Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Practice of History (December 14, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47118 47118-10799200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Kathleen Canning’s work has transformed the way we do history and her indefatigable spirit has inspired scholars and students here at the University of Michigan and beyond. This symposium will bring together scholars whose work has been inspired by her writings and teaching and students whose careers she supported and shaped, with the purpose of marking her transition from the University of Michigan to Rice University, where she will serve as Dean of Humanities.

The Practice of History will feature a keynote lecture in Canning’s honor by Tracie Matysik (University of Texas, Austin) and bring together leading scholars, colleagues, and former students of Canning’s to reflect on her numerous contributions in four panels. In a first session, colleagues from Michigan and elsewhere will consider how Canning’s work has shaped the field of German History. A second session on Citizenship and Gender will engage with her most important historical and theoretical arguments to illustrate how they continue to transform historical understanding of categories such as gender, citizenship, experience, practice and participation. The third session, features some of Canning’s more recent former students who will comment on the key role her work and mentorship have played in their education, their development as scholars, and their current careers. The last session “Kathleen and the World” brings together scholars who work in non-European fields to reflect on the breadth and reach of Canning’s influence.

Besides celebrating the scholarship and educational vision of Kathleen Canning, The Practice of History also seeks to remind us all of the extraordinary citizen, colleague, mentor. and friend she has been to her Michigan students and colleagues as well as to scholars, thinkers, and activists elsewhere. Her work has never been purely abstract. Her labor has never been only theoretical. Her scholarship is marked most by its heartfelt connections to actual people and places, both in the now and in the past and driven by her deep commitment to activism, practice, empowerment, and enjoyment.

Thursday, December 14

Kathleen Canning and German History, 2:00 pm
Rita Chin (University of Michigan)
David Crew (University of Texas, Austin)
Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union)
Elizabeth Otto (SUNY Buffalo)
Chair: Warren Rosenblum (Webster University)

Keynote Lecture, 4:00 pm
Tracie Matysik (University of Texas, Austin)

Friday, December 15

Kathleen Canning, Citizenship, and Gender, 10:00 am
Kerstin Barndt (University of Michigan)
Kathy Bench (Baruch College, CUNY)
Marti Lybeck (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
Scott Spector (University of Michigan)
Chair: Josh Cole (University of Michigan)

Kathleen Canning as a Teacher and Mentor, 2:00 pm
Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan)
Alice Goff (University of Chicago)
Ian McNeely (University of Oregon)
Ari Sammartino (Oberlin College)
Alice Weinreb (Loyola University Chicago)
Chair: Brian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)

Kathleen Canning and the World, 4:15 pm
Penny von Eschen (Cornell University)
Helmut Puff (University of Michigan)
Lora Wildenthal (Rice University)
Anne Berg (University of Michigan
Chair: Farina Mir (University of Michigan)

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:21:52 -0500 2017-12-14T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Kathleen Canning
The Practice of History (December 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47118 47118-10799201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Kathleen Canning’s work has transformed the way we do history and her indefatigable spirit has inspired scholars and students here at the University of Michigan and beyond. This symposium will bring together scholars whose work has been inspired by her writings and teaching and students whose careers she supported and shaped, with the purpose of marking her transition from the University of Michigan to Rice University, where she will serve as Dean of Humanities.

The Practice of History will feature a keynote lecture in Canning’s honor by Tracie Matysik (University of Texas, Austin) and bring together leading scholars, colleagues, and former students of Canning’s to reflect on her numerous contributions in four panels. In a first session, colleagues from Michigan and elsewhere will consider how Canning’s work has shaped the field of German History. A second session on Citizenship and Gender will engage with her most important historical and theoretical arguments to illustrate how they continue to transform historical understanding of categories such as gender, citizenship, experience, practice and participation. The third session, features some of Canning’s more recent former students who will comment on the key role her work and mentorship have played in their education, their development as scholars, and their current careers. The last session “Kathleen and the World” brings together scholars who work in non-European fields to reflect on the breadth and reach of Canning’s influence.

Besides celebrating the scholarship and educational vision of Kathleen Canning, The Practice of History also seeks to remind us all of the extraordinary citizen, colleague, mentor. and friend she has been to her Michigan students and colleagues as well as to scholars, thinkers, and activists elsewhere. Her work has never been purely abstract. Her labor has never been only theoretical. Her scholarship is marked most by its heartfelt connections to actual people and places, both in the now and in the past and driven by her deep commitment to activism, practice, empowerment, and enjoyment.

Thursday, December 14

Kathleen Canning and German History, 2:00 pm
Rita Chin (University of Michigan)
David Crew (University of Texas, Austin)
Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union)
Elizabeth Otto (SUNY Buffalo)
Chair: Warren Rosenblum (Webster University)

Keynote Lecture, 4:00 pm
Tracie Matysik (University of Texas, Austin)

Friday, December 15

Kathleen Canning, Citizenship, and Gender, 10:00 am
Kerstin Barndt (University of Michigan)
Kathy Bench (Baruch College, CUNY)
Marti Lybeck (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
Scott Spector (University of Michigan)
Chair: Josh Cole (University of Michigan)

Kathleen Canning as a Teacher and Mentor, 2:00 pm
Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan)
Alice Goff (University of Chicago)
Ian McNeely (University of Oregon)
Ari Sammartino (Oberlin College)
Alice Weinreb (Loyola University Chicago)
Chair: Brian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)

Kathleen Canning and the World, 4:15 pm
Penny von Eschen (Cornell University)
Helmut Puff (University of Michigan)
Lora Wildenthal (Rice University)
Anne Berg (University of Michigan
Chair: Farina Mir (University of Michigan)

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:21:52 -0500 2017-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Kathleen Canning
Zouk Thursdays (January 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48085 48085-11180505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Koessler room (third floor)
Cost: Free
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:00:14 -0500 2018-01-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-04T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
The Competence/Confidence Conundrum Workshop (January 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47143 47143-10801979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Michigan League Ballroom

11:00am - 2:00pm



Registration is required: https://goo.gl/forms/kffDN5LIZr6IW6th2

More information: www.wise.umich.edu

Cost: Free, includes brunch, coffee/tea and snacks

Presenter: Nancy Wayne, Professor of Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.



Objectives: Women may have equivalent or higher skills than men, but often lack confidence compared to their male colleagues. This makes women less successful in the workplace, where overconfidence often trumps competence.



Workshop objectives include:



• Understanding the ramifications of gender differences in confidence levels and its impact on career advancement

• Recognizing the skills at which you excel

• Identifying ways to promote your skills in order to get recognition

• Learning proven strategies to negotiate for what you want so that the negotiation doesn't backfire



UM Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program is excited to present this workshop to our science and engineering campus community and to the broader geographic community.

While aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, post doctoral fellows and interested faculty and staff are welcome and will find the workshop relevant and energizing.

Sponsors: UM Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program and Praxaire.

Co-sponsors:
UM Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
UM Center for the Education of Women (CEW)
UM Girls in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (gEECS)
UM Graduate Student Society for Women in Engineering (gradSWE)
UM Michigan Business Women (MBW)
UM Movement of Underrepresented Sisters in Engineering and Sciences (MUSES)
UM Society for Women in Physics (SWiP)
UM Women in Math (WIM)

Questions: umwise@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:25:28 -0500 2018-01-06T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-06T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Conference / Symposium The Competence/Confidence Conundrum Workshop
Zouk Sundays (January 7, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48153 48153-11183248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 7, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Foundations Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost: Free
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 07 Jan 2018 18:00:13 -0500 2018-01-07T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-07T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Zouk Thursdays (January 11, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48087 48087-11180507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:00:22 -0500 2018-01-11T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
2018 Stewardship Network Conference: The Science, Practice & Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems (January 12, 2018 7:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46762 46762-10622863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 7:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Now in its 11th year, this is a fun, truly interdisciplinary, and very accessible conference in applied ecology and stewardship. It is an excellent place for engagement, learning, networking, and professional development for faculty and undergraduate and graduate students!

Register now to attend. The deadline to submit a Poster Presentation is December 1st, 2017 - a great opportunity for students!

Highlights:
- A diverse range of participants from nonprofit leaders, private sector representatives, government agency officials, private landowners, and students and researchers from across the United States and Canada.
- Interdisciplinary mix of topics and activities, including research talks, technical and training sessions, and round-table discussions about a variety of stewardship topics: Sustainable Conservation Financing, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Restoration Agriculture, Invasive Species Control, Monitoring and Evaluation, Environmental Education, and more.
- Activities designed to foster networking, such as organized discussions, socializing events, and a job board with many entry-level positions.
- Student poster session and photo competitions each with $100 prizes.
- Opportunities for students to attend with reduced rate and free lodging with Lansing-area hosts.

Visit https://www.stewardshipnetwork.org/2018-stewardship-network-conference for more information.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:58:14 -0500 2018-01-12T07:45:00-05:00 2018-01-12T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium sandhilllcrop
2018 Stewardship Network Conference: The Science, Practice & Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems (January 13, 2018 7:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46762 46762-10622864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 7:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Now in its 11th year, this is a fun, truly interdisciplinary, and very accessible conference in applied ecology and stewardship. It is an excellent place for engagement, learning, networking, and professional development for faculty and undergraduate and graduate students!

Register now to attend. The deadline to submit a Poster Presentation is December 1st, 2017 - a great opportunity for students!

Highlights:
- A diverse range of participants from nonprofit leaders, private sector representatives, government agency officials, private landowners, and students and researchers from across the United States and Canada.
- Interdisciplinary mix of topics and activities, including research talks, technical and training sessions, and round-table discussions about a variety of stewardship topics: Sustainable Conservation Financing, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Restoration Agriculture, Invasive Species Control, Monitoring and Evaluation, Environmental Education, and more.
- Activities designed to foster networking, such as organized discussions, socializing events, and a job board with many entry-level positions.
- Student poster session and photo competitions each with $100 prizes.
- Opportunities for students to attend with reduced rate and free lodging with Lansing-area hosts.

Visit https://www.stewardshipnetwork.org/2018-stewardship-network-conference for more information.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:58:14 -0500 2018-01-13T07:45:00-05:00 2018-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium sandhilllcrop
The North American Conference on Video Game Music (January 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47088 47088-10790900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The NACVGM brings together scholars in the fields of musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, media studies, sound studies, composition, and more to discuss all aspects of music in video games. Topics at past conferences have included case studies of influential games and composers, technology and its impact on game music, teaching game music, analyzing game music, and music's relationship to game narratives.

Keynote speakers include Marty O'Donnell (Halo, Destiny) and William Gibbons, author of Unlimited Replays: The Art of Classical Music in Video Games.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:15:17 -0500 2018-01-13T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium The North American Conference on Video Game Music
The North American Conference on Video Game Music (January 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47088 47088-10790901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The NACVGM brings together scholars in the fields of musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, media studies, sound studies, composition, and more to discuss all aspects of music in video games. Topics at past conferences have included case studies of influential games and composers, technology and its impact on game music, teaching game music, analyzing game music, and music's relationship to game narratives.

Keynote speakers include Marty O'Donnell (Halo, Destiny) and William Gibbons, author of Unlimited Replays: The Art of Classical Music in Video Games.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:15:17 -0500 2018-01-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium The North American Conference on Video Game Music
Zouk Sundays (January 14, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48155 48155-11183262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Foundations Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:00:18 -0500 2018-01-14T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day University Symposia (January 15, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41046 41046-8910521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day University Symposia.

No regular classes are held.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:33:41 -0500 2018-01-15T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Conference / Symposium
The 32nd Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Memorial Keynote Lecture (January 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48043 48043-11170221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Ross School of Business

Award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist Hill Harper will deliver the keynote address for the 2018 MLK Symposium Lecture. There will be a special guest performance by Aisha Fukushima, singer, public speaker, educator and founder of RAPtivism, a hip-hop centric project that focuses on global efforts for freedom and justice. The event is sponsored by The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with support from the William K. McInally Memorial Lecture Fund, and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, a unit under the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. For more information about the 2018 MLK Symposium, visit http://oami.umich.edu/um-mlk-symposium/.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:15:44 -0500 2018-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Ross School of Business Conference / Symposium Hill Harper to Speak at the University of Michigan
UMDC MLK Day Eye on Detroit: Is There Such Thing as a Proper Protest? (January 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48003 48003-11233233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

In collaboration with the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, The Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Detroit Center invites you to spend MLK Day with us.

We will be streaming the U-M Keynote Lecture with guest speaker Hill Harper, then hosting our Eye on Detroit Panel Discussion, "Is There Such Thing as a Proper Protest?" which will feature political consultant Sam Riddle, Michigan State Representative Jewell Jones, We the People of Detroit's Cecily McClellan, New Era Detroit's James "Screal" Eberheart Jr, and scholar and political writer Steven Salaita.

To RSVP for this event, please click the link below.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:54:26 -0500 2018-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Conference / Symposium UMDC MLK
1968 + 50: Unfinished Legacies of Dr. King’s Last Year (January 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47471 47471-10929750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.” Exactly one year later, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been supporting striking sanitation workers. The last year of King's life marked a distinctive period in his career as he allied himself with a broad array of initiatives linking civil rights with antiwar, labor, and antipoverty campaigns. This panel will consider the legacy of that year, stretching from the social justice movements of the late 1960s to causes today such as Black Lives Matter, immigrant rights, and attempts to reverse the growing gap of socioeconomic inequality.

Featuring:
Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark
Monica Muñoz Martinez, Brown University
Brenda Tindal, Detroit Historical Society

Ruth Feldstein is professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of several books and articles, most recently the award-winning book, How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement; she is also associate producer of How It Feels to Be Free, a forthcoming documentary based on this book. Feldstein's scholarship explores relationships between race and gender relations, and between performance and politics; she works to tell the stories of women whose voices have not been heard, and who are seldom taken seriously as thinkers and activists.

Monica Muñoz Martinez, Carnegie Fellow 2017-2019, received her PhD in American studies from Yale University. At Brown University she offers courses in Latinx studies, immigration, histories of violence, histories of policing, and public memory in US History. Her research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the Brown University Office of Vice President of Research, and the Texas State Historical Association. Her first manuscript, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Texas Borderlands, is under contract with Harvard University Press. She is a faculty fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Martinez is the primary investigator for Mapping Violence, a digital project that documents histories of racial violence in Texas.

Public historian, archivist, curator, and educator Brenda Tindal joined the Detroit Historical Society as director of education in December 2017. She is the former staff historian and senior vice president of research and collections at Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. In 2005, she was part of the curatorial team that developed Courage: The Carolina Story that Changed America, an exhibit on the region’s role in the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which won the National Award for Museum Service—the nation’s highest honor awarded to museums and libraries. Tindal recently co-curated the museum’s K(NO)W Justice K(NO)W Peace—a rapid-response exhibit that explores the historical roots of the distrust between police and community, tells the human stories beyond the headlines, and engages viewers in creating constructive solutions. Before joining the Levine Museum of the New South in 2015 as staff historian, Tindal was a visiting lecturer in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where she taught a broad range of courses in comparative U.S. and South African history, southern history, African American history, and visual and material culture. A sought after social commentator, convener, and speaker, Tindal has been featured on C-SPAN, the Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar, Happenings Magazine, NPR, Pride Magazine, NBC-Today, The Charlotte Observer, and many other local and national news and media outlets.


Free and open to the public.

This event made possible by the Kalt Fund for African American and African History, along with the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:25:11 -0500 2018-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Composite Image
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Zouk Thursdays (January 18, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48088 48088-11180520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:00:24 -0500 2018-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
The Other America: Still Separate. Still Unequal. (January 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43116 43116-9726235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

This interdisciplinary, day-long event will focus on racial inequality as it manifests in relation to the lived experiences of Black Americans. Throughout the day, panelists will discuss the criminal justice system and state violence against Black people, economic inequality and immobility, inequities in healthcare and education, and issues pertaining to race and the environment. The event is co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for Political Studies, the Institute for Social Research, Political Scientists of Color, Rackham Graduate School, the School of Public Health and the Departments of Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and History.

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, we have invited the following distinguished panelists to take part in the day’s events:

9am Opening Remarks and Welcome
Hakeem J. Jefferson and Steven Moore, Event Organizers, PhD Candidates in Political Science

915am-10:40am Panel 1: Criminal Justice and State Violence against Blacks in the United States
Moderator: Christian Davenport, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Megan Ming Francis, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
The Strange Fruit of American Politics

Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Criminal Justice Outcomes and Race: From the Routine Traffic Stop to the Ultimate Penalty

Andrea Ritchie, Attorney and Activist, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Invisible No More: Police Violence and Criminalization of Black Women—Remedies and Resistance

Audience Q&A

10:40am-10:50am Break

10:50am-12:15pm Panel 2: Economic Inequality and Immobility
Moderator: Luke Shaefer, Associate Professor of Social Work, Dir. of Poverty Solutions at UofM

Darrick Hamilton, Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The New School
The (Economist’s) Burden: Why Studying Hard and Working Hard ain’t Enough for Black Americans

Becky Pettit, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Racial Inequality in an Era of Mass Incarceration

William Elliott III, Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
From Crisis to Revolution: Making Education the True Equalizer it was Meant to Be

Audience Q&A

12:15-1:45pm Lunch Break and Graduate Student Poster Session

1:45pm-3:10pm Panel 3: Inequality in Urban Spaces
Moderator: Maggie Hicken, Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Mark Rosenbaum, Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law Dir. and Adjunct Prof. of Law at UC Irvine
The Miseducation of America

Paul Mohai, Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan
Race, the Environment, and Environmental Justice

Abigail Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University
From Collateral Damage to Carceral Grief: Race, Illness, and Policing in the 21st Century

Audience Q&A

3:30pm-4:45pm Roundtable discussion including all panelists
Moderated by Bankole Thompson, Op-ed columnist at The Detroit News

Concluding Remarks Vincent L. Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

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Frank Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (2008), Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty (2017), and Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tells Us About Policing and Race (Forthcoming).
Website: http://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/

William Elliot III, professor of social work at the University of Michigan and the founding director of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion. Leading research in the fields of children’s savings and college debt. Research interests broadly focused on public policies related to issues of economic inequality and social development. His research has served as the impetus for Children’s Savings Account (CSA) programs and policies across the U.S.
Website: https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/tenure-track/willelli

Megan Ming Francis, associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. Author of Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State (2014), which won the 2015 American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche in Award for best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Currently working on second book project that examines the role of the criminal justice system in the rebuilding of southern political and economic power after the Civil War.
Website: https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/megan-ming-francis

Darrick Hamilton, associate professor of economics and urban policy at The New School for Social Research at The New School. Has written widely on the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes, which includes an examination of the intersection of identity, racism, colorism, and socioeconomic outcomes.
Website: https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty-list/?id=4d6a-4579-4e44-6b32

Paul Mohai, professor at UM's School for Environment and Sustainability. Teaching and research interests are focused on environmental justice, public opinion and the environment, and influences on environmental policy making. He is a founder of the Environmental Justice Program at the University of Michigan and a major contributor to the growing body of quantitative research examining disproportionate environmental burdens and their impacts on low income and people of color communities.
Website: http://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/paul_mohai

Becky Pettit, professor of sociology at UT Austin. Author of numerous articles focused on social inequality, she is also the author of two books, Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress (2012) and Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (2009).
Website: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/emp2344

Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant and police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, and advocacy around criminalization of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color over the past two decades. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017).
Website: http://andreajritchie.com/

Mark Rosenbaum, civil rights attorney and adjunct law professor at UC Irvine, former professor of the practice at UM law. Rosenbaum has been principal counsel in landmark cases in the areas of K-12 public and higher education, voting rights, poverty law and homelessness, racial, gender, class and sexual orientation discrimination, health care, immigrants’ rights, foster care and criminal defendants’ rights. He most recently argued before the Supreme Court in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and is currently lead counsel in a suit against the state of Michigan alleging it has denied Detroit students equal access to literacy.
Website: http://www.publiccounsel.org/pages/?id=0080

Abigail Sewell, assistant professor of sociology at Emory University. Scholarship focuses on the political economy of racial health disparities, the social construction of racial health disparities, and quantitative approaches for studying racial inequality and structural racism.
Website: http://sociology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/Abigail%20A.%20Sewell.html

Event Moderator--
Bankole Thompson is an Op-Ed columnist at The Detroit News, where he writes twice-a-week on Monday and Thursday. His column encompass politics, culture and economic issues, and his work also appears in the international media such as The Guardian. A leading voice on race and free speech issues, Thompson, has written extensively about how race and the cultural divides shaped the 2016 presidential campaign and election. His groundbreaking coverage of the 2008 historic presidential campaign led to a series of exclusive sit-down interviews with Barack Obama, as well as authoring two books on the former president. A polemic writer and culture critic, Thompson's work has drawn the ire of leading ideological opponents, culminating in an important first amendment victory in a lawsuit against him and The Detroit News by prominent white supremacist James Edwards, whose lawyer also represents Richard Spencer, founder of the Alt-Right Movement. In recognition of his journalistic contributions, the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, in 2015 established the "Bankole Thompson Papers, a collection preserving his work for perpetual use by students and scholars.

The event is free, open to the public, and will be held in the Rogel Ballroom on the second floor of the Michigan Union. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

For more information, contact the event’s organizers, Hakeem Jefferson (hakeemjj@umich.edu) and Steven Moore (stvmoore@umich.edu).

Register for the event in the below section by clicking "REGISTER HERE" or by visiting: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-other-america-still-separate-still-unequal-tickets-38081456662

Submit a poster here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7tV5cndTUSpaHPCRvgYl-iGuUk-KSBFJjL8j9obh9mOpE8w/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:55:12 -0500 2018-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Conference / Symposium TOA flyer
Mapping Austen's World: Movement and Journeys in the 19th Century (January 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48202 48202-11188799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, the Nineteenth-Century Forum and the University of Michigan Library are excited to offer a one-day interdisciplinary conference exploring movement, mapping, and margins within the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Join us for three graduate student panels:
900-1030 - Mapping Art, Taste, and Style | Angell Hall Room 3222
1045-1215 - A Character-Space of One's Own | Angell Hall Room 3222
200-345 - Narratives in Transit | Clark Library Presentation Space

And a keynote by Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) entitled "Accustomed Circuits: Austen and Romantic Transport at pm in Hatcher Library Gallery.

Attendance is free but we ask that participants register online (see conference webpage) by January 10 if possible to secure a complimentary lunch. Please contact austenmaps@gmail.com with any questions you might have.

This conference is offered in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library exhibit “The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet,” and is made possible in large part due to the generous support of Leslie and Hillary Keyes through the Daniel Keyes Family Fund for the Special Collections Library.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:25:03 -0500 2018-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Conference / Symposium conference image
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Zouk Sundays (January 21, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48156 48156-11183263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:00:19 -0500 2018-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Mentoring Symposium (January 24, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46459 46459-10498319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Office of New Student Programs

Campus wide Mentoring Symposium narrating the story of mentoring at the University of Michigan. Showcasing the variety of mentoring programs that have emerged over the years to facilitate student success and retention. The symposium will offer faculty​, staff​ and students engaged in mentoring a chance to share promising practices and connect with peers and colleagues.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:39:24 -0400 2018-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Office of New Student Programs Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Zouk Thursdays (January 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48089 48089-11180527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:00:22 -0500 2018-01-25T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2018 (January 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48756 48756-11306086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This one-day conference will be held on Saturday, January 27 in the 10th Floor event space at Weiser Hall. The aim of the conference is to showcase the work of graduate students at the University of Michigan who are working on any aspect of South Asia: past, present, or future. The conference features graduate students from several disciplines and at different stages of their career. The participants at the conference may expect a sustained discussion of each of the presentations by an interdisciplinary audience of faculty and students. Professor Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, has kindly agreed to serve as keynote speaker for the conference.

