Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Tubing @ 2PM + Pizza Float (September 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66140 66140-16705168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Pres College

It’s Labor Day, which means Tubing @ 2 (ON 9/2!) + Pizza 🍕 Float! Looks like it’ll be 80 and sunny 😎. We provide the pizza floats; meet us there at Argo Park or we can give you a ride. Bring a friend and dress to swim, as we’ll take the floats down the cascades!

What’s a pizza float you ask? It’s a float in the shape of a pizza slice ... connected together to form a pizza pie ... topped off with a tub of ice cream 🍦 in the middle and your choice of soda 🥤 to make your own ice cream float ... all while floating in the river!

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Recreational / Games Sun, 01 Sep 2019 22:18:16 -0400 2019-09-02T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location First Pres College Recreational / Games Tubing @ 2PM + #PizzaFloat
U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) (September 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65209 65209-16549468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) is a great way to meet people in the aphasia community, while boosting communication skills and confidence! If you or your loved one has the communication disorder aphasia, consider joining the conversation group. All ages are welcome.

UMAC is offered once a week, Wednesday, for four-week sessions. The cost is $140 for the month (includes 4 weekly sessions). The meeting is facilitated by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who prepares activities for groups of varying sizes and skill levels. Activities target all aspects of communication, including speaking, listening, and comprehending. You will practice speaking and interacting in a supportive and friendly environment, and learn new techniques to take home after the program ends!

You can fill out the UMAC online application. If you have additional questions, please call (734) 764-8440.

This group is open to those of all communication skill levels. Aphasia can be incredibly isolating and takes a toll on confidence — this group takes aim at making connections and building confidence in speech and social interactions.

For more information, see: https://mari.umich.edu/ucll/umap/aphasia-community

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Meeting Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:40:07 -0400 2019-09-04T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Center for Language and Literacy Meeting U-M Aphasia Community Meeting Details
Fall Reception (Department of English) (September 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63570 63570-15784205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Department of English Fall Reception welcomes faculty, graduate students and staff back to campus.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 10 May 2019 13:41:57 -0400 2019-09-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Reception / Open House
Fall Welcome Reception (Department of English) (September 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65999 65999-16678399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Department of English Fall Reception welcomes faculty, graduate students and staff back to campus.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:17:38 -0400 2019-09-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Reception / Open House
The Hunting Ground (September 5, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64525 64525-16386888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

The statistics are staggering.
One in five women in college are sexually assaulted , yet only a fraction of these crimes are reported, and even fewer result in punishment for the perpetrators. In a tour de force of verité footage, expert insights, and first-person testimonies, the film follows undergraduate rape survivors pursuing both their education and justice, despite ongoing harassment and the devastating toll on them and their families.

Panelists:
Heather Colohan - U-M SAPAC Program Manager, Community Outreach & Systems Advocacy
Kamaria Porter - U-M PhD Candidate/Title IX Project Lab Manager
Elizabeth Seney - U-M OIE Sr. Associate Director and Interim Title IX Coordinator

This event is free and co-sponsored by U-M Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Ann Arbor District Library. Contact Michigan Community Scholars Program with questions at mcsprogram@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:40:49 -0400 2019-09-05T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Film Screening The Hunting Ground
The Ark's Student Welcome Show Terra Lightfoot (September 5, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64509 64509-16380887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Students: Welcome to Ann Arbor and to The Ark, a world-class club with music for all ages and tastes! Canada’s Terra Lightfoot offers up something rare: the kind of genuine document that can only come from a road-tested breed of songwriter and performer. Shot through with the guitarist-vocalist’s powerful, bluesy soul, vivid lyrics and ferocious six-string virtuosity, it’s an unforgettable outing. Terra’s stunning, soulful voice powers her emotional wallops on her latest album "New Mistakes," laid low as a gentle whisper over the swirling finger-picking of “You Get High,” or belted out with nuclear swagger over the rock ’n’ soul grooves of “Hold You,” battling things out with a righteous Jake Clemons sax solo during its climax. And the only forces that can go toe-to-toe with Terra's vocal prowess are her guitar chops—and her fast-developing songwriting.

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Performance Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:04:05 -0400 2019-09-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Terra Lightfoot
Second City (September 6, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60287 60287-14857785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

There’s a reason the biggest names in laughter all had their careers catapulted at The Second City ... it’s been the funniest place on the planet since ‘59! Come witness the next generation of comedy superstars put their spin on the legendary comedy company’s greatest hits, rebooted and re-imagined for today. From sketch comedy to original songs to world-famous improv, The Second City will leave you rolling in the aisles! Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny​,​ The Second City is celebrating nearly 60 years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest.

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Performance Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:22:41 -0400 2019-09-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Second City
Second City (September 7, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60287 60287-14857786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 7, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

There’s a reason the biggest names in laughter all had their careers catapulted at The Second City ... it’s been the funniest place on the planet since ‘59! Come witness the next generation of comedy superstars put their spin on the legendary comedy company’s greatest hits, rebooted and re-imagined for today. From sketch comedy to original songs to world-famous improv, The Second City will leave you rolling in the aisles! Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny​,​ The Second City is celebrating nearly 60 years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest.

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Performance Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:22:41 -0400 2019-09-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Second City
Sonny Landreth (September 8, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64258 64258-16268501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 8, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

After a dozen acclaimed albums, virtuoso slide guitarist and bandleader Sonny Landreth found himself at an artistic crossroads. He wanted to finally create the full-length acoustic collection his fans had long requested. But he was also itching to capture the sound of his stalwart electric trio augmented by a couple of his favorite collaborators. And the time was certainly right for an elastic, career-spanning double-live album. So Sonny and his longtime friends decided to do it all. "Recorded Live in Lafayette" is a 16-song opus that covers more musical ground than any single album ever could, as the singer and songwriter’s work stretches and twists across 93 minutes of full-band acoustic and electric bottleneck lightning. You can get a taste of the magic without going to Lafayette right here at The Ark—Sonny Landreth is one of the great live guitarists of our time!

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Performance Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:45:05 -0400 2019-09-08T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Sonny Landreth
Beyond the Frame: American History through Artworks from the Smithsonian (September 9, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64531 64531-16386894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course for those 50 and over will connect, engage, and inspire adult learners at OLLI and lifelong learning sites across the country by exploring America’s stories through highly interactive, artwork-driven videoconferences. Leveraging the Museum’s tremendous digitized collection, online assets, and strong scholarship, lifelong learning site participants and Smithsonian American Art Museum study group leaders will work together to uncover and discuss a variety of topics explored by artists throughout American history.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has long offered interactive distance learning. Since 2000, the Museum has connected with learners of all ages, focusing especially on lifelong learning sites during summers since 2013.

American Art Museum study group leaders are a corps of seasoned volunteer videoconference presenters deeply familiar with the Museum’s collections and how to facilitate conversations about artworks. Their professional experiences, paired with Museum-provided training, have prepared them to be responsive to participants’ interests and facile leaders of artwork-based discussions. Meetings will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30-5pm (September 9th, 16th, 25th, and 30th).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:59:40 -0400 2019-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2019-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Audition for The Yeomen of the Guard (September 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65580 65580-16619776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid on Monday, September 9th, Tuesday, September 10th, and Wednesday, September 11th at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC), 1201 Kipke Drive in Ann Arbor (directly east of the U-M football stadium) from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. All roles are available for SATB principals and chorus; cast will be selected from the audition pool with no pre-casting. All are welcome to audition, including students, faculty / staff, and general community members of Ann Arbor / Southeast Michigan area. To sign up for an audition time you may either attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting at 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 8th at the Michigan League, or e-mail umgassexec@umich.edu to have a member of the board sign you up by proxy. Walk-ins are also welcome; please arrive before 9:00 pm if you plan to walk-in. Callbacks (if necessary) will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 12th.

Please prepare ~32-64 bars of a selection from musical theater, comic opera, or opera (in English), and provide a legible copy for the accompanist. Be prepared to read selections from the libretto if you are interested in a speaking role. There will be no dance audition for this production. Rehearsals will average two days per week between Sunday afternoon and Thursday evening for both chorus and principals. Production dates are December 5 – 8, 2019, at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League, with full staging and full orchestra.

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) was founded in 1947 and is the oldest student-run society nationwide dedicated to performing the operettas of Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Each year we bring together students and community members for two fully staged productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, which are performed with orchestra at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in downtown Ann Arbor. The quality of our productions sets a high standard for community G&S companies, and our performances, particularly of the lesser-known works of the canon, are benchmarks for similar organizations around the country and the world.

We’re proud to be a great place for future performing arts professionals as well as a creative outlet for students, professors, and community members of all ages looking to blow off steam and have a good time participating in a great show!

The Yeomen of the Guard was the 11th collaboration between librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The story takes place at the Tower of London, where the heroic Colonel Fairfax is scheduled to be executed the following morning on questionable grounds. The Colonel’s heirs will be disinherited if he dies unmarried, and so he finds a short-term bride in the strolling player, Elsie Maynard – much to the chagrin of her infatuated traveling partner, the jester Jack Point. Meanwhile, the Colonel’s friends and admirers work for his release – or for his escape, if necessary. Will the Colonel, his impetuous marriage, and the broken-hearted jester all survive until the final curtain? This time there will be no last-minute topsy-turvy revelation to prevent the story’s dramatic conclusion.

Yeomen of the Guard will be directed by David Andrews, who most recently directed UMGASS’s 2018 production of The Grand Duke, and who will be directing with UMGASS for the eighth time, among his 22 semesters with the group. Music Director for this production will be Ezra Donner, a U-M alumnus with a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, who conducted previous UMGASS productions of The Mikado, Patience, HMS Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance between 2015 and 2017. The Choreographer will be UMGASS veteran Beth Ballbach, who choreographed recent UMGASS productions of Princess Ida, Iolanthe, The Grand Duke, and The Gondoliers, among many others.

For additional information on Yeomen, including audio files of the music, check out the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive at https://gsarchive.net/yeomen/html/index.html. For additional information about UMGASS, check out the UMGASS web site at https://www.umgass.org/.

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Auditions Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:10:45 -0400 2019-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Auditions Yeomen production photo
Collecting and Understanding Early Photographs of the American West (September 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64933 64933-16499239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Photo historian Keith Davis presents a curator's perspective on some of the key aspects of 19th century photographs of the American West. He will discuss recent research and exhibition projects, the challenges and opportunities of developing a major collection, and matters of aethetics, individual style, and attribution.

Davis is Senior Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Active as a photo historian and curator since 1978, he has published 35 books and catalogues, and curated about 100 exhibitions. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Michigan Photographic Historical Society in memory of Andee Seeger, co-founder and President Emeritus of MiPHS.

The lecture will take place at Ann Arbor City Club, 1830 Washtenaw Avenue

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:13:12 -0400 2019-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Wasatch Mountains, Utah (1869) by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Impact of Religion on Politics in the Middle East (September 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65400 65400-16589551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Saeed A. Khan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near East and Asian Studies at Wayne State University. He teaches Islamic and Middle East history, politics and culture, and is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Citizenship. He is also Adjunct Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy and at Rochester College, co-teaching a course on Muslim-Christian Diversity.

Religion in politics is the most crucial issue facing Middle East countries. The region faces challenges for the application of modernity in terms of secularism, especially in a locale where democracy and individualism have had generally little latitude as a whole. This is due partly from its history, and where many use religion to justify their authoritarian political systems. Could technological advances have an impact and at what pace? This presentation for those 50 and over will explore the always-changing landscape of the Middle East as a religion, politics and technology compete, clash and coexist.

This is the first in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2019-20. A total of ten lectures are presented covering a variety of topics. Lectures are held on Tuesday mornings once each month.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:45:16 -0400 2019-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Audition for The Yeomen of the Guard (September 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65580 65580-16619777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid on Monday, September 9th, Tuesday, September 10th, and Wednesday, September 11th at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC), 1201 Kipke Drive in Ann Arbor (directly east of the U-M football stadium) from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. All roles are available for SATB principals and chorus; cast will be selected from the audition pool with no pre-casting. All are welcome to audition, including students, faculty / staff, and general community members of Ann Arbor / Southeast Michigan area. To sign up for an audition time you may either attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting at 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 8th at the Michigan League, or e-mail umgassexec@umich.edu to have a member of the board sign you up by proxy. Walk-ins are also welcome; please arrive before 9:00 pm if you plan to walk-in. Callbacks (if necessary) will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 12th.

Please prepare ~32-64 bars of a selection from musical theater, comic opera, or opera (in English), and provide a legible copy for the accompanist. Be prepared to read selections from the libretto if you are interested in a speaking role. There will be no dance audition for this production. Rehearsals will average two days per week between Sunday afternoon and Thursday evening for both chorus and principals. Production dates are December 5 – 8, 2019, at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League, with full staging and full orchestra.

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) was founded in 1947 and is the oldest student-run society nationwide dedicated to performing the operettas of Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Each year we bring together students and community members for two fully staged productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, which are performed with orchestra at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in downtown Ann Arbor. The quality of our productions sets a high standard for community G&S companies, and our performances, particularly of the lesser-known works of the canon, are benchmarks for similar organizations around the country and the world.

We’re proud to be a great place for future performing arts professionals as well as a creative outlet for students, professors, and community members of all ages looking to blow off steam and have a good time participating in a great show!

The Yeomen of the Guard was the 11th collaboration between librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The story takes place at the Tower of London, where the heroic Colonel Fairfax is scheduled to be executed the following morning on questionable grounds. The Colonel’s heirs will be disinherited if he dies unmarried, and so he finds a short-term bride in the strolling player, Elsie Maynard – much to the chagrin of her infatuated traveling partner, the jester Jack Point. Meanwhile, the Colonel’s friends and admirers work for his release – or for his escape, if necessary. Will the Colonel, his impetuous marriage, and the broken-hearted jester all survive until the final curtain? This time there will be no last-minute topsy-turvy revelation to prevent the story’s dramatic conclusion.

Yeomen of the Guard will be directed by David Andrews, who most recently directed UMGASS’s 2018 production of The Grand Duke, and who will be directing with UMGASS for the eighth time, among his 22 semesters with the group. Music Director for this production will be Ezra Donner, a U-M alumnus with a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, who conducted previous UMGASS productions of The Mikado, Patience, HMS Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance between 2015 and 2017. The Choreographer will be UMGASS veteran Beth Ballbach, who choreographed recent UMGASS productions of Princess Ida, Iolanthe, The Grand Duke, and The Gondoliers, among many others.

For additional information on Yeomen, including audio files of the music, check out the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive at https://gsarchive.net/yeomen/html/index.html. For additional information about UMGASS, check out the UMGASS web site at https://www.umgass.org/.

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Auditions Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:10:45 -0400 2019-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Auditions Yeomen production photo
Chely Wright & Alice Peacock (September 10, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63700 63700-15831011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New albums from veteran country and folk songwriters

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Performance Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:51:01 -0400 2019-09-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Chely Wright
U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) (September 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65209 65209-16549469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) is a great way to meet people in the aphasia community, while boosting communication skills and confidence! If you or your loved one has the communication disorder aphasia, consider joining the conversation group. All ages are welcome.

UMAC is offered once a week, Wednesday, for four-week sessions. The cost is $140 for the month (includes 4 weekly sessions). The meeting is facilitated by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who prepares activities for groups of varying sizes and skill levels. Activities target all aspects of communication, including speaking, listening, and comprehending. You will practice speaking and interacting in a supportive and friendly environment, and learn new techniques to take home after the program ends!

You can fill out the UMAC online application. If you have additional questions, please call (734) 764-8440.

This group is open to those of all communication skill levels. Aphasia can be incredibly isolating and takes a toll on confidence — this group takes aim at making connections and building confidence in speech and social interactions.

For more information, see: https://mari.umich.edu/ucll/umap/aphasia-community

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Meeting Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:40:07 -0400 2019-09-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Center for Language and Literacy Meeting U-M Aphasia Community Meeting Details
Audition for The Yeomen of the Guard (September 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65580 65580-16619778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid on Monday, September 9th, Tuesday, September 10th, and Wednesday, September 11th at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC), 1201 Kipke Drive in Ann Arbor (directly east of the U-M football stadium) from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. All roles are available for SATB principals and chorus; cast will be selected from the audition pool with no pre-casting. All are welcome to audition, including students, faculty / staff, and general community members of Ann Arbor / Southeast Michigan area. To sign up for an audition time you may either attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting at 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 8th at the Michigan League, or e-mail umgassexec@umich.edu to have a member of the board sign you up by proxy. Walk-ins are also welcome; please arrive before 9:00 pm if you plan to walk-in. Callbacks (if necessary) will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 12th.

