Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. IMPROV COMEDY AUDITIONS! (September 21, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44463 44463-9994829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Wednesday September 20th at 9PM in the Angels Hall Auditoriums Come audition for Images of Identities Improv Comedy Group! Everyone is invited to come show your skills on your feet, get crazy, and have fun!If this date has a conflict, feel free to email: madjones@umich.edu to reschedule your audition. 

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Auditions Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:00:19 -0400 2017-09-21T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T23:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Auditions
Sweetland Coffee & Donut Break (September 21, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42717 42717-9651117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

All U-M students are invited the Peer Writing Center (Angell Hall G219) on Thursday, September 21st between 9:30am and noon for free coffee and donuts courtesy of Sweetland Center for Writing.

While your there check out our Writing Center, talk to an undergraduate peer tutor, and find out how we can help you with your essays, research papers, and other writing projects in the coming year.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:48:27 -0400 2017-09-21T09:30:00-04:00 2017-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering Flyer
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (September 21, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-09-21T16:15:00-04:00 2017-09-21T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (September 22, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-09-22T12:30:00-04:00 2017-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (September 27, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42069 42069-9536047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:36:38 -0400 2017-09-27T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Pre-Law Image
Critical Contemporary Studies -- First Meeting & Writing Workshop (September 28, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44225 44225-9900383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for our first meeting of the semester! We'll be workshopping a paper-in-progress by Olivia Ordonez.

More info forthcoming

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:23:53 -0400 2017-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (September 28, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-09-28T16:15:00-04:00 2017-09-28T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Individualized Major Program Info Session (September 28, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44921 44921-10012260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

The Individualized Major Program (IMP) is an option for innovative and thoughtful students in LSA who wish to pursue individualized topics of study not possible in existing majors or programs. Do you have an idea for an IMP? Attend this information session to learn how to write an IMP proposal. If you’re interested in pursuing an IMP, it’s important to start the proposal process as early as possible in your college career. So don’t wait, learn more at this session!

Register for this event here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/5036

Learn more about what makes a good IMP idea on the Newnan Advising Center Website: https://lsa.umich.edu/advising/understand-degree-options/imp/what-makes-a-good-imp-idea-.html

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:07:49 -0400 2017-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 2017-09-28T18:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar IMP Info Session Image
COMPASS at Michigan: a workshop for students considering graduate school in Philosophy (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41224 41224-9032487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan is thrilled to host “COMPASS at Michigan: a workshop for students considering graduate school in Philosophy.”

This workshop will bring together students from a diversity of backgrounds for a weekend of philosophical discussion, networking, and mentoring. In addition to sessions discussing previously circulated papers, there will be two sessions devoted to mentoring and advice from faculty members and graduate students on graduate school applications and graduate student life.

We look forward to welcoming the invited workshop attendees to campus! Please note that this is a private workshop and is no longer accepting applications.

**A special thank you to Rackham Graduate School and the College of LSA for their support of this event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:43:29 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (September 29, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 2017-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
COMPASS at Michigan: a workshop for students considering graduate school in Philosophy (September 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41224 41224-9032488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan is thrilled to host “COMPASS at Michigan: a workshop for students considering graduate school in Philosophy.”

This workshop will bring together students from a diversity of backgrounds for a weekend of philosophical discussion, networking, and mentoring. In addition to sessions discussing previously circulated papers, there will be two sessions devoted to mentoring and advice from faculty members and graduate students on graduate school applications and graduate student life.

We look forward to welcoming the invited workshop attendees to campus! Please note that this is a private workshop and is no longer accepting applications.

**A special thank you to Rackham Graduate School and the College of LSA for their support of this event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:43:29 -0400 2017-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
STS Speaker. Representations as Material Forms: Developing a Materialist Perspective on Digital Information (October 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42858 42858-9672382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The dominant rhetoric of information technology is that of the virtual and immaterial. STS scholars might observe (and computer scientists admit) that these virtual worlds, virtual objects, and virtual experiences are built on a solidly material foundation, such as server farms, cable routes, power generators and air conditioning units. Notwithstanding the materiality of digital infrastructures, though, materialist accounts have generally had little purchase on the content of the digital. In this talk, I will show how we can build on STS and software studies to offer a materialist account of information representations, drawing attention to the constraints and consequences of representational strategies in databases, network protocols, and other digital forms.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:23:23 -0400 2017-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Paul Dourish
Personal Statement Workshop (October 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42073 42073-9536054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics off the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:07:26 -0400 2017-10-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar image of scales of justice logo
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (October 3, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-9908987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2017-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
English Honors Program (October 3, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45170 45170-10104529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us for an information session just ahead of our Fall 2017 application deadline. Applications are due on Friday, October 20, 2017.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:11:23 -0400 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (October 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42069 42069-9536048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:36:38 -0400 2017-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Pre-Law Image
C21 Conversations: What is 21st Century Literature? (October 5, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43007 43007-9696286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Presentations from a faculty panel will help launch a conversation about 21st century literature.

Includes lunch (available starting at 12:45).

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:51:55 -0400 2017-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (October 5, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-10-05T16:15:00-04:00 2017-10-05T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (October 6, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-10-06T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
#fragilemasculinity: The Role of Threatened Masculinity and Anonymity in Men's Perpetration of Online Harassment (October 6, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43553 43553-9818658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Women navigate an unprecedented amount of gender-based harassment in online environments. The breadth of this aggression has received attention not only from academics, but in popular press, where it has been widely critiqued as unfortunate consequences of trolling culture. Largely absent from these conversations is the role of gender, and in particular masculinity, in sustaining harassment in digital contexts. In this talk, I examine the connections between masculinity and sociotechnical affordances of computer-mediated communication in men's motivations to gender harass online. I propose that men's endorsement of online gender-based harassment is motivated by attempts to (re)affirm their masculinity following threats that question their manhood. Anonymity afforded by online communication can exacerbate these effects, since the impression of being anonymous makes it easier to engage in harassment. Technology therefore enables gender harassment to thrive, yet men's motivations to gender harass are grounded in performances of masculinity and maintenance of gender relations between (and among) women and men.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:10:18 -0400 2017-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Minor in Writing Info Session (October 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44924 44924-10012261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty you can attend our informal Minor in Writing Information Session on Friday, October 6th from 4-5:30pm at Sweetland's Peer Writing Center in Angell Hall G219. Food and refreshments provided.