For complete details and the conference schedule, please see the conference website: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/graduate-interdisciplinary-conference-on-south-asia---january-20.html

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:40:54 -0500 2018-01-27T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2018
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Zouk Sundays (January 28, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48157 48157-11183276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social
Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:00:22 -0500 2018-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Privacy@Michigan (January 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48664 48664-11265194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Privacy is an inherently interdisciplinary research topic that touches many disciplines at U-M. U-M faculty, researchers, students and staff, across many fields, either face or address privacy issues in their work.

With this event in celebration of the International Data Privacy Day we aim to bring together faculty, researchers, students and staff from different colleges, schools and units across campus with the goal of sparking on-going, multidisciplinary conversations about privacy’s role in society – here at U-M and worldwide.

Schools and departments represented include the School of Information, Information Technology Services, LS&A, College of Engineering and the Law School.

Visit the website to see the full agenda: https://umsi.info/privacy

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:34:23 -0500 2018-01-30T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T18:30:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Conference / Symposium blue lock
Wieseneck Symposium: US-Israel Relations in the Age of Trump (January 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46864 46864-10658849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Warren Bass, Penguin Press
Mira Sucharov, Carleton University
Mark Tessler, University of Michigan

Few foreign leaders have expressed as much admiration for President Trump as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I have never heard a bolder or more courageous speech,” Netanyahu gushed after President Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly. The U.S. President, for his part, has aligned U.S. foreign policy with Netanyahu’s wish list, including opposition to the Iran deal and support for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem. This symposium brings three prominent scholars and commentators into discussion about how U.S.-Israel relations have changed since the inauguration of Donald Trump, what the future of these relations may be, and how different groups may be impacted.


If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:06:51 -0500 2018-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium President Trump at the Israel Museum
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (February 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Zouk Thursdays (February 1, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48090 48090-11180534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:00:25 -0500 2018-02-01T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (February 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE (February 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49077 49077-11375458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Architecture is always becoming digital. To become digital is to exist in a digital world. It is an ontological state that tacitly recognizes pervasive technology, computational logic, and digital aesthetics as the background condition to everyday life. To become digital is to be situated in a context where everything from screen to stone exists as data and matter, where habits of mind forged within the digital environment are constantly transferred to the analog world. For architecture, this has signaled a profound paradigm shift that is largely complete and yet conspicuously unaccounted. Digital technology entered architectural discourse in a wave of futurist prognostication, heady formalist trajectories, and overt avant-garde agendas. Positivist rationales and a fervent belief in the intrinsic merits of technological progress reigned among the varied proponents of early digital architecture, alongside an embrace of the capacities of computation to address cultural and organizational complexity. In these early years, the digital was foregrounded as both topic and technique. In contrast, contemporary architectural practice engages the digital as ubiquitous and foundational. Today the digital is ambient, environmental. It is a dull hum that emanates from every corner of our increasingly constructed world, constituting the material, conceptual, and experiential context of any architectural project.

Reflecting on the status of the digital in contemporary architecture demands renewed critical attention towards the ways architects work and the products of our labor. Today, our discipline’s waning fascination with digitally-enabled complexity and progress is being replaced with a sometimes blasé embrace of expedient digital tools from the Google image search to Rhino’s “Make 2D” command. Screenshot aesthetics and deadpan digital representations abound, delivering a glancing wink to those in the know, and constituting a new internal discourse for contemporary designers based on the expedient circulation of digital images. But as tendencies within our discipline assume the temporality of the meme, the facile nature with which they are adopted often belies the significance of their appearance. Today, digital technology doesn’t simply enable architects to represent the “real,” it is intricately intertwined with the real itself. Our methods of design are evermore connected on a computational level to our methods of dissemination, communication, and social networking, and indeed to those of our culture at large. This nascent condition presents new possibilities for architectural speculation, representation, and for our discipline’s potential impact in an increasingly digital world.

Becoming Digital is a yearlong project that seeks to unpack our contemporary digital moment. Over the course of the year, Taubman College faculty and students, along with invited guests, will design, debate, and reflect upon the current state of the digital in architecture. In the Fall semester, three architecture offices, all critically engaging digital technology through their practice, will lead workshops with students and engage in public conversations around the project’s theme. The Winter semester will include an exhibition of student work, a conference, and a series of presentations by Taubman College faculty. All events will attempt to grapple with computation as the pervasive context in which we live and work, and through that deeper understanding to reveal a capacity to influence ubiquitous digitality through design.

Conference Schedule
Thursday, January 25
5:10pm Lecture: Hito Steyerl
In partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series
(Michigan Theatre, 603 E. Liberty Street)

Friday, February 2
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Christiane Paul, New School

Saturday, February 3
9:30am - 5:30pm Conference
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Mark Jarzombek, MIT

Conference Participants:
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College
Viola Ago, University of Michigan Taubman College
Laida Aguirre, University of Michigan Taubman College
Lucia Allais, Princeton University School of Architecture
Ashley Bigham, University of Michigan Taubman College
André Brock, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Sophia Brueckner, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design
Esther Choi, Princeton University
Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College
Erik Herrmann, University of Michigan Taubman College
Carolyn Kane, Ryerson University
Zeina Koreitem, Harvard GSD
John May, Harvard GSD
Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan Taubman College
Meredith Miller, University of Michigan Taubman College
Thom Moran, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Murray, University of Michigan Screen Arts and Culture
Cyrus Peñarroyo, University of Michigan Taubman College
Curtis Roth, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Hans Tursack, University of Michigan Taubman College
Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan Taubman College

All events take place in the Art & Architecture Building A. Alfred Wing Commons, unless noted otherwise

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:11:45 -0500 2018-02-02T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T17:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Becoming Digital
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (February 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE (February 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49077 49077-11375459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Architecture is always becoming digital. To become digital is to exist in a digital world. It is an ontological state that tacitly recognizes pervasive technology, computational logic, and digital aesthetics as the background condition to everyday life. To become digital is to be situated in a context where everything from screen to stone exists as data and matter, where habits of mind forged within the digital environment are constantly transferred to the analog world. For architecture, this has signaled a profound paradigm shift that is largely complete and yet conspicuously unaccounted. Digital technology entered architectural discourse in a wave of futurist prognostication, heady formalist trajectories, and overt avant-garde agendas. Positivist rationales and a fervent belief in the intrinsic merits of technological progress reigned among the varied proponents of early digital architecture, alongside an embrace of the capacities of computation to address cultural and organizational complexity. In these early years, the digital was foregrounded as both topic and technique. In contrast, contemporary architectural practice engages the digital as ubiquitous and foundational. Today the digital is ambient, environmental. It is a dull hum that emanates from every corner of our increasingly constructed world, constituting the material, conceptual, and experiential context of any architectural project.

Reflecting on the status of the digital in contemporary architecture demands renewed critical attention towards the ways architects work and the products of our labor. Today, our discipline’s waning fascination with digitally-enabled complexity and progress is being replaced with a sometimes blasé embrace of expedient digital tools from the Google image search to Rhino’s “Make 2D” command. Screenshot aesthetics and deadpan digital representations abound, delivering a glancing wink to those in the know, and constituting a new internal discourse for contemporary designers based on the expedient circulation of digital images. But as tendencies within our discipline assume the temporality of the meme, the facile nature with which they are adopted often belies the significance of their appearance. Today, digital technology doesn’t simply enable architects to represent the “real,” it is intricately intertwined with the real itself. Our methods of design are evermore connected on a computational level to our methods of dissemination, communication, and social networking, and indeed to those of our culture at large. This nascent condition presents new possibilities for architectural speculation, representation, and for our discipline’s potential impact in an increasingly digital world.

Becoming Digital is a yearlong project that seeks to unpack our contemporary digital moment. Over the course of the year, Taubman College faculty and students, along with invited guests, will design, debate, and reflect upon the current state of the digital in architecture. In the Fall semester, three architecture offices, all critically engaging digital technology through their practice, will lead workshops with students and engage in public conversations around the project’s theme. The Winter semester will include an exhibition of student work, a conference, and a series of presentations by Taubman College faculty. All events will attempt to grapple with computation as the pervasive context in which we live and work, and through that deeper understanding to reveal a capacity to influence ubiquitous digitality through design.

Conference Schedule
Thursday, January 25
5:10pm Lecture: Hito Steyerl
In partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series
(Michigan Theatre, 603 E. Liberty Street)

Friday, February 2
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Christiane Paul, New School

Saturday, February 3
9:30am - 5:30pm Conference
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Mark Jarzombek, MIT

Conference Participants:
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College
Viola Ago, University of Michigan Taubman College
Laida Aguirre, University of Michigan Taubman College
Lucia Allais, Princeton University School of Architecture
Ashley Bigham, University of Michigan Taubman College
André Brock, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Sophia Brueckner, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design
Esther Choi, Princeton University
Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College
Erik Herrmann, University of Michigan Taubman College
Carolyn Kane, Ryerson University
Zeina Koreitem, Harvard GSD
John May, Harvard GSD
Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan Taubman College
Meredith Miller, University of Michigan Taubman College
Thom Moran, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Murray, University of Michigan Screen Arts and Culture
Cyrus Peñarroyo, University of Michigan Taubman College
Curtis Roth, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Hans Tursack, University of Michigan Taubman College
Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan Taubman College

All events take place in the Art & Architecture Building A. Alfred Wing Commons, unless noted otherwise

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:11:45 -0500 2018-02-03T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Becoming Digital
Zouk Sundays (February 4, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48158 48158-11183280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:00:20 -0500 2018-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-04T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Stories of the Black West (February 5, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49380 49380-11456562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us as historian Douglas Lewis (Attorney/Director, University of Michigan Student Legal Services) shares stories about the courageous contributions of Blacks in shaping the West. His interactive presentation and larger than life stories will enlighten and inspire us all.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:57:07 -0500 2018-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 2018-02-05T21:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium black west
U-M Management Conference 2018 (February 7, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46196 46196-10418358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

The 2018 U-M Management Conference provides a forum for the university’s managers, at all levels, to learn best practices, hone managerial skills and increase self-knowledge. It includes a keynote, breakouts and a panel session.

Keynote Speaker:
Jacob Morgan

Keynote:
The Future of Work is all About Employee Experience

We invest a great deal of time and money to improve employee engagement, yet our efforts often seem to miss the mark. How can that be? Jacob Morgan, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the future of work and employee engagement, uses his ongoing research of 252 organizations to show how short term “adrenaline shot” programs such as job sharing or working from home, aren’t necessarily the answer. He will demonstrate how the world’s top organizations are redesigning work around their people by focusing on three environments: culture, technology, and the physical workspace. He will share why employee experience is the next big area of investment, what the top organizations are doing, and how you can go about creating an Experiential Organization.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:36:53 -0400 2018-02-07T08:30:00-05:00 2018-02-07T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Conference / Symposium
STALLED! SYMPOSIUM (February 7, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 48488-11243776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public.

Whenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans, or alterite bodies, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.

Stalled!, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists, facility personnel, students, academic staff, administrators, and faculty. Working from biological, disabled, historical, political, queer, racial, spatial, and transgender perspectives, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability, gender-fluidity, and intersectionality.

Developed by architect and activist, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture, in collaboration with Taubman College, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.

Stalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized, how buildings are designed, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity, singular concepts of ability; and by extension, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies, such as healthcare, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated, incarcerated, or accommodated.

Panel 1: Trans and Queer Theory
Speaker: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Panel 2: Inclusive Space, Design, Infrastructure
Speaker: Jos Boys, University of Brighton, College of Art & Culture

Stalled! kicks off on Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity, inclusivity,and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), The U-M Spectrum Center, and the U-M Women's Studies Department.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:51:26 -0500 2018-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Event Poster
STALLED! SYMPOSIUM (February 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 48488-11243777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public.

Whenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans, or alterite bodies, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.

Stalled!, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists, facility personnel, students, academic staff, administrators, and faculty. Working from biological, disabled, historical, political, queer, racial, spatial, and transgender perspectives, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability, gender-fluidity, and intersectionality.

Developed by architect and activist, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture, in collaboration with Taubman College, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.

Stalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized, how buildings are designed, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity, singular concepts of ability; and by extension, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies, such as healthcare, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated, incarcerated, or accommodated.

Panel 1: Trans and Queer Theory
Speaker: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Panel 2: Inclusive Space, Design, Infrastructure
Speaker: Jos Boys, University of Brighton, College of Art & Culture

Stalled! kicks off on Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity, inclusivity,and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), The U-M Spectrum Center, and the U-M Women's Studies Department.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:51:26 -0500 2018-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Event Poster
Zouk Thursdays (February 8, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48091 48091-11180538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:00:17 -0500 2018-02-08T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
History of Chinese Food in America (February 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49778 49778-11532468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Sponsored by the Confucius Institute and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the conference will examine the historical and contemporary connections between Chinese food in America. The participants will discuss various issues surrounding food practices and traditions in China and in America including cookeries, culinary traditions, and more.

Discussants:
Yong Chen, Professor of History, UC Irvine
Yan Liang, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Great Valley State University
Carolyn Phillips, Blogger, writer, and chef @MadameHuang
Edward Q. Wang, Professor of History, Rowan University

10 AM -12 PM Panel Discussion 1
12 PM - 1 PM Lunch (RSVP Closed)
1-2:30 PM Panel Discussion 2
2:30 - 4 PM Panel Discussion 3 (closed door session)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:35:14 -0500 2018-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium Food Conference logo
Science, Values, and the Public (February 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41546 41546-9334661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

**February 9, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

2:00 -2:30pm Coffee and Opening Remarks

2:30-4:30pm Heather Douglas - "Scientific Experts and the Public: How to Build Trust in a Complex World"

4:30-5:00pm Coffee

5:00-7:00pm Dan M. Kahan - "Science Comprehension Without Curiosity is No Virtue, and Curiosity Without Comprehension is No Vice"

**February 10, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

10:00am-12:00pm Elisabeth Lloyd - "Climate Change Attribution: When is it Appropriate to Accept New Methods?"

12:00-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-3:30pm Quayshawn Spencer - "A Race Theory for Medical Genetics"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:38:25 -0500 2018-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium SC Poster
Science, Values, and the Public (February 10, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41546 41546-9334662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

**February 9, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

2:00 -2:30pm Coffee and Opening Remarks

2:30-4:30pm Heather Douglas - "Scientific Experts and the Public: How to Build Trust in a Complex World"

4:30-5:00pm Coffee

5:00-7:00pm Dan M. Kahan - "Science Comprehension Without Curiosity is No Virtue, and Curiosity Without Comprehension is No Vice"

**February 10, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

10:00am-12:00pm Elisabeth Lloyd - "Climate Change Attribution: When is it Appropriate to Accept New Methods?"

12:00-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-3:30pm Quayshawn Spencer - "A Race Theory for Medical Genetics"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:38:25 -0500 2018-02-10T09:30:00-05:00 2018-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium SC Poster
Zouk Sundays (February 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48159 48159-11183284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:00:17 -0500 2018-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-11T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium (February 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 49609-11484685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts

A diverse community of presenters representing students, faculty, industry professionals, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!

The first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite, showcasing the latest in Video, Audio, Interactive and Projection Technology.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:57:05 -0500 2018-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Conference / Symposium Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium (February 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 49609-11484686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts

A diverse community of presenters representing students, faculty, industry professionals, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!

The first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite, showcasing the latest in Video, Audio, Interactive and Projection Technology.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:57:05 -0500 2018-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Conference / Symposium Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference 2018 (February 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45858 45858-10321737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

On behalf of the MUSE Organizing Committee*, you are cordially invited to participate in the 2018 Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference.

- The annual flagship event of the MUSE Initiative, the MUSE Conference provides a unique venue for sharing research, building new connections, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among all members of the University of Michigan community engaged in the broad range of sustainability and environment-related research. We welcome the involvement of U-M graduate students, as well as University leadership, faculty, and research fellows from all disciplines, including those in arts, humanities, engineering, and natural and social sciences. The 2018 MUSE Conference will consist of interdisciplinary lectures by speakers including Susan Scotti Parrish, author of The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History, and Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus, as well as panel discussions, a poster session, network-and skill-building workshops, and a public keynote address and reception at Zingerman’s Greyline event space.

- Participants will have opportunities to present both preliminary and final research findings. Thematic facilitated workshops will engage participants at all career stages in structured collaboration and discussion about emerging developments and debates in cross-cutting research topics.

- Please consider participating in the 2018 MUSE Conference by submitting a short abstract. Abstracts on topics related to sustainability and environment may include (but are not limited to) human behavior, environmental history, policymaking and governance, corporate social and environmental responsibility, public health, built environment and infrastructure, land use, energy, water, climate, and ecosystems. Themed interdisciplinary sessions will be designed once abstracts have been reviewed by a selection committee. We encourage submissions to present either specific research outcomes or broader themes related to your research interests.

- Both oral and poster presentation opportunities are available. Short-form oral presentations may be used to share preliminary results or brief research summaries, while longer presentations allow for more depth. When submitting an abstract, you may also opt-in to facilitate a workshop discussion and/or be considered for a brief Up-goer 5-style presentation at the public reception (explaining your research using the “ten hundred” most-used English words).

- The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, November 9. Please see link for abstract registration. For more information, please go to our conference website:
http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:13:54 -0400 2018-02-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium
Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium (February 14, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 49609-11484687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts

A diverse community of presenters representing students, faculty, industry professionals, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!

The first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite, showcasing the latest in Video, Audio, Interactive and Projection Technology.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:57:05 -0500 2018-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T20:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Conference / Symposium Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference 2018 (February 15, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45858 45858-10321738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

On behalf of the MUSE Organizing Committee*, you are cordially invited to participate in the 2018 Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference.

- The annual flagship event of the MUSE Initiative, the MUSE Conference provides a unique venue for sharing research, building new connections, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among all members of the University of Michigan community engaged in the broad range of sustainability and environment-related research. We welcome the involvement of U-M graduate students, as well as University leadership, faculty, and research fellows from all disciplines, including those in arts, humanities, engineering, and natural and social sciences. The 2018 MUSE Conference will consist of interdisciplinary lectures by speakers including Susan Scotti Parrish, author of The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History, and Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus, as well as panel discussions, a poster session, network-and skill-building workshops, and a public keynote address and reception at Zingerman’s Greyline event space.

- Participants will have opportunities to present both preliminary and final research findings. Thematic facilitated workshops will engage participants at all career stages in structured collaboration and discussion about emerging developments and debates in cross-cutting research topics.

- Please consider participating in the 2018 MUSE Conference by submitting a short abstract. Abstracts on topics related to sustainability and environment may include (but are not limited to) human behavior, environmental history, policymaking and governance, corporate social and environmental responsibility, public health, built environment and infrastructure, land use, energy, water, climate, and ecosystems. Themed interdisciplinary sessions will be designed once abstracts have been reviewed by a selection committee. We encourage submissions to present either specific research outcomes or broader themes related to your research interests.

- Both oral and poster presentation opportunities are available. Short-form oral presentations may be used to share preliminary results or brief research summaries, while longer presentations allow for more depth. When submitting an abstract, you may also opt-in to facilitate a workshop discussion and/or be considered for a brief Up-goer 5-style presentation at the public reception (explaining your research using the “ten hundred” most-used English words).

- The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, November 9. Please see link for abstract registration. For more information, please go to our conference website:
http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:13:54 -0400 2018-02-15T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League School for Environment and Sustainability Conference / Symposium
Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium (February 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 49609-11484688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts

A diverse community of presenters representing students, faculty, industry professionals, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!

The first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite, showcasing the latest in Video, Audio, Interactive and Projection Technology.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:57:05 -0500 2018-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Conference / Symposium Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Zouk Thursdays (February 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48092 48092-11180542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:00:21 -0500 2018-02-15T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
CSEAS Conference. Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference: Deconstructing Borders & Barriers (February 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49692 49692-11498708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

9:00am-9:45am Registration

9:45am-10:00am Opening Remarks by Dr. Christi-Anne Castro, CSEAS Director

10:00am-11:00am Panel 1 ‘Text, Media, Landscape,’ Facilitator: Rebecca Selin, with Moniek van Rheenan Cheryl Yin, Justin Phan

11:00am-12:15pm Panel 2 ‘Sensing History,’ Facilitator: Natalie Tantisirirat, with Pengxuan Mi, Piyawit Moonkham, Otto Stuparitz, Zoë McLaughlin

1:15pm-2:30pm Panel 3 ‘Practices of Religion and the Nation,’ Facilitator: Ellen Myers, with Sophia Warshall, Jonathan Baldoza, Benjamin Moseley, John Smith

2:30pm-3:45pm Panel 4 ‘Diasporic Realities,’ Facilitator: Narith Ta, with Diana Chandara, Siew Han Yeo, Sirinya Siriyanun

4:00pm-5:00pm Keynote

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:33:49 -0500 2018-02-16T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Southeast Asian Studies Conference / Symposium event_image
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium (February 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47167 47167-10805424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium” is a multi-day event that specifically engages with issues of race, representation, activism, and appropriation in this opera. Friday presents a full day of performances and panel discussions on the context of the work, its characters, its reception, and its impact on the careers of singers of color, with a keynote lecture by Dr. Kyra Gaunt. Our performances and discussions continue on Saturday with a recital of songs from the opera’s period, a panel discussion on black performance and performativity in the early 20th century, and a panel of related student papers. This symposium prepares audiences for the Saturday evening performance of the opera produced by the UMS and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance in Hill Auditorium. Registration is required. Please visit http://myumi.ch/L1mjn for more information and to register.

The Symposium will be live-streamed:

Friday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014706

Saturday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014718

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:15:16 -0500 2018-02-16T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium
A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America (February 16, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48424 48424-11233230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 9:30am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Presented by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, "A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America" is a symposium happening on February 16 and 17 at the University of Michigan Law School.

Over two days, we will examine five archetypal spaces in America: homes and neighborhoods, schools, courthouses, prisons, and borders. The symposium endeavors to consider the ways in which these spaces have become increasingly racialized, diagnose how that racialization impedes their basic functioning, and reimagine these spaces at their best, and our world as a more human dwelling place. James Baldwin gave us this name, embedded in his imperative “to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

The symposium will bring together individuals working to better these spaces, hailing from many disciplines, including law, history, sociology, journalism, literature, architecture, urban planning, and visual art. Together, we hope to conceptualize forgotten or not yet dreamed of alternatives. Through discussions of projects already realized and ideas not yet concrete, we will collectively inch toward the world we wish to inhabit.

The symposium is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Please register to attend at https://madeleine-jennings.squarespace.com/register/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:43:28 -0500 2018-02-16T09:30:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium Hutchins Hall
Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium (February 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 49609-11484689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts

A diverse community of presenters representing students, faculty, industry professionals, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!

The first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite, showcasing the latest in Video, Audio, Interactive and Projection Technology.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:57:05 -0500 2018-02-16T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Conference / Symposium Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Black Panther Community Screening (February 16, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49383 49383-11450958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The office of Multi-Ethic Student Affairs (MESA) will be passing out free tickets to the screening on a first come-first serve basis on Tuesday 2/6, Wednesday 2/7, and Thursday 2/8 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.
MESA will give out 25 tickets per day until they are gone. You must show your U of M ID card to receive a ticket. There is a limit of 1 ticket per person. You cannot receive a ticket from MESA if you are receiving a ticket from BSU or SIBS. MESA is located on the 2nd floor of the Michigan Union in room 2204. Transportation will be provided to and from the Rave Theater.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:36:17 -0500 2018-02-16T19:30:00-05:00 2018-02-16T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium
A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America (February 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48424 48424-11233231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Presented by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, "A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America" is a symposium happening on February 16 and 17 at the University of Michigan Law School.