Please prepare ~32-64 bars of a selection from musical theater, comic opera, or opera (in English), and provide a legible copy for the accompanist. Be prepared to read selections from the libretto if you are interested in a speaking role. There will be no dance audition for this production. Rehearsals will average two days per week between Sunday afternoon and Thursday evening for both chorus and principals. Production dates are December 5 – 8, 2019, at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League, with full staging and full orchestra.

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) was founded in 1947 and is the oldest student-run society nationwide dedicated to performing the operettas of Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Each year we bring together students and community members for two fully staged productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, which are performed with orchestra at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in downtown Ann Arbor. The quality of our productions sets a high standard for community G&S companies, and our performances, particularly of the lesser-known works of the canon, are benchmarks for similar organizations around the country and the world.

We’re proud to be a great place for future performing arts professionals as well as a creative outlet for students, professors, and community members of all ages looking to blow off steam and have a good time participating in a great show!

The Yeomen of the Guard was the 11th collaboration between librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The story takes place at the Tower of London, where the heroic Colonel Fairfax is scheduled to be executed the following morning on questionable grounds. The Colonel’s heirs will be disinherited if he dies unmarried, and so he finds a short-term bride in the strolling player, Elsie Maynard – much to the chagrin of her infatuated traveling partner, the jester Jack Point. Meanwhile, the Colonel’s friends and admirers work for his release – or for his escape, if necessary. Will the Colonel, his impetuous marriage, and the broken-hearted jester all survive until the final curtain? This time there will be no last-minute topsy-turvy revelation to prevent the story’s dramatic conclusion.

Yeomen of the Guard will be directed by David Andrews, who most recently directed UMGASS’s 2018 production of The Grand Duke, and who will be directing with UMGASS for the eighth time, among his 22 semesters with the group. Music Director for this production will be Ezra Donner, a U-M alumnus with a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, who conducted previous UMGASS productions of The Mikado, Patience, HMS Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance between 2015 and 2017. The Choreographer will be UMGASS veteran Beth Ballbach, who choreographed recent UMGASS productions of Princess Ida, Iolanthe, The Grand Duke, and The Gondoliers, among many others.

For additional information on Yeomen, including audio files of the music, check out the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive at https://gsarchive.net/yeomen/html/index.html. For additional information about UMGASS, check out the UMGASS web site at https://www.umgass.org/.

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Auditions Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:10:45 -0400 2019-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Auditions Yeomen production photo
Literati Bookstore Presents Sister Helen Prejean (September 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65401 65401-16595534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Literati is pleased to welcome Sister Helen Prejean to First United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor in support of her latest, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey. Sr. Helen will be introduced by Ashley Lucas, Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan, and joined in conversation by Rev. Nancy S. Lynn. A Q&A and book signing will follow.

The event is free and open to the public, though a free general admission ticket is required. A limited number of book bundle tickets are also available, and these include a hardcover copy River of Fire, reserved general admission seating at the front of the venue, and signing line priority (note that for parties wishing to sit together in this reserved area, each member must purchase a book bundle ticket).

Copies of River of Fire and a selection Sister Helen's previous books will be available for purchase for all guests. Any person with books to sign may join the signing line, following all Book Bundle guests.

Please note that FUMC's sanctuary is not air-conditioned. Guests are welcomed and encouraged to bring personal fans if it proves to be a particularly warm evening.

Parking in downtown Ann Arbor can be difficult. Surface spots are sparse, but a detailed map of available (and walkable) parking structures can be found here.

About the Book: In this revelatory, intimate memoir of her childhood, her spiritual evolution, and how she became “lit” to her crusade, Sister Helen chronicles her journey from one who prayed for God to solve the world’s problems to one engaged full-tilt, hands-on, in the work to transform societal injustices. She writes about growing up in a well-off Baton Rouge family, one that still employed black servants in the racially segregated South, and how she joined the Sisters of St. Joseph at the age of eighteen. Life in the novitiate, which aimed at spiritual holiness, set strict boundaries of separation from the (sinful) “world” – but all that changed in the wake of Vatican II, which brought the winds of change in the Catholic Church. Inspired by Catholic activists such as Dorothy Day in the inner city and Jesuit priests who went to prison for destroying draft files in opposition to the Vietnam war, Sister Helen started to immerse herself in the struggle of poor people in New Orleans forced to live on the margins of society. River of Fire is at turns honest and humorous, and she writes openly about her friendships with other women who have inspired and nurtured her, as well as a close friendship with a priest— obsessively intent on marrying her—and how these relationships challenged her vocation in “new territory of the heart” and propelled her further into deepening both her life in the Sisterhood and her engagement in social justice, where she is today.

River of Fire is a story of faith and spirituality, doubt and belief, addressed to believers, agnostics, and “nones” alike. It tells about “catching on fire” to purpose and passion. Accessible, humorous, luminous and on point for these polarized times when awakened social conscience and citizen action have never been more needed, Sister Helen shows us how to live a spiritual life that is wide awake to the sufferings and creative opportunities of our world.

Helen Prejean, CSJ, is the author of the #1 national bestseller Dead Man Walking. A member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, she has appeared on 60 Minutes, Frontline, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC's World News Tonight, The Rachel Maddow Show, Democracy Now!, Crossfire, NBC's special series on the death penalty, and NPR's All Things Considered, and has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Review of Books.

About First United Methodist Church: At First United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor, we welcome everyone of every ability! Young or old, Democrat or Republican, gay or straight, genderqueer or cisgender, filled with doubts or firm in your faith--you are invited to join us. Our congregation is grounded in the gospel of Jesus Christ, which tears down walls and builds up community. We are progressive and relevant--committed to seeking peace and building hope through worship, service, social justice, and educational opportunities in our local, national, and international communities. www.fumc-a2.org

Questions? Email John@LiteratiBookstore.com

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Presentation Mon, 19 Aug 2019 07:38:47 -0400 2019-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Sister Helen Prejean
Early History of South Africa, c. 900-1930 (September 12, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65568 65568-16613769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

During the millennium preceding European colonialism, South Africans forged societies characterized by dispersed political networks, long-distance commerce, extensive regional interactions, and overlapping flows of people, ideas, and materials. By the 18th century, their political economies and political beliefs yielded powerful kingdoms. Colonial political mythology rests on the notion that early Europeans ‘set up a country bare’ and devoid of civilization. The early history of South Africa reveals a far more complex past.

Dr. Jimenez is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2017. Her research uses comparative historical linguistics to recover the undocumented past. She is interested in the ways southern African speech communities crafted political beliefs and practices over several centuries, how these beliefs shaped gendered and generational social relations, and the ways enduring ideas shaped the rise of centralized kingdoms.

This is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is South Africa: Past, Present, and a Look Forward. The next lecture will be September 19, 2019. The title is: Is Democracy Alive and Well in South Africa? Evaluating the results of the 2019 National Elections.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:27:21 -0400 2019-09-12T09:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Five Things To Do If You're Caring For An Aging Loved One, (September 12, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65914 65914-16670240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

If you have responsibilities for caring for an aging relative or friend this would be a good session to attend - maybe even bring a friend if someone is caring for you.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:49:37 -0400 2019-09-12T12:15:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Understanding and Confronting Climate Change (September 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65070 65070-16509430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Bierbaum is a professor of natural resources and environment policy, School for Environment and Sustainability, and professor, environmental health sciences, School of Public Health, U-M. Her research is focused on the interface of science and policy--principally on issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation at the national and international levels. Her experience extends from climate science into foreign relations and international development. Dr. Bierbaum served for two decades in both the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. Government, and ran the first Environment Division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She was a lead author of the U.S, National Climate Assessment.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:32:45 -0400 2019-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Happy Hour with Eaton (September 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66211 66211-16719590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Eaton is hosting a happy hour together with GradSWE at Haymaker Public House. This will be a fun, informal way to network and learn more about opportunities at Eaton. Food and drinks will be provided. All graduate level STEM majors are welcome. Please RSVP (required), as spots are limited!

Contact: Connie Lee at cyjlee@umich.edu

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:22:59 -0400 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graduate Society of Women Engineers Social / Informal Gathering
Cyborg Arts / Neil Harbisson & Moon Ribas: Transpecies (September 12, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65252 65252-16559482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Catalan-based artists, self-identified cyborgs, and influencers in the global cyborg art movement, Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas use the internet as a sense to fuel perception, understanding, and self expression. Both artists explore the boundaries between cybernetics and organism, defend the freedom of self-design, and believe that embracing our nonhuman entities can bring us closer with the organic worlds of animals, nature, and the cosmos. Together, Ribas and Harbisson advocate on behalf of cyborgs worldwide through the Cyborg Foundation. Founded in 2010, the foundation is committed to the self-actualization of cyborg identities, trans-species rights, and the promotion of cyborg art. An avant-garde artist, Ribas is best known for developing Seismic Sense, an online seismic sensor implanted in her feet that allows her to perceive earthquakes taking place around the planet — and on the moon — through vibrations in real time. With an antenna implanted in his skull, Harbisson’s creative expression extends to his physical body as well, with the focus of his work dedicated to an exploration of identity, perception, the connection between sight and sound, and the use of artistic expression via new sensory inputs. Harbisson and Ribas ask us to consider: “What separates human beings from the technology we create and use?”

Presented with support from the Dissonance Event Series and the School of Information.

Photos by Mark Kaplan (left) and Lars Norgaard (right)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:46:37 -0400 2019-09-12T17:10:00-04:00 2019-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/cyborg.jpg
IOE Graduate Student Fall Picnic (September 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64677 64677-16426884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) will host a fall picnic for IOE graduate students, faculty, staff, and their families.

Join us and enjoy a great evening of outdoor games (frisbee, football, volleyball, etc.) and delicious food.

Please RSVP via the link above.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:42:00 -0400 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Social / Informal Gathering "IOE Graduate Student Fall Picnic"
CWPS Performance Talks | Tom Lee (September 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64831 64831-16458981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies visiting puppet artist Tom Lee will present a special workshop exploring Japanese traditional puppetry techniques that have had an enormous influence on world puppetry performance. Following a short talk on bunraku-style puppetry, participants will have a hands-on opportunity to handle traditional Japanese puppets and draw back the curtain on how these beautiful puppets are brought to life through skillful puppetry technique. Tom Lee has appeared as a puppeteer in War Horse at Lincoln Center Theatre and Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera, in addition to extensive work in Japan with his mentor, Koryu Nishikawa V.

Presented in partnership with CMAP Detroit and the Ann Arbor District Library. Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:31:44 -0400 2019-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Tom Lee Workshop
Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition 2019 (September 13, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64379 64379-16338339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition is a competitive presentation of operations and manufacturing solutions developed by Tauber Institute student teams from their 14-week team projects. At Spotlight!, students showcase their project results and compete for academic scholarships.

Spotlight! is an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and see many new ideas in operations and manufacturing.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:27:21 -0400 2019-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Spotlight! 2019
Writers Unlimited (September 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64486 64486-16372915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Participants present their creative essays, short stories, poetry, or novels for constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement from the group. Each participant brings copies from their work to distribute. Comments are recorded on the copies and returned to the reader.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Fridays, from September 13, 2019 through August 30, 2020, except on November 29 and December 27, 2019.

Instructor Jerry Janusz has been a participant in this group for eleven years.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:29:06 -0400 2019-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
International Coffee Hour (September 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66613 66613-16767952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

International Coffee Hour is a great place for international and U.S. students, scholars, faculty and staff to socialize with each other and meet new people from around the world.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:44:32 -0500 2019-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Center Social / Informal Gathering Coffee Hour
U-M Night with the Detroit Tigers (September 13, 2019 7:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64552 64552-16388905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 7:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

It's a bye week for the Wolverines football team, so spend the evening of Friday, 9/13, with your friends at Comerica Park as the Detroit Tigers take on the Baltimore Orioles.

Packages begin at $26 and include a game ticket, Tigers/U-M baseball cap, and donation to the Pat Maloy Scholarship Fund. Stick around after the game for fireworks!

Get your tickets at tigers.com/um.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:20:53 -0400 2019-09-13T19:10:00-04:00 2019-09-13T22:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Recreational / Games FOX Sports Detroit University Days - University of Michigan
The Way Down Wanderers wsg Joe Nolan (September 13, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65334 65334-16571542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:18:34 -0400 2019-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Josh White Jr. (September 14, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65335 65335-16571543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 14, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:25:12 -0400 2019-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Metropolitan Studies in Berlin (Winter 2020) (September 15, 2019 12:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63585 63585-15808565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 12:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This program is designed for students without a German language background who are looking for an in-depth look at the culture and context of the metropolis of Berlin. German majors should consider the University of Michigan programs in Freiburg and Tübingen.

Eligibility:
* Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing
* Good academic standing
* Minimum 3.0 overall GPA
* No previous German language study is required

Academics:
Students must take 16-18 credit hours per semester. One German language course (4 credits) is required for beginning and intermediate students. All other courses are taught in English and worth 3 credits unless otherwise stated. Two week-long field trips will be included in the program, as well as day excursions that complement your learning in the classroom and contribute to a general knowledge of German culture and society.

Please see program website (IES) for details https://www.iesabroad.org/programs/berlin-metropolitan-urban-studies

For more information about the Metropolitan Studies in Berlin program and apply, go to: https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10946

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Other Mon, 13 May 2019 12:02:58 -0400 2019-09-15T12:59:00-04:00 2019-09-15T12:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Other
Winter 2020 Term in Tübingen (September 15, 2019 12:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63586 63586-15808566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 12:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Beat the cold Michigan winters and study abroad somewhere else next year. The Tübingen program, which is organized through the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), takes place in the Winter term, and it is intended for students who have completed at least German 221/231 by the end of the Fall 2019 term.

The German Department strongly recommends that you precede your stay in Tübingen by attending one or two four-week sessions at the Goethe Institut. This Goethe Institut segment is not part of the CGIS program itself. Please talk to one of German's academic advisors about the Goethe segment (germanadvising@umich.edu).

The CGIS portion in Tübingen will start early in March with a mandatory "Kompaktkurs" (6 credits) or a "Startkurs" (3 credits). While you will be enrolled for the Winter 2020 term at the University of Michigan, you will then take classes during "Sommersemester" at the Universität Tübingen (mid April - late July). You will earn 15-18 credits for Winter 2020: the courses that you take in Tübingen can be language courses for international students or regular university courses. Various university courses outside the English Department are taught in English.

Tübingen credits can be used to satisfy degree requirements for a German major or minor.

Please note that you must attend a First Step session in order to study abroad with CGIS. During the Winter term, First Step sessions are offered every Monday through Friday from 5-5:30 p.m. in Weiser Hall, Suite 200.

For more information about the Tübingen program and to apply, go to: https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10248

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Other Mon, 13 May 2019 12:06:16 -0400 2019-09-15T12:59:00-04:00 2019-09-15T12:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Other
John McEuen & the String Wizards (September 15, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64880 64880-16483062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

John McEuen brings with him 50+ years of worldwide performing with his banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin. Often referred to as the String Wizard, he weaves stories of his travels and family life (he has raised seven kids), taking us through where his musical path has taken him. A Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founding member in 1966, John initiated the 1972 classic "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" album, (inducted in to the Library of Congress as ‘one of America’s most important recordings). Proud of being an integral part of America’s first band to go to Russia (28 sold-out shows in 1977!), John has a love of performing evident since his teenage Magic Shop days in Disneyland. With music from 1800s to now, original songs laced with known hits, (his current "Made in Brooklyn" album earned the Independent Music Award’s recognition as Best Americana album), and a special tribute to the ‘Circle’ album music and its stories, John McEuen and his history come to life in an evening of acoustic music in overdrive.

