presenting nine critical reflections on three recent works. In 1988 Van Houwelingen won a Prix de Rome prize. He received The Queen Wilhelminaring oeuvre award in 2013. Since 2015 he is an honorary member of the Academy van Arts from the Royal Akademy of Science (KNAW). Hans van Houwelingen lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.

Organized by the Committee on Equity, Department of History of Art and co-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program. Kristin Hass (Associate Professor of American Culture and Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory) to moderate.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:08:13 -0400 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual poster
Data Feminism Faculty Reading Group (April 13, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80428 80428-20719768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Faculty Reading Group led by Prof. Libby Hemphill on the book, "Data Feminism" by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. The group's goals are to read and discuss research, develop research collaborations, and eventually seek funding for future work.


FAQ
Q: When/where will meetings take place?
A: We'll start on Zoom, on Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. ET, beginning January 19, 2021. Our plan is for this group to grow and expand to continue into the future and not just the winter term.

Q: Is the group for faculty only?
A: We may expand in the future, but for starters, the group is for faculty, including postdocs and research investigators, on any track and in any discipline(s).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:01:11 -0500 2021-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual book cover, Data Feminism
You Don’t Belong Here: The Stories Our Systems Tell and Why We Have to Disrupt Them (April 13, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83102 83102-21268959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Many universities message extensively around their commitments about diversity, equity, and inclusion. These institutional assertions are often called into question, though, by the stories of members of the higher education community who continue to face marginalization and othering within their professional and educational spaces. This session centers around an embodied case study depicting one woman’s reflections on her experiences of higher education and her interactions with a range of systems that sent a persistent message that she didn’t belong, that she would never truly be a part of her university community. Through session activities, participants will consider how these messages manifest and why they continue to occur despite the extensive labor of individuals sincerely committed to advancing equity.
The theatrical portion of this session contains strong language. It includes explicit descriptions of racist and classist behaviors and the impact of systemic inequities on individuals and communities.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgkM0.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:15:42 -0400 2021-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82346 82346-21068629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Tuesday, April 13

7:00-8:00pm Panel 2: Transformation of the South Korean Film Industry 1

Chair: Dal Yong JIN (Simon Fraser University)

The Korean Film Industry’s Ambivalent Relationship to the Studio System
Jason Bechervaise (Sungshil Cyber University)

Short Film Productions in South Korea
Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham)

8:10-9:40pm Industry Roundtable

Speakers:
WON Dong-yeon (Producer; Along with the Gods),

PARK Eun-Kyung (Producer: A Taxi Driver),

IM Soon-rye (Director: Little Forest),

MIN Kyu-dong (Director: Herstory)

Moderator: HEO Chul (Nanyang Technological University; Director of The Return)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:53:36 -0500 2021-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:40:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
Honors Admissions AMA (April 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82625 82625-21147750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

This event is open to anyone looking for more information about the LSA Honors Program or life at U-M in general.

You can access the Zoom meeting via the following link: https://myumi.ch/lx9Qp

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:23:03 -0500 2021-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Livestream / Virtual Student standing on the U-M football field with text that reads: "Honors Admissions Q&A. Chat with admissions staff. Talk with peers."
Stearns Collection Lecture: Sound the Alarm! The Trumpet as Symbol and Messenger, Kris Kwapis (April 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79407 79407-20298395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series.

Kris Kwapis is trumpeter and lecturer at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

Watch online at http://myumi.ch/2DN9v

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
INCORPORATING DEI INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION (April 14, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83663 83663-21452154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Department of Aerospace Engineering is hosting a panel discussion on using our position as faculty to incorporate and address diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom. Our panelists feature professors across multiple departments at the University of Michigan including Aerospace, Kinesiology, and Materials Science and Engineering. We hope that you learn from our panelists' successes and challenges in incorporating DEI into their coursework, and leave this event inspired and motivated to incorporate similar methods into your own classes. This event is open to both faculty and students! If you have questions, please contact Professor Quim Martins, Aerospace Engineering DEI Committee Chair (jrram@umich.edu).

