Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Workshop (Day 2) | From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923) (February 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80217 80217-20601993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinars here: http://myumi.ch/O4jGQ

You need just one registration to attend the two-day workshop. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

For full details and schedule, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/news-events/all-events/workshops/february-2021--from-empire-to-nation-state--the-ottoman-armistic.html

The First World War came to an end for the Ottoman Empire when the Armistice of Mudros was signed on October 30, 1918. While the Ottoman government formed by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) embarked upon a series of armed and political campaigns to save the Empire from collapse, Ottoman minorities such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Arabs suffered from genocide and famine. It is well documented that the demographic engineering policies of CUP resulted in a significant decrease of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities in Anatolia, and a famine in Arab provinces of the empire killed thousands. Even though the wartime was equal to a “cataclysm” for Ottoman “minorities”, the beginning of the Armistice years remarked a new start, an opportunity for revival and rebirth. While the Armenian community leadership was organizing relief activities to save genocide survivors who were scattered throughout the Empire, they envisioned the establishment of a “United Armenia” with the support of the Allied Powers. Anatolian Romioi (Orthodox Greeks), Arabs, and Kurds, in a similar fashion, were motivated to declare independence to map their nation-states during a time when the world was living what has been referred to as the “Wilsonian moment.” This workshop will revisit and re-explore the Ottoman Armistice and the transition from empire to ethno-nation-state from hitherto neglected perspectives of Ottoman “minorities” through the lens of history, literature, and political science disciplines.

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 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:43:49 -0500 2021-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Workshop (Day 2) | From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923)
Russian Conversation Club (February 19, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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

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

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

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
‘Sites of Memory’: Historic African American Cemeteries in Jacksonville, Florida (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81755 81755-20951376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Few anthropologists have endeavored to investigate the African American experience in Jacksonville, Florida beyond slavery; despite the call to push the field beyond the antebellum era. Through four historic African American cemeteries, this study explores cultural production among African Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Shortly after emancipation, Jacksonville (a historically Black town), gave birth to a vibrant African American aristocracy comprised of businesspeople and other professionals. In the early half of the twentieth century, Jacksonville’s Black elite provided their community with legal protection, healthcare, vocational training, employment opportunities, and critical services such as life insurance and burial. Pinehurst, Mount Olive, Sunset Memorial, and Memorial cemeteries were some of the few burial places for Black people living in Jacksonville during the early 1900s. Today, the local government regards these cemeteries as ‘abandoned and neglected’ spaces. However, the sites’ material culture and interviews with contemporary African American residents suggests that these burial grounds are important heritage sites for Jacksonville’s African American community. This study finds that commemorative practices are ongoing among twenty-first century African Americans. Additionally, evidence suggests that the condition of these cemeteries reflects the social, political, and economic changes endured by Jacksonville’s African American community.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:25:06 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Brown
Book Talk | Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80726 80726-20777542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Each year, nearly 600,000 Americans are released from prison and join a population of 20 million people who live with a felony record.

Incarcerated people in the U.S. are met by more than 48,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions upon release, a supervised society that Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.”

Join Professor Miller as he examines the afterlife of mass incarceration, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life and altered the contours of American Democracy one family at a time, most often impacting poor Black families. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago, Detroit, and New York—we will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Respondents Broderick Johnson and Anna Haskins will discuss Reuben’s book and how it fits in with their own work. Audience Q&A will follow.

Reuben Jonathan Miller is an assistant professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and a special advisor to Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. His research examines life at the intersections of race, poverty, crime control, and social welfare policy. He is the author of "Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration" (February 2021), based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, their families, partners, and friends.

Respondents:
Broderick Johnson, senior of counsel at Covington & Burling law firm in Washington, D.C. and special advisor to Poverty Solutions at U-M

Anna R. Haskins, assistant professor of sociology, Cornell University

Hosted by H. Luke Shaefer, Director of Poverty Solutions and Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy and Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement, at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Advanced Praise for Halfway Home:
“[A] beautifully written, stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carceral system …” Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy and U-M professor

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:44:26 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual Reuben Miller Book Talk
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80951 80951-20824877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:45:40 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Methodology
LEAD: Chief Diversity Officers as Anti-Racism Advocates (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81115 81115-20850480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead and/or support DEI and social justice initiatives. Given the events of the past year—including the racial disparities exposed by COVID-19 and the social justice uprising against racism—the role of the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) has taken on an even greater importance and visibility. Many organizations have experienced an increased demand to address anti-racism specifically. In this webinar, we will explore the interplay between anti-racist and diversity work. Featured guests will share personal experiences in their roles as diversity officers, including the rewards, challenges, successes, lessons, and advice for others who are or aspire to be in diversity officer roles.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
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/0Wd99.
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.
Speakers
Robert M. Sellers
Robert M. Sellers, received his Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Howard University and his doctorate in personality psychology from the University of Michigan. He is responsible for overseeing the University’s five-year strategic plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and serves as a principal adviser to the president as a member of the university’s executive leadership team. Sellers works with the provost on matters related to diversity at the university as well as a broad range of academic issues including the budget, faculty tenure and promotions, and student enrollment. He oversees operations of three central administrative units. Sellers provides strategic leadership to increase access and success for all students, recruit and retain diverse faculty, and develop academic programs that prepare all students for success in a diverse world. Prior to joining the Provost’s Office, Sellers was chair of the University of Michigan Department of Psychology. His research interests include ethnicity, racial and ethnic identity, personality and health, athletic participation, and personality. He has published several research articles and book chapters that examine factors associated with the psycho-social development of African American student athletes.
Katrina Wade-Golden
Katrina Wade-Golden is Deputy Chief Diversity Officer within the Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (ODEI), as well as Director of Implementation for the Campuswide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Strategic Plan. She brings over 25 years of administrative and research experience working with complex longitudinal datasets and has broad expertise leading research and strategy engagements in the corporate, higher education, and non-profit sectors, utilizing a wide range of qualitative and quantitative techniques. Wade-Golden possesses particular expertise in the areas of measurement, questionnaire design, social psychology, organizational dynamics, institutional diversity, and complex data analyses.
She has published numerous articles, essays, monographs, and reports in these areas, and has published a book (2013), The Chief Diversity Officer: Strategy, Structure, and Change Management (co-authored with Damon A. Williams), that chronicles the work of an ongoing research project focused on chief diversity officers at nearly 800 institutions across the country, and is the first publication to fully explicate the role of chief diversity officers in higher education. She holds Ph.D. and Master’s of Science degrees in industrial/organizational psychology from Wayne State University, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan in psychology, with an emphasis in human resources and organizational development.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:15:56 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Global Citizenship in Practice (February 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81567 81567-20927553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

Global Scholars Program's Annual Conference

Global citizenship is a popular idea among many of us, yet we do not always conceptualize or actualize it in the same ways. This conference is an opportunity to share interdisciplinary approaches to global citizenship, with emphasis on how we put this idea into practice.

Global Scholars Alumnx Panelists:
Cachet Colvard, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Munmun Khan, Centers for Disease Control, U.S.
Ariana Paredes-Vincent, Centers for Disease Control, South Africa

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:20:47 -0500 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Scholars Program Livestream / Virtual GSP GCIP
Promising and not - so - promising practices for the prevention of sexual harrasment (February 19, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79609 79609-20430430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Interest in examining the micro - level processes that create and reinforce gender and race inequality in both formal and informal institutions of social control

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:11:13 -0500 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Livestream / Virtual
REDEFINE Engineering: Equity and Inclusion in Education, Research and Practice (February 19, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81933 81933-20990914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Engineers are charged with devising solutions to a myriad of societal challenges. These challenges are not one-size-fits-all, and neither are their optimal solutions. To best serve society, we must educate, graduate, and employ engineers from diverse backgrounds and engage them in equitable and inclusive problem solving with, not just for, the communities they serve.

With examples from her research and leadership roles, Dr. Pearson will present strategies for accomplishing this rooted in her call to REDEFINE engineering education:

RE-image who we see as engineers and what we see as engineering;
DE-silo education and problem solving; and
FINE-tune climate and culture in academia and practice.

This is the first of three seminars hosted by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and the Pelham Scholars Program.

Register to receive a Zoom link to the event.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:31:28 -0500 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Yvette Pearson
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (February 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79884 79884-20511607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:27 -0500 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (February 19, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82020 82020-21006757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

U-M PhD Candidate in Political Science Chris Campbell will present "Escaping the Long Shadow of Madisonian Pluralism." Campbell focuses on political theories of rhetoric, the history of political thought in the ancient Mediterranean and in modern and recent Euro-American politics, and the political thought of democratic and revolutionary social movements.

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 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:13:32 -0500 2021-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Theory
Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics (IWAP) (February 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81944 81944-20992893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Jake Walden is a doctoral student studying political science at the University of Michigan. Yuri Zhukov is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

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

Email zcwalker@umich.edu/ for meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:05:58 -0500 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Livestream / Virtual Jake & Yuri
World Day of Social Justice (February 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81866 81866-20982955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

On 26 November 2007, the General Assembly declared that, starting from the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, 20 February will be celebrated annually as the World Day of Social Justice.

This year, on February 19th, the DEI Team will present a program where we showcase Social Justice. At this event, we will be discussing notions moving towards fair globalization, vulnerability in the world of work, and the future of Social Justice. We look forward to seeing you there!
Register here: https://myumi.ch/gjlqq

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:39:51 -0500 2021-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual World Day of Social Justice
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Time, Memory, Oblivion: Social Frames and the Production of Collective Pasts (February 19, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76257 76257-19679586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Autobiographical memories make individuals who they are but they are anchored in the frame of collective memory. These together that make us who we are. How then are these are made? And how do those processes bear on academic history?

I will argue that collective memory world-wide has been made by how communities recollect pasts in order to shape their presents. The shaping of collective and historical memory must be seen in world-historical context. Analysis reaches out beyond the cloistered world of the formal academy to argue that “history” is but one kind of collective memory .

Collective memory itself is the result of both remembering and forgetting, of the preservation and the decay of record. These processes work through socio-political organizations that shape collective memory. The two disappear alongside each other.

I will sketch the diverse ways these practices worked before colonial rule came to South Asia. I emphasize that the feebleness of organized power made it possible for many contradictory memories to coexist. The creation of a centralized educational system and the mass production of textbooks began to unify historical discourses under colonial auspices. For the first time, students and their families were confronted by an authoritative, unified narrative. That triggered opposition and the development of alternative anti-colonial histories. Finally, these discourses diverged in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization.

I will gesture therefore toward sources in many languages from different regions to provide an intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized collective and historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. Most of the lecture will focus on the less studied period before Western imperialism and the imposition of Western modes of thought. I hope thereby to contribute to contemporary debates about historical memory and objective evidence in seemingly ‘post-truth’ world.

Sumit Guha, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Before his current position, Sumit Guha has taught at the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, Brown University and Rutgers University. He began as an economic historian with interests in demography and agriculture. These widened into the study of environmental and ethnic histories. His first book was *The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941* (Oxford University Press, 1985) followed by *Environment and Ethnicity in India, c. 1200-1991* (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and *Health and Population in South Asia from earliest times to the present* (Permanent Black, and Charles Hurst & Co., 2001). This was followed by *Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present* (E.J. Brill, 2013). A corrected Indian edition appeared from Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2016.

His recent book *History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000* was published by the University of Washington Press in October 2019. In Spring 2021, the Association for Asian Studies will publish his newest work, *Tribe and State in Asia* through Columbia University Press.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcuCgqjgvG9Mij4KP5nymLs_cXh4sL5NW

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 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:32:37 -0500 2021-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Sumit Guha, Professor, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professorship in History, University of Texas at Austin
Musicology Distinguished Lecture: Revolution, Trauma, and a Transition to Nowhere: Thoughts on Russian Music and Culture post-1991 - Prof. Marina Frolova-Walker (February 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82028 82028-21008731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In the studies of post-Soviet space the term “transition to democracy”, so prevalent in the 1990s, has met an early demise. The optimistic narrative of transition first became impatient with the slowness and hesitancy of the process, then suffered from the uncertainty of the moving or even vanishing target, and was finally abandoned by scholars as it became clear that the post-Soviet nation-states were taking shape in some yet unprecedented forms that required unbiased analysis. 
 
The place of optimistic teleologies has been taken by hindsight-driven narratives portraying the collapse of the Soviet Union as a traumatogenic event and the culture of the succeeding period as trapped in the state of the ‘post-’. In this paper I will take post-socialist theories of cultural trauma as my starting point and test them against a number of case studies, both musical and more broadly cultural. I will then consider the double-edged nature of the “post-traumatic” narrative which can be utilised by both the supporters and opponents of the current political order in Russia, and the difficulties this creates for Western observers. 


Marina Frolova-Walker FBA is Professor of Music History at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and currently Professor of Music at Gresham College, London. She is the author of Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (Yale, 2007), Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale, 2016), and co-author (with Jonathan Walker) of Music and Soviet Power, 1917–32 (Boydell, 2012).  In 2015 she was awarded the Edward J. Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for ‘outstanding contribution to musicology’.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
New England Literature Program Informational Meeting (NELP) (February 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82027 82027-21006765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Interested in spending spring term in the woods, reading, writing, and climbing mountains—AND getting nine upper-level credits of English?? Check out the New England Literature Program!

After lots of conversations and planning, we’ve been approved to have a real, in-person NELP this spring! There will be some relatively small changes to how we do things (some of which we’re still figuring out), and NELP students will need to commit to pre-program COVID testing and a rigorous self-quarantine so that when we’re all out in New England together, we can be guaranteed that our little community in the woods will be a safe, COVID-free bubble, basically cut off from the rest of the world. If you have questions about what NELP is exactly—and what has made it such a popular program over the years—or questions about how NELP will work this spring, please join us on Friday, February 19 at 5:00 pm for a Informational Zoom meeting where you’ll hear from some recent NELP students about their experiences in the program and have all your questions answered.

NELP Director, Aric Knuth (aknuth@umich.edu)

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/my/aknuth

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:18:39 -0500 2021-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual NELP 2021
Jaume Plensa: Can You Hear Me? (February 19, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80899 80899-20818975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

“Can You Hear Me?” is a documentary film that follows internationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa for a year and a half, offering audiences an unfiltered look into his artistic process. Directed by Pedro Ballesteros, the film presents Plensa’s story across seven chapters, moving between moments from the studio and the production of some of Plensa’s most ambitious public projects, including the recent large-scale works installed at Rockefeller Center and Hudson Yards in New York. 

Plensa is one of the world’s foremost sculptors in the public realm with award-winning projects spanning the globe in such cities as Calgary, Chicago, San Diego, Montréal, London, Paris, Dubai, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Tokyo. His monumental sculpture Behind the Walls was recently installed outside the front doors of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. 

Most well known in the U.S. for his iconic Crown Fountain (2000-2005) at Millenium Park in Chicago, the artist has spent the last 35 years producing a multifaceted body of sculpture that speaks to the capacity and beauty of humanity, often bringing people together through the activation of public spaces. Conventional sculptural materials like glass, steel, and bronze blend with unconventional media such as water, light and sound to create hybrid works of intricate energy, psychological weight, and symbolic richness.

The winner of many national and international awards including the Honorary Doctorate from Univeristat Aut’onoma de Barcelona in 2018 and the 2013 Velazquez Prize awarded by the Spanish Cultural Ministry, Jaume Plensa has had solo museum exhibitions at the MACBA: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Spain; MAMC–Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France; Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl, Germany; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England; and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas. He lives and works in Barcelona.

Behind the Walls is a University of Michigan Museum of Art purchase made possible by the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family.

A screening of the documentary will be followed with a conversation between the artist and Christina Olsen, Director of UMMA, and U-M students. The documentary will be available for a 3 week limited engagement through special arrangement with the filmmaker.

This event is presented in partnership with UMMA. Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

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

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

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

 

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:02:29 -0500 2021-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Plensa-Jaume-v2.jpg
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 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 2021-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (February 20, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour | Law and Order in the Ancient World (February 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80099 80099-20556877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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

The theme of this week's tour is, "Law and Order in the Ancient World."
Were there written laws and organized court systems in ancient Rome and Egypt? What about policemen and punishments? Join us on this live Zoom tour to learn the answers to these and other questions. The stories will NOT be fictional and some WILL depict an actual person or event.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:13:04 -0500 2021-02-20T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual stone kudurru
ARCE Lecture | Roman Egypt and Its Coinage (February 20, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82169 82169-21046606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

On Saturday, February 20, 2021, the Missouri chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt welcomes Dr. Irene Soto Marín for a talk entitled, "Roman Egypt and Its Coinage."

Dr. Irene Soto Marín is an assistant curator of numismatics at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and assistant professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she obtained her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (2010) and her MPhil (2015) and PhD (2018) from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has been working at the site of Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt since 2008. Her research focuses on the economy of Roman and Late Roman Egypt, and she has published on ceramics, taxes, coin molds, as well as edited some papyrological texts. She is currently working on her monograph project, "The Egyptian Emporium: The Economic Integration of a Late Roman Province."