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Performance Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:54:00 -0400 2019-09-15T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance John McEuen
Chinese 6 (September 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64572 64572-16388941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Learn Chinese language and culture in this course for those 50 and over. Students will learn Chinese characters and basic sentences, so they can carry on Chinese conversation. Sessions will be held Mondays from 10am-12pm from September 16 through December 16 (no class on September 30). Instructor Angela Yang retired from medical research at UM. She was also a teacher in a Chinese school in Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:54:30 -0400 2019-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Olli Study Group
Solving Easy Sudoku Puzzles (September 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64591 64591-16390993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

If you like puzzles and want to learn the basics of solving Sudoku, this is a good place to start. In this course for those 50 and over we will cover several elementary patterns that will enable you to solve easy puzzles and most medium level puzzles. Instructor Jerry Janusz is a retired mathematician who loves working Sudoku puzzles. The group will meet Mondays from 10-11:30 am from September 16 through October 7 (no class on September 30).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:36:39 -0400 2019-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Monday Painters (September 16, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64534 64534-16388884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Monday Painters is a flexible art group for those 50 and over. The group is led by Instructor Barbara Anderson and meets every Monday from 11-3. Members are free to come and go as they please. Each week a DVD is shown about art that lasts half an hour. This group has become like family and all are welcome to join in for fun, learning, growing, and gentle critiquing. Instructor Barb Anderson has studied art for over twenty years and prior to that taught special education. She hopes to welcome new members to Monday Painters. The group meets Mondays from 11am–3pm from September 16, 2019 through August 3, 2020 (no classes on September 30th, October 14th and 21st, and February 14, 2020

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:29:35 -0400 2019-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Journey with Contemporary Writers from Around the World (September 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64522 64522-16380912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In these sessions, participants will take a deeper look at how contemporary award-winning writers from around the world think and what concerns they have in today’s life. Do we, educated Americans, see our world in ways similar or different from the ways those writers see it?
Let us look at the world through these perceptive eyes. Let us try to be SINBADS and enjoy a free flight of discovery on the magic these writers have woven for us.
Join us and do not be afraid. Our first journey will be in the world of a novel titled "The Moor’s Account" by Laila Lalami. This Study Group led by Adnan Salhi is for those 50 and over and meets Mondays, 12:00–1:30 pm on September 16, October 7, November 4, December 16.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:36:04 -0400 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Doing God’s Will – From the Crusades to the Holocaust (September 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64653 64653-16410951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

An understanding of how the “Christian” world sought to impose its interpretation of “God’s will” on other peoples leading to the most destruction and devastation that the civilized world had ever known; two of the darkest periods in the history of man. Lecture and class discussion (with active participation) using two texts, 1. "Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today’s World" (Karen Armstrong) and 2. "Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" (Daniel Jonah Goldhagen).
Dr. Cameron is a retired dental professional with an active ongoing interest in world’s history and how that history is shaped by religion. Instructors John Cameron and Bill Hermon will lead this Study Group for those 50 and over and meets Mondays, 1:00–3:00 pm on September 16 – October 14 (no class September 30).

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 08:18:33 -0400 2019-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Understanding the Revolutionary Changes in Businesses and Jobs (September 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64599 64599-16394975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will examine the numerous ways that technology, competition, globalization, and trade have affected American businesses and the nature of work. Some of the most iconic companies such as Eastman Kodak, Bethlehem Steel, and Westinghouse have gone bankrupt or disappeared, while newer types of companies such as Amazon and Uber are ascending. In their heyday, large corporations were integral to the growth of the middle class by offering lifetime employment and benefits. But today, many traditional and new-age companies treat employees as contractors and they need fewer workers to achieve economic values comparable to businesses of the past. We will read and discuss “The Vanishing American Corporation” by U of M professor Gerald Davis. (OLLI members may remember his lecture last fall on the future of work). The author tracks the rise of the large corporation and then describes the economic, social, and technological developments that have led to its decline. He shows how these trends are leading to income inequality and social instability. Dr. Davis goes on to describe the future of business and how workers can navigate changing conditions.

Instructor Gerry Lapidus contributed professionally to the emergence of the new tech world and has conducted over 50 OLLI book discussion classes. Please read through Section 2 for the first meeting.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Mondays from September 16 through October 21 (except on September 30)

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:23:20 -0400 2019-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Spanish III – Advanced (September 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64568 64568-16388938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Spanish III Advanced is a continuation for those 50 and over who have taken Intermediate Spanish or have equivalent knowledge. Participants will further develop their fluency with the spoken language as we study irregular verbs, advanced verb tenses, and complex sentences. Course materials consist of the “Advanced” book and CDs in the Living Language Spanish Complete Edition that we have used in the beginning and intermediate study groups. The sessions will meet Mondays from 304:30 pm from September 16 through December 2 (no class on September 30). Instructor Jennie Lieberman, a native Spanish speaker, was born in Cuba and has extensive tutoring experience.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:48:24 -0400 2019-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Bill Frisell (September 16, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64055 64055-16113173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet."

The New Yorker

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Performance Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:39:37 -0400 2019-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Bill Frisell
Political Ideologies: Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism (September 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64555 64555-16388907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This study group for those 50 and over will begin by exploring the nature of ideological thinking. It will then proceed to describe and explore the historical development of these three leading ideologies. Their similarities and differences, and their changing relationship to each other, will be explored November. Finally, we will focus on the current state of these ideological perspectives and scenarios for their futures. There will be modest readings to provide background information and stimulate discussions. Instructor Craig Ramsay is an emeritus political scientist who has taught a range of courses on American politics and government, as well as on political philosophy and comparative politics.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:45:31 -0400 2019-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Understanding the Quantum World and Beyond (September 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64667 64667-16420899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We’ll read Lee Smolin’s new book, "Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution". To get us up to speed, we’ll also watch the first six DVD lectures of Understanding the Quantum World from the Teaching Company, and we’ll pull in other lectures as needed. The goal is to understand what is missing from quantum mechanics as it currently stands and to see where changes are most likely to come from.
Richard Chase, the study group leader, worked 27 years as a research physicist for Ford and taught physics at several levels. At OLLI, he has taught 15 physics-related classes and led 5 book discussion groups. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Tuesdays, 1:00–3:00 pm on September 17 – December 10 (no class on November 26).

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Class / Instruction Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:18:11 -0400 2019-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 17, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Current Events (September 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64546 64546-16388896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This discussion group is for those 50 and over interested in current events happening at the local, national, and global level. All opinions will be heard courteously. No materials or special expertise required, just an open mind and a good sense of humor. Instructor Thomas Longworth is a retired industrial engineer who resides in Ann Arbor and participates in many OLLI programs. Instructor Margaret Pooler is a retired librarian who has been a member of the class for over 10 years. The group will meet Tuesdays from 3-5 pm from September 17 through December 17.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:43:40 -0400 2019-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Current Events 2 (September 17, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64547 64547-16388898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

For persons 50 and over with wide ranging interests in current events who enjoy discussing news, trends, and ideas that are global, national, or local. Special expertise is never required; only an open mind and a sense of humor as we share what we read, hear, and see from the world around us. Sharing diverse thoughts and experiences helps all of us grow. Instructor Paul Wenger is a retired communications professor and investment analyst/adviser who is active in OLLI and has led other study groups. The group meets Tuesdays from 3:15-5:15 pm from September 17 through December 17.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:46:40 -0400 2019-09-17T15:15:00-04:00 2019-09-17T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Crash Test Dummies wsg Mo Kenney (September 17, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64526 64526-16386889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:15:13 -0400 2019-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance crash test dummies
U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) (September 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65209 65209-16549470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) is a great way to meet people in the aphasia community, while boosting communication skills and confidence! If you or your loved one has the communication disorder aphasia, consider joining the conversation group. All ages are welcome.

UMAC is offered once a week, Wednesday, for four-week sessions. The cost is $140 for the month (includes 4 weekly sessions). The meeting is facilitated by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who prepares activities for groups of varying sizes and skill levels. Activities target all aspects of communication, including speaking, listening, and comprehending. You will practice speaking and interacting in a supportive and friendly environment, and learn new techniques to take home after the program ends!

You can fill out the UMAC online application. If you have additional questions, please call (734) 764-8440.

This group is open to those of all communication skill levels. Aphasia can be incredibly isolating and takes a toll on confidence — this group takes aim at making connections and building confidence in speech and social interactions.

For more information, see: https://mari.umich.edu/ucll/umap/aphasia-community

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Meeting Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:40:07 -0400 2019-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Center for Language and Literacy Meeting U-M Aphasia Community Meeting Details
Computer Maintenance and Internet Security (September 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64618 64618-16396984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This class will focus on how to protect your data and identity. Topics include antivirus software, internet threats (ransomware, phishing, etc.), backup alternatives, password best practices, wireless security tips, latest Internet/phone scams, and identity theft tips-including dealing with some of the latest data breaches.

There will be time for questions and discussion. Harvey Juster is a semi-retired IT Consultant who has guided friends, family and businesses through the task of protecting their data from internal and external threats. He holds an engineering degree from UM and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

This study group for will last two hours and be led by instructor Harvey Juster.
No Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is required for this course.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:26:22 -0400 2019-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 18, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Fall Birthday Celebrations (September 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66618 66618-16767959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

Blow the horn! Beat the drum! It is not a celebration until you come! Come say birthday wishes and sing birthday songs in different languages, learn how birthdays are celebrated in different cultures, and celebrate birthdays with people around the globe. Feel free to bring friends to the event!

Cake will be served. While walk-ins are welcome at the event, early registration is appreciated so we can better prepare for the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:32:51 -0400 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Center Social / Informal Gathering Birthday Celebration
Case Workshop | Road A.T. Kearney Webinar (September 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65905 65905-16670227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Career Center

We invite you to join us for a virtual case workshop. We will take a closer look at the case interview process, and by walk through a case as a group.

Please RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/y2vncls4

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:30:47 -0400 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Career Center Careers / Jobs
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band (September 18, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64290 64290-16276488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"Kindred spirits to Reverend Peyton are John Lee Hooker and RL Burnside."

Washington Post

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Performance Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:50:27 -0400 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance RevPayton
Border Control: New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium (September 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63626 63626-15820734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control. Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Borders and boundaries, both tangible and ephemeral, are closely tied to the ways in which humanity has always made sense of the world, and of its place in it.

Our current moment is one in which this certainty is being undermined as many borders are being challenged and contested.

Borders can be mental, physical, geographical, political, social, ethical, legal, economic, environmental, digital, real, imagined, visceral, and emotional.

How do you navigate borders in your own practice or research?

The New Media Caucus seeks to bring together artists and scholars to critically engage relevant topics.

Some of the processes calling contemporary borders into question are:

Registration is required to attend the Symposium. The deadline for registration is September 13, 2019.

Please also consider joining students, faculty and the Ann Arbor community for the Penny Stamps Speaker Series on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 19.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/border-control-2019-nmc-symposium-exhibition-registration-56839748217

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:15:11 -0400 2019-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Conference / Symposium https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Border_Control_Final.jpg
Is Democracy Alive and Well in South Africa? Evaluating the results of the 2019 National Elections (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65570 65570-16613770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This presentation evaluates the state of democracy in South Africa over the last 25 years. How respected and stable are democratic institutions following the historic elections of 1994? Has the African National Congress, the ruling party, successfully addressed the harmful legacy of apartheid? Has the government realized the ideals of the country’s first, democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, to eradicate poverty and promote dignity? We focus on the 2019 National Elections to answer these questions.

Anne Pitcher is a Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her current research examines party politics, urban political economy, and state-business relations in Africa. She has conducted fieldwork, survey and archival research in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. She has published several books and dozens of articles in scholarly journals. She formerly served as President of the African Studies Association.

This is the second in a six-lecture series. The subject is South Africa: Past, Present, and a Look Forward. The next lecture will be September 26, 2019. The title is: De Facto and De Jure Apartheid: On the Moral, Politcal and Policy Failures of the Post-Apartheid State: A Call for an Official State Apology for Apartheid in South Africa

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:42:01 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Post-colonial Literature: From Decolonizing India to Decolonizing Flint (September 19, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64520 64520-16380910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

With the official end of the European colonial empires in the twentieth century, novelists in former colonies began to write about their identities: what to recover from the indigenous cultures? In the twenty-first century, writers on racism have begun to use “decolonizing” to address race. What does that metaphor reveal about racial issues? What obscure?
This is a flipped classroom: Sharon Quiroz, instructor, will lecture sparingly because reading and discussion are primary. Story tellers are Anita Desai, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Chimimanda Adichie, Tommy Orange, Isabel Allende, Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha. All available in paperback. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Thursdays, 1:30–3:30 pm on September 19 - November 21.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:08:07 -0400 2019-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Memoirs and Personal Essays (September 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64623 64623-16396996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This group for those 50 and over meets every week for two hours on Thursdays from September 2019 to June 2020, except for holidays. There are no specific assignments. Each writer strives to find his or her own subject matter and stylistic voice. We read our work aloud and discuss it, making constructive suggestions for improvement. The important thing is to write well enough to interest others and to convey our ideas clearly. Participants are expected to read their work regularly.

Instructor Eleanor Linn has led this writing group since 2014. She is a published author.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:37:28 -0400 2019-09-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (September 19, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65253 65253-16559483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Vinay Gupta is an engineer, strategist, digital visionary, and future-builder. London-based and Scottish-born, Gupta has worked to address a wide range of some of the most complex challenges and opportunities facing the 21st century. Currently the CEO of Mattereum, a platform that harnesses blockchain to automate and streamline the systems of global commercial law, Gupta has played a massively influential role in the development of the blockchain industry. Notably, in 2015, he coordinated the launch of the neutral, open-access internet and native currency system Ethereum. He has also served as strategic architect at the leading crypto venture ConsenSys, designed Dubai’s blockchain strategy, and serves as the Blockchain Fellow at the UK government’s Digital Catapult. Gupta also applies systems-thinking to issues surrounding environmental sustainability and resilience. A previous member of the Rocky Mountain Institute, one of the world’s top energy policy think tanks, Gupta advocated for solving oil supply issues through new technologies. In 2002, Gupta designed the hexayurt, a public domain disaster relief shelter easily constructed using four-by-eight sheets, the common industrial size of plywood. Intended for use by climate refugees, the hexayurt is also omnipresent in Black Rock Desert every year, iconic in the Burning Man counterculture.

Co-presented by the New Media Caucus: Border Control Symposium with support from the Dissonance Event Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:07 -0400 2019-09-19T17:10:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/gupta.jpg
Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. The Battle of Algiers + Talkback (September 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64514 64514-16380903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

An essential film for any movie buff, lover of history or Arab/Arab American studies, The Battle of Algiers (1966) is a classic film that highlights the Algerian struggle for independence from the colonial rule of France. The socio-political drama mainly chronicles the three-year Battle of Algiers, one of the most prominent battles in Algerian's war of independence. The film is based on actual events and involves a mostly Algerian cast of non-professional actors.

Over the years, the film has won several awards, including the Golden Lion and FIPRESCI Prize from Venice Film Festival (1966), and has been nominated for several awards at the Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film (1967), Best Director (1969) and Best Writing, Story & Screenplay—Written Directly for the Screen (1969).

Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
1966/Algeria, Italy/123 minutes
Arabic and French with English Subtitles

Immediately following the film will be a talkback with media scholar and author of Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue, Sohail Daulatzai.

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

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Film Screening Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:05:00 -0400 2019-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Film Screening event_image
Amy Speace (September 19, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63372 63372-15661324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:39:02 -0400 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Amy Speace (September 19, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64291 64291-16276489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Nashville-based, Amy Speace is a folk singer, timeless and classic, and a bit out of her own era. "She has one of the richest and loveliest voices in the genre and her songs are luxuriously smart," writes journalist Craig Havighurst (host of Nashville’s Music City Roots). "She’s profoundly personal yet also a bit mythic." Since her discovery in 2006 by folk-pop icon Judy Collins, who signed her to her own imprint Wildflower Records, Amy has been heralded as one of the leading voices of the new generation of American folk singers. Her song “The Weight of the World” was named as the #4 Best Folk Song of the last decade by NYC’s premiere AAA radio station, WFUV and was recorded by Judy Collins. From her beginnings in New York City as a classically trained actress with The National Shakespeare Company, to the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village where she began playing her original songs, to her move to East Nashville in 2009, to her most recent release, "That Kind Of Girl,: what ties all of her work together is a palpable empathy for the small struggles of the human condition. Rock critic Dave Marsh, long a fan, wrote taht "Amy Speace’s songs hang together like a short story collection, united by a common vantage point and common predicaments … it’s a gift to hear a heart so modest even when it’s wide open." She comes to Michigan with a brand-new release, "Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne."

This show is free at the door for Ark members at the Solo level and above.

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Performance Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:54:18 -0400 2019-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Amy Speace
Border Control: New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium (September 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63626 63626-15820735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control. Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Borders and boundaries, both tangible and ephemeral, are closely tied to the ways in which humanity has always made sense of the world, and of its place in it.

Our current moment is one in which this certainty is being undermined as many borders are being challenged and contested.

Borders can be mental, physical, geographical, political, social, ethical, legal, economic, environmental, digital, real, imagined, visceral, and emotional.

How do you navigate borders in your own practice or research?

The New Media Caucus seeks to bring together artists and scholars to critically engage relevant topics.

Some of the processes calling contemporary borders into question are:

Registration is required to attend the Symposium. The deadline for registration is September 13, 2019.

