Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics (IWAP) (November 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77499 77499-19877772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

Email zcwalker@umich.edu/ for meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:28:08 -0400 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Livestream / Virtual American
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-14T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers (November 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79295 79295-20264796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Arun Mukherjee's public keynote speech will be held Friday, November 13th at 9am (to coincide with Friday evening, Indian Standard Time.) In ‘Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe’ Mukherjee will compare the Samya press and the Columbia University Press editions of her translation of Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan. She will reflect on the changes which took place as the translation travelled from the Indian edition to the American edition, leading her to realize the importance of guarding the beauty of the text. The event co-organizers Shalmali Jadhav, Swarnim Khare and Christi Merrill are interested in asking what choices behind the scenes might lead to increasing openness when texts and cultural contexts displace us from our comfort zones as readers of anti-caste literatures.

This will be followed by three workshop sessions starting on November 13th and continuing on November 14th and 20th at 9am, in which authors, translators and publishers discuss pre-circulated published examples in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil with registered participants in order to demystify and make visible crucial choices in publishing translated work. Speakers include Ajay Navaria, Alok Mukherjee, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Anita Bharti, Aruni Kashyap, Arun Mukherjee, G.N. Devy, Laura Brueck, Mandira Sen, Maya Pandit, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan, Sharankumar Limbale, Susan Harris and Urmila Pawar. ’Advanced registration is required.

This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:23:31 -0500 2020-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (November 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60527 60527-17745557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, our meetings will take place virtually until further notice, using the Zoom platform. Contact annarbor@citizensclimatelobby.org for connection information.

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. It is the most focused and influential organization working on national climate policy. We are working to build support for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (energyinnovationact.org). This comprehensive, bipartisan legislation is projected to reduce our carbon emissions by at least 40% in 12 years. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions. Newcomers are welcome to come at 12:30 for a brief overview.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 May 2020 09:47:51 -0400 2020-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual CCL Logo
2020 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Opening Reception (November 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79277 79277-20264776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery presents the 2020 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Virtual Opening Reception on Zoom, November 14, from 2:00 - 3:30 pm.  Exhibition jurors Nancy Lorenz, Ian Matchett, and Elizabeth Youngblood will lead students and audience members in conversations on adapting art and design practices, and exhibitions in an age of digital-first shows, social isolation, and political uncertainty.

The virtual reception will open with remarks from Stamps Gallery Director Srimoyee Mitra and an awards presentation by Associate Dean for Academic Programs Brad Smith.
Following the awards presentation, each of our esteemed jurors will lead one of three breakout rooms in conversation.
Finally, the main Zoom room will reconvene and jurors will share conclusions from their conversations with students and audience members, and the reception will draw to a close.

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

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0od-yqrj4rHtalurEPrHaQdApINSa38JdQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:15:07 -0500 2020-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020-UJE.jpg
Horn Studio Recital (November 14, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79408 79408-20298396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Adam Unsworth and Bryan Kennedy perform solo and ensemble repertoire for horn.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:05 -0500 2020-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-15T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
As Told in Michigan's First Language - Books in Anishinaabemowin (November 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78757 78757-20119191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 15, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Come hang out and get to know authors Stacie Sheldon and Margaret Noodin for a fun afternoon of Books in Anishinaabemowin!! This event features two books intended to show the contemporary Anishinaabe worldview as it is situated between the traditions of the past and as it contributes to the innovation needed for survival into the future. What the Chickadee Knows and The Adventures of Nimkii were both published this fall 2020!

Bebikaan-ezhiwebiziwinan Nimkii: The Adventures of Nimkii is the story of a modern dog who lives an adventurous life through all four seasons. Learners will notice the book provides a basic introduction to most of the things that make Ojibwe unique in an interactive format. The book is fully bilingual, written by Nimkii's human companion, Stacie Sheldon. https://ojibwe.net/stories/childrens/nimkii-book/

What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), written by Margaret Noodin, is a gesture toward a future that includes Anishinaabemowin and other indigenous languages seeing growth and revitalization. This bilingual collection includes Anishinaabemowin and English, with the poems mirroring one another on facing pages. In the first part, "What We Notice" (E-Maaminonendamang), Noodin introduces a series of seasonal poems that invoke Anishinaabe science and philosophy. The second part, "History" (Gaa Ezhiwebag), offers nuanced contemporary views of Anishinaabe history. Illustrated by U-M Alum, Shannon Noori. https://birchbarkbooks.com/ficti.../what-the-chickadee-knows

We hope you join the conversation this Sunday!
Join Anishinaabemowin language speakers, Stacie Sheldon and Margaret Noodin for an afternoon of Books in Anishinaabemowin!

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/R5xrM

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:50:58 -0500 2020-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-15T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Bebikaan-ezhiwebiziwinan Nimkii: The Adventures of Nimkii
Premodern Colloquium. The Late Medieval City and Its Periurban Sacred Landscape: The Case of Biberach an der Riss (November 15, 2020 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76972 76972-19782534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 15, 2020 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate student discussion group, now in its forty-second year of continuous operation. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discus work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:32:04 -0400 2020-11-15T15:45:00-05:00 2020-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Bayertor in Landsberg am Lech (Bavaria), of 1425
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Sweetland Write-Together (November 16, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78153 78153-19977258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 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, 04 Oct 2020 00:15:56 -0400 2020-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Ross Energy Week (November 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78581 78581-20066123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Energy Club at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business presents the first Ross Energy Week.
Theme – Inflection Point 2020: Powering Our Next Decade

When: November 16-20, 2020
Where: Virtual
Registration is free.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:17:42 -0400 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Livestream / Virtual Ross Energy Week
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78154 78154-19977259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:15:56 -0400 2020-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-reward Object-interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment (November 16, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77907 77907-19941573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Wilka Carvalho will give a talk titled "Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-reward Object-interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment"

ABSTRACT
Learning how to execute complex tasks involving multiple objects in a 3D world is challenging under any circumstances, and especially so when there is no ground-truth information about how to use the objects or any opportunity to learn by demonstration. Rewards for completing a task in such a setting are few and far between (sparse rewards), making it difficult for the agent to figure out what to do next. In this work, we show that these challenges can be overcome by including an auxiliary task: learning to predict how objects change upon interaction (the attentive object-model). We show that when this model is used to learn representations of objects, the core learner (a relational RL agent) receives the dense training signal it needs to rapidly find a solution. We demonstrate results in the 3D AI2Thor simulated kitchen environment with a range of challenging food preparation tasks. We compare our method's performance to several related approaches and against the performance of an oracle: an agent that is supplied with ground-truth information about objects in the scene. We find that our model achieves performance closest to the oracle in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. With further analysis, we also demonstrate that the attention model is key to the success of our method.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:35:34 -0500 2020-11-16T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Nursing Transfer Information Session (November 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78505 78505-20052324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Learn more about the transfer Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at the U-M School of Nursing! The Admissions Team will be presenting information on the program, application & admissions process, as well as prerequisite coursework requirements. Register at https://umich.tfaforms.net/218022 to secure your spot! Please contact UMSN-UndergradAdmissions@med.umich.edu if you have any questions.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:40:49 -0400 2020-11-16T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual Nursing Building
Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Vincent Dubois, organ (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris) (November 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79193 79193-20227526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Vincent Dubois is the Titular Organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris and the General Director of the Strasbourg Conservatory

Masterclass Repertoire:
Duruflé, Prélude from Suite, Op. 5, performed by Zoe Lei
Franck, Prélude, fugue et variation, performed by Skyelar Raiti
Guilmant, Choral et fugue from Sonata V, performed by Kaelan Hansson

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-16T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Vincent Dubois, organ (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris)
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History" (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76166 76166-19671599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

“What is the ‘Chinese way’? How should China’s traditions speak to its future?” During the past three decades, China’s intellectuals have been increasingly preoccupied with defining the country’s cultural identity in its pursuit of political modernity. While their positions vary, intellectuals share the assumption that there are unique elements to China’s historical and cultural institutions, and that China’s future ought to be based on this legacy. This exceptionalist turn is unfolding at a time when the party-state is in search of a new ideology based on nationalism. Understanding this recent turn and its continued political force requires us to revisit the deeper roots of modern Chinese national thought. Diverging from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the quest for a Chinese cultural identity became central to debates over political and moral values. This century-long pattern can help to shed light on where China’s intellectual and political life is heading.

Wen Yu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2018. Her research focuses on China’s social and political thought, ideological movements, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, "The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Cultural Identity,” explores the roots and development of modern Chinese exceptionalism by tracing how the search for a Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates over shared values in modern China. Her dissertation was awarded the 2017 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize.

Zoom webinar registration (required) is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I_97dhoFQ8e8YP-Om9ZctA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:21:55 -0500 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76975 76975-19782537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Email political-economy-workshop@umich.edu for the meeting link.

PEW provides a unique forum for doctoral students and faculty members to share and develop interdisciplinary research in political economy. Political science and economics are intimately linked in both substance and methodology, and the field of political economy is among the most fertile and enduring areas for cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences. Currently, PEW is the sole interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Michigan wholly dedicated to the exploration of current research in political economy, and thus plays a valuable role in fostering connections among the university’s various departments and schools.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:19:08 -0400 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Livestream / Virtual Róbert Venyige
Ross Energy Week (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78581 78581-20066124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Energy Club at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business presents the first Ross Energy Week.
Theme – Inflection Point 2020: Powering Our Next Decade

When: November 16-20, 2020
Where: Virtual
Registration is free.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:17:42 -0400 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Livestream / Virtual Ross Energy Week
Implicit Bias (November 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75310 75310-19432415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 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 to:

- Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
- Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
- Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
- Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
- Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

- Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others 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. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session.


Upcoming LSA DEI events sponsored by the DEI Office are listed here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/about/diversity--equity-and-inclusion/dei-events.html

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:44:55 -0400 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual University of Michigan Law Quad
Deploying CV2X Infrastructure - CCAT Research Review (November 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78766 78766-20121156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The final CCAT Research Review of 2020 will feature Associate Professor, Gabor Orosz, of the University of Michigan.

The focus of this research is the deployment of connected smart infrastructure on highway I-275 in SE Michigan. Researchers will collect and aggregate traffic information that can be used by connected vehicles traveling the corridor to improve their efficiency. The system consists of a set of road side units (RSU) which collect traffic data via vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication. Vehicles of different levels of automation may utilize the collected data when selecting their lane and controlling their longitudinal motion in order to maximize their fuel economy and minimize their travel time. The impact of these vehicles on the rest of the traffic flow is also being evaluated.

About the speaker: Gabor Orosz received the MSc degree in Engineering Physics from the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary, in 2002 and the PhD degree in Engineering Mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2006. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Exeter, UK and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2010, he joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he is currently an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. During 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Professor in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and control, time delay systems, and reinforcement learning with applications to connected and automated vehicles, traffic flow, and biological networks. He served as the Program Chair of the 2015 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems and served as the General Chair of the 2019 IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles: Connected and Automated Vehicles. Since 2018 he has been serving as an editor for the journal Transportation Research Part C.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:09:41 -0400 2020-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
First-Year Nursing Information Session (November 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78506 78506-20052326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Learn more about the first-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at the U-M School of Nursing! The Admissions Team will be presenting information on the direct-entry, four year nursing program as well as information on the application and admissions process. Register at https://umich.tfaforms.net/218021 to secure your spot! Please contact UMSN-UndergradAdmissions@med.umich.edu if you have any questions.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:45:57 -0400 2020-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual Nursing Building
Complex Systems Seminar Special Event | Searching for the densest network that does not always synchronize (November 17, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78499 78499-20052321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE THE START TIME OF 2:30 PM!

ALSO NOTE, THIS SEMINAR WILL BE RECORDED.

SEMINAR LINK: myumi.ch/v2ZYv

Abstract: Consider a network of identical phase oscillators with sinusoidal coupling. How likely are the oscillators to globally synchronize, starting from random initial phases? One expects dense networks to have a strong tendency to synchronize and the basin of attraction for the synchronous state to be the whole phase space (except for a set of measure zero). But, how dense is dense enough? In this (hopefully) entertaining Zoom talk, we use techniques from nonlinear dynamics, numerical linear algebra, and computational algebraic geometry to derive the densest known networks that do *not* synchronize and the sparsest networks that do. This is joint work with Alex Townsend and Mike Stillman.

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Dr. Strogatz - Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University - is the author of several international bestsellers about math, including "Infinite Powers" and "The Joy of x" - the latter, the title of an eponymous column in the New York Times and a new podcast series for Quanta Magazine.

With a vast body of work he is particularly well known for his publications on the small-world effect; understanding how thousands of fireflies flash in synchrony; why London's Millenium Bridge became unstable in 2000 just two days after it opened; and his mathematical model of
romance -- the "Romeo and Juliet" model.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:06:17 -0500 2020-11-17T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Livestream / Virtual Steven Strogatz
Information Session with DePaul Law Assistant Direct of Admissions (November 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79142 79142-20215742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

DePaul Law Assistant Director of Admissions Quinn David Furness will be running a 30-minute information session for interested prospective applicants to learn about the DePaul Law experience as well as experiential learning opportunities and life in the City of Chicago. Attendees will have the opportunity to watch a virtual presentation and ask any questions they might have. They will also get access to DePaul Law virtual viewbooks, information regarding programs of excellence, and DePaul’s all-new virtual tour. To join the meeting, please visit: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/4983305482#success

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:45:27 -0500 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Livestream / Virtual Lady Justice background.
Beinecke Scholarship Program (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78018 78018-19955539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

The Beinecke Scholarship Program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships, and research grants. Scholars must utilize all of the funding within five years of completion of undergraduate studies.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/beinecke-scholarship-program.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:13:19 -0400 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Emily Russell, 2019 Beinecke Scholar
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Singing Beyond the Ivory Gates: South Korean Song Movement in the 1980s (November 17, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77257 77257-19828136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 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.

Register at:

http://myumi.ch/qgd0y

In the 1980s, noraep’ae [song clubs] operated as hubs for creating, performing, and disseminating some of the most popular protest songs against the military authoritarian regimes in South Korea. During college campus rallies, labor strikes, and public protests on the streets, songs written and performed by noraep’ae became instrumental in fostering solidarity across regional and class divides. This talk examines the evolution of noraep’ae and their significance in the South Korean song movement, analyzing in turn how singing enables a politics of participation and democratization of the voice.