Over two days, we will examine five archetypal spaces in America: homes and neighborhoods, schools, courthouses, prisons, and borders. The symposium endeavors to consider the ways in which these spaces have become increasingly racialized, diagnose how that racialization impedes their basic functioning, and reimagine these spaces at their best, and our world as a more human dwelling place. James Baldwin gave us this name, embedded in his imperative “to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

The symposium will bring together individuals working to better these spaces, hailing from many disciplines, including law, history, sociology, journalism, literature, architecture, urban planning, and visual art. Together, we hope to conceptualize forgotten or not yet dreamed of alternatives. Through discussions of projects already realized and ideas not yet concrete, we will collectively inch toward the world we wish to inhabit.

The symposium is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Please register to attend at https://madeleine-jennings.squarespace.com/register/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:43:28 -0500 2018-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium Hutchins Hall
IISS Symposium. Black Islam in the Americas (February 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49785 49785-11532477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Black Islam in the Americas Symposium endeavors to foster contemplation of the geographies and politics of Black Islam configured in diasporic historical connections between Africa and the Americas. The seminar will begin with a keynote lecture by Aminah McCloud, professor of religious studies at DePaul University on Friday, February 16 at 5:15pm. Please see ii.umich.edu/isp for details.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
9:00-10:30 Panel 1: Black Muslims and US Geopolitics
10:45-12:15 Panel 2: Narratives of Black Muslim Trajectories
1:15-2:45 Panel 3: Black Atlantic Muslim Dialogues and Exchanges
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: New World Muslims and the African Past

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
9:00-10:30 Panel 5: Community Activism and Black Muslim Lives
10:45-12:15 Closing Remarks, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

The conference is organized by the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) with support from the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:38:32 -0500 2018-02-17T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium IISS Conference 2018
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium (February 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47167 47167-10805425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium” is a multi-day event that specifically engages with issues of race, representation, activism, and appropriation in this opera. Friday presents a full day of performances and panel discussions on the context of the work, its characters, its reception, and its impact on the careers of singers of color, with a keynote lecture by Dr. Kyra Gaunt. Our performances and discussions continue on Saturday with a recital of songs from the opera’s period, a panel discussion on black performance and performativity in the early 20th century, and a panel of related student papers. This symposium prepares audiences for the Saturday evening performance of the opera produced by the UMS and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance in Hill Auditorium. Registration is required. Please visit http://myumi.ch/L1mjn for more information and to register.

The Symposium will be live-streamed:

Friday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014706

Saturday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014718

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:15:16 -0500 2018-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium
IISS Symposium. Black Islam in the Americas (February 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49785 49785-11532478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Black Islam in the Americas Symposium endeavors to foster contemplation of the geographies and politics of Black Islam configured in diasporic historical connections between Africa and the Americas. The seminar will begin with a keynote lecture by Aminah McCloud, professor of religious studies at DePaul University on Friday, February 16 at 5:15pm. Please see ii.umich.edu/isp for details.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
9:00-10:30 Panel 1: Black Muslims and US Geopolitics
10:45-12:15 Panel 2: Narratives of Black Muslim Trajectories
1:15-2:45 Panel 3: Black Atlantic Muslim Dialogues and Exchanges
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: New World Muslims and the African Past

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
9:00-10:30 Panel 5: Community Activism and Black Muslim Lives
10:45-12:15 Closing Remarks, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

The conference is organized by the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) with support from the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:38:32 -0500 2018-02-18T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-18T12:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium IISS Conference 2018
Food for the Soul: Night of Heroes (February 18, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49379 49379-11456566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

A Night of Heroes celebrates the heroines and heroes throughout the Black diaspora and across identities. The celebration will include a panel and group discussion where individuals can share their personal and national heroines and heroes that impacted their lives. Food for the body and soul will be served.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:12:57 -0500 2018-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium Food for the Soul
Zouk Sundays (February 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48160 48160-11183285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:00:19 -0500 2018-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
MICHIGAN/MELLON RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM WITH PRESENTATIONS BY ANDREW HERSCHER, ANA MARÍA LEÓN, AND REBECCA ZURIER (February 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50087 50087-11633624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

​“Detroit Art City: Toward a History” Rebecca Zurier, Associate Professor of History of Art and “Detroit Resists and Architectures of Resistance” Andrew Herscher, Associate Professor of Architecture, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Associate Professor of History of Art and Ana María León, Assistant Professor of History of Art, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Assistant Professor of Architecture.

The Michigan/Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis brings together designers and humanities scholars to discuss questions of urbanism, equity, privatization, and the common good. The project is co-directed by Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Matthew Biro, Professor of Art History. Fore more information, please visit our website: http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/research/michigan-mellon-project-egalitarianism-and-metropolis

Rebecca Zurier studies what American art and culture can tell us about each other, defining art broadly to include comic strips, mass media, vernacular architecture, and other aspects of the visual and built environment. Her research has focused to date on the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, a time when industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and changes in race relations and social mores–as well as experimentation in politics and the arts–redefined the United States as modern. Current interests include urban culture in New York and Detroit, national identity and the perception of American art abroad, and concepts of realism and representation in art and writing.

Andrew Herscher trained as an architect and historian of architecture and works on the spatial politics of violence, humanitarian and human rights issues, exile and migration, and contemporary art and architecture. His research, writing, and teaching is informed by his long-term participant-observation in Kosovo’s post-conflict environment, including work with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project, a nongovernmental organization he co-founded and co-directed. During his time in Michigan, he has also been involved in a number of collaborative projects in Detroit, including the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective; Detroit Resists, a coalition of activists, artists, architects and community members working on behalf of an inclusive, equitable, and democratic city; and the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency, an open-access platform for the study of urban crisis using Detroit as a focal point.

Ana María León is trained as both an architect and an architecture historian. Her research focuses on the intersection of modernity, pedagogy, and politics in art and architecture, with special emphasis on networks between the Americas and Europe. Her current project examines the housing projects of Catalan architect Antonio Bonet in Buenos Aires as mediators between the avant-garde’s fascination with the unconscious and the state’s mandate to control the crowds. She has worked on the intersection of pedagogy and politics in Latin American art and architecture, particularly in the influence of the participatory discourse of Marxist pedagogue Paulo Freire in the work of artist Lygia Clark and architect Vilanova Artigas in São Paulo, and in the Open City architecture school in Valparaíso.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:39:53 -0500 2018-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
Disrupting White Supremacy: Global Histories and Local Struggles (February 21, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49614 49614-11484720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Department of History

Free and Open to the Public | Pizza Dinner @ 9 PM | Livestream on Teach-In Website (bit.ly/um-disrupting)

The teach-in will consist of a series of lively ten-minute, historical vignettes. These topical presentations will address the role of white supremacy as a global force in modern history, the use and misuses of history by white supremacists, and why this history matters now. The goal is to provide intellectual tools that will enable students and citizens to better understand the historical claims and blind spots of the white supremacist movement.

5 PM
Welcome and Introductions

5:15 PM
Swallowing the Red Pill: The Alt-Right and Metapolitics (Alexandra Minna Stern) 
White Supremacists' Medieval Fantasies (Katherine French, Taylor Sims)
White Supremacy and Nazi Race-Making (Anne Berg)
Anxieties, Walls, and Borders: How Did the New Xenophobia Begin? (Geoff Eley)
The Gendered Politics of Islamophobia in Europe (Rita Chin)
Question and Answer (tweet questions #umdisrupting)

6:40 PM
Freedom in a World of Slavery (Matthew Spooner)
Riflemen and Lawyers: Memorializing a White-Supremacist Coup d’Etat in New Orleans (Rebecca J. Scott)
Narratives of Race, Sex, and Violence (Stephen A. Berrey)
Slavery, Imperialism, and Race: A View from Islamic Africa (Rudolph “Butch” Ware)
Question and Answer (tweet questions #umdisrupting)

7:50 PM
Capitalism, Labor Migration, and White Supremacy: The Murder of Vincent Chin (Allan Lumba)
White Supremacy and the Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action at U-M (Matthew Countryman)
White Supremacy and Political Repression in the Trump Era (Austin McCoy)
Question and Answer (tweet questions #umdisrupting)

8:35 PM
Talkback: Making Use of History (Vidhya Aravind, Maryam Aziz, Sargeant Donovan-Smith, Hoai An Pham)

9:00 PM
Pizza Dinner (Michigan League, Second Floor)

This event is sponsored by the Department of History with support from LSA Democracy in Action Fund, American Culture Department, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, and International Institute.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:03:20 -0500 2018-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T21:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Department of History Conference / Symposium lee_statue_removal
Zouk Thursdays (February 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48093 48093-11180552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:00:27 -0500 2018-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Zouk Sundays (February 25, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48161 48161-11183332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Koessler room (third floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 25 Feb 2018 18:00:16 -0500 2018-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Zouk Thursdays (March 1, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48095 48095-11180590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 1, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:00:13 -0500 2018-03-01T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
36th Annual Women of Color Task Force Career Conference (March 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49714 49714-11498739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

All U-M staff, faculty, students and the public, regardless of gender or ethnicity, are invited to attend this inclusive professional development event.

Registration is now open for the 36th Annual Women of Color Task Force Career Conference being held on Friday, March 2nd, 2018.

This year's keynote speaker will be April Ryan, American Urban Radio Networks DC Bureau Chief. This morning keynote session is open to the public and no registration is required to attend the lecture.

Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held since the Clinton era.

Since 1997, she has served as a White House correspondent and is the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks. In 2017, she joined CNN as a political analyst. In May 2017, the National Association of Black Journalists named Ryan as the "Journalist of the Year".

Ryan has been a member of the White House press corps for American Urban Radio Networks since January 1997 and has long been the only black female reporter among the White House correspondents. She is a member of the National Press Club and is one of only three African Americans to have served on the board of the White House Correspondents Association.

She is the author of the award-winning book, The Presidency in Black & White, and her latest book, At Mama’s Knee: Race in Black & White (December 2016). Ryan is a graduate of Morgan State University and was awarded an honorary doctorate from her alma mater in 2017.

To view all information about the conference, locations, workshops, and event details, visit cew.umich.edu/WCTF36.

Please note that the April Ryan keynote lecture (8:30 am - 10:30 am at Hill Auditorium) is open to the general public and no registration is required. To attend the 2018 WCTF conference workshops and luncheon, pre-registration is required.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:26:04 -0500 2018-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium WCTF Conference Logo
Zouk Sundays (March 4, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48162 48162-11183333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 4, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Koessler room (third floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:00:20 -0500 2018-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2018-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Design Expo Registration Deadline (March 5, 2018 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50372 50372-11724556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

The College of Engineering Design Expo is held twice a year to provide a public forum for engineering students to demonstrate applications of their studies to real-life needs. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work.

Design Expo projects consist of internal University of Michigan projects, non-profit community projects, and industry-sponsored projects. Most of these projects are part of Senior Design Project Courses, but other project groups are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Student groups that would like to present projects must register by Monday, March 5th, 2018 at 11:59 pm. If you have any questions, please contact Lindsey Dowswell in the Multidisciplinary Design Program office at lindsd@umich.edu or (734) 763-0818.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:43:08 -0500 2018-03-05T07:00:00-05:00 2018-03-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multidisciplinary Design Program Conference / Symposium Student project presentation
Creating Change through Music: Black Women who change the look and sound of Jazz (March 6, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49385 49385-11450961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Gaylen Abdur-Razzaq, a renowned master flutist and lecturer, will discuss how Black Women have helped shaped the sound of Jazz. The disquisition will include musical performances by Gayle before, during, and after the lecture.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:20:27 -0500 2018-03-06T18:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium image
US-Japan Relations: Past, Present, and Future (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50051 50051-11630734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This conference convenes experts to discuss the history and future of the US-Japan relations, arguably the most important bilateral relationship in the world in the last century and a half. Drawing on the book, "The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present", but going beyond what is covered in the book, the three panels examine US-Japan relations in different historical periods and in different policy arenas, with a view to producing insights into how this bilateral relationship has shaped and will shape the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Welcome & Introductory Remarks (10:00am)

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan

Panel 1: US-Japan Relations from the Late 19th to Mid-20th Century (10:15am-12:15pm)

Facilitator: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan

Kaoru Iokibe, University of Tokyo; “Japanese Modernization under American Intervention and Isolation”

Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania; “Asian-American Century: 1920s Japan, 21st Century China and the Rise and Fall of a Global America”

Fumiaki Kubo, University of Tokyo; “From Rivals, Enemies, to Allies: US-Japan Relations from 1920s to 1940s”

Adam Liff, Indiana University; “The Power of Example and the Changing Nature of Power”

Panel 2: US-Japan Economic Relations and Multilateral Frameworks (1:30-3:30pm)

Facilitator: Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan

Masayuki Tadokoro, Keio University; “Economic Rivalries between Allies: The US-Japan Economic Frictions in the 1980s”

Wendy Cutler, Asia Society; “Prospects for U.S. Return to TPP-11”

Christina Davis, Princeton University; “Japan and the Multilateral Trade Regime”

Takako Hikotani, Columbia University; “Stepping Up: Japan’s Contributions to the Liberal Democratic Order”

Panel 3: US-Japan Alliance and Security in East Asia (3:45-5:45 pm)

Facilitator: Melvyn Levitsky, University of Michigan

Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations; “North Korea and U.S. Alliance Responses in Asia”

Andrew Oros, Washington College; “The Alliance Role in Managing Uncertainty in East Asia’s New Security Environment”

Koji Murata, Doshisha University; “Japanese Domestic Politics and US-Japan Relations”

Makoto Iokibe, Kobe University; “US-Japan Leadership in the Post-9/11 East Asia”

Concluding Remarks (5:45pm)

John Ciorciari, University of Michigan

Reception (6:00-7:00 pm)

Organized by the Center for Japanese Studies and International Policy Center, University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:58:57 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium US-Japan Relations: Past, Present and Future
VCW's Critical Visualities conference (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50557 50557-11802347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 (3222 Angell)
10:00am-12:00pm | Panel 1: Script/Transcript
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "The Performative Photographic Index"
VK Preston (Toronto), "Performing Witch Archives: Decriminalizing Witchcraft"
Emily Wilcox (U-M), "Moonwalking in Beijing: Mediating Michael Jackson in Global Hip-Hop Dance"

1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Speculation/Fabulation
Sara Blair (U-M), "Occupational Hazards: The Performance of the Photo Portrait"
Hentyle Yapp (NYU), "Fireworks, Shine, and Postsocialist Form"
Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "Towards a Critical Politics of Afro-Fabulation"

3:15-5:00pm | Feedback Session for Graduate Student Works-in-Progress

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 3: Life/Afterlife
Ruby Tapia (U-M), "Against 'Passive Resistance': On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception"
Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M), "The Play in the System: Parasitical Performance Art and the Art of Resistance from Within"
Rebecca Schneider (Brown), "Slough Media: Performance, Media Object, and the Production of Obsolescence"

11:45am-1:15pm | Closing/collective reflection: Where next?

With any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch at visualculture@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:04:48 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities schedule
2018 SCOR Symposium (March 8, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50731 50731-11870487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This symposium will be centered around strategies to transform political activism in our role as students, with the goal of protecting, engaging, and further advancing the interests and ideas of communities of color. As aspiring scholars, administrators, political leaders, and professionals, what can we do to prepare for, survive, and thrive under unfavorable political climates? More specifically, how can we continue to build community and coalitions that promotes diversity, inclusion, and equity for all marginalized communities?

The symposium will serve as a positive professional and scholarly space where students will be able to gain knowledge on the ways in which scholars have historically engaged social justice and the fight for diversity, inclusion, and equity. The event will feature multiple workshops and panels exploring strategies to navigate institutional barriers to ignite social change. Moreover, this symposium will also provide students with an opportunity to share their research ideas and agenda, and explore pathways for successfully achieving their career aspirations through scholar-activism.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:26:47 -0500 2018-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Rackham Graduate School Conference / Symposium SCOR Symposium Flyer, For More Details Open Ticket Link
Zouk Thursdays (March 8, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48096 48096-11180591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0500 2018-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Microbiome & Population Health: challenges & opportunities (March 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49192 49192-11386629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: MAC-EPID

Please register for MAC-EPID's winter symposium! This will be a partial-day symposium which includes lunch.

Guest speakers:
Melinda Pettigrew (Yale University)
Andrew Moeller (UC Berkeley)
Ashley Shade (Michigan State)

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For more information and registration for this FREE event:
www.MAC-EPID.org
Anna Cronenwett, weaverd@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:00:19 -0500 2018-03-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) MAC-EPID Conference / Symposium Flyer
P+ARG BIENNIAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: "NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER" (March 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50332 50332-11710226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The 4th biennial graduate conference of the Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG) of University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning engages the fields of architecture and planning, as well as neighboring fields from the humanities and social sciences.

Knowledge in architecture and planning moves. It moves through networks of power and capital, through corporate establishments, governmental alliances, international organizations, transnational social movements, and media and technology. These networks of power deconstruct and restructure forms and relations of production—emergent and old. They also produce new social and material assemblages within which spatial knowledge is constantly re-visited and re-organized. The resulting socio-technical formations ultimately reconfigure both the products of, and knowledge within, the fields of architecture, planning, and affiliated disciplines.

How do we understand the networks of power and knowledge and the implicit human condition that sustains and transforms architecture and planning practices? At a juncture where our logic and systems of production are becoming digitized and automatized at an unprecedented pace, and when our understanding of the networks and technologies of information are increasingly inseparable from questions of hardware and software, of the accumulation and classification of electronic data, the human mediation of knowledge acquires a new significance. The global phenomenon of post-truth politics equally urges us to re-scrutinize the Foucauldian premise of “knowledge as power.”

In this highly networked era of the Anthropocene, we want to explore the interactions between people, ideas, institutions, infrastructures and material objects, especially as these pertain to architecture and planning knowledge, in order to reflect on issues including but not limited to: political economies, ecologies and geographies, poverty, inequality, warfare, mass re/dis-location of people, invasion and occupation of lands and territories.

Conference Keynote Friday, March 9: Kazys Varnelis, PhD, Director of the Urban Architecture Lab

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:58:21 -0500 2018-03-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Art and Architecture Building
VCW's Critical Visualities conference (March 9, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50557 50557-11802348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 (3222 Angell)
10:00am-12:00pm | Panel 1: Script/Transcript
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "The Performative Photographic Index"
VK Preston (Toronto), "Performing Witch Archives: Decriminalizing Witchcraft"
Emily Wilcox (U-M), "Moonwalking in Beijing: Mediating Michael Jackson in Global Hip-Hop Dance"

1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Speculation/Fabulation
Sara Blair (U-M), "Occupational Hazards: The Performance of the Photo Portrait"
Hentyle Yapp (NYU), "Fireworks, Shine, and Postsocialist Form"
Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "Towards a Critical Politics of Afro-Fabulation"

3:15-5:00pm | Feedback Session for Graduate Student Works-in-Progress

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 3: Life/Afterlife
Ruby Tapia (U-M), "Against 'Passive Resistance': On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception"
Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M), "The Play in the System: Parasitical Performance Art and the Art of Resistance from Within"
Rebecca Schneider (Brown), "Slough Media: Performance, Media Object, and the Production of Obsolescence"

11:45am-1:15pm | Closing/collective reflection: Where next?

With any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch at visualculture@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:04:48 -0500 2018-03-09T09:30:00-05:00 2018-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities schedule
2018 SCOR Symposium (March 9, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50731 50731-11870488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 10:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This symposium will be centered around strategies to transform political activism in our role as students, with the goal of protecting, engaging, and further advancing the interests and ideas of communities of color. As aspiring scholars, administrators, political leaders, and professionals, what can we do to prepare for, survive, and thrive under unfavorable political climates? More specifically, how can we continue to build community and coalitions that promotes diversity, inclusion, and equity for all marginalized communities?

The symposium will serve as a positive professional and scholarly space where students will be able to gain knowledge on the ways in which scholars have historically engaged social justice and the fight for diversity, inclusion, and equity. The event will feature multiple workshops and panels exploring strategies to navigate institutional barriers to ignite social change. Moreover, this symposium will also provide students with an opportunity to share their research ideas and agenda, and explore pathways for successfully achieving their career aspirations through scholar-activism.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:26:47 -0500 2018-03-09T10:30:00-05:00 2018-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Rackham Graduate School Conference / Symposium SCOR Symposium Flyer, For More Details Open Ticket Link
Palestine and Native America: Settler Colonialism and Indigeniety (March 9, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50623 50623-11819275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 411 West Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

We are happy to invite you to this conversation between Mallory Whiteduck (American Culture) and Raya Naamneh (Comparative Literature) to comparatively and critically discuss indigeneity and the experiences of living under settler colonialism in both North America and Palestine. Thinking through these two fragmented geopolitical spaces, we hope to discuss the relevance of this transnational connection for the understanding of indigenous experiences and forms of anti-colonial resistance, past and present.

The event will include food and light refreshments.
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Co-sponsored by University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Department of American Culture - University of Michigan, University of Michigan Department of Comparative Literature

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0500 2018-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T18:30:00-05:00 411 West Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
14th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium: Ecology and Evolution of Color (March 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47185 47185-10813702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce an exciting international symposium about the ecology and evolution of color.

We are pleased to announce the keynote and early career speakers and REGISTRATION is open at this link: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/

Our keynote speakers are: Molly Cummings, University of Texas at Austin and Marcus Kronforst, University of Chicago. You can read more about our keynote speakers and our early career speakers under the speakers tab on our ECSS website.

This year’s theme is the Ecology and Evolution of Color. Coloration is fundamental to the ecology and evolution of organisms and has a valuable research legacy across plants and animals. Recent innovations in both technology and investigative approaches have propelled coloration to an exciting emerging frontier in integrative biology.

Our outstanding lineup of keynote speaker​s​ and emerging leaders will present their research examining the function of color, visual ecology, micro- and macroevolutionary mechanisms mediating pigmentation diversity, pollination biology, and mechanisms of color production. The causes and consequences of color diversity provide a compelling and interdisciplinary topic spanning diverse research interests across our department. We truly believe there will be something for everyone.

The 2018 ECSS Committee:
Leslie Decker
Jon Massey
Talia Moore
Alison Rabosky
Carol Solomon
Liz Tibbetts
Oscar Vargas
Lisa Walsh

Image: Ben Winger

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:35:32 -0400 2018-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium yellow-scarfed tanager. Image: Benjamin Winger
P+ARG BIENNIAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: "NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER" (March 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50332 50332-11710227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The 4th biennial graduate conference of the Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG) of University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning engages the fields of architecture and planning, as well as neighboring fields from the humanities and social sciences.

Knowledge in architecture and planning moves. It moves through networks of power and capital, through corporate establishments, governmental alliances, international organizations, transnational social movements, and media and technology. These networks of power deconstruct and restructure forms and relations of production—emergent and old. They also produce new social and material assemblages within which spatial knowledge is constantly re-visited and re-organized. The resulting socio-technical formations ultimately reconfigure both the products of, and knowledge within, the fields of architecture, planning, and affiliated disciplines.