Please also consider joining students, faculty and the Ann Arbor community for the Penny Stamps Speaker Series on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 19.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/border-control-2019-nmc-symposium-exhibition-registration-56839748217

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:15:11 -0400 2019-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Conference / Symposium https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Border_Control_Final.jpg
Wisdom Circle (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64656 64656-16410954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A study of the common spirituality and inter-connectivity of the world’s great religious and spiritual traditions, otherwise known as the perennial wisdom. Religion has often been part of the problem; can spirituality be part of the solution?
An examination of the new romance between Science and Spirituality. Guest speakers, discussion, brief lectures. This Study Group led by J.T. Ramelis is for those 50 and over and meets Fridays, 10:00 am–12:00 pm on September 20 – November 8.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:02:02 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Resume Basics (September 20, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65859 65859-16662137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

How do you best fit who you are and what you're capable of into one page, and craft a resume that will catch an employer’s eye? During this virtual workshop, you'll dive into the stages of crafting a resume that highlights your strengths! If you have a current resume, feel free to have it available to reference. After RSVPing, you will receive an email with instructions to join on the day of the workshop. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:13:17 -0400 2019-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Cover Letter
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Exhibition Opening Reception: Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 20, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65096 65096-16517508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Celebrate the work of artists and designers featured in Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice. Enjoy a live DJ and refreshments.

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

Artists: Annabel Castro, Mahwish Chishty, Lyn Goeringer, Ryan Griffis & Sarah Ross, Kate Hollenbach, Carrie Hott, X.A. Li, Rebekah Modrak, Abhishek Narula, Joel Ong, Jon Packles, Aislinn E. Pentecost-Farren, Susan Rochester, José Carlos Teixeira, Alex Turner, and Sabato Visconti.

Short films by: Nadav Assor, Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez), Yaminay Chaudhri, Andrew Demirjian, José Guadalupe Garza & Miriam Ruíz, and Rick Silva.


Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practiceis curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra and presented in partnership with the New Media Caucus.

Image: Rick Silva, Western Fronts, 2019, video still

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-for-border-control-traversing-horizons-in-media-practice-tickets-71561264669

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Reception / Open House Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:15:34 -0400 2019-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Reckless Kelly (September 20, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63931 63931-16003642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The heartland gave the band authenticity. Musical lives honed its skill. Adversity instilled its persistence. Moving to Austin gave it wings to fly. Understanding the virtuosity of Reckless Kelly requires the perspective of where the band has been. Cody and Willy Braun grew up in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho. They moved to Bend, Oregon, and then migrated to that great musical fountainhead, Austin, Texas. It's natural that Reckless Kelly, born in the dreams of the two Braun brothers and their heritage but nurtured in the bumpy road of maturity, became the very essence of Americana music in all its far-flung glory. "We came along in that second wave of the movement," Cody Braun says. “Son Volt’s album 'Trace' had a major effect on us. People like Joe Ely, Ray Kennedy and Robert Earl Keen were always big supporters. Our goal was to make music that had a country vibe but a solid rock edge. As Music Row magazine proclaimed, "In my perfect world, this is what country radio would sound like."

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Performance Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:58:33 -0400 2019-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance reckless kelly
IOE Graduate School Workshop (September 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64245 64245-16260528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Join us in Ann Arbor for a one-day interactive workshop and learn how to launch your career and change the world with a graduate degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering.

WHO: This workshop is designed for undergraduate students and others who are within 1–2 years of applying to graduate programs. You do not need an engineering background to apply.

NOTE: This is an invitation-only event. Application details are included below.

LEARN about our latest research and student life directly from faculty and current students.

EXPLORE professional opportunities beyond graduation and tour our department and campus.

FIND OUT about graduate school applications, the admissions process, and funding.

ATTEND mixers and panel discussions with other prospective students and PhD students, faculty, and staff from our department.

All applicants selected to attend will have their travel and lodging costs covered.

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 7, 2019.
Click the link above to apply.

Applications close August 7, 2019, 11:59 pm EST. All applications will be reviewed, and invitations to selected participants will be sent in early August 2019.

QUESTIONS?
Email: ioe-workshop@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:23:21 -0400 2019-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar U-M IOE Graduate School Workshop text and decorative graphic
Border Control: New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium (September 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63626 63626-15820736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control. Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Borders and boundaries, both tangible and ephemeral, are closely tied to the ways in which humanity has always made sense of the world, and of its place in it.

Our current moment is one in which this certainty is being undermined as many borders are being challenged and contested.

Borders can be mental, physical, geographical, political, social, ethical, legal, economic, environmental, digital, real, imagined, visceral, and emotional.

How do you navigate borders in your own practice or research?

The New Media Caucus seeks to bring together artists and scholars to critically engage relevant topics.

Some of the processes calling contemporary borders into question are:

Registration is required to attend the Symposium. The deadline for registration is September 13, 2019.

Please also consider joining students, faculty and the Ann Arbor community for the Penny Stamps Speaker Series on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 19.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/border-control-2019-nmc-symposium-exhibition-registration-56839748217

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:15:11 -0400 2019-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Conference / Symposium https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Border_Control_Final.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Curatorial Tour of Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66988 66988-16792091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an exhibition tour of Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice with curator Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front. 

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

Artists: Annabel Castro, Mahwish Chishty, Lyn Goeringer, Ryan Griffis & Sarah Ross, Kate Hollenbach, Carrie Hott, X.A. Li, Rebekah Modrak, Abhishek Narula, Joel Ong, Jon Packles, Aislinn E. Pentecost-Farren, Susan Rochester, José Carlos Teixeira, Alex Turner, and Sabato Visconti.

Short films by: Nadav Assor, Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez), Yaminay Chaudhri, Andrew Demirjian, José Guadalupe Garza & Miriam Ruíz, and Rick Silva.


Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practiceis curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra and presented in partnership with the New Media Caucus.

 

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/curatorial-tour-of-border-control-traversing-horizons-in-media-practice-tickets-71562077099

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Reception / Open House Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:15:34 -0400 2019-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Meleko Mokgosi: Pan-African Pulp (September 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65254 65254-16559484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Saturday, September 21, 7:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

For his UMMA commission, Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi explores the history of Pan-Africanism, the global movement to unite ethnic groups of sub-Saharan African descent. Titled Pan-African Pulp, the exhibition features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, posters from Pan-African movements founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s, and stories from Setswana literature. Mokgosi is an artist and an associate professor in painting and printmaking at the Yale School of Art. By working across history painting, cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory, Mokgosi creates large-scale project-based installations that interrogate narrative tropes and the fundamental models for the inscription and transmission of history. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Botswana National Gallery, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery, Williams College Museum of Art, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Lead support for this commission is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center.

Image: Meleko Mokgosi, Acts of Resistance, 2018, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Meleko Mokgosi.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:24 -0400 2019-09-21T19:30:00-04:00 2019-09-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/mokgosi.jpg
Border Control: New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium (September 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63626 63626-15820737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control. Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Borders and boundaries, both tangible and ephemeral, are closely tied to the ways in which humanity has always made sense of the world, and of its place in it.

Our current moment is one in which this certainty is being undermined as many borders are being challenged and contested.

Borders can be mental, physical, geographical, political, social, ethical, legal, economic, environmental, digital, real, imagined, visceral, and emotional.

How do you navigate borders in your own practice or research?

The New Media Caucus seeks to bring together artists and scholars to critically engage relevant topics.

Some of the processes calling contemporary borders into question are:

Registration is required to attend the Symposium. The deadline for registration is September 13, 2019.

Please also consider joining students, faculty and the Ann Arbor community for the Penny Stamps Speaker Series on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 19.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/border-control-2019-nmc-symposium-exhibition-registration-56839748217

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:15:11 -0400 2019-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Conference / Symposium https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Border_Control_Final.jpg
Panel Discussion: Digital Detroit: On Borders & Activism (September 22, 2019 10:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66989 66989-16792092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 10:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Digital Detroit: On Borders & Activism presents the work of Detroit-based artists, designers and activists using technology and digital initiatives to create social and political change. From running for Mayor on a platform of moving all Detroiters onto their own local system of cryptocurrency called the D-coin to creating a documentary on the most polluted zip code in Detroit to building community wireless networks in underserved and marginalized communities to collecting data to create interactive online food maps to gauge and raise awareness around access to healthy food options to the creation of an online street view style map of the destroyed Black Bottom neighborhood in Detroit using historical photographs of the neighborhood in its heyday, panelists will explore history, division and inequality in Detroit through a digital lens. They will introduce their own work and discuss their ideas and concerns for Detroit’s future within the digital landscape and beyond. A public conversation with a Q&A will take place following panelist presentations.

Part of the New Media Caucus Border Control Symposium.

Panelists: Marcia Black, Ben Corona, Joshua Edmonds, Janice Gates, and Ingrid LaFleur
Moderated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan

Marcia Black (she/her) is a proud Detroiter, Black queer feminist archivist, memory worker, and organizer with BYP100 in the M4BL. Her life’s mission is to preserve and share the histories of Black women and Black queer and trans people - whose stories are often erased from our telling of the Black radical tradition. She is currently a second year dual degree graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is pursuing an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies and MS in Information Studies with a focus on archives. Marcia created and utilizes a Black feminist archival praxis to ensure that Black women, Black people’s agency, Black cultural memory practices, and Black liberation are always honored and centered in preservation work. http://www.blackbottomarchives.com/

Ben Corona is an independent filmmaker and owner of the production company, 40oz. Films. He has produced and directed numerous short films, commercials, and web series for organizations such as American Aqua, Wild Road Pictures, and Wayne State University. Ben is an award winning filmmaker that won the 2012 Artscapade Film Festival’s best picture award for his short film, Theater Piece. In 2018, he became a Detroit Kresge Artist Fellow for his work and achievement in filmmaking. In recent years, documentaries with social justice topics have been the main focus for his artistic practice. Ben is currently working on his feature length documentary, Sacrifice Zones: The 48217. The documentary explores the most polluted zip code in Michigan. Ben earned his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Film with Honors from Wayne State University. www.40ozfilms.com

Joshua Edmonds works within the City of Detroit’s Technology and Innovation Department developing a citywide digital inclusion strategy. His role is a partnership between the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative and the City of Detroit. Prior to joining the team, Edmonds reported to the Chief of Digital Innovation at The Cleveland Foundation, where he leveraged philanthropic investments and public private partnerships to help bridge Northeast Ohio’s digital divide. Prior to that role, Edmonds worked at the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority on President Barack Obama’s ConnectHome initiative. Edmonds holds a master’s in public policy from Howard University and a bachelor’s in English and Spanish from Notre Dame College. https://poverty.umich.edu/about/team/joshua-edmonds/

Janice Gates has a background in program management, marketing and public relations, and communications. In her role as the Equitable internet Initiative Director, she works with anchor organizations in three Detroit neighborhoods (Islandview, Southwest and the North End) seeding community technology programming, including DCTP’s Digital Stewards training program, local expansion, outreach strategies, managing partnerships, program implementation, evaluation and internet adoption. https://detroitcommunitytech.org/

Ingrid LaFleur is a curator, pleasure activist and afrofuture strategist. Her mission is to ensure equal distribution of the future, exploring the frontiers of social justice through new technologies, economies, and modes of government. As a recent Detroit Mayoral candidate and founder and director of AFROTOPIA, LaFleur implements Afrofuturist strategies to empower Black bodies and oppressed communities through frameworks such as blockchain and universal basic income. Ingrid LaFleur is currently the Director of Social Impact forDetroit Blockchain Center and curator ofManifest Destiny currently taking place at Library Street Collective in Detroit. As a thought leader, social justice technologist, public speaker, teacher and cultural advisor she has led conversations and workshops at Centre Pompidou (Paris), TEDxBrooklyn, TEDxDetroit, Ideas City, New Museum (New York), AfroTech Conference, Harvard University and Oxford University, among others. LaFleur serves on the board of JustSpace Alliance, Powerhouse Productions, and the Cooley ReUse Project. LaFleur is based in Detroit, Michigan. 


Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan is a curator and writer based in Detroit. She currently serves as the Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator at Stamps Gallery part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Before joining Stamps Gallery she was the co-founding editor of Infinite Mile, an online journal of art and culture in Detroit.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-detroit-on-borders-activism-panel-discussion-tickets-70635898875

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:15:35 -0400 2019-09-22T10:45:00-04:00 2019-09-22T12:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Chris Pureka w/ The Harmaleighs (September 22, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63373 63373-15661325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Mon, 20 May 2019 11:52:14 -0400 2019-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review (September 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60947 60947-14990942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Ergonomics

The CIHR is a 4.5-day course that provides an intensive, high-level review of a wide range of industrial hygiene topics. This program is offered twice annually in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has gained the reputation of being one of the premier programs for people needing to broaden or refresh their industrial hygiene knowledge base or to focus their efforts on professional certification. Attendees benefit from interaction with more than a dozen experts covering the industrial hygiene topics. This program is co-sponsored by the Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:23:44 -0500 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Ergonomics Class / Instruction IOE C4E Logo
Computerized Investing: Asset Allocation and Mutual Funds (September 23, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64477 64477-16370919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We expect to improve your overall investment knowledge as well as your investing strategies as we present methods of using various investment options. Join us for open discussion of the value of asset allocation, types of mutual funds, types of financial advisors, questions to ask your financial advisor, and ways to examine your current portfolio.
We will make extensive use of information from web-based resources. Dale Brandenburg, instructor, is a retired research professor and Robert Shaw, is a director and current Vice-President of the SE Michigan Chapter of Better Investing. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Mondays September 23 – October 28 (no class September 30).

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Class / Instruction Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:11:54 -0400 2019-09-23T09:30:00-04:00 2019-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Rosie the Riveter and the Willow Run Bomber Plant (September 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64581 64581-16388950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This presentation for those 50 and over highlights the role of women in the defense industries during WWII. The “Save The Bomber Plant Campaign” will be introduced and the instructor will explain the exciting participation in the Veteran’s History Project, under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Instructor Claire Dahl is a Tribute Rosie and does presentations in many venues. She has a Master’s Degree in American Studies, with an emphasis on Women’s Studies and lives in Ann Arbor.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:39:12 -0400 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
American Musical Theater – Golden Age of Broadway, 1943-1968 (September 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64636 64636-16402986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This series will include composers and lyricists Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Lerner, and Frederick Loewe. DVD and CD excerpts will complement the lecture.
Dr. Edwin Marcus, instructor and a retired pediatrician, has been presenting lectures and leading classes on musical theater for the past 20 years. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Mondays, 1:00–2:30 pm on September 23 – October 21 (no class September 30).

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Class / Instruction Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:32:00 -0400 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
An Afternoon in the Company of Sondheim’s Company (September 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64635 64635-16402985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

After a brief informal introduction by Marilyn Scott, the group will watch the 2011 concert version of this musical, which explores the ups and downs of modern marriage, after which discussion will follow.
Marilyn Scott, instructor, is a long-time study group leader and devotee of American Musical Theater. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Monday, 1:00–5:00 pm on September 23.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:19:32 -0400 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Beginner Chinese Conversation (September 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64571 64571-16388940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course, for those 50 and over, will introduce some basic Chinese conversational phrases, and provide help to answer the questions regarding traveling in China. Instructor Yi Keep is Chinese and has lived in the U.S. since 1984.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:51:48 -0400 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Olli Study Group
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Shaping Future Cities: An evening discussing Urban Tech in Detroit (September 23, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66900 66900-16785540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Urban transformation is increasingly driven by technological innovation, which is changing the game in areas ranging from housing and mobility to development and construction. Dean Jonathan Massey invites you to join us for an alumni event in Detroit centered around the uses and possibilities of Urban Tech, including the new technologies and development practices that are transforming cities operationally, socially and spatially.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:30:50 -0400 2019-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Shaping Future Cities
UM Psychology Community Talk: Understanding Memory: How it Works and How to Improve it (September 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64329 64329-16316438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Abstract: Human beings store away huge quantities of information in memory. We remember countless facts about the world (e.g., birds have wings, 2+2=4, there are 26 letters in the alphabet) as well specific information about our own lives (e.g., what we had for lunch, where we went for our last vacation, our first kiss). How does that work? How do we store information away into memory and then retrieve exactly the information we need minutes, days, or even years later? Conversely, why do we so often forget someone’s name or where we put our keys? And perhaps most importantly, is there anything we can do to improve our memory and keep it sharp? In this talk, we’ll dive into the psychological and neural mechanisms that underlie our amazing ability to remember. And we’ll also discuss ways to maximize our memory by applying techniques that have been scientifically demonstrated to improve retention.