Susan Hwang is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Korean Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Her scholarship engages with the cultural practices of resistance and dissent in South Korea, as well as theories of translation and world literature. She is currently working on her book manuscript entitled “Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea." It is a cultural history of South Korea’s song movement that charts how songs became a powerful component of the struggle for democracy in South Korea during two of the nation’s darkest decades—the 1970s and the 1980s.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:01:30 -0500 2020-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Susan Hwang, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature & Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University
Amanaki; Centering Indigenous Hope and Resilience as Decolonial Practices (November 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78758 78758-20119193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu is a Tongan/Pacific Islander scholar, poet and community organizer. Fui received her doctorate from the Comparative Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is working on two book manuscripts; The Mana of the Tongan Everyday: Tongan Grief and Mourning, Patriarchal Violence, and Remembering Va and a collection of creative non-fiction titled, Looking For Hine Nui Te Po: Searching for Our Mother. Her research and storytelling examines the productions of violence against women in Tongan families and communities that are legacies of European and U.S. colonialisms. She is on the founding committee of the Moana Nui Pacific Islander Climate Justice Project and Oceania Coalition of Northern California (OCNC), community organizations working for Pacific Islander self-determination through organizing land and climate justice projects, facilitating groups and Ceremony with Pacific Islander prisoners in Northern California as well as creating solidarities with California American Indian tribes to protect Indigenous Sacred spaces in California and in the Pacific. In addition, Fui is part of the Sogorea Te Land Trust, and she hosts the popular Sogorea Te Land Trust “Seeding Hope” speaker series and she hosts the radio segment “From Moana Nui to California; Indigenous Women’s Stories of Land” on KPFA 94.1 FM. This Fall 2020, she is curating, Our Moana Nui; We are Pacific Islander Studies, a literary event sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library featuring distinguished Pacific Islander poets, storytellers and frontline leaders from the U.S. and the Pacific to honor the life and work of the renowned Samoan poet, Albert Wendt. This project is part of a series of programs advocating for the reinstatement of Islander Studies in the California Ethnic Studies curriculum.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/NxVBy

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:35:24 -0400 2020-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies Fall 2020 Speaker Series: Criptographies (November 17, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78120 78120-19965469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In conjunction with Rackham 580: Introduction to Disability Studies, UMInDS is pleased to bring outstanding scholars, activists, and scholar-activists to our campus as we explore criptographies. A word-play on terms cryptography, the study of ciphers and secret codes, and to crip, a colloquialism that assembles knowledge around nonnormative bodyminds, criptographies suggests an exploration of de-mapped ecologies of neurodivergence and nonnormative embodiment.

Dr. Oluwaferanmi Okanlami
Interim Director, UM Services for Students with Disabilities
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
University of Michigan

Feranmi Okanlami (he/him) speaks around the country on topics related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including, but not limited to the lack of black male physicians and creating a health system that is accessible and inclusive to both patients and providers with disabilities.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bozYVHJcR5aJQdLCYn54rQ

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email (undergraduate.english@umich.edu) at least 2 weeks in advance of this event - we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the department to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:06:06 -0400 2020-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual UMINDS fall 2020
BITE: Bystander Intervention Twilight Edition (November 17, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79323 79323-20272781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC BICE (Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement) Volunteer Program on Nov 17th at 7:30 PM for a bystander intervention-informed discussion of Twilight.

The night includes an analysis of the movie from a lens
of sexual violence prevention that all participants can
engage in via a chat function!

For Zoom info: https://tinyurl.com/BITEevent

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:28:09 -0500 2020-11-17T19:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Livestream / Virtual BITE: Bystander Intervention Twilight Edition
Contemporary Directions Ensemble - Open Dress Rehearsal (November 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79445 79445-20327781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slytowsky, conductor

Music of Anna Clyne, Thomas Albert, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and Tania León.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/GkgxP

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: Making and Modeling Electronic and Virtual Instruments, John Granzow (November 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79345 79345-20280627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

JOHN GRANZOW  Assistant Professor of Music (Performing Arts Technology)
Virtual Reality (VR) and digital fabrication technologies today are ushering in a new wave of opportunities in instrument design to bring otherwise implausible instruments to life or support virtual counterparts to irreplaceable and fragile instruments housed in museums and  collections. In the latter case, we aim to resynthesize both the sound of a rare instrument as well as the audio visual experience of playing it in a virtual space. The Stearns Instrument Collection at the University of Michigan has served as an invaluable resource for this research. In this seminar I will discuss electrophones of interest in the collection that give rise to persisting issues of interaction design as well as research conducted with Dr. Anıl Çamcı (Performing Arts Technology, SMTD) where instruments in the collection are scanned and modeled for virtual interaction.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/dOPbx

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
EEB student evaluation seminar: What drives the production of invertebrate communities in seagrass beds? (November 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79256 79256-20241310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Samantha presents her preliminary seminar. See your email or contact eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the passcode.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:33:49 -0500 2020-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Queen conch NOAA open access
CAS Webinar | The Lebanonization of Armenians (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78270 78270-20002853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: http://myumi.ch/51Gxd

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

This talk tells a post-genocide history of power. Dr. Nalbantian discusses how an absence of a national homeland accepted by all Armenians did not translate into a lack of political life. Focusing on the Armenian Diaspora of Lebanon, Dr. Nalbantian shows how by the 1950s, Armenians were firmly part of and ensconced in Lebanese politics. Armenians’ (re)-positioning vis-à-vis Lebanon’s imminent post-colonial independence in the mid-1940s included a fair share of double-entendres, tensions, and contrasts. Lebanese Armenians were divided along the right-left fault lines that divided Lebanese politics and society in general – they, Nalbantian argues, were Lebanonized. At the same time, the Lebanese state was somehow Armenianized, as it started to pay more attention to Armenian matters than before. For example, the state directly intervened with military force in Armenian neighborhoods to end the internecine Armenian confrontation in December 1958. Armenian parties participated in and contributed to the considerable political tensions in Lebanon, simultaneously, they used their position within the Lebanese political system to jostle for power within the Armenian community. Dr. Nalbantian’s talk aims to register Lebanon as a space of both Armenian fashioning and belonging and challenge the tendency to read Middle East history through the lens of dominant (Arab) nationalisms and Lebanon through sectarianism.

Tsolin Nalbantian is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History at Leiden University working on the social and cultural history of the Middle East. She is the co-editor of Critical, Connected Histories series (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies, and History Compass. Nalbantian is the author of "Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon" Their Own (Edinburgh University Press; 2019).

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise: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.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:27:03 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Tsolin Nalbantian, Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History, Leiden University
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Ross Energy Week (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78581 78581-20066125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Energy Club at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business presents the first Ross Energy Week.
Theme – Inflection Point 2020: Powering Our Next Decade

When: November 16-20, 2020
Where: Virtual
Registration is free.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:17:42 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Livestream / Virtual Ross Energy Week
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda: Moving Beyond Personal Failure and Actively Cultivating a More Equitable Academy (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78717 78717-20109380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Systems of higher education in the United States create differential advantage and disadvantage for the people who work and learn in them. When individuals move through these systems—as administrators, instructors, or learners—they make choices to participate in the perpetuation or the disruption of these inequities. While some perpetuation of inequity can be attributed to ignorance, it is often true that individuals who do understand the harmful impacts of unjust behavior, processes, and structures often fail to address them. This session centers around an embodied case study depicting one man’s meditation on a personal failure and the choices he made afterward that defined his path as an educator. Through session activities, participants will reflect on what failures of this kind indicate about the educational environments in which they occur and how such reflection might prime them to reshape the spaces in which they have responsibilities.
In this session, participants will:

Reflect on their personal failures to act for justice.
Consider how their lived relationship to social inequities within and outside of their educational environment shape their willingness and ability to act.
Explore the tension between risk and responsibility when disrupting the status quo.
Practice identifying opportunities for proactive justice work in their spheres of influence in the academy.

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/NxVlB.
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, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:48 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78155 78155-19977260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:15:57 -0400 2020-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
MIPSE Seminar | Lasers, Z Pinches, and Nuclear Weapons: The Importance of Plasma Physics to the NNSA (November 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76470 76470-19717163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

About the Speaker:
Dr. Sarah Nelson, a nuclear and radiochemist, is Deputy Director of the Office of Experimental Science for the NNSA Office of Defense Programs. Sarah earned her BS from U. California Santa Barbara and doctorate from U. California Berkeley studying odd-Z transactinide compound nucleus reactions including the discovery of the new isotope 260Bh. Prior to joining NNSA, Sarah was the Roger Batzel Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in nuclear chemistry diagnostic development for NIF and analysis of nuclear systems for domestic counterterrorism applications, co-discovering 14 new transactinide isotopes. Sarah also was selected as a Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow of The National Academies in 2012. Prior to NNSA, Sarah was also with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on assignment with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. She has received numerous awards including the DTRA/US STRATCOM Center for Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction Director’s Award, LLNL’s Excellence in Publication Award in Basic Science, and the Gordon Battelle Prize for Scientific Discovery.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:12:17 -0400 2020-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Dr. Sarah Nelson
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79290 79290-20264791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Genetic variation affecting gene expression is wide-spread within and among species. This variation reflects the combined actions of mutation introducing new genetic variants and selection eliminating deleterious ones. Comparative studies of gene expression in fruit flies, yeast, plants, and mice have shown that the relative contributions of cis- and trans-acting variants to expression differences change over evolutionary time, indicating that selection has different effects on cis- and trans-regulatory variants. To better understand the reasons for this now widely observed pattern, we have been systematically studying the effects of mutation and selection on expression of the TDH3 gene of the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This work has revealed differences between cis- and trans-regulatory mutations in their frequency, effects, and dominance. Differences in pleiotropy are also generally assumed to exist between cis- and trans-regulatory that affect their evolutionary fate, but have been difficult to measure. In this talk, I will discuss how newly arising cis- and trans-regulatory mutations affecting expression of this focal gene are structured within the regulatory network, their pleiotropic effects on expression of all other genes in the genome, and how these pleiotropic effects influence fitness. A computational model of regulatory evolution integrating empirically observed differences in properties of cis- and trans-regulatory mutations will also be presented and discussed.

Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now the Sally L. Allen Collegiate Professor and Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and is a member of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:12:34 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Hub Workshop: So you want to find an internship? (November 18, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77097 77097-19796502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Internships provide an exciting, hands-on learning opportunity for you to explore your interest in a particular field and acquire skills and knowledge to inform the next steps in your career journey. But what should you be considering before and during your internship search process? Join Hub coaches and internship program coordinators for an interactive virtual session on the internship experiences available through the Hub, how to prepare for the internship search process, and how to stand out in your particular industry of interest.

You should attend this workshop if you are:

- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Hoping to learn more about what an internship is and how it can help propel you forward
- Eager to learn effective strategies for entering the fields of business and tech, health and science, nonprofits, or the creative arts

What you’ll gain by attending:

- Learn about internship opportunities offered by the Hub’s Internship Program
- Explore your strengths and how they relate to the internship search process
- Identify the skills and experiences you want to get out of an internship
- Build an understanding of how and where to search for internships
- Connect with your peers about strategies for success in the internship search process

RSVP today to reserve your spot for this upcoming workshop.

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 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:09:45 -0400 2020-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Hub staff speaking with student
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Decolonizing Thanksgiving (November 18, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78779 78779-20154720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites the campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues through the lens of race and ethnicity that will assist with the further understanding of intersectional identities within contexts of history, culture, and society. Each session is peer-led and aims to provide an informal and supportive environment for mutual learning through active listening, inquiring and deep reflection.

This session will specifically focus on conversations pertaining to decolonizing thanksgiving. Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:03:56 -0400 2020-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78834 78834-20131198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the last class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

The last session will recap the previous three courses before expanding our definition of state violence and violence beyond formal “policing.” Using local examples, our speakers will address how the elite elide democracy as a means to profit off of Black people while punitively blaming them for conditions externally imposed upon them. These containment and policing schemes endanger Black lives and futures, and force the poorest urban residents to subsidize the cost of welfare capitalism and gentrification.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg
- Claire McClinton (Squeeky)
- Additional speakers TBA

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:54:36 -0400 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Contemporary Directions Ensemble - CANCELLED (November 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79396 79396-20296430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slytowsky, conductor

Music of Anna Clyne, Thomas Albert, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and Tania León.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:15:03 -0500 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Emerging Scholars Conference (November 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76249 76249-19679548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This special event, now in its tenth year, is designed to broaden the diversity of perspectives in political science by encouraging talented students from underrepresented backgrounds who are engaged in original research projects to apply to PhD programs at Michigan and elsewhere.

We understand diversity in broad terms: it includes underrepresented groups of all kinds, such as, for example, first-generation college students or first-generation Americans.

The Emerging Scholars Conference enables undergraduate students to discuss their research (whether completed or in progress) in a serious academic but low-pressure situation that exposes them to a world of scholarly exchange at a higher level. Past events have been a great success with students presenting on a wide range of topics and methods that reflect early forays into original social science scholarship.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:32:03 -0400 2020-11-19T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Emerging Scholar Presenting Research
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation: Calm During the Second Wave of COVID-19 (November 19, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79429 79429-20321869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

We will reflect on strategies to cope as we approach a resurgence of COVID-19, prepare for Thanksgiving, and handle the stressors of isolation.

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:13:31 -0500 2020-11-19T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Political Stability in Turbulent Times (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79385 79385-20288599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Japan is one of Asia’s oldest democracies and one of the world’s most stable, but how deeply rooted its democratic institutions and norms are remains a perennial question. Political scientists have tended to focus on the shortcomings of Japan’s democracy, painting a weak society that is subordinate to a strong state. This talk examines Japan’s performance on contemporary, comparative measures of democratic performance, with a sustained focus on the interplay between citizens and the state. It also considers the implications of democratic stability for Japan’s behavior as a regional and global actor.

Sherry L. Martin is Acting Asia Division Chief in the US Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the Government Department and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies where she authored Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics. She completed an AB at Princeton University and a PhD in Political Science from at the University of Michigan.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at:

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:53:30 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Sherry L. Martin
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Political Stability in Turbulent Times (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70877 70877-17726694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan is one of Asia’s oldest democracies and one of the world’s most stable, but how deeply rooted its democratic institutions and norms are remains a perennial question. Political scientists have tended to focus on the shortcomings of Japan’s democracy, painting a weak society that is subordinate to a strong state. This talk examines Japan’s performance on contemporary, comparative measures of democratic performance, with a sustained focus on the interplay between citizens and the state. It also considers the implications of democratic stability for Japan’s behavior as a regional and global actor.