The deadline to apply is Monday, October 23rd at noon.

More info at http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/minor-in-writing/application-process.html

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:32:52 -0400 2017-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering
Film Screening: Duckweed 乘风破浪 (2017) (October 6, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44794 44794-9980565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Two mega-stars Deng Chao and Eddie Peng were starred in this dramedy. Maggie Lee (Variety) praised the film as being “sprinkled with witty grace notes and crowd-pleasing without being too ingratiating or idiotic.” The Chinese title 乘风破浪 means “Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves.” In this time-traveling crime film, a son attempts to reconcile with his father while he travels time back to the year 1998, when his estranged father was young. Some fateful events allow him to experience his father’s life in the past.

Sponsored by the Confucius Institute and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at U-M, "Electric Shadows: 2017 Contemporary Chinese Film Series" will feature six exciting Chinese films released in recent years.

Register here: https://goo.gl/1WkBaW

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:27:21 -0400 2017-10-06T18:30:00-04:00 2017-10-06T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Duckweed
Adam Sneed Oral Defense (October 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45046 45046-10072857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dissertation Title: Misreading Skepticism in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in the Rhetoric of Assent

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Other Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:22:18 -0400 2017-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other
Generalized Entropy and Epistemic Risk (October 11, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45336 45336-10161395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

This talk will focus on developing a theory of risk for the normative assessment of an agent's credence functions, within the framework of epistemic utility theory. In particular, I propose a general theory of epistemic risk in terms of relative sensitivity to different types of graded error. While this account is analogous in important respects to contemporary approaches to risk in ordinary expected utility theory, it has a uniquely epistemic interpretation, which has its roots in Peirce's ``economy of research''. I express this framework in information-theoretic terms and show that epistemic risk, so understood, is a scaled reflection of information entropy. As a result, every unit increase in risk comes with a corresponding unit decrease in information entropy and epistemic risk may be expressed in terms of entropic change. I explain the significance of this for the choice of scoring rule, the selection of priors, and the Laplacian principle of indifference.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:02:24 -0400 2017-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Migritude (Workshop) (October 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41721 41721-9440440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Thursday, October 12, 2017
9:30-11AM; 2:30-4:10PM
CONTACT: smnair@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:53:50 -0400 2017-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Migritude Schedule
Immigrants and Newcomers: Historic Limits to Diversity at U-M (October 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42647 42647-9622474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Matthew Countryman (University of Michigan)
Karla Goldman (University of Michigan)
Brian Williams (University of Michigan)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Matthew Countryman is associate professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan and author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

Karla Goldman is Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and professor of Judaic Studies. She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard Univeristy Press).

Brian Williams is lead bicentennial archivist at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:39:22 -0400 2017-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Minor in Entrepreneurship (October 12, 2017 2:40pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45043 45043-10072853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 2:40pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Minor in Entrepreneurship Information Session

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:24:44 -0400 2017-10-12T14:40:00-04:00 2017-10-12T15:40:00-04:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Challenge-Program-2015-Full-111.jpg
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (October 12, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-10-12T16:15:00-04:00 2017-10-12T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Numa Numa: The Life and Afterlife of the Second King of Rome (October 13, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41297 41297-9087362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology

This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius – the foundational figure of Roman religion who also enjoyed a long and rich nachleben in Western thought, literature, and art. For centuries, Numa has personified the good monarch and emblemized how religion should (or, in some cases, should not) function in society. An international group of speakers will consider Numa from every angle, beginning with archaeological evidence through to his presentation in ancient literature, to his role in Renaissance thought and early modern literature. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, you can find the program above or contact Celia Schultz at celiaes@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:46:13 -0400 2017-10-13T08:30:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:10:00-04:00 Angell Hall Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology Conference / Symposium Numa Numa
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (October 13, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-10-13T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
On miracles: Reflections on the dynamical and geometrical approaches to spacetime theories (October 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45338 45338-10161397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The dynamical approach to relativity, developed and defended by Brown and Pooley offers an interpretation of relativistic spacetime theories based on a claim about the origin of chronogeometricity---the property that the metric is surveyed by rods and clocks---of the metric in those theories. The sine qua non of this view is its claim about the origin of chronometricity but this is often overshadowed by the reductive ontological claim that follows in the special case of special relativity (SR). As a result, its status as a viable interpretation of general relativity (GR) is often overlooked. In GR, this interpretation relies on the existence of two contingent, unexplained, seemingly conspiratorial facts---miracles, if you will. In this paper, I argue, based on recent work by Schuller and collaborators, that the dynamical approach, in fact, requires only one miracle. Based on this, I argue that it provides an explanatorily superior interpretation to orthodox geometrical approaches.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:22:24 -0400 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Numa Numa: The Life and Afterlife of the Second King of Rome (October 14, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41297 41297-9087363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 8:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology

This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius – the foundational figure of Roman religion who also enjoyed a long and rich nachleben in Western thought, literature, and art. For centuries, Numa has personified the good monarch and emblemized how religion should (or, in some cases, should not) function in society. An international group of speakers will consider Numa from every angle, beginning with archaeological evidence through to his presentation in ancient literature, to his role in Renaissance thought and early modern literature. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, you can find the program above or contact Celia Schultz at celiaes@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:46:13 -0400 2017-10-14T08:30:00-04:00 2017-10-14T12:15:00-04:00 Angell Hall Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology Conference / Symposium Numa Numa
Are You Looking to Do a Honors Thesis? (October 18, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45814 45814-10307567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Wednesday, October 18 from 3:30-4:30 pm in G243 Angell Hall

An Honors thesis is one of many ways to enrich your undergraduate education. Come to this session to hear from a Honors advisor about:

the benefits of and challenges to completing a thesis
the application process and deadlines
the many values of completing a Honors thesis

This session is for all Transfer students, whether you have been thinking about doing a Honors thesis or this is the first time you have heard of such an opportunity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:07:48 -0400 2017-10-18T15:30:00-04:00 2017-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (October 18, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-9908988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2017-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Heberle Lecture: "Reading the World in Deep Time” (October 18, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41724 41724-9440443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature presents the Heberle Lecture on Wednesday, October 18 from 4-6PM in Angell Hall Room 3222. The lecture, titled 'Reading the World in Deep Time' will be delivered by Professor Geraldine Heng.