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:27:39 -0400 2021-04-14T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual INCORPORATING DEI INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION
CREES Noon Lecture. Poland and Hungary - Two Autocratic Attempts to Overthrow Liberal Democracy (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83410 83410-21375680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The Polish election results of 2015 seem to have brought Hungarian and Polish development into synchronicity again, a congruence that has been apparent many times throughout history. At first glance, it may appear that we are dealing with regimes of an identical nature, especially taking into account the similarities of the authoritarian politics practiced by Jarosław Kaczyński (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) and Viktor Orbán (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége, Fidesz), characterized by a tendency to eliminate autonomous social forces and control mechanisms, as well as the application of similar ideological frames. But beneath the superficial similarities, these attempts are aimed at establishing different types of autocratic regimes. Orbán’s regime, which Dr. Magyar defines as a mafia state, is built on the twin motivations of power centralization and the accumulation of personal and family wealth; the instrument of its power is the adopted political family, freed of the limitations posed by formal institutions. Kaczyński’s regime is better described as a conservative-autocratic experiment, driven by ambitions of power and ideological inclinations. In this lecture, Dr. Magyar will offer his comparative assessment of these two regimes.

Bálint Magyar is a Research Fellow at the Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute (since 2020), holding a University Doctoral degree in Political Economy (1980) from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He has published and edited numerous books on post-communist mafia states since 2013. He was an Open Society Fellow carrying out comparative studies in this field (2015-2016), Hans Speier Visiting Professor at the New School (2017), Senior Fellow at the CEU Institute for Advanced Study (2018-2019), and Research Fellow at the Financial Research Institute (2010-2020). Formerly, he was an activist of the Hungarian anti-communist dissident movement, founder of the liberal party of Hungary (SZDSZ, 1988), Member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-2010), and Minister of Education (1996-1998, 2002-2006).

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5likEdQMSwCKcWD4qbLTyg

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:24:53 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Livestream / Virtual Bálint Magyar, Research Fellow, Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute
Food Literacy for All Session #2 (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83143 83143-21280851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Please join us for a virtual Food Literacy for All series with returning speakers! Themed around the Politics on our Plate, speakers will discuss the vision for our food system, the role of grassroots organizing, the impact of policy, and the responsibility of the media. In this second session in the series we will be joined by Mónica Ramírez and Navina Khanna who will discuss how we can "Organize" for a more equitable, sustainable food system.

Food Literacy for All is FREE, but registration is required.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is co-led by Andy Jones (UM School of Public Health), Devita Davison (FoodLab Detroit), and Lilly Fink Shapiro (UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). Future sessions to be announced on this page and our newsletter, which you can sign up for on our homepage or in your registration.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is supported by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:10:57 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Livestream / Virtual flyer
Poetry Blast: Noon Poems (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83436 83436-21377685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Take a few minutes to listen to a poem! April is National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Institute for the Humanities is joining the tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, in marking poetry's important place in our lives. Every weekday at noon in April, our Youtube channel will feature a U-M faculty member reading one of their poems. See below for today's featured poet.



Thursday, 4/1 Van Jordan
Friday 4/2 Linda Gregerson
Monday 4/5 Ruth Behar
Tuesday 4/6 Cody Walker & Raymond McDaniel
Wednesday 4/7 Laura Kasischke
Thursday 4/8 Lorna Goodison
Friday 4/9 Keith Taylor
Monday 4/12 Laurence Goldstein
Tuesday 4/13 Hannah Ensor
Wednesday 4/14 H.R. Webster
Thursday 4/15 Sumita Chakraborty
Friday4/16 Darcy Brandel
Monday 4/19 Tung Hui Hu
Tuesday 4/20 Suzi Garcia
Wednesday 4/21 Scott Beal
Thursday 4/22 Petra Kuppers
Friday 4/23 Nick Harp
Monday 4/26 Sarah Messer
Tuesday 4/27 Khaled Mattawa
Wednesday 4/28 Ben Paloff
Thursday 4/29 Molly Spencer
Friday 4/30 Christopher Matthews

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:55:12 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T12:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Poetry Blast
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (April 14, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

As part of the CEW+Inspire initiative, CEW+ holds mindful meditation sits virtually on Wednesdays at 12:15.