Sherry L. Martin is Acting Asia Division Chief in the US Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the Government Department and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies where she authored Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics. She completed an AB at Princeton University and a PhD in Political Science from at the University of Michigan.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kkgkutv-S32EMz2VMVhjBw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:56:55 -0400 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sherry L. Martin, Acting Asia Division Chief , U.S. Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research
Alum Connections: International Experiences Post-Undergrad Panel (November 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79209 79209-20231450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Your global goals may be on hold or canceled for a multitude of reasons—the pandemic, financial challenges, cultural barriers, and other reasons. How do you pivot your plans to keep this dream alive? Three alum panelists share how they crafted their own international experience AFTER undergrad, and how they navigated the highs and lows of doing it their own way. Gain perspectives and inspiration for designing your own global experience in your lifetime.

You should attend this session if you are:
A U-M Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) undergraduate student
Interested in pursuing an abroad experience of any kind like an internship, study abroad, travel, work, etc.
Hoping to discuss ideas, goals, and challenges around designing your own independent abroad experience

What you’ll gain from attending this session:
Learn how others navigated challenges in living, working, volunteering, and traveling abroad
Connect with like-minded individuals who sought a global experience and made it a reality for themselves

RSVP today to be part of the conversation

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 Carla Huhn at Carlavoy@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

Please be advised that this virtual event will be recorded and may be published later at a future date through LSA Opportunity Hub’s media channels. If you'd prefer not to be recorded, please make sure to mute your video at the start of the event. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:16:26 -0500 2020-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Isabella Jabra, Zeke Daniels-Shpall, and Jordan McAdory Photo
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (November 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-11-19T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
Bringing Your Community-Engaged Course Online (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75336 75336-19885839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This interactive workshop is intended for faculty who have experience integrating community engagement into their face-to-face courses and need guidance on transitioning that work to a socially distant online learning. We will discuss what faculty should consider when working with community partners in an online setting and share examples of successful online community engaged efforts. We will also share additional requirements around doing community work virtually, including communicating expectations with partners, supporting students doing remote engagement, and sustainability.

A zoom link will be provided upon registration.

Co-facilitated by staff from the Center for Academic Innovation and the Edward Ginsberg Center.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:35:48 -0400 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Typing on a mac, Photo by Thomas Lefebvre on Unsplash
EEB Virtual Seminar: Bridging the gap between statics and dynamics in community ecology (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77309 77309-19838058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Understanding the processes that shape ecological communities is one of the main goals of ecology. Multiple dynamic models of ecological communities have been developed, but they are typically tested by examining static patterns such as Species Abundance Distributions. Much less is known about the ability of these theories to explain the actual dynamics that are observed in ecological communities.

I focused on the two most minimalistic models of community dynamics, the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity (NTB) and Dynamic Equilibrium theory (DE). For both theories, I asked: 1) can the model explain observed patterns of community dynamics? 2) if not, what processes need to be added to explain community dynamics?

I have found that the magnitude of changes in abundances and species composition in the Barro Colorado Island forest community is considerably larger than expected under NTB. However, incorporating environmental fluctuations into the theory allows explaining patterns of richness, commonness and rarity, and dynamics in that forest. In my work on DE, I have used a novel methodology to show that both the assumptions and the predictions of the theory are violated in thousands of communities worldwide. I have found that there are larger temporal changes in species richness than expected, which are associated with a positive covariance between species, representing the shared response to environmental changes.

Overall, while most previous work in community ecology has emphasized the role of competition in shaping ecological communities, my results demonstrate the crucial role of environmental changes as a driver of community assembly.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:39:34 -0500 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual small purple, white and yellow flowers
Rackham North: Navigating the Advisor/Mentor Relationship (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76138 76138-19665682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The advisor-advisee relationship is critical to graduate student success. This workshop will provide you with essential tools and strategies to create a positive relationship between you and your mentor or advisor.
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/pdMBO.
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, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:26 -0400 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Ross Energy Week (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78581 78581-20066126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Energy Club at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business presents the first Ross Energy Week.
Theme – Inflection Point 2020: Powering Our Next Decade

When: November 16-20, 2020
Where: Virtual
Registration is free.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:17:42 -0400 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Livestream / Virtual Ross Energy Week
Alum Connections: Kameron Brackins (November 19, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79221 79221-20231460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connections with Kameron Brackins, In-House Counsel for McKesson Specialty Health

If you have ever wondered about the realities of law school and what it really means to be in-house counsel vs. in private practice working in a firm, or working for the government, this is a great opportunity for you to get the advice you are looking for and also learn the multiple career paths within law practice. In addition, Kameron will discuss her own experiences navigating an economically uncertain job market after graduating and rising through corporate America as a young black woman. Lastly, Kameron will share with students her perspective on the importance of gaining what she calls “workplace sponsors” during your career progression and how they differ from mentors.

About Kameron: Born and raised in Flint, 2005 LSA grad Kameron majored in English Language and Literature with a minor in Political Science. She earned her J.D. from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in 2010 and now resides in Houston where serves as an in-house counsel for McKesson, the leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies and equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology solutions.

You should attend this session if you are:
A U-M Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) undergraduate student
Eager to learn about law school and the myriad of career options available in law
A person of color interested in hearing Kameron’s perspective on how to navigate identity in corporate America

What you’ll gain from attending this session:
Understand the strategic decisions you’ll have to make in order to ultimately achieve your career goals
An understanding of what workplace advocates can mean for your career advancement and the difference between short-term advocates and long-term mentors
Find out the range of company legal issues in-house counsel handles, among them employment, policy, tax, and regulatory matters

RSVP now to be part of the conversation

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 Carla Huhn at Carlavoy@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

Please be advised that this virtual event will be recorded and may be published later at a future date through LSA Opportunity Hub’s media channels. If you'd prefer not to be recorded, please make sure to mute your video at the start of the event. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:14:40 -0500 2020-11-19T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Kameron Brackins Photo
CLASP Fall 2020 Student First Paper Celebration and Oral Session (November 19, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76674 76674-19735034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Several Climate & Space students published their first lead-author paper this year!

Please join CLaSP Dept. Chair Tuija Pulkkinen and Prof. Shasha Zou as we recognize their achievement with a program of virtual oral presentations.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92184245518...
Meeting ID: 921 8424 5518
Passcode: 421507

Student presentations:

1. Xiantong Wang (Gabor Toth, advisor)
“Predicting Solar Flares with Machine Learning: Investigating Solar Cycle Dependence.” Wang, X., Chen, Y., Toth, G., Manchester, W. B., Gombosi, T. I., Hero, A. O., et al. (2020).
The Astrophysical Journal, 895(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab89ac

2. Chongxing Fan (Xianglei Huang, advisor)
“Satellite-observed changes of surface spectral reflectances due to solar farming and the implication for radiation budget.” Fan, C. X. and X. L. Huang.
Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbdea.

“Strong Precipitation Suppression by Aerosols in Marine Low Clouds.” Fan, C., Wang, M., Rosenfeld, D., Zhu, Y., Liu, J., & Chen, B. (2020).
Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7), e2019GL086207. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086207

3. Agnit Mukhopadhyay (Mike Liemohn, advisor)
“Conductance model for extreme events: Impact of auroral conductance on space weather forecasts.” Mukhopadhyay, A., Welling, D. T., Liemohn, M. W., Ridley, A. J., Chakraborty, S., & Anderson, B. J. (2020).
Space Weather, 18, in press, e2020SW02551. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002551

4. Maryam Salim (Roger De Roo, advisor)
"A Novel Frequency Tunable RF Comb Filter." M. Salim, S. Mousavi, L. Van Nieuwstadt, R. De Roo and K. Sarabandi.
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2020.3031287.

5. Zach Fair (Mark Flanner, advisor)
“Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals.” Fair, Z., Flanner, M., Brunt, K. M., Fricker, H. A., and Gardner, A. S. (2020).
The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-136, in press.

6. Shannon Hill (Tuija Pulkkinen, advisor)
“Local heating of oxygen ions in the presence of magnetosonic waves: Possible source for the warm plasma cloak?” Hill, S., Buzulukova, N., Boardsen, S., Fok, M.‐C. (2020).
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027210. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027210

7. Daniel Huber (Allison Steiner and Eric Kort, advisors)
"Daily cropland soil NOx emissions identified by TROPOMI and SMAP." Huber, D. E., Steiner, A. L., & Kort, E. A. (2020).
Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089949. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089949.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:15:14 -0500 2020-11-19T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic event image
LSA Workshop: Navigating the Third Year Review (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79405 79405-20296439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Hosts: Rosario Ceballo, Associate Dean for Social Sciences, and Fiona Lee, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professional Development

(open to LSA faculty only)

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:14:53 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Livestream / Virtual
Empowering Women in Global Health (November 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79418 79418-20317947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

Women comprise about 70% of the total health workforce worldwide, but make up only 25% of health leadership positions. Empowering women and communities is one of four thematic areas leaders have identified as a focus of the new Center for Global Health Equity. Presenters Laura Rosek, from the School of Public Health, and Cheryl Moyer, from the Medical School, will lead a discussion on how U-M colleagues could partner to make an impact in this space.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:58:32 -0500 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual Empowering women in global health
Fall 2020 Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience (November 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78841 78841-20131205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience is back for the Fall 2020 semester - this time in a virtual format!

This fifth session in the 6-part series is a panel with Chaos Alchemy: Raven, Kayla and Zoe

Register to receive Zoom links to each of the sessions: https://forms.gle/o4MwA1ju5FBw8exd7

As usual, these events are free & open to the public!

All sessions take place from 7pm-8:30pm.

These workshops are coordinated by Semester in Detroit faculty member Diana WasaAnung'gokwe Seales. If you have any questions, please email semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

What is Healing Justice?
According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.

What is Cultural Organizing?

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:33:04 -0400 2020-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Healing justice poster with dates and workshop titles
Meet True Crime Author Mardi Link (November 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79276 79276-20264779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Meet author Mardi Link! Mardi Link is a journalist; a former police reporter; and the author of several titles, including three true crime books published by the University of Michigan Press, "When Evil Came to Good Hart," "Isadore’s Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town" and "Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan."

This event will be conducted over Zoom webinar and Facebook Live. Register at the Online Event link and comment with any questions you would like her to answer during this free event!

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:18:04 -0500 2020-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual "Meet True Crime Author Mardi Link" is accompanied by cover images of her three books, "Wicked Takes the Witness Stand," "When Evil Came to Good Hart," and "Isadore's Secret"
IMPRINT SERIES Vol. 1 — Let The Record Show (November 19, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79455 79455-20329744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Composition

Newly-recorded works by four SMTD composers:

AKARI KOMURA (MM Composition)
Elapsed (2020) — for Solo Cello and Electronics
Jacob Mackay, cello

ALFREDO CABRERA (MM Composition)
Paper Homes & Dreams Away (2019) — for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Dina Kostic, violin — Susan Bergeron, violoncello — Lisa Leonard, piano

RYAN LINDVEIT (DMA Composition)
Snapped (2020) — for Solo Tenor Saxophone
Drew Hosler, tenor saxophone

STEPHEN MITTON (DMA Composition)
Albatross (2018, rev. 2020)
Valerie Larson, mezzo-soprano — Justine Sedky, flute — Marco Chen, clarinet — Michael Kropf, violin — Joshua DeVries, cello — Karalyn Schubring, piano

Watch online at http://myumi.ch/jxVXd
Join the composers for a simultaneous watch party on zoom at http://myumi.ch/QAogj

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Jazz Showcase (November 19, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79409 79409-20298397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students in the Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation created videos for this virtual concert.

watch at http://myumi.ch/gjbOY

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:05 -0500 2020-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 20, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Emerging Scholars Conference (November 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76249 76249-19679549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This special event, now in its tenth year, is designed to broaden the diversity of perspectives in political science by encouraging talented students from underrepresented backgrounds who are engaged in original research projects to apply to PhD programs at Michigan and elsewhere.

We understand diversity in broad terms: it includes underrepresented groups of all kinds, such as, for example, first-generation college students or first-generation Americans.

The Emerging Scholars Conference enables undergraduate students to discuss their research (whether completed or in progress) in a serious academic but low-pressure situation that exposes them to a world of scholarly exchange at a higher level. Past events have been a great success with students presenting on a wide range of topics and methods that reflect early forays into original social science scholarship.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:32:03 -0400 2020-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Emerging Scholar Presenting Research
CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers (November 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79295 79295-20264797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Arun Mukherjee's public keynote speech will be held Friday, November 13th at 9am (to coincide with Friday evening, Indian Standard Time.) In ‘Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe’ Mukherjee will compare the Samya press and the Columbia University Press editions of her translation of Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan. She will reflect on the changes which took place as the translation travelled from the Indian edition to the American edition, leading her to realize the importance of guarding the beauty of the text. The event co-organizers Shalmali Jadhav, Swarnim Khare and Christi Merrill are interested in asking what choices behind the scenes might lead to increasing openness when texts and cultural contexts displace us from our comfort zones as readers of anti-caste literatures.

This will be followed by three workshop sessions starting on November 13th and continuing on November 14th and 20th at 9am, in which authors, translators and publishers discuss pre-circulated published examples in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil with registered participants in order to demystify and make visible crucial choices in publishing translated work. Speakers include Ajay Navaria, Alok Mukherjee, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Anita Bharti, Aruni Kashyap, Arun Mukherjee, G.N. Devy, Laura Brueck, Mandira Sen, Maya Pandit, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan, Sharankumar Limbale, Susan Harris and Urmila Pawar. ’Advanced registration is required.

This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:23:31 -0500 2020-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
LSA Workshop: Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda: Moving Beyond Personal Failure and Actively Cultivating a More Equitable Academy (November 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79406 79406-20296440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 10:00am
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Organized By: Department of Physics

Host: Fiona Lee, LSA Associate Dean for DEI and Professional Development

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:19:24 -0500 2020-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T11:30:00-05:00 Department of Physics Livestream / Virtual
The Clements Bookworm: Writing and Publishing Inspired by Genealogical Research (November 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78707 78707-20107398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode, panelists will share their journey to understand, document and publish family stories. Featuring Wendy Chapin Ford (author of "A Frontier Romance: 'Tiger Bill and Kate'”); Sarah Messer (author of “Red House: Being a mostly accurate account of New England’s oldest continuously lived-in House”) and Clements Library volunteer Kay Miller (discussing how she uses genealogy to research letters, journals and diaries in the Clements manuscript collections).

Episode generously sponsored by Kate Moore.