Professor Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on literary, cultural and social encounters between worlds, webs of exchange and negotiation between communities and cultures, particularly when transacted through issues of gender, race, sexuality and religion. Her teaching focuses on early global literatures, the literatures and political cultures of the Crusades, holy war, the genealogies and texts of medieval romance, the literatures of medieval England, Chaucer/s, medieval biography, transcultural travel narratives, premodern race, race theory, feminist theory, and transnational feminisms.

Professor Heng has two books that will be published in 2017-18. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages will be published by Cambridge University Press, as will her short work, England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West. Her most recent book project is entitled Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500.

Professor Heng's lecture will be preceded by the presentation of the Lora Hutchins Heberle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Critical Writing to a graduate student. The lecture will be followed by a reception. The event is open to the public and all are welcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:19:13 -0400 2017-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
C21 Conversations: What is 21st Century Literature? (October 19, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43007 43007-9696287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Presentations from a faculty panel will help launch a conversation about 21st century literature.

Includes lunch (available starting at 12:45).

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:51:55 -0400 2017-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Modernism and the Little Glass Dress (October 19, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45527 45527-10217630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Preceding the Little Black Dress was another aesthetic, less noticeable if only by virtue of its material properties: The Little Glass Dress. This aesthetic exploited the female body’s relation to its environment in terms that were literally transparent: beginning with aisthesis as an opportunity for architectural display, but extending its relationship to encasement in multiple forms. This talk contends that the Little Glass Dress begins with the evolution of the department store, glimpsed through Zola’s 1883 novel The Ladies’ Paradise, and continues through to incarnations ranging from the late 19th century Manet painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It then jumps into the 20th century through the looking glass of Coco Chanel’s mirrored atelier staircase, and runs alongside the avant-garde Italian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli and some later 20th and 21st century contemporary artists and couturiers. In all, we see what feminist scholars have tracked as “the opacity of femininity” take the shape of an increasingly less protean mode: one that cuts increasingly closer if not to the bone, then to that scrim where world stops and skin begins.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:09:07 -0400 2017-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (October 19, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-10-19T16:15:00-04:00 2017-10-19T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Open Mic / Poetry Slam (October 19, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45620 45620-10240177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Undergraduate English Association (UEA) is hosting it's kickoff to what will be a monthly event! Contact svkama@umich.edu if you would like to participate or simply show up at the event!

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Performance Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:52:13 -0400 2017-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Performance
Interarts Modernism (October 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45528 45528-10217631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Jessica Burstein joins us for a conversation about visual culture and interdisciplinary methodologies with Xiaobing Tang (Asian Languages and Cultures), Andrea Zemgulys (English), Megan Berkobien (Comparative Literature), Grant Mandarino (Art History), and Amanda Greene (English)


Jessica Burstein is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington who works on modernism, fashion, the avant-garde, and prosthetics. Her area of expertise is British literature from the late 19th century through the 1960s, and its West European contexts. She has taught graduate courses on fashion and modernism, the middlebrow, and introductions to modernism. Undergraduate courses range from large lecture introductions to the English major; to smaller seminars on boredom, wandering women, contemporary fiction, blood, privacy, and "Excellent Women"--the latter part of an ongoing interest in domestic fictions and under-read female British writers of the 1910s-1960s. Professor Burstein also teaches modern novel courses, some focusing on adultery, some on embodiment; and major texts courses based on Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. She has published on Dorothy Parker, Wyndham Lewis, crowds, and once in a while in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her book Cold Modernism engages Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Balthus, Hans Bellmer, Henry James, and Coco Chanel, and covers the period 1896-1948. She is also member of the editorial committee of the scholarly journal Modernism/modernity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:09:35 -0400 2017-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (October 20, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-10-20T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Moral Norms and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature (October 20, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45805 45805-10307557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The central issue in environmental aesthetics is whether there are norms that constrain aesthetic judgments about nature, and if so, what are they? This paper asks whether there are "moral" norms that act as such constraints. I will argue that the recent attempts to demonstrate that there are have been unsuccessful, but I will also try to construct the best case I can for the existence of such a moral norm.

Those who believe that morality has a bearing on aesthetic judgments about nature take one of two tacks. The first appeals to the idea that morally bad states of nature detract from their aesthetic value. Call this idea "interaction." The other tack is that certain aesthetic judgments manifest disrespect for nature, which makes them defective or inappropriate, while others manifest respect making them more appropriate. Call this idea "respect for nature."

I will first explain why constraints on aesthetic judgment play such central role in environmental aesthetics. I will then consider each of the two approaches to justifying the claim that there are moral constraints on such judgments, and in each case show that there has not been successful arguments for a moral norm that bears on aesthetic judgments. I will then use elements from each approach to make a case for the existence of such moral norms. I will argue that there are at least two reasonable competing moral norms that bear on our aesthetic judgments about nature, and in general, it is permissible to adopt either one in the face of degraded natural environments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:36:52 -0400 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
The Living Letter of the Literal Sea (October 23, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45630 45630-10242980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a paper workshop with University of Toronto Professor of English Cannon Schmitt. This workshop will be on part of the introduction to his current book project entitled The Literal Sea. Please contact rcawkwe@umich.edu to RSVP and request a pdf of the reading.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:57:45 -0400 2017-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion
English Minor Info & Networking Event (October 23, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45446 45446-10183925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Learn more information about the NEW English minor! There will be a brief presentation followed by networking with English student groups. English advisors will also be available to declare anyone who has already taken English 298. Food will be served.