This Zoom event is free and open to the public. You will need access to a computer, tablet, or phone that can access the Internet to participate.

To register, visit https://www.arce.org/event/arce-missouri-chapter-roman-egypt-and-its-coinage.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:27:48 -0500 2021-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Irene Soto Marín
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 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 2021-02-21T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
METS-Study Jams (February 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82265 82265-21060657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS)

Join other transfer students to prepare for your upcoming midterms. Connect with other students in your major. Experienced students from ME and EECS will be available to answer questions. Plus, study snacks delivered to your door!

Different sessions are available Feb 21-28. View the full schedule and get the Zoom links here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ICGA1pZwcIpVOPJqLdyPCllq8BV8zY151Og3bDgHB4/edit?usp=sharing

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:33:16 -0500 2021-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS) Livestream / Virtual Study Jams
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (February 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (February 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
Pandemic Populism: Does Covid-19 Boost Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Regimes? (February 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82231 82231-21058465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This year, Model United Nations at the University of Michigan's (MUNUM) conference is virtual and we are offering programming opportunities in addition to our traditional conference. One such event is a panel titled Pandemic Populism: Does Covid-19 Boost Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Regimes?

Our panelists are:
- Professor Dan Slater, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Director; Professor of Political Science,
- Professor Joshua Cole, Professor of History,
- Professor Mary Gallagher, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor in Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights,

Our chair is Professor Charlotte Cavaille, Assistant Professor of Public Policy.

The panel, styled as a discussion with a Q&A, will take place Sunday 2/21, from 2:00-2:45 pm. There is no registration for the event. Here is the Zoom Webinar information:
https://umich.zoom.us/s/94038244458
Webinar ID: 940 3824 4458
Passcode: 179925

For more information about MUNUM, visit https://www.munum.org/.

MUNUM is an annual Model United Nations conference for high school delegates to debate historical and modern issues in international affairs.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:23:23 -0500 2021-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Model UN
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 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 2021-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Sweetland Write-Together (February 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81074 81074-20842634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:15:40 -0500 2021-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
After *After Jews and Arabs* (February 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81200 81200-20872026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Ammiel Alcalay’s groundbreaking work,* After Jews and Arabs*, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of relations between Jews and Arabs in the Levantine/Mediterranean world over a thousand-year period. Based on over a decade of research and fieldwork in many disciplines—including history and historiography; anthropology, ethnography, and ethnomusicology; political economy and geography; linguistics; philosophy; and the history of science and technology—the book presented a radically different perspective than that presented by received opinion.
Given the radical and iconoclastic nature of Alcalay’s perspective, *After Jews and Arabs* met great resistance in attempts to publish it. Though completed and already circulating in 1989, it didn’t appear until 1993. In addition, when the book was published, there wasn’t enough space to include its original bibliography, a foundational part of the project.
This spring, *A Bibliography for “After Jews and Arabs”* will appear with Punctum Books, presenting the original and unchanged bibliography as a glimpse into the historical record of a unique scholarly, political, poetic, and cultural journey, along with three accompanying texts. JMRN is delighted to mark the publication of *A Bibliography for “After Jews and Arabs”* and reflect on the legacy of *After Jews and Arabs*, nearly 30 years later, with a conversation between Ammiel Alcalay and Gil Anidjar.


Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay teaches at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include *After Jews and Arabs*, *Memories of Our Future*, *Islanders, neither wit nor gold: from then, from the warring factions, and a little history*. Forthcoming books include the co-edited *A Dove in Flight: Poems by Faraj Bayrakdar*, with Shareah Taleghani and the New York Translation Collective, a poem sequence, Ghost Talk, and *A Bibliography for After Jews & Arabs*. He was given a 2017 American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of *Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative *(lostandfoundbooks.org).

Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author, among other books, of *The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy *(Stanford 2003) and *Semites: Race, Religion, Literature* (Stanford 2008).


Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocu2spz8iH9Uph5s5TKi75jcy7IUrH3jk

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:26:56 -0500 2021-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual A Bibliography for “After Jews and Arabs”
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80540 80540-20738136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Many of us believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion. But how do we stand up for those values in our turbulent world? In this inspiring and accessible conversation, Dolly Chugh and host Jane Dutton will talk about The Person You Mean to Be, the smart, “semi-bold” person’s guide to fighting for what you believe in.

About Chugh:
Dolly Chugh is the Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. As a social psychologist, her research focuses on the "psychology of good people" and has been published in a number of high-impact academic journals. Dolly teaches courses in leadership, management, and negotiations to both MBA students at the Stern School of Business and runs a book club for incarcerated students through the NYU Prison Education Program. She was recently one of six recipients of the NYU 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.

Her book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, has been praised by Grit author Angela Lee Duckworth, Mindset author Carol Dweck, Give and Take author Adam Grant, Morehouse College President David Thomas, and tennis icon and activist Billie Jean King, amongst many others. It has been covered on the TODAY Show, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the 10% Happier Podcast, NPR, and many other media outlets.

In addition, Dolly is also known for her TED Talk, which was named one of the 25 Most Popular TED Talks of 2018
and currently has more than 4.5 million views, and her popular Dear Good People newsletter. Dolly attended Cornell University where she majored in psychology and economics for her undergraduate degree and Harvard University for her MBA and PhD.

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2020-21 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

Free, registration required to obtain login information: http://myumi.ch/2DrEG

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:39:08 -0500 2021-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Positive Links Speaker Series
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (February 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79885 79885-20511608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:27 -0500 2021-02-22T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
UK Scholarships! (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81067 81067-20840677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/mnrGg

Join Dr. Henry Dyson, Director of ONSF, to learn about the incredible opportunities available to study in the United Kingdom! Programs like the Rhodes Scholarship and Marshall Scholarship draw thousands of applicants a year, for U-M applicants, the journey often starts with ONSF.

A full list of UK Scholarships is available on the ONSF Website! https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf

Example UK Scholarships discussed during this information session:

Rhodes Scholarship: Funding for 2-3 years of graduate study at Oxford University in any field

Marshall Scholarship: Funds two years of graduate study at any UK institution in a wide variety of fields

Gates Cambridge Scholarship: Full funding for any graduate program at Cambridge in any field

Churchill Scholarship: Funds one year of graduate research and study in a STEM field at Cambridge

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:35:27 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual London
The Humanities at Work (February 22, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81708 81708-20943462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Today: Peggy McCracken, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, talks to Whitney Peoples (PhD, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Emory University), Director in Educational Development & Assessment Services and Coordinator of DEI Initiatives & Critical Race Pedagogies at the U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.

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

About Whitney Peoples:
Whitney Peoples serves as a Director in Educational Development & Assessment Services and Coordinator of DEI Initiatives & Critical Race Pedagogies at the Center. She earned a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Emory University, an M.A in Women's Studies from the University of Cincinnati, and a B.A. in Political Science from Agnes Scott College. With fifteen years experience in feminist and critical race research, activism, and teaching, Whitney has spoken and written on the intersections of race, gender, health, and popular culture. She has taught introductory, core, and special topics courses in Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies, including courses on feminist media studies; African-American gender ideologies; race, sexuality, & identity; reproductive justice; feminist research methods; and feminist pedagogies. Whitney has also published critical essays on topics including hip-hop feminism, advertising for oral contraceptives, representations of women in African American film. Most recently she co-edited the volume Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations; Theory; Practice; Critique.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:45 -0500 2021-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Whitney Peoples
Say Her Name...Too! (February 22, 2021 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82381 82381-21088317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Say Her Name…Too

This will be a discussion moderated by Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler and Professor Lawrence M. Jackson about the spaces that lie between Dance and Social Activism. This event will feature a screen dance viewing of Dance artist Lawrence M. Jackson’s work, “Say Her Name…Too." A short screen dance, this work will combine cinematic elements with choreography and explores the lives of 5 Black women who died at the hands of law enforcement. The goal of this work is to bring awareness to the often-invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence. Black women have been killed by the police at alarming rates, though we rarely hear their names. Knowing their names is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for lifting up their stories which in turn provides a much clearer view of the wide-ranging circumstances that make Black women’s bodies disproportionately subject to police violence. To lift up their stories, and illuminate police violence against Black women, we need to know who they are, how they lived, and why they suffered at the hands of police…this film aims to do just that…

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:46:01 -0500 2021-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Say Her Name…Too
Hub Workshop: Budgeting & Funding (February 22, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80144 80144-20570635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Haven’t yet secured funding for an upcoming internship? That’s okay. This workshop is designed to provide the information and strategies for finding financial support and building a personalized budget for potential summer internships. Together with your peers, we’ll spend some time exploring funding options and resources available to all LSA students so you can confidently pursue these transformative work experiences without barriers.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
- Secured a spring or summer internship or currently searching
- Interested in learning more about the University and College’s resources, including the LSA Internship Scholarship

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Get a capture of the expenses that typically arise while completing a virtual or in-person internship
- Emerge from the workshop with a framework for creating a personalized budget that you can adjust as your summer plans are finalized
- Find out more about the LSA Internship Scholarship and additional funding resources available to LSA students

Interaction Level: Moderate
- Video and audio presence is preferred
- The event will be a mixture of interactive activities and passive viewing
NOTE: Students who cannot participate as recommended are still encouraged to attend

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:01:45 -0500 2021-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Student budgeting with pen, notebook, graphs, and laptop
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (February 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
CJS Lecture Series | *Nuclear Nation *(2013), Screening & Discussion (February 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80157 80157-20572602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this event will begin at 8pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The town’s people have now lost their homeland. Through their agonies and frustrations, the film questions the real cost of capitalism and nuclear energy.

Atsushi Funahashi is a Tokyo-based filmmaker. He studied filmmaking at School of Visual Arts, New York. His debut feature echoes (2001) won three jury & audience awards at Annonay International Film Festival, France. His films *Big River* (2006), *Deep in the Valley* (2009), *Nuclear Nation I & II* (2012, 2014), and *Cold Bloom* (2013) all premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and have been released in many countries.

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.

Participants are invited to screen the film prior to this discussion:
Rent on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nuclearnation
View via U-M Library (U-M affiliates only): https://bit.ly/3jTOaG9

Please register for this event at Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LSV3hGBiSXCMvJRt2nMWRg

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:30:04 -0500 2021-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | “Nuclear Nation” (2013), Screening & Discussion
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 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 2021-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
College of Engineering Stressbusters: Coffee Chat (February 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81972 81972-20998838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center

Life has been anything but normal this past year and many of you have found some amazing new hobbies, workshops, and virtual tours to occupy your time at home.

Join the Engineering C.A.R.E. Center team on Tuesday, February 23rd at 8 AM virtually with your coffee, tea, or favorite muffin as we discuss the fun and creative ways that we have been occupying our time during repeated lockdowns and quarantines.

Sign up to join the chat and share your pandemic passion!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1TjTHCJWIa8HF4rM6H3ElsxLqf9AyQvTaUSNHAWgtbf_kXg/viewform

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:13:14 -0500 2021-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center Livestream / Virtual Stressbusters: Coffee Chat
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (February 23, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82256 82256-21060456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:17:30 -0500 2021-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Complex Systems Seminar: 'Low rattling: A predictive principle for self-organization in active collectives' (February 23, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80724 80724-20777541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

VIRTUAL SEMINAR LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96616169868

ABSTRACT: In this work we suggest a mechanism for self-organization of active matter, which we believe may be quite general. This mechanism is similar in spirit to thermophoretic drift in colloidal suspensions, where particles gravitate to low-temperature regions. The difference is that here instead of suspended particles in a bath, we think of the dynamics of a complex system's state in its full high-dimensional configuration space. The temperature landscape is then replaced by what we call "Rattling landscape," which reflects how different system states respond to the driving forces. This way the system gravitates towards configurations that have special response properties to the external forces, giving the impression that it "adapts to its environment." As a proof of principle, we use our theory to predict and control the behavior of a simple robotic swarm.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:46:19 -0500 2021-02-23T11:30:00-05:00 2021-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Livestream / Virtual Pavel Chvykov
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Myth-Busting the History of Chinese Medicine: Going Beyond the "Function, Not Structure" Stereotype (February 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80369 80369-20711696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk will challenge the widely-held stereotype that Chinese doctors were historically interested in the body's dynamic functions, but indifferent to its anatomical structures. Using examples drawn from the history of Chinese traumatology during the 7th to 18th centuries, Dr. Wu will discuss the place of the physical and material body in Chinese medical thought and show how awareness of body structure was in fact intertwined with understandings of function.

Yi-Li Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research investigates the intersections of society, culture, and the body in the history of Chinese medicine, with special emphasis on the late imperial period (16th to 19th centuries). Her publications include “Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China” (University of California Press, 2010), as well as articles on medical illustration, forensic medicine, bone setting, breast cancer, and Chinese views of Western anatomical science. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of traumatology in China.

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

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0ZIEkctzSKenwbE2FHcxEA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:18:46 -0500 2021-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Myth-Busting the History of Chinese Medicine: Going Beyond the "Function, Not Structure" Stereotype
Rackham North: We’re Biased. So Now What?—Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias (February 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80134 80134-20566718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Many of us are committed to DEI and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that we all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others. The goals of this workshop are for participants to: 1) gain knowledge of societal biases and self-awareness of their unconscious biases and 2) develop strategies to advocate for inclusion in light of unconscious bias.
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/jxoK3.
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 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:22 -0500 2021-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Role of Social Media in Archaeological Education and Outreach: A Roundtable Discussion (February 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81971 81971-20998837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Social media has fundamentally reshaped the way our society produces, consumes, and circulates information. This transformation has generated negative consequences for civic life, but has also shown significant promise for the democratization of knowledge in and outside of institutions of higher education. In social media, teachers and researchers have found efficient platforms for sharing their expertise with ever widening and diverse audiences. Yet, the impact of social media on specific academic disciplines such as archaeology remains only partially examined. This roundtable features five archaeologists who actively use social media platforms to educate public audiences about archaeology. The panelists will discuss their particular approaches to using social media for archaeological education and their views on best practices for social media based outreach. The roundtable will also explore how social media is changing the discipline of archaeology as it begins to play a more central role in the creation and dissemination of archaeological knowledge. These questions are key to anticipating archaeology's future in higher education and its continued vitality for the public's understanding of the past.

*Erina Baci, Facilitator - University of Michigan, PhD Student UMMAA
*Raven Todd DaSilva, Panelist - University College London, MA Candidate Archaeological Conservator
*Connor Johnen, Panelist - University of Wyoming, MA CRM Archaeologist | GIS Tech
*Natasha Billson, Panelist - Bournemouth University, BSc CRM Senior Archaeologist | TV Presenter
*David Ian Howe, Panelist - University of Wyoming, MA Laboratory Manager
*Carlton Shield Chief Gover, Panelist - CU Boulder, PhD Student, Museum of the Pawnee Nation

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:34:39 -0500 2021-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual cawbb2
Webinar: Understanding the Interconnectedness of Climate Change, Salt Marsh Resilience, and Nuisance Mosquitoes (February 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81568 81568-20927554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

As climate change and sea level rise alter salt marsh habitats, a less understood impact - with implications for human health - is how changes in marsh habitat affect the production and location of nuisance mosquito populations. Understanding how coastal ecosystems are being impacted by climate change, and how nuisance mosquito populations are changing, is critical to ensuring coastal managers make the most informed decisions going forward.

In this webinar, project team members will describe how data-collection, mapping, and modeling efforts have resulted in increased clarity about marsh habitat change to inform mosquito control and coastal restoration efforts in New Jersey. Future modeling and marsh‐upland edge mapping suggest that the marsh‐upland is and will be a hotspot for change, and field sampling confirmed that these “new” habitats can serve as breeding areas for mosquitoes. The team also developed environmental DNA (eDNA) assays for the most common salt marsh mosquitoes in the Middle Atlantic United States. Working closely with mosquito control agency personnel, the team has made major advancements in mosquito surveillance through the deployment of drone-based sampling of breeding pools paired with the eDNA analyses. The team also developed outreach materials to inform the public about health risks posed by mosquitoes, including how climate change might exacerbate those risks, and a module for middle/high school educators.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:19:05 -0500 2021-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Livestream / Virtual
Global Connections: William Head on Stage; “Prison Theatre in Canada” (February 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81377 81377-20889801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A conversation with Kate Rubin, Theatre Director at William Head on Stage and Professor Ashley Lucas.

Kate will summarize the 40 year history of William Head on Stage and the different kinds of theatre productions and projects done with WHoS inmates at William Head Federal Institution in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She will specifically focus on the combination of script and collaborative devising work over the past 15 years she has been involved with as a teaching artist, performer and director.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
School of Nursing Graduate Information Session (February 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80812 80812-20793325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Learn more about the Nursing graduate programs offered at the U-M School of Nursing!
Register for this event at https://nursing.umich.edu/about/visit-us

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:19:50 -0500 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Livestream / Virtual School of Nursing Lobby
Hub BIPOC Graduate Student Panel: “So, you want to go to grad school?” (February 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80162 80162-20572607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are you thinking about pursuing graduate or professional school but are unsure if it merits the time, money, or energy? The Hub has put together a diverse panel of current grad students and recently graduated ones to share their individual grad school experiences. They’ll also speak to how they navigated the application process, including asking for letters of recommendation and securing funding for tuition and living expenses.