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:13:23 -0500 2020-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Biophysics Seminar Series (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77922 77922-20319908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

The Biophysics Virtual Seminar Series presents:

Dr. Gabriele Varani - Department of Chemistry, University of Washington

*"Small drug-like molecules targeting RNA with nanomolar affinity and cellular activityon"*

Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99793210061

ABSTRACT: The ever expanding appreciation of the role of RNA in healthy and disease cellular states has created ever increasing opportunities to redress human disease by targeting RNA with small molecules. However, the chemistry of small molecules targeting RNA remains a challenge. The academic literature has been littered since the mid-1990s with reports of small molecules binding to RNA that, in most cases, did not have the pharmaceutical properties of successful drug candidates and did not bind to RNA potently nor specifically. Screening protein-directed chemical libraries allows the discovery of drug-like molecules that bind to RNA, but success rates are low, typically 1/10,000, and affinity typically in the low to mid-uM range. We have discovered RNA-binding small molecules that obey Lipinski and RO5 rules and bind to RNA potently (low to mid nM) and specifically (discriminate single nucleotide changes). These molecules target RNAs considered 'undruggable' with low nM affinity. Their size (<400 Da), absence of charge, and in vitro pharmacological properties (ADME and in vitro pharmacology) are those of favorable drug candidates. We will illustrate two examples of the application of this chemistry by reporting 10 nM ligands for HIV TAR and 100 nM ligands for pre-miR-21 with specific biochemical and cellular activity against this potent oncogene.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:13:38 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Dr. Gabriele Varani
DCERP Information Session (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78702 78702-20107392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Register at http://myumi.ch/kx9r8 to speak live with the DCERP Director and DCERP Alumni.

"Open House" Info Sessions will be held January 6th - January 15th. Weekdays at noon, via Zoom.

Learn about the 2021 Summer Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program. This program includes:
- Working for a nonprofit on the environment, food security, health equity, neighborhood revitalization and more!
-Receive a stipend ($2,500 or more) and housing in Detroit (tentative)
- Be part of a fun learning community that will get to know about Detroit, social justice and each other! For the nine weeks of the fellowship and beyond.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 09:43:12 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Livestream / Virtual DCERP
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76393 76393-19711165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The primary function of this workshop 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, 06 Oct 2020 16:21:51 -0400 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Methodology
Rackham North: Navigating Difficult Conversations—Communicating Across Difference (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76139 76139-19665683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

As a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar, you have likely already engaged in a number of difficult conversations throughout your life. Perhaps some of them went well, and others did not go as well as you had hoped. What distinguished these conversations from one another? In this interactive session, Rackham experts in conflict resolution will discuss how to navigate difficult conversations. You will leave with concrete strategies for productive dialogue and clear communication, able to approach difficult conversations with more confidence in the future.
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/AxNmx.
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, 26 Aug 2020 18:15:24 -0400 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup and the UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series present The Problems and Prospects of Community-Based Archaeology: A Roundtable Discussion (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78710 78710-20107417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

How do archaeologists design research projects alongside community partners? What does it mean to pursue a multi-vocal interpretation of the past? What are the economic consequences of archaeological fieldwork for descendent communities? These questions, among others, have come to characterize a set of practices in archaeology broadly defined as "community archaeology". For academic archaeologists, understanding our role as producers of knowledge for, and alongside, a diversity of communities has become central to pursuing ethical research and reckoning with archaeology's colonial and imperialist origins. This roundtable will put four archaeologists in dialogue to discuss their current research projects and the various ways they consider and incorporate community engagement. It will explore best practices related to community involvement in archaeology and examine how community-based practices have changed, and continue to change, the fundamental nature of archaeological methodologies, pedagogy, and publication. The conversation will span the globe, from Detroit to Northern Sudan, addressing the problems and prospects of community archaeology in a variety of different political, social, and cultural contexts.

Zoom Link https://umich.zoom.us/j/96336389639

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:25:31 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual 11.20.2020
Broader Impacts: Resources for Planning Successful Proposals & Projects (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78296 78296-20004841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

Broader Impacts refers to the potential for a research project to benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes. Having a strong Broader Impacts plan is pivotal to your chances of getting NSF funding, especially for assistant professors pursuing CAREER grants. Moreover, many foundations and private funders prioritize public engagement and impact in their grantmaking.

Whether pursuing federal or private funding, one thing is consistent--it's critical to plan ahead. Much time is needed to establish partnerships, get stakeholder buy-in, negotiate project terms and expectations, and get appropriate approvals and letters of support.

Several U-M units support these efforts and can serve as your "front door" to community engagement, including facilitating projects with K-12 schools, local non-profits, museums and an array of external partners around the state.

Join us to learn how researchers can leverage campus experts and resources to develop compelling, dynamic and successful Broader Impacts or public engagement project plans. Panelists include colleagues from the Ginsberg Center, Center for Educational Outreach, Center for Academic Innovation, Center for Education Design, Evaluation & Research (CEDER), Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) and the U-M Natural History Museum.

Register online: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NSN9dLkGQp6G0PxEREc8tg

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:20:26 -0400 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Office of Research
LACS Virtual Event. The Covid-19 Crisis: Effects on Criminal Violence and Public Security in Latin America (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78805 78805-20129170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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

Latin America is the region with the highest incidence of homicides per-capita in the globe. Whereas the region accounts for only 13 percent of the world's population, it reports around 40 percent of total homicides. In many areas, criminal groups contend the state for dominance as they cash in billions of dollars from the drug trade. The COVID health crisis has disrupted the drug market and the balance of power within criminal organizations. At the same time, countries across Latin America are struggling with weakening economies, massive unemployment, abusive police behavior, and the shadow of militarization and populism.

This panel brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to analyze the different channels in which the pandemic might accentuate criminal violence and other public security pre-existing challenges in the region. Examples will be drawn from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Presenter Biographies:

Edgar Franco-Vivanco is a MIDAS and NCID postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Edgar’s research agenda explores how colonial era institutions and contemporary criminal violence shape economic under-performance, particularly within Latin America. His dissertation-related book project studies the role Indigenous groups have played in the state-building process of the region since colonial times. Using extensive archival data of colonial Mexican courts, combined with automated text analysis, he examines the complex interactions between Indigenous communities and the colonial state. Edgar’s research on contemporary challenges to development focuses on criminal violence and policing. He is co-authoring a book that draws on extensive fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study the differentiated effects of state interventions against organized criminal groups.

Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Most of her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence. In 2010 she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (POVGOV) within FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her work has appeared in the *American Political Science Review*, *American Journal of Political Science*, *World Development, Comparative Political Studies*, *Annual Review of Political Science*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* and other journals. Her first book, *Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2006), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Her second book, *The Political Logic of Poverty Relief* (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez), also published by Cambridge University Press, studies the politics of poverty relief.

Eduardo Moncada is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. His research agenda focuses on the political economy of crime and violence as well as comparative urban politics in Latin America. Moncada is the author of *Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America* (Stanford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of *Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics* (Cambridge University Press, 2019). In his forthcoming book, *Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals and Police in Latin America* (Cambridge University Press), he analyzes the different ways in which victims mobilize to negotiate, end or prevent extortion at the hands of armed criminal groups. He has published articles in *Perspectives on Politics*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Comparative Politics*, *Studies in Comparative International Development*, and *Global Crime*, among others. Moncada's research has received support from the Fulbright-Hays program, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation / National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebecca Hanson is Assistant Professor of Crime, Law & Governance at the University of Florida, with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies. She has published research on Venezuela in the *Journal of Latin American Studies*; *The Sociological Quarterly*; *Crime*, *Law*, and *Social Change*; and *REVISTA M. Estudos sobre a Morte*, *os Mortos e o Morrer*. She has also published extensively in outlets such as *The Christian Science Monitor*, *NACLA*, *The Conversation*, and *Insight Crime*. Her book *Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Fieldwork*, co-authored with Patricia Richards (University of Georgia) was published last year with University of California Press.

Sandra Ley is Assistant Professor at the Political Studies Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE). Prior to her arrival at CIDE, she was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Sandra studies criminal violence and political behavior. Her research focuses on the political consequences of criminal activity. Her most recent work examines how violence affects the activation of civil society, political participation and accountability. Sandra’s work includes several sources of information. She conducted extensive fieldwork in the north and south of Mexico; she designed an original post-election survey and built a unique database on protests against crime and insecurity in Mexico. Together with Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, she is the coauthor of the book Votes, *Drugs, and Violence. The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work has been published in *British Journal of Political Science*, *Comparative Political Studies*, *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, *Latin American Politics and Society*, *Latin American Research Review*, among other international academic journals. Sandra received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2014.

This event funded in part by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu
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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:26:41 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual event_image
Phondi Discussion Group (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
HistLing Discussion Group: Loan Verbs in Sumerian (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77833 77833-19933623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:18:36 -0500 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Rackham 101: Stress Relief Techniques That Work! (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78266 78266-20000890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This session will take you through practical stress relief strategies and techniques to assist you in getting through the final weeks of your semester and beyond!
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/xmPMl.
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 Oct 2020 00:15:54 -0400 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78265 78265-20000889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:15:54 -0400 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Ross Energy Week (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78581 78581-20066127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Energy Club at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business presents the first Ross Energy Week.
Theme – Inflection Point 2020: Powering Our Next Decade

When: November 16-20, 2020
Where: Virtual
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:17:42 -0400 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Livestream / Virtual Ross Energy Week
SynSem Discussion Group (November 20, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium (November 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77838 77838-19933632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics graduate students Joy Peltier and Moira Saltzman will present their research.

ABSTRACTS

The Pragmatics of Multifunctional Items in Kwéyòl Donmnik, French, and English
by JOY P. G. PELTIER

As a Creole emerges and evolves, its creators alter and shift the functions of the words and structures contributed by its various source languages, yielding an abundance of multifunctional items whose meanings are challenging to determine. In the field of pragmatics, whole research areas are dedicated to the complexities of multifunctional items, particularly elements like deictics and pragmatic markers that help speakers navigate discourse. The discourse-level contributions of multifunctional items are rarely the focus of work on Creoles and other contact varieties, and pragmatic research tends to focus on better-documented languages of prestige. As a result, there is much room for fruitful work at the intersections between creolistics and pragmatics, and such scholarship both expands our knowledge of multifunctional items cross-linguistically and deepens our understanding of language contact by addressing it at the pragmatic level. The goal of my research is to explore these intersections. Using corpus-based and experimental methods, I examine the pragmatics of multifunctional elements such as locative deictics and pragmatic markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik (an understudied Creole language declining in use) and its superstrates, French and English. In this talk, I will describe the fruits of my research journey thus far as well as the dissertation work I am now conducting.

A sociophonetic study of tones on Jeju Island
by Moira Saltzman

In this talk I will discuss the results of a sociophonetic study on the emergence of a tonal distinction in Jejueo, an endangered Koreanic language indigenous to Jeju Island, South Korea. The three-way stop contrast in Korean, between fortis, lenis and aspirated voiceless stops is well documented. In recent years the length of the VOT which comprised the phonetic distinction in the three-way contrast has been converging for lenis and aspirated stops across many varieties of Korean. At the same time, vowels following the converging lenis and aspirated stops have developed low and high pitch, respectively. The shifting of cues from VOT to tone for Korean stop consonants can be described as tonogenesis, first discovered in Seoul Korean. With the degree of influence that the highly prestigious Seoul variety of Korean has on media and education, tonogenesis has spread outward from the Seoul/ Gyeonggi province area.
In this talk I will present updated results of an apparent-time sociophonetic study of the development of a tonal distinction in Jejueo. The study shows that tonogenesis has spread outward from mainland Korea and has entered Jejueo for all speakers, but to varying degrees, based on extralinguistic factors of age, language dominance in Korean and Jejueo, and language attitudes toward Jejueo. More broadly, this study adds to the discussion of language loss and sound change, as language dominance and attitudes are shown to contribute to phonological attrition of heritage language in a disglossic environment.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:34:09 -0500 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual Joy Peltier and Moira Saltzman
Afro-Indigeneity on the Way to a Post-Settler World (November 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78759 78759-20119194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

What does it mean to be Black and Indigenous? How does racialization specifically affect Afro-Indigenous people? How do the values of settler colonialism perpetuate violence against both Black and Indigenous people, and how can we adopt the values of indigeneity in order to move towards a post-settler world? In this panel discussion, Dr. Kyle T. Mays and Amber Starks will discuss these questions and more.

Dr. Kyle T Mays (Black/Saginaw Anishinaabe) is a transdisciplinary scholar and public intellectual of Indigenous studies, Afro-Indigenous studies, urban history, and Indigenous popular culture. He is an Assistant Professor in Africa American Studies at UCLA. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 2015. At present, he is working on three books. The first is titled, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (Forthcoming, June 2018, SUNY Press). This book explores how Indigenous Hip Hop artists challenge settler colonialism and construct modern, Indigenous identities through Hip Hop culture. The second book is titled, The Indigenous Motor City: Indigenous People and the Making of Modern Detroit (under contract with the University of Washington Press). This book examines how Indigenous people and representations of them were central to the development of Detroit, from the late 19th century the present. He is also co-editing an anthology titled, Decolonizing Hip Hop: Blackness and Indigeneity in Hip Hop Culture (under contract with Sense Publishers: Youth, Media, and Culture Series).

Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke) is an Afro Indigenous (African-American and Native American) activist, aspiring cultural critic/commentator, a student of decolonial theory, and budding abolitionist. She is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent. Her passion is the intersection of Black and Native American identity. She seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identity in both the Black and Native communities through discourse and advocacy around anti-Blackness, abolishing blood quantum, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. Her activism encourages Black and Indigenous peoples to prioritize one another and divest from compartmentalizing struggles. She ultimately believes the partnerships between Black and Indigenous peoples (and all POC) will aid in the dismantling of anti-blackness, white supremacy, and settler colonialism, globally.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/K4NMW

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:50:22 -0500 2020-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Afro-Indigeneity on the Way to a Post-Settler World
U-M IOE Prospective Graduate Student Info Session (Webinar) (November 20, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78127 78127-19965478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

TIMES SHOWN IN U.S. EASTERN TIME

Interested in graduate school? Join us for a special webinar with professors Marina Epelman (Associate Chair of Graduate Studies) and Siqian Shen (Graduate Admission Committee Chair) from the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, to learn more about the Master's and PhD programs in IOE.

- Anyone interested in applying to our Fall 2021 MS or PhD program is welcome to register for one webinar event that suits your schedule. There are two dates to choose from, October 30 and November 20.
- Registered participants will watch pre-recorded videos and slides about IOE graduate programs, MS or PhD application processes before each webinar event.
- Get your application-related questions answered during live interaction with the two professors during the webinar.
- A list of FAQs will be released after each webinar on IOE website based on questions we receive for anyone else to review.