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Other Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:23:44 -0400 2017-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (October 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42069 42069-9536049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:36:38 -0400 2017-10-24T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Pre-Law Image
Lecture: "Maize, Blue, and Lavender: Revisiting U-M's LGBTQ Past" (October 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44776 44776-9977682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Tim Retzloff received his BA with highest honors in history from the University of Michigan in 2006 and earned his PhD in history from Yale in 2014. Prior to graduate school, he worked for seventeen years in various U-M libraries, first on the Flint campus, then in Ann Arbor. His engagement with U-M’s LGBTQ past began while a student at UM-Flint, when he authored the history appendix for the 1991 study From Invisibility to Inclusion, Opening the Doors for Lesbians and Gay Men at the University of Michigan, commonly known as The Lavender Report.

Retzloff has been a guest on Stateside with Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio and The Craig Fahle Show on WDET. His writings on Michigan’s queer past have appeared in the anthology Creating a Place for Ourselves, the journal GLQ, the collection Making Suburbia, and the pages of Between The Lines. He is currently at work on his first book, Metro Gay, about gay and lesbian life and politics in Metro Detroit from 1945 to 1985. He teaches history and LGBTQ studies at Michigan State University and curates the website Michigan LGBTQ Remember (michiganlgbtqremember.com).

This event is presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional support from the LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; History; the Spectrum Center; and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:26:24 -0400 2017-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Tim Retzloff
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Text Preprocessing for Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It Misleads, and What to Do about It (October 25, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44210 44210-9897589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Despite the popularity of unsupervised techniques for political science text-as-data research, the importance and implications of preprocessing decisions in this domain have received scant systematic attention. Yet, as we show, such decisions have profound effects on the results of real models for real data. We argue that substantive theory is typically too vague to be of use for feature selection, and that the supervised literature is not necessarily a helpful source of advice. To aid researchers working in unsupervised settings, we introduce a statistical procedure and software that examines the sensitivity of findings under alternate preprocessing regimes. This approach complements a researcher's substantive understanding of a problem by providing a characterization of the variability changes in preprocessing choices may induce when analyzing a particular dataset. In making scholars aware of the degree to which their results are likely to be sensitive to their preprocessing decisions, it aids replication efforts.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:00:14 -0400 2017-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Transfer Student Open House (October 25, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45447 45447-10183926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the English Department for an evening of programming and networking! There will be a brief presentation describing the English major and minors followed by the opportunity to network with English undergraduate groups. English advisos will also be available to review transfer courses-so bring your course descriptions and syllabi!

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Other Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:30:49 -0400 2017-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (October 26, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-10-26T16:15:00-04:00 2017-10-26T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (October 27, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-10-27T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Pre-read workshop: On the Politics of Coalition (October 27, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45041 45041-10072851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

In the wake of continued structural asymmetries between women of color and white feminisms, this essay revisits intersectional tensions in Catharine MacKinnon’s Toward a Feminist Theory of the State while exploring productive spaces of coalition. To explore such spaces, we reframe Toward a Feminist Theory of the State in terms of its epistemological project and highlight possible synchronicities with liberational features in women-of-color feminisms. This is done, in part, through an analysis of the philosophical role “method” plays in MacKinnon’s argument, and by reframing her critique of juridical neutrality and objectivity as epistemic harms. In the second section, we sketch out a provisional coalitional theory of liberation that builds on MacKinnon’s feminist epistemological insights and aligns them with decolonizing projects in women-of-color feminisms, suggesting new directions and conceptual revisions that are on the way to coalition.

See below for link to essay.

Co-sponsored by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:48:23 -0400 2017-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Halloween Scary Storytelling (October 31, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45448 45448-10183929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the English Department faculty and students for an evening of scary stories!

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Other Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:35:27 -0400 2017-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other
Transparency: The Neglected Question in Science and Values (November 1, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45337 45337-10161396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The recent philosophical literature on science and values has focused primarily on questions about whether non-epistemic values can play legitimate roles in scientific reasoning and, if so, how to distinguish influences that are legitimate from those that are illegitimate. This paper argues that the question of how to achieve adequate transparency about the influences of non-epistemic values deserves much more attention. First, the paper argues that transparency is crucial for responding to an important ethical worry about non-epistemic influences on science—namely, that they threaten principles of democratic accountability and individual self-determination. Second, it shows that achieving adequate transparency about the influences of non-epistemic values is much more difficult than it initially appears. Finally, it proposes an overarching strategy for achieving greater transparency, focusing on the identification of specific value judgments that are of particular significance to stakeholders. It concludes by highlighting the wide range of institutions and initiatives needed for implementing this strategy and by identifying a number of questions that merit further discussion.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:04:54 -0400 2017-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 2017-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Early Modern Colloquium Workshop (November 2, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45566 45566-10231723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Early Modern Colloquium invites you to workshop a paper with Michael Schoenfeldt, John Knott Professor of English Literature.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:37:12 -0400 2017-11-02T14:30:00-04:00 2017-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (November 2, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-11-02T16:15:00-04:00 2017-11-02T16:45:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Classical Liberal, Libertarian, and Conservative Perspectives on Immigration (November 2, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45935 45935-10333022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Every country in the world imposes strong restrictions on immigration. Can those restrictions be justified?

On one hand, immigration restrictions seem to impinge on individual liberty. Greater freedom of movement will also make potential immigrants better off. On the other hand, open-border policies might strain civil society and harm the interests of certain groups of citizens (especially the poor). They are also politically unpopular in democratic countries. Modern political reality further raises the issue of partial border enforcement, as is presently the case in the U.S. Regardless of whether current immigration restrictions are justified, is there injustice in selectively enforcing immigration laws?

The panelists will defend very different answers to these questions. Reihan Salam argues from a conservative perspective that open-border policies will strain important social and political institutions, in part by dramatically increasing inequality. Michael Huemer argues for the libertarian position against restrictions on immigration on grounds of justice and liberty. And Hrishikesh Joshi contends, from classical liberal starting points, that partial border enforcement is both unjust and bad public policy.