The panel will also discuss relevant topics such as: finding the program with the right fit that’s aligned to your career goals and interests; overcoming feelings of imposter syndrome; understanding day-to-day life as a grad student; and building relationships with professors and advisors.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Exploring the possibility of grad school and debating whether to apply
- Thinking about or planning to attend the Hub’s Grad School Fair on March 10

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Get tips on how to ask for a letter of recommendation
- Discover the resources and departments on campus that can assist you with preparing for the application process
- Gather helpful advice on how to navigate graduate school in instances where your identity is underrepresented at the schools you’re intent on gaining admission to
- Generate potential questions to ask graduate programs representatives at the upcoming Grad School Fair

Interaction Level: Moderate
- Video and audio presence is preferred
- The event will be a mixture of interactive activities and passive viewing
NOTE: Students who cannot participate as recommended are still encouraged to attend

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to attend the panel will be emailed to you after you RSVP.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:38:11 -0500 2021-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Hub staff speaking with students
Meet Author Joel Stone (February 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81463 81463-20895794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Through much of the nineteenth century, steam-powered ships provided one of the most reliable and comfortable transportation options on the Great Lakes. Join us for a free, virtual conversation with author Joel Stone, and revisit this elegant era of maritime history and the floating palaces that once navigated Great Lakes waters. We will discuss how he brings history to life in his writing and answer questions from attendees. The University of Michigan Press is the proud publisher of his book "Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas."

Joel Stone is Curator for the Dossin Great Lakes Museum and the Detroit Historical Society. Raised in the Detroit area, his research has focused on North American frontier and maritime cultures. He is also the coeditor of "Border Crossings: The Detroit River Region in the War of 1812" and author of “Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies.”

During the month of February, get your copy of "Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas" for only $14 and free shipping by using the discount code "UMGL14STONE" on our website: https://www.press.umich.edu/4641722/floating_palaces_of_the_great_lakes

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:12:20 -0500 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover image of "Floating Palaces"
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 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 2021-02-24T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Crucial Conversations: Health Disparities and Social Inequities (February 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82221 82221-21058452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Public Engagement & Impact

For nearly a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the United States. Black communities have found themselves disproportionately impacted by the virus and the unintended consequences of mitigation strategies.

This live discussion will bring together U-M experts and community members to engage in transparent and authentic dialogue on the realities of COVID-19, health disparities, and social inequities that Black communities face, and what can be done at U-M, and more broadly on a national scale, to address these issues.

Join via Zoom: myumi.ch/pdWgm
Watch Live: YouTube.com/UM

Moderator:
Dr. Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Urology
Interim Director, Services for Students with Disabilities
Director, Adaptive Sports & Fitness

Panelists:
Dr. Matthew Wixson, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Associate Chair of Diversity, Department of Anesthesiology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Jade Burns, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Biological Sciences
School of Nursing

Kennedy Dubose
Community & Global Health Student, U-M School of Public Health ‘21

Arrice Bryant
MD/MPH Student, U-M Medical School ‘21
Michigan Medicine

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:55:46 -0500 2021-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Public Engagement & Impact Livestream / Virtual Crucial Conversations: Health Disparities & Social Inequities Live Panel Discussion on Feb. 24 at 12pm. Panelists: Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami, MD; Matthew Wixson, MD; Jade Burns, PhD; Kennedy Dubose; Arrice Bryant
Resolution Office: Isolation Story Circle (February 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81812 81812-20961272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

A Story Circle is a small group of individuals sitting in a circle, sharing stories—usually from their own experience or imagination—focusing on a common theme. As each person in turn shares a story, a richer and more complex story emerges. By the end, people see both real differences and things their stories have in common. Story Circles are often understood as deriving from indigenous traditions. There are many variations (https://usdac.us).
In this session participants will be invited to share a story around the theme of Isolation. Staff from the Rackham Resolution Office will serve as facilitators for the process and will end the session by sharing campus resources and information related to the theme.
The prompt for this story circle is: Share a story about a time you experienced isolation. How have you understood and reflected on that experience in the COVID-19 pandemic?
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Xe19N.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:15:54 -0500 2021-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (February 24, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

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

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

Free and open to all levels of practice.

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-02-24T12:15:00-05:00 2021-02-24T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (February 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79886 79886-20511609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar (February 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82197 82197-21052530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: COVID Moonshot is an international consortium aiming to discover patent-free oral antiviral against SARS-CoV-2, targeting the main protease. Operating under an open science ethos, we make all data and structures publicly available, and crowdsource molecule designs from the community. In less than a year, we went from fragment hits to nanomolar leads in biochemical and antiviral assays. In my talk, I will discuss Moonshot’s journey towards orally bioavailable, non-covalent, and non-peptidomimetic Mpro inhibitors. I will discuss how machine learning technologies have accelerated our design-make-test cycle, and the learnings we gleaned from this large-scale prospective use of algorithms.

Bio: Dr. Alpha Lee is a Group Leader in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on developing machine learning technologies that close the design-make-test cycle for small molecule drug discovery and materials discovery. He is interested in how physical and chemical insights can be integrated into the design of interpretable algorithms. Before joining Cambridge, Dr. Lee was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard and obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:18:31 -0500 2021-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Maps as Text, Subtext, and Hypertext: “Bending Lines,” a digital exhibition on persuasive maps (February 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81465 81465-20895793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library for a discussion about representation, reality, and the visualization of geographic information in the new exhibition "Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception." Dr. Nelson will discuss not only the content of the exhibition itself but also the challenges and opportunities associated with creating digital exhibitions of historic printed material. Participants are encouraged to view the online exhibit in advance.

Dr. Nelson will be joined by Clements Library Curator of Graphic Materials Clayton Lewis, and Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps Mary Pedley.

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library and The American Historical Print Collectors Society.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:05:07 -0500 2021-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual “Newsmap… Monday, December 27, 1943” from the Leventhal Map & Education Center
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 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 2021-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Graduate Student Career Pathways: Career Exploration Tools and Strategies (February 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80406 80406-20715676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking, transferable skills, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.
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/3q2x8.
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, 05 Jan 2021 18:15:30 -0500 2021-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation (February 25, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81639 81639-20935525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*Zoom registration required: https://myumi.ch/E3jjK*

*We think it’s time to take up an abolitionist approach to the university. We can’t do it without you.*

Abolition, we believe, offers the occasion for thinking about the university in ways that the institution itself might otherwise render impossible. And in doing so it may provide an opportunity to trouble the institution as we know and inhabit it—and as it inhabits us. Inspired by radical scholars and organizers in and outside of universities, we embrace abolition as a generative rather than merely negative project. We aim to build relations that steal the sheen from the university’s romanticized history and to repurpose its resources, capacities, and function of reproducing sociality with and for other ways of being, other ways of living. In coming together, we take up the question, What would an abolitionist approach to the university say yes to?

These conversations belong to a larger set of recent efforts to theorize and historicize the dense and manifold linkages of universities with the infrastructure of settler colonial power, U.S. militarism, and racial capitalism. These efforts have sought not only to introduce new vocabularies and critical frames for how we understand universities and their conditions of possibility; they have also revealed some of the limits of the methodological tools heretofore available to think the university. From the well-intentioned methodological nationalism that tends to disappear the constitutive militarism of the Cold War university to the unrecognized settler imagination that valorizes as democratic the postbellum “public” land-grant institutions, to periodizations of the modern research university that hold its proximity to slavery at bay, the production of the university as an object of love and an occasion for rescue has often been reproduced in efforts to study it.

Abolitionist university studies, an emerging set of conversations about knowledge, power, and its institutional organizations has sought to offer a broad frame and a set of coordinates to study the university on different terms. It has, furthermore, insisted on regarding knowledge production not as a set of disembodied ideas or logics, but as organizational forms. Such a frame calls for methodological creativity. What kinds of pedagogical strategies does it open onto? What kind of historical frames get brought into courses, and how to bring abolitionist approaches into classrooms not nominally focused on the topic? How can abolitionist modes of organizing within universities open onto or remake existing political collectivities?

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:58:40 -0500 2021-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation (February 25, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82209 82209-21052544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:28:30 -0500 2021-02-25T11:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
An Introduction to Illumina Sequencing Methods That Require Home-Brew Library Prep Methods, Including ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, HIC, and CRISPR Screening and Critical Factors to Ensure Success (February 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82099 82099-21034708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Research Core Facilities

Illumina and the University of Michigan Advanced Genomics Core would like to invite you to join us for a workshop series. We will focus on building a foundational knowledge of Illumina Sequencing and Library Prep to ensure your success in many home-brew applications.

In this webinar, we will discuss popular applications that utilize home-brew library preps with Illumina Sequencing as a downstream readout. This will include an overview of epigenetic methods designed to look at regions of open chromatin (ATAC-Seq), binding sites of DNA-associated proteins (ChIP-Seq/Cut and Run), and detection of long-range DNA interactions (HiC). Additionally, we will look at how Illumina Sequencing can be used as an effective strategy in genome-wide CRISPR screens for quantification of sgRNAs as well as methods that allow the detection of transcriptional changes observed in the enriched or depletion knockout populations.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:38:40 -0500 2021-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T13:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Research Core Facilities Livestream / Virtual Illumina Sequencing
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (February 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79917 79917-20515550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:31:37 -0500 2021-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Livestream / Virtual
Virtual Fulbright Information Session (February 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72121 72121-20959289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

A U-M Fulbright Program Adviser will provide information on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the U-M campus process.

For your convenience, there are TWO upcoming virtual information sessions.

1) Fulbright 2022-23 Kick Off Session
Join us for the first Fulbright Info Session of the year, to learn the basics of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program! In the event you cannot attend, this session will be recorded for future viewing.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91271830219

Meeting ID: 912 7183 0219
Passcode: 346215

2) Fulbright 2022-23 Program: Conversation Hour
Do you have thoughts about your specific Fulbright U.S. Student Program goals? Join us for a lunchtime Conversation Hour, where you're welcome to chat about this year's Fulbright Program, as well as listen to fellow U-M students voice their questions.
Thursday, February 25th, 2021, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93480818244

Meeting ID: 934 8081 8244
Passcode: 906434

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:08:32 -0500 2021-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual Fulbright Information Session
Radical Acts: A conversation with Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland (February 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81521 81521-20905713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Radical Acts: Building an anti-racist future through art
A conversation with Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland

Stamps Gallery in partnership with U-M Democracy & Debate Theme Semester is proud to present a conversation with leading social practice artists Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland, Creative Capital awardees and practitioners nationally renowned for their long-term and ongoing performance projects, I Wish to Say and The Jumpsuit Project. Oring and Roland leverage their socially engaged art practices as a vehicle to activate democracy and build awareness of the systemic barriers within the incarceration and criminal justice systems.

Join us for a lively and intimate conversation with Oring and Roland, who are also longtime friends and collaborators, as they discuss the urgency and complexities of making socially engaged projects in our present moment. The conversation will be moderated by Stamps Gallery Director, Srimoyee Mitra.

Bios
Sheryl Oring activates democracy through art. She is the creator of the I Wish to Say public performance project, through which she has typed more than 4,000 postcards to four different U.S. Presidents from more than 100 locations across the country since launching the project in 2004. Her book, Activating Democracy: The I Wish to Say Project, was published by the University of Chicago Press.  Other recent projects include large-scale public art commissions at airports in Tampa and San Diego. Oring is the recipient of grants from Franklin Furnace Fund, Creative Capital Foundation, the American Council on Germany, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Oring’s work has been shown at Bryant Park in New York; the Berlin Wall Memorial; the Jewish Museum Berlin; the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA; the San Diego Museum of Art; as well as in major festivals such as Encuentro in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her work is in collections including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and the Tate in London and has been reviewed in numerous publications. She is Professor and Chair of the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Sherrill Roland is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs and generates a safe space to process, question and share. He was born in Asheville, NC, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by his experience in prison for a crime he did not commit, he founded The Jumpsuit Project to raise awareness around issues related to mass incarceration. Roland’s socially-engaged art project has been presented at Open Engagement Chicago, Oakland City Hall, and the Studio Museum of Harlem. He is a 2021 awardee of Art for Justice Fund and Creative Capital awardee.

Image: courtesy of Sherrill Roland from The Jumpsuit Project.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuduGspz8jGNaSpz6vgmThH6cXTIWXr7zt

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:15:08 -0500 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/SR_2021DCJP_%281%29.jpg
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (February 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79163 79163-20217725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our 2nd round of group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia.

Discussions will run from 3pm to 4:30pm on the following dates:

Talk 1: Thursday, February 4 [Introduction through Chapter 4]

Talk 2: Wednesday, February 10 [Chapters 5 - 10]

Talk 3: Thursday, February 25 [Chapters 11 through the Epilogue]

*Please note registration is required for each discussion to receive the correct Zoom access information.*


If you have any questions, or if accommodations are needed for the content or virtual access to the discussions, please contact our Administrative Coordinator, Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:31:14 -0500 2021-02-25T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
POSTPONED: EEB Virtual Seminar: Harnessing natural history collections to assess species limits in the Melanesian avifauna (February 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79786 79786-20493915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

We will announce a new date in the near future.

Join us on Zoom

Image: B. Benz 2008

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:06:03 -0500 2021-02-25T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Bird on forest floor under nest with acorns and other collected items
2020 Reflections: Stories of Democracy (February 25, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82189 82189-21052522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

In honor of Black History Month, the MLK symposium theme: Where Do We Go From Here, and the University of Michigan's Democracy and Debate theme, the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center brings you, 2020 Reflections: Stories of Democracy.

Join activists and community leaders: Riana Anderson, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health; Lauren Bealore, Democracy Director for State Innovation Exchange; Caleb Boswell, Student Advisor at Washtenaw Community College; and Brandon Stuart, Founder and Chief Creative Artist of ideaLogic, LLC this Thursday, February 25, 2021 for a discussion on democracy, elections, and political activism.

Our panelists come to the space from different fields and experiences and will reflect on what the year 2020 has revealed about the stories of democracy. Our discussion will explore what it has meant for them personally, professionally, and for their community and as individuals living at the intersection of several identities. We hope that you join us for a discussion grounded in community, inspiration, and introspection.

Join us Thursday, February 25, 2021, 3:30-5:00pm by registering for the event: myumi.ch/ZQevm

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:20:53 -0500 2021-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Livestream / Virtual Image of flyer
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Hailong Wang (February 25, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80421 80421-20719756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Hailong Wang of the Pacific Northwest Laboratory will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94897438456?pwd=S3h5VWxEWVhhVmRNSTEzVUt6Yyt2Zz09
Meeting ID: 948 9743 8456
Passcode: 192897

"Understanding roles of cloud and precipitation in the recent Arctic warming through radiative feedbacks"

Abstract:
Since the early 1980s, the Arctic has warmed 2-3 times faster than the global mean, a feature often called Arctic amplification (AA). As the Arctic warms, the melt of snow and ice together with the associated feedbacks is known to be an important reason for AA. According to our feedback estimates from historical climate model simulations and reanalysis datasets, much of the amplified Arctic warming can be attributed to the surface albedo feedback. In a recent study, we used results from a global climate model and multiple reanalysis datasets to unravel the causes of a 1% per decade absolute reduction in the Arctic surface albedo, as revealed by satellite observations. We found that reductions of terrestrial snow cover, snow cover fraction over sea ice, and sea ice extent appear to contribute equally to the Arctic albedo decline. Further analysis of the global model results showed that the decrease in snow cover fraction is primarily driven by the increase in surface air temperature, followed by declining snowfall. Although the total precipitation has increased as the Arctic warms in the recent decades, Arctic snowfall has decreased substantially in all of the analyzed datasets. While CMIP6 models agree well on the importance of surface albedo feedback to AA, net cloud feedback over the Arctic has large uncertainties including its sign, which strongly depends on the datasets (e.g., reanalysis, satellite, or climate models), the time periods, and the methods used for the feedback estimation. AMIP6 models with known historical effective radiative forcing give a near-zero global mean cloud feedback for the recent past, leading to a negative global mean net feedback that is about twice the feedback estimated from CMIP6 long‐term warming (4×CO2) experiments.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:32:02 -0500 2021-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Hailong Wang
Leadership Chats: Member Feedback (February 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82452 82452-21100206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Receiving and acting upon feedback from your student organization members plays a vital role in member retention. It makes your organization members feel heard and valued. So how do you start the conversation? What are ways to ask for and collect member feedback? If you’re interested in learning more about how to get feedback from your organization members, tune in to this week’s Leadership Chat!

Most Thursdays this semester, CCI's Leadership Consultants will present best practices, ideas for engagement and thoughts on developing your leadership practices. We premiere our video presentations on Facebook Live (follow us at facebook.com/centerforcampusinvolvement) at 4 p.m. EST on Thursdays, but you can watch whenever is convenient for you on our playlist!