REGISTER VIA THE LINK ABOVE.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-20T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-20T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual "U-M IOE PROSPECTIVE GRAD STUDENT INFO SESSION" TEXT
Raqs Media Collective: Kinetic Contemplations (November 20, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77327 77327-19840082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Raqs Media Collective, formed in 1992 by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, argues for a mode of “kinetic contemplation” that rides a restless entanglement with the world. This translates into working with moving images to unsettle ways of ordering space and time through timelines, life-lines, latitudes, and longitudes. Raqs practices across several media, including installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, and lexica. In the video 31 Days (2020), Raqs takes the predicament of quarantine and seclusion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to offer a meditation on a restless world in a quiet time. Raqs takes traces of materials in order to breach the boundaries and limits of historical time by intensifying the experience of a sensory encounter with the immeasurability of life forms. In the video The Blood of Stars (2018), blood, meteorites older than the earth, and iron mines in the arctic circle combine to offer a way of thinking concretely and materially about the intimacy of life, death, mining, war, and the pulse of the cosmos.

From 2000–2013, Raqs spent time at Sarai, which they co-founded at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in North Delhi, and where they were members of the Editorial Collegiate of the Sarai Reader Series. Raqs’ work has been shown in museums and exhibitions across the world, including Documenta 11, Venice, Istanbul, Sydney, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo Biennales, and in solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Tate Modern, London; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), México City; Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf; and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, among others. Curatorial projects by Raqs include The Rest of Now, Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2011; Sarai Reader 09, Devi Art Foundation, Gurugram, India, 2012; Insert2014, IGNCA, Delhi, 2014; Why Not Ask Again, Shanghai Biennale, 2016; Five Million Incidents, Goethe-Institut, Delhi & Kolkata, 2019–2021; and Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, 2020.

This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event includes a presentation by Raqs Media Collective followed by a Q&A with Srimoyee Mitra, director of the Stamps Gallery at Stamps School of Art and Design.

Stamps Gallery Online ExhibitionRaqs Media Collective is also featured in The Pandemic Circle by Raqs Media Collective, an online Stamps Gallery exhibition and screening of new videos. Commissioned by Stamps Gallery and presented in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, twentyfourbyseven (6 mins, video, calligraphy, text, animation), 2020 and Why do they call the answer to a question, a solution? (12 minutes, video, spoken word), 2020 complete the Pandemic Circle that they embarked upon with their recent video 31 Days. Together, this suite of poignant and poetic videos grapple with the pervasive and dispersed impact on daily routines and relationships with one another, and beyond, in the age of the Coronavirus.

The exhibition can be viewed online from Dec. 1, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021.  Learn More →


Co-produced with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artists Program and the UM Stamps Gallery.

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

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 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:15:07 -0500 2020-11-20T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/RAQS.jpg
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 21, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 21, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-21T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-22T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-22T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 23, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 23, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-23T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-23T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
German Information Session (November 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79419 79419-20319902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Are you interested in learning more about our Winter 2021 courses, the German major/minor, or about study-abroad opportunities in Germany? Join us for an information session on Monday, November 23.

If you are unable to join us at the scheduled time, please send an email to kallimz@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:19:25 -0500 2020-11-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Brandenburg Gate; Berlin, Germany
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78370 78370-20016734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:15:56 -0400 2020-11-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-23T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 24, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-24T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 25, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-25T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-25T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78399 78399-20024695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:15:52 -0400 2020-11-25T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-25T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-26T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CAS Film Screening | Village of Women (November 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77015 77015-19788472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:20 -0500 2020-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Film Screening | Village of Women
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CAS Film Screening | Village of Women (November 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77015 77015-19788557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:20 -0500 2020-11-28T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Film Screening | Village of Women
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-28T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CAS Film Screening | Village of Women (November 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77015 77015-19788558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:20 -0500 2020-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-29T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Film Screening | Village of Women
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-29T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CAS Film Screening | Village of Women (November 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77015 77015-19788559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:20 -0500 2020-11-30T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Film Screening | Village of Women
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-30T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Sweetland Write-Together (November 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78402 78402-20032534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 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, 11 Oct 2020 00:15:56 -0400 2020-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Does Peer Review Stifle innovation? (November 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79604 79604-20430437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Study how social and organizational factors affect scientific discovery.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:59:34 -0500 2020-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78403 78403-20032535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:15:56 -0400 2020-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism and partiality in “punish or protect” dilemmas (November 30, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77908 77908-19941574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Laura Soter, U-M Department of Philosophy, will give a talk titled "What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism and partiality in 'punish or protect' dilemmas."

ABSTRACT
After a long history of focusing primarily on judgments about anonymous strangers, moral psychologists have increasingly begun to study how social relationships influence people’s moral judgments. Weidman et al. (2020), for instance, found that in “punish or protect” dilemmas, people are more likely to say they would lie to protect a close other (vs. a distant other) who commits a crime, particularly when the transgression is severe. But do people believe it is morally right to behave this way? On the one hand, impartiality and universalism are key tenets in all three major philosophical ethical theories. On the other, there are philosophers who argue in favor of moral partiality, and there is increasing empirical evidence that social relationships matter for moral evaluations. In the context of Weidman et al.’s “punish or protect” dilemmas, these considerations deliver two competing hypotheses: either people think it is right to preferentially protect close others, suggesting that people believe moral norms are importantly sensitive to context; or people think they should treat close and distant others equally, revealing an inconsistency between judgments of what is right and how they would behave in the context of close relationships. I will present a series of studies that adjudicate between these hypotheses by exploring the relationship between what people think they would and should do in “punish or protect” dilemmas.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:24:50 -0500 2020-11-30T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
CAS Film Screening | Village of Women (December 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77015 77015-19788560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:20 -0500 2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Film Screening | Village of Women
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CSCS Seminar | Developing a systematic approach to modulate the emergence of consciousness from pharmacologically-and pathologically induced unconsciousness (December 1, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76220 76220-19677552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ZOOM MEETING LINK: myumi.ch/v2ZYv

Re-scheduled from earlier this fall.

ABSTRACT:
Why is it so difficult to develop a systematic approach to modulate the recovery of consciousness from pharmacologically and pathologically induced unconsciousness? Three things are required to develop a systematic approach; a reliable neural activity that corresponds to consciousness, a reliable brain stimulation to induce the target neural activity, and a mechanism to guarantee the induced neural activity results in consciousness. However, no single neural activity or a mechanism has been identified yet as a neural correlate of consciousness, suggesting that consciousness might emerge through complex interactions of spatially and temporally distributed brain functions. Accumulating evidence from computational model and empirical studies suggest that brain criticality – a balanced state between order and disorder, stability and instability, incoherent and synchronized connectivity at a global network level, is a necessary condition for the emergence of consciousness. Thus, in our research project, we hypothesized that with modulating brain network criticality, we may be able to control the state transition during the loss and recovery of consciousness in general anesthesia and coma. In this talk, I will introduce our current project that aims to develop a systematic method to precisely evaluate a brain state in altered states of consciousness and to control the emergence from unconsciousness, which is based on highly advanced methods in physics, network science, and neurobiology of consciousness.

Please join us 15 minutes before and after the seminar for a social coffee hangout. Put your speakers and video on and say hi to old friends or go to the 'lounge' and chat with an acquaintance

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:33:23 -0500 2020-12-01T11:30:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Livestream / Virtual Photo of UnCheol Lee
Frankel Institute Event Series: Stranger Still: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Israel/Palestine (December 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79038 79038-20178454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This series showcases the diversity of poetic voices from Israel/Palestine through the lens of translation. Each event features a multilingual poetry reading and a conversation between poets and translators on the careful negotiations that are involved in the act of translation, highlighting work that creates its own currents against and beyond the Israeli mainstream.

Vaan Nguyen has been described as “a veritable juggler of Hebrew.” Born in 1982 in Israel to refugees of the Vietnam War, Nguyen’s poems travel far and wide, taking in views of Hanoi, Manhattan, Paris, Milan, Salzburg, Pasadena and more. Through these movements, Nguyen reflects on how our lives take shape in the daily migrations we make between lovers, family, work, and the places we call home. She is the author of the poetry collections *The Truffle Eye* (Ma’ayan Press, 2013) and Vain Ratio (Barchash, 2018). In addition to poetry, she has worked as an actress, journalist, and social activist. She currently lives in Jaffa and is writing her first novel.

Adriana X. Jacobs is this year’s Co-head Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of *Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry* (University of Michigan Press, 2018). Her translations have appeared in various print and online journals, including *Gulf Coast*, *Seedings*, *World Literature Today*, *Poetry International*, and *The Ilanot Review*. Her translation into English of Vaan Nguyen’s *The Truffle Eye* will be published by Zephyr Press in early 2021.

Advance Registration Required: https://forms.gle/Z6WRekCB974Hz8EbA
The Zoom Webinar link will be sent out before the event.

(photo credit: Shaxaf Haber)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:15:33 -0400 2020-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual photo credit: Shaxaf Haber
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Designing Online Platforms for Offline Services in China: A Market-Frictions Based Perspective" (December 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76169 76169-19671600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

Using market-frictions based logic, Dr. Wu and his co-author/researcher on this project, develop an analytical model that examines how online platforms can govern opportunistic behavior of offline service providers in China, thus allowing market forces to promote the general welfare. Their work sheds new light on how platform design can help reduce market frictions in economic exchanges and potentially shape the evolution of industries.

Xun (Brian) Wu is an Associate Professor of Strategy (with tenure), Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, and faculty director of China Initiatives at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his BS from Tsinghua University in China, MSc from National University of Singapore, and PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

His research examines the dynamics of corporate scope and the evolution of industries. His research has been published or is forthcoming in top scholarly journals including "Management Science," "Organization Science," and "Strategic Management Journal." He serves as an Associate Editor for "Strategic Management Journal."

Register for the zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_My-R332ZQeiP40EjWmIQig

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:37:03 -0500 2020-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Brian Wu, Associate Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Udall Scholarships (December 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78020 78020-19955546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

The Udall Foundation awards $5,000 scholarships to college sophomores and juniors and the opportunity to attend a 4-day orientation in Tucson, AZ and to gain access to the Udall Alumni Network.

The Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship provides support for approximately 125 full-time undergraduate students per year studying in NOAA mission fields. Scholarship recipients receive two years of academic support (up to $9,500/year) and a 10-week paid summer internship at a NOAA partner facility.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/udall-scholarship.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:23:59 -0400 2020-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Van driving through Arizona
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series (December 1, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79460 79460-20333656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is excited to announce the second installment of our virtual series: Cybersecurity, Technology, and Government on Tuesday, December 1, 5:30-7:00 PM. The event will feature speaker Javed Ali, former Senior Director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council and Towsley Policymaker in Residence, and our very own Ravi Pendse, U-M Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, as the event moderator. Join us for an insightful discussion centered on the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, and government and its role within the campus community, presidential elections, and more. Our guests will also be sharing about their unique career paths into their respective fields.

Be sure to register here: http://myumi.ch/R5obE. There will be Q&A opportunities throughout the event! You can also submit questions through your Zoom registration!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:34:58 -0500 2020-12-01T17:30:00-05:00 2020-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Livestream / Virtual Image contains pictures of both the speaker, Javed Ali, and the moderator, Ravi Pendse. It contains the date and time for the event and the Trotter Logo.
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
CAS Film Screening | Village of Women (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77015 77015-19788561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:20 -0500 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Film Screening | Village of Women
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
CAS Film Discussion | Post-Screening Q/A with Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan (Village of Women) (December 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77017 77017-19788562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and to attend the Q/A session with the film director: http://myumi.ch/0W1oY.

The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2nd.

We will send the film link to everyone who has registered via email on November 27, so make sure you register in advance! The film will be available for you to watch on your own from November 27 to December 2.

A village where women, children, and elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year for Russia to work. Summer, a slow and friendly atmosphere; women do the hay, cut the grass, and store for the winter. Fruits are canned to be eaten during the cold winter. The sun arouses certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with its different shades of red, is the season of birth and potato harvest. Women and men find intimacy in the coldness of winter, hence, women give birth in October and November. Fathers meet their children in December. Preparations start early to welcome men. Waiting is long and tiring.

Winter is near, a form of suspense sets in: whose husband will come first? The men arrive with the snow. The women are shy, they need time to exist in the presence of men. The children are happy to be close to their fathers. Spring sets in, the atmosphere becomes tense. Men depart for the land of tsars. She is weak and sad but needs to find the strength to take care of the children.

Tamara Stepanyan was born in Armenia. During the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the early '90s, she moved to Lebanon with her parents. After studying and working in Lebanon, Stepanyan pursued her studies at The National Film School of Denmark (creative documentary) under the supervision of Arne Bro. Stepanyan made a number of films that were shown and primed in prestigious festivals like Locarno, Busan, and La Rochelle. She is also busy teaching cinema courses at schools. Her last work, the "Village of Women," won the award for best direction at Sole Luna Documentary Film Festival in Palermo, Italy; prize from the Curatorium Cimbricum Veronense in memory of Piero Piazzola and Mario Pigozzi for the best film by a young director at Della Lessinia International Film Festival, Italy; and "30 Stars" (Étoile) award for the best documentaries of the year at Étoile de la Scam, France.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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, 30 Nov 2020 15:30:57 -0500 2020-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Tamara Stepanyan, film director and producer
Is the End in Sight? An Inside Look at the COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Approval Process (December 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79570 79570-20388901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Join infectious disease expert Dr. Arnold Monto in a discussion about the COVID-19 vaccine development and approval process. Dr. Monto, a professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, serves as acting chair of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which provides advice to the Food and Drug Administration on the authorization and licensure of vaccines to prevent COVID-19. Throughout his career spanning seven decades, Dr. Monto has been involved in pandemic planning and emergency response to influenza and other respiratory virus outbreaks, including the 1968 Hong Kong influenza pandemic, avian influenza, SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Emily Martin, an associate professor of epidemiology at Michigan Public Health, will join Dr. Monto for a Q&A session, in which the experts will also address attendee questions as time permits. Dr. Monto and Dr. Martin co-lead the Michigan Influenza Center, one of five centers across the country that collects data for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Register here: http://myumi.ch/R5oBM

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:04:12 -0500 2020-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Livestream / Virtual Is the End in Sight? Image of a bottle of vaccine and image of Dr. Arnold Monto
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (December 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78404 78404-20032536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:15:57 -0400 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Research Universities and the Public Good in the Time of COVID-19 (December 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79506 79506-20345431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

Jason Owen-Smith (Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS); Executive Director, Research Analytics; Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research)

Wednesday, December 2 at 2pm EST: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91211224326

America's most research intensive universities represent about 3% of higher education institutions, but they conduct 90% of the nation's academic research. Drawing on his recent book, Research Universities and the Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future and the work of ISR's Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS), which he directs, Jason Owen-Smith will explain how these unique and essential organizations serve as an important form of "social insurance" in the face of an uncertain future. Universities like U of M are uniquely able to address "unknown unknowns," problems and opportunities we do not know we have yet. No other sector or type of organization accomplishes is equipped to serve this purpose in our society. COVID-19 puts special pressures on the academic research mission that come after more than a decade of declining public support. The pandemic and its effects jeopardize the US Academic Research Enterprise (US-ARE) and with it the future health, wealth, and well-being of our nation and the world. Drawing on unique data science resources developed at IRIS, and 20 years of work on the economic and social value of research and innovation, Owen-Smith highlights the challenges and explains how they might be addressed by federal and state policy-makers, the leaders and faculty of institutions like ours.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual flyer
MIPSE Seminar | Exploring Transformative Startup Solutions for Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas (December 2, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76473 76473-19717165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
The potential to use fusion as a carbon-free, fuel-abundant energy source to meet the world’s growing energy demands has motivated significant US and international research. One research path to realize fusion energy involves tokamaks that magnetically confine hot plasmas in the shape of a torus. Almost every tokamak fusion reactor in the world relies on magnetic induction from a central solenoid to drive the current necessary to create a fusion grade plasma. Minimizing or eliminating the need for a central solenoid in a tokamak would greatly simplify the construction and reduce the cost of these devices, increasing their viability for commercial energy production. Solenoid-free startup techniques such as helicity injection (HI) and radiofrequency (RF) wave injection offer the potential of reducing the technical requirements of, or possibly the need for, a central solenoid. A major upgrade is underway for the spherical tokamak, Pegasus-III at the U of Wisconsin. The new facility will be a dedicated US platform to study innovations in plasma startup techniques, allowing for studies of both HI and RF during plasma initiation, ramp-up and sustainment. Experimental plans for RF heating and current drive in the microwave regime will be presented. The new capabilities of Pegasus-III will provide a bold test of the viability of a non-solenoidal compact tokamak using reactor relevant techniques.