How do we understand the networks of power and knowledge and the implicit human condition that sustains and transforms architecture and planning practices? At a juncture where our logic and systems of production are becoming digitized and automatized at an unprecedented pace, and when our understanding of the networks and technologies of information are increasingly inseparable from questions of hardware and software, of the accumulation and classification of electronic data, the human mediation of knowledge acquires a new significance. The global phenomenon of post-truth politics equally urges us to re-scrutinize the Foucauldian premise of “knowledge as power.”

In this highly networked era of the Anthropocene, we want to explore the interactions between people, ideas, institutions, infrastructures and material objects, especially as these pertain to architecture and planning knowledge, in order to reflect on issues including but not limited to: political economies, ecologies and geographies, poverty, inequality, warfare, mass re/dis-location of people, invasion and occupation of lands and territories.

Conference Keynote Friday, March 9: Kazys Varnelis, PhD, Director of the Urban Architecture Lab

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:58:21 -0500 2018-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Art and Architecture Building
Jazz Trombone Symposium (March 10, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49811 49811-11543709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

10:00 AM- 2:00 PM- warm-ups, master classes, clinics, and lectures.

2:00 PM - U-M Jazz Trombone Ensemble, U-M Jazz Trombone Quintet & Ann Arbor Trombones performance.

4:00 PM - John Fedchock, U-M Jazz Trombone Quintet, U-M Jazz Faculty Trio (Ellen Rowe, piano; Bob Hurst, bass; and Sean Dobbins, drums) performance.

A complete day of trombone related master classes, clinics, discussions, and performances. Trombonist John Fedchock performs with the Jazz Trombone Ensemble under the direction of Dennis Wilson and the U-M Jazz Faculty Trio in the featured performance of the day.

*Please note Hankinson Rehearsal Hall has limited seating capacity, early arrival is recommended to ensure admission*

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:15:24 -0500 2018-03-10T09:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium Jazz Trombone Symposium
2018 SCOR Symposium (March 10, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50731 50731-11870489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This symposium will be centered around strategies to transform political activism in our role as students, with the goal of protecting, engaging, and further advancing the interests and ideas of communities of color. As aspiring scholars, administrators, political leaders, and professionals, what can we do to prepare for, survive, and thrive under unfavorable political climates? More specifically, how can we continue to build community and coalitions that promotes diversity, inclusion, and equity for all marginalized communities?

The symposium will serve as a positive professional and scholarly space where students will be able to gain knowledge on the ways in which scholars have historically engaged social justice and the fight for diversity, inclusion, and equity. The event will feature multiple workshops and panels exploring strategies to navigate institutional barriers to ignite social change. Moreover, this symposium will also provide students with an opportunity to share their research ideas and agenda, and explore pathways for successfully achieving their career aspirations through scholar-activism.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:26:47 -0500 2018-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Rackham Graduate School Conference / Symposium SCOR Symposium Flyer, For More Details Open Ticket Link
Zouk Sundays (March 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48163 48163-11183337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 11 Mar 2018 18:00:15 -0400 2018-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-11T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
II Arts of Islam Symposium (March 12, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47832 47832-11022890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

What are contemporary expressions of self and community in the context of Islam? This cross-disciplinary symposium highlights contemporary expressive performance and visual work that engage with Islam in everyday life. The event is a collaborative effort bringing together regional centers at the International Institute and partners across campus and the community. This event is funded in part by Title VI NRC grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

10:00am: Welcome Remarks

10:15 to 11:45
Panel I: Literature and Poetry

Muhammad Ali: "Beauty and Piety in Contemporary Indonesian Islamic Literature" (University of California, Riverside)
Kamelya Youssef: "Frayed Towel Made Holy: Prayer [rug] for this Nonbeliever" (Detroit-based poet, organizer, student, and teacher)
Khaled Mattawa: "On Not Finding the Center" (U-M)
Moderator: Nancy Florida (U-M)

1:00-2:30
Panel II: Music and Dance

Adil Johan: "Intimacies of Popular Islam in Malaysian Film Music" (Institute for Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia)
Fatou-Seydi Sarr: "Immigration and Criminalization--Teaching through African Dance" (African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs, Detroit)
Inna Naroditskaya: "Weaving Mugham and Carpet into Baku's Sounding Architecture" (Northwestern University)
Moderator: Christi-Anne Castro (U-M)

2:45-3:45
Panel III: Visual Arts

Murad Khan Mumtaz: "Modern and Contemporary Miniaturist Painting in Pakistan: A Practitioner’s Perspective" (University of Virginia)
Laila Hotait: "Nostalgia as a Tool in the Arts for the Construction of Arab-American Identities" (University Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico)
Moderator: Nachiket Chanchani (U-M)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:37:12 -0500 2018-03-12T09:30:00-04:00 2018-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Conference / Symposium logo
VegWeek 2018 (March 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50627 50627-11978898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
VegWeek 2018 (March 13, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50627 50627-11978899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Depression on College Campuses Conference Opening Keynote Address: How Can Digital Technologies Help Us? (March 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50290 50290-11701597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Please join the U-M Depression Center on Tuesday, March 13 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. for the Depression on College Campuses conference opening keynote lecture. This lecture will coincide with the annual John F. Greden Scholar in Residence Lecture which honors Dr. John Greden, the former chair of the U-M Department of Psychiatry and the current executive director of the U-M Depression Center. This talk will be given by Dr. Tom Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr. Insel is now co-Founder and president of Mindstrong Health, which was founded to solve a hard and meaningful problem: how to measure neurocognitive function unobtrusively, continuously, and remotely to help cure neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Insel’s talk is titled, “How Can Digital Technologies Help Us?”

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:14:34 -0500 2018-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Eisenberg Family Depression Center Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
VegWeek 2018 (March 13, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50628 50628-11836244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:00pm
Location: DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:00:13 -0400 2018-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
VegWeek 2018 (March 14, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50627 50627-11978900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Depression on College Campuses Conference Closing Keynote Address: Strategic Engagements: UCLA Depression Grand Challenge & Resilience Peer Network (March 14, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50344 50344-11713030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

In the past decade, UCLA has developed a network of services to support student wellness across an array of domains extending far beyond health and mental health. Despite these efforts, the steady rise in mental health service demands has continued to exert pressure on CAPS services leading to reduced appointment availability and lengthy wait-times for students needing less than crisis or emergent care. The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is partnered with Campus & Student Resilience to train and engage students in a Resilience Peer Network to support the delivery of a robust evidence based internet cognitive behavioral therapy to students screened for mild to moderate depression and anxiety. This talk provides a preliminary overview of our findings, and describes our successes in bringing a scalable screening, early intervention, treatment, and resilience-building program embedded in research to our students.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:38:39 -0500 2018-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Eisenberg Family Depression Center Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
VegWeek 2018 (March 14, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50629 50629-11836251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:00pm
Location: DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:00:13 -0400 2018-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
VegWeek 2018 (March 15, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50627 50627-11978901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
ASC 10th Anniversary Symposium. ASC: The First Decade and Beyond (March 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48668 48668-11265196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of Michigan African Studies Center (ASC). Since its founding in 2008, ASC has successfully deepened, and brought higher visibility to, longstanding U-M/Africa institutional partnerships, especially in Ghana and South Africa, and supported new collaborations with universities in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Liberia, and Uganda (to name a few).

Our major commemorative event will be a three-day symposium entitled, “ASC: The First Decade and Beyond.” The symposium will provide a glimpse into an environment rich in collaborations, research, and engagement in and about Africa, highlighting projects that have truly transformed our engagement with Africa over the last ten years, and setting a foundation as we envision our way forward.

Featured events include:
» Panels of faculty and African partners representing ASC’s initiatives—African Heritage and Humanities Initiative, African Social Research Initiative, STEM-Africa, Ethiopia-Michigan Collaborative Consortium, and the U-M African Presidential Scholars program;

» Poster presentations by current students;
» Roundtable featuring U-M alumni living and working in Africa

» Presidential Panel with Mark Schlissel, University of Michigan (current); Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan (2002-2014); Emmet Dennis, University of Liberia (2008-2017); James Duderstadt, University of Michigan (1988-1996); Uphie Chinje Melo, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon (current); Ophelia Weeks, University of Liberia (current)

ASC’s 10th-year anniversary symposium is made possible with the generous support of our cosponsors and donors: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, International Institute, Institute for Social Research, LSA Opportunity Hub, Office of the Provost, Rackham Graduate School, and Researching Fresh Solutions to the Energy/Water/Food Challenge in Resource Constrained Environments (REFRESCH)

All events are free and open to the public. Registration requested at: bit.ly/asc10-register

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:30:45 -0400 2018-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Conference / Symposium asc10-image
2018 Positive Business Conference (March 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50753 50753-11964847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Positive Business Conference

Culture is key. Businesses with positive cultures enjoy larger profits, better performance, and happier employees. And thriving employees are more committed and satisfied with their jobs. But how do you create this kind of culture?

Develop a strategy for a sustainable positive culture at the Michigan Ross Positive Business Conference, May 10-11. Our theme, “Right from the start: building and sustaining a positive culture from startup to scale,” will provide valuable insights and research you can apply immediately to change business for the better. This year’s lineup of keynote speakers includes Joey Bergstein, Seventh Generation; Bruce Broussard, Humana; Katy George, McKinsey; Thomas Grilk, Boston Marathon; Jan Mühlfeit, Microsoft ret.; and KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Sustainable Brands.

Visit http://www.positivebusinessconference.com to learn more and register to attend.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:29:56 -0400 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Positive Business Conference Conference / Symposium PBC 18
VegWeek 2018 (March 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50630 50630-11836252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:00:15 -0400 2018-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T20:30:00-04:00 DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Zouk Thursdays (March 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48097 48097-11180601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
VegWeek 2018 (March 16, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50627 50627-11978902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T23:59:59-04:00 Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Michigan India Conference (March 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49512 49512-11490348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Global Initiatives

Michigan India Conference helps to highlight Indian success in business, healthcare, consulting, and many other fields, and where there growth will lead them in the future!

https://www.umichindiausinitiative.com/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:08:29 -0500 2018-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Global Initiatives Conference / Symposium Michigan India Conference 2018 Flyer
ASC 10th Anniversary Symposium. ASC: The First Decade and Beyond (March 16, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48668 48668-11265197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 9:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of Michigan African Studies Center (ASC). Since its founding in 2008, ASC has successfully deepened, and brought higher visibility to, longstanding U-M/Africa institutional partnerships, especially in Ghana and South Africa, and supported new collaborations with universities in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Liberia, and Uganda (to name a few).

Our major commemorative event will be a three-day symposium entitled, “ASC: The First Decade and Beyond.” The symposium will provide a glimpse into an environment rich in collaborations, research, and engagement in and about Africa, highlighting projects that have truly transformed our engagement with Africa over the last ten years, and setting a foundation as we envision our way forward.

Featured events include:
» Panels of faculty and African partners representing ASC’s initiatives—African Heritage and Humanities Initiative, African Social Research Initiative, STEM-Africa, Ethiopia-Michigan Collaborative Consortium, and the U-M African Presidential Scholars program;

» Poster presentations by current students;
» Roundtable featuring U-M alumni living and working in Africa

» Presidential Panel with Mark Schlissel, University of Michigan (current); Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan (2002-2014); Emmet Dennis, University of Liberia (2008-2017); James Duderstadt, University of Michigan (1988-1996); Uphie Chinje Melo, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon (current); Ophelia Weeks, University of Liberia (current)

ASC’s 10th-year anniversary symposium is made possible with the generous support of our cosponsors and donors: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, International Institute, Institute for Social Research, LSA Opportunity Hub, Office of the Provost, Rackham Graduate School, and Researching Fresh Solutions to the Energy/Water/Food Challenge in Resource Constrained Environments (REFRESCH)

All events are free and open to the public. Registration requested at: bit.ly/asc10-register

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:30:45 -0400 2018-03-16T09:30:00-04:00 2018-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Conference / Symposium asc10-image
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:30:37 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Photo
Early Modern Colloquium Annual Graduate Student Conference (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44891 44891-10003598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Keynote Speakers: Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt) and Carla Della Gatta (USC)

The conference is open to the public and free, but registration is required. For more information, please e-mail the organizers at earlymodcolloq@gmail.com.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:29:51 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Social Media & Citizenship Symposium (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50158 50158-11653331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

This symposium gathers together leading scholars working on a critical and salient theme in communication studies--namely, social media and citizenship. We are interested in work that deals with a broad range of related questions. How are social media changing the nature of participation, debate, and political protest? How do the affordances of social media platforms affect engagement and interaction? How are identities, and senses of belonging and citizenship, shaped by social media? How are social media changing the nature of political journalism? These as critical questions in the field.

Oscillating Networked Publics: Enclaves, Counter-publics, and the Contingent Uses of Social Media
SARAH FLORINI - Arizona State University

Measuring Communication Effects in a Networked Media Environment
SANDRA GONZÁLEZ-BAILÓN - University of Pennsylvania

What We Owe Each Other: Social Media Mobilization and the Obligations of Democratic Life
DANIEL KREISS - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Social Media and Political Inequalities
KJERSTIN THORSON - Michigan State University

Facilitating Interpersonal Support in Times of Major Public Crisis: Mobile Voice Calling Helps Us Cope with Existential Fears
TETSURO KOBAYASHI - City University of Hong Kong

Social Media Engagement and Political News in the 2016 Election
ASHLEY MUDDIMAN - University of Kansas

An Analysis of Deleted Tweets from the 2016 Presidential Election
CATIE SNOW BAILARD - George Washington University

This symposium is made possible by the John D. Evans Professor in LSA fund and LSA Communication Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:38:38 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Communication and Media Conference / Symposium logo for symposium
VegWeek 2018 (March 16, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50631 50631-11836261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 5:00pm
Location: DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
VegWeek 2018 (March 17, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50627 50627-11978903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

VegWeek is a week dedicated to healthy eating, the environment, and animals. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, Planet Blue Student Leaders, and the Sustainable Living Experience, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.Monday-Friday: Michigan Dining will be showcasing their veg offerings at all dining halls throughout the week!Tuesday (3/13) - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Dr. Joel Kahn - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples from GreenSpace Cafe, Dr. Kahn's plant-based restaurant.Wednesday (3/14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): Forks Over Knives Documentary Screening: MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a light catered dinner and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.Thursday (3/15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): VegWeek presents: Professor Panel with Debra Levantrosser, Luis Sfeir-Younis, Dr. James Grampprie, Fern Macdougal, and others! They will be presenting on food choices and their implications for public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The talks will be accompanied by free from Shimmy Shack, Debra's incredible food truck!Friday: (3/16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by Planet Blue, UMSFP, FCF, MDining, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem with food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:00:14 -0400 2018-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Dining Halls and DANA 1040 Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:30:37 -0500 2018-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Photo
ASC 10th Anniversary Symposium. ASC: The First Decade and Beyond (March 17, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48668 48668-11265198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of Michigan African Studies Center (ASC). Since its founding in 2008, ASC has successfully deepened, and brought higher visibility to, longstanding U-M/Africa institutional partnerships, especially in Ghana and South Africa, and supported new collaborations with universities in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Liberia, and Uganda (to name a few).

Our major commemorative event will be a three-day symposium entitled, “ASC: The First Decade and Beyond.” The symposium will provide a glimpse into an environment rich in collaborations, research, and engagement in and about Africa, highlighting projects that have truly transformed our engagement with Africa over the last ten years, and setting a foundation as we envision our way forward.

Featured events include:
» Panels of faculty and African partners representing ASC’s initiatives—African Heritage and Humanities Initiative, African Social Research Initiative, STEM-Africa, Ethiopia-Michigan Collaborative Consortium, and the U-M African Presidential Scholars program;

» Poster presentations by current students;
» Roundtable featuring U-M alumni living and working in Africa

» Presidential Panel with Mark Schlissel, University of Michigan (current); Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan (2002-2014); Emmet Dennis, University of Liberia (2008-2017); James Duderstadt, University of Michigan (1988-1996); Uphie Chinje Melo, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon (current); Ophelia Weeks, University of Liberia (current)

ASC’s 10th-year anniversary symposium is made possible with the generous support of our cosponsors and donors: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, International Institute, Institute for Social Research, LSA Opportunity Hub, Office of the Provost, Rackham Graduate School, and Researching Fresh Solutions to the Energy/Water/Food Challenge in Resource Constrained Environments (REFRESCH)

All events are free and open to the public. Registration requested at: bit.ly/asc10-register

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:30:45 -0400 2018-03-17T09:30:00-04:00 2018-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium asc10-image
Early Modern Colloquium Annual Graduate Student Conference (March 17, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44891 44891-10003599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Keynote Speakers: Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt) and Carla Della Gatta (USC)

The conference is open to the public and free, but registration is required. For more information, please e-mail the organizers at earlymodcolloq@gmail.com.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:29:51 -0500 2018-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Zouk Sundays (March 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48164 48164-11183344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social
Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:00:15 -0400 2018-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Modern Jewish Literature Symposium (March 21, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46879 46879-10667284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Bringing together colleagues as well as former and current students of Professor Norich, this symposium reflects Professor Norich’s influence and inspiration, while also suggesting directions that her scholarly legacy may take in future. One panel focuses on the transnational and multilingual contexts of Jewish modernism, specifically the interactions between Yiddish and modern Hebrew literary traditions. The second focuses on the role of Jews as producers of and subjects in Anglophone literary culture.

​Symposium Schedule

​​1:00 pm: Opening Remarks– Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan
1:15 pm: First Panel
Introduction—Moderator, Rachel Neis, University of Michigan
Participants:
Chana Kronfeld, University of California, Berkeley—”'In Zikh' in Jerusalem: Benjamin Harshav's Poetry and the Afterlife of New York Yiddish Modernism.”
Yael Kenan, University of Michigan—"Mothers in Mourning – Reading Kanafani and Grossman Together”
Nadav Linial, University of Michigan.—"Hard Definitions: Genre and Ideology in Brenner's Out of Depths".

3:30: Second Panel
Introduction—Moderator, Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
Participants:
Julian Levinson, University of Michigan—“De-localizing Yiddish: Translating Chaim Grade’s ‘Jewish Towns of Poland’”
Maren Linnett, Purdue University—”Flannery O’Connor as Bioethicist: The Violent Bear It Away and the Value of Disabled Lives”
Josh Lambert, University of Massachusetts Amherst— “Publishing Jews at Knopf”
5:15 pm: Closing Remarks—Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan​


If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:38:33 -0400 2018-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Anita Norich
Sling Health -- Innovation Demo Day (March 21, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51045 51045-11944872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Sling Health

Demo Day is our capstone event where Sling Health teams from across campus present entrepreneurial solutions that they have developed for a variety of medical fields. Over $3000 in prizes will be awarded, and non Sling Health teams are encouraged to apply to compete!

At the end of the night, there will be a crowd favorite prize awarded in addition to prizes awarded by an expert panel of judges. Please feel free to bring your friends for a night of fun, food, and learning. In addition, there will be 3 $50 Amazon gift cards randomly awarded to those who are present and have RSVP'd. RSVP at michigan.slinghealth.org

More info on our program: Sling Health is a bioengineering design and entrepreneurship incubator that helps facilitate student teams address medical issues to improve healthcare. It is completely student-run, bringing together engineers, medical students, and law/business students. Selected students work in small teams comprised of law, engineering, medical, and business students. This national organization has created 15 startups and raised over 4 million dollars in outside investments and awards since our inception in 2013.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:59:40 -0400 2018-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Sling Health Conference / Symposium Innovation Demo Day Flyer
The 2018 MICDE Annual Symposium (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48890 48890-11320067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The symposium will highlight how computational science is advancing research from the molecular to the atmospheric scale.
We welcome back Cleve Moler, original author of Matlab ®, and co-founder of MathWorks, as a keynote speaker.
He will be joined by: Gurudurth Banavar — co-founder and CTO, Viome; Cyhthia Chestek — Biomedical Engineering & EECS, U-M; Alison Marsden — Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University; Raju Namburu — Chief Scientist, Army Research Lab; Stephen Smith — Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U-M; Beth Wingate — Professor of Mathematics, University of Exeter.

As always, the symposium will also feature a poster competition highlighting notable computational work from U-M postdocs and students. The posters have proved highly popular in previous years, and we look forward to this year’s submissions.

Please RSVP at micde.umich.edu/symposium18

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:28:06 -0400 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Conference / Symposium Symposium Image
Zouk Thursdays (March 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48098 48098-11180602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan Union in the Parker room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:00:12 -0400 2018-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
Media Studies within the Data Turn (March 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50393 50393-11727528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Media Studies Research Workshop

The capacity of modern computers to capture and store traces of human behavior along an unprecedented number of dimensions has created something of an epistemological shift in society, with datafication emerging as a newly dominant paradigm for making sense of the world. With the move towards datafication—and the attendant algorithmic logics used to make sense of it—everyday life has become mediated in new ways. For media studies, this presents a challenge to figure out where our discipline fits. What does this mean for our objects of study? Our research questions? Our methods?

This miniconference will bring together graduate students and faculty from the University of Michigan community with invited guests whose work grapples with the impact of data on media studies in order to grapple with these questions. This daylong mini-conference will feature three panel discussion, each kicked off by a guest speaker who will give a 30 minute presentation about their work and the provocations it introduces about what datafication means for media studies. Three members of the university of Michigan community will give 5 minute responses, and then all four panelists will participate in a group discussion. These panels will be open to the public.
#DataTurn

9AM: Coffee

9:15AM: Introductory Remarks

9:30-11AM: Panel 1:The Interpretive Uncertainty of Data
Keynote: Caitlin Petre, Rutgers University

11-11:15AM: Break

11:15AM-12:45PM: Panel 2: Decentering Data Futures
Keynote: Anita Say Chan, UIUC

12:45-1:15PM: Lunch

1:30-3PM: Panel 3: The Data Agenda in Media Studies
Keynote: John Cheney-Lippold, UMich

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:00:09 -0500 2018-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Media Studies Research Workshop Conference / Symposium MSRW Flyer
Gupta Family Hackathon for Health Communication (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50274 50274-11698730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

As CNN’s medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, M.D. has covered many disasters, medical discoveries, epidemics and catastrophes – enough to see the crucial role of effective and timely communication of health information.

On March 23-25, he and his wife Rebecca will team up with U-M to host an innovation event aimed at generating new ideas and tools to improve health communication.

The marathon weekend event, called the Gupta Family Hackathon, will include more than 200 students and professionals from the worlds of health, digital technology, design, communication and information science. Teams will form, work over the weekend, and present their prototypes for judging, competing for a chance to develop their ideas further with the help of U-M mentors.

The application to participate opens this month, and applicants will be selected on a rolling basis until March 1. There is no cost to participate, and food and team working space will be provided.

Organized by the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, the event is co-supported by a gift from the Guptas and by Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical center.

Learn more and apply at https://guptahacks.org/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:46:01 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T23:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Conference / Symposium Gupta Family Hackathon banner
Washtenaw County Autonomous Vehicles Expert Panel (March 24, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51184 51184-12010139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

As self-driving cars make the move from science fiction to neighborhood parking lots, their impact on society has become a widespread topic of public debate. Across the University of Michigan campus, experts have presented on the technologies, regulatory issues, and business opportunities surrounding Autonomous Vehicles (AV). Missing though, are the critical perspectives and values of the community. This spring, a group of students from the University of Michigan are organizing an opportunity for community members to learn about and voice their opinions on what is destined to be a society-altering technology. This type of event, called a consensus conference, enables the public to contribute to the discussion around technologies that impact their lives. To better understand AV impacts in our community we are looking beyond these experts to those who will be most impacted—the community members themselves.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/self-driving-cars-expert-panel-tickets-43942594483

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:25:47 -0400 2018-03-24T09:30:00-04:00 2018-03-24T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Conference / Symposium
Gupta Family Hackathon for Health Communication (March 25, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50274 50274-11698731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

As CNN’s medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, M.D. has covered many disasters, medical discoveries, epidemics and catastrophes – enough to see the crucial role of effective and timely communication of health information.