The panel will end with a Q&A session, and refreshments will be served!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:36:27 -0400 2017-11-02T19:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Poster Photo
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (November 3, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-11-03T12:30:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy Working Group (November 3, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45042 45042-10072852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:51:30 -0400 2017-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Roundtable: "The Ignorant Schoolroom: Teaching and Crisis" (November 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46116 46116-10392853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

A roundtable featuring presentations by Lloyd Pratt (Oxford) and UM faculty will launch conversation about the 19th century origins of a long history of radical pedagogy in the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 08:06:03 -0400 2017-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (November 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-9908989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Lloyd Pratt Lecture: "Free Reading" (November 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46117 46117-10392854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for a public lecture by Lloyd Pratt (Oxford)

Abstract: Emerson’s writing has been divided, remixed, and reimagined in a variety of contexts. Through the story of one early twentieth-century woman reader, this talk takes up the question of how these reformulations of Emerson emerged, as well as how they found themselves subject to new forms of reading. Those new forms of reading developed out of the progressive school reform movements of the first half of the twentieth century, which had roots in the radical educational theories of nineteenth-century New England and Romantic-era Europe. Located at the level of primary and secondary education in the United States, both then and now, these new forms of reading, including free reading, came to establish the conditions of possibility for the forms of reading—critical, close, surface, etc. —that now dominate the humanities in the twentieth-century US research university.

Lloyd Pratt is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature (2015) and Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (2010).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 08:05:17 -0400 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Personal Statement Workshop (November 8, 2017 3:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42073 42073-9536055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 3:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics off the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:07:26 -0400 2017-11-08T03:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar image of scales of justice logo
Alpinism and the Art of Freedom (November 8, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46433 46433-10489745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mountaineering Culture Studies Group

8 November 2017 | 3154 Angell Hall | 5 p.m.
Alpinism and the Art of Freedom | Bernadette McDonald

In her recent book Art of Freedom, mountain author Bernadette McDonald chronicles one of the greatest alpinists of all time, Voytek Kurtyka. This Polish climber’s visionary approach has resulted in many renowned ascents, including what has been dubbed the “climb of the century”, an unrepeated alpine-style ascent of the Shining Wall on the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Of greater interest than simply the stunning execution of climbs of unsurpassed difficulty, however, has always been Kurtyka’s approach to alpinism. While Kurtyka embraced the physical and athletic side of climbing, he was equally fascinated with the cerebral experience: the constant decision making, problem solving, and strategizing that it demanded. Even more important to Kurtyka was the aesthetic aspect of alpinism, which, on some ascents, approached a spiritual level. In Kurtyka’s words: “Beauty is the door to another world. Alpinism is the art of freedom. It offers a creative relationship with the mountain.” In this lecture, McDonald will discuss her role in bringing this multidimensional individual to the page. Her job remained that of communicating the full scope of the person under discussion, as well as challenging the reader to be affected in some way by the complexity of a very conflicted, yet visionary alpinist. McDonald will also show how although not a traditional approach to mountaineering literature, Art of Freedom offers a window into the world of alpinism, as practised by the most accomplished and thoughtful of its artists.

Bernadette McDonald is the author of several books on mountaineering and mountain culture, including her most recent Art of Freedom (Rocky Mountain Books, 2017), which has been short-listed for two prestigious awards and is slated for publication in ten languages. A previous title, Freedom Climbers, the story of Poland’s golden age of Himalayan climbing, has been awarded six literary prizes, including the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize. She was awarded Italy’s ITAS Prize for mountain writing and is a three-time winner of India’s Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature. In 2011, the American Alpine Club awarded her their highest honour for excellence in mountain literature. She was the founding Vice President of Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre and director of the Banff Mountain Festivals for 20 years. She has received the Alberta Order of Excellence, the Summit of Excellence Award from The Banff Centre, the King Albert Award for international leadership in the field of mountain culture and environment, and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. She is also an honorary member of both the Polish Mountaineering Association and India’s Himalayan Club. She lectures and consults for universities, museums, festivals and cultural institutions around the world, and currently serves on the international advisory committee for National Geographic’s Expedition Council. Her discretionary time is spent in the mountains: climbing, ski touring and hiking.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:19:07 -0400 2017-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T18:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mountaineering Culture Studies Group Lecture / Discussion Cover Image of the book The Art of Freedom by Bernadette McDonald
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (November 9, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-11-09T16:15:00-05:00 2017-11-09T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (November 10, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-11-10T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Humanism (November 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45959 45959-10341677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

This talk will argue for a form of humanism on which we have reason to care about human beings that we do not have to care about other animals, and human beings have rights against us other animals lack. Humanism respects the equal worth of those born with severe congenital cognitive disabilities. We can defend this view from the charge of illicit “speciesism” and explain why being human is an ethically relevant fact.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:57:17 -0500 2017-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
C21 Conversations: What is 21st Century Literature? (November 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43492 43492-9774916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Presentations by UM faculty members Peter Ho Davies, Tarfia Faizullah, and Josh Miller will launch a conversation about 21st century literature.

Lunch will be available at 11:45. Presentations will begin at 12:15 followed by large group discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:32:50 -0500 2017-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (November 16, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-11-16T16:15:00-05:00 2017-11-16T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (November 17, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-11-17T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Lost in the Shadow of the Word Reading Group (November 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45924 45924-10333012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come join us for a discussion of Professor Paloff's recent monograph Lost in the shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:43:09 -0400 2017-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion book
Critical Crossings Workshop with Sonya Posmentier (November 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46425 46425-10489734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:56:12 -0400 2017-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (November 23, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 23, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-11-23T16:15:00-05:00 2017-11-23T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Modernist Dialogue: Translations, Migrations, & Measurements (November 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46996 46996-10722268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This event is our first "Modernist Dialogue" event of the year. Held every couple of months, each Dialogue stages an interdisciplinary conversation about a theme or method in modernist studies. Brief presentations by a panel of graduate students and faculty will start things off. We'll then talk together about those particular presentations as well as the larger questions they collectively raise.