About the Speaker:
Prof. Diem’s research interests are in experimental plasma physics for fusion energy development with emphasis on validating numerical models with experimental data. She focuses on utilizing radio frequency (RF) waves to heat and drive current in magnetically confined plasmas. Prof. Diem’s current research is focused on electron Bernstein wave and electron cyclotron heating and current drive experiments on Pegasus-III at UW-Madison as well as collaborations domestically and internationally on RF injection in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Prof. Diem received her PhD in Plasma Physics from Princeton U. where she developed diagnostics to study electron Bernstein wave emission and mode conversion on the National Spherical Tokamak at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. She received a BS in Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics from UW-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Prof. Diem was a Research and Development Staff Scientist in the Fusion Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Lab. and was on long-term assignment at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics in San Diego, CA.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:32:57 -0400 2020-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 2020-12-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Livestream / Virtual Prof. Stephanie Diem
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (December 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79631 79631-20436379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

ABSTRACT: The brain is made of networks of neurons that send information to each other via spikes. Sleep and wake are the most clearly definable brain states and each exerts unique effects upon neural network spiking activity. We used large-scale recordings in the frontal cortex of mice and rats to examine the activity of neurons during wake/sleep cycles and found that a novel form of homeostatic action is taken by sleep: homogenization of firing rates. Whereas it was previously believed that sleep simple decreased firing rates, we found that this was much more true of the most active neurons only, thereby reducing the variance of the population.

To extend this observation of homeostatic forced during sleep we also examine how sleep and wake states interact with learning and performance, which is also facilitated by sleep. We have therefore begun to record before, during and after learning sessions to determine how learning interacts with the usual homeostatic effects of sleep. Further we can also record how waking changes in brain states such as motivation and attention modulate firing and information processing by neurons during behavior itself.

Finally, our end-goal to translate these kinds of basic neurobiologic observations in healthy rodents to states of stress or treatments of stress. Unfortunately the chronic stress states of relevance to psychiatric disease do not last seconds but days and weeks. We have therefore begun to build new long-term recording environments to enable future experiments over these time-spans.

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Watson is an assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He grew up in Ann Arbor and then obtained his BA from Cornell University and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. During his Ph.D. he used two-photon microscopy to study the behavior of neurons in local cortical microcircuits. During his doctoral work he also participated in technical development of multi-beam two photon imaging techniques. Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Watson pursued a residency in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College as well postdoctoral work at New York University. He received the National Institute for Mental Health’s Outstanding Resident Award, the American Psychiatric Association’s Lilly Research Fellowship and the Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellowship. He did a fellowship with Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki at NYU to record ongoing activity in naturally behaving and sleeping animals wherein he showed that sleep reorganizes neuronal firing architecture in the neocortex in previously unknown ways. He is now combining his electrical recordings with behavioral tools to deepen his understanding of both use and regulation of cortical brain circuits.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:45:44 -0500 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
What’s Next for US Foreign Policy? (December 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79227 79227-20231468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

The Weiser Diplomacy Center is partnering with the American Academy of Diplomacy to bring seasoned U.S. diplomats to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy after the presidential election 2020. We invite students and the community to join Ambassador Ron Neumann in conversation with Ambassador Dawn Liberi, Ambassador Hugo Llorens and Ambassador Alexander Vershbow.

About the speakers:

Ambassador Dawn Liberi is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi from 2012 to 2016. Ambassador Liberi started her career in Africa where she served in five posts with USAID over a span of twenty years, focusing on key development issues. Serving as the USAID Mission Director in Nigeria (2002-2005), she managed a $100 million program of assistance and brokered a $20 million public-private sector alliance to fund community development activities. As USAID Mission Director in Uganda (1998-2002), Ambassador Liberi managed one of the largest HIV/AIDS and micro-enterprise programs in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to significantly reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence and assisting Uganda to develop high value exports.

Ambassador Hugo Llorens is a recently retired (December 31, 2017) U.S. Ambassador. He currently makes his home in Marco Island, Florida. On a part-time basis, he does international business and security affairs consulting. Llorens provides advice to U.S. and international firms on political, trade and investment matters pertaining to markets in Latin America, Europe, South Asia and the Western Pacific. He utilizes his 36 years of diplomatic experience and leverages his network of global contacts to enhance his clients’ business prospects. He also does public speaking on leadership and foreign affairs issues, and is currently writing a book about his diplomatic experiences.

Ambassador Alexander Sandy Vershbow is a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security in Washington DC. Ambassador Vershbow was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from February 2012 to October 2016, the first American to hold that position. He frequently chaired meetings of the North Atlantic Council and other NATO committees. He was directly involved in shaping the Alliance’s political response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, in adapting NATO’s strengthened deterrence and defense posture, and in deepening NATO’s partnerships with non-Allies in Europe, the Middle East and Northeast Asia.

Moderator:

Ambassador Ronald Neumann, President, American Academy of Diplomacy

Formerly a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Ronald E. Neumann served three times as Ambassador; to Algeria, Bahrain and finally to Afghanistan from July 2005 to April 2007. Before Afghanistan, Mr. Neumann, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, served in Baghdad from February 2004 with the Coalition Provisional Authority and then as Embassy Baghdad’s liaison with the Multinational Command, where he was deeply involved in coordinating the political part of military actions.

Prior to working in Iraq, he was Ambassador in Manama, Bahrain (2001-2004), Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near East Affairs (1997-2000) with responsibility for North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and Ambassador to Algeria (1994 to 1997). He was Director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (Iran and Iraq; 1991 to 1994). Earlier in his career, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and in Sanaa in Yemen, Principal Officer in Tabriz, Iran and Economic/Commercial Officer in Dakar, Senegal. His previous Washington assignments include service as Jordan Desk officer, Staff Assistant in the Middle East (NEA) Bureau, and Political Officer in the Office of Southern European Affairs.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:28:32 -0500 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Diplomacy Center Livestream / Virtual American Academy of Diplomacy
Hub Workshop: Post-Grad Planning for Seniors (December 2, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77663 77663-19899724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

As a soon-to-be grad, this time can be both exciting and challenging. You are about to end one chapter of your life and begin another while entering a global marketplace. Fortunately, the Hub is here to help! This interactive virtual session will provide graduating seniors a dedicated time to pause and reflect on what they’re taking away from their LSA education and to build a strategy for what comes next. There will be a special focus on connecting seniors to resources that remain available post graduation.


You should attend this workshop if you are:

- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Preparing to graduate between now and May 2021
- Weighing options for post-graduation including a gap year, full-time jobs, or graduate/professional school

What you’ll gain by attending:

- Gain clarity on what your LSA education means for you 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 career resources after graduation

RSVP today to reserve your spot for this upcoming workshop.

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 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:10:18 -0400 2020-12-02T16:30:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Hub staff speaking with student
Virtual Internship Panel (December 2, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79539 79539-20373080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

English majors and minors!

If you're looking for a Winter 2021 internship, join us Wednesday, December 2 at 5:30pm. We will have representatives from seven organizations who are looking for undergraduate interns for Winter 2021.

Space is limited - RSVP today! Zoom link will be provided when you RSVP.

RSVP link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8HuU-W4ybHSSauDQrmXXgVnGjThhjlvmSVv9Vq_jtWusGjQ/viewform

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:06:36 -0500 2020-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 2020-12-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual Winter 2021 Internships
China Ongoing Perspectives ~ CHOP | Please Remember Me (December 2, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79365 79365-20286535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

1 hr 18 minutes; Chinese with English subtitles.
Followed by discussion with U-M Professor Lydia Li (School of Social Work).
Director Qing Zhao follows her great uncle and great aunt over three years as they face the challenges of aging and the onset of Alzheimer’s. A touching documentary, this film shows acouple’s resilience in managing daily life and living alone without the traditional support of an extended family. The film will be moderated by Lydia Li, U-M Professor of Social Work. Special thanks to the U-M Askwith Media Library to make the streaming of this film possible.
Please note that the film screening will be held through Zoom Video Conferencing for U-M affiliates only (those with a valid U-M uniqname and password). The first 50 to register will be able to enjoy a synchronous viewing of the film in the viewing “studio.” For the remaining guests, we will provide the link for independent viewing. After the film (1 hr 18 min), rejoin us via Zoom for the live discussion and Q/A with Professor Lydia Li.

REGISTER HERE: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96464919624

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) is a movie/discussion series which provides selected documentary films that view greater China through the lens of everyday life as well as overseas Chinese, immigrants and travellers' experiences--those slices of reality touching on transitional/ transcultural events and memories.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:33:34 -0500 2020-12-02T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual China Ongoing Perspectives ~ CHOP | Please Remember Me
A Beautiful Country (December 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79529 79529-20353344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

WATCH ONLINE at http://myumi.ch/PlOEY

Department of Theatre & Drama

By Chay Yew
with additional monologues written by
Alexandra Lee and Amanda Kuo

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a transgender drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it
means to be an American.

This production was filmed over two weeks in the Arthur Miller Theatre and various remote locations according to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s approved safety plan. All safety protocols for the performing arts to prevent the spread of Covid 19 were observed. The production will receive its premiere on Facebook and be available for one week on YouTube beginning on Wednesday, December 2nd.

more information at: http://myumi.ch/AxRBd

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
The neural circuit mechanism of spatial orientation memory in Drosophila (December 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79302 79302-20270667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Chung-Chuan Lo, Ph.D. to present during a virtual seminar on December 3, 2020.

Hosted By:
Dawen Cai, Ph.D.
Bing Ye, Ph.D.
Kavli Neuroscience Innovators

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:20:51 -0500 2020-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual Chung-Chuan Lo, Ph.D. - Professor and Director, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Raqs Media Collective in Conversation with Gunalan Nadarajan (December 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79397 79397-20296431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Raqs Media Collective in Conversation with Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean, Stamps School of Art & Design
Co-presented with Expo Chicago

December 3, 2020 - 11am EST/10am CST/ 7.30pm IST

Following the world premiere of two new videos commissioned by Stamps Gallery, twentyfourbyseven*(6 mins , video, calligraphy, text, animation), 2020 and Why do they call the answer to a question, a solution?*(12 mins, video, spoken word), 2020, Raqs Media Collective reflect on the process of creating The Pandemic Circle after the predicament of quarantine and seclusion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic gripped contemporary life across the globe. The Pandemic Circle includes 31 Days(18 minutes, video, calligraphy, text), 2020, the first video in the series that was released in the summer of 2020. 

The renowned collective will be in conversation with Gunalan Nadarajan, curator and Dean of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Description of NEW Films in the Pandemic Circle  

twentyfourbyseven(6 mins , video, calligraphy, text, animation), 2020

Walking a tightrope between knowing and feeling in elongated pandemic days and nights. There is an awareness of the awareness of how the nervous system responds to the nervousness of this time. There is now the out-of-body sensation of looking back on each moment as it passes, twentyfourbyseven.

Why do they call the answer to a question, a solution?(12 mins, video, spoken word), 2020

The third video in this Pandemic Circle turns into an enquiry into the very form of thinking. It moves between lesions, joys, epiphanies, and terror. The image and voice rewire spaces left unattended by various 20th century impasses. The film reflects on exhaustion and inventiveness, love and dignity, deep pasts and faint futures, and the ruptures that modulate the share of “overcoming” and “overturning” in our individual selves, and collective life. The video enters troubled waters to search for news way to look at horizons.

For more information, please contact:
Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Outreach & Public engagement Coordinator, Stamps Gallery
Kate Sierzputowski, Strategic Initiatives & Programming Coordinator, Expo Chicago

 

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://program.expochicago.com

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:15:07 -0500 2020-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/RAQS-Wide.jpg
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (December 3, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79678 79678-20446302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:52:57 -0500 2020-12-03T11:30:00-05:00 2020-12-03T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Faculty Forum - Sustainable Funding (December 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79116 79116-20209852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

We will focus on the intersection of education, youth, and key insights from leaders of Foundations working both in Detroit and the K-12 outreach field. Join us to learn from:

Lynette Dowler, President, DTE Energy Foundation

Wendy Jackson, Managing Director of the Detroit Program, The Kresge Foundation

Mike Schmidt, Director of Education and Global Development, Ford Fund

Punita Thurnman, Vice President of Program & Strategy, The Skillman Foundation

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:14:26 -0500 2020-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Faculty Forum Foundations flyer
FLAS Info Session (December 3, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78929 78929-20154738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

-Tuition support and Stipend for the study of Foreign Languages & Area Studies (FLAS)

-Grads, undergrads, and PhD students eligible

-All colleges, schools, and programs at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship provides tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. The U.S. Department of Education (US/ED) funds these awards under the provisions of Title VI of the Higher Education Act. The amount of funding and number of awards are contingent upon annual US/ED program approval, federal regulations, as well as continued congressional funding, all of which may change from year to year.