Have an idea for a topic we should cover? Email ideahub-leadershipconsultants@umich.edu!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:43:53 -0500 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Leadership Chats
U-M Biological Station Prospective Student Info Session (February 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82003 82003-21004771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Undergrads: learn more about spring and summer courses and programming at the U-M Biological Station (UMBS). Chat with staff, former students, and UMBS faculty.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:21:48 -0500 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual Two students read books for class on the floating dock in Douglas Lake.
Campaign finance: Does money in politics matter? (February 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82341 82341-21068623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Join Rick Hall, professor of public policy and professor of political science, for an engaging conversation on campaign finance. All Ford School alumni and students are invited.

Spending on federal elections has accelerated rapidly over the last decade, with the total in 2020 more than doubling than the previous high. But does the money make any difference? Does it influence the outcomes of elections or the decisions of legislators post-election? If so, what can be done about it?

Professor Hall will give an overview of the topic and attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a lively Q & A, followed by breakout sessions with fellow alumni and students to further discuss the topic in detail.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:39:24 -0500 2021-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Hall
Identities Abroad | LGBTQ+ in the Peace Corps (February 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82091 82091-21034698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

During this session, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers identifying as LGBTQ+ will share stories of their lived experience serving in the Peace Corps as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. By attending this webinar, you can learn how identities play a role in being abroad and in Peace Corps service and connect with returned Peace Corps Volunteers!

Click here to register for the session: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/38409

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:29:18 -0500 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Center Livestream / Virtual Identities Abroad: Serving as an LGBTQ+ Volunteer: blue and white flyer
Stammtisch (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83680 83680-21454194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:41:46 -0400 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Stammtisch
Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82040 82040-21012672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Professor Emerita Shelley Perlove, History of Art (UM-Dearborn), will give a Zoom lecture on February 25, 2021, at 7 PM. Her talk, “Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,” is sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (MCECS), the Department of Middle East Studies, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program of the University of Michigan.

The presentation focuses upon the diverse and ever-changing interpretations of Christ and his mother Mary from the 13th through the 17th c. in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Selected works will be discussed in terms of their meaning and cultural context, including Catholic and Protestant controversies. Also of interest are the varied techniques in wood, marble, gold, and paint, as well as issues of museum display. In many cases an attempt will be made to “reconstruct” the original functions of these works created for ecclesiastical and domestic settings.

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/3L1yGa7JF2GCxdiA7
*We recommend registration at least two days before the event, although registration will remain open until the night of the event.*

Additional information is available on the MCECS website: https://mcecs.org/christian-art-at-the-dia/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:26:19 -0500 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Drop In and Get to Know CCL (February 25, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82079 82079-21020928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

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

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkc-qtqTotHtFYnOWIF4kLw6rZ5IkmsXKL

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:23:12 -0500 2021-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 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 2021-02-26T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Rackham 101: Discover Your Leadership Strengths (February 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80135 80135-20566719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will utilize the High5 Strengths assessment to show you your top five strengths. You will then process your results with your fellow graduate students and develop strategies to implement them into your daily practice.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/dOoyl.
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, 05 Jan 2021 18:15:30 -0500 2021-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
U-M Structure Seminar: "The structure adventures: from academia to industry" (February 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76180 76180-19671613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Yoana Dimitrova, Ph.D.
Structural Biology Scientist
Genentech

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:17:19 -0500 2021-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Russian Conversation Club (February 26, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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

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

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

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
Meet N' Eat: Local Leaders & Housing Access and Affordability (February 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82228 82228-21058460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Access to affordable housing is both a local and global issue. Join us from 12-1pm on February 26, 2021 to learn about how local leaders have been responding to the housing crisis in Washtenaw County during the COVID pandemic.

Bring your lunch and questions to engage with the presenters from local nonprofits.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:36:16 -0500 2021-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual flyer with february at the top and event details below on a gray background
Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Imposter Syndrome (February 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80614 80614-20763721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Have you often succeeded at an academic task even though you were afraid you wouldn’t do well? Do you dread others evaluating your work? Do you tend to remember incidents when you haven’t done your best more than those when you have? Thoughts such as these are the hallmark of imposter syndrome thinking. This hybrid workshop shares insights from the scholarship on imposter syndrome and provides research-based strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome. In preparation for the workshop, please watch this asynchronous 45-minute lecture video that shares the scholarship on this topic. At the synchronous workshop on February 26, we will interact with each other and try several of the evidence-based strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome.
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/zxX8G.
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 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:15:36 -0500 2021-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
AIG (the American Institutions Group) (February 26, 2021 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80633 80633-20767651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 12:05pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:29 -0500 2021-02-26T12:05:00-05:00 2021-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location American Institutions Group (AIG) Livestream / Virtual Flag
“The Will to Adorn”: Black Women and Sartorial Practices Post-Emancipation (February 26, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81086 81086-20846546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

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

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

“The Will to Adorn”: Black Women and Sartorial Practices Post-Emancipation"

Ayana Flewellen, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERDALE

Friday, February 26, 2021

1:00 pm

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:36:30 -0500 2021-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual flewellen
Enhanced Fairness in the Workplace: A call To Action (February 26, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79610 79610-20430431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Organizational Justice, leadership, Emotions in the Workplace, Workplace Aggression

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:19:38 -0500 2021-02-26T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Livestream / Virtual
Human Habitat Experience | Senseable Cities with Carlo Ratti (February 26, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82156 82156-21044618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The way we live, work, and play is very different today than it was just a few decades ago, thanks in large part to a network of connectivity that now encompasses most people on the planet. In a similar way, today we are at the beginning of a new technological revolution: the Internet is entering the physical space – the traditional domain of architecture and design – becoming an “Internet of Things” or IoT. As such, it is opening the door to a variety of applications that – in a similar way to what happened with the first wave of the Internet – can encompass many domains: from energy to mobility, from production to citizen participation. The contribution from Prof. Carlo Ratti will address these issues from a critical point of view through projects by the Senseable City Laboratory, a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the design office Carlo Ratti Associati.

An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life and design, Carlo has co-authored over 500 publications, including “The City of Tomorrow” (Yale University Press, with Matthew Claudel), and holds several technical patents.

Panelists:

Kenichi Soga, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Geoffrey Thün, Professor of Architecture and Senior Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:54:33 -0500 2021-02-26T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-26T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Carlo Ratti
Cops Off Campus Research Project: A Workshop (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81640 81640-20935526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*Zoom registration required: https://myumi.ch/yKBDP*

*How much does your university contribute to policing? How much does policing rely on your university? Who does it police? Where does it police?*

If you don’t have answers to these questions, you probably want them. We want them too.

Do you think it’s important for students to know how to find answers to these questions? Do you think it’s important for communities to find answers to them when police have jurisdiction that goes beyond the university campus?

The Cops Off Campus research project is a way of collecting this data to instigate a larger public conversation about the relations between universities and policing. We are looking to help instructors, students, organizers, and communities to ask questions about how much money and how many other resources universities devote to policing and what the effects are. We invite folks to participate in a project to collect data about university/police relationships with the goal of kicking cops off campuses and abolishing policing. We are excited to collaborate with members of the University of Michigan community toward these ends.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:27:25 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Cops Off Campus Research: A Workshop
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79887 79887-20511610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Science as Art Faculty Panel Discussion & Awards Ceremony (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82385 82385-21090310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Join a panel of faculty in this discussion of the intersection of science and art. Immediately following the panel, award winners will be announced for the 2021 Science as Art competition. You can view submissions and vote for peoples' choice award through 2:15pm on Friday, February 26, 2021.

Eleni Gourgou, Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Brad Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor, School of Art & Design; Research Professor, Department of Radiology
Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music; Associate Faculty, UM Center for Japanese Studies
Moderated by Deb Mexicotte, Managing Director, ArtsEngine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:46:00 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Livestream / Virtual Science as Art
Contemporary Directions Ensemble (February 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81976 81976-21000811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

Clarice Assad: Pole to Pole
Alejandro Viñao: "d'après Khan Variations" from Cuaderno del Ritmo
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 147

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Sophia Brueckner: Sci-Fi Prototyping and Critical Optimism (February 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80900 80900-20818976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Inseparable from computers since the age of two, Sophia Brueckner believes she is a cyborg. As a software engineer at Google, she designed and built products used by tens of millions. At the Rhode Island School of Design and the MIT Media Lab, she researched the simultaneously empowering and controlling aspects of technology with a focus on tangible and social interfaces. Since 2011, Brueckner has taught Sci-Fi Prototyping, a course combining science fiction, extrapolative thinking, building prototypes, and technology ethics at MIT, Harvard, RISD, Brown, and the University of Michigan. Both the class itself as well as the students’ individual projects received international recognition and were featured by The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Wired, NPR, Scientific American, Fast Company, and many others. Creating new ways to apply science fiction to the design process, Brueckner prototypes alternatives to the tech industry’s limited visions for how we live with technology. She makes both physical and digital artifacts combining software programming, digital fabrication, and electronics with traditional media. These projects challenge the norms of the tech community, whose work has enormous impact on our day-to-day lives, as well as translates the problems in ways that are understandable to the everyday user. She invites others to embody an attitude of “critical optimism” and to imagine what technological futures they might prefer for themselves. Brueckner is the founder and creative director of Tomorrownaut, a creative studio focusing on speculative futures and sci-fi-inspired prototypes. Brueckner’s work has been featured by Artforum, SIGGRAPH, the Peabody Essex Museum, Portugal’s National Museum of Contemporary Art, Leonardo, Eyeo, ISEA, TEDx, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and more. She was an artist-in-residence at Autodesk Pier 9 and is now an artist-in-residence at Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). She is currently an assistant professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her ongoing objective is to combine her background in design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to inspire a more positive future.

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

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

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

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

 

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Brueckner-Sophia.jpg
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 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 2021-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Dialogues in Iranian Studies: Exchange Between Scholars in Iran & the US (February 27, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81957 81957-20996858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Please join us for our first dialogue on Safavi History featuring Nozhat Ahmadi (University of Isfahan) and Rasul Jafarian (University of Tehran). Moderated by Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan).

*A Joint Initiative by the University of Michigan (MES) & the University of Chicago (NELC)*

*Zoom registration required: https://myumi.ch/BoQdl*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:08:22 -0500 2021-02-27T10:30:00-05:00 2021-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Dialogues in Iranian Studies: Exchange Between Scholars in Iran & the US
Ask Me Anything: Instagram Takeover with Aisha Bowe and Sydney Hamilton (February 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82339 82339-21068621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Calling the U-M Engineering community! Tune in to the College of Engineering’s live Instagram Ask Me Anything takeover to celebrate Black History Month with two of our Aerospace alumnae. Aisha Bowe (BSAE ’08), a former NASA engineer and founder and CEO of STEMBoard and Sydney Hamilton (BSAE ’13) a Structures Stress Manager at Boeing, will be your hosts on Saturday, February 27th from 2:00-3:00 pm EST. Come and ask them anything from their experiences being Black in STEM, WOC in STEM or Women in AERO, to starting a successful company, to making the most of your time at U-M. Head over to the College of Engineering's Instagram if you'd like to pre-submit your questions in advance!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:10:35 -0500 2021-02-27T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Ask Me Anything with Aisha Bowe and Sydney Hamilton
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (February 27, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-02-27T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (February 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 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 2021-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Symphony Band Watch Party (February 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82320 82320-21068593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tune in for a collection of impactful past performances by the U-M Symphony Band that celebrates the excellence of Black musicians and pays tribute to influential music, leaders, and Black history.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Call for Applications - Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics (March 1, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79587 79587-20414632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 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 2021-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biostatistics Livestream / Virtual Big Data Summer Institute in Biostatistics 2021
Anti-Racism in an Abroad Context (March 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80492 80492-20730266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Structural racism in the United States is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal—that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color. It is a system of hierarchy and inequity, primarily characterized by white supremacy—the preferential treatment, privilege, and power for white people at the expense of other racially oppressed people. It is also important to recognize that racism is a global issue and continues to be perpetuated in society across the globe and it manifests in many different ways at various levels. This anti-racism workshop in an abroad context aims to offer an entryway for the student to engage in observing how racism plays out in different societies outside the United States, utilizing examples, particularly media representation, that may reflect deeper messages, and what it means to be anti-racist in the abroad context for American students who have been abroad, or may be visiting, studying, or traveling abroad.
This workshop will engage participants in the following activities:

Better understanding of the phrase “anti-racism”
Learning about race and its nuances
Recognizing how culture can shape how racism and power structures develop
Seeing how media around the world uphold oppression in different ways, and
Creating action steps toward actively recognizing oppression abroad.

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/zxorq.
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 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:15:30 -0500 2021-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Sweetland Write-Together (March 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81305 81305-20883854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500 2021-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Magic in Mame-Loshn: Translating Harry Potter into Yiddish (March 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79545 79545-20375058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Harry Potter series is the most-translated book series of all time, having appeared in languages as various as Tamil, Ancient Greek, and Hawaiian. In this talk, Viswanath will be talking about the journey and challenge of translating Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into Yiddish. Along the way, he will address questions and topics such as: Is Harry Potter particularly difficult to translate? What does it mean to translate something into a Jewish language? Who is reading Harry Potter in Yiddish? The book can be ordered online [harrypotter.olniansky.com], and a recording of the first chapter is available on Youtube [youtube.com/watch?v=6_fB0ZsjpgE].

Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/8716061622069/WN_go1LSrJ4SrecwpRr2wFNGw

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:55:28 -0500 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Yiddish Harry Potter Cover
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79888 79888-20511611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-01T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Intro to ONSF (March 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81066 81066-20840675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/ZQOXq

The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships recruits and prepares U-M undergraduates, graduate and professional students, and recent alums for major national scholarship and fellowship competitions such as the Rhodes Scholarship for post-graduate study at Oxford.

Join us to learn more about the opportunities that ONSF supports for various graduate and career tracks as well as what it takes to be a competitive applicant.

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:15:34 -0500 2021-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual ONSF Students
Leadership and Professional Development (March 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81479 81479-20895807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

A one-hour webinar for admitted students to learn more about the diverse resources available for students to develop their leadership and professional skills. Learn more about the Barger Leadership Institute (BLI), OptiMize, and the LSA Opportunity Hub, while talking to current students and their experiences in these programs!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:21:57 -0500 2021-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Livestream / Virtual
Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82365 82365-21070618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

MESA is proud to present Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN. Join us for a thrilling event where Janaya Khan will discuss “The Future within the Black Lives Matter Movement and The Intersections of being a Black, Queer, and Gender-Nonconforming Activist" This event is sponsored by The Spectrum Center and Central Student Government, and will be co-moderated by students Adrian King (they/them), PhD candidate in American Culture, and Jolyna Chiangong, who will be joined by Vice President Of Student Life Dr. Martino Harmon.

With a timely message about the transformational power of protest, Janaya Khan is a leading activist who engages their community in a profound discussion about social justice and equality. Known as ‘Future’ within the Black Lives Matter movement, Janaya is a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist (pronouns: they, them, theirs), staunch Afrofuturist and social-justice educator who presents an enlightening point of view on police brutality and systemic racism.

“Throughout the political tumult of 2020, one of the most prominent voices to become a source of healing and hope was Janaya Future Khan, whose rapidly-growing audience across social media now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. But while the activist’s weekly Sunday Sermons on Instagram provided a necessary forum for those looking to reflect and regroup during the pandemic and the instances of police brutality that sparked a renewal of energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement, Khan’s activism extends much further back—all the way to their childhood, spent between Toronto and Florida, and their subsequent years as a competitive boxer.

Galvanized by the 2014 killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Jermaine Carby in Toronto at the hands of police officers, Khan has had a longstanding involvement in Black Lives Matter—even launching its first international chapter in Canada—and became a necessary and informed voice for those seeking direction last summer. And like many around the world, Khan found themselves dismayed and angered by the scenes that unfolded on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building, where riots led by Trump supporters sieged the building to disrupt the final counting of the Electoral College ballots in favor of Joe Biden’s Presidential win, resulting in five deaths.” BY LIAM HESS January 10, 2021

MESA and the Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:08 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual JANAYA KHAN
Combating Anti-Asian Racism (March 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80507 80507-20732241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Professor Melissa Borja is a faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program and lead researcher with the Stop Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Hate Reporting Center, a national effort to document and analyze coronavirus-related hate against Asian Americans. She will share her research as well as ways that graduate students and postdoctoral fellows can work to address anti-Asian racism as teachers, scholars, and community members.
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/r8op8.
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 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:15:32 -0500 2021-03-02T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Propaganda as Viral Stunts: How Party Press in China Navigates Between Tradition and Innovation (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80186 80186-20594127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk presents findings from Dr. Zou’s recent work that investigates the production of soft propaganda campaigns on China’s social media, where ideological persuasion is entwined with various forms of digital play, such as hip-hop music videos, memes/hashtags, and interactive mini-games. China’s state-run media play a crucial role in producing and distributing soft propaganda campaigns. This talk offers a glimpse of such campaigns and presents a nuanced mezzo-level analysis on the inter- and intra-organizational dynamics within the Party press system that contribute to the increasing output of soft propaganda. It shifts the emphasis from the effect of propaganda as a political instrument to the design of propaganda, which fashions an aesthetic and affective experience and opens up an ambient process of subject formation.