These Dialogues are ultimately about sharing ideas, so regardless of whether or not you call yourself a modernist, please join us! We can promise exciting research projects, lively conversation, and tasty food. Hope to see you there!

* To RSVP, please contact Aaron Stone (stoneaa@umich.edu) or Amanda Greene (akgreene@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:18:40 -0500 2017-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Talking Circle (November 27, 2017 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47063 47063-10782509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 5:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Description: Join us to learn about the history and relationship between the University of Michigan and the Native American community. All are welcome to learn and to share knowledge. Free donuts (from Dom's!) and coffee will be provided.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/287697098411598/
UM Events: https://events.umich.edu/event/46330

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Other Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:00:15 -0500 2017-11-27T17:15:00-05:00 2017-11-27T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
Talking Circle (November 27, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46330 46330-10455495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us to learn about the history and relationship between the University of Michigan and the Native American community. All are welcome to learn and to share knowledge.

FREE donuts (from Dom's!) and coffee will be provided.

This event is a part of Native American Heritage Month which is celebrated throughout the month of November. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:50:49 -0400 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Social / Informal Gathering an image of donuts with event details
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (November 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-9911602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
The 20th Century American Mountaineering Canon: Parsing the Historical, Literary, and Personal (November 29, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46434 46434-10489746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mountaineering Culture Studies Group

29 November 2017 | 3154 Angell Hall | 5 p.m.
The 20th Century American Mountaineering Canon: Parsing the Historical, Literary, and Personal | David Stevenson

“And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good—
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”

In 2002 as part of a celebration of the American Alpine Club’s centennial I was tasked with compiling a list of the “best” American mountaineering books written in that century. In my introduction I equivocate much about “best,” substituting, “influential,” “historical,” “representative.” In the end, all that can be said with any certainty is that the list is chronological. In Jill Neate’s preface to Mountaineering Literature she observes, “A practicable definition of ‘mountaineering book’ continues to eludes me.” In this talk and conversation I will revisit that list, its methodology (such as it was), speculate about what books written since then would be likely candidates and discuss how different these choices might be for me if the list were “personal” rather than “public.”

David Stevenson has been the book review editor of the American Alpine Journal since 1995. His fiction collection, Letters from Chamonix, won the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction and Poetry in 2014. His collected mountaineering essays, Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing was published in 2016 by the University of Washington Press. He received the H. Adams Carter Literary Award from the American Alpine Club in 2017. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah and works as a professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage where he directs the MFA program in creative writing. His home range is the Chugach.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:27:57 -0400 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T18:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mountaineering Culture Studies Group Lecture / Discussion
Fine Arts Info Session (November 29, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47023 47023-10746902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join Intercultural Program Advisor, Nyanatee Bailey and Senior Intercultural Program Advisor, Sarah Pauling for an info session on Arts in Paris, France; Art & Music in Vienna, Austria; Cuba: Roots, Culture, and Rhythm; and GCC China—Musical Arts and Instruments in China.

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Meeting Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:14:32 -0500 2017-11-29T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting CUBA
Greta LaFleur Workshop: "The Craft of the Article" (November 30, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46915 46915-10692051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Workshop of "Precipitous Sensations" (Early American Literature, 2013) and "Why Women's Colleges Need to Embrace Trans Activists-and so Does Feminism" (The New Republic, 2015).

Pre-readings and RSVP required to Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) or Katie Hummel (hummel@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:00:14 -0500 2017-11-30T10:30:00-05:00 2017-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
The 'Radical Empiricism' of Jonathan Edwards (November 30, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46799 46799-10633980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a Lazarus Belle's dissertation workshop.

This dissertation chapter asks a simple question: to what extent does America's "first philosopher," Jonathan Edwards, demonstrate a strand of philosophical argument that resembles and sets the intellectual conditions for William James's doctrine of radical empiricism? A corollary to the more well-known method of pragmatism, radical empiricism has received less attention, despite being a major concern for James in his later years. Not against but in relation to the obvious reasons why radical empiricism emerges in the history of western philosophy, my gambit is that there are precedents within American religious culture from the antebellum revivals to the postbellum Social Gospel movement that generate the intellectual conditions calling for the radicalization of classical empiricism. This chapter deals specifically with Edwards's place within the so-called first great awakening of the 1730s-40s and his revision of empiricism to explain religious experiences. This examination of the theological underpinnings of American revivalism is the first step in a larger intellectual history about the religious "origins" of pragmatism.

Please Contact Rachel Cawkwell at rcawkwe@umich.edu for a copy of the paper.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:32:01 -0500 2017-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Image of Jonathan Edwards
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (November 30, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-11-30T16:15:00-05:00 2017-11-30T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (December 1, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-12-01T12:30:00-05:00 2017-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin (December 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47099 47099-10790921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory (CCCT) workshop warmly welcomes all to its second colloquium and conference (Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin) held this upcoming Saturday, December 2, 2017. The colloquium and conference will focus on the thought and legacy of Walter Benjamin.

The first event will be a colloquium, from 10am-12pm, in 3222 Angell Hall. In preparation for the talks given at 4pm, we will be discussing Walter Benjamin’s “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” and “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” as well as Lynne Huffer’s “Foucault’s Fossils: Life Itself and the Return to Nature in Feminist Philosophy.” If you want to request a copy of these essays, please email either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu).

The second event will take place from 4-6:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall and will consist of the talks given by Professor Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan; "The Stock Image: Muybridge, Uexkull, Benjamin"); Professor Ingrid Diran (University of Michigan; "Fossils and Monsters: Reading Benjamin with Foucault"); and Professor Michelle Ty (Clemson University, "When History Merges into Setting").

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:20:25 -0500 2017-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin (December 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47099 47099-10790922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory (CCCT) workshop warmly welcomes all to its second colloquium and conference (Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin) held this upcoming Saturday, December 2, 2017. The colloquium and conference will focus on the thought and legacy of Walter Benjamin.