Info session dates and Zoom links:

Thursday, December 3, 2pm:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98394746226

Wednesday, December 9th, 12pm:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98291692647

Tuesday, December 15th, 5pm:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94613014116

Monday, December 21st, 1:00pm
This session is geared toward incoming graduate students, but all interested people are welcome.
Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95189503590

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.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:18:32 -0500 2020-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual FLAS Info Session
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (December 3, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-12-03T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
EEB Virtual Seminar: Using a community assembly framework to decrease vulnerability to biological invasions in temperate forests & Phenology and flowering overlap drive specialization in pollinator networks (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76577 76577-19727088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Laís and Paul present this week's virtual seminar.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:12:05 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Bee overlaid on graphs and trees
Collection and Analysis of Driving Videos based on Traffic Participants (December 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79591 79591-20428440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Autonomous vehicle (AV) prototypes have been deployed in increasingly varied environments in recent years. An AV must be able to reliably detect and predict the future motion of traffic participants to maintain safe operation based on data collected from high-quality onboard sensors. Sensors such as camera and LiDAR generate high-bandwidth data that requires substantial computational and memory resources. To address these AV challenges, this thesis investigates three related problems: 1) What will the observed traffic participants do? 2) Is an anomalous traffic event likely to happen in near future? and 3) How should we collect fleet-wide high-bandwidth data based on 1) and 2) over the long-term?

The first problem is addressed with future traffic trajectory and pedestrian behavior prediction.We propose a future object localization (FOL) method for trajectory prediction in first person videos (FPV). FOL encodes heterogeneous observations including bounding boxes, optical flow features and ego camera motions with multi-stream recurrent neural networks (RNN) to predict future trajectories. We then introduce BiTraP, a goal-conditioned bidirectional multi-modal trajectory prediction method. BiTraP estimates multi-modal trajectories and uses novel bi-directional decoder and loss to improve longer-term trajectory prediction accuracy. We show that different choices of non-parametric versus parametric target models directly influence predicted multi-modal trajectory distributions. Experiments with two FPV and six bird's-eye view (BEV) datasets show the effectiveness of our methods compared to state-of-the-art. We define pedestrian behavior prediction as a combination of action and intent. We hypothesize that current and future actions are strong intent priors and propose a multi-task leaning RNN encoder-decoder network to detect and predict future pedestrian actions and street crossing intent. Experimental results show that one task helps the other so they together achieve state-of-the-art performance on published datasets.

To identify likely traffic anomaly events, we propose to predict locations of traffic participants over a near-term future horizon and monitor accuracy and consistency of these predictions as evidence of an anomaly. Inconsistent predictions tend to indicate an anomaly has or is about to occur. A supervised video action recognition method can then be applied to classify detected anomalies. We introduce a spatial-temporal area under curve (STAUC) metric as a supplement to the existing area under curve (AUC) evaluation and show it captures how well a model detects both temporal and spatial locations of anomalous events. Experimental results show the proposed method and consistency-based anomaly score are more robust to moving cameras than image generation based methods; our method achieves state-of-the-art performance over AUC and STAUC metrics.

Video anomaly detection (VAD) and action recognition support event-of-interest (EOI) distinction from normal driving data. We introduce a Smart Black Box (SBB), an intelligent event data recorder, to prioritize EOI data in long-term driving. The SBB compresses high-bandwidth data based on EOI potential and on-board storage limits. The SBB is designed to prioritize newer and anomalous driving data and discard older and normal data. An optimal compression factor is selected based on the trade-off between data value and storage cost.Experiments in a traffic simulator and with real-world datasets show the efficiency and effectiveness of using a SBB to collect high-quality videos in long-term driving.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:27:05 -0500 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Livestream / Virtual car with bounding box
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
EEB dissertation defense: Deer browsing effects on temperate forest biogeochemistry, plant community composition, and plant chemistry (December 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79443 79443-20325826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jacqueline presents her doctoral dissertation

See your email or contact eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the passcode

Image credit: J. Hartsock

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:27:06 -0500 2020-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Doe's head peering out from behind leaves and flowers, soft focus. Image credit: J. Hartsock
U-M Structure Seminar: Mobile loop dynamics in adenosyltransferase control binding and reactivity of coenzyme B12 (December 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76032 76032-19655360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Romila Mascarenhas, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Banerjee Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:35:11 -0500 2020-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Biophysics Seminar Series (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77923 77923-19941588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

The Biophysics Virtual Seminar Series presents:

Dr. Oleg Igoshin - Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences, Associate Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University

*“Understanding Trade-offs in Biological Error Correction”*

Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96475935279

Abstract: High accuracy of major biological processes relies on the ability of the participating enzymatic molecules to preferentially select the correct substrate from a pool of chemically similar substrates by activating the so-called proofreading mechanisms. While the importance of such mechanisms is widely accepted, it is still unclear how evolution has optimized the biological systems with respect to their characteristic properties. We developed a comprehensive first-passage theoretical framework that allowed us to quantitatively investigate the trade-offs between four properties of enzymatic systems namely, error, speed, noise and energy dissipation. Within this framework, we simultaneously analyzed speed and accuracy of several fundamental biological processes, including DNA replication, tRNA charging, and tRNA selection during the translation. The results indicate that contrary to typical assumptions speed-accuracy trade-off is not always observed. However, when the trade-off is present, the biological systems tend to optimize the speed rather than the accuracy of the processes, as long as the error level is tolerable. When systems function in the regime where no speed-accuracy trade-off is observed, constraints due to energy dissipation in the proofreading play a key role. Our theory demonstrates a universal Pareto front in error-dissipation trade-off and shows how naturally selected kinetic parameters position their system close to this boundary. Our findings, therefore, provide a new system-level picture of how complex biological processes are able to function so fast with a high accuracy and low dissipation.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:40:21 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Dr. Igoshin
CSEAS Lecture Series. What Kind of Ecological Culture Do We Need?: Drought History and Lessons from Premodern Southeast Asia (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76315 76315-19687507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; please register in advance at: http://myumi.ch/O4kB0

Have we been making the environment worse while knowing more about how it works? Since the nineteenth century, the rapid advancement of technologies has led to an increasingly sophisticated knowledge of the natural world. Science has helped explain the vast array of environmental processes. However, we, the human species, have also become the frontal force of worsening conditions of the natural environment. In order to call for a reflection on our ecological culture, this talk examines the history of drought from an area in eastern mainland Southeast Asia, the core of what would later become modern Vietnam. It shows, on the one hand, why drought would stir up the most pressing social and political crises in the premodern period. On the other hand, it explores the historical context that helped consolidate the premodern Vietnamese people’s resilience to drought. Most importantly, this history uncovers a sustained ecological culture which compellingly asks us to rethink the way we have bonded with nature.

Hieu Phung (PhD, University of Hawaii) is a historian of premodern Vietnam and Southeast Asia. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University, and she will be teaching for both the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii in the Fall of 2020. Before coming to the United States, she taught at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and carried out extensive archival research at the Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between the environment and state building, with a particular interest in the historical agency of water and climate in stimulating social and political change. In pursuing environmental history, she makes extensive use of traditional maps and texts that reveal the production of geographical knowledge. She is working on a book project entitled The Realization of a Water Space: An Environmental History of Late Medieval Vietnam, using documents written in both classical Chinese and the demotic Vietnamese Nôm script. Her recent article, “Naming the Red River - Becoming a Vietnamese river,” will be published by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies this December.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:36:56 -0400 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Phung_image
Detroit Working Group: Tenants' Rights & Evictions (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79421 79421-20319906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Join us for a virtual working group on tenants' rights and evictions in Detroit.

For neighborhood leaders and other Detroit residents, this working group will be a chance to share your experiences related to renting in Detroit and weigh in on Poverty Solutions' housing-related research.

For practitioners, this working group will be a chance to network with representatives from other local organizations engaged in similar work and learn about residents' experiences with the rental market.

Researchers from Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan will share their latest work on housing and eviction issues in Detroit and ask for input on the types of research and community education tools you would find helpful to drive change.

This working group will kick off Poverty Solutions' new community experts initiative, which aims to deepen our commitment to engaging Detroit residents and leaders in our action-based research. We will convene community leaders with both lived and professional experience confronting poverty to share insights and resources and generate innovative ideas for action.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:39:17 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual Poverty Solutions' Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76393 76393-19711166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The primary function of this workshop 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, 06 Oct 2020 16:21:51 -0400 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Methodology
LEAD: Decentering Whiteness in the Academy (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79481 79481-20337589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This LEAD conversation will address how administrators, faculty, and staff can decenter whiteness at an institutional level and create a sense of belonging for all. The racial inequities exposed by COVID-19 paired with a national uprising against systemic racism has led colleges and universities nationwide to prioritize anti-racist teaching. While these efforts are appreciated and long overdue, higher education institutions need to continue to examine how their policies and pedagogies have perpetuated racism and inequities and prohibited an inclusive learning environment for marginalized students. How can we demonstrate that actions to dismantle differential advantages—such as diversifying the curriculum, implementing holistic admissions practices, and recruiting and promoting people of color—are best for higher education institutions overall?
Speakers
Stephanie Rowley is Provost, Dean, and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Teachers College. Prior to joining Teachers College, she served in several key leadership positions at the University of Michigan, including Associate Chair and Interim Chair of the Psychology Department, Chair of the Combined Program of Education and Psychology, and Associate Vice President for Research for Social Science, Arts, and Humanities. In these roles, she was successful in advancing research and teaching support for faculty, advancing interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening graduate student life and development. She earned her B.A. (1992) from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. (1997) in developmental psychology from the University of Virginia. She began her career as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina in 1997, and in 2000 she joined the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychology. In her research, she focuses on the influence of race- and gender-related attitudes and beliefs on the development of children’s academic self-concept with a strong emphasis on parents’ roles in the development of these attitudes.
Elizabeth Cole is Professor of Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Personality Psychology and taught at Northeastern University before joining U-M in 2000. Her research has been published in journals in psychology and women’s studies, including American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly. She is coauthor (with Andrea Press) of Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women (University of Chicago Press, 1999). She is a past president and a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association Division 9), and a consulting editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly. She served as the associate dean for social sciences and the interim dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and is currently the Associate Chair for Diversity Initiatives in the Department of Psychology. Her scholarship applies feminist theory on intersectionality to social science research on race, gender, and social justice. Her current project aims to complicate current debates on free speech on college campuses by considering the issue through the lens of feminist psychology.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/AxROe.
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, 02 Dec 2020 16:57:30 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (December 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
HistLing Discussion Group: Deliberate Change vs. Language Families (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77834 77834-19933624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics professor Sarah Thomason will give a talk on "Deliberate Change vs. Language Families." The question she'll be asking is this: Can linguistic changes made intentionally cause problems for efforts to establish genetic relationships among languages? (The answer is yes, but rarely.)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:19:04 -0500 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Rackham 101: End of Semester Wrap Up and Social (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78520 78520-20056261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Celebrate the end of your first semester at Rackham by connecting with colleagues, engaging in fun activities, and giving feedback on your first semester of graduate school.
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/0W1wZ.
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, 14 Oct 2020 00:15:57 -0400 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78519 78519-20056260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:15:57 -0400 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (December 4, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78451 78451-20044415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:40:11 -0400 2020-12-04T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Theory
Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series (December 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79461 79461-20335625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University and Development Events

Join us online to celebrate and honor three Distinguished University Professorship awardees as they present on their career work in our 2020 lecture series.

Learn more about the featured speakers and their lectures at http://myumi.ch/lbDUPspeakers

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:16:18 -0500 2020-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University and Development Events Livestream / Virtual Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series
Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics (IWAP) (December 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77500 77500-19877774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

Email zcwalker@umich.edu/ for meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:42:06 -0500 2020-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Livestream / Virtual American
SoConDi Discussion Group (December 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Amy Cutler: Telling Stories (December 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77328 77328-19840083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Amy Cutler is an internationally acclaimed artist best known for her enigmatic depictions of women performing strange, cryptic tasks: carrying goats on their backs in Above the Fjord, sewing tigers in Tiger Mending, dancing with chairs on their heads in Dinner Party. Rendered simply, though with exquisite detail, Cutler’s style is reminiscent of European folk art; however, the narratives are left unexplained and the white backgrounds of her drawings provide little context or clues to the meanings. The fantasy world she creates is sometimes humorous and other times ominous.

Cutler is known for exquisitely detailed narrative works of art created through a pastiche of personal memories, political observations, and cultural insights. One-person exhibitions of works by the artist have taken place at SITE Santa Fe; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; and many other galleries and museums in the U.S. and Europe.

Works by Amy Cutler are featured in distinguished private and public collections, including, among others, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In conjunction with the Toledo Museum of Art’s exhibition, Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing, on view from November 21, 2020 - February 14, 2021.

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

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 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:10 -0400 2020-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
MT Ghostlight (December 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Meet a Scientist (December 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79458 79458-20333655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

This virtual Zoom event is intended to be conversational with time built in for questions and discussion. From astronomy to zoology, you can choose the topics most interesting to you and/or your family.

You can explore up to 6 topics of most interest to you and/or your family by choosing from various Zoom links. (Links will be available the week of the event. )

Target audiences: families with tweens and teens, adults

Presentations include:

-The circuits of sleep
-Attack incoming! How neurons brace themselves for injury
-How to measure drinking water quality and public perception
-Using stem cells for studying and treating brain diseases
-Eye understand: tools for studying baby psychology
-What are cannabinoids and why should I care? An ongoing exploration of neuropharmacology
-Cells need friends too: how do cells stick together?
-Who does carbon fixation?
-Uncovering the mystery of surface chemistry
-Microbes: good, bad, or in-between?
-Looking inside the brain: designing methods to discover the neuronal circuits underlying behaviors

Scientists are part of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History's Science Communication Fellows program, aimed at bringing together researchers and the general public. This event is a virtual adaptation of the museum’s in-person Scientist Spotlight events.

Suggested donation $5

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:29:19 -0500 2020-12-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Livestream / Virtual Meet a Scientist Virtual Event
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Sweetland Write-Together (December 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78521 78521-20056262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 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, 14 Oct 2020 00:15:58 -0400 2020-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (December 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
First-Year Nursing Information Session (December 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78506 78506-20052327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Learn more about the first-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at the U-M School of Nursing! The Admissions Team will be presenting information on the direct-entry, four year nursing program as well as information on the application and admissions process. Register at https://umich.tfaforms.net/218021 to secure your spot! Please contact UMSN-UndergradAdmissions@med.umich.edu if you have any questions.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:45:57 -0400 2020-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual Nursing Building
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (December 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78649 78649-20087763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:15:49 -0400 2020-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: "Cognitive Tools for Learning and Communication" (virtual) (December 7, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76965 76965-19782527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dr. Judith Fan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC San Diego, will give a talk titled "Cognitive Tools for Learning and Communication."