Sheng Zou is a postdoctoral research fellow at Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in Communication from Stanford University. His research interests include global media industries, digital politics and popular culture, platform economy and labor, and emergent technologies. His dissertation and book project: "The Engineering of Sentiment and Desire: Unraveling the Aestheticized Politics of Ideotainment in China" examines the shifting paradigm of propaganda and emotional governance in China, with emphasis on the entanglement of ideological persuasion and online entertainment.

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

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y_v9cJkeQM2fyVFZQlH3ZA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:46:44 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sheng Zou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
PICS Career Event. Careers with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79868 79868-20509636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Interested in careers with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency? Join us to learn from Senior Staff Development Officer (Refugee Law), UNHCR and University of Michigan alumnus, John A. Young (BA ‘86, JD ‘90) who will share his career and life experiences from his 25+ years of service with UNHCR.

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

Register at: http://myumi.ch/dOZkV

John A. Young, University of Michigan LS&A (Double majoring in Russian Language and Literature, and Russian and East European Studies) and Law, has worked most of his career on refugee protection. Mainly with UNHCR since 1994, he also served five years at the European Commission in pre-accession projects on law and justice. Throughout his career, John has been engaged in refugee status determination, resettlement, asylum-building, migration management, and the identification and response to vulnerable persons. While in Iraq, he oversaw the provision of shelter to hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons. In Turkey, he was responsible for supervision of refugee status determination, resettlement, protection policy and all other issues falling under UNHCR's protection mandate, in what at the time were the largest Refugee Status Determination and Resettlement operations in UNHCR. Whilst in Brussels he prepared UNHCR's legal submissions for ECHR in Strasbourg, and the Court of Justice, and worked with the European Parliament and Commission on the recast Qualification Directive. Presently he is a Senior Staff Development Officer (Refugee Law), based in Budapest, Hungary. John has also served in Russia, Switzerland, Serbia and Slovakia, with missions to Kenya, Uganda, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

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 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:34:15 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual PICS Career Event. Careers with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (March 2, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80392 80392-20713709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the “Muslim conquest of 711,” warning that Europe will be called on to defend its borders. Violence and paranoia are alive and well in Fortress Europe.

Against this xenophobic tendency, *The Feeling of History* examines the idea of Andalucismo—a modern tradition founded on the principle that contemporary Andalusia is connected in vitally important ways with medieval Islamic Iberia. Charles Hirschkind explores the works and lives of writers, thinkers, poets, artists, and activists, and he shows how, taken together, they constitute an Andalusian sensorium. Hirschkind also carefully traces the various itineraries of Andalucismo, from colonial and anticolonial efforts to contemporary movements supporting immigrant rights. *The Feeling of History* offers a nuanced view into the way people experience their own past, while also bearing witness to a philosophy of engaging the Middle East that experiments with alternative futures.

Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. His published works include, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia 2006), Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (co-edited with David Scott, Stanford 2005), and The Feeling for History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago 2020)

Flora Hastings is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and a freelance journalist. Her research interests include Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary Barcelona, progressive forms of Judaism and Islam, neo-liberalism, migration and contemporary European identity, diasporic identity, and modernisation processes. Flora is also a coordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network.

Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/6716099411525/WN_WM3BO8GgTwGeJ49ZH9Z7iQ

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:10:34 -0500 2021-03-02T12:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual The Feeling of History
DEI Workshop: Diversity 101 (March 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79158 79158-20217715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*Please direct any questions or accommodation requests to Mikalia Dennis (mikaliad@umich.edu) as soon as possible.*

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others.

In this session, participants will:

- Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
- Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
- Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA Staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:19:23 -0500 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual We're better when we're united
Data Feminism Faculty Reading Group (March 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80428 80428-20719765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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


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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:01:11 -0500 2021-03-02T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual book cover, Data Feminism
Distinguished University Professorship Lectures (March 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82058 82058-21014662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The Distinguished University Professorships recognize senior faculty with exceptional scholarly and/or creative achievements, national and international reputations for academic excellence, and superior records of teaching, mentoring, and service. At this virtual event, three recipients will present on their career work and answer audience questions.
Speakers
Paul Courant, Edward M. Gramlich Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy, Provost Emeritus, Howard T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of Information
Leading policy economist and former University of Michigan Provost Paul Courant is nationally recognized for his groundbreaking research in urban economics and public finance, including such topics as tax policy and the impact of racial discrimination on housing markets. Among other contributions, he led the development of a transparent, intellectually coherent academic budgeting model used at Michigan and by many other universities, and he was instrumental in defining the role of university libraries in the digital age.
“Society, the University, and How I Spent the Last 40-Odd Years”
Harold Shapiro has pointed out that the university is both a servant and critic of society. Professor Courant will take the perspective of a policy-oriented economist in this lecture, to talk about what universities do and how well they do it. He will use his own career to illustrate how policy-oriented economics can help to achieve the purposes of the university (very much including the humanities) while guaranteeing a splendid time for all.
 
Deborah Goldberg, Margaret B. Davis Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Pioneering plant ecologist Deborah Goldberg elucidates the fundamental processes that control the dynamics, structure, and function of ecological communities, including the impacts of anthropogenic drivers such as climate change and invasive species. Among other contributions, she developed a new paradigm for mechanisms of interactions among plants by distinguishing between effects on and responses to intermediates such as resources, pollinators, herbivores, and microbial symbionts, leading to greater predictability of the outcome of competition. Professor Goldberg also developed several model programs to increase the number and success of underrepresented young people going into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
“Ecology of the Anthropocene”
The current geological era has been dubbed the Anthropocene because of the dominance of human influences on climate and the environment. Understanding how ecological systems are being affected by human activities and the underlying processes is critical for predicting and managing the consequences. In this talk, Professor Goldberg describes some of her work on the mechanisms driving ecological responses to global change, including addressing the challenges of prediction in ecology.
 
Judith Irvine, Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistic Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Linguistic anthropologist Judith Irvine is an internationally recognized leader in anthropological theory and analysis. Famous for her groundbreaking research on the relationship between language and other social forms, she redefined key conceptual frameworks in linguistic anthropology, such as formality in language use and ideology of language. Her work demonstrates that language is a critical resource that organizes social relations. Throughout her career, Professor Irvine has stressed the importance of combining ethnographic research with linguistic investigation, challenging cultural anthropologists to bring linguistics into their understanding of face-to-face political interaction and linguists to seriously consider the political underpinnings of language diversity.
“Linguistic Difference and Social Stereotyping”
This talk is about sociolinguistic stereotypes: how they are built, and what people do with them—the linguistic part of social stereotyping. Sociolinguistic stereotypes are not built independently, one by one. Instead, they are always comparative; they always presume a system of contrasts. That system organizes how the linguistic behaviors are embedded in a social and political world. Cross-cultural research shows that perceived differences in ways of speaking contribute to stereotyping and social categorization, and that linguistic and social behaviors that don’t fit in the preconceived system are ignored, considered as marginal exceptions, or actively suppressed. In this talk, Professor Irving uses brief examples, drawn from the United State and West Africa, to illustrate: regional stereotypes; linguistic enactments of social hierarchy; multilingualism, language mapping, and ideologies of ethnicity; and nonstandard language as anti-elite politics.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:51 -0500 2021-03-02T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Honors Admissions Q&A (March 2, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82460 82460-21106110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

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

You can access the Webinar via the following link: https://myumi.ch/3q12E

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:18:28 -0500 2021-03-02T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Livestream / Virtual Student standing on the U-M football field with text that reads: "Honors Admissions Q&A. Chat with admissions staff. Talk with peers."
Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Korean War through the Prism of the Interrogation Room (March 2, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78269 78269-20002852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at:
https://myumi.ch/pdWPE

Through the interrogation rooms of the Korean War, this talk demonstrates how the individual human subject became both the terrain and the jus ad bellum for this critical U.S. war of ‘intervention’ in postcolonial Korea. In 1952, with the US introduction of voluntary POW repatriation proposal at Panmunjom, the interrogation room and the POW became a flashpoint for an international controversy ultimately about postcolonial sovereignty and political recognition.

The ambitions of empire, revolution and non-alignment converged upon this intimate encounter of military warfare: the interrogator and the interrogated prisoner of war. Which state could supposedly reinvent the most intimate power relation between the colonizer and the colonized, to transform the relationship between the state and subject into one of liberation, democracy or freedom? Tracing two generations of people across the Pacific as they navigate multiple kinds of interrogation from the 1940s and 1950s, this talk lay outs a landscape of interrogation – a dense network of violence, bureaucracy, and migration – that breaks apart the usual temporal bounds of the Korean War as a discrete event.

Monica Kim is a historian of the United States and international and diplomatic history. In her research and teaching, she focuses on three issues that have centrally informed the position of the United States vis-à-vis the decolonizing world during the twentieth century and beyond: the relationships between liberalism and racial formations, global militarism and sovereignty, and transnational political movements and international law.

Her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (2019) has received three book prizes:
2021 James B. Palais Book Prize (Korean Studies) from the Association for Asian Studies
2020 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2020 Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:27:07 -0500 2021-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Monica Kim, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin
Rackham North: Leading Effective Collaborative Teams (March 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80508 80508-20732242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The shape of research, creative scholarship, and teaching is in flux. In order to thrive, students and practitioners need to have the skills and knowledge to excel in collaborative team environments. However, most team leaders and facilitators have trouble helping their teams to identify their assets, understand their group dynamics, navigate conflict, and maintain positive communication.
ArtsEngine and Rackham North invite you to an engaging, hands-on workshop designed to give you important facilitation tools you can use to effectively lead diverse, interdisciplinary, and highly productive teams—setting your efforts up for success right from the start!
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/BoWz7.
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, 09 Feb 2021 12:15:54 -0500 2021-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (March 3, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

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

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

Free and open to all levels of practice.

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-03-03T12:15:00-05:00 2021-03-03T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79889 79889-20511612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Yoga auf Deutsch (March 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83669 83669-21452192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:57:30 -0400 2021-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual
German Convo Home Edition (March 3, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83673 83673-21454157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:58:14 -0400 2021-03-03T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual German Convo Home Edition
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81923 81923-20990903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:34:49 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
CJS Lecture Series | How Japan Got It Wrong: Government Policy, Gender, and the Birth Rate (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79789 79789-20493918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Over the past three decades, the Japanese government has enacted a series of measures to boost the country’s anemic birth rate. Nevertheless, the birth rate has hovered around 1.4 children per woman, far below what is required for the population to reproduce itself. Why haven’t the policies worked? I argue that policies that have focused on trying to make women’s work lives more like men’s have fundamentally missed the mark. Not only have such policies failed to raise the birth rate, they have also arguably exacerbated gender inequality. This paper suggests that future government and workplace policies move in a different direction.

Mary C. Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and the Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary Japanese society and economy, labor markets, social demography, and gender inequality. She has published widely on gender inequality in Japan and in East Asia more broadly.

Zoom registration is required here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JsLH5WpASsyrQLLYRqMn9g

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 Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:50:21 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79918 79918-20515551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Tool link: https://github.com/rdcrawford/cognac

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:34:43 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Livestream / Virtual
Future Faculty Event to Enhance Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82321 82321-21068594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Faculty from top liberal arts colleges are visiting for a virtual event on March 4 and 5 to promote greater diversity in the faculty at their institutions. Attendees will hear about work-life at a liberal arts college and network with faculty, administrators, and diversity officers from participating colleges. Attendees will also have the rare opportunity to meet one-on-one with a faculty member to discuss their individual job application portfolio materials (CVs, teaching philosophies, research statements, etc.). Registration closes on Monday, March 1 to allow time for scheduling one-on-one consultation meetings. A brief outline of the agenda for this event is below:
March 4
12:00 to 1:15 p.m.: Faculty Panel—Academic Life at Liberal Arts Colleges
1:15 to 1:30: BREAK
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Disciplinary Breakout Discussions (Arts & Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Natural Sciences & STEM)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.: One-on-One Zoom Meetings (will be scheduled at the convenience of each faculty member)
March 5
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: One-on-One Zoom Meetings (will be scheduled at the convenience of each faculty member)
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/BoQzB.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:16:08 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Interracial Dialogue (March 4, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81485 81485-20899743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The prospect of engaging in interracial dialogue can be a discomforting one for many people in the United States. There’s concern about saying the wrong thing, fear of how you or others will respond, and oftentimes a desire to get out of the moment as quickly as possible. In this session on navigating interracial dialogue, we will explore what are people’s biggest barriers to engaging in interracial dialogue, present a framework for engaging in race-aware interracial dialogue, and critique a dialogue for review. This training is being developed and facilitated by EQuity.
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/bv8Wl.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:15:50 -0500 2021-03-04T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
POSTPONED: EEB Virtual Seminar: Evolution discussion (March 4, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82017 82017-21006755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

We will announce a new date in the near future.

Professors Knowles and Rabosky present a discussion on evolution.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:07:16 -0500 2021-03-04T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Biological Sciences Building with words EEB Thursday Seminar Series in yellow
BLI Alumni Panel (March 4, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82454 82454-21100208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Join us this Thursday to hear about the leadership journeys of a select panel of BLI alumni! Discover how these alumni translated their BLI experience into their professional and educational pursuits and learn how they continue to practice leadership beyond Michigan.

We are delighted to welcome back the following BLI Alum to the panel,

- Jon Rubenstein AB ’18 Organizational Studies, Writing Minor
- Patrick Mullan-Koufopoulos AB ’17, Public Policy, and AM ’20, Educational Leadership and Policy
- Mya Harris AB ’20, International Studies, Business Minor
- Clara Li  AB ’18, Public Policy
- Rae Oleshansky AB ’18, Sociology, Community Action and Social Change Minor

Virtual dinner provided for the first 15 students to RSVP and attend the event! Meals will be reimbursed up to $15 post event. Students eligible for meal replacement will be notified prior to the event.

The panel is from 5-6 pm with a networking opportunity from 6-6:30 pm.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:47:44 -0500 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Livestream / Virtual BLI
Join Mentoring Sessions With Accomplished English Alumni (March 4, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82445 82445-21100192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Mentoring sessions are meant to give a small group of students close interaction with one of our accomplished alumni. You should feel free to ask questions related to training, career trajectory, how to apply for internships or jobs - basically anything you want to know as you prepare for post-college plans. Each of the five participating alums will host their own breakout sessions.

Space for this event is limited - make sure to RSVP as soon as possible and definitely by Monday, March 1. When you RSVP, you will have the chance to tell us which mentor(s) you are most interested in working with. Zoom link and additional information will be provided after you RSVP.

RVSP by March 1st: https://forms.gle/VUyvHKwtXUHuN9yY9

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:25:00 -0500 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual English Mentoring
Charles Correa International Lecture: Xu Tiantian (March 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82206 82206-21052541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture. She has received numerous awards such as the WA China Architecture Award in 2006 and 2008, the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award in 2008, the Design Vanguard Award in 2009 by Architecture Record and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architect in 2019. She has built a number of projects, such as Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years she has been engaged extensively in the rural revitalising process in Songyang County, China. Her groundbreaking “architectural acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages. Xu Tiantian received her masters in architecture and urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her baccalaureate in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

DnA_Design and Architecture is an interdisciplinary practice addressing our contemporary living environment, both physical and social, from scales small to large. Our approach to projects starts with research and discussion on context, program, and their interaction, which we believe are the fundamental elements, or the dna, that will define design and architecture, to adapt, engage, and contribute to our society of multiplicity and complexity. Context, program, and their potential relationship, will cultivate architecture into a multidimensional expression and generate new experiment and exploration for users. Architecture will continue to influence and inspire our contemporary life.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:05:04 -0500 2021-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Livestream / Virtual Xu Tiantian
The Poverty Narrative: Confronting Inequity (March 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81991 81991-21004756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This FREE virtual event is dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of the connections between race, structural racism, and poverty in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement, and election season of 2020 highlighted the urgent need to confront the policies and practices that perpetuate inequity.

Join academic researchers and journalists to learn:
- The roles of academia and journalism in documenting systemic inequity and pointing to potential solutions that ensure just outcomes;
- The root causes of inequity in housing, education, and public health; and
- How to use data to identify disparities and the importance of putting that data in historical context.