On March 23-25, he and his wife Rebecca will team up with U-M to host an innovation event aimed at generating new ideas and tools to improve health communication.

The marathon weekend event, called the Gupta Family Hackathon, will include more than 200 students and professionals from the worlds of health, digital technology, design, communication and information science. Teams will form, work over the weekend, and present their prototypes for judging, competing for a chance to develop their ideas further with the help of U-M mentors.

The application to participate opens this month, and applicants will be selected on a rolling basis until March 1. There is no cost to participate, and food and team working space will be provided.

Organized by the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, the event is co-supported by a gift from the Guptas and by Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical center.

Learn more and apply at https://guptahacks.org/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:46:01 -0500 2018-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Conference / Symposium Gupta Family Hackathon banner
Zouk Sundays (March 25, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48165 48165-11183349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:00:17 -0400 2018-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Celebrating Diversity Week (March 27, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51158 51158-12007289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Psychology Department Diversity Committee is excited to present Celebrating Diversity Week, a series of scholarly and community-building events from March 27th to March 30th, 2018. This will include a department-wide Diversity Week Social, where all are welcome to a fun space to get to know each other.

Meet the Grads!  - Tuesday, March 27th, 5:00-7:00PM
Third floor terrace. In this students-only event, undergraduates can meet members of our graduate student organizations: APSA, BSPA, LSPA, and PsychOut.

Navigating our Differences Panel  - Wednesday, March 28th, 10:30AM-12:00PM
Room 4448 East Hall. In this panel discussion attendees will learn about the range of positive and negative academic experiences encountered by members of our community in relation to their social identities (including but not limited to socioeconomic status, language, culture, national origin, race, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, religious commitments, age, (dis)ability status, and political perspective. The panel will speak briefly about their perspectives followed by a Q&A with the audience. All members of the department are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Diversity Week Social - Thursday, March 29th, 4:00-5:30 PM
Third floor terrace. Do you only know the people who work on your floor? Come get to know people from all corners of your department over delicious food. Faculty, Staff, and Grads are invited to this community-building event to meet the other people that make our department so great. Plus, we will have raffle prizes!

P&SC & Diversity Committee Colloquium Keynote Lecture Friday, March 30th, 11:00AM-12:30PM
Room 4448 East Hall. Dr. Kevin Cokley (UT-Austin) speaking on “Emerging Data on the Role of the Impostor Phenomenon in Mental Health and Academic Outcomes.”

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:43:50 -0400 2018-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T19:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Conference / Symposium divweek
University of Michigan - Santa Fe Institute Symposium. "Modeling Human Behavior and Social Dynamics" (March 29, 2018 9:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50955 50955-11930589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 9:10am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

A one day symposium.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
You may attend any and all talks.
(Lunch Registration is now closed)

Also supported by LSA Computational Social Science Initiative.

REGISTRATION LINKS FOUND BELOW. To see the complete agenda and the registration link, click REGISTRATION SITE LINK. For direct link to registration form - click "Direct Link to Registration Form"

This year's event includes:

Maximilian Schich, UT Dallas, School of Arts and Technology
"Towards a Morphology of Durations"

Mirta Galesic, Santa Fe Institute
“Wisdom of small, slow, and local groups”

Cris Moore, Santa Fe Institute
“Interdependence between network layers”

Ceren Budak, UM School of Information
"Examining Social Movements through the Lens of Social Media"

Mark Newman, University of Michigan, Physics, Complex Systems
“Competition, geography, and attractiveness in online dating"

Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, Computer Science and Informatics
"The spread of misinformation in social media"

Jessica Flack, Santa Fe Institute
"Collective Computation & Information Aggregation in Nature & Society"

Michael Mauskapf, Columbia University, Columbia School of Business
"The Social Foundations of Creativity: Evidence from Popular Music, 1955-2000"

EVENT ORGANIZERS:
ELIZABETH BRUCH
MARK NEWMAN
DANIEL ROMERO
LYNETTE SHAW

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 May 2018 16:07:07 -0400 2018-03-29T09:10:00-04:00 2018-03-29T17:10:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium um-sfi info poster
2018 Information Ethics Colloquium (March 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51129 51129-11976196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Information Alliance for Community Development

The IACD presents the 2018 InfoEthics Colloquium (IEC), our inaugural event that brings members of the University together to address the ethical dilemmas of technology innovations in academia and industry. The IEC will be held on Thursday, March 29th, from 12-5pm at Ehrlicher Room 3100 at North Quad. Lunch provided.

This year, we are elated to announce Garlin Gilchrist, the Director for the Center for Social Media Responsibility, as our keynote speaker. Please join us for an afternoon that includes a panel on Ethically Charged Decision Making in Professional Contexts and an InfoEthics Design Jam, which includes a series of design challenges for addressing ethical issues in the interdisciplinary domain of information.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:21:33 -0400 2018-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Information Alliance for Community Development Conference / Symposium InfoEthicsPosterWide
UNshaken: Subnational Actors Step Up at the Global Climate Talks (March 29, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50867 50867-11887880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: ClimateBlue

Join us for a discussion of the recent international climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany! Hear perspectives from University of Michigan student delegates who were there as observers. Stay to learn some takeaways from a panel of experts and policymakers on what’s next for climate policy, globally and locally now that the U.S. has submitted intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and subnational action is building momentum. After the delegate talks and the expert panel we invite you to speak to student and community groups at our organization fair & reception. Additionally, the call for the COP24 U-M delegation will be announced at this event, opening the spring application period!

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unshaken-subnational-actors-step-up-at-the-global-climate-talks-tickets-44007843645

NOTE: Cooley room capacity is capped at 80 attendees and food provided will match the attendance cap of 80 people, so first come first served at the reception (with ticket)! Attendees without rsvp tickets will still be let in to talk with organization representatives.

Schedule:
Opening Remarks: 4:30 pm Beth Gibbons, Executive Director of American Society of Adaptation Professionals (Cooley Building G906)

Introduction to UNFCCC: 4:45 pm Dr. Avik Basu, SEAS Lecturer, Co-creator of the interdisciplinary UNFCCC course at UM (Cooley Building G906)

Delegate Talks: 5 pm - 6 pm (Cooley Building G906)

Expert Panel: 6:10 pm - 6:50 pm (Cooley Building G906)

Organization Fair & Reception: 7 pm - 8:00 pm (Pierpont, East Room), Refreshments will be served

This event is co-sponsored by the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, the School for Sustainability and Environment and the University of Michigan Energy Institute.



Expert panel:

Moderator:
Michael Lerner, Political Science PhD student, COP 23 Delegate, MUSE leadership

Panelists:
Alicia Douglas, Cities Rising, CEO of Water Rising Institute

J.C. Kibbey, Midwest Outreach and Policy Advocate, Union for Concerned Scientists

Nathan Geisler, Energy Analyst, City of Ann Arbor

Noah Deich, Director and Co-Founder of the Center for the Carbon Removal

Dr. Trish Koman, Environmental epidemiologist (UM), Climate Reality leader (Washtenaw County Chapter)



Organizations:

Climate Blue
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department (CLaSP)
Climate Reality
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL)
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center (GLISA)
People of the Global Majority in the Environment
Sierra Club Beyond Coal
Students Sustainability Initiative (SSI)
Sustainability Without Borders (SWB)
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:28:39 -0400 2018-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building ClimateBlue Conference / Symposium UNshaken word graphic.
Zouk Thursdays (March 29, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48100 48100-11180614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Third Annual RNA Symposium "Advancing Basic RNA Biosciences into Therapeutics” (March 30, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49703 49703-11498722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 8:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

MORNING WELCOME & INTRODUCTION:
Martin Philbert, PhD
Dean, School of Public Health, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Toxicology

• Jonathan Weissman, PhD
HHMI Investigator
Professor • Cellular and Molecular Medicine • University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

• Eric Fearon, MD, PhD
Emanuel N. Maisel Professor of Oncology
Director • University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor • Departments of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Pathology • University of Michigan

• Melissa Moore, PhD
Eleanor Eustis Farrington Chair in Cancer Research
Professor • RNA Therapeutics Institute and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology • University of Massachusetts Medical School
Chief Scientific Officer • Moderna mRNA Research Platform

AFTERNOON WELCOME &INTRODUCTION :
Bishr Omary, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer of Michigan Medicine, Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, H Marvin Pollard Professor of Gastroenterology Professor, Internal Medicine

• Roy Parker, PhD
Cech-Leinwand Endowed Chair of Biochemistry
Professor • University of Colorado Boulder

• Anastasia Khvorova, PhD
Professor • RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine • University of Massachusetts Medical School

PANEL DISCUSSION moderated by:
Bradley Martin, PhD, Fast Forward Medical Innovation

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:50:31 -0400 2018-03-30T08:30:00-04:00 2018-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Conference / Symposium Flyer
Building Power: Organizing Effectively Against White Supremacy (March 31, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50732 50732-11859077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 31, 2018 10:30am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Join the University of Michigan School of Social for Building Power: Organizing Effectively Against White Supremacy. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from action-driven leaders in social justice, participate in small and large group discussions, and develop action plans for adopting social justice lifestyles. There will be two tracks for conference workshops. The Community Organizing Track will be for individuals who want to develop a deeper understanding of privilege, oppression, and intercultural issues and leave with tangible skills, including skills surrounding direct action strategies. The Individual Leadership Track will be for people who do not identify as community organizers, but want foundational skills and information to combat white supremacy every day and within their chosen professions. More information about the day’s schedule and speakers, form may be found at: https://umsswconference.wixsite.com/buildingpower (website will continue to be updated).

Accessibility: The conference will be in the basement and first floor in the School of Social Work. The building is wheelchair accessible, and includes an elevator. There are options for gendered and non-gendered bathrooms. For any other questions re: accessibility, please feel free to email krisagb@umich.edu.

This event is free and open to all members of the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti community, along with students from across the University of Michigan campus. RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWdDuhPmPvcJns-Ola0zY1LHZwtFAN8mI-zaPqXq1dIAhkDw/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:26:21 -0500 2018-03-31T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference / Symposium School of Social Work Building
Zouk Sundays (April 1, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48166 48166-11183357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 1, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:00:17 -0400 2018-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-01T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Human Rights Conference. Frontiers of Human Rights Research: Methodological Innovations and New Rights Issues (April 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47336 47336-10869001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

April 2, 2018
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
1010 Weiser Hall
500 Church Street, Ann Arbor

9:00-9:15 am Opening Remarks:
Welcome by Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Introductory remarks by Changrok Soh

9:15-10:30 am Panel I: Big Data and Human Rights (Presider: Taehee Whang)
Jeong-Woo Koo
Evolution of Human Rights as Cultural System: Probabilistic Topic Modeling of 116,000 South Korean
Newspaper Articles, 1990-2015
Charles Crabtree
Blurring the Lines: Rethinking Self-Censorship under Autocracy
David Suarez
Community Foundations, Human Rights, and the Legitimation of Advocacy
Discussant: Benjamin Appel (Michigan State University, Political Science)

10:45 am-12:00 pm Panel II: Collecting Human Rights Data (Presider: Youngsoo Yu)
Geoffrey Wallace
Violence, Non-violence, the Effects of International Human Rights Law
Chad Clay
Experts and State Obligations: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative
Hollie Brehm
Examining Transitional Justice Outcomes in Rwanda
Discussant: James Morrow (University of Michigan, Political Science)

1:00-2:15 pm Panel III: Human Rights and Family (Presider: Minzee Kim)
Amanda Murdie
Freedom from Childhood Marriage
Paul Chang
Claiming Rights: Narrating Belonging by Marriage Migrants in South Korea
Brian Gran
Cross-National Comparison of Abortion Policies Using fs-QCA
Discussant: Susan Waltz (University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy)

2:30-3:45 pm Panel IV: New Challenges in Human Rights (Presider: Jinwon Chung)
Hun Joon Kim
Measuring the Impact of Truth Commissions: A Lesson from the South Korean Cases
Alyssa Prorok
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate, Power Politics, and the Quest
for Legitimacy
Daniel Connolly
New Rules for New Tools?: The Lawfare of Drones
Discussant: Kristina Daugirdas (University of Michigan, Law School)

4-5:30 pm Keynote Lecture (Moderator: Kiyoteru Tsutsui)
Beth Simmons The Future of Human Rights: Social Science Research and Reality on the Ground

5:30 Closing by Jeong-Woo Koo

This interdisciplinary conference convenes leading scholars of human rights engaged in cutting-edge research in terms of the methodologies they adopt and/or the topics they focus on. The last couple of decades has established human rights research as a new vibrant field in which scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds brought their insights to advance our understanding of human rights. We take stock of those developments and explore applications of new methodological approaches and examination of new human rights issues with a view to opening new horizons of human rights research.

The conference is free and open to the public.

Organized by the Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan and SSK (Social Science Korea) Human Rights Forum, Sungkyunkwan University; Co-sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:29:16 -0400 2018-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Conference / Symposium logo
Health Professions Education Day (April 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49538 49538-11473472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This annual event aims to spark interprofessional collaboration, networking, and inspiration for future research and practice for educational efforts across the health professions schools at the University of Michigan.

Schedule
7:30 - 8:00 a.m.: Poster Set-up

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction

8:45 - 10:15 a.m.: Poster, demonstration and display session

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.: Break

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.: Plenary: Molly Cooke, MD, MACP, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Inaugural James O. Woolliscroft lecture: How much difference can one teacher make?

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Topic Tables and Lunch

Register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-health-professions-education-day-tickets-40033199377?aff=eac2

More information: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/lhs/news-events/annual-events/health-professions-education-day

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:50:33 -0400 2018-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Learning Health Sciences Conference / Symposium HPE Day
MICHIGAN/MELLON RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM WITH PRESENTATIONS BY SUZANNE LETTIERI AND JULIE PEDTKE (April 3, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51578 51578-12167557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

“Prom Picture: Scénography and Self-Image of Detroit Send-Offs"
Suzanne Lettieri, Michigan/Mellon Design Fellow

"Equities: Cataloguing Emergent Development Models"
Julie Pedtke, Michigan/Mellon Design Fellow

The Michigan/Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis brings together designers and humanities scholars to discuss questions of urbanism, equity, privatization, and the common good. The project is co-directed by Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Matthew Biro, Professor of Art History. For more information, please visit our website.

Suzanne Lettieri is the 2016-2018 Michigan-Mellon Design Fellow. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, she served as a Visiting Critic at Cornell University. She is the co-principle of JE-LE, an independent design and research practice. She previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, CODA, and Biber Architects. As project leader with CODA, she guided the design and construction of Party Wall, the winning entry at for the 2013 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, and Venice and published in Project and The Cornell Journal of Architecture. Lettieri’s fellowship research focuses on the border conditions of Detroit, materialized through a series of contentious objects. Her study of the intentional misuse of these objects offers a possible framework to consider discrete, site specific, and architectural-scale propositions that interface with urbanism and infrastructure.

Julie Pedtke has recently completed a Master of Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. During her undergraduate thesis at Hampshire College, she partnered with public housing tenants to explore ongoing activist campaigns in Holyoke, Massachusetts alongside histories of public participation in urban redevelopment. She is most interested in interdisciplinary work addressing social justice issues in post-industrial cities, specifically through cooperative ownership models, participatory planning and design methods, and grassroots organizing. She is continuing a study of community land trusts, foreclosure, and alternative finance with the Michigan-Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis this year.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:54:14 -0400 2018-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Pierpont Commons
Community Action and Research Symposium (April 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51396 51396-12098128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work

The Community Action and Research Learning Community invite three activists engaged scholars from different fields who will provide their perspectives on Community Action and Research in their work. Here are some details about the speakers:

Sharon Egretta Sutton is professor emerita of architecture, urban design and planning, and social work at the University of Washington, where she served on the faculty 1998-2016. She became an architecture educator in 1975, having taught at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Michigan where she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program.
Monica White is Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Her research engages communities of color and grassroots organizations that are involved in the development of sustainable community food systems as a strategy to respond to issues of hunger and food inaccessibility. Her publications include, "Sisters of the Soil: Urban Gardening as Resistance Among Black Women in Detroit" and "D-Town Farm: African American Resistance to Food Insecurity and the Transformation of Detroit."
Kevin Nadal is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center (CUNY). His main areas of research have been Microaggressions, Gender & Sexuality Issues, Filipino American issues and Systemic Oppression in Criminal Justice. Nadal has served in many other leadership roles in the greater psychology community, as well as in organizations committed to uplifting communities of color and LGBTQ people.
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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 07:49:49 -0400 2018-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work Conference / Symposium Community Action and Research
The Inaugural Community Action and Research Symposium (April 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50761 50761-11861944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work Community Action and Research Learning Community (CARLC @ SSW)

April 5, 2018 - 2:00pm to 5:30pm

The Community Action and Research Learning Community invites three activist engaged scholars from different fields who will provide their perspectives on Community Action and Research in their work. Here are some details about the speakers:

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton is professor emerita of architecture, urban design and planning, and social work at the University of Washington, where she served on the faculty 1998-2016. She became an architecture educator in 1975, having taught at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Michigan where she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program.

Prof. Monica White is Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Her research engages communities of color and grassroots organizations that are involved in the development of sustainable community food systems as a strategy to respond to issues of hunger and food inaccessibility. Her publications include, "Sisters of the Soil: Urban Gardening as Resistance Among Black Women in Detroit" and "D-Town Farm: African American Resistance to Food Insecurity and the Transformation of Detroit."

Prof. Kevin Nadal is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center (CUNY). His main areas of research have been Microaggressions, Gender & Sexuality Issues, Filipino American issues and Systemic Oppression in Criminal Justice. ​Nadal has served in many other leadership roles in the greater psychology community, as well as in organizations committed to uplifting communities of color and LGBTQ people.


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Conference / Symposium Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:31:44 -0400 2018-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work Community Action and Research Learning Community (CARLC @ SSW) Conference / Symposium Event Flyer
Zouk Thursdays (April 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48101 48101-11180615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:00:17 -0400 2018-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
9th annual Marshall M. Weinberg Symposium (April 6, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47898 47898-11043658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The 2018 Weinberg Symposium will explore recent dramatic advances in AI and their implications for our developing understanding and investigation of mind and brain. Of special interest are deep learning and reinforcement learning, and the resurgence of explorations of computational architectures intended to support general intelligence. An aim of the symposium is to clarify and advance the reciprocal flow of theoretical ideas across AI and cognitive science, broadly understood to include neuroscience and psychology. This includes identifying specific computational problems shared by both artificial and human brains, and leading ideas for solutions to those problems; identifying areas of both theoretical convergence and divergence; rethinking core concepts in cognitive science such as planning, motivation, attention, and abstraction; and putting into sharp focus fundamental gaps in our present scientific understanding and engineering capacities that might be promising areas for new cross-disciplinary work.

To register, please fill out the registration link: https://lsa.umich.edu/weinberginstitute/symposium/registration.html

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:09:58 -0500 2018-04-06T08:30:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Conference / Symposium Brain logo
CSAS Conference | 8th Annual Pakistan Conference: Movement, Migration, and Borders (April 6, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48824 48824-11308915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Complete conference details available here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/8th-annual-pakistan-conference--movement--migration--and-borders.html

The contemporary realities of migration and movement have implicated Pakistan within a global network of transaction and belonging, this due in part to the ever-growing mobility of Pakistanis. Both within and across the borders of Pakistan, the title of immigrant, citizen, and refugee has crafted new notions of identity and community. Further, the relationship between both the diaspora and Pakistan have shaped the conceptions of one another, and ultimately Pakistan. The narratives in circulation about “Pakistan in the world” garner security concerns and fears about radicalization and terrorism. This year’s U-M Pakistan Conference challenges this dominant theme by highlighting new and exciting developments in the field of Pakistani migrations. This multidisciplinary conference brings together academics, activists, journalists, and artists from Pakistan, Europe, Bangladesh, and the United States in a discussion of the global and mobile realities of Pakistan and its people, and the histories and trajectories of Pakistani diasporas to Aboriginal Australia, the Arabian Gulf, Europe, and North America.

This conference is made possible by generous support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with additional support from​​ the Departments of: American Culture; Anthropology; History; History of Art; Screen Arts and Cultures; and Women's Studies; the Islamic Studies Program; Rackham Graduate School; Residential College; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; the Institute for the Humanities; and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:57:40 -0400 2018-04-06T09:30:00-04:00 2018-04-06T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Lahore Station
Sacred Scriptures in a Secular Society: Hand-copying Buddhist Texts in Japan (April 6, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51330 51330-12055411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 9:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan, the copying of Buddhist texts by hand is done by religious and non-religious people alike. This meditative activity cultivates inner focus and attention. But the vital practice of hand-tracing religious texts - whether with brush, pen, or electronic device - is little known outside Japan.

This symposium introduces shakyō, the living tradition of copying Buddhist texts by hand. The two morning lectures will survey the uninterrupted production of shakyō from the 8th century through the 20th century. In the afternoon, the focus will shift to how shakyō is practiced today in Japan, including a hands-on opportunity for participants to copy a short Buddhist text themselves.

ALL EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBowo9isHgBFPAJyCFDFw1VlU2xCYdlT3oj4NcvpTZVB8HuQ/viewform

9:30
Coffee and Light Breakfast

10:00
Copying Sutras in Premodern Asia: Technical, Ritual, and Human Dimensions
Bryan Lowe, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Traditions of Japan and Korea, Vanderbilt University

11:30
Copying Buddhist Scriptures in Japan, From the Nineteenth Century Through the Twentieth
Micah Auerback, Associate Professor of Japanese Religion, University of Michigan

12:45
Lunch

2:00
Sutra-copying Today: Presentation and Hands-on Session
Dawn Lawson Head, Asia Library, University of Michigan

4:00
Reception
Asia Library Conference Room, 4th Floor
Hatcher Graduate Library, North

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:25:04 -0400 2018-04-06T09:30:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Sacred Scriptures in a Secular Society: Hand-copying Buddhist Texts in Japan
Digital What? Building Digital Research and Making Communities at U-M (April 6, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51329 51329-12055410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Digital Studies

Schedule:
Coffee/Tea/Registration 10:00 - 10:30
Welcome 10:30 - 10:45
Lightning talks 1 10:45 - 11:45
Lunch 11:45 - 1:00
Lightning talks 2 1:10 - 2:10
Coffee/Tea 2:15-3:30 in Commons
Group breakout 2:15 - 3:30
Keynote 3:30 - 5:00 “Generous Thinking: Working in Public,” Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MSU

Please join us for a one-day gathering of lightning talks and networking focused around digital studies research broadly conceived. This conference will feature faculty, graduate students, digital humanities and rhetoric experts, and other stakeholders in Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, showcasing the wide variety of digital engagement on campus. It is open to practitioners, researchers, and all who work in a critical relation to the digital. Catered lunch and refreshments will be provided for all attendees.

Keynote talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MSU
“Generous Thinking: Working in Public.”

Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-campus who care about the kinds of work that we do. By finding ways to connect with readers and writers beyond our usual circles of experts, in a range of different registers, and in ways that move beyond enabling them to listen to us to instead allow for meaningful response, we can create the possibilities for far more substantial public participation in and engagement with the humanities, and with the academy more broadly. We can build programs and networks and platforms that do not just bring the university to the world, but that also involve the world in the university.

Lightening Talks 1 Presenters (in order):
Meg Bakewell, CRLT
Moderator

Tiffany Ng, Professor of Carillon, School of Music
“Experiments in the Belfry”

Merideth Garcia, Joint Program in English and Education
“Networked Ethics: Negotiating Commitments to Overlapping Virtual and Visible Networks”

Cengiz Salman, Department of American Culture
“Engineering a Global Network: The Imperial Drive of Facebook's Free Basics”

John Cheney-Lippold, Department of American Culture
“FIFA: Race, It's in the Game”

Casidy Campbell, Department of American Culture
“Black Girl (Counter)narratives and the Violence of the Digital”


Lightening Talks 2 Presenters (in order):
Monika Dressler, LSA-ISS
Moderator

Anne Cong-Huyen and Kush Patel, University of Michigan Libraries
“Practising Digital Pedagogy Librarianship at U-M: Critical Feminist Engagements”

Simone Sessolo, Sweetland Center for Writing
“Discursive Selfies: Discourse in the Age of Instagram”

Adrienne Raw, Joint Program in English and Education
“A Platform Studies Approach to Understanding Fandom”

Justin Joque, University of Michigan Libraries
“Cyberwar and the Future of Deconstruction”

Katherine Sender, Department of Communication Studies
“The demise of the gay market in a digital media landscape”

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:42:09 -0400 2018-04-06T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Digital Studies Conference / Symposium Headshot
Cooperatives and Community-Based Asset Building in Black Communities (April 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51360 51360-12086784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, PhD, Professor, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice briefly traces the racial wealth inequality movement since 1999 and her frustrations with realistically addressing wealth inequality and racial wealth gaps. She outlines the journey from understanding the importance of wealth in African American and other communities to addressing collective structures for accumulating assets and wealth for low-income people.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:23:21 -0400 2018-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work Conference / Symposium Jessica Gordon-Nembhard
2nd Annual Men of Color Symposium (April 7, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51463 51463-12123946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The 2nd Annual Men of Color Symposium will occur on Saturday, April 7 in the Michigan Union from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Check-in/Breakfast is from 9:00 am to 9:50 am. This year's theme is "Breaking Barriers". The Men of Color Symposium focuses on cross-cultural learning, identity development, community building, skill development, and wellness for self-identified men of color. The symposium will include keynote speakers and interactive dialogic base concurrent sessions. The sessions and speakers will create opportunities for men of color to learn from each other, build community, as well as to develop academically, personally, and professionally.

All are welcome to attend. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Register below. While you will be able to register onsite pre-registration helps us to plan to make the symposium as impactful as possible. We also have limited space for the conference and concurrent sessions. The earlier you register the greater choice of concurrent sessions you will have.

For more information email the planning committee at My.Brothers.PC@umich.edu and or
contact Leon Howard at 734-764-3300

Registration Link:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/992

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:41:19 -0400 2018-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium MOC2018
Art and Gaming Symposium 2018 (April 7, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51183 51183-12010138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Art & Gaming Symposium will bring together academics, game makers, and game players to discuss the role of art in gaming. How is art reflected in games? How does one create art through games? How do we view games as art? These questions will be explored through speakers, panels and discussion in a one-day symposium on Saturday, April 7, 2018, on the campus of the University of Michigan & the Ann Arbor District Library. There is no charge for attendance but registration is required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:18:16 -0400 2018-04-07T09:30:00-04:00 2018-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Conference / Symposium Hatcher
Zouk Sundays (April 8, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48167 48167-11183361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 8, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 08 Apr 2018 18:00:17 -0400 2018-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-08T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Materializing Ancient Judaism Symposium (April 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46884 46884-10667314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Over the past few decades, attention to things, material practices, and materiality has moved beyond the confines of those disciplines that have long studied material culture (e.g., archaeology and art history) to the very center of academic inquiry across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Objects and their constituent materials are studied alongside their larger landscapes and built environments, the bodily practices and disciplines that produced them, and the sensory regimes and perceptual schemes in which they were embedded.

This two-day conference brings together scholars from across a range of disciplines to consider how people in the ancient Mediterranean world, Jews among them, related both to matter itself and to issues of materiality. How did they conceptualize the relationships between word and thing, language and action, text and artifact? How did they sense, understand, and construct material entities such as quotidian or sacred artifacts, human or divine bodies, built or natural environments, and so on? How did non-Jews perceive or represent the relationships between Jews and matter? Finally, how has the history of Jews and matter been reconstructed in modern scholarship and how might scholars approach the nexus of Jews and the material more productively? Presentations explore the profound interconnectedness within ancient (Jewish) culture among things, space, and embodiment, and will place these in dialogue with the signifying practices that are essential to cultural (and other kinds of) production.

Monday, April 9th

9:00-9:15 Welcome: Jeffrey Veidlinger and Rachel Neis

9:15-10:45 Panel I: Affects
• Chaya Halberstam, “Seeing and Feeling without Believing: Courtroom Spectacle and the Affective Landscape”
• Karen Stern, “Materiality of Emotion in Inscribed Jewish Prayers”
Respondent and chair: C. Mike Chin

11:00-12:30 Panel II: Mediations
• Sean Burrus, “Making Memory ‘Matter’ in the Art and Architecture of the Jewish Diaspora”
• Ra‘anan Boustan and Karen Britt, “Historical Scenes in Mosaics from Syria and Palestine: Building on the Seleucid Past in Late Antiquity”
Respondent and chair: Gil Klein

2:00-3:30 Panel III: Embodiments
• Deborah Forger, “God Made Manifest: The Jewish High Priest as Visible Counterpoint to Deified Emperors in the Greco-Roman World?”
• Todd Berzon, “Babel Matters: Experience and the Materiality of Language in the Ancient Jewish Imagination”
Respondent and chair: Gregg Gardner

4:00-5:30 Panel IV: Rites of Passage
• Megan Nutzman, “Materializing Identity: Family and Community in the Jewish Inscriptions from Rome”
• Michael Swartz, “Weddings & Funerals: Quotidian Poetry in Jewish Palestine”
Respondent and chair: Celia Schultz


Tuesday April 10th

9:00-10:30 Panel V: Writing and Reading
• Daniel Picus, “Superseding Scrolls: Beyond Binaries in the Study of Ancient Jewish Reading”
• Rebecca Wollenberg, “Bible as Image: Visual Exegesis of the Biblical Text in Classical Rabbinic Traditions”
Respondent and chair: Moulie Vidas

10:45-12:00 Panel VI: Summation and Discussion
• David Frankfurter


Participants:
Todd Berzon, Bowdoin College
Ra’anan Boustan, Princeton University
Karen Britt, Western Carolina University
Sean Burrus, Metropolitan Museum
C. Mike Chin, University of California at Davis
David Frankfurter, Boston University
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan
Gregg Gardner, University of British Columbia
Chaya Halberstam, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario
Gil Klein, Loyola Marymount University
Daniel Picus, Brown University
Rachel Neis, University of Michigan
Megan Nutzman, Old Dominion University
Karen Stern, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Celia Schultz, University of Michigan
Michael Swartz, Ohio State University
Moulie Vidas, Princeton University
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan

Event Accessibility: There is an elevator and accessible and gender neutral restroom on the first floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:01:15 -0400 2018-04-09T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Huqoq
Materializing Ancient Judaism Symposium (April 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46884 46884-10667315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Over the past few decades, attention to things, material practices, and materiality has moved beyond the confines of those disciplines that have long studied material culture (e.g., archaeology and art history) to the very center of academic inquiry across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Objects and their constituent materials are studied alongside their larger landscapes and built environments, the bodily practices and disciplines that produced them, and the sensory regimes and perceptual schemes in which they were embedded.

This two-day conference brings together scholars from across a range of disciplines to consider how people in the ancient Mediterranean world, Jews among them, related both to matter itself and to issues of materiality. How did they conceptualize the relationships between word and thing, language and action, text and artifact? How did they sense, understand, and construct material entities such as quotidian or sacred artifacts, human or divine bodies, built or natural environments, and so on? How did non-Jews perceive or represent the relationships between Jews and matter? Finally, how has the history of Jews and matter been reconstructed in modern scholarship and how might scholars approach the nexus of Jews and the material more productively? Presentations explore the profound interconnectedness within ancient (Jewish) culture among things, space, and embodiment, and will place these in dialogue with the signifying practices that are essential to cultural (and other kinds of) production.

Monday, April 9th

9:00-9:15 Welcome: Jeffrey Veidlinger and Rachel Neis

9:15-10:45 Panel I: Affects
• Chaya Halberstam, “Seeing and Feeling without Believing: Courtroom Spectacle and the Affective Landscape”
• Karen Stern, “Materiality of Emotion in Inscribed Jewish Prayers”
Respondent and chair: C. Mike Chin

11:00-12:30 Panel II: Mediations
• Sean Burrus, “Making Memory ‘Matter’ in the Art and Architecture of the Jewish Diaspora”
• Ra‘anan Boustan and Karen Britt, “Historical Scenes in Mosaics from Syria and Palestine: Building on the Seleucid Past in Late Antiquity”
Respondent and chair: Gil Klein

2:00-3:30 Panel III: Embodiments
• Deborah Forger, “God Made Manifest: The Jewish High Priest as Visible Counterpoint to Deified Emperors in the Greco-Roman World?”
• Todd Berzon, “Babel Matters: Experience and the Materiality of Language in the Ancient Jewish Imagination”
Respondent and chair: Gregg Gardner

4:00-5:30 Panel IV: Rites of Passage
• Megan Nutzman, “Materializing Identity: Family and Community in the Jewish Inscriptions from Rome”
• Michael Swartz, “Weddings & Funerals: Quotidian Poetry in Jewish Palestine”
Respondent and chair: Celia Schultz


Tuesday April 10th

9:00-10:30 Panel V: Writing and Reading
• Daniel Picus, “Superseding Scrolls: Beyond Binaries in the Study of Ancient Jewish Reading”
• Rebecca Wollenberg, “Bible as Image: Visual Exegesis of the Biblical Text in Classical Rabbinic Traditions”
Respondent and chair: Moulie Vidas

10:45-12:00 Panel VI: Summation and Discussion
• David Frankfurter


Participants:
Todd Berzon, Bowdoin College
Ra’anan Boustan, Princeton University
Karen Britt, Western Carolina University
Sean Burrus, Metropolitan Museum
C. Mike Chin, University of California at Davis
David Frankfurter, Boston University
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan
Gregg Gardner, University of British Columbia
Chaya Halberstam, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario
Gil Klein, Loyola Marymount University
Daniel Picus, Brown University
Rachel Neis, University of Michigan
Megan Nutzman, Old Dominion University
Karen Stern, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Celia Schultz, University of Michigan
Michael Swartz, Ohio State University
Moulie Vidas, Princeton University
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan

Event Accessibility: There is an elevator and accessible and gender neutral restroom on the first floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:01:15 -0400 2018-04-10T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Huqoq
Michigan Engineering Design Expo (April 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50369 50369-11724550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

See how Michigan Engineering students are designing solutions to our world's challenges.

The College of Engineering Design Expo is held twice a year to provide a public forum for engineering students to demonstrate applications of their studies to real-life needs. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work.

Through this venue, the greater University community and general public has the opportunity to learn how Michigan's students are contributing in significant ways to solving major technology challenges across various disciplines.

These student projects consist of internal University of Michigan projects, non-profit community projects, and industry-sponsored projects. Most of these projects are part of Senior Design Project Courses, but other project groups are welcome and encouraged to participate.

The goal of the Undergraduate Engineering Office is to have participation from all departments within the College of Engineering (and eventually across university schools and colleges) to promote cross-disciplinary cooperation as well as high school outreach.

Industry sponsors have been a large part of promoting this within the college through sponsorship of projects and financial support of the event itself.

The Winter 2018 Design Expo is sponsored by Stryker.

This event is held in multiple North Campus locations including the Duderstadt Center, Bob & Betty Beyster Building, Pierpont Commons, EECS Building, Dow Building, G.G. Brown Building, and Chrysler Center.

For more information, contact Lindsey Dowswell in the Multidisciplinary Design Program office at lindsd@umich.edu or (734) 763-0818.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:32:06 -0500 2018-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Multidisciplinary Design Program Conference / Symposium Student project presentation
Zouk Thursdays (April 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48102 48102-11180619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Taubman Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium (April 13, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51649 51649-12182156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 8:30am
Location: Brehm Tower
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Please join us for this biannual showcase of groundbreaking research from the laboratories of the Taubman Institute Scholars. Each presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:04:24 -0400 2018-04-13T08:30:00-04:00 2018-04-13T12:30:00-04:00 Brehm Tower A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Conference / Symposium Emerging Scholars Symposium flyer
The Michigan Fashion Media Summit (April 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46642 46642-10569777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Fashion Media Summit Organization

The Michigan Fashion Media Summit is a day-long experience for students and industry professionals that are passionate about fashion, retail, media, and business. The mission is to inspire and educate the next generation of fashion industry leaders by connecting them to creative and professional opportunities across the retail world. The Michigan Fashion Media Summit is the premier platform for college students, University of Michigan alumni, and industry professionals to collaborate and shape the future fabric of fashion.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:14:53 -0500 2018-04-13T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Fashion Media Summit Organization Conference / Symposium MFMS
Psychology Research Forum (April 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50614 50614-11816526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event will be on Friday, April 13, 2018 from 2pm-4pm. Students are to participate from 2-4pm to present a poster and research findings; poster set-up will occur earlier in the day. Refreshments for the presenters will be provided from 1:30 - 2pm!

Participation in this event looks great on a resume and is a wonderful opportunity to review your peers’ research and get involved in the Department of Psychology! Thesis students are required to participate, and must submit the registration form below.

Please submit your application/form by Sunday, March 25, 2018 at http://goo.gl/Mxi4f. Any questions can be directed to psych.saa@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:36:42 -0400 2018-04-13T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Conference / Symposium research forum
Brazilian Zouk Weekender (April 13, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51773 51773-12321738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 7:00pm
Location: North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

https://www.facebook.com/events/1789214681118255/40% off discount code: ZOUKLOVETICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community------------------------We are having our first weekender in Ann Arbor! We are really lucky to have Brad Meccia as our first special guest Artist. By attending this Zouk Weekender you will be able to advance your Zouk technique and add new Zouk combinations to your repertoire. Brad will be here teaching the advanced and intermediate Zouk workshops as well as partying with us all weekend long. :D 

40% off discount code (for all tickets): ZOUKLOVE

TICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
NEED TO BE HOSTED: https://goo.gl/forms/10tVAAnDrkaToa833
CAN BE A HOST (you get a ticket discount): https://goo.gl/forms/rr6IrQkkIr6O8ld73

Please read everything below to answer your questions! All addresses for the weekend locations are in this description.

This weekend will include:
12 hours of workshops
+5 hours of Beginner Bootcamp
(17 hours total of classes)
3 nights of Zouk social dancing
Available privates from professional Zouk instructors.

**To attend the Intermediate and Advanced workshops you need to already be proficient in Zouk foundations and some advanced beginner moves. These classes will not review any Zouk foundations and you will not be refunded if your experience feels hindered by the pace of the workshops. If you feel hesitant about not being prepared enough to attend these workshops, feel free to talk to Nicole. :)



SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 13
7:00-11:30pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in North Quad
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/570792406633519/

Saturday, April 14
12:00-7:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops at Campus Chapel
7:00-9:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
9:00pm-2:00am: Zouk Social Dance Party at Bar Louie
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/155600178439595/

Sunday, April 15
12:00-5:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops in the Vandenberg (Michigan League)
12:00-5:00pm: Beginner Bootcamp in the Michigan Room (Michigan League)
5:00-7:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
7:00-11:00pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in the Vandenberg
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/201115493820854/

Monday, April 16:
All Day: Privates with Brad Meccia
[info on how to schedule privates coming soon]

[a more detailed schedule will be posted a week before the event]


PRICES:

Full Pass $80
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $30
***Includes: Foundations Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $55
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $40
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social


AT THE DOOR PRICES:
These rates start to apply on Friday, April 13.

Full Pass $95
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $40
***Includes: Foundation Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $65
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $50
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social

Workshop Drop-in $15/class
***Includes: one workshop, Saturday & Sunday dance socials

Friday Night Zouk Dance Social $10

Saturday Night Zouk Dance Social $0

Sunday Night Zouk Dance Social $10



DISCOUNTS:

Hosts: $15 discount
If you host one or more ticket holders for this event, you will receive a $15 refund after the event. You will need to contact Nicole to confirm that you are hosting.

Volunteers: Full Pass = $40
We have a limited number of volunteer discounts available. Please talk to Nicole in person or message her if you are interested. Priority will be given to those already actively supporting the community.



HOW TO BUY:
We have a limited number of passes.
We will be selling them as Lead and Follow passes to keep the classes balanced.

Online: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
Cash: You may pay in cash anytime before April 13 at the online rates. Starting April 13, cash payments will have to be made with the “at the door” prices. Pay cash to Nicole or Rianna Penn.

Other payment options will be available to pay for the “at the door” tickets. 



LOCATIONS:

North Quad (Friday social)
Space 2435
105 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Campus Chapel (Saturday workshops)
1236 Washtenaw Ct
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Bar Louie (Saturday social)
401 E Liberty St Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Michigan League (Sunday workshops + social)
Vandenberg Room or Michigan Room
911 N University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

[parking info coming soon]



Brad Meccia Bio:

Brazilian Zouk found Brad by chance in October of 2010. He quickly fell in love with freedom and flow of the dance and started intensive training. After roughly a year training locally in Knoxville, TN, he was brought on as an assistant instructor at ZoukEra dance company. To further his dance knowledge, Brad spend the next four years traveling both the across the country and internationally to train with as many artists as possible, something he still does today as he believes dance knowledge is never complete. In 2014, Brad founded his own company, Armada Zouk, which now hosts weekly classes, socials, and choreography training in Knoxville and assists in weekly classes in Asheville. In addition to dance, he has earned a PhD in biomedical engineering with a focus in biomechanics. This gives Brad a unique background in truly understanding how the body is designed to move and function, providing many insights into the realm of dance. 

After completing the doctoral program, he spent May and June of 2016 training in Sao Paulo in Rio De Janeiro with multiple instructors including Renata Peçanha, the founder of zouk. After leaving Brazil, he spent the next two months hosting an intensive 8 week, 32 hour series in Kona, Hawaii, a city which he returns to frequently to help continue the growth of the local students. In November of 2017, Brad completed a NeoZouk techniques instructor certification course with Marco (Mafie Zouker) Mendonça so that he can help grow both Rio Style Zouk and NeoZouk techniques throughout the country and internationally.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T23:59:59-04:00 North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Brazilian Zouk Weekender (April 14, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51773 51773-12321739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 14, 2018 12:00am
Location: North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

https://www.facebook.com/events/1789214681118255/40% off discount code: ZOUKLOVETICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community------------------------We are having our first weekender in Ann Arbor! We are really lucky to have Brad Meccia as our first special guest Artist. By attending this Zouk Weekender you will be able to advance your Zouk technique and add new Zouk combinations to your repertoire. Brad will be here teaching the advanced and intermediate Zouk workshops as well as partying with us all weekend long. :D 

40% off discount code (for all tickets): ZOUKLOVE

TICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
NEED TO BE HOSTED: https://goo.gl/forms/10tVAAnDrkaToa833
CAN BE A HOST (you get a ticket discount): https://goo.gl/forms/rr6IrQkkIr6O8ld73

Please read everything below to answer your questions! All addresses for the weekend locations are in this description.

This weekend will include:
12 hours of workshops
+5 hours of Beginner Bootcamp
(17 hours total of classes)
3 nights of Zouk social dancing
Available privates from professional Zouk instructors.

**To attend the Intermediate and Advanced workshops you need to already be proficient in Zouk foundations and some advanced beginner moves. These classes will not review any Zouk foundations and you will not be refunded if your experience feels hindered by the pace of the workshops. If you feel hesitant about not being prepared enough to attend these workshops, feel free to talk to Nicole. :)



SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 13
7:00-11:30pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in North Quad
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/570792406633519/

Saturday, April 14
12:00-7:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops at Campus Chapel
7:00-9:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
9:00pm-2:00am: Zouk Social Dance Party at Bar Louie
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/155600178439595/

Sunday, April 15
12:00-5:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops in the Vandenberg (Michigan League)
12:00-5:00pm: Beginner Bootcamp in the Michigan Room (Michigan League)
5:00-7:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
7:00-11:00pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in the Vandenberg
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/201115493820854/

Monday, April 16:
All Day: Privates with Brad Meccia
[info on how to schedule privates coming soon]

[a more detailed schedule will be posted a week before the event]


PRICES:

Full Pass $80
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $30
***Includes: Foundations Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $55
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $40
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social


AT THE DOOR PRICES:
These rates start to apply on Friday, April 13.

Full Pass $95
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $40
***Includes: Foundation Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $65
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $50
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social

Workshop Drop-in $15/class
***Includes: one workshop, Saturday & Sunday dance socials

Friday Night Zouk Dance Social $10

Saturday Night Zouk Dance Social $0

Sunday Night Zouk Dance Social $10



DISCOUNTS:

Hosts: $15 discount
If you host one or more ticket holders for this event, you will receive a $15 refund after the event. You will need to contact Nicole to confirm that you are hosting.

Volunteers: Full Pass = $40
We have a limited number of volunteer discounts available. Please talk to Nicole in person or message her if you are interested. Priority will be given to those already actively supporting the community.



HOW TO BUY:
We have a limited number of passes.
We will be selling them as Lead and Follow passes to keep the classes balanced.

Online: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
Cash: You may pay in cash anytime before April 13 at the online rates. Starting April 13, cash payments will have to be made with the “at the door” prices. Pay cash to Nicole or Rianna Penn.

Other payment options will be available to pay for the “at the door” tickets. 



LOCATIONS:

North Quad (Friday social)
Space 2435
105 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Campus Chapel (Saturday workshops)
1236 Washtenaw Ct
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Bar Louie (Saturday social)
401 E Liberty St Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Michigan League (Sunday workshops + social)
Vandenberg Room or Michigan Room
911 N University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

[parking info coming soon]



Brad Meccia Bio:

Brazilian Zouk found Brad by chance in October of 2010. He quickly fell in love with freedom and flow of the dance and started intensive training. After roughly a year training locally in Knoxville, TN, he was brought on as an assistant instructor at ZoukEra dance company. To further his dance knowledge, Brad spend the next four years traveling both the across the country and internationally to train with as many artists as possible, something he still does today as he believes dance knowledge is never complete. In 2014, Brad founded his own company, Armada Zouk, which now hosts weekly classes, socials, and choreography training in Knoxville and assists in weekly classes in Asheville. In addition to dance, he has earned a PhD in biomedical engineering with a focus in biomechanics. This gives Brad a unique background in truly understanding how the body is designed to move and function, providing many insights into the realm of dance. 