Bio: Professor Thad A. Polk is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. His research combines functional imaging of the human brain with computational modeling and behavioral methods to investigate the neural architecture underlying cognition. Some of his major projects have investigated changes in neural representations as we age, contributions of nature versus nurture to neural organization and differences in the brains of smokers who quit compared with those who do not. Dr. Polk has taught well over 6,000 UM students over the past 20 years and has developed three neuroscience courses aimed at the general public for The Great Courses (The Addictive Brain, The Aging Brain, The Learning Brain). In 2012 Princeton Review included him on its list of the Best 300 Professors in the U.S.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:56:44 -0400 2019-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation Thad Polk
Justin Townes Earle (September 23, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64798 64798-16444955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Justin Townes Earle has done a lot of living in his 37 years. For starters, there’s the quick-hit bullet points about his childhood that seem to get dredged up in every interview, article or review about the singer-songwriter and guitarist: Born the son of Steve Earle, who was largely absent during Justin’s childhood; struggles from a young age with addiction and numerous stints in rehab; long stretches of itinerancy and general juvenile delinquency; a youth he once said he was “lucky to have gotten out of alive.”

That’s before we get to the years spent honing his craft in Nashville bars and on club stages all over the world; the various bands, record labels and industry types that have been drawn toward and, at times, pushed away by him; and, finally, the celebrated and rather formidable body of work he has amassed since releasing his critically-acclaimed 2007 debut EP, Yuma.

It’s a seemingly bottomless well of material for a singer-songwriter to mine out of just three decades or so of life. And Earle at times has—most recently on his 2017 album, Kids in the Street, which the artist calls “one of the more personal records I’ve ever made.”

But when it came to his newest effort, The Saint of Lost Causes, Earle, these days sober, married and father to a baby girl, chose to focus his gaze outward. “Maybe having a kid has made me look at the world around me more,” he says.

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Performance Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:14:04 -0400 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance JTE
Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60947 60947-14990943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Ergonomics

The CIHR is a 4.5-day course that provides an intensive, high-level review of a wide range of industrial hygiene topics. This program is offered twice annually in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has gained the reputation of being one of the premier programs for people needing to broaden or refresh their industrial hygiene knowledge base or to focus their efforts on professional certification. Attendees benefit from interaction with more than a dozen experts covering the industrial hygiene topics. This program is co-sponsored by the Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:23:44 -0500 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Ergonomics Class / Instruction IOE C4E Logo
OLLI Dialog on Freedom & Diversity with Dilip Das (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64680 64680-16426886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Freedom is a core value, a proud symbol of what it means to be American. The meaning of freedom has evolved over the 243 years since our country’s founding. For many, freedoms were denied or constrained by laws, policies, and dominant culture. Today, in 2019, more individuals and groups feel a sense of freedom than ever before, but many, still, are marginalized. We will talk, as an OLLI group, about freedom and how an understanding of diversity and inclusion is deeply embedded into the meaning of freedom.

Dilip Das is Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a liaison for 12 UM units on campus implementing their five-year Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Strategic Plans. He is the Accreditation Liaison Officer at UM for the Higher Learning Commission’s 2020 UM Reaccreditation. Dilip also leads and helps manage statewide college access grant programs and mentors both graduate and undergraduate students. Dilip holds a doctorate in higher education administration, a master’s in science education, and a bachelor’s degree
in biology.

A first in a series of conversations with retiring academic and community leaders who will share their stories and unique perspectives as they look to their second acts.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:17:38 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Mah-Jongg (September 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64592 64592-16390994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Mah-Jongg is a Chinese game resembling Gin Rummy, but is played with colorful tiles instead of cards. It is easy to learn and can become quite addictive! Classes for those 50 and over start with a brief lecture, followed by actual playing of the game with continuous guidance from the instructor. Mah-Jongg sets will be provided.

Instructor Stuart Baggaley has taught his modified and simplified version of the game at many venues. He is a British World War II veteran (RAF) who emigrated from Norway in 1957, leaving the Fulbright Foundation in Oslo. He retired from UM Medical School (Anatomy) in 1990.

Sessions will meet Tuesdays from 1-3pm from September 24 through October 29.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:40:45 -0400 2019-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
What Makes Some Music “Great”? (September 24, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64641 64641-16402990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Ultimately a question Louis cannot answer, he will try to illuminate the greatness about selected/popular concert pieces. Why do we love the Beethoven Fifth Symphony? What was some other music contemporary with this masterpiece and what makes it a masterpiece? The instructor will rely on recordings as well as his own playing in these sessions.
Dr. Louis Nagel, instructor, is Professor Emeritus of piano and piano literature after serving for forty-seven years on the faculty of the UM School of Music Theatre and Dance. He has concertized and lectured throughout the United States and internationally and worked collaboratively with his wife, the psychologist and musician Dr. Julie Jaffee Nagel. In “retirement” he continues to be active as a performer, lecturer, and teacher. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Tuesdays, 1:30–3:00 pm on September 24 – October 29.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:31:46 -0400 2019-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 24, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60947 60947-14990944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Ergonomics

The CIHR is a 4.5-day course that provides an intensive, high-level review of a wide range of industrial hygiene topics. This program is offered twice annually in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has gained the reputation of being one of the premier programs for people needing to broaden or refresh their industrial hygiene knowledge base or to focus their efforts on professional certification. Attendees benefit from interaction with more than a dozen experts covering the industrial hygiene topics. This program is co-sponsored by the Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:23:44 -0500 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Ergonomics Class / Instruction IOE C4E Logo
U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) (September 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65209 65209-16549471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) is a great way to meet people in the aphasia community, while boosting communication skills and confidence! If you or your loved one has the communication disorder aphasia, consider joining the conversation group. All ages are welcome.

UMAC is offered once a week, Wednesday, for four-week sessions. The cost is $140 for the month (includes 4 weekly sessions). The meeting is facilitated by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who prepares activities for groups of varying sizes and skill levels. Activities target all aspects of communication, including speaking, listening, and comprehending. You will practice speaking and interacting in a supportive and friendly environment, and learn new techniques to take home after the program ends!

You can fill out the UMAC online application. If you have additional questions, please call (734) 764-8440.

This group is open to those of all communication skill levels. Aphasia can be incredibly isolating and takes a toll on confidence — this group takes aim at making connections and building confidence in speech and social interactions.

For more information, see: https://mari.umich.edu/ucll/umap/aphasia-community

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Meeting Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:40:07 -0400 2019-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Center for Language and Literacy Meeting U-M Aphasia Community Meeting Details
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Brown Bag Recital Series: Stephanie Shapiro, oboe and Marilyn Biery, organ (September 25, 2019 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64707 64707-16428918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:05pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Stephanie Shapiro and Marilyn Biery perform.

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Performance Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:15:15 -0400 2019-09-25T12:05:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
American Dialogue (September 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64611 64611-16396977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This study group will discuss the ideas in “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us”, by Joseph J. Ellis. Ellis positions our contemporary debates on race, income inequality, jurisprudence, and foreign policy in their historical context through dialogue with four founders—Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Washington.

Following Ellis, the study group will engage in its own American dialogue between then and now, enabling an interactive process through which we can frame current issues in light of their historical origins and see our founders through a modern lens. The book will be available at Literati Bookstore. Additional readings to be supplied.

This study group for those 50 and over will be led by instructors John Roundtree and Larry Berlin and will meet for two hours on Wednesdays, from September 25 through November 6, (no class on October 9).

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:49:07 -0400 2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Documentary Screening: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (September 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66193 66193-16719567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013) and narrated by Alicia Vikander. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.

Documentary. 87 min

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:06:29 -0400 2019-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T20:27:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Film Screening
Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60947 60947-14990945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Ergonomics

The CIHR is a 4.5-day course that provides an intensive, high-level review of a wide range of industrial hygiene topics. This program is offered twice annually in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has gained the reputation of being one of the premier programs for people needing to broaden or refresh their industrial hygiene knowledge base or to focus their efforts on professional certification. Attendees benefit from interaction with more than a dozen experts covering the industrial hygiene topics. This program is co-sponsored by the Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:23:44 -0500 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:40:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Ergonomics Class / Instruction IOE C4E Logo
De Facto and De Jure Apartheid: On the Moral, Politcal and Policy Failures of the Post-Apartheid State: A Call for an Official State Apology for Apartheid in South Africa (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65611 65611-16621816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Legal Apartheid was politically, legally and procedurally dismantled after a protracted antiapartheid struggle in South Africa in 1994. South Africa’s first racially inclusive election on April 26, 1994 literally and symbolically marked this legal ending, after four years of tense and at times violent negotiations between the leaders of Apartheid South Africa and those of the antiapartheid movements.

However, 25 years after this hopeful and euphoric historical moment the dead are still being counted, the transmutation of formal apartheid into social and economic apartheid is all but complete and the legacy of Apartheid’s crimes endure – threatening the very dream of Nelson Mandela’s vision for a nonracial, nonsexist, equal and just political system in South Africa. This lecture will critically engage the political, legal and moral failures of state responsibilities to international humanitarian and human rights law and the state’s political, legal and moral management of the freedom moment.

Yazier Henry teaches at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is a public intellectual, strategist, conflict management expert, teacher, facilitator, scholar, professional human rights advocate, and poet. His research and writing priorities focus on the interrelationship and intersections of structural, systemic, institutional, and administrative violence. He is particularly interested in the politics and economics of human rights and the social violence of the law. His current work is on how state violence becomes systemically structured and institutionalized during political transitions in the global south.

This is the third in a six-lecture series. The subject is South Africa: Past, Present, and a Look Forward. The next lecture will be October 3, 2019. The title is: Education Inequality and Income Inequality in South Africa since the End of Apartheid.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:22:39 -0400 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Ibrahim Mahama: Failures Promises (September 26, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65255 65255-16559485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian artist who considers the ways in which capital and labor are expressed in common materials through large-scale installations. In Occupation Series, Mahama focused on the jute sacks that are synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works. Fabricated in Southeast Asia, the sacks are imported by the Ghana Cocoa Boards to transport cocoa beans and eventually end up as multi-functional objects, used for the transportation of food, charcoal, and other commodities. Often exploring the potentialities and failures of modernity, Mahama’s work uses materials and forms that present us with alternative perspectives through which to view the conditions of contemporary society, labor, and the “politics of the hand.” His most recent work, A Straight Line Through the Carcass of History, has also dealt with forms related to the second world war and bacteria life. Mahama obtained an MFA in painting and sculpture in 2013 and a BFA in painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. His work has been included in the 56th and 57th Venice Biennale, and has been exhibited internationally. He was an artist-in-residence with the Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2018.

Co-presented with the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:34 -0400 2019-09-26T17:10:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/mahama.jpg
Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60947 60947-14990946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Ergonomics

The CIHR is a 4.5-day course that provides an intensive, high-level review of a wide range of industrial hygiene topics. This program is offered twice annually in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has gained the reputation of being one of the premier programs for people needing to broaden or refresh their industrial hygiene knowledge base or to focus their efforts on professional certification. Attendees benefit from interaction with more than a dozen experts covering the industrial hygiene topics. This program is co-sponsored by the Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:23:44 -0500 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Ergonomics Class / Instruction IOE C4E Logo
Memoir Writing (September 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64620 64620-16396994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Participants will learn how to tell the stories of their lives and those of their ancestors. We will meet weekly, and each participant should be prepared to read a story they have written (including the first class).

Instructor Jan Price calls herself a “very amateur memoirist” who has written her story after being motivated by an OLLI class.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Fridays from September 27 through December 13(except on November 29).

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:34:01 -0400 2019-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
How Does a Single Protein Molecule Cause an Array of Diseases? The Story of the Magic Protein NLRP3 (September 27, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64660 64660-16410958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In some cases, the malfunction of a signal molecule in our body causes diseases. Here the protein NLRP3 will be taken as an example. The course will first provide the basic background of molecular cell biology, such as the concepts of cell and its building blocks; then introduce NLRP3, its function in the normal condition and its relations with diseases, such as auto-inflammatory disorders, type 2 diabetes, gout, Alzheimer disease, etc.
The goal of this course is to bring science to the community and highlight the importance of basic biological research in medicine. Jie Xu, instructor, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School since 2018. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Fridays, 3:15–4:45 pm on September 27 – October 4.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:54:46 -0400 2019-09-27T15:15:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Studio Suites Open House (September 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64204 64204-16212192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join the Stamps Community as we celebrate the completion of our new Studio Suites. Learn about the new digital equipment in the space from faculty and students and explore the 2018 renovation that added the 5,901 additional square feet to the Stamps School footprint.

Friday, September 27, 4-6 pm
Remarks at 4:30 pm

Light refreshments will be served.
Free and open to the public.
RSVP by September 20

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://stamps.umich.edu/studio-open

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Reception / Open House Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:15:23 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/StampsNewInstructionalSpaces-Dec2018-1620.jpg
Friday Night AI (September 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66385 66385-16734110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Join us for an evening of AI to engage with University of Michigan experts as they discuss the implications of using AI for mental health care:

-How will AI and personalized technologies fit into the mental health care system?
-Who benefits? How?
-How do we measure outcomes?
-Are we heading towards an AI-based mental health care system?
-What are the benefits of using AI for mental health?
-How efficient are virtual therapists?

Michigan AI’s Prof. Emily Mower Provost and Prof. Melvin Mcinnis, Director of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program, will address these and other open questions in this public AI event.

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is open now: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/friday-night-AI

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 09:07:18 -0400 2019-09-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lecture / Discussion Friday Night AI speakers
IOE Tailgate 2019 (Ticketed Event) (September 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63732 63732-16855670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

University of Michigan Wolverines vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Join us to cheer on our Wolverines to victory!

U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering will be hosting a Tailgate three hours before the kickoff of the Michigan versus Rutgers game on Saturday, September 28, 2019.

We have a prime location at the corner of S. Main Street and Snyder, steps away from the Big House Entrance (Gate 4) and will have pregame television screens!

We will be hosting fanfare food, beverages, and festivities!

This event is open to IOE alumni, faculty, graduate students and staff until we reach capacity.

Kickoff time will be announced. Reserve your spot before tickets sell out!

Note: The tailgate ticket does not include access to the football game. All football tickets must be purchased separately.

For questions and sponsorship inquiries regarding this event please contact ioe.events@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:38:36 -0400 2019-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House "Tailgate 2019" text with U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering logo
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions (September 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67345 67345-16839886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Explore the evolution of the visual arts on this Art Outta Town trip! We'll start by taking a tour through the vibrant outdoor art environment The Heidelberg Project created by Neo-Expressionist artist Tyree Guyton. Then we'll head over to the Humble and Human exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to view more than forty classic works of art from Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and more! This trip is $10 per person and is open to all current U of M students. Seating for this trip is limited so reserve your spot today!

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Other Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:58 -0400 2019-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Outta Town: Impressions to Expressions Graphic
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
59th University of Michigan Organ Conference: “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” 7th Annual University of Michigan Improvisation Competition (September 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64695 64695-16428899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference: “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures”

The 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” takes place Saturday, September 28 through Monday, October 1. Johann Sebastian Bach is often portrayed as a solitary colossus, dwarfing his contemporaries and casting a long shadow on his successors. This conference provides an opportunity to assess Bach within the context of his foundational artistic influences, his exchanges with his contemporaries, and his influence on later composers, extending to present-day projects. Registration to attend the daily conference required (Students are free, $100 for non-students, $50 for single day), register at myumi.ch/LBQE8

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Performance Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:22:27 -0400 2019-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference
Greg Lawell (September 28, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63377 63377-15661338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:53:55 -0400 2019-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (September 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
World Cup (September 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67252 67252-16829026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

German Club will be participating in The University of Michigan Soccer World Cup Tournament, an annual event between various language clubs at the University of Michigan.

RVSP here: https://forms.gle/xT9Y4Px5JmA5snRG8 by Wednesday, September 25, if you are planning to come (feel free to come without RSVP'ing, but the more accurate our count is, the better).

Please contact Drue (druefro@umich.edu) for more information.

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Sporting Event Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:01:49 -0400 2019-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Sporting Event
8th Annual Harvest Festival (September 29, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66396 66396-16770224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

Join us to celebrate the harvest season with food, music, farm tours, and activities for people of all ages! Harvest Fest connects participants with student groups and community organizations who are dedicated to strengthening the local food system. Free food, live music, and fall activities are planned, including:

Tours of the farm
Yoga classes -- bring your own yoga mat or towel
Pumpkin Painting
Local food leaders will be available to discuss sustainable food initiatives in our community, including Argus Farm Stop, Taste the Local Difference, and Agra

Free buses will run on a loop every 20 minutes from CCTC to the farm, starting at 12:40pm.