Being present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis and is especially important during these trying times. Psychological stress can damper your overall health, affecting your ability to remain resilient in the face of challenges. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to also reduce implicit age and race bias, reduce the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain, improve cognitive functioning, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns.

Free and open to all levels of practice.

After registering, please check your email confirmation for the Zoom link!

Click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcumtpzIoHNdRoCz-lPKz9X7fb-Jp844o

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-04-14T12:15:00-04:00 2021-04-14T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (April 14, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79904 79904-20511627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2021-04-14T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80657 80657-20769635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that desperately rely upon material remains to bring the Bible to life. These archives have been central to Biblical Studies and the maintenance of the Bible as a product of imperial modernity. The Bible as a text and archive plays a critical role in the production and maintenance of the narratives of racial capitalism, a central aspect of Western modernity. By examining the language and ephemera of contemporary readers, who have been racialized by imperial logics that produce Bible translations and narrativize objects in archives, this presentation situates the geography of contemporary racialized readers as the site from which to develop an archive of the Bible. Local geographies, both the specific geography of the context of the Bible and the geography of a modern reader, are seen as productive challenges to the universalizing myths of modernity. Greater attention to contextual languages and experiences offer opportunities to unmask the cultural and geographical boundedness of stories, objects, and lives that form the core deposit of the Bible.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d4hdv79nRRO1MpB0zbNDCQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:25:37 -0500 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual 2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83595 83595-21436485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
My lab's research involves the development and application of systems biology approaches—combining computation, machine learning, quantitative modeling, and experiments—to study the immune system in health and disease. Recent technological and computational advances allow comprehensive interrogation of multiple modalities (e.g., proteins, mRNAs, immune receptor sequences) in single cell resolution in the human population. Here I will highlight our work in the analysis human and single cell variations along the axes of early immune development, vaccination, and COVID-19. If time permits, I will also discuss the integration of tissue imaging, machine learning, and multiscale dynamical modeling of immune cell interactions to investigate the homeostatic regulation of autoreactive T cells.

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Biography: Dr. Tsang is a senior investigator in the NIH Intramural Research Program and leads a laboratory focusing on systems and quantitative immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He also co-directs the Trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI) and leads its research program in systems human immunology. Dr. Tsang trained in computer engineering and computer science at the University of Waterloo and received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University. Dr. Tsang has worked as a software engineer and pursued systems biology research in both academia and industry including Rosetta Inpharmatics, Caprion Proteomics, MIT, and Merck Research Laboratories. Dr. Tsang has won several awards for his research, including NIAID Merit Awards for the development of a data reuse and crowdsourcing platform OMiCC and for leading a system biology study of human immune variability and influenza vaccination, which was selected as a top NIAID Research Advances of 2014. He currently serves as the founding chief editor of systems immunology for Frontiers in Immunology. He has served as a scientific advisor for a number of programs and organizations including ImmPort (the clinical and molecular data repository for NIAID), the Committee on Precision Medicine for the World Allergy Organization, the NIAID Modeling Immunity for Biodefense Program, the Allen Institute, the Immuno-Epidemiology Program at the National Cancer Institute, and the Human Vaccines Project.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:59:05 -0400 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Lessons from a Pandemic: Leading with Science featuring Dr. Joneigh Khaldun (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83209 83209-21312500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

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

Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP is the Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan and Chief Deputy Director for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). In these roles, she provides overall medical guidance for the State of Michigan as a cabinet member of the Governor, and oversees public health and aging programs, Medicaid, and behavioral health for MDHHS. Prior to her MDHHS role, she was the Director and Health Officer for the Detroit Health Department. In February 2021, the Biden administration tapped Dr. Khaldun to join the federal COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required to receive the streaming link. Please register here: https://myumi.ch/gjQvR

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:38:41 -0400 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Livestream / Virtual Doctor Joneigh Khaldun wearing a red jacket and smiling at the viewer
MCAIM Colloquium - Black Hole Imaging: First Results and Future Vision (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83245 83245-21322433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics

In April 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) carried out a global Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observing campaign at a wavelength of 1mm that led to the first resolved image of a supermassive black hole. For the 6.5 billion solar mass black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy M87, the EHT estimated the spin orientation and constrained models of accretion on Schwarzschild radius scales. This work relied on two decades of technical advances in ultra-high resolution interferometry and theoretical General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. This talk will review these advances and recent new EHT results. We will also look to the next decade when a next-generation EHT (ngEHT) that doubles the number of participating radio dishes in the VLBI network will enable time-lapse movies of M87 that link the black hole to the relativistic jet it powers. For SgrA*, the Galactic Center black hole that evolves on time scales 1000 times faster, ngEHT will produce real-time video.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:21:52 -0400 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Livestream / Virtual Sheperd S. Doeleman, Founding Director of the Event Horizon Telescope, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, Black Hole Initiative
School of Nursing Transfer Information Session (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80813 80813-21475672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Thinking about transferring to the School of Nursing undergraduate program? Learn more about the transfer Bachelor of Science in Nursing and the application process at this information session. Register at https://nursing.umich.edu/about/visit-us.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:23:26 -0500 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual School of Nursing Lobby
Hub Workshop: Post-Grad Planning for Seniors (April 14, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80168 80168-20572614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

As soon-to-be graduates, thinking about life after undergrad can feel overwhelming. However, the pressure can be de-intensified with a little bit of intentional planning and preparation. Join the LSA Opportunity Hub in this virtual workshop where coaches will facilitate a space for graduating seniors to pause and reflect on what you’re taking away from your LSA experience and to build a strategy for what comes next. There will be a special focus on connecting seniors to career resources that remain available after graduation.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
- Preparing to graduate in May 2021
- Weighing options for post-graduation that could include taking a gap year, pursuing full-time work, and entering graduate or professional school

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Gain clarity on what your LSA education means in the workplace and why it’s valuable
- Develop a personalized strategy as you plan and pursue your post-grad goals
- Learn key information on how to access U-M, LSA, and Hub career resources after graduation

Interaction Level: Low
- Video and audio presence is not necessary
- The event will mainly consist of passive viewing with the opportunity for small interactions like asking a question
NOTE: Students who cannot meet participation expectations are still encouraged to attend

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:21:50 -0500 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual LSA student speaking with LSA alum
Social Identity 101 (April 14, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83181 83181-21288794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

Are you interested in learning more about social identities? Join The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) for a dialogue on the differences between social and personal identities, how socialization impacts your identity development, and how we can move from the cycle of socialization to a cycle of liberation. We will also discuss next steps and strategies for your own personal growth!

This event is offered as part of the First-Year End of Year Celebration series by First-Year Experience and The Program on Intergroup Relations. This dialogue experience is intended for first-year and transfer students and has limited availability. Registration at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8424

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:32:08 -0400 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Livestream / Virtual Individuals in dialogue (before pandemic)
2021 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Hopwood Lecture (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75561 75561-19521135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Awards Ceremony for the Hopwood Awards and related contests, including the First- and Second-Year, Undergraduate, and Graduate Hopwood Awards; The Academy of American Poets Prizes; The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry; The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry; The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award; The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship; The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry; The Andrea Beauchamp Prize; The Frank and Gail Beaver Scriptwriting Prize; The Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing; The Helen J. Daniels Prize; The Geoffrey James Gosling Prize; The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award; The Robert F. Haugh Prize; The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing; The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting; The Meader Family Award; The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Dramatic Writing; The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction; The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize; The John Wager Prize; The Stanley S. Schwartz Prize; The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award; The Cora Duncan Award in Fiction; The Peter Phillip Pratt Award in Fiction; The Keith Taylor Excellence in Poetry Award; and the David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:34:30 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
2021 Hopwood Awards Virtual Ceremony and Lecture (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83503 83503-21393428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Presentation of the 2021 Hopwood Awards and other creative writing contests managed by the Hopwood Awards Program. Kiese Laymon, an award-winning memoirist and fiction writer, will deliver the Hopwood Lecture. This event will feature live captioning.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:01:05 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Flyer featuring photo of Hopwood Lecturer Kiese Laymon
German Convo Home Edition (April 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83673 83673-21454163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The "German Convo Home Edition" will provide fun and play games. Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu) will host the remotely held weekly session. Her Zoom link is: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99570729139.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:58:14 -0400 2021-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual German Convo Home Edition
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82347 82347-21068630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Wednesday, April 14