After completing the doctoral program, he spent May and June of 2016 training in Sao Paulo in Rio De Janeiro with multiple instructors including Renata Peçanha, the founder of zouk. After leaving Brazil, he spent the next two months hosting an intensive 8 week, 32 hour series in Kona, Hawaii, a city which he returns to frequently to help continue the growth of the local students. In November of 2017, Brad completed a NeoZouk techniques instructor certification course with Marco (Mafie Zouker) Mendonça so that he can help grow both Rio Style Zouk and NeoZouk techniques throughout the country and internationally.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-14T23:59:59-04:00 North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art (April 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47270 47270-10855078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: History of Art

Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art

Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
April 14, 2018, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

The event is open to the public and entrance is free.

Islamic art history is an object-centered discipline. Its subject matter generally fits into a frame, vitrine, or photograph. Recent scholarship has departed from these rigid image boundaries, investigating the affective and performative qualities of Islamic artworks. This conference takes the next step and explores the significance of process itself in art-making, in time-based art forms such as performance art and moving images, as well as in conceptualizations of art as Islamic. The papers address Islamic art and related practices of the twentieth and twenty-first century from China, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. The angle on the aesthetic value of process thereby opens new perspectives on how artists have shaped, claimed, and reclaimed Islamic art histories and futures.

9:00 AM
Coffee

9:15 – 9:30 AM
Introduction: Contours of Art
Martina Becker, University of Michigan

9:30 – 11:00 AM
Chair: Elizabeth Sears, University of Michigan

Fragments of a City in Flux: Ahmet Süheyl Ünver’s Art of Islam in 1920s Istanbul
Timur Hammond, Syracuse University

Vivid Ruins: Destruction as Process in Contemporary Iraqi Art
Elizabeth Rauh, University of Michigan

Coffee break

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Chair: Martina Becker

Islamic Calligraphy as Process Art in the Contemporary Museum
Emily Neumeier, Ohio State University

The Performed Symbolism of Islamic Ritual Practice in Contemporary Art
Nadia Kurd, Banff Centre for the Arts

Lunch break

2:30 – 4:00 PM
Chair: Nachiket Chanchani, University of Michigan

Process, Performance, and Temporality in Chaza Charafeddine's "Divine Comedy": A Critique of Contemporary Gender Politics in the Middle East
Charlotte Bank, Berlin

Cinema and Islamic Art: Transcendence and Eco-theology in the Filmmaking of Jamil Dehlavi
Ali Nobil Ahmad, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin

Coffee break

4:30 – 6:00 PM
Chair: Farina Mir, University of Michigan

Early Filmmaking and Islam: Content, Acting, and Directing in the Late Ottoman Empire
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, University College London

Roundtable
The speakers in conversation with Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University, and Martina Becker


This conference is organized by Martina Becker. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 705709 - ENART. Cosponsors are the University of Michigan Department of the History of Art, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Islamic Studies Program, the Center for South Asian Studies, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:43:24 -0400 2018-04-14T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art History of Art Conference / Symposium Hanaa Malallah
U-M History of Art Conference: Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art (April 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50859 50859-11885023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Islamic art history is an object-centered discipline. Its subject matter generally fits into a frame, vitrine, or photograph. Recent scholarship has departed from these rigid image boundaries, investigating the affective and performative qualities of Islamic artworks. This conference takes the next step and explores the significance of process itself in art-making, in time-based art forms such as performance art and moving images, as well as in conceptualizations of art as Islamic. The papers address Islamic art and related practices of the twentieth and twenty-first century from China, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. The angle on the aesthetic value of process thereby opens new perspectives on how artists have shaped, claimed, and reclaimed Islamic art histories and futures.

The conference includes presentations from scholars, curators, and artists: Ali Nobil Ahmad (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Charlotte Bank (independent scholar, Berlin), Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen (University College London), Timur Hammond (Syracuse University), Nadia Kurd (Thunder Bay Gallery), Emily Neumeier (Ohio State University), and Elizabeth Rauh (University of Michigan). Martina Becker (University of Michigan) will introduce the conference theme and co-moderate the concluding roundtable together with Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University).

For the full conference program, please visit the U-M History of Art website.

This conference is organized by Martina Becker, Visiting Assistant Professor, U-M History of Art. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program and sponsored by the U-M History of Art Department, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and UMMA.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:56:21 -0500 2018-04-14T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Conference / Symposium UMMA
Brazilian Zouk Weekender (April 15, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51773 51773-12321740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 15, 2018 12:00am
Location: North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

https://www.facebook.com/events/1789214681118255/40% off discount code: ZOUKLOVETICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community------------------------We are having our first weekender in Ann Arbor! We are really lucky to have Brad Meccia as our first special guest Artist. By attending this Zouk Weekender you will be able to advance your Zouk technique and add new Zouk combinations to your repertoire. Brad will be here teaching the advanced and intermediate Zouk workshops as well as partying with us all weekend long. :D 

40% off discount code (for all tickets): ZOUKLOVE

TICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
NEED TO BE HOSTED: https://goo.gl/forms/10tVAAnDrkaToa833
CAN BE A HOST (you get a ticket discount): https://goo.gl/forms/rr6IrQkkIr6O8ld73

Please read everything below to answer your questions! All addresses for the weekend locations are in this description.

This weekend will include:
12 hours of workshops
+5 hours of Beginner Bootcamp
(17 hours total of classes)
3 nights of Zouk social dancing
Available privates from professional Zouk instructors.

**To attend the Intermediate and Advanced workshops you need to already be proficient in Zouk foundations and some advanced beginner moves. These classes will not review any Zouk foundations and you will not be refunded if your experience feels hindered by the pace of the workshops. If you feel hesitant about not being prepared enough to attend these workshops, feel free to talk to Nicole. :)



SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 13
7:00-11:30pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in North Quad
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/570792406633519/

Saturday, April 14
12:00-7:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops at Campus Chapel
7:00-9:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
9:00pm-2:00am: Zouk Social Dance Party at Bar Louie
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/155600178439595/

Sunday, April 15
12:00-5:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops in the Vandenberg (Michigan League)
12:00-5:00pm: Beginner Bootcamp in the Michigan Room (Michigan League)
5:00-7:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
7:00-11:00pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in the Vandenberg
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/201115493820854/

Monday, April 16:
All Day: Privates with Brad Meccia
[info on how to schedule privates coming soon]

[a more detailed schedule will be posted a week before the event]


PRICES:

Full Pass $80
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $30
***Includes: Foundations Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $55
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $40
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social


AT THE DOOR PRICES:
These rates start to apply on Friday, April 13.

Full Pass $95
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $40
***Includes: Foundation Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $65
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $50
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social

Workshop Drop-in $15/class
***Includes: one workshop, Saturday & Sunday dance socials

Friday Night Zouk Dance Social $10

Saturday Night Zouk Dance Social $0

Sunday Night Zouk Dance Social $10



DISCOUNTS:

Hosts: $15 discount
If you host one or more ticket holders for this event, you will receive a $15 refund after the event. You will need to contact Nicole to confirm that you are hosting.

Volunteers: Full Pass = $40
We have a limited number of volunteer discounts available. Please talk to Nicole in person or message her if you are interested. Priority will be given to those already actively supporting the community.



HOW TO BUY:
We have a limited number of passes.
We will be selling them as Lead and Follow passes to keep the classes balanced.

Online: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
Cash: You may pay in cash anytime before April 13 at the online rates. Starting April 13, cash payments will have to be made with the “at the door” prices. Pay cash to Nicole or Rianna Penn.

Other payment options will be available to pay for the “at the door” tickets. 



LOCATIONS:

North Quad (Friday social)
Space 2435
105 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Campus Chapel (Saturday workshops)
1236 Washtenaw Ct
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Bar Louie (Saturday social)
401 E Liberty St Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Michigan League (Sunday workshops + social)
Vandenberg Room or Michigan Room
911 N University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

[parking info coming soon]



Brad Meccia Bio:

Brazilian Zouk found Brad by chance in October of 2010. He quickly fell in love with freedom and flow of the dance and started intensive training. After roughly a year training locally in Knoxville, TN, he was brought on as an assistant instructor at ZoukEra dance company. To further his dance knowledge, Brad spend the next four years traveling both the across the country and internationally to train with as many artists as possible, something he still does today as he believes dance knowledge is never complete. In 2014, Brad founded his own company, Armada Zouk, which now hosts weekly classes, socials, and choreography training in Knoxville and assists in weekly classes in Asheville. In addition to dance, he has earned a PhD in biomedical engineering with a focus in biomechanics. This gives Brad a unique background in truly understanding how the body is designed to move and function, providing many insights into the realm of dance. 

After completing the doctoral program, he spent May and June of 2016 training in Sao Paulo in Rio De Janeiro with multiple instructors including Renata Peçanha, the founder of zouk. After leaving Brazil, he spent the next two months hosting an intensive 8 week, 32 hour series in Kona, Hawaii, a city which he returns to frequently to help continue the growth of the local students. In November of 2017, Brad completed a NeoZouk techniques instructor certification course with Marco (Mafie Zouker) Mendonça so that he can help grow both Rio Style Zouk and NeoZouk techniques throughout the country and internationally.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-04-15T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-15T23:59:59-04:00 North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Zouk Sundays (April 15, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48168 48168-11183365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 15, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:00:17 -0400 2018-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-15T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
Brazilian Zouk Weekender (April 16, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51773 51773-12321741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 12:00am
Location: North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

https://www.facebook.com/events/1789214681118255/40% off discount code: ZOUKLOVETICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community------------------------We are having our first weekender in Ann Arbor! We are really lucky to have Brad Meccia as our first special guest Artist. By attending this Zouk Weekender you will be able to advance your Zouk technique and add new Zouk combinations to your repertoire. Brad will be here teaching the advanced and intermediate Zouk workshops as well as partying with us all weekend long. :D 

40% off discount code (for all tickets): ZOUKLOVE

TICKETS: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
NEED TO BE HOSTED: https://goo.gl/forms/10tVAAnDrkaToa833
CAN BE A HOST (you get a ticket discount): https://goo.gl/forms/rr6IrQkkIr6O8ld73

Please read everything below to answer your questions! All addresses for the weekend locations are in this description.

This weekend will include:
12 hours of workshops
+5 hours of Beginner Bootcamp
(17 hours total of classes)
3 nights of Zouk social dancing
Available privates from professional Zouk instructors.

**To attend the Intermediate and Advanced workshops you need to already be proficient in Zouk foundations and some advanced beginner moves. These classes will not review any Zouk foundations and you will not be refunded if your experience feels hindered by the pace of the workshops. If you feel hesitant about not being prepared enough to attend these workshops, feel free to talk to Nicole. :)



SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 13
7:00-11:30pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in North Quad
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/570792406633519/

Saturday, April 14
12:00-7:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops at Campus Chapel
7:00-9:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
9:00pm-2:00am: Zouk Social Dance Party at Bar Louie
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/155600178439595/

Sunday, April 15
12:00-5:00pm: Adv/Int Workshops in the Vandenberg (Michigan League)
12:00-5:00pm: Beginner Bootcamp in the Michigan Room (Michigan League)
5:00-7:00pm: Break/Dinner/Privates
7:00-11:00pm: Zouk Social Dance Party in the Vandenberg
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/201115493820854/

Monday, April 16:
All Day: Privates with Brad Meccia
[info on how to schedule privates coming soon]

[a more detailed schedule will be posted a week before the event]


PRICES:

Full Pass $80
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $30
***Includes: Foundations Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $55
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $40
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social


AT THE DOOR PRICES:
These rates start to apply on Friday, April 13.

Full Pass $95
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday & Sunday, all dance socials (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

Beginner Pass $40
***Includes: Foundation Bootcamp on Sunday, Saturday & Sunday dance social

Saturday Pass $65
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Saturday, Friday and Saturday dance social

Sunday Pass $50
***Intermediate/Advanced
***Includes: all workshops on Sunday, Sunday dance social

Workshop Drop-in $15/class
***Includes: one workshop, Saturday & Sunday dance socials

Friday Night Zouk Dance Social $10

Saturday Night Zouk Dance Social $0

Sunday Night Zouk Dance Social $10



DISCOUNTS:

Hosts: $15 discount
If you host one or more ticket holders for this event, you will receive a $15 refund after the event. You will need to contact Nicole to confirm that you are hosting.

Volunteers: Full Pass = $40
We have a limited number of volunteer discounts available. Please talk to Nicole in person or message her if you are interested. Priority will be given to those already actively supporting the community.



HOW TO BUY:
We have a limited number of passes.
We will be selling them as Lead and Follow passes to keep the classes balanced.

Online: https://squareup.com/store/brazilian-zouk-dance-community
Cash: You may pay in cash anytime before April 13 at the online rates. Starting April 13, cash payments will have to be made with the “at the door” prices. Pay cash to Nicole or Rianna Penn.

Other payment options will be available to pay for the “at the door” tickets. 



LOCATIONS:

North Quad (Friday social)
Space 2435
105 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Campus Chapel (Saturday workshops)
1236 Washtenaw Ct
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Bar Louie (Saturday social)
401 E Liberty St Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Michigan League (Sunday workshops + social)
Vandenberg Room or Michigan Room
911 N University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

[parking info coming soon]



Brad Meccia Bio:

Brazilian Zouk found Brad by chance in October of 2010. He quickly fell in love with freedom and flow of the dance and started intensive training. After roughly a year training locally in Knoxville, TN, he was brought on as an assistant instructor at ZoukEra dance company. To further his dance knowledge, Brad spend the next four years traveling both the across the country and internationally to train with as many artists as possible, something he still does today as he believes dance knowledge is never complete. In 2014, Brad founded his own company, Armada Zouk, which now hosts weekly classes, socials, and choreography training in Knoxville and assists in weekly classes in Asheville. In addition to dance, he has earned a PhD in biomedical engineering with a focus in biomechanics. This gives Brad a unique background in truly understanding how the body is designed to move and function, providing many insights into the realm of dance. 

After completing the doctoral program, he spent May and June of 2016 training in Sao Paulo in Rio De Janeiro with multiple instructors including Renata Peçanha, the founder of zouk. After leaving Brazil, he spent the next two months hosting an intensive 8 week, 32 hour series in Kona, Hawaii, a city which he returns to frequently to help continue the growth of the local students. In November of 2017, Brad completed a NeoZouk techniques instructor certification course with Marco (Mafie Zouker) Mendonça so that he can help grow both Rio Style Zouk and NeoZouk techniques throughout the country and internationally.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T23:00:00-04:00 North Quad, Campus Chapel, Bar Louie, Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
OS Honors Symposium (April 16, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51745 51745-12217125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Come celebrate with our OS senior honors students as they present their research. Support your fellow senior or stop by to see what OS Honors is all about.​ Faculty, staff, students, friends, and family welcome!

Welcome, OS Assoc Prof Steve Garcia, OS Honors Coordinator

Presenters
Rebecca Leeman
"Two Sides of the Same Coin: Social Identity and Jewish Millennials' Expression of their Jewish Identity"
Advisor: Stephen M. Garcia

Kevin Corbett
"Humor in Organizations"
Advisor: Kathryn L. Heinze

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/EVZMmMWNE6Fnury33

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:20:24 -0400 2018-04-16T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Conference / Symposium Honors Poster
LACS Lecture. Andean Circle Conference: Everyday Practice in the Andes (April 17, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51939 51939-12297185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Everyday Practice in the Andes
April 17-18, 2018
Great Lakes Room Central, Palmer Commons

The RIWs Círculo Andino and Religion in the Premodern Atlantic invite you to an end of year symposium that engages with habits, routines, and commonplace ways of being and doing in the Andean republics. Student and faculty presentations will consider the everyday life of religion, language and communication, national history, subsistence, and mobility. Please join us:

Tuesday, April 17
5-6:30pm Book Discussion
Discussion with Frank Salomon of his recent monograph At the Mountain’s Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (2018).

Wednesday, April 18
9:30 – 10:45am: Practice in Diachronic Perspective
Dr. Kenneth Mills, History; Georgia Ennis, Anthropology; Jo Osborn, Anthropology;

11am – 12:30pm: Practice in Synchronic Perspective
Dr. Bruce Mannheim, Anthropology; Allison Caine, Anthropology; Augusto Espinoza, History; Anne Marie Creighton, Anthropology

1:45 – 2:45pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Dr. Frank Salomon
“Ethnography of a Modern But Not New-Age Mountain Temple”
In his keynote address, Dr. Salomon will address his most recent work on daily religious life in high Andean Peru. Dr. Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. An ethnographer and ethnohistorian of the Andes, he has written extensively on both Andean textuality and religion.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:33:12 -0400 2018-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T18:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium
2018 UROP Annual Spring Research Symposium (April 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50276 50276-11698732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s Annual Spring Research Symposium is the culminating event for all students participating in UROP for the 2017-2018 academic year. The symposium will take place Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 from 9am - 5pm, at the Michigan Union

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:48:00 -0500 2018-04-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
LACS Lecture. Andean Circle Conference: Everyday Practice in the Andes (April 18, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51939 51939-12297186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Everyday Practice in the Andes
April 17-18, 2018
Great Lakes Room Central, Palmer Commons

The RIWs Círculo Andino and Religion in the Premodern Atlantic invite you to an end of year symposium that engages with habits, routines, and commonplace ways of being and doing in the Andean republics. Student and faculty presentations will consider the everyday life of religion, language and communication, national history, subsistence, and mobility. Please join us:

Tuesday, April 17
5-6:30pm Book Discussion
Discussion with Frank Salomon of his recent monograph At the Mountain’s Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (2018).

Wednesday, April 18
9:30 – 10:45am: Practice in Diachronic Perspective
Dr. Kenneth Mills, History; Georgia Ennis, Anthropology; Jo Osborn, Anthropology;

11am – 12:30pm: Practice in Synchronic Perspective
Dr. Bruce Mannheim, Anthropology; Allison Caine, Anthropology; Augusto Espinoza, History; Anne Marie Creighton, Anthropology

1:45 – 2:45pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Dr. Frank Salomon
“Ethnography of a Modern But Not New-Age Mountain Temple”
In his keynote address, Dr. Salomon will address his most recent work on daily religious life in high Andean Peru. Dr. Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. An ethnographer and ethnohistorian of the Andes, he has written extensively on both Andean textuality and religion.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:33:12 -0400 2018-04-18T09:30:00-04:00 2018-04-18T14:45:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium
Zouk Thursdays (April 19, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48103 48103-11180623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 19, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

7:00pm Intermediate Lesson
8:00pm Practica practice
9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Koessler room (third floor)
Cost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)
Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:00:12 -0400 2018-04-19T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-19T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Conference / Symposium
The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production (April 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50573 50573-11805190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note--this conference will be held on the Michigan State University campus, in East Lansing. Complete conference information is available here: https://zainichistudies2018.wixsite.com/symposium

Two Days of Powerful Conversations

The symposium, “The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production,” seeks to illuminate “zainichi” as a locus for theorizing the notion of passing. Since Koreans and Japanese represent different ethnic groups that cannot be differentiated racially, rethinking received notions of passing through an in-depth study of zainichi literary and visual narratives can help us further theorize hegemonic discourses on passing, as well as the consequences, effects, means, and strategies of passing (or not passing).

This two-day symposium will consist of four panels with 12 presenters, 4 moderators, and 8 discussants (detailed program here) together with an open discussion forum each day.

Come join us!

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:25:47 -0500 2018-04-20T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium
The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production (April 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50573 50573-11805191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note--this conference will be held on the Michigan State University campus, in East Lansing. Complete conference information is available here: https://zainichistudies2018.wixsite.com/symposium

Two Days of Powerful Conversations

The symposium, “The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production,” seeks to illuminate “zainichi” as a locus for theorizing the notion of passing. Since Koreans and Japanese represent different ethnic groups that cannot be differentiated racially, rethinking received notions of passing through an in-depth study of zainichi literary and visual narratives can help us further theorize hegemonic discourses on passing, as well as the consequences, effects, means, and strategies of passing (or not passing).

This two-day symposium will consist of four panels with 12 presenters, 4 moderators, and 8 discussants (detailed program here) together with an open discussion forum each day.

Come join us!

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:25:47 -0500 2018-04-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-21T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium
Inaugural Josef Miller Symposium (April 23, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51177 51177-12010130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 23, 2018 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: U-M Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Please join us on Monday, April 23, 2018 for the inaugural Josef Miller Symposium, which will honor the memory of the former Kresge Hearing Research Institute director through a day of science and shared discovery.

Admission to the lecture and luncheon are free, but please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugural-josef-miller-symposium-tickets-41141044973

Donations to the Miller Memorial Fund are welcome, visit here to give: http://victors.us/millermemorial

Scheduled Talks
Blake S. Wilson, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Duke Hearing Center
Duke University
Duke University Medical Center
“The Modern Cochlear Implant and the First Substantial Restoration of a Human Sense Using a Medical Intervention”

Mats Ulfendahl, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
“An Animal CI Model for Exploring Novel Intervention Therapies”

Tianying Ren, M.D.
Professor, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University
“A Micromechanical Mechanism for Cochlear Amplification”

Thomas Lenarz, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Medical University of Hannover
“Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation: Precision Medicine in Otology”

Brad May, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Johns Hopkins University
“Improving the Reliability of Behavioral Screening Procedures for Animal Models of Tinnitus”

Colleen G. Le Prell, Ph.D.
Emily & Phil Schepps Professor of Hearing Science
Audiology Program Head
University of Texas at Dallas
“Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Translational From Animal Models to Clinical Trials”

Jose Manuel Juiz, Ph.D.
Professor, Castilla-La Mancha University
Director, Research Institute on Neurological Disabilities-IDINE
School of Medicine
“Noise Damage and the Central Auditory Pathway: Some Plastic/Adaptive Processes”

Tatsuya Yamasoba, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of Tokyo
“Cochlear Damage Due to Germanium Dioxide-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction and its Prevention by Antioxidants”

Peter Thorne, CNZM, Ph.D.
Section of Audiology Director, Eisdell Moore Center
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
“Manipulation of Purinergic Signaling in the Cochlea as an Otoprotective Strategy”

John C. Middlebrooks, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of California, Irvine
“The Cochlear Implant Plus One”

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:56:49 -0400 2018-04-23T08:30:00-04:00 2018-04-23T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons U-M Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Conference / Symposium Miller Banner
Changing the Global E-Waste Cycle (April 24, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50026 50026-11622340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Exposure Research Laboratory

Join us for an in-depth look at informal electronic waste recycling communities in Ghana, Thailand, and Chile.

During this all-day public event, experts in sustainability, population health, policy, and design processes will lead discussions on the complex issues surrounding global production and transportation of electronic waste and its impact on vulnerable communities around the world.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:47:29 -0500 2018-04-24T08:30:00-04:00 2018-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Exposure Research Laboratory Conference / Symposium Electronic Waste Recycling Logo
Human Trafficking Symposium (April 25, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51892 51892-12283033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Division of Public Safety and Security DPSS

Attendees will gain an overview of what human trafficking is and how they can help victims that they may encounter in their field of practice, with a particular emphasis on healthcare settings. We will explore the root causes of human trafficking and our role in perpetuating and combating the underlying causes. We will take a critical perspective on what it means to help a victim of trafficking and well-meaning interventions, which may unwittingly cause the individual’s arrest or deportation. Further, we will examine guiding principles for successful engagement with this population, including trauma-informed care, cultural awareness, and harm reduction. Finally, we will hear about local resources that providers can use if they suspect a client is a victim of human trafficking.