This is a free event. Donations are appreciated and support UMSFP's mission to foster opportunities for experiential learning and leadership in sustainable food systems. RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/475590499857708

Special thank you to our sponsors: MDining, Planet Blue Ambassadors, and Campus Farm at MBGNA. If you are interested in helping sponsor this event, please send us a message or email UMSFP at umsfp.core@umich.edu.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:15:04 -0400 2019-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Fair / Festival Harvest Festival Flyer
The Premodern Colloquium. Reading Storied Ground in Medieval Rome (September 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65741 65741-16651984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This paper argues that medieval Romans read elements in the city-scape to discover the evidence of sacred history. I use three case studies linked to saints Peter and Paul: divots in the Forum’s paving, an ancient Roman votive offering, and some springs at the church of Tre Fontane. The divots in the Forum’s pavement were damage, which Romans read as as signs of Christian history, claiming them as the knee prints left by Peter and Paul when they prayed for Simon Magus’ defeat. The votive offering is a pair of sculpted footprints. By the thirteenth century, ignoring this origin, Romans read them as Jesus’s footprints, left on the spot where he greeted Peter at the walls of Rome. Both cases display a dominant factor in medieval people’s material imagination: the ability to read the stories they knew in the things they saw. The springs at Tre Fontane are a third kind of thing, a natural phenomenon, and they add a new kind of reading. Tre Fontane was taken as the site of Paul’s decapitation, after which his head bounced three times, each bounce creating a spring. This story differs from the preceding cases in that it was the product of reading both the landscape and images of Paul’s martyrdom, which together suggested information absent from text. Taken together, the three cases indicate that medieval Romans read their city’s urban and natural features in creative, sophisticated and contingent ways.

For more information, please email willette@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:00:51 -0400 2019-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar The Origins of Tre Fontane
59th University of Michigan Organ Conference: “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” Faculty Recital: Prof. Kola Owolabi (September 29, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64696 64696-16428900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Featuring SMTD Prof. Kola Owolabi.

The 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” takes place Saturday, September 28 through Monday, October 1. Johann Sebastian Bach is often portrayed as a solitary colossus, dwarfing his contemporaries and casting a long shadow on his successors. This conference provides an opportunity to assess Bach within the context of his foundational artistic influences, his exchanges with his contemporaries, and his influence on later composers, extending to present-day projects. Registration to attend the daily conference required (Students are free, $100 for non-students, $50 for single day), register at myumi.ch/LBQE8

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Performance Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:21:32 -0400 2019-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference
59th University of Michigan Organ Conference: “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng, carillon (September 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65072 65072-16511422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ng's recital of contemporary carillon music, ranging from the world premiere of Trevor Weston's "Nut: Goddess of the Night Sky" to Jenny Olivia Johnson's monumental "July 3 - A Hall of Mirrors," honors Bach's 21st-century legacy with compositional forms and themes Bach used in his work. Part of the 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures."

The 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” takes place Saturday, September 28 through Monday, October 1. Johann Sebastian Bach is often portrayed as a solitary colossus, dwarfing his contemporaries and casting a long shadow on his successors. This conference provides an opportunity to assess Bach within the context of his foundational artistic influences, his exchanges with his contemporaries, and his influence on later composers, extending to present-day projects. Registration to attend the daily conference required (Students are free, $100 for non-students, $50 for single day), register at myumi.ch/LBQE8

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Performance Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:21:02 -0400 2019-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference
US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum (October 1, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66266 66266-16725777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The world today is facing unprecedented, interconnected environmental and sustainability challenges. Achieving sustainable development requires global efforts that are ambitious, action-oriented and collaborative.

The US and China are the leaders of the global economy. At the same time, they also contribute significantly to many sustainability challenges worldwide. Both countries play particularly important roles for global sustainability.

By bring together experts from both the US and China on environment and sustainability, the US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum at the University of Michigan (UCESF@UM) aims to:

Take stock of achievements in addressing environmental and sustainability challenges in both countries, and
Identify critical areas that the two countries should work together and help the global transition towards more sustainable development.
UCESF@UM will produce a whitepaper summarizing opinions and conclusions.

To promote an intimate experience for easy engagement in conversation, attendance is capped at 120 participants including invited panelists and reserved seats for University of Michigan participants.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:44:29 -0400 2019-10-01T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion SEAS
Safe Medication Disposal Event (October 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66709 66709-16770297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: College of Pharmacy

On Oct. 1, Michigan Medicine and the U-M College of Pharmacy will host Safe Medication Disposal Events for both the Brighton and Ann Arbor areas.
These events provide those living/working in the surrounding communities an opportunity to dispose of their unused and expired medications in an environmentally-friendly and safe manner.

The events will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the following locations: Brighton Center for Specialty Care (BCSC), ‎7500 Challis Rd., Brighton, Michigan 48116, and Ingalls Mall (University of Michigan Campus) - 881 N University Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Both sites accept the following items: prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, vitamins, ointments and lotions, antibiotics, steroids, veterinary medicine, sharps and sharps containers. Unaccepted items include: sunscreen, insect repellant, cosmetics, hair care or personal hygiene products, hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol, aerosol cans, blood or infectious waste and tobacco.

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Community Service Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:35:26 -0400 2019-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location College of Pharmacy Community Service Safe Medication Disposal Event
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
National Issues (October 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64553 64553-16388904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This study group for those 50 and over, facilitated by Barbara Comai and Leo Shedden, will focus on domestic public issues of great importance. Topics will be selected by class members and teams of class members will facilitate group discussion using materials gleaned from the internet, recent readings, life experiences, and other similar sources. Previous topics include: Decaying Cities, American Democracy, Voting Rights, Living Wage, Privacy in the Electronic Age. The class will choose the topics at the first session. Sessions will be held 1-3 pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month from October 1 through January 21.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:37:16 -0400 2019-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
59th University of Michigan Organ Conference: “Building Bach - His Foundations & Futures” Closing Performance: U-M Early Music Ensemble (October 1, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64699 64699-16428903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The U-M Early Music Ensemble with faculty soloists Prof. Kola Owolabi, Prof. Joseph Gascho, and Prof. Aaron Berofsky.

The 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference “Building Bach: His Foundations and Futures” takes place Saturday, September 28 through Monday, October 1. Johann Sebastian Bach is often portrayed as a solitary colossus, dwarfing his contemporaries and casting a long shadow on his successors. This conference provides an opportunity to assess Bach within the context of his foundational artistic influences, his exchanges with his contemporaries, and his influence on later composers, extending to present-day projects. Registration to attend the daily conference required (Students are free, $100 for non-students, $50 for single day), register at myumi.ch/LBQE8

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Performance Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:19:49 -0400 2019-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance 59th University of Michigan Organ Conference
Tannahill Weavers // Old Blind Dogs (October 1, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61936 61936-15241342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Scotland's Tannahill Weavers recently celebrated their 50th year on the road, and they're not slowing down! Named for Scottish poet Robert Tannahill, the Tannahill Weavers create music that is steeped in history yet brings the Scottish musical tradition forward into the present day. With innovative arrangements blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms, the group embraces the rollicking, even brawling qualities of Lowland Anglo-Scots tunes but never loses sight of the almost mystical Highland Celtic core. "The penetrating sound of the Highland bagpipes is a thread of ancient memory running through it all," they say. The band's diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fiery instrumentals, topical songs, and original ballads. They're an Ark favorite, but tonight you have the chance to see them with an act that's a good deal rarer stateside—The Old Blind Dogs. Since forming in Scotland in 1992, The Dogs have stood on the cutting edge of the Scots roots revival. The band has developed its own trademark style with an energetic mix of songs and tunes. Dynamic percussion, polished vocals, soaring fiddle and stirring pipes fuel the delicately phrased melodies and traditional songs. "The Old Blind Dogs play with a compelling energy and intoxicating rhythm," says The Scotsman, "...as players and audience seem to share a wild ecstasy of emotion." Twenty-seven years is a long time in the life of any band and most who reach those milestones are content to rest on the tried and tested formulas that have worked in the past. Not so for The Old Blind Dogs, whose newly released "Room With A View" takes them once again bravely in many new directions.

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Performance Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:40:08 -0400 2019-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
GISC Screening. Halaloween: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (October 1, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66231 66231-16719609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

On October 1st, 2019, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night will be the first film to launch our Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween.

This film festival aims to explore a couple of questions: What scares Muslim audiences? How do horror movies conceived for a Muslim public transform the familiar tropes that Hollywood and Hammer horror taught us? How do Muslim directors of horror movies use the genre to ask probing questions about gender and family tensions, social injustice and political oppression, demographic change and social unrest? Are horror movies halal (permissible in Islamic law)? Why so many jinn - and where are the Muslim zombies?

Join us at 9:00 PM at the Michigan Theater on October 1st, and every Tuesday of October for a free screening of a Muslim horror film. All Screenings are free, open to the public, and will include English subtitles. Screenings are first come-first served. For more information on our festival, why we're running it, and the other films we are screening, please visit: ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies/news-events/events/films.html

Film Description:

October 1: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour; USA, 2015): This film festival favorite was shot in Persian in the San Joaquin Valley, in brooding and beautiful black & white. It is often (accurately) described as a Western-vampire-noir. Gender revenge themes and mild violence. In Persian with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:32:34 -0400 2019-10-01T21:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening halaloween_poster-updated
US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum (October 2, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66266 66266-16725778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The world today is facing unprecedented, interconnected environmental and sustainability challenges. Achieving sustainable development requires global efforts that are ambitious, action-oriented and collaborative.

The US and China are the leaders of the global economy. At the same time, they also contribute significantly to many sustainability challenges worldwide. Both countries play particularly important roles for global sustainability.

By bring together experts from both the US and China on environment and sustainability, the US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum at the University of Michigan (UCESF@UM) aims to:

Take stock of achievements in addressing environmental and sustainability challenges in both countries, and
Identify critical areas that the two countries should work together and help the global transition towards more sustainable development.
UCESF@UM will produce a whitepaper summarizing opinions and conclusions.

To promote an intimate experience for easy engagement in conversation, attendance is capped at 120 participants including invited panelists and reserved seats for University of Michigan participants.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:44:29 -0400 2019-10-02T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion SEAS
U-M Aphasia Community (UMAC) (October 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65242 65242-16557479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP)

The U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) is a great way to meet people in the aphasia community, while boosting communication skills and confidence! If you or your loved one has the communication disorder aphasia, consider joining the conversation group. All ages are welcome.

UMAC is offered once a week, Wednesday, for four-week sessions. The cost is $140 for the month (includes 4 weekly sessions). The meeting is facilitated by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who prepares activities for groups of varying sizes and skill levels. Activities target all aspects of communication, including speaking, listening, and comprehending. You will practice speaking and interacting in a supportive and friendly environment, and learn new techniques to take home after the program ends!

You can fill out the UMAC online application. If you have additional questions, please call (734) 764-8440.

This group is open to those of all communication skill levels. Aphasia can be incredibly isolating and takes a toll on confidence — this group takes aim at making connections and building confidence in speech and social interactions.

For more information, see: https://mari.umich.edu/ucll/umap/aphasia-community

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Meeting Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:25:51 -0400 2019-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP) Meeting UMAC Graphic
India’s Religious Traditions (October 2, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64578 64578-16388947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

India is home to the ancient religious traditions, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. They differ significantly from Abrahamic religions on the idea of Divinity, soul, and afterlife. They have evolved over time and are open to further interpretations in the future. The lectures for those 50 and over will include their philosophies, historical evolution, and their role in the contemporary socio-political landscape. Instructor Venkat Lakshminarayanan grew up in India and is a follower of Hindu tradition. Sessions will meet Wednesdays from 10-11:30 am from October 2 through November 27 (no class on October 9).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:25:05 -0400 2019-10-02T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 2, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Gerrymandering (October 2, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64551 64551-16388903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Now that it’s clear that efforts to deal with gerrymandering cannot be litigated in federal court, the question is whether state independent redistricting commissions are the best approach to the problem. Another approach would be to adopt a state-wide list system of proportional representation, as described in Bob Davidow’s recent article in the Wayne Law Review. With a state-wide system, there would be no district line to draw -- hence no gerrymandering. The proposed system would not only reduce the amount of money needed for election, but also reduce the influence of the wealthy and well-connected. Demographic changes would not affect the operation of the system. An independent redistricting commission would do none of these things.

This course for those 50 and over will be led by Instructor Bob Davidow, Professor of Law (retired) from George Mason University. He is the author of Response to Gerrymandering.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:36:43 -0400 2019-10-02T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Ypsilanti – 1800 to the Present – A Rich & Unique History (October 2, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64663 64663-16410961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Begin the evening with a guided tour of the Ypsilanti Historical Society Museum and Archives to learn about the complex history of Ypsilanti, first founded as a trading post.

Then we’ll take a short walk to the Ypsilanti Ladies Literary Club 218 N. Washington St., Ypsilanti, MI (event ends here) to hear former City Councilman and Ypsilanti historian Bill Nickels tell the story of the unique university and manufacturing town.

Finally, Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert will describe Ypsilanti today – its growing economy and downtown, new industries with a focus on tech and the arts, changes on the Huron River, and a future built on a rich and unique history.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is not required to attend this event.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:11:58 -0400 2019-10-02T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
LACS Event. A History of Coffee in Three Cups (October 2, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67270 67270-16831228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Do you know where you coffee came from? If you're at Zingerman's Coffee Company, probably yes. More and more, roasters and coffee shops emphasize how and where they source their beans. But how did coffee get to those places - Costa Rica, Brazil, and Ethiopia - in the first place? And what happened when it got there?

Join us for a conversation with Casey Lurtz, author of the recent book From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. We'll talk about how coffee spread outward from Eastern Africa and how its introduction reshaped local societies and economies. Looking at the multiplicity of ways in which coffee has been grown, we'll think beyond roasting and brewing to understand how the histories of where coffee is cultivated flavor our morning cup.

This talk will be paired with sample tastings of three distinctive coffees brewed at Zingerman's Coffee Company.

***Please note this event takes place at Zingerman's Coffee Company at 3723 Plaza Dr. #5, Ann Arbor (near Costco). This is not the same as the Zingerman's Next Door Cafe or Deli in Kerrytown.

Cosponsors: African Studies Center and Zingerman's Coffee Company

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:52:01 -0400 2019-10-02T19:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion lurtz_event_image
Andrea Gibson (October 2, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65133 65133-16539444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Andrea Gibson has proven to be one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time and has made a career at the forefront of the spoken-word movement. Gibson was the first winner of the Women’s World Poetry Slam and has headlined prestigious performance venues all over the country and abroad. Gibson regularly tours, performing poetry that focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform, and the struggles LGBTQ people face in today’s society. A devoted fan base sees Gibson’s work as a rally cry to action and a welcome mat at the door of the heart’s most compassionate room. Born in Calais, Maine, Gibson now resides outside Boulder, Colorado.

www.andreagibson.org

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Performance Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:39:49 -0400 2019-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Andrea Gibson
Education Inequality and Income Inequality in South Africa since the End of Apartheid (October 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65614 65614-16621820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

When apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa had one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Inequality in education was both a cause and a consequence of high income inequality. After 25 years there has been little change in income inequality, in spite of improvements in levels of education and education inequality. This presentation for those 50 and over analyzes trends in education inequality and income inequality and examines how they interact in South Africa’s highly unequal society.

David Lam is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he has done collaborative research since 1996. His research in South Africa analyzes links between education, labor markets, and income inequality.

This is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is South Africa: Past, Present, and a Look Forward. The next lecture will be October 10, 2019. The title is: South African Performing Arts in the New Democracy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:17:46 -0400 2019-10-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lecture Series
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-03T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
SUPPORT GROUP for Those Experiencing the Death of a Spouse or Partner (October 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67259 67259-16831221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Human Resources

The Faculty and Staff Counseling and Consultation Office (FASCCO) is offering an ongoing drop-in style confidential support group for anyone experiencing the death of a spouse or partner.

This group will address various topics that may include loneliness, parenting, social isolation, new role/identity as widow or widower, etc. The intent of the group will be driven by topics that are important to the participants. This offering emphasizes group discussion of participants as well as educational components. No one will be required to speak, but doing so often helps the grieving process.

There is no charge for faculty or staff to attend. Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch.

Registration: Contact Tina Weymouth cmwey@umich.edu or Joanne Bernard jmrbernar@umich.edu at 734-936-8660 to register for the group.