7:00-8:00pm Panel 3: Transformation of the South Korean Film Industry 2

Chair: Daniel Herbert (University of Michigan)

The South Korean Animation Industries
Daniel Martin (KAIST)

Korean Remakes of Korean Films
Seung-Ae Lee (Macquarie University)

8:10-9:30pm Panel 4: Film Cultures

Chair: Irhe Sohn (Smith College)

Song Kang-Ho, A Star of New Korean Cinema
Noh Kwang-woo (Korea University)

Reel Heritage: the History of the Korean Film Archive and Film Restoration
Ariel Schudson (Film Archivist)

Creating a “Cheerful” Cinema: South Korea’s Cold War Regimes and State Film Censorship, 1960s-1980s
Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:57:19 -0400 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
Residential College Creative Writing Honors Thesis Virtual Reading (April 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83598 83598-21436488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for an evening of poetry and fiction as RC Creative Writing Honors students read from their thesis projects. The presenters are: Sydney Bentley, Kaleb Brown, Sebastien Butler, Danielle Falling, Kennedi Killips, Holly Price, Brenna Ringwelski, Jeremy Ritz, Andrew Warrick, and Hayley Yu. This event is presented by the Residential College Creative Writing and Literature Program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this 2020-2021 school year

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:38:03 -0400 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
Hearing Loss and Cognitive Effects, And Hearing Impairment and Communication: Strategies and Equipment to Facilitate Interactions (April 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82319 82319-21068596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Discussion of the causes and types of age-related hearing loss and treatments as well as effects of hearing loss on cognition and day-to-day functional abilities.
Common equipment to assist with aiding those with hearing loss and discussion of optimizing successful communication for those with hearing loss.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:25:41 -0500 2021-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (April 15, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83390 83390-21369777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Community Conversation is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome!

https://ohei.med.umich.edu/events

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:11:06 -0400 2021-04-15T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
CJS Lecture Series | Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity (April 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79852 79852-20509609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In *Development Drowned and Reborn*, Clyde Woods proposes that we envision new worlds—worlds “more egalitarian and democratic,” and more committed to “sustainability” and “social, cultural, and economic justice”—by way of an epistemology of the blues. The blues are that musical form born in the freedom found in the wake of American slavery. They are characterized by the expressive deviations of the blue note and the transformation of memories of the sounds of the plantation (field hollers, wailings, and so on) into something more mellifluous. Woods contends that, with a bit of synesthesia, the modes of listening and sounding out afforded by the blues might help us make better sense of the world and give us a sense of how a better world might be.
This talk is interested in the formation of what we might call an epistemology of the violets, or that way of seeing and being in the world at the intersection of the blues and the reds, with “red” here serving as a chromatic stand in for the epistemological and sensorial insights embedded in Japanese creative works. To date, Afro-Japanese scholarship has been framed primarily by concepts such as representation and reception. While informative in their own way, such frameworks prime us to think about transferences from one culture (“blues”) to another (“reds”). Addressing collaborations such as the artwork produced by Pharrell Williams and Murakami Takashi, this talk provides general heuristics for those interested in the study of the epistemological possibilities of purple, or a way of seeing and creating possible worlds that is neither red nor blue—neither African American nor Japanese—but both red and blue, the emergence upon their coalescence.

Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. His scholarship has been recognized by the Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His first monograph, *Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature*, was published in 2020 by the University of Michigan Press. He is currently working on two manuscripts. The first is *The Futurist Turn: The Japanese Humanities and the Re-imagining of the Unwelfare State*. The second is *The Black Pacific: A Poetic History*. He is also an author of creative nonfiction.


*This event is cosponsored by the University of Michigan Press.*

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

Please register for this event on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3KYeArGLRxG0U7N1r7y-eQ

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:20:10 -0400 2021-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | The Politics of Volume and the Poetics of Reverberations across the Black Pacific