The event includes four 60-minute sessions, which will be livestreamed on YouTube with time for panelists to respond to questions from viewers. The Poverty Narrative is open to journalists, academic researchers, and anyone interested in improving the narrative around poverty in the U.S. and promoting a better understanding of structural inequity.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:41:08 -0500 2021-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual The Poverty Narrative
Rackham 101: Hidden Curriculum of Graduate School (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82273 82273-21062642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In this workshop, we will broadly discuss and define the hidden curriculum of graduate school and provide recommendations for how to navigate some of the things that are not explicitly taught.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/kxZOo.
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 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:16:10 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
U-M Structure Seminar: "Carbohydrate capture by human gut bacteria: the first crystal structure of raw starch-binding protein, Doc6, from Ruminococcus bromii" (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76727 76727-19741013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Amanda Photenhauer
Graduate Student
Nicole Koropatkin Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:48:44 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Russian Conversation Club (March 5, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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

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

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

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
Biophysics Seminar Series (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79991 79991-20539092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

The Biophysics Virtual Seminar Series presents:

Dr. Samuel Butcher - Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

*“The epitranscriptome has been shaped by the co-evolution of RNA writer and reader proteins.”*

ABSTRACT: The epitranscriptome is characterized by dozens of post-transcriptional chemical modifications to RNA.  These chemical modifications are catalyzed by enzymes, or “writers” that chemically mark both coding and non-coding RNAs.  The post-transcriptional marks are then read by protein “readers” that bind to the RNA modifications and help direct their cognate RNAs towards different pathways in the cell. I will present our work showing how RNA writers
and readers have co-evolved to shape the epitranscriptome input and output. A series of comparative molecular structures will be described that illustrate how very subtle changes in enzyme active sites of RNA modifying enzymes result in different chemical marks that have co-
evolved with RNA reader proteins, which can adopt modular quaternary structures that are specifically tuned to read different modifications. This co-evolution of RNA writers and readers impacts nearly every step of eukaryotic gene expression.

*Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92759610297*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:25:38 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Dr. Samuel Butcher
CSAS Book Talk | The Globally Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80586 80586-20759739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop, thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative, and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of urban place-making in "digital" India.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscuyvqjIsE9aUrJqJmL3Sy-hBlM9endk1

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:22:59 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Book Talk | The Globally: Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80951 80951-20824878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:45:40 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Methodology
On the Peripheries of the Subaltern: Privilege, Marginalization, and Intersectional Identities (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80573 80573-20749957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Grounded in theoretical frameworks of “otherness,” such as Spivak’s “subaltern” and Canagarajah’s “periphery,” this workshop will explore the intersection of multiple identities which are simultaneously held by every individual.
After participants engage in an exploration of these intersectional identities, they will then analyze how biases—like colorism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and xenophobia—can still be internalized within communities which are also marginalized.
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/yKNQn.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:15:37 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
The Numismatic Collection at the Kelsey: History and Highlights (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80756 80756-20783463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The majority of the numismatic collection at the Kelsey Museum comes from archaeological excavations undertaken by the University of Michigan in the first half of the 20th century. This talk will serve as an introduction to the collection, comprising over 40,000 coins. We will talk about the history of the material, specifically from the sites of Seleucia on the Tigris and Karanis, and some highlights of the collection.

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:55:17 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual coin hoard from Seleucia
UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series: Life in the Center: Investigating Residential Contexts at Letchworth Mounds (8JE337) (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82144 82144-21042638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Letchworth Mounds is among the largest Woodland period ceremonial centers in Florida and includes one of the state’s tallest Pre-Columbian mounds, but has been understudied by archaeologists and omitted from regional syntheses. Despite the massive scale of the site and its primary mound, previous testing has produced little evidence of long-term habitation at Letchworth. Last year, the Letchworth Habitation Area Archaeological Project utilized remote sensing and targeted excavations to assess when and how people lived at the site. In this presentation, I discuss results from last year’s fieldwork, including a new chronology for Letchworth and the remains of a Woodland period building—the first one found at Letchworth and one of only a handful identified in the region. Based on these results, I will present an interpretation of daily life at Letchworth, comparisons with other sites in the region, and models of ceremonial center occupation in the Southeast.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:58:05 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual menz
DEI in Engineering Pedagogy - Find Your Students (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82451 82451-21100197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are central and defining components of pedagogy. When we don’t explicitly consider DEI in our courses (syllabi, assignments, exams, grades) we end up actively contributing to an oppressive, inequitable monoculture. One of most helpful and inclusive practices we can cultivate as teachers is to listen deeply and compassionately. Drawing from research on cognition, learning and epistemology as well as my own experience as a researcher and teacher, I have a few suggestions for how to use listening as a teaching tool. All teaching requires a contract between the teachers and the taught, and the default (historical and tacit) contract puts undue and inequitable burdens on our students. It is our responsibility as educators to change our practices to address these inequities.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:07:50 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Devlin Montfort
Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81353 81353-20887833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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

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

Session l
1 pm Welcome and introduction: Cody Thompson

1:05 pm Opening remarks: Dan Rabosky

1:15 pm Keynote presentation: Rob Guralnick, Associate Curator, Biodiversity Informatics, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

Talk title: Sizing up new uses of natural history collections for ecogeography and global change biology

2 pm Panel discussion: Rob Guralnick and Dan Rabosky

Abstract
Body size is a key integrator trait because it influences nearly all aspects of organismal biology. It has strong relationships with fitness, and is influenced by a number of biotic and abiotic factors, while also potentially functionally and structurally constrained. Given its central importance, body size has long been studied by ecologists and evolutionary biologists, including burgeoning interest in size change as a key response to global changes such as human predation and global warming. In this talk, I show the power of natural history collections to inform about long-standing and new questions about body size change broadly over space and time. I will first describe efforts to compile and share millions of measurements that have routinely been taken by field vertebrate biologists, utilizing a growing informatics toolkit and semantic web approaches to make those available. I then provide four case studies, two focused on examining a classical ecogeographical rule, Bergmann’s Rule. The first case study takes an initial look at this rule across 1000s of vertebrate species. The second focuses on a narrower subset but examines multiple climate predictors, not just temperature, and asks if species climate niche determines intraspecific body size change. The third case study asks if we can use natural history collections to understand body size changes over the recent past and due to climatic factors and human population changes, focusing on a case study on deer mice across North America. Finally, I showcase the potential to look over very broad evolutionary time, and understand shape and size change of butterfly wings, again using the power of natural history collections, showcasing vastly different evolutionary rates for fore- and hindwing shape and size. I close noting the importance of building the infrastructure to support the concept of the extended specimen, as a transformational next step in facilitating novel use of natural history collections.​

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 07:27:44 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Illustration of museum drawers opened and boxes on top containing the following: shell, plant, grasshopper, mushroom, snake, skull and owl.
Psychology Presents: Careers A to Z (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82049 82049-21014655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Join us for an interactive panel discussion of Psychology Dept Alumni as they present their career path and discuss how they've used their degree since graduating. Students will then be able to sign up for 15 minutes one-on-ones with individual alumni in Zoom breakout rooms after the panel. During the 1:1, you can ask more questions about their career path, tips and advice, and even feedback on your resume.

Click here to register: https://myumi.ch/WwMMZ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:56:47 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Livestream / Virtual Psychology Presents: Careers A to Z informational flyer
Consequences of Leader Diversity Ideology on Ethical Leadership Perception and organizational Citizenship Behavior (March 5, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79613 79613-20430436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Ethical Decision making, Organizational Justice, Diversity Issues.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:56:57 -0500 2021-03-05T13:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Livestream / Virtual
An Introduction to CJARS: A new data platform for integrated criminal justice research (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81913 81913-20990884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Webinar and Live Q&A

CJARS is a next generation data platform built on over 2+ billion lines of raw data, looking to transform criminal justice research and statistical reporting as we know it. The system, which grows each and everyday, currently contains over 133 million criminal justice events from arrest to parole, occurring in 18 states, covering over 33 million individuals. All of this data can be integrated at the individual level with extensive, longitudinal socio-economic data in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Topics to include:
- Contents and coverage of CJARS data infrastructure
- Comparison to existing BJS statistical series
- Opportunities for data linkage in the Federal Statistical Research
Data Center network
- Application process to work with CJARS data
- Resources available to support early-stage researchers

Interested researchers should register: https://forms.gle/xgmobvXtbLKKRFSPA
(Event link will be provided after registering)

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:30:48 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual CJARS - Criminal Justice Administrative Records System
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79890 79890-20511613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (March 5, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82022 82022-21006759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

U-M Political Science doctoral student David Suell will present, "Grounding radical democracy: Nyerere, Cabral, and narrating the anti-colonial state." Suell's research and teaching focuses on critical theory, comparative political theory, and African politics and political thought.

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 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:12:01 -0500 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Suell
Cognitive Science Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series: Universalization: philosophical origins and cognitive applications (March 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79447 79447-20327783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dr. Sydney Levine is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She will give two presentations on March 5 as part of the Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series.

Schedule
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Foundations Presentation
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Q & A
—5 minute break—
3:50 pm - 4:40 pm Frontiers Presentation
4:40 pm - 5:05 pm Q & A

Title:
Universalization: philosophical origins and cognitive applications

Abstract:
Some people think it is immoral not to vote, but why? Current theories of moral psychology — based largely on outcomes, rules, or affect — have trouble explaining this intuition. After all, one vote typically makes no difference in the overall outcome of an election. Moreover, there is not necessarily a rule or norm that mandates voting. And the thought of not voting isn’t particularly emotionally charged. Rather, I propose that moral judgments in cases like this arise out of the logic of universalization — essentially the process of asking “what if everyone did that?”

The logic of universalization is well-known to moral philosophers, appearing in the theories of Kant, RM Hare, George Singer, TM Scanlon and others. In the Foundations section of this talk, I will introduce the concept of universalization and explore how and why it has been used so effectively in moral philosophy. In the Frontiers section of the talk, I will demonstrate how I have used this philosophical concept as a starting place for a model of moral cognition. I will define a computational model of universalization and show how it predicts subject judgments with quantitative precision. In addition, developmental work suggests that universalization may even be used by children as young as 4. Finally, I will end by showing how universalization may be the key to a unified theory of moral cognition.

About the Series
The Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series brings leading cognitive scientists to U-M (virtually) to present a special pair of presentations on the same day. The first presentation serves as an introduction to an important theoretical idea or method in the field -- the Foundations. The second presentation concerns the application of that idea or method to an innovative topic, thus exploring the Frontiers of the field in a way that highlights the significance of the theoretical idea.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:41:48 -0500 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T17:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Dr. Sydney Levine
Jad Abumrad: Making “Dolly Parton’s America” (March 5, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80901 80901-20818977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Jad Abumrad is the host and creator of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast. Abumrad employs his dual backgrounds as composer and journalist to create what’s been called “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. He orchestrates dialogue, music, interviews, and sounds into compelling documentaries that draw listeners into investigations of otherwise intimidating topics, such as the nature of numbers, the evolution of altruism, or the legal foundation for the war on terror. He’s won three George Foster Peabody Awards, and in 2011 Abumrad was honored as a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the Genius Grant).

The MacArthur Foundation website says: “Abumrad is inspiring boundless curiosity within a new generation of listeners and experimenting with sound to find ever more effective and entertaining ways to explain ideas and tell a story.”

Abumrad also created and hosted three seasons of More Perfect, a series about untold stories of the Supreme Court, which The New York Times called “...possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.” And in 2019, along with OSM Audio’s Shima Oliaee, Jad Abumrad created Dolly Parton’s America, a Peabody Award-winning 9-part series that explores a divided America through the life and music of one its greatest icons. Alongside his radio work, Abumrad continues to work as a composer and remixer and is currently hosting a radio show on Apple Music.

For this speaker series event, Abumrad will be in conversation with Chris Azzopardi, editor of Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ wire service serving LGBTQ publications across the United States. Azzopardi is also a contributor to The New York Times and has written for Vanity Fair, GQ, Billboard, and Oprah Magazine. His 2014 interview with Dolly Parton was published in an anthology of interviews spanning her life and career, entitled Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton. Over the course of Azzopardi’s career, he has interviewed musicians, actors, allies, and icons including Beyoncé, Meryl Streep, Lady Gaga, and Mariah Carey. Locally, his stories are published in Michigan's LGBTQ newspaper Between The Lines.

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:09 -0500 2021-03-05T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Abumrad-Jad.jpg
Drop In and Get to Know CCL (March 6, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82080 82080-21020929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

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

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuigqTsrEteN-dQAGvU-g1Bm2iwM04AJ

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:23:49 -0500 2021-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting
Celebrate AmSARC: US Archaeological Projects in Sudan (March 6, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82100 82100-21036674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join the American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center (AmSARC) in a celebration of US archaeological projects in Sudan. Speakers include:

• Mohamed Faroug Ali (International University of Africa) on Butana
• Stuart Tyson Smith (UC Santa Barbara) on Tombos town
• Michele Buzon (Purdue University) on Tombos cemetery
• Sarah Schrader (Leiden University) on Abu Fatima
• Elizabeth Minor (Wellesley College) on es-Selim
• Geoff Emberling (University of Michigan) on Gebel Barkal
• Brenda Baker (Arizona State University) on al-Qinifab
• Pearce Paul Creasman (ACOR and University of Arizona) on Nuri pyramids
• Abagail Breidenstein (University of Zurich) on Nuri cemetery
• Richard Lobban (Rhode Island College) on Abu Erteila

This virtual event is free and all are welcome to attend. To register, please visit amsarc.org

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:03:41 -0500 2021-03-06T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual AmSARC
Nuclear Engineering and Classical Music (March 6, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82752 82752-21171614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Join Conductor Chelsea Gallo and Composer Corey Dundee in a chamber orchestra performance that explores the intersection of classical music and nuclear engineering. Professor Todd Allen, Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, has included this performance in his class with the help of UMS. Students will discuss the performance and how the arts can inform their own discipline.

Livestream info below.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:43:52 -0500 2021-03-06T13:30:00-05:00 2021-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Livestream / Virtual Sound Waves
Virtual Saturday Sampler Tour | Religious Practice in the Ancient World (March 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80100 80100-20556878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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

The theme of this week's tour is "Religious Practice in the Ancient World."
Through the ages, religion in its many forms has been a constant part of human society. This live Zoom tour will examine a variety of religious practices in the ancient world. Using the Kelsey's rich collection of artifacts, it will look at how ancient peoples in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome celebrated their gods, treated their dead, prepared for the afterlife, and used religious practices to try to avoid harm.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:20:45 -0500 2021-03-06T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual egyptian mummy scene
Student Recital: Olivia Taylor, violin (March 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82831 82831-21181572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM:

The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Violin Sonata in G Minor - Claude Debussy
Violin Partita no. 2 in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-03-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar (March 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81563 81563-21036708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:29:10 -0400 2021-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Live Chat with a Lloyd Scholar
University Symphony Orchestra (March 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82792 82792-21179560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler and Adrian Slywotzky, conductors

Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Strauss: Serenade Op. 7
Mozart: Adagio from Serenade in E-flat, K. 375
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto
   Valentin Kovalev, 2021 Graduate Concerto Competition Winner
Milhaud: La création du monde
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 "Paris"

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Rackham North: Cultural Competencies During the Interview Process (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81537 81537-20907694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Attend this session to learn more about inclusive interviewing from both sides. We will talk about how cultural awareness and experiences influence power dynamics during an interview. We will also discuss how employers might structure a culturally competent interview. To this end, you’ll learn and practice responses that center on your authentic self. You’ll also hear what’s universal about the interview process so you can prepare for the conversations. This session is tailored for international and BIPOC students and postdocs and other individuals interested in inclusive hiring and interviewing.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

Explain how cultural awareness impacts the interview processes
Identify culturally competent interviewing practices from the company’s side
Practice responses and phrases to prepare for the interview

Thi Nguyen, Ph.D. (she/hers) is an educator, career coach, community organizer, and founder of InterSECTjobsims.com. She practices inclusive learning principles. She has held positions as associate dean of graduate career development and program director for non-academic careers at universities. She earned B.A.s in psychology and biology from UT Austin and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UT Southwestern.
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/NxqX3.
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 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:15:50 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Sweetland Write-Together (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81541 81541-20915558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these remote sessions, participants access a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a 10-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
Instructions

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:15:48 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Resolution Office: Building Community and Relationships Story Circle (March 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81813 81813-20961273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

A Story Circle is a small group of individuals sitting in a circle, sharing stories—usually from their own experience or imagination—focusing on a common theme. As each person in turn shares a story, a richer and more complex story emerges. By the end, people see both real differences and things their stories have in common. Story Circles are often understood as deriving from indigenous traditions. There are many variations (https://usdac.us).
In this session participants will be invited to share a story around the theme of Building Community and Relationships. Staff from the Rackham Resolution Office will serve as facilitators for the process and will end the session by sharing campus resources and information related to the theme.
The prompt for this story circle is: Share a story about what community has been like for you in graduate school.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/WwM89.
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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:15:56 -0500 2021-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79891 79891-20511614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:00pm
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Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Organ Improvisation Master Class: Bruce Neswick (March 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81786 81786-20959275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bruce Neswick
Canon for Music, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
An Introduction to CJARS: A new data platform for integrated criminal justice research (March 9, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81913 81913-20990885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Webinar and Live Q&A

CJARS is a next generation data platform built on over 2+ billion lines of raw data, looking to transform criminal justice research and statistical reporting as we know it. The system, which grows each and everyday, currently contains over 133 million criminal justice events from arrest to parole, occurring in 18 states, covering over 33 million individuals. All of this data can be integrated at the individual level with extensive, longitudinal socio-economic data in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Topics to include:
- Contents and coverage of CJARS data infrastructure
- Comparison to existing BJS statistical series
- Opportunities for data linkage in the Federal Statistical Research
Data Center network
- Application process to work with CJARS data
- Resources available to support early-stage researchers

Interested researchers should register: https://forms.gle/xgmobvXtbLKKRFSPA
(Event link will be provided after registering)

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:30:48 -0500 2021-03-09T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual CJARS - Criminal Justice Administrative Records System
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80187 80187-20594128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe groups were acculturated and assimilated into Chinese society. Yet examinations of individual communities and persons in the frontier demonstrate overarching vacillations of political sovereignties and varied mélanges of cultural practices. This lecture engages historical and archaeological discussions of the Southern Xiongnu (ca.50-200 CE) as one example of local leaders who navigated their presence between exterior competing regimes through a suite of hybrid cultural mediations to successfully maintain independent political power.