Speakers and panelist include:
- Elizabeth Campbell, JD; University of Michigan Law School, Human Trafficking Clinic
- Nicole McGee, PhD; Victim Assistance Program, FBI
- Wendi-Jo Wendt, MD; Michigan Medicine, Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine
- Carmen Uresti, LMSW; Michigan Medicine, Care Management, Social Work
- Kaitlin Deslatte, University of Michigan Police Department, Special Victims Unit

Please register in advance. We ask participants to arrive at 11:30 for sign-in.

Social Work and Nursing continuing education credits will be offered. Please contact emattila@umich.edu if you have any questions.

We hope to see you there!

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:12:05 -0400 2018-04-25T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Division of Public Safety and Security DPSS Conference / Symposium Stop Human Trafficking FBI
Sociology Honors Symposium (April 26, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42897 42897-9675073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Sociology

At the conclusion of the three course sequence, honors students have an opportunity to present their research projects, findings, and analyses to their family and friends at the annual Sociology Honors Symposium. The Robert Cooley Angell Award for the best thesis is announced at the conclusion of the symposium program.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:51:54 -0500 2018-04-26T17:30:00-04:00 2018-04-26T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium Michigan Union
English Honors Symposium (April 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41856 41856-9487234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Class of 2018 Honors Students will read excerpts from their theses
Light continental breakfast will be served
CONTACT: kmhuff@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:35:32 -0400 2018-04-27T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-27T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault (May 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50727 50727-11859074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: U-M Injury Prevention Center

Webcast registration is open for the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault to be held on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at Rackham Graduate School in Ann Arbor, MI.

Nationally renowned experts will present their research and review the current science of sexual assault prevention for college and university campuses.

We invite practitioners in the sexual assault field (physicians, social workers, psychologists, other public health professionals), researchers, faculty, and campus stakeholders, including students to join us.

Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, the President of the Association of American Universities, will jump start the day with a keynote presentation and followed by outstanding presentations by leading experts in the field of campus sexual assault prevention. Morning and afternoon sessions will cover epidemiology, risk factors and special populations, and intervention approaches.

Following this Summit, attendees will be able to use information regarding the prevalence and epidemiology of campus sexual assault to enhance screening efforts in their practices, identify key risk factors for and populations at risk for sexual assault among college students in their practice, and recommend evidence-based interventions for prevention of campus sexual assault.

Please share this information with others.

Questions? Email bmarieb@med.umich.edu or call us at 734-615-3044.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:58:58 -0400 2018-05-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-02T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) U-M Injury Prevention Center Conference / Symposium Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault
Michigan Meeting - Ending Gender-Based Violence (May 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50230 50230-11687523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Gender-based violence among adolescents and young adults is an intractable problem. Though much work has been done to end gender-based violence, the scope of the problem can still feel daunting. The 2018 Michigan Meeting will bring together scholars, practitioners, and activists from across disciplines to share strategies and develop Innovative ideas for moving forward.

Please join this dynamic 3-day event that aims to inspire research and inform policy, pedagogy, and practice. The agenda will highlight activist, survivor and student perspectives. Using an intersectional lens, we will attend to the broad range of inequalities that are experienced in school, work and personal life.

This event is made possible by the sponsorship of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. The Michigan Meetings are a series of annual inter-disciplinary meetings on topics of broad interest and contemporary importance to both the public and the academic community.

The planning group has partnered with the University of Michigan’s Injury Prevention Center, who will be hosting a one-day summit on May 2 on campus sexual assault prevention.

For more information, please contact Dr. Elizabeth A. Armstrong (elarmstr@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:13:45 -0500 2018-05-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium photo
Michigan Meeting - Ending Gender-Based Violence (May 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50230 50230-11687524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Gender-based violence among adolescents and young adults is an intractable problem. Though much work has been done to end gender-based violence, the scope of the problem can still feel daunting. The 2018 Michigan Meeting will bring together scholars, practitioners, and activists from across disciplines to share strategies and develop Innovative ideas for moving forward.

Please join this dynamic 3-day event that aims to inspire research and inform policy, pedagogy, and practice. The agenda will highlight activist, survivor and student perspectives. Using an intersectional lens, we will attend to the broad range of inequalities that are experienced in school, work and personal life.

This event is made possible by the sponsorship of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. The Michigan Meetings are a series of annual inter-disciplinary meetings on topics of broad interest and contemporary importance to both the public and the academic community.

The planning group has partnered with the University of Michigan’s Injury Prevention Center, who will be hosting a one-day summit on May 2 on campus sexual assault prevention.

For more information, please contact Dr. Elizabeth A. Armstrong (elarmstr@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:13:45 -0500 2018-05-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium photo
Michigan Meeting - Ending Gender-Based Violence (May 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50230 50230-11687525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Gender-based violence among adolescents and young adults is an intractable problem. Though much work has been done to end gender-based violence, the scope of the problem can still feel daunting. The 2018 Michigan Meeting will bring together scholars, practitioners, and activists from across disciplines to share strategies and develop Innovative ideas for moving forward.

Please join this dynamic 3-day event that aims to inspire research and inform policy, pedagogy, and practice. The agenda will highlight activist, survivor and student perspectives. Using an intersectional lens, we will attend to the broad range of inequalities that are experienced in school, work and personal life.

This event is made possible by the sponsorship of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. The Michigan Meetings are a series of annual inter-disciplinary meetings on topics of broad interest and contemporary importance to both the public and the academic community.

The planning group has partnered with the University of Michigan’s Injury Prevention Center, who will be hosting a one-day summit on May 2 on campus sexual assault prevention.

For more information, please contact Dr. Elizabeth A. Armstrong (elarmstr@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:13:45 -0500 2018-05-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium photo
International Conference for Advanced Neurotechnology (May 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51260 51260-12029936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

The annual International Conference for Advanced Neurotechnology (ICAN) brings together engineers and neuroscientists to review recent technological advancements in neurotechnology and neuroscience and to define the direction of the field in the generation and application of next-generation tools to advance neuroscience and enhance translation of technology to the science community.

Significant advances have occurred to address the problem of scaling neuroscience investigative tools to interface with neuronal circuits and in defining the properties of elemental cell types that comprise these circuits. Yet, these advances have not fully met the complexity, or fully addressed the cellular and network features of the CNS required to accelerate our understanding of the brain.

Program and Registration: http://eecs.umich.edu/ipan/ican2018.html

Co-chairs:
Euisik Yoon, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Gyorgy Buzsaki, Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine

Sponsors:
NSF International Program for the Advancement of Neurotechnology (IPAN), directed by Prof. Euisik Yoon
Integrated Neuromorphic Electronics and Microsystems (INEMS), directed by Prof. Wei Lu

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:59:58 -0400 2018-05-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-07T16:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference / Symposium ICAN logo and header
International Conference for Advanced Neurotechnology (May 8, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51260 51260-12029937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 8:30am
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

The annual International Conference for Advanced Neurotechnology (ICAN) brings together engineers and neuroscientists to review recent technological advancements in neurotechnology and neuroscience and to define the direction of the field in the generation and application of next-generation tools to advance neuroscience and enhance translation of technology to the science community.

Significant advances have occurred to address the problem of scaling neuroscience investigative tools to interface with neuronal circuits and in defining the properties of elemental cell types that comprise these circuits. Yet, these advances have not fully met the complexity, or fully addressed the cellular and network features of the CNS required to accelerate our understanding of the brain.

Program and Registration: http://eecs.umich.edu/ipan/ican2018.html

Co-chairs:
Euisik Yoon, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Gyorgy Buzsaki, Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine

Sponsors:
NSF International Program for the Advancement of Neurotechnology (IPAN), directed by Prof. Euisik Yoon
Integrated Neuromorphic Electronics and Microsystems (INEMS), directed by Prof. Wei Lu

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:59:58 -0400 2018-05-08T08:30:00-04:00 2018-05-08T14:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference / Symposium ICAN logo and header
2018 Positive Business Conference (May 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50753 50753-11861931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Positive Business Conference

Culture is key. Businesses with positive cultures enjoy larger profits, better performance, and happier employees. And thriving employees are more committed and satisfied with their jobs. But how do you create this kind of culture?

Develop a strategy for a sustainable positive culture at the Michigan Ross Positive Business Conference, May 10-11. Our theme, “Right from the start: building and sustaining a positive culture from startup to scale,” will provide valuable insights and research you can apply immediately to change business for the better. This year’s lineup of keynote speakers includes Joey Bergstein, Seventh Generation; Bruce Broussard, Humana; Katy George, McKinsey; Thomas Grilk, Boston Marathon; Jan Mühlfeit, Microsoft ret.; and KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Sustainable Brands.

Visit http://www.positivebusinessconference.com to learn more and register to attend.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:29:56 -0400 2018-05-10T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Positive Business Conference Conference / Symposium PBC 18
2018 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48599 48599-11254304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

The sixth annual two-day conference will feature traditional paper presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters and articles, as well as professionalization workshops. We will deepen our interdisciplinary discussion by hosting prominent Korean studies scholars as faculty mentors to promote collaboration and discussion.

For complete details visit the conference website: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/6th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 May 2018 14:46:23 -0400 2018-05-11T09:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
2018 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48599 48599-11254305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

The sixth annual two-day conference will feature traditional paper presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters and articles, as well as professionalization workshops. We will deepen our interdisciplinary discussion by hosting prominent Korean studies scholars as faculty mentors to promote collaboration and discussion.

For complete details visit the conference website: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/6th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 May 2018 14:46:23 -0400 2018-05-12T09:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
2018 Biophysics Symposium (May 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51517 51517-12132447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Featuring Keynote Speaker Michelle Arkin, Ph.D., Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF; and UM Faculty Tomasz Cierpicki, Anna Mapp and Emily Scott.

Also featuring talks with Michigan graduate students and post-docs from the life sciences and a poster session with lunch for registrants.

FOR MORE INFO & TO REGISTER: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/biophysics-symposium/registration

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:27:08 -0400 2018-05-17T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-17T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons LSA Biophysics Conference / Symposium BP 2018 Symp Flyer
Michigan in Tokyo 2018 | 日本経済の未来 国際競争を勝ち抜くための技術革新と産業構造改革 (May 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52118 52118-12441235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

(こちらのサイトで事前登録をお願いいたします → https://leadersandbest.umich.edu/Tokyo-2018 )
(Registration is required. For the English-language registration site, go to: https://leadersandbest.umich.edu/Tokyo-2018-en)

Michigan in Tokyoは、日本国内および国際社会の重要課題をその分野のエキスパートによって議論・解説してもらい、その問題への日本での深い理解を奨励するとともに、情報の発信源としてミシガン大学日本研究センターの存在・役割を広く知ってもらうために毎年開かれるシンポジウムです。

本年度はミシガン大学日本研究センター70周年、およびトヨタ客員教授制度設立30周年という節目の年でもあり、日本経済に関する英語での最初の学術的研究が行われた大学で、自動車産業とは切っても切れない関係にあるミシガン大学の歴史に鑑み、日本経済と自動車産業の将来を中心的テーマとしてシンポジウムを開きます。

第4次産業革命とも言われる経済構造の転換期を迎えている現在、厳しい国際競争を生き抜くために日本企業はどのような取り組みをするべきなのか、また日本の産業構造にはどのような改革が求められており、そこからどのような技術革新が期待できるのか、といったテーマで、今注目される人工知能、ロボティクス、自動運転技術など自動車産業の最前線に関するパネル1と、よりマクロな視点から、イノベーションを生み出しやすい環境作り、デジタル時代の産業構造のあり方などについてのパネル2の二つのパネルで、それぞれにその道の最先端で活躍する方々にパネリスト・モデレーターをお願いして、ご議論いただきます。

このシンポジウムは日本語でおこなわれます。

スケジュール

14:00-14:15 開会の挨拶

● 筒井清輝 (ミシガン大学日本研究センター所長)

14:15-16:00 パネル1 自動車産業の未来:技術革新とモビリティーの将来像

パネリスト
● 鯉渕健 (トヨタ自動車先進技術開発カンパニー 自動運転・先進安全統括部 常務理事)
● 藤本隆宏 (東京大学大学院経済学研究科教授)
モデレーター
● 井原慶子 (カーレーサー・慶應義塾大学大学院メディアデザイン研究科特任准教授)

過去何十年もの間、日本経済の牽引役を務めてきた自動車産業が現在大きな構造転換の局面を迎えています。ハイブリッドから電気自動車、水素燃料エンジンへと動力改革が進み、人工知能やロボティクス、自動運転技術などの技術開発も急ピッチで進む中、そこに自動車利用のオーナーシップ・モデルからシェアリング・モデルへの移行の可能性も絡み、自動車産業の未来は大きな可能性と不確実性に満ちています。この転換期の時代に日本の自動車産業はどのように立ち向かい、これまでに培ってきたノウハウ・強みを生かしながら、技術革新の波をどう乗りこなすことで、世界の中でのリーダーシップポジションを守っていけるのでしょうか。

これらの課題を受けて、トヨタ自動車で自動運転技術を中心に、すべての人が自由で安全に移動できる社会の実現を目指す、先進技術開発カンパニー 自動運転・先進安全統括部の鯉渕健常務理事と、東京大学ものづくり経営センター所長で、日本の統合型ものづくりシステムの研究の第一人者であり、トヨタ自動車など自動車関連の企業に関する研究でも有名な藤本隆宏東京大学大学院経済学研究科教授のお二人にパネリストとしてご登壇いただきます。さらに、カーレーサーとして「世界一速い女性」の名をほしいままにし、現在は女性カーレーサーの育成から自動車業界へのコンサルティングまで自動車関係の様々な分野で活躍する井原慶子慶應義塾大学大学院メディアデザイン研究科特任准教授に、モデレーターとして議論を進めていただきます。

16:00-16:15 休憩

16:15-18:00 パネル2 日本産業の未来: 日本企業の革新と産・官・学の役割

パネリスト
● 志賀俊之 (産業革新機構会長)
● 寺澤達也 (経済産業省商務情報政策局長)
モデレーター
● 深尾光洋 (武蔵野大学経済学部経済学科教授・慶應義塾大学名誉教授)

イノベーションの促進のため、健全な企業統治のため、など様々な側面から日本企業の革新の必要性が言われ続けていますが、その行程はまだ道半ばと言わざるを得ません。日本企業の伝統的な強さを生かしつつ、デジタル時代の国際競争を生き抜くためにはどのような企業改革が必要なのか、またそのプロセスで政府と民間が果たすべき役割とはどのようなものなのでしょうか。アメリカのように市場原理を重視し民間の活力を信頼する経済のあり方から、中国のように政府が国家戦略として民間を支援していくやり方まで、様々な産業育成のモデルがある中で、日本産業がこれから目指していく形とはいかなるものなのでしょう。さらに、大学などの研究機関に眠る知的資源や女性・高齢者などフルに活かされていない人的資源はどのように活用されるべきなのでしょうか。

こうした日本経済の将来を決める重要な諸問題について、日産の社内改革で中核的な役割を担い、現在は日本経済を担う新たなイノベーションの育成・創出のための官民ファンドである産業革新機構を率いる志賀俊之会長と、経済産業省きっての改革派で東芝メモリ売却など大きな案件に関わってきた寺澤達也経済産業省商務情報政策局長をパネリストに迎え、ミシガン大学卒業生で、国際金融と企業統治の分野で日本を代表する経済学者である深尾光洋武蔵野大学経済学部教授にモデレーターを務めていただき、議論を深めます。

18:00- レセプション(食事・ドリンク付き)

参加費 (上記リンク先の登録サイトから事前にクレジットカードでお支払いください。日本のカードもお使いいただけます。)

一般: $35
ミシガン大学卒業生・関係者: $15(ディスカウント・コードについては umcjs@umich.eduへお尋ねください)

協賛:University of Michigan Alumni Association in Japan

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 May 2018 08:13:42 -0400 2018-05-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-19T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Michigan in Tokyo 2018
Life History Symposium in honor of Bobbi Low (June 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52305 52305-12598005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Previous students of Bobbi Low have organized this symposium to honor Professor Low, past recipient of the "Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award" - on the occasion of her retirement. Organizer and previous student Stan Braude, WUSTL will introduce Bobbi, and talks from several of Bobbi's accomplished past students will follow. Colleague Carl Simon will give the last talk and Bobbi herself will provide some closing remarks.

SCHEDULE
8:30 am Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:15 am Stan Braude, WUSTL
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 am Matt Dietz,Wilderness Society Ecologist
Wild, diverse, and connected: evolutionary biology and conservation planning

10:15am Coffee Break

10:30 am Courtney Murdock, University of Georgia
In sickness and in health: mosquito love songs, mate choice, and vector-borne disease transmission
11:15 am Misty McPhee, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
From beach mice to whooping cranes: Connecting wildlife behavioral ecology to conservation problems

12:00 Break for Lunch

1:30 pm Pablo Nepomnaschy, Simon Fraser University
"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast”: Why Friar Lawrence should have studied Life History Theory with Bobbi
2:15 pm Ashley Hazel, Stanford
Love the one you’re with: Women’s tradeoffs in harsh environments

3:00 pm Break


3:15 pm Carl Simon, University of Michigan
Sex and the Single Semelparous Salmon
4:00 pm Bobbi Low
Closing Remarks

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This event is jointly sponsored and supported by The U-M Center for the Study of Complex Systems, The U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, and The Students of Bobbi Low

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 24 May 2018 16:39:53 -0400 2018-06-02T09:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T16:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium DRAWING
Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science / Nonparametric Statistics, 2018 (June 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49682 49682-11495916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

The Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science / Nonparametric Statistics is to be held at Columbia University, from June 4 to 6 in 2018.

The main goal of the conference is to bring together researchers in statistical machine learning and data mining from academia, industry, and government in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere to focus on the development of statistical learning theory, methods and applications.

Topics include, but are not limited to, big data analytics, classification, computational biology, covariance estimation, graphical models, high dimensional data, learning theory, model selection, network analysis, precision medicine, and signal and image processing.

The conference is sponsored by Google, Simons Foundation, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, Department of Statistics, and Department of Biostatistics at Columbia University.

If you have any questions about the conference, contact the Program Chairs, Annie Qu (anniequ@illinois.edu) and Cynthia Rudin (cynthia@cs.duke.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:29:04 -0500 2018-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Conference / Symposium
Alan Rudolph Symposium: Opening Remarks (June 4, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52183 52183-12526219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us for opening remarks to kick off the symposium The Unreal Reality of Alan Rudolph: Conversations with the Filmmaker & Collaborators. We invite you to attend any or all of the symposium sessions.

Quirky, off kilter, stylishly romantic and filled with moments of wry humor, Alan Rudolph makes movies with dreamy eyed protagonists searching for love in all the wrong places that often mash up genres into something new and unique. He began his four decade career under the watchful eye of mentor Robert Altman, but he soon created a body of work that is clearly his own vision.

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 May 2018 10:18:16 -0400 2018-06-04T13:00:00-04:00 2018-06-04T13:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Conference / Symposium Alan Rudolph
A Knack for the Unexpected: Why Alan Rudolph’s Films Matter (June 4, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52185 52185-12526220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

A panel of noted film scholars and critics discuss Alan Rudolph’s career and place it in context of 1970s New Hollywood Cinema and 1980s-‘90s Indie Film Movement.

Panelists:
Krin Gabbard, Professor, Stony Brook University
Richard Ness, Professor, Western Illinois University
Dan Sallitt, Film Director and Critic
Caryl Flinn, Moderator and Professor, University of Michigan

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 May 2018 10:21:06 -0400 2018-06-04T13:30:00-04:00 2018-06-04T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Conference / Symposium Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph in Conversation: A Singular Perspective (June 4, 2018 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52186 52186-12526331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 3:15pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Director Alan Rudolph discusses his career (or what he jokingly refers to as a “careen”), the joys of directing, working with actors and the difficulties of getting films financed.

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 May 2018 10:24:08 -0400 2018-06-04T15:15:00-04:00 2018-06-04T16:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Conference / Symposium Alan Rudolph
Ribbon Cutting—Official Opening of the Alan Rudolph Archive (June 4, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52187 52187-12526332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us for the ribbon cutting and official opening of the Alan Rudolph Archive. Stay for the opening reception of the exhibit Nothing Makes Sense, Except Love: The Cinematic Musings of Director Alan Rudolph.

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 May 2018 10:30:11 -0400 2018-06-04T16:30:00-04:00 2018-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Conference / Symposium Alan Rudolph
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Equity in Action (June 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52282 52282-12587677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Beyond the Ivory Tower provides an opportunity for academic and community stakeholders to share experiences and research on how to utilize the assets and overcome challenges of an urban setting to create or enhance mutually beneficial partnerships.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 May 2018 09:24:35 -0400 2018-06-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T18:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Conference / Symposium banner
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Equity in Action (June 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52432 52432-12714439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Beyond the Ivory Tower provides an opportunity for academic and community stakeholders to share experiences and research on how to utilize the assets and overcome challenges of an urban setting to create or enhance mutually beneficial partnerships.

The goal of this two-day mini conference is to build and strengthen community-university relationships examine multiple perspectives of community/university relationships, and create/strengthen community-university partnerships.

Keynote Speaker | Anika Goss-Foster
Anika Goss-Foster is the Executive Director of the Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office. In this role, Anika leads a dynamic team of experts to implement the DFC Strategic Framework, the guide to decision-making and investment in Detroit. She also directs all partnerships, project initiatives, investments and funding opportunities for the DFC Implementation Office.

June 5 | Featured Breakout Sessions
Best Practices for Creating Mutually Beneficial Partnerships
Barbara Israel & Angela Reyes

Detroit | University of Michigan Partnership on Jobs, People, Places
Kristen Kerecman, Joshua Rivera, Ashley McLeod, David Williams

June 6 | Lightning Talks
Evaluating Success in Community-University Partnerships
Laurie Lachance & Zachary Rowe

Developing & Sustaining Physical Activity Interventions in Urban Communities
Amy Schultz & Cindy Gamboa

Enhancing Capacity of Community-University Development
Carol Gray & Suzanne Cleage
Setting Priorities for Community Health Programs in Minority and Underserved Communities
Meghan Spiroff & Zachary Rowe

Shifting from “Community-placed” to “Community-based” Research to Advance Health Equity:
Lessons Learned from the Housing, Heatwaves and Health: Increasing Climate Resiliency in Detroit (HHH) Partnership
Todd Zielger & Zachary Rowe

Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments – Air Quality in Detroit
Kristina Rice
Sponsors

Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, University of Michigan
Office of the Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education, University of Michigan
Knight Fund at the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 22 May 2018 12:25:05 -0400 2018-06-05T09:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T16:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center Poverty Solutions Conference / Symposium Image of U-M tower
Making Movies with Alan Rudolph: A Behind-the- Scenes Perspective (June 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52190 52190-12526335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join us for what is certain to be an insightful look at independent filmmaking featuring an outstanding array of guests who will share their experiences of working with Alan Rudolph.

Panelists:
David Blocker, Producer
Ira Deutchman, Producer and Exhibitor
Pam Dixon, Casting Agent
Sondra Locke, Actress/Director
Carolyn Pfeiffer, Producer
Joyce Rudolph, Set Photographer

Full symposium schedule: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-unreal-reality-indie-director-alan-rudolph

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 May 2018 10:52:46 -0400 2018-06-05T19:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Conference / Symposium Alan Rudolph
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Equity in Action (June 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52282 52282-12587679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Beyond the Ivory Tower provides an opportunity for academic and community stakeholders to share experiences and research on how to utilize the assets and overcome challenges of an urban setting to create or enhance mutually beneficial partnerships.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 May 2018 09:24:35 -0400 2018-06-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T18:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Conference / Symposium banner