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Meeting Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:34:36 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Human Resources Meeting People holding hands
The History of Antisemitism (October 3, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64654 64654-16410952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The story of antisemitism is a story of hatred and horror, a story of lies and cruelty, a story of good people doing worse things. It is a story central to western culture and its main religion, Christianity. This course will look at this story of antisemitism and how and why it came to be and persists to this day. Ken is a Unitarian Universalist minister of 46 years standing, 25 with the Ann Arbor congregation. Ken has twice served 3 years in the Army and has for 53 years been involved in the peace movement. Kenneth Phifer leads this Study Group for those 50 and over and meets Thursdays, 1:00–3:00 pm on October 3 – October 31.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 08:33:51 -0400 2019-10-03T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Stephen Jones: Hatology (October 3, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65256 65256-16559486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Born in Cheshire, England, and schooled in Liverpool, milliner Stephen Jones is a fashion icon. Coming of age during London’s street fashion boom in the late 1970s, Jones first made a name for himself as an uncompromising style-blazer at the legendary Blitz nightclub, where he was perpetually crowned with a striking hat of his own idiosyncratic design. By 1980, Jones had opened his first millinery salon in the heart of London’s Covent Garden. Those premises soon became a place of pilgrimage and patronage, as everyone from rock stars to royalty, from Boy George to Diana, Princess of Wales, identified Jones as the milliner who would help them make arresting headlines. Nearly forty years later, Jones’s era-defining edge continues to attract a celebrity clientele which includes Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Mick Jagger, and the Royal Family. Now, as ever, at the forefront of fashion, his beguiling hats routinely grace the most celebrated magazine covers and enliven window displays of the world’s most stylish stores. From runways to racecourses, from pop-promos to royal garden parties, millinery by Stephen Jones adds the exclamation mark to every fashion statement.

Supported by Linda Dresner and Design Core Detroit.

Left photo courtesy of @dafyddjonesphotographer

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:47 -0400 2019-10-03T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-03T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/jones.jpg
What Lies Upstream (October 3, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65745 65745-16651988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Is our water safe to drink? Can we trust the agencies whose job it is to monitor water safety? This film documents a major chemical spill poisoning the drinking water in West Virginia, addresses the recent Flint Water Crisis, and investigates the agencies responsible for water safety oversight. Our panel will also address drinking water safety concerns in Ann Arbor and elsewhere in Michigan due to the presence of PFAS.

Panelists:
Charlotte Jameson, Director Energy Policy and Legislative Affairs, Michigan Environmental Council

Gillian Zaharias Miller, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Ecology Center

Benjamin Pauli, Asst. Professor Social Sciences, Kettering U.; Author of "Flint Fights Back"

This event is free and co-sponsored by U-M Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Ann Arbor District Library. Contact Michigan Community Scholars Program with questions at mcsprogram@umich.edu

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Film Screening Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:23:19 -0400 2019-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Film Screening What Lies Upstream
Radney Foster and Kim Richey - Lyrics and Harmony (October 3, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63378 63378-15661339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:04:01 -0400 2019-10-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-04T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Homecoming Aerospace Department Lunch (October 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53216 53216-16573568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Join us for the annual Aerospace Engineering lunch with faculty, staff, students, and alumni on Friday, October 4th at 12noon!

State of the Department Address with new Chair of Aerospace Engineering, Dr. Anthony Waas (Atrium, FXB )
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm

Lunch with alumni (McDivitt Conference Room, FXB)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Lab and Facility Tours
1:00 pm

Please RSVP by Friday, September 27th!

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:07:18 -0400 2019-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Social / Informal Gathering Waas photo
CREES Distinguished Lecture. From the Soviet Gulag to Franco’s Spain: Historical Fiction’s Power for Global Dialogue (October 4, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66045 66045-16684604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

4-5 pm: Meet the author, signed books available for purchase
5:30-6:45 pm: CREES Distinguished Lecture
7 pm: Screening of "Ashes in the Snow"

What determines how history is preserved and recalled? Why do some stories become part of the collective consciousness while others remain untold?

In this lecture, Sepetys will examine the fragile tension between history and memory as well as story and historical fiction as a framework for human understanding. She will discuss the power of family narrative and witness testimony and her approach for creating fiction from facts. Published in over sixty countries, Sepetys will present the varying global interpretations and teaching methods of the history contained in her books on World War II and its aftermath for Lithuanians, Poles, and Germans, to illustrate how the historical fiction genre —and the human dynamics surrounding historical events—might be used to facilitate awareness, dialogue, and progress.

The lecture will be followed by a screening of “Ashes in the Snow,” Marius A. Markevicius, director (98 min., 2018), based on the novel "Between Shades of Gray," by Ruta Sepetys. https://www.michtheater.org/show/ashes-in-the-snow/

Ruta Sepetys (Rūta Šepetys) is an internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages. Sepetys is considered a “crossover” novelist as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Ruta is renowned for giving voice to underrepresented history and those who experienced it. Her books have won or been shortlisted for over forty book prizes, are included on over thirty state reading lists, and are currently in development for film and television.

Ruta is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Born in Michigan, she was raised in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. Ruta is passionate about the power of history and story to foster global dialogue and connectivity. She has been invited to present at NATO, European Parliament, the U.S. Capitol, the Library of Congress, and Embassies worldwide. She was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation’s prestigious Bellagio Fellowship for her studies on human resilience. The New York Times Book Review declared, “Ruta Sepetys acts as champion of the interstitial people so often ignored—whole populations lost in the cracks of history.”

Ruta was bestowed the Cross of the Knight by the President of Lithuania for her contributions to education and memory preservation and was recently honored with a postage stamp containing her image. She is extremely proud to be of Baltic heritage, even if that means she has a name no one can pronounce.

Ruta lives with her family in the hills of Tennessee.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:40:02 -0400 2019-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ruta Sepetys, Author
Opening Reception: WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 4, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67260 67260-16831191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
May Erlewine (October 4, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64879 64879-16483059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:45:11 -0400 2019-10-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series Kick-off Party + Participatory Performance & Reading (October 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66990 66990-16792093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the official kick-off party for the Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Event Series. The afternoon will include participatory readings of texts and poetry on feminism, queerness and gender written by Gloria Anzaldúa, Zach Blas, Lucy Lippard, Audre Lorde, Fred Moten, and Wu Tsang. The event will include a re-staging of the landmark performance of artist Faith Wilding’s poem “Waiting” by Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist, Arturo Herrera.Participatory readings will be led by artists Chace “Mic Write” Morris and Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe.After the readings we will announce the Feminist FuturesReading List for upcoming series events. Enjoy a live DJ and refreshments.

Feminist Futures: Art, Design and Activism is an ongoing event series exploring the role of feminism in art, design, scholarship, and politics. The series brings together multigenerational artists and thinkers in contemporary art, design, art history, and related fields who have shaped, and are shaping, current discourses on gender and the fight for equality.

Arturo Herrera is an interdisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Herrera explores issues across national boundaries, including the politics of race and language, borders, and self-disclosure of sexual orientation. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art in Canada, at the University of Windsor, with concentrations in sculpture, photography, and performance art. Herrera’s most recent presentation was at the Detroit Historical Museum, as part of the show Looking For America, an event organized by the New American Economy, American University School of Public Affairs, and CuriosityConnects.us. Previously, his work has been presented at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Venice International Performance Art Week in Venice, Italy.

Chace Morris (Mic Write) is a poet/emcee from Detroit. He is currently working on the 2nd installment of his critically-acclaimed EP, ONUS Chain, a video trilogy & music EP hailed by Okayplayer as “one of the best protest records of 2016.” Chace is a 2018 MAP Fund recipient, 2-time Knight Arts Challenge recipient, a Kresge Literary Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, 2-time Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion & the recipient of the 2016 Alain Locke Award from the Detroit Institute Of Arts. His poems have been published in The Offing, Wildness, Muzzle, Drunk In A Midnight Choir & Radius— once nominated for a Pushcart Prize— & his music has been featured on Bandcamp Daily, NPR, The Village Voice, Detroit Free Press, Mother Jones & NBC’s The Grio. He is also a contributing writer to Black Nerd Problems & constant artistic partner of Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe. Sherina is proud to have collaborated with her partner, Chace Morris (Mic Write). Together, the duo produced C R O S S R O A D at the Detroit Institute of Arts in October, 2017.

Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe is a writer, editor, performer & educator from Detroit, MI. She is a 2018 MAP grant awardee, a 2017 Knight Arts Challenge awardee, a 2014 Kresge Theater fellow, a 2014 Cave Canem fellow, 2013 Voices of Our Nations Authors alum, executive director of Obsidian Blues and co-founder of the C R O S S R O A D collective. Her 2015 play “On Becoming Unfukwitable” forged new dramatic territory with a searing insight into how a daughter transcends molestation by her father. The production blends healing practices and multiple genres to create a group story-telling experience. Her ability to create a safe space for survivors makes “Unfukwitable” an insightful, evocative, liberating and transformative experience. Her latest project, *** *****, uses art to create a healing vibration to transcend trauma.

Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series is organized by Stamps Gallery and co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+): Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund with support from the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the U-M Library.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-futures-art-design-activism-series-kick-off-party-participatory-performance-readings-tickets-71552843481

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Auditions Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:15:43 -0400 2019-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/facebook_ff-banner.png
Old Salt Union (October 5, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65336 65336-16571544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:25:29 -0400 2019-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Velvet Caravan (October 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64057 64057-16113182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:34:23 -0400 2019-10-06T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Watch Party: DEI Community Assembly (October 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66765 66765-16907172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

ITS staff and others who can't make it to Hill Auditorium for the kick-off of the 2019 DEI Summit with Van Jones are invited to watch a live stream from ITS facilities. Light refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:29:45 -0400 2019-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Van Jones
Film Classics (October 7, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64642 64642-16402991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Why do some films seem so much better than others and maintain a reputation for what seems forever? Why do these films have an impact on the development of the cinema while others drop quickly into oblivion? In other words, why are some films “classics” and what do we mean by the term “classic” to begin with?
Let’s take a look at the following film classics and respond to those questions: Grand illusion (France, 1937); The African Queen (USA, 1951); Touch of Evil (USA, 1958); Late Spring (Japan, 1949); Chinatown (USA, 1974); and Groundhog Day (USA, 1993). Ira Konigsberg, instructor, is Professor Emeritus of Film at the University of Michigan. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-4:00 pm on October 7, October 14, October 21, October 30, November 4 and November 11.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:49:30 -0400 2019-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Touring Our Nation’s Capital – Washington D.C. (October 7, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64584 64584-16388954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Washington D.C. attracts visitors from around the world on a daily basis. While the aura and intrigue of politics may draw many, Washington is also a world-class city filled with history, culture, and a multitude of memorable sights and experiences. In this course for those 50 and over, OLLI Knowledge seekers have an opportunity to tour Washington visually through the Great Courses’ Great Tours--Washington D.C. Mr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar is the course tour guide. Dr. Richard Galant, who has visited Washington many times, serves as the class guide.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:30:13 -0400 2019-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
A Brief Review of Iran History and Culture (October 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64577 64577-16388946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The main goal of this course for those 50 and over is to inform and give a better understanding about Iran to the study group. This includes a brief review of Iran history from the ancient time up to the twenty first century; conversion of the Iranian from Zoroastrianism to Islam and later to Islam-Shia; a review of the three aspects of Iranian society: modernity, nationalism, and Islam; discussion of the two Iranian revolutions in 1906 and 1979; and review of the history of the U.S. and Iran relationship.

Sessions will be held Mondays from 3-5pm from October 7 through November 4 (no class on October 14). Instructor Moe Bidgoli graduated from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was professor of computer science and information system for 35 years. He became Emeritus Professor of CS & IS in June 2018. He is married and he lives in Ann Arbor Michigan. His hobbies are reading history, playing pickleball, gardening, and travelling.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:22:23 -0400 2019-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Great Lakes Seminar - Dr. Joannes Westerink - Tuesday, October 8, 10:30-11:30 am (October 8, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67919 67919-16966899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Please join us for a Great Lakes Seminar!
Tuesday, October 8, 10:30-11:30 am

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
4840 S State Rd, Ann Arbor

Remote participation via webinar is available: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5551628124438203405

Presenter: Joannes Westerink, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Title: Towards Heterogeneous Process, Scale, and Model Coupling in Simulating the Hydrodynamics of the Coastal Ocean

About the speaker:
Joannes Westerink is the Joseph and Nona Ahearn Professor of Computational Science and Engineering and the Henry J. Massman Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his B.S. (1979) and M.S. (1981) degrees in Civil Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Ph.D. (1984) degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Westerink develops high resolution heterogeneous unstructured mesh, multi-physics, multi-scale hydrodynamic codes and models for the hydrodynamics of the coastal ocean and has successfully transitioned these to practitioners for a wide range of applications including the analysis and design of major flood control projects and coastal ocean water level forecasting systems. Westerink has pioneered the successful use of global to channel scale highly heterogeneous unstructured mesh coastal ocean models with mesh resolution varying by up to four orders of magnitude. This encompasses the optimization of algorithms; development of high performance codes in vector and parallel computing environments; the linkages of circulation models to weather and short wind wave models; model verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification; and the application of codes to oceans, continental shelf regions, estuaries, rivers, and coastal flood plains. Westerink is the co-developer, with Rick Luettich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Clint Dawson of the University of Texas at Austin, of the widely used ADCIRC finite element based shallow water equation code. ADCIRC has evolved into a community based coastal hydrodynamics code with wide ranging applications within academia, government, and the private sector worldwide. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration all use ADCIRC in support of coastal water level and flooding analyses and forecasts.

Westerink was a team co-lead in the U.S. Army’s Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) investigation of the Hurricane Katrina (2005) flooding failures in Louisiana. He led ADCIRC storm surge model development for the USACE’s New Orleans and vicinity Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System. He also led the ADCIRC model development for the FEMA Flood Insurance Studies in coastal Louisiana and Texas. He served as a commissioner on the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority and has served as an advisor for the UNESCO Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology on Enhancing Forecasting Capabilities for North Indian Ocean Storm Surges. He currently serves as an International Advisory Board Member of CIGIDEN, Chile’s National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management.

Westerink’s current research includes: the development of high order h-p adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin based coastal circulation codes; incorporating phase resolving wave processes including run-up directly into circulation codes; understanding resonant basin and shelf modes and shelf dissipation processes; incorporating local rainfall and small scale channel routing capabilities into shallow water based codes; sea ice interaction with wind waves and circulation; and downscaling global ocean models into global high resolution coastal models to account for baroclinicity and sea level fluctuations. Current applications regions include developing the next generation of ESTOFS water level forecast models for NOAA focusing on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, and Alaska.

About the presentation:
Hurricane wind wave, storm surge, and current environments in the coastal ocean and adjacent coastal floodplain are characterized by their high energy and by their spatial variability. These processes impact offshore energy assets, navigation, ports and harbors, deltas, wetlands, and coastal communities. The potential for an enormous catastrophic impact in terms of loss of life and economic losses is substantial.

Computational models for wind waves and storm driven currents and surge must provide a high level of grid resolution, fully couple the wind wave and long wave processes, and perform quickly for risk assessment, flood mitigation system design, and forecasting purposes. In order to accomplish this, high performance scalable codes are essential. To this end, we have developed an MPI based domain decomposed unstructured grid framework that minimizes global communications, efficiently handles localized sub-domain to sub-domain communication, applies a local inter-model paradigm with all model to model communications being kept on identical cores for sub-domains, and carefully manages output by assigning specialized cores for this purpose. Continuous Galerkin (CG) and Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) implementations are examined. Performance of explicit and implicit implementations of the wave-current coupled system on up to 32,000 cores for various platforms is evaluated.

The system has been extensively validated with an ever increasing amount of wave, water level and current data that has being collected for recent storms including Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Rita (2005), Gustav (2008), Ike (2008), and Sandy (2012). The modeling system helps understand the physics of hurricane storm surges including processes such as geostrophically driven forerunner, shelf waves that propagate far away from the storm, wind wave – surge interaction, surge capture and propagation by protruding deltaic river systems, the influence of storm size and forward speed, and frictionally controlled inland penetration.

These models are being applied by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the development of the recently completed hurricane risk reduction system in Southern Louisiana as well as for the development of FEMA Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMS) for Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other Gulf and Atlantic coast states. NOAA applies the models in extra-tropical and tropical storm surge forecasting.