The first event will be a colloquium, from 10am-12pm, in 3222 Angell Hall. In preparation for the talks given at 4pm, we will be discussing Walter Benjamin’s “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” and “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” as well as Lynne Huffer’s “Foucault’s Fossils: Life Itself and the Return to Nature in Feminist Philosophy.” If you want to request a copy of these essays, please email either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu).

The second event will take place from 4-6:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall and will consist of the talks given by Professor Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan; "The Stock Image: Muybridge, Uexkull, Benjamin"); Professor Ingrid Diran (University of Michigan; "Fossils and Monsters: Reading Benjamin with Foucault"); and Professor Michelle Ty (Clemson University, "When History Merges into Setting").

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:20:25 -0500 2017-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-02T18:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (December 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-9911774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2017-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Christmas Soul Food Dinner (December 6, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47342 47342-10869007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Black Student Movement InterVarsity

Join Black Student Movement for a Christmas feast featuring Christmas soul food classics from Black and Latinx traditions, games, gifts, and community.

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Meeting Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:21:26 -0500 2017-12-06T19:30:00-05:00 2017-12-06T21:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Black Student Movement InterVarsity Meeting Christmas Soul Food Dinner
Reading Group on Joseph North's Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (December 7, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46953 46953-10703026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us for a discussion on a selection from Joseph North's Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History. We will be reading a portion of the book selected by Evan Radeen, a PhD student in English Language and Literature, who will also be leading the group discussion. He describes the work below:

This section comes from the fourth chapter of Joseph North’s 2017 book. The book traces the development of academic literary criticism in the Anglo-American world, offering a bold, polemical account of its forgotten origins and historical advances. The fourth chapter builds on this account, taking stock of new critical paradigms in order chart the possibilities for the future of the discipline; in the second section, “Intimations,” North turns the discussion toward the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, D.A. Miller, and Lauren Berlant.

To RSVP and receive an electronic copy of the reading, please contact Rachel Cawkwell (rcawkwe@umich.edu) or Kyle McCormick (krmcc@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:18:38 -0500 2017-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion book cover
Creating & Curating Online Teaching Portfolios (December 7, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47364 47364-10880013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dr. Arola will discuss how her own teaching portfolio has evolved since she put her first syllabus online in Spring of 2000. Through sharing her own successes and missteps, and asking participants to explore a sampling of teaching portfolios, this workshop/lecture will engage participants with best practices for cultivating an online teaching identity.

Bio:
Kristin Arola is an Associate Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University and an affiliate faculty in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. Arola’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between American Indian rhetoric, multimodal pedagogy, and digital rhetoric. Along with numerous essays and book chapters, she is the co-author of Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects, and the co-editor of CrossTalk in Comp Theory and Composing(Media) = Composing(Embodiment).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:31:29 -0500 2017-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Photo of Dr. Kristin Arola
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (December 7, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-12-07T16:15:00-05:00 2017-12-07T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (December 8, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-12-08T12:30:00-05:00 2017-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
There is No Moral Ought and No Prudential Ought (December 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46995 46995-10722269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

It is natural to think that there are a number of different oughts. There is a moral ought, there is a prudential ought, etc. Furthermore, it is natural to think that each ought is such that one ought to do the best thing one could do, where the sense of best at issue varies with the kind of ought it is. Thus, it is natural to think: morally, a person ought to do the morally best thing she could do; and prudentially, a person ought to do the prudentially best thing she could do. One might also express these thoughts by saying: morality recommends that one do the morally best thing one could do; and prudence recommends that one do the prudentially best thing one could do.

These natural thoughts suggest the further thought that the moral ought and the prudential ought often conflict, and thus that often, morally, one ought to do something although, prudentially, one ought to refrain from doing it.

While these thoughts are natural, and they express a commonly-held view, I will argue that these thoughts are wrong. My modest aim is to show that there is an alternative view to the view I describe above. My more ambitious aim is to show that my alternative view is correct. Once the two views are contrasted, I think it will be clear that although the commonly-held view is indeed common, it is not supported by or warranted by ordinary moral thinking or ordinarily-recognized moral phenomena, and we do better at capturing moral reality – and normative reality more broadly – by jettisoning the common view in favor of the alternative view I outline.

The alternative view denies all the natural thoughts above. It holds that there is no distinctively moral ought, though there are some ought facts that are distinctively moral. Similarly, there is no distinctively prudential ought, though there are some ought facts that are distinctively prudential. Finally, the alternative view holds that distinctively moral ought claims never conflict with distinctively prudential ought claims: it is never the case that, morally, one ought to do something, while prudentially, one ought to refrain.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:04:56 -0500 2017-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Sweetland Study Day Write-In (December 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47079 47079-10788138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Peer Writing Center opens its doors on Wednesday, December 13th from 11am-3pm for the Study Day Write-in. Feel our positive writing vibes in a quiet environment. We'll have study snacks on hand to keep you going along with writing consultants who can help you with anything you are working on.

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Other Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:34:54 -0500 2017-12-13T11:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Other Event Flyer
Public Health Major Info Sessions (December 13, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41583 41583-9367008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: School of Public Health

Learn more about the public health major and requirements for admission. Why should you study public health at Michigan?

What public health degrees does Michigan offer and what careers can you find after graduation?

These 30-minute interactive presentations are followed by time for questions and discussion. Register online at sph.umich.edu/undergrad.

Public health refers to all organized measures—both public and private—that promote health, prevent illness and disease, and prolong the quality and years of life for the population as a whole. Public health creates conditions under which people can live a healthy lifestyle and, when treatment is necessary, it ensures equitable access to safe and effective health care.

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, we offer engaged learning opportunities through interdisciplinary education with top faculty, access to innovative laboratory and field settings, and community-based and entrepreneurial training. We provide Michigan students with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as leaders in the field of public health

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Presentation Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:56:58 -0400 2017-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall School of Public Health Presentation Public health students researching, planning, serving
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (December 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-9911775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2017-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (December 14, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-12-14T16:15:00-05:00 2017-12-14T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Mindfulness@Umich (Faculty & Staff) (December 15, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40944 40944-9729072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Mindfulness@Umich for Faculty and Staff. Take a moment to create some space to breathe and invite a sense of calm into your day. Email: dkozikow@umich.edu to be added to the drop-in reminder.