Bryan K. Miller received a MA in Archaeology from UCLA and a PhD in East Asian Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates the history and archaeology of early empires in East Asia, focusing on intrapolity social and economic developments that occurred over the course of large polities as well as the interaction between regimes of Mongolia and China. His publications include studies of political substrata and the roles of local elites in regional polities, alternate models of interaction for frontier matrices of cultures in contact, functions and configurations of urban settings, and the interplay between local politics and larger processes of globalization. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the Xiongnu Empire for Oxford University Press.

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

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9qILPj9MQa6RuEtKpxd_9g

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:51:15 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Bryan K. Miller, Lecturer in the U-M History of Art Department
Engaged Pedagogy: A Panel On Undergraduate Teaching (March 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82580 82580-21124021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Featured Speaker:

Dr. P. Nick Kardulias
National Award-Winning Educator
"A Life in Educating: 1980-2020"
Professor Emeritus of Classical Civilizations and Anthropology and Chair, Archaeology, College of Wooster

Moderator and opening comments:
Dr. Debotri Dhar
Author and Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Closing comments:
Dr. Michael Galaty
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan

Respondents: Dr. Michael Toumazou, Professor of Classics and Affiliated Professor of Art, Davidson College; Dr. Whitney Goodwin, Adjunct Research Associate and Senior Research Specialist, University of Missouri; Dr. Greg Wiles, Professor of Earth Sciences and Chair of Environmental Studies, College of Wooster

Organized for Women's and Gender Studies 330, co-sponsored by UMMAA

Open to all U-M faculty, staff, and students

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:09:12 -0500 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Women's and Gender Studies Department Livestream / Virtual Engaged Pedagogy - A Panel on Undergraduate Teaching
2021 Henry Russel Lecture (March 9, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81795 81795-20959286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University and Development Events

Join us for the 2021 Henry Russel Lecture "From Socrates to Darwin and Beyond: What Children Can Teach Us About the Human Mind" presented by Susan Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics.

This event will also recognize the 2021 Henry Russel Award Recipients: José Casas, Erin Cech, Matthew Davis, and Johanna Mathieu.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST

Register at https://myumi.ch/lbHenryRussel

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:52:34 -0500 2021-03-09T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University and Development Events Livestream / Virtual 2021 Henry Russel Lecture
The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia: Cartography Discover Series, Session 1 (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82184 82184-21050551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, *The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment* (University of Chicago Press) appeared. A massive reference work of 1651 pages, it comprises 479 entries with 954 full color illustrations, written by 207 contributors from 26 countries. In this webinar series, Co-Editors Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine) and Mary Pedley (Clements Library) enjoy three conversations about the design, contents, and illustrations of this volume.

In session 1, Pedley and Edney discuss the design and rationale for the encyclopedia format of the volume and the challenges and benefits of this structure.

Mary Sponberg Pedley is the Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps at the Clements Library. Her research has focused on French and English map makers and map production in the long eighteenth century.

Matthew H. Edney holds the Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and is the Director of the History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Register at http://myumi.ch/0W0j3

*This online event is a Zoom Webinar with three sessions (March 9, March 16, March 23). Your microphone will be muted and video turned off automatically. Machine closed captioning will be available during the event. Live attendees will be encouraged to use the chat function to submit questions and comments. After each session, all registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:36:25 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Cover of "The History of Cartography Volume 4"
Graduate Student Career Pathways: Interviewing for Jobs Beyond the Professoriate (March 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81542 81542-20915559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will meet the needs of those applying for Rackham internship programs, but is open to any graduate students seeking guidance around interviewing for positions beyond tenure track roles, which can differ greatly from the academic job search process. It will focus on preparing graduate students to navigate the interview process, and to effectively answer questions by strategically articulating strengths and skills.
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/515DM.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:15:48 -0500 2021-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Webinar | Artist Spotlight Stories: Oksana Mirzoyan (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82635 82635-21147756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance to receive the short film links and to attend the discussion:

https://myumi.ch/r8gD2

For nearly a decade, the art of Oksana Mirzoyan has been exploring the social and cultural experiences of the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict. The territorial engagement, which began in the 1980s and unfolded across Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabagh was the catalyst for a sequence of pogroms leveled against Armenians living in major cities of the former Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, from Sumgait to Kirovabad (Ganja) and in 1990, the capital city of Baku.

The conflict had a massive influence not only on the cultural and political geography of the South Caucasus but continues to shape the everyday experience of people living in the region today as well as generations of displaced Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Among the millions forced to evacuate the region, thousands arrived in the United States, concentrating in urban and suburban communities, including in Detroit and surrounding Southeast Michigan. Born in Baku, Mirzoyan arrived in Detroit with her family as a result of the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict.

Mirzoyan’s research into the war starts with her passport photo as a refugee being granted asylum in the US in 1991. This discussion will include a screening of her short experimental works that use archival family footage (“Baku 1977”) and capture sceneries or people's lives in the city of Shushi (Swallows flying in the city of Shushi; "Barber of Shushi"). Her intimate knowledge of the region comes from her first-hand experience of walking on its minefields with Halo Trust, teaching filmmaking to students in Stepanakert (the capital city of Artsakh), and collecting the stories of its citizens. Much of Mirzoyan's art is an exploration of the filmmaker's personal trauma tied to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabagh/Artsakh and presents a journey of healing her past through her relationship with the country.

Oksana Mirzoyan is an Armenian-American artist focused on narrative filmmaking as a writer, director, and producer. Mirzoyan’s films have screened and been awarded internationally at festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Camerimage, and Locarno. Her short film“140 Drams" was an honoree of the Cinematographer’s Guild of America and won Best Short Film at Izmir Film Festival. Mirzoyan is based in Detroit where she is a Kresge Artist Fellow. Her experimental and narrative short films "140 Drams," "Sonnet," and "Susanna" were screened in a solo exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Currently, she is working on her first feature, "Abysm" which explores the ongoing conflict in Nagorno-Karabagh. The film has won Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors Prize, along with support from the George Foundation. Mirzoyan has been recently experimenting with sculpture and installation work.

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, 02 Mar 2021 08:26:43 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Oksana Mirzoyan, artist and filmmaker
(VIRTUAL): CEW+Inspire Midweek Mindfulness-Guided Sits (March 10, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64874 64874-20517538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

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

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

Free and open to all levels of practice.

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:55:12 -0400 2021-03-10T12:15:00-05:00 2021-03-10T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Piece of paper that says mindfulness
A Nanoscale Blueprint of the Human Kinetochore and the Functional Limits of its Design (March 10, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82844 82844-21201315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to announce that Alex Kukreja, CDB Ph.D. Candidate will present his dissertation defense during a virtual seminar on March 10, 2021!

Hosted by: Ajit Joglekar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:34:37 -0500 2021-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cell & Developmental Biology Livestream / Virtual A Nanoscale Blueprint of the Human Kinetochore and the Functional Limits of its Design
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (March 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79892 79892-20511615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2021-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series (March 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82479 82479-21108092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Single-cell technologies have transformed biomedical research in the last few years. With single-cell sequencing, we can now simultaneously measure thousands of genomics features in a large number of cells, which provides an ultrahigh resolution phenotypic map for each individual. However, single-cell protocols are complex. Even with the most sensitive platforms, the data are often sparse and noisy. Recent development of single-cell multi-omics and spatial transcriptomics technologies further imposed additional challenges on data integration. In this talk, I will present several machine learning methods that my group recently developed for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data analysis. I will discuss methods for simultaneous denoising, clustering and batch effect correction, single-cell multi-omics data integration, identification of spatially variable genes, generation of super-resolution gene expression, and inference of cell type distribution in spatial transcriptomics. I will illustrate our methods by showing results from ongoing collaborations on cardiometabolic disease and applications to brain and cancer data.
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Biography: Dr. Li’s research interests include statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. The central theme of her current research is to use statistical and computational approaches to understand cellular heterogeneity in human-disease-relevant tissues, to characterize gene expression diversity across cell types, to study the patterns of cell state transition and crosstalk of various cells using data generated from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics studies, and to translate these findings to the clinics. In addition to methods development, Dr. Li is also interested in collaborating with researchers seeking to identify complex disease susceptibility genes and acting cell types. She is Director of Biostatistics for the Gene Therapy Program at Penn, where she advises biostatistics and bioinformatics analysis for various gene therapy studies. She is also Chair of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics. Dr. Li actively serves in the scientific community. She served as a regular member for the NIH Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology (GCAT) study section for 6 years, and the NHGRI Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) for 3 years. She is an Associate Editor of Annals of Applied Statistics, Statistics in Biosciences, PLOS Computational Biology, and Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:57:46 -0500 2021-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Peace Corps Identities Abroad: BIPOC Panel (March 10, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82721 82721-21163661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

This virtual webinar will feature Returned Peace Corps Volunteers sharing their experiences participating in the Peace Corps as a BIPOC volunteer. By attending this webinar, you'll learn more about Peace Corps service and how identities can play a role in being abroad and serving in the Peace Corps.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/Gk9Ro

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:11:59 -0500 2021-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Center Livestream / Virtual Identities Abroad: Serving as a BIPOC Volunteer flyer
Conversation with Socially Conscious Tech Companies: Truepic (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82734 82734-21169593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

Come to Tech for Social Good’s first conversation with a socially conscious tech company: Truepic. Truepic is a company focused on rebuilding trust in photos and videos in a world of photo manipulation and deep fakes by utilizing blockchains. We will be talking with them about what their platform does, what it means for social justice efforts like citizen journalism, and how they balance their company’s mission and values with their business model. One of the speakers will be a UM alum as well! 💙💛 Please RSVP at this link: tinyurl.com/truepic-new-rsvp, the first 20 people who rsvp will get reimbursed for food!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:48:31 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Livestream / Virtual The image is the poster for the event which includes the date: Wednesday, March 10th at 6 PM, the form to rsvp: tinyurl.com/truepic-new-rsvp, the form to ask questions tinyurl.com/truepic-questions and the zoom link: tinyurl.com/t4sgxtruepic
German Convo Home Edition (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83673 83673-21454158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:58:14 -0400 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual German Convo Home Edition
The Hub presents: The 2021 Grad School Fair (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80163 80163-20572608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The Hub’s annual Grad School Fair is a dedicated forum for LSA students looking to explore or pursue the possibility of graduate education. This year, our Grad School Fair will be held virtually via Career Fair+, a virtual career fair platform that’s conveniently accessible via a smartphone or laptop.

This event brings together graduate program representatives from across the country for an evening of exploring, learning, and networking! It’s a one-stop-shop to learn about the variety of grad programs, understand the realities of grad school, and what to expect throughout the application process.

Register in advance for 1:1 conversations with grad program representatives or attend drop-in group discussions during the event.

To make the most of your experience:
- Access an online Canvas module full of resources and content two weeks before the event to help you prepare for the fair
- Attend our Graduate School Funding Webinar with the Office of Financial Aid, Rackham Graduate School, and the University Career Center to discover funding on- and off-campus funding options
- Attend the Hub’s upcoming BIPOC Graduate Student panel in February to hear from current grad students and those who have recently graduated

You should attend this event if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
- Exploring the possibility of graduate school
- Looking for knowledge and clarity on your post-graduate plans
Intent on securing admission into a grad program

By attending, you will:
- Discover the diverse set of options out there for both graduate schools and degree programs in the US and abroad
- Connect with program representatives to glean actionable insights about the realities of grad school, the career doors it could open, and what makes a competitive candidate
- Develop a plan outlining what your next steps are in the process and establish criteria that can help you determine if a specific school or program can fit your learning and career goals
- Get a better sense of application timelines and requirements, how to secure funding, and more

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

RSVP now to sign up for 1:1 conversations with grad school reps before spots fill up! You must RSVP in order to receive the information required to access this event.

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 Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:20:27 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual LSA student graduate
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81924 81924-20990904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:35:38 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event: "The Historical Jesus in His Jewish Context" (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80033 80033-20548977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived, and died as a Jew. But what kind of Jew was he in the diverse world of Second Temple Judaism? How did the movement he initiated within Judaism move into the pagan world and become what we now call Christianity? Specialists Amy-Jill Levine and Gabriele Boccaccini will engage in a conversation about the latest research on the historical Jesus and explore the implication for contemporary Judaic Studies, followed by a response from Jeremiah Cataldo.
Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/7716080595108/WN_srFRJezkTRahuYLDIv0Pow

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:12:44 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Amy-Jill Levin and Gabriele Boccaccini
Graduate English Welcome Week for MFA Prospective Students (March 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81081 81081-20846540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Welcome Week Events for MFA Prospective Students

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:38:43 -0500 2021-03-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual
CSAS Film Series | Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director (March 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82550 82550-21116098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Covid response is a documentary on the ongoing global pandemic and how it affects a remote Himalayan state in India. The film is a critical look at the various ways in which people’s suffering- mental, physical and financial, have been worsened by the novel coronavirus.

Munmun Dhalaria is an independent filmmaker and National Geographic Storytelling Explorer, mainly focused on wildlife conservation, gender, science communication and human rights. She deals with her own sense of solastalgia by revealing unseen places and untold stories of people’s perseverance to protect our natural world.

Zoom registration is required to attend the event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf-CgqjopHdBVcWS3XuiUI17eFTHz3xHf

Prior to the talk with Munmun Dhalaria, the documentary will be available for viewing online from Monday 3/8 until Sunday 3/14. To view it, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu86F5Wjp0nWML3LSPak9wRyVKSG4rSt2Txm2QIL74bQYY5Q/viewform

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 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director
AROC Community Conversation: Opportunities for Conversation Subcommittee (March 11, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82753 82753-21171617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:10:57 -0500 2021-03-11T11:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Community Conversation Image
Building Your Toolbox as an Anti-Racist Advocate in Higher Ed (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81654 81654-20939471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Higher Ed is a particular kind of work and learning space. While it shares characteristics with its primary and secondary counterparts, it is decidedly different in its teaching, student, and administrative contexts. As a result, anti-racist work in higher education settings must look different than it might in K-12 contexts and in other types professional work settings (corporate, non-profit, etc.). This workshop will ask participants to think more closely about the nuances of racial in/justice and in/equity in higher education and how those nuances, along with the cultural and professional norms of academia, impact the frameworks and tools that we might use as racial justice proponents.
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/QArPY.
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, 03 Feb 2021 00:15:53 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Changing Times and Child Health Research (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80749 80749-20783446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

U-M Research Development welcomes Dr. Diana W. Bianchi, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Bianchi oversees an annual budget of approximately $1.5 billion in support of NICHD’s mission to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.

Dr. Bianchi will discuss NIH child health research, the 2020 NICHD Strategic Plan, and what the Biden Administration and incoming legislature might mean for child health.

Dr. Julie Lumeng, Director of MICHR, will host and facilitate Q&A.

Zoom invites will be sent via email after you register.

You may contact Jill Jividen, Director of Research Development, with questions at jjgoff@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:22:41 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Research Development
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79919 79919-20515552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Genomic and epigenomic features are captured at a genome-wide level by using high-throughput sequencing technologies. Peak calling is one of the first essential steps in analyzing these features by delineating regions such as open chromatin regions and transcription factor binding sites. Our original peak calling software, F-Seq, has been widely used and shown to be the most sensitive and accurate peak caller for DNase I hypersensitive sites sequencing (DNase-seq) data. However, F-Seq lacks support for user-input control dataset nor reporting test statistics, limiting its ability to capture systematic and experimental biases and accurately estimate background distributions. Here we present an improved version, F-Seq2, which combined the power of kernel density estimation and a dynamic “continuous” Poisson distribution to robustly account for local biases and solve ties when ranking candidate peaks. In F-score and motif distance analysis, we demonstrated the superior performance of F-Seq2 than other competing peak callers used by the ENCODE Consortium on simulated and real ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq datasets. The output of F-Seq2 is suitable for irreproducible discovery rate (IDR) analysis as the test statistics calculated for individual candidate summit and ties are robustly solved.