Current development is focused on incorporating a wider range of physics affecting coastal and inland water levels as well as forces on infrastructure including large scale baroclinically driven processes, rainfall runoff in upland areas and on the coastal floodplain, and wave run-up. This is accomplished with an interleafing framework in which heterogeneous models focused on a select range of processes are coupled over the same domain and/or specific targeted equations that are dynamically assigned to changing portions of the domain as appropriate to the prevailing flow conditions. This is all done in a dynamically load balanced framework. Algorithmic development is focused on DG solvers, ideally suited for the associated strongly advective flows, allow super-parametric elements for p=1 and p=2 and iso-parametric elements for p=3 in order to achieve improved convergence rates and overall runtime efficiency, and allow for the selection of localized physics on the elemental level.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:43:17 -0400 2019-10-08T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 8, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Advanced German V (October 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64567 64567-16388936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The course for those 50 and over will be a continuation of Advanced German of winter/spring ‘19. The class will focus on the use of idiomatic German for conversation. Instructor Renate Gerulaitis is professor emeritus of German Language and Literature at Oakland University. The course will meet Tuesdays from 1-3 pm from October 8 through December 17.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:43:48 -0400 2019-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Stamps Gallery + Penny Stamps Series Present: Lucy Lippard & Faith Wilding: Then & Now (October 8, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65257 65257-16559487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Award-winning author, curator, feminist, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of the world’s leading voices on contemporary art. Hailed for “the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place” (The New York Times), Lippard began her career as an art critic in 1962, when she began contributing to publications such as Art International and, later, Artforum. In the late 1970s, she became a founding member of the feminist journal Heresies. As a curator, she gave audience to minimal and conceptual artworks including texts, books, and posters. Lippard also sought to improve the lives of artists through the founding of the Art Workers’ Coalition, an advocacy group for artists’ rights. In this conversation with Faith Wilding — multidisciplinary artist; recognized authority on feminist art theory and cyber feminism; and founding member of the Feminist Art Program at CalArts — Lippard discusses her work and the current creative-political climate in the US.

This event is part of the Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series organized by Stamps Gallery and co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women (CEW+): Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund with support from the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the U-M Library. Feminist Futures: Art, Design and Activism is an ongoing event series exploring the role of feminism in art, design, scholarship, and politics. The series brings together multigenerational artists and thinkers in contemporary art, design, art history, and related fields who have shaped, and are shaping, current discourses on gender and the fight for equality.

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and Stamps Gallery, with support from American Culture, History of Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/then-now-a-conversation-with-lucy-lippard-faith-wilding-tickets-70984425327

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:15:49 -0400 2019-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/wildling.jpg
Davina and The Vagabonds (October 8, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64059 64059-16113183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:09:14 -0400 2019-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
GISC Screening. Halaloween: Ritual (October 8, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66235 66235-16719612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

On October 8th, 2019, Ritual will be the second film we screen as a part of our Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween.

This film festival aims to explore a couple of questions: What scares Muslim audiences? How do horror movies conceived for a Muslim public transform the familiar tropes that Hollywood and Hammer horror taught us? How do Muslim directors of horror movies use the genre to ask probing questions about gender and family tensions, social injustice and political oppression, demographic change and social unrest? Are horror movies halal (permissible in Islamic law)? Why so many jinn - and where are the Muslim zombies?

Join us at 9:00 PM at the Michigan Theater on October 8th, and every Tuesday of October for a free screening of a Muslim horror film. All Screenings are free, open to the public, and will include English subtitles. Screenings are first come-first served. For more information on our festival, why we're running it, and the other films we are screening, please visit: ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies/news-events/events/films.html

Film Description:
October 8: Ritual (dir. Joko Anwar; Indonesia, 2012): A master class in cinematography and editing for horror movies. The first half of the movie is essentially silent, as the protagonist regains consciousness in a shallow grave, learns the gruesome fate of his wife, and flees an unknown enemy through the pristine Indonesian forest. Who is he? What is the meaning of the mysterious and violent ritual he seems doomed to repeat? The ending only doubles down on the mystery; this is Lost for horror fans, but taut, beautifully paced, gorgeous and well-acted. The violence is horrific, but mostly off-screen. Fridged women; fridged families; sinister home movies. Smile for the camera! In English.

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Film Screening Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:32:21 -0400 2019-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening halaloween_poster-updated
U-M Aphasia Community (UMAC) (October 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65242 65242-16557480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP)

The U-M Aphasia Community Group (UMAC) is a great way to meet people in the aphasia community, while boosting communication skills and confidence! If you or your loved one has the communication disorder aphasia, consider joining the conversation group. All ages are welcome.

UMAC is offered once a week, Wednesday, for four-week sessions. The cost is $140 for the month (includes 4 weekly sessions). The meeting is facilitated by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who prepares activities for groups of varying sizes and skill levels. Activities target all aspects of communication, including speaking, listening, and comprehending. You will practice speaking and interacting in a supportive and friendly environment, and learn new techniques to take home after the program ends!

You can fill out the UMAC online application. If you have additional questions, please call (734) 764-8440.

This group is open to those of all communication skill levels. Aphasia can be incredibly isolating and takes a toll on confidence — this group takes aim at making connections and building confidence in speech and social interactions.

For more information, see: https://mari.umich.edu/ucll/umap/aphasia-community

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Meeting Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:25:51 -0400 2019-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP) Meeting UMAC Graphic
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-09T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 9, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-09T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Brown Bag Recital Series: Scott Hyslop, harpsichord (October 9, 2019 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64705 64705-16428916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 12:05pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Scott Hyslop presents a harpsichord recital.

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Performance Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:15:15 -0400 2019-10-09T12:05:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
City of the Sun w/sg Old Sea Brigade (October 9, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63933 63933-16003644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Flipping the perception of instrumental music

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Performance Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:31:51 -0400 2019-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance City of the Sun
AIM Community (October 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67290 67290-16831266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Every other month, individuals designing, producing, launching and administering online degrees at the university are invited to an informal conversation to explore common challenges, best practices, and new ideas for supporting online degrees and their learners.

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Meeting Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:35:18 -0400 2019-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Meeting AIM Community
South African Performing Arts in the New Democracy (October 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65615 65615-16621821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Learn about South African music, theatre, and dance in the new millennium. A generation of young artists bring distinctive voices to a newly integrated society. Organizations like the Market Theatre, Cape Town Opera, and the National Arts Festival present works which express the hopes, visions, and challenges of a new democracy.

Anita Gonzalez (Ph.D.) is Professor of Theatre and Drama at University of Michigan. Her research anpublication interests are in global theatre and ethnic studies. She also directs and writes for the theatre. Dr. Gonzalez has authored two books: “Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality” (2010) and “Jarocho’s Soul” (2005) that reveal the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexico.She also coedited the volume “Black Performance Theory” (Duke University Press 2013).

Dr. Gonzalez will present images and share stories from her recent research in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Mahkanda in this presentation.

This is the fifth in a six-lecture series. The subject is South Africa: Past, Present, and a Look Forward. The next lecture will be October 17, 2019. The title is: Innovative Disruption – A Youth Dialogue on Reforming Exclusionary Systems in South Africa.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:04:39 -0400 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 10, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-10T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
SUPPORT GROUP FOR NEW MOMS RETURNING TO WORK (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67274 67274-16831242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Human Resources

The Faculty & Staff Counseling & Consultation Office (FASCCO) is offering an ongoing drop-in style support group for women returning to work following the birth and/or adoption of a child. The group is designed for women in their third trimester of pregnancy through the time their child is two years old.

The group will address various topics, including preparing for maternity leave, work/life balance, separation anxiety, familial adjustments, lactation support, baby blues, sleep hygiene, feeding issues, child care, returning to work, and building a post-partum support system. This offering emphasizes group discussion of participant experiences as well as educational components. There is no charge for staff or faculty to attend. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch.

*Pre-registration is required on a monthly basis*

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Meeting Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:04:13 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Human Resources Meeting Baby’s feet
Mari Katayama: My Body as Material (October 10, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65258 65258-16559488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Japanese artist Mari Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Born with a developmental condition, she has only two fingers on one hand and had both her legs amputated at the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. Katayama treats her entire body, body parts, and prosthetics as “materials” to be arranged in photographs, read as soft sculptures, and decorated with lace, shells, and shiny objects. Katayama’s work exposes anxieties that haunt many of us — disabled or nondisabled — living in an age obsessed with body image. One of the most exciting new artists emerging from contemporary Japan, Katayama’s work is featured in this year’s Venice Biennale in Italy. Her exhibition at UMMA, Mari Katayama (on view October 12, 2019 – January 26, 2020), will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the US. The talk will be moderated by Natsu Oyobe, curator of Asian art at UMMA and the exhibition curator.

Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Mari Katayama is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund and the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

Image: Mari Katayama, on the way home #001, 2016, chromogenic print. © Mari Katayama. Courtesy of rin art association.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:15:53 -0400 2019-10-10T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-10T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/katayama2.jpg
Changing Moons: Art by Alan Compo Opening Reception (October 10, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67436 67436-16849242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*
Join PCAP and our Linkage Artist Alan Compo as he opens his solo exhibit at Detroit Street Filling Station!

Alan Compo is an Anishinaabe artist from the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians. Born and raised in Grand Rapids, MI, he has focused much of his time into creating to heal. He believes art is a gift that can help inspire conversation and movement. Always a student, he is eager to learn, grow, and build where his art shall bring him.

Cover Image: Changing Moons, Alan Compo, Acrylic

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:52:23 -0400 2019-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Changing Moons by Alan Compo
Healing Justice As Building Cultural Resilience (October 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68165 68165-17020448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Our Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resistance workshop series is back! Last fall, SiD faculty member Diana Seales coordinated 5 workshops for students and community members to learn about, discuss, and practice healing justice. This time, the series is back with some updates and an additional workshop.

All workshops are free and open to the public and include a light dinner.

If you are coming from Ann Arbor as a registered student or someone who wants to drop in for one or more workshops, please email Craig Regester (regester@umich.edu) to confirm your transportation.

SERIES INFORMATION:

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

Healing Justice is woven through each of the workshops. Dr. Page of the Kindred Healing Justice Collective (often attributed with coining the phrase) describes Healing Justice as identifying how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.”

Additionally, this series is led entirely by indigenous community members and activists. The practice of ritual, which is deeply tied to healing justice and cultural organizing, often comes at the risk of cultural appropriation. As we try to create cross-cultural community healing spaces, it is vital to understand Anishinaabe culture as we stand on their land. This series will struggle with that idea, with the challenge of ritual in the modern era, and will encourage people not familiar with healing justice to get outside their comfort zones and confront the ways in which the destruction of indigenous healing practices and colonization are deeply interconnected.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

October 3rd: Dreams as Empowerment - using dreams for self-healing, transformation, and intuition
Workshop by Zoë Villegas of Gemineye Tarot

October 10th: How to Build Community Through Active Story Sharing and Movement - Dress comfortably and be ready to move: this workshop will include aspects of traditional as well as modern interpretations of Great Lakes Indigenous Dances
Workshop by Christy Giizigad of Aadizookaan

October 17: Herbs & Ceremony - how ritual can be used for personal and activist self-care
Workshop by Adela Nieves Martinez of Healing by Choice!

November 7th: Using Tarot and Folk Magic as Defense Against Colonialized Structures and Oppression
Workshop by Zoë and Alejandra Villegas of Gemineye Tarot

November 14th: Understanding Anishinaabe Healing Practice to Create Cross-Cultural Community Healing Spaces
Workshop by Chantel Henry of American Indian Health and Family Services

November 21st: Beat back the oppressors! Electronic recordings, learning, and sharing. Learn the basics of beat making and ‘chop’ while discussing music and art as a form of resistance.
Workshop by Sacramento Knoxx of Aadizookaan

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:34:03 -0400 2019-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Workshop / Seminar Healing justice poster with dates and workshop titles
What Does Europe Want Now?: Panel and Reading from MQR's Fall 2019 Special Issue (October 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65908 65908-16670230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Quarterly Review

The Michigan Quarterly Review and the Center for European Studies are hosting a reading from the special Fall 2019 issue of MQR entitled "What Does Europe Want Now?" guest edited by Benjamin Paloff and focused on the 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The event will include readings from the issue by contributors Jeremiah Chamberlin, Eirill Falck, and Stiliana Milkova. The reading will be followed by a panel featuring Benjamin Paloff, Andreas Gailus, and Nataša Kovačević. The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, the journal's editor-in-chief.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:15 -0400 2019-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Quarterly Review Lecture / Discussion Copyright Joanna Concejo
Veterans for Peace John Lennon Birthday Concert (October 10, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63787 63787-15873604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:03:14 -0400 2019-10-10T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Veterans for Peace John Lennon Birthday Concert
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 11, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-11T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Gallery Walks (October 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64532 64532-16388882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Let’s make the world our museum. In this course for those 50 and over let’s spend an hour or two enjoying ourselves concentrating on the work of one artist. We’ll spend a little time getting to know them, their families, education, and other formative experiences. Led by Instructor Mike Kapetan we’ll study their technical and mental approach to work. But mainly we’ll enjoy the fruits of their labor. The first three sessions will be spent looking at Paul Klee, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the Japanese woodcarver Enku. The fourth session will be based upon suggestions from the class participants. Sessions will be held Fridays from 1-3 pm from October 11th through November 1.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 06 Oct 2019 11:06:52 -0400 2019-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Homer’s Iliad (October 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64518 64518-16380906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Using Robert Fagles’ translation of the Iliad, we will do a close reading and discussion of the poem. Our main focus will be on Homer’s characters and what they tell us about life, death, and war. We will also spend some time looking at the forms and devices of epic poetry.
Marilyn Scott, instructor, was a lecturer in Classics and Great Books at UM and taught Latin and English at Ann Arbor’s Community High School. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Fridays, 1:00–3:00 pm on October 11 – November 22.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:40:11 -0400 2019-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Women’s Issues (October 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64614 64614-16396980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This is a women’s discussion group based on Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn’s book “Half the Sky; Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”. Topics include: Sex Trafficking; Women” Health; Micro Loans for Women’s growth and opportunity.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Fridays from October 11 through November 15 and will be led by Bernadette Beach and Sigrid Hermon.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:05:32 -0400 2019-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Out There: A Performance by art duo Princess (October 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65881 65881-16664183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Out There (2019; 4K video, live performance; 55:20) is a concept video album and live performance piece by the band Princess. It explores the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny. The video’s science fiction narrative explores the power of the Divine Feminine through collaborations with JD Samson, visual artist Jennifer Meridian, and the band TEEN.

Princess is a performance art duo, a collaboration between Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill that uses music as the backbone of a multi-disciplinary practice. Princess has performed at the Andy Warhol Museum, The Bass, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MCA San Diego, MIT List Visual Arts Center, MOCA Cleveland, New Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts and many other institutions.

Princess explores queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory. Princess was formed in 2004 in the Chicago DIY Performance space Texas Ballroom. The duo released a self-titled LP and performed until 2006 when they went on to pursue other paths, reuniting for this project in 2017.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/out-there-a-performance-by-art-duo-princess-tickets-70631796605

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Performance Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:15:36 -0400 2019-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Performance https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/Out_There_Princess_Stamps_Gallery.jpg
Stars Rising: Why U-M's Detroit Observatory Matters and Where It's Going (October 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67924 67924-16966907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Why is an observatory in Ann Arbor named for Detroit? What made the Detroit Observatory a milestone for the University of Michigan and American higher education? How was the Observatory central to the growth of American astronomical science, when did it lose that role, and how did it get it back? And who were some of the people who made it all happen? Gary Krenz of the University’s Bentley Historical Library will explore these and other questions in this talk. In its 165-year history, the Observatory has gone through many transformations, and it is currently going through another—the construction of an addition to improve access, education, and programming. Krenz will also look at what that project entails and what lies ahead.

This event is in partnership with the Ann Arbor District Library.

This lecture launches a new lecture series on University of Michigan history, sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:12:25 -0400 2019-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion 1854 painting of Detroit Observatory and 2019 rendering of addition under construction
The Black Lillies (October 11, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64060 64060-16113184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:10:35 -0400 2019-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Black Lillies
Chicago Day Trip (Rain or Shine) (October 12, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67643 67643-16909316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

Join the International Center in a day trip to Chicago. You decide how to explore Chicago for the day. The drop-off and pickup location in Chicago will be by the Millennium Park Welcome Center, so you can plan your route from there. There are museums, shopping, excellent dining, and famous sites for all interests and all ages. Check the web site in advance so you will have an idea about the activities you plan to do for the day.

Questions? Contact Celia Weberg at cweberg@umich.edu

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Other Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:53:32 -0400 2019-10-12T07:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Center Other Chicago Day Trip
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
The Verve Pipe (October 12, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68196 68196-17026801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark.

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Performance Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:24:24 -0400 2019-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Verve Pipe
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 13, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 13, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System Pre-Show (October 13, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66194 66194-16719566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Sunday, Oct 13, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
Michigan Theater
603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
The museum will be bringing some out-of-this-world fun to the pre-show event of this popular family movie. Tickets are available through the Michigan Theater box office.

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Performance Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:06:06 -0400 2019-10-13T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Performance