ABSTRACT

How does the human mind transform a cascade of sensory information into meaningful knowledge? While traditional approaches to learning focus on how people process the data provided to them by the world, this approach leaves aside all of the powerful tools people have to actively reformat their experiences and generate new ones. For example, we choose what to look at, bring certain memories to mind, produce pictures to share, and compose stories to tell. The goal of our lab’s research is to “reverse engineer” the core mechanisms by which employing such cognitive tools enable humans to learn and communicate more effectively. Our recent work focuses on visual communication, one of our most basic and versatile tools, because it also represents a key challenge for understanding how multiple cognitive systems interact to support complex, natural behaviors. This talk will highlight our recent progress, as well as open research questions in this domain.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:22:51 -0500 2020-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Judith Fan
Nursing Acute Care Pediatric Webinar (December 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79488 79488-20341504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Meet virtually with lead faculty from the Acute Care Pediatric NP program and have your questions answered! You will also learn more about the application process. Register at https://umich.tfaforms.net/218142

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:39:57 -0500 2020-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual Nursing Lobby
MES Webinar Series: Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Middle East Studies (December 7, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79589 79589-20428438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Please register for the Zoom webinar here: http://myumi.ch/Gkz7M

Given the urgency of our times to promote social justice, Jay Crisostomo (MES, UM), Kristina Richardson (History, CUNY), and Bryan Roby (Judaic Studies, UM) will reflect on their experience of systemic racism, sexism, and homophobia in Middle East Studies. Much critique has been voiced by Ethnic Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies programs about structural inequalities in the academy, yet we have remained silent about the peculiar forms of discrimination that inhabit ME Studies. How can we raise awareness and practice social justice in our teaching, research, and professional activities? Join us for a conversation on intolerance in the field of Middle East Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:27:05 -0500 2020-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 2020-12-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual MES Webinar Series: Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Middle East Studies
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The People’s Courts Forty Years On - Appraisal and Argument" (December 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76177 76177-19671608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

The PRC’s post-1978 court bureaucracy is assumed to be the cat’s paw of an all-encompassing and authoritarian system of social control—lacking everything from political independence to the technical competence required to play a robust role in contemporary China’s increasingly complex economic system and contentious civil society. This easy appraisal of the function and performance of the People’s Courts at all levels in contemporary China is not accurate now, if it ever was, and ignores concurrent developments in the surrounding political legal system, including the application of a new generation of substantive and procedural laws and regulations, the rise of a private bar intent on pushing the boundaries of professional autonomy, the increased (legal) sophistication and autonomy of PRC judicial officials, and the expansion of the public law and administrative law spheres. Professor Howson will review what the PRC People’s Courts have become in the civil, criminal and administrative law spheres over the past 40 years along three distinct lines of inquiry – (technical) competence, (bureaucratic) autonomy, and (political) independence, and make an argument as to how this key institution may shape the future of China’s “Socialist Legality” and the national governance system.

Nicholas Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School. A specialist in Chinese law and legal institutions and developing Chinese jurisprudence, he is a former partner of the New York based international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he was a managing partner of that firm’s Asia Practice based in Beijing. Starting in the late 1970s, he has spent more than a decade as a student, scholar, and practicing lawyer resident in Beijing and Shanghai, has been active in the Chinese courts and US and international judicial fora as both an advocate and expert witness on Chinese law, and since the late 1990s has advised the National People’s Congress and PRC ministries on the drafting and amendment of key Reform era statutes and administrative regulations, including the 1999 PRC Securities Law, the 2006 PRC Company Law and the 2020 PRC Securities Law.

Register for this webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0AdD6iNDS6-iXL0BS_AaXw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:17:21 -0500 2020-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Nicholas Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law, Michigan Law School
Control Allocation of Flexible Aircraft for Load Alleviation (December 8, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79628 79628-20486026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

As wing designs aim for higher aerodynamic efficiency, the underlying aircraft structure becomes more flexible, requiring additional features to alleviate the loads encountered from gusts and maneuvers. While alleviating loads, it is desirable to minimize the deviations from the original flight trajectory.

In this work, a dynamic control allocation method which exploits redundant control effectors for maneuver and gust load alleviation is proposed for flexible aircraft. The control architecture decouples the two objectives of load alleviation and rigid body trajectory tracking by exploiting the null space between the input and the rigid body output. A reduced-dimensional null space input is established, which affects the flexible output (but not the rigid body output) when passed through a null space filter to generate incremental control signals. This null space input is determined to maintain the flexible output of the aircraft within specified values, thereby achieving load alleviation.

A receding horizon approach to generate the trajectory of the null space input is developed based on linear aircraft models. This receding horizon approach then informs a model predictive control-based control allocator function which can be used as an add-on scheme to a nominal controller. Numerical simulations are used to show that the proposed load alleviation system can successfully avoid the violation of load bounds in the presence of both gust disturbances and maneuvers and with minimal effect on the trajectory tracking performance.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:34:21 -0500 2020-12-08T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-08T15:30:00-05:00 Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual PhD candidate John Hansen
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Nursing Primary Care Programs Webinar (December 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79490 79490-20341505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Meet with faculty from multiple programs at once! Faculty from the following programs will be presenting information and answering questions on the graduate nursing specialties:
Nurse-Midwifery
Primary Care Family NP
Pediatric Primary Care NP
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP

Learn more about the programs and the application process. Register at https://umich.tfaforms.net/218142.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:43:55 -0500 2020-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual Nursing Lobby
FLAS Info Session (December 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78929 78929-20154740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

-Tuition support and Stipend for the study of Foreign Languages & Area Studies (FLAS)

-Grads, undergrads, and PhD students eligible

-All colleges, schools, and programs at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship provides tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. The U.S. Department of Education (US/ED) funds these awards under the provisions of Title VI of the Higher Education Act. The amount of funding and number of awards are contingent upon annual US/ED program approval, federal regulations, as well as continued congressional funding, all of which may change from year to year.

Info session dates and Zoom links:

Thursday, December 3, 2pm:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98394746226

Wednesday, December 9th, 12pm:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98291692647

Tuesday, December 15th, 5pm:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94613014116

Monday, December 21st, 1:00pm
This session is geared toward incoming graduate students, but all interested people are welcome.
Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95189503590

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.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:18:32 -0500 2020-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual FLAS Info Session
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (December 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78650 78650-20087764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:15:50 -0400 2020-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79756 79756-20484062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Learning objectives:

1. Discuss the conceptual distinction and clinical utility of self-reported race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry in childhood asthma.
2. Discuss the role of genetic ancestry and socio-environmental exposures in childhood asthma.
3. Discuss ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores, precision medicine and childhood asthma disparities.

Short bio: Dr. Mersha is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Asthma Research and leads the Population Genetics, Ancestry, and Bioinformatics (pGAB) Laboratory (https://research.cchmc.org/mershalab/Home.php).
Dr. Mersha’s research combines quantitative, ancestry and statistical genomics to unravel genetic and non-genetic contributions to complex diseases and racial disparities in human populations, particularly asthma and asthma-related allergic disorders. Much of his research is at the interface of genetic ancestry, statistics, bioinformatics, and functional genomics, and he is interested in cross-line disciplines to unravel the interplay between genome and envirome underlying asthma risk. His long-term research goal is to understand and dissect how biologic predisposition and environmental exposures interact to shape racial disparities in complex disorders.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:27:42 -0500 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Tesfaye ("Tes") Mersha, PhD (Associate Professor, Division of Asthma Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
The Treasonous Correspondence of Benedict Arnold (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78708 78708-20107416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for an online presentation with Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray as he discusses one of the William L. Clements Library’s greatest treasures, the treasonous correspondence of Revolutionary War hero and turncoat Benedict Arnold. This discussion will explore the details of Arnold’s treason, the contents and methods of his clandestine correspondence, and his effectiveness as an informant.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:04:52 -0400 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Detail from “Colonel Arnold, who commanded the provincial troops sent against Quebec…” (1776)
Opera One-Acts (December 9, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79530 79530-20353345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PERFORMANCE LINK WILL BE POSTED BY DECEMBER 8, 2020

University Opera Theatre

ALL WOUNDS BLEED
Christopher Cerrone, Composer
Tony Asaro, Librettist
The first opera, ALL WOUNDS BLEED, is a re-telling of the myth of Echo & Narcissus in three scenes and an epilogue, composed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone with libretto by Tony Asaro. It features three vocalists–a soprano, a mezzo, and a tenor–as nymph Echo, goddess Hera, and self-adoring Narcissus respectively.

and
DAUGHTERS OF THE BLOODY DUKE
Jake Runestad, Composer
David Johnston, librettist
DAUGHTERS OF THE BLOODY DUKE, is a dark comedic one-act opera written by Jake Runestad, in which Margot, the young daughter of the Bloody Duke of Ravenswood, must choose between love and the demands of her revenge-crazed family.

more information at http://myumi.ch/WwKqZ

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-12-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Transferable Skills (December 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79571 79571-20384945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

We are offering a series of virtual coffee chats for the Rackham community, hosted by Rackham’s embedded University Career Center career counselor. The topic for this session is transferable skills—translating skills you’ve gained during graduate school to use on the job market. We’ll spend the first few minutes reviewing transferable skills, and the remainder of the session discussing different types of graduate school experiences, with a focus on articulating the transferable skills gained from these experiences. To get the most out of the session, please review this worksheet and come prepared with questions and/or experiences to share. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/wlbPQ.
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 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 18:15:22 -0500 2020-12-10T10:30:00-05:00 2020-12-10T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (December 10, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79823 79823-20503722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

*Please note that we welcome and encourage participants to bring forth topics at these sessions. The format for each session allows for spontaneous conversation. We are developing topics and content in a fluid manner based on the voiced needs of our community and may make changes accordingly.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:03:24 -0500 2020-12-10T11:30:00-05:00 2020-12-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
CJS Noon Lecture | Art & Activism in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō (December 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79319 79319-20272778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

What is the role of the artist in building and protecting democracy? This talk introduces a new digital exhibit that situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar and anti-nuclear movements (1945 to 2020). Structured around 3 books (Atom Bomb Poems, The Angry Jizo, and Hiroshima Sketches), the site guides visitors through the diverse art that Shikoku, in collaboration with grassroots networks of artists & writers, created to promote social justice: guerilla art protesting the Korean War in solidarity with Korean residents, poems against the nuclear arms race, a children’s book about war, cityscapes critiquing Hiroshima’s wartime past, and recent performing arts that trace this activist history.

Ann Sherif is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College near Cleveland. She earned a PhD in Japanese Literature at the University of Michigan. Her books include Japan’s Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law (Columbia UP). Sherif is co-director of Oberlin College’s Luce Initiative on Asia and the Environment (LIASE) Grant and Co-editor of the Cornell University Press series Environments of East Asia. Her current research focuses on anti-war activism and journalism in Japan during the Vietnam War

Zoom seminar registration link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQ7Nr7POQnqz5tN_9qMXLw

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.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:08:40 -0500 2020-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T13:30:00-05:00 Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Noon Lecture | Art & Activism in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō
Complex Systems Presents: A Nobel Symposium (December 10, 2020 1:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79125 79125-20209862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM LINK: myumi.ch/v2ZYv

Registration not required. Free and open to the public. This virtual event features UM faculty experts in each of the six prize fields. Each will present for 25 minutes and take questions for 10 minutes

1:10 - 1:15 Welcome remarks Charlie Doering CSCS Director

1:15 - 1:50 CHEMISTRY | Nils Walter Chemistry, Biophysics and Biological Chemistry LSA and Medical School

1:50 - 2:25 MEDICINE OR PHYSIOLOGY | Katherine Spindler Microbiology and Immunology Medical School

2:25 - 3:00 PHYSICS | Lydia Bieri Mathematics and Doug Richstone  Astronomy LSA

3:00 - 3:35 ECONOMICS | Tilman Börgers Economics

3:35 - 4:10 LITERATURE | Linda Gregerson Literature LSA

4:10 - 4:45 PEACE | Susan Waltz Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Information about the 2020 prizes and our speakers:

*Chemistry:*
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing."

Speaker: *Nils Walter*, Francis S Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics and Biological Chemistry – College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Medical School

*Physiology or Medicine:*
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to *Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton* and *Charles M. Rice* “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”. Thanks to their discovery, highly sensitive blood tests for the virus are now available and these have essentially eliminated post-transfusion hepatitis in many parts of the world, greatly improving global health.

Speaker: *Katherine Spindler,* Professor of Microbiology and Immunology – Michigan Medicine

*Physics:*
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 with one half to *Roger Penrose* “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" and the other half jointly to *Reinhard Genzel* and *Andrea Ghez* "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy".

Speaker: *Lydia Bieri*, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Director, Michigan Center for Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics and *Doug Richstone*, Lawrence H Aller Collegiate Professor of Astronomy – College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

*Economics:*
This year’s Laureates, *Paul Milgrom* UM-LSA Mathematics Alum! and *Robert Wilson*, have studied how auctions work. They have also used their insights to design new auction formats for goods and services that are difficult to sell in a traditional way, such as radio frequencies. Their discoveries have benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers around the world.

Speaker:* Tilman Börgers*, Samuel Zell Professor of the Economics of Risk – College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

*Literature:*
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

Speaker: *Linda Gregerson*, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature – College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

*Peace:*
'Combatting the threat of hunger' The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the *World Food Programme (WFP)*. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. In 2019, the WFP provided assistance to close to 100 million people in 88 countries who are victims of acute food insecurity and hunger.

The World Food Programme is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization focused on hunger and food security. Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries

Speaker: *Susan Waltz*, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Read more about the details of each of the 2020 prizes here: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:19:38 -0500 2020-12-10T13:10:00-05:00 2020-12-10T16:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Livestream / Virtual Nobel Symposium Poster
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (December 10, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-12-10T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
No more EEB Virtual Seminars this semester (December 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79767 79767-20486024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you in January when the seminar series resumes!

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:22:39 -0500 2020-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Biological Sciences Building with words EEB Thursday Seminar Series in yellow
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A (December 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75161 75161-19293140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Please note: This information 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.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/4peXx

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu.

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

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 Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:14:32 -0400 2020-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (December 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biostatistics

The 2021 University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a SIBS program, will be an eight-week part-time virtual program designed to expose undergraduate students to the intersection of big data and human health. Students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research groups, along with participating in other virtual events.

The BDSI *application opens on Tuesday, December 1*. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Program dates are June 7 - July 30, 2021.

Please visit www.BigDataSummerInstitute.com for more information.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:16:39 -0500 2020-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021