Tool Link: https://github.com/Boyle-Lab/F-Seq2

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:08:59 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Livestream / Virtual
Estate Planning and Gifting (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82315 82315-21066621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Discussion of gifting and plans for your estate.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:50:55 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
DEI Workshop: Implicit Bias (March 11, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79160 79160-20217718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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


In this session, participants will learn 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.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:16:01 -0500 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Light in the U-M Law Quad
The Conditions of the Great Lakes (March 11, 2021 1:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82366 82366-21070619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Diana will focus on aquatic animals and their interactions with the environment. He will speak on two major research areas: sustainable aquaculture and its role in feeding the world, and the ecology of natural fish populations, particularly in the Great Lakes region. Dr. Diana's research focuses on the interaction between aquaculture practices and environmental impacts and seeks to find solutions for more sustainable production in the future.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:13:23 -0500 2021-03-11T13:45:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
Alum Connections: Stephanie Mansour (March 11, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82261 82261-21060579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Stephanie Mansour, Health & Fitness Expert and National TV Host of Step It Up with Steph

Dynamic. Passionate. Dedicated. These are just a few words to describe LSA alum Stephanie Mansour. As an entrepreneur and National TV host, Steph knows about the values of hard work, perseverance, and tapping into your network for career progress. Join the Hub on Thursday, March 11 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. for a conversation with Steph about TV and broadcasting, health and fitness, and building your own business.

About Stephanie:
Stephanie Mansour is founder and host of Step It Up with Steph airing nationally on PBS & CREATE TV. She's a regular TV contributor in Chicago and across the globe, reaching more than 52 million viewers per month. Prior to starting her show in 2008, she worked for Marianne Williamson (Oprah’s XM Radio show host), the Dr. Phil show, Lifetime TV, and WNET PBS.

For the past decade, Steph has been helping millions of people to “Step It Up” by providing weight loss tips, lifestyle hacks, and fitness secrets that can up their game. In fact, she coached one reality TV star to lose almost 90 lbs in 3 months! Her first success story was her own, and now she teaches others about the tools to stay and feel healthy.

Stephanie graduated from U-M with her BA in Communications in 2007 with an emphasis on Women’s Studies & Psychology. As a student at U-M, she worked for WOLV-TV, and she created the first ever aerobics TV show, Big House Beat.

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Interested in TV & broadcasting, health & fitness, or entrepreneurship
Looking for advice on pursuing internships or other types of in-the-field experiences

What you’ll gain by attending:
Gain first-hand insights into the experiences and competencies needed in broadcasting and building a business
Get tips for identifying and pursuing your interests and bringing them to the forefront of your career
Make a valuable connection with Stephanie and discover internship opportunities with her

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Stephanie Mansour Photo
EEB Virtual Seminar: Socio-eco-evo dynamics: Exploring how society shapes the biology of cities (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80094 80094-20556871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Urban ecosystems are intrinsically heterogenous, characterized by dynamic biotic and abiotic interactions that are not witnessed in non-urban environments. Urban flora and fauna experience a suite of novel disturbances and stressors that have led to remarkable phenotypic strategies and adaptations to cope with urban living. Despite recent groundbreaking discoveries and innovation in the fields of urban ecology and evolution, the drivers of urban heterogeneity that induce biological change are seldom articulated. The spatiotemporal distributions of urban organisms are directly affected by the uneven distribution of resources (e.g., refugia, food, water) across cities, all of which are connected to societal function and governance. Hence, to build a comprehensive understanding of urban systems and wildlife adaptation, we must integrate and reconcile how structural inequality – especially racism and classism – shape urban environmental mosaics. In this seminar talk, Dr. Chris Schell will discuss how structural and systemic inequalities, especially economic and racial inequality, shape ecological and evolutionary outcomes of wildlife. In doing so, he will discuss how leading with an environmental justice and activism framework in the natural sciences can promote conversation, sustainability, and resilience in a human-dominated world.
Join us on Zoom

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:25:47 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Chris Schell field work
The Humanities at Work (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81799 81799-20959295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Today: Peggy McCracken, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, talks to Cassie Miller, Senior Research Analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.

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

About Cassie Miller:
Cassie Miller is a Senior Research Analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project (www.splcenter.org/intelligence-report), where she arrived in 2016 as a Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies Public Fellow. She is an expert on the white power movement and political violence. Her work is published on the SPLC’s Hatewatch publication and she regularly speaks on far-right extremism to academic audiences, community groups, religious organizations, and government officials. Miller is frequently cited as an expert in the media and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, both in the United States and abroad. She holds a PhD in History from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:24:21 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Cassie Miller
2021 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture: Dr. Jack Kaye (March 11, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80426 80426-20719761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department is very pleased to welcome Dr. Jack Kaye of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as our 2021 Spencer Lecturer.

Dr. Kaye is Associate Director for Research of the Earth Science Division (ESD) in NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD).

"From Alphabet Soup to Gourmet Cuisine - My 30+ Years of Interagency and International Coordination in Earth System Science"

The Earth is a complicated system that is driven by a mix of naturally-occurring and human-induced forcings, and its study requires a variety of integrated approaches addressing multiple Earth system components (atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, lithosphere) and the processes that couple them, now combined into the overall subject of Earth System Science. Besides being simply an object of scientific study, Earth is also our collective home, and its response to natural and human change affects the lives of today’s and tomorrow’s global citizens, making Earth System Science a rich subject for both scientific research and for the application of the results of that research to policy and decision making. The scope and breadth of the topic makes the topic too big to be addressed fully by any one organization, so coordination across organizations, both domestically and internationally, becomes a key consideration in our respective efforts. The resulting coordination affects all aspects, including observations (from space, air, and surface), modeling, process research, assessment, and applications. In the US, this has meant interagency coordination, both bilateral and multilateral, while internationally, the coordination has also involved bilateral and multilateral relationships, the latter including those that are both government-driven and community-driven. In this talk, my experience in interagency and international coordination will be reviewed, along with some highlights, lessons learned, and thoughts about the future. Interagency examples will include the US Global Change Research Program and its National Climate Assessment, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology and the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System, while international examples will include the World Climate Research Program, the World Meteorological Organization, and bilateral cooperation with several international partners on Space Shuttle and Satellite programs.

Please join us!

Contact: Laura Hopkins, lhopkins@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:21:07 -0500 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual 2021 Spencer Lecture 3
Quantitative Data Visualization for Academic Partners (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81643 81643-20935529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Sharing and translating data with community partners and community members is critically important to support equitable partnerships. Join us for an introductory virtual workshop on quantitative data visualization. Our focus is on how to interpret and display evidence based data in a visually pleasing and accessible way while also touching on the importance of understanding and working within basic data ethics.

This session is designed for faculty and academic program staff.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:34:45 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Academic Partnership logo
Global Connections: Community Ensembles and Music Learning in Europe (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81378 81378-20889802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Amateur community ensembles are a pillar of European culture. Profs. John Pasquale and Richard Frey talk to Christoph Breithack (conductor of the Musikverein Freiburg, St. Georgen in Freiburg, Germany), Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant (Executive Director of the World Youth and Adult Wind Orchestras in Schladming, Austria), and Dr. Ulrich Nachbauer (President of the Berner Kammerchor in Bern, Switzerland) about the role, significance, and identity of community music making in Europe.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:05 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Program in Biology and Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience Majors Panel (March 11, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82819 82819-21179587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in Biology

Come meet representatives from the Program in Biology and Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. You will be able to hear about the various majors available and ask any questions that you may have!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:39:06 -0500 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Program in Biology Livestream / Virtual PiB and UPIN Major Panel Information
CJS Lecture Series | 3.11—Ten Years Later: Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response (March 11, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79859 79859-20509624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

(日本語版はこちら)https://myumi.ch/v2y3Q
Delivered in Japanese with English translation.

Disasters have been known to exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities, with greater impact on vulnerable populations. In 2011, the “3.11 Great East Japan Disaster” — a cascade of a M9.0 earthquake, massive tsunamis, and a nuclear accident — struck Japan, which at that time ranked just 98th of the 135 countries on the Gender Gap Index (121th of the 153 countries in 2020). Now 10 years after 3.11, panelists will discuss the disaster’s effects on women through their own experience and grassroots activism, illuminating ways in which structures and norms of Japanese society contributed to women’s increased vulnerability in this time of crisis. They will provide invaluable first-hand accounts of how women in Japan organized and exposed post-disaster gender-based violence, advocated for more gender-informed disaster policies and response, shattered societal indifference and denial, and created change.

Teruko Karikome
Ms. Teruko Karikome is a founder and former Executive Director (2007~2019) of NPO Women’s Space Fukushima, Inc. (formerly Association for Women’s Independence). Following the Great East Japan Disaster, her organization managed “Women’s Space” in the biggest evacuation shelter in Fukushima, and continues to operate programs such as telephone counseling, support groups, and workshops on gender-based violence, while advocating for policy attention to women in Fukushima.

Reiko Masai
Ms. Reiko Masai is a founder and Executive Director of NPO Women’s Net Kobe, Inc., the first group in Japan to call attention to disaster-related gender-based violence. For over thirty years, Ms. Masai has worked to promote women’s rights and gender equality in Japan. In 2007, she launched Disaster & Gender Information Network, the first initiative of its kind in Japan, and co-founded Women's Network for East Japan Disaster in 2011, also the first of its kind, advocating for more inclusive disaster response.

Etsuko Yahata
Ms. Etsuko Yahata, founder and Executive Director of NPO Hearty Sendai Inc., spearheaded grassroots initiatives to assist women affected by the Great East Japan Disaster, on top of running a domestic violence shelter and many assistance programs. Originally trained as a midwife, she has since worked over 30 years in advocating against gender-based violence, promoting reproductive health and justice, human rights and nonviolence; also serving as board of director for Sendai Gender Equal Opportunity Foundation, Child Line Miyagi and many others.

Mieko Yoshihama
As a professor at the U-M School of Social Work, her teaching and research focus on promoting the wellbeing of marginalized communities. In Japan, she co-founded the Domestic Violence Research & Action Group in 1990 and conducted the nation’s first study of domestic violence; she also co-founded Women's Network for East Japan Disaster in 2011 and conducted a study of gender-based violence following the disaster, the first of its kind in Japan, as well as PhotoVoice Project (see below).

PhotoVoice Exhibit
Established in 2011, the PhotoVoice Project works with women affected by the Great East Japan Disaster, documenting their experiences through their own photography and written messages (“voices”), which serve to inform more inclusive disaster prevention and reconstruction efforts. This online PhotoVoice exhibition opens March 11, 2021.
https://photovoiceprojectjapan.zenfolio.com/exhibition


Registration for this Zoom event is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9hmDZTMnS5GkogTc2H0x4w

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 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:05:05 -0500 2021-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response
Graduate English Welcome Week for MFA Prospective Students (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81081 81081-20846541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Welcome Week Events for MFA Prospective Students

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:38:43 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual
U-M Structure Seminar: "Starch Recognition and Degradation by the Human Gut Symbiont Bacteroides ovatus" (March 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76185 76185-19671617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Haley Brown
Graduate Student
Koropatkin Lab
University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:03:25 -0500 2021-03-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Structural Biology Livestream / Virtual UM Structure Seminars
Alum Connections: Nancy Xiao (March 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82544 82544-21116093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Alum Connection: Nancy Xiao, President at Mason

There are many misconceptions about the tech industry, one being that you need a specialized education in order to find a meaningful career in tech. Join the LSA Opportunity Hub on Friday, March 12th for a special Alum Connections session with Nancy Xiao (English ‘14). Nancy will unravel myths and misconceptions about the industry, share her journey from LSA to President of hardware and software company Mason, and talk about her experiences working at Duo Security and Facebook. In addition, Nancy will share the myriad of roles that exist in the tech industry and tips on how to set yourself apart during interviews.

About Nancy:
Nancy is currently the President at Mason, a YCombinator graduate with $25M in Series A funding. She was previously at Facebook for 5+ years working in product management and product marketing within the Oculus and Parse teams. She received a dual degree from LSA and Ross studying English with a minor in Chinese and Business. Her experience spans virtual reality, gaming, advertising, mobile technology, and hardware. She loves a good read from Literati paired with a Zingerman's brownie!

You should attend this session if you are:
A UM undergraduate LSA student
Interested in pursuing a career in tech
Curious about how your LSA degree can translate into a career in tech

What you’ll gain by attending:
Take advantage of a special opportunity to network with an established tech professional
Get an understanding of projects and experiences you can create while an undergrad to set yourself apart in the interview process
Gain a first-hand perspective on the power of the UM network and how you can leverage alums to gain valuable advice

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:10:20 -0500 2021-03-12T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Nancy Xiao Photo
Russian Conversation Club (March 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81285 81285-20879930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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

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

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

We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0500 2021-03-12T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Клуб Русского Языка
Biophysics Seminar Series (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82542 82542-21116092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

The Biophysics Seminar Series Presents:

Dr. Pratyush Tiwary - Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Institute for Physical Science & Technology, University of Maryland

*“Can artificial intelligence help understand and predict biomolecular dynamics?”*

ABSTRACT: The ability to rapidly learn from high-dimensional data to make reliable predictions about the future of a given system is crucial in many contexts. This could be a fly avoiding predators, or the retina processing terabytes of data almost instantaneously to guide complex human actions. In this talk we draw parallels between such tasks, and the efficient sampling of complex molecules with hundreds of thousands of atoms. Such sampling is critical for predictive computer simulations in condensed matter physics and biophysics, including but not limited to problems such as crystal nucleation, protein loop movement and drug unbinding. For this we use the Predictive Information Bottleneck (PIB) and long short-term memory (LSTM) frameworks from artificial intelligence (AI), and re-formulate them for the sampling of biomolecular structure and dynamics, especially when plagued with rare events. We demonstrate the methods on different test-pieces, where we calculate the dissociation pathway and timescales much longer than milliseconds. These include ligand dissociation from the protein lysozyme, protein kinases and and from flexible RNA. We will also discuss some generic challenges and proposed solutions regarding reliability, interpretability and extrapolative powers of AI when used in molecular simulations, drawing mutually beneficial connections between the at first glance disconnected fields of theoretical chemistry and AI.

*Join us on zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92734220731*

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:10:27 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Livestream / Virtual Dr. Pratyush Tiwary
LEAD: Racial Equity and Community Engagement (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82473 82473-21108087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead and/or support DEI and social justice initiatives. This month our focus is on higher education institutions and their impact and responsibility to the communities they serve. “The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world.” This quote comes directly from the mission statement from the Office of U-M President. Many universities have missions that discuss giving back to local communities, yet they continue to remain separate and exploit the communities that they purport to serve. Often, it is marginalized communities who suffer as a result of collegiate negligence—walls built to keep the school isolated or a lack of property taxes that underfund neighborhoods and districts. This webinar will discuss higher education’s responsibility for its impact on the surrounding communities, and how to respectfully and responsibly enter communities and empower community leaders and denizens. Featured guests Daphne Watkins and John M. Wallace have done this well and will share their experiences and strategies.
Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning services will be available.
Speakers
John M. Wallace
John M. Wallace, Jr., Ph.D. is the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development, holds the David E. Epperson Endowed Chair and is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh with appointments at the School of Social Work, the Katz Graduate School of Business, and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences (Sociology). Wallace is also the senior pastor of Bible Center Church, located in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. Over the past 30 years his work has focused on the well-being of African American children, youth, and communities. He is the principal investigator on the University of Pittsburgh Center on Race and Social Problems’ Comm-Univer-City of Pittsburgh Project, an integrated program of research, teaching, and service designed to investigate and ameliorate social problems that disproportionately impact economically disadvantaged children, families, and communities. Wallace is also the co-principal investigator on the Pitt Assisted Communities and Schools (PACS) project—a research and demonstration project that mobilizes the resources of the University of Pittsburgh to implement and evaluate a set of two-generation (i.e., parent and child) interventions for students and their parents who live, learn, play, and work in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. Wallace is the co-founder and board president of Homewood Children’s Village, board president of Homewood’s leading community organizing entity, Operation Better Block, and the founder of The Oasis Project—the community and economic development division of Bible Center Church. Wallace earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.
Daphne C. Watkins
Daphne C. Watkins, Ph.D. is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Professor of Social Work, and a Faculty Associate at the Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She studies (1) behavioral interventions for historically marginalized groups; (2) mixed methods approaches to research in context; and (3) leadership development and organizational structures. Watkins’ research aims to maximize human potential, elevate social experiences, and provide equitable impact in communities and organizations. She is a community-practitioner interested in developing efficient tools and systems that activate positive, strengths-based outcomes for those most in need. Ultimately, she is committed to conducting and mobilizing cutting-edge, use-inspired research to address important social concerns. In addition to directing the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, Professor Watkins is the founding director of the Gender and Health Research (GendHR) Lab, the Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research, and the award-winning Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) Project, which leverages technology to provide mental health education and social support for young Black men. She teaches graduate-level courses on research methods, social equity and equality, and community-based interventions. She also serves on committees and advisory boards aimed at improving men’s health equity both domestically and globally. Watkins earned her Ph.D. in health education from Texas A&M University.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/dOG7n.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:15:51 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Livestream / Virtual
Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81092 81092-20846553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Discussants:
- Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Michigan
- Lydia Kelow-Bennett, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
- Supriya M. Nair, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. As thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state.

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France's imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities. Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:13:45 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Reimagining Liberation