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Well-being Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:47:18 -0400 2017-12-15T12:30:00-05:00 2017-12-15T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Well-being stacked rocks
Early Modern Colloquium December Write-o-thon (December 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46006 46006-10656085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

8am-6pm, 3222 Angell Hall

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Other Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:48:22 -0500 2017-12-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-16T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other
Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) (December 21, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 43153-9729056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Mindfulness @ Umich

Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students, are free, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students, please complete the Google Registration Form.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:49:05 -0400 2017-12-21T16:15:00-05:00 2017-12-21T16:45:00-05:00 Angell Hall Mindfulness @ Umich Meeting students meditating
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (January 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Personal Statement Workshop (January 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48143 48143-11180773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics of the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:33:57 -0500 2018-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law-newnan-logo
Ann Burke Practice Job Talk (January 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48004 48004-11167557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

When Students Enter the Conversation: Understanding College-bound Students’ Perceived Preparedness and Expectations for College-level Writing

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Presentation Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:31:25 -0500 2018-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation
ASEH & CCS Paper Workshop w/ Ben Mangrum (January 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47411 47411-10891060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the ASEH and CCS groups for a workshop of Ben Mangrum's paper, "Postwar Ecology and the Ends of Human Rights.” RSVP to Katie Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) or Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) for pre-reading.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:11:53 -0500 2018-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Hopwood Tea (January 11, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Images in Crisis: Experiments in the Photographic Unseen (January 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48069 48069-11177987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This lecture takes as its starting point Régis Durand’s evocative description of photographs as “images in crisis,” in which “something in them is always trying to run off, to vanish.” It moves through nineteenth and twentieth century photography history in establishing photography as a sequential and grammatical art that denaturalizes the real through its silences, absences, and equivocations. In this way, photography offers a compelling model for reading a composite mode of modernist writing that shares its fragmentary aesthetic and narrative form—and for reconceiving the gendered subject–object relations in that writing, as modernism’s women seem to run off, to vanish, before our eyes. Interleaved with critical–creative readings of individual photographs, drawn from a forthcoming scholarly project to be released on Instagram in February 2018, this lecture is an experiment in an elliptical, associative mode of argumentation that mimes photography’s logic of incongruous juxtaposition.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:17:49 -0500 2018-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Excuses and Justifications in Epistemology (January 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47012 47012-10725027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Epistemology concerns what we should believe. Ethics concerns what we should do. Much recent work in the two fields emphasizes their similarities—their shared concern with oughts, normativity, and how things should be in some broad sense—over their differences. An increasingly influential argumentative strategy in the spirit of this broader trend is to argue that the distinction between justifications and excuses—familiar in ethics and the philosophy of law—can be exported to epistemology, where it can do substantial philosophical work. Timothy Williamson, Clayton Littlejohn, Amia Srinivasan, John Hawthorne, Jason Stanley, and others have all argued, in one form or another, that many mistakes in epistemology are the consequence of conflating the distinction between justified belief on the one hand, and merely excusable or blameless belief on the other.

Ultimately, I suspect that this move is too quick—the justification/excuse distinction cannot be straightforwardly or uncritically adopted by epistemologists. But vindicating this suspicion is a major task. My argumentative strategy will involve paying close attention to the roles the excuse/justification distinction plays in the law, and arguing that there aren’t analogous roles to be played by a similar distinction in epistemology. Stepping back, my broader hope is to sound a cautionary note about drawing parallels between practical and epistemic normativity. Concepts and distinctions that have application in the former domain don't 'automatically' have application in the latter, and when they do, it takes theoretical work to show this.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:16:01 -0500 2018-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Excuses and Justifications in Epistemology
The Fierce Urgency of Now – What is Y(our) Story? (January 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46925 46925-10700261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

This year's MLK Symposium theme, “The Fierce Urgency of Now”, asks each of us to “...claim ownership of the challenges we face...” We are reminded that, “...much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division.”

W​e invite members of the University community to share their brief (2-4 minute) stories through written or spoken word, performance pieces, poems, art, music, or song.

We encourage you to connect your story to the theme of “The Fierce Urgency of Now” and tell us of a time, situation or event that made you conscious of the need or desire to act.

* What is or has been your inspiration?
* What did you do, wish you had done or are you doing?
* How have you been discouraged from acting as a result of your experience?

This is an opportunity to tell your story, among supportive listeners, because your stories matter!

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Other Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:50:54 -0500 2018-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall LSA Honors Program Other
Sophocles' Antigone (January 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47486 47486-10932333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

In the spring of 440 BCE, the people of Athens gathered at their annual festival of Dionysus to watch Sophocles’ Antigone — the tragedy of a young woman protesting against the state’s treatment of her dead brother Polyneices. On Martin Luther King Jr Day, students from the Department of Classical Studies will read passages from this ancient play, after which there will be a discussion of its relevance to current issues of patriotism, justice, violence, and dissent.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:08:03 -0500 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Contexts for Classics Lecture / Discussion
Dead Pizza Society's Winter Semester Kick-Off! (January 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48674 48674-11267696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join at our mass meeting-esque adventure, newly rescheduled to be in Angell Hall Auditorium C, on Monday, 1/15 (MLK day!), at 8:00pm. There will be FREE games, pizza, pop/soda/soft drinks, ice cream, information about the club this semester, and fun! We apologize if the new date ruins the chance you would be able to join us, but hope that the change of plans is an opportunity for some others! Stop by any time for a quick bite, for games, for company, or whatever other reason you may have! You'll know it's the right place when you see:               ...Or something similar with slightly less aesthetic. Hope to see you there!

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Recreational / Games Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:00:14 -0500 2018-01-15T20:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T22:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Recreational / Games
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (January 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Sweetland Coffee & Donut Break (January 18, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47811 47811-11015150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

All U-M students are invited the Peer Writing Center (Angell Hall G219) on Thursday, January 18th between 9:30am and noon for free coffee and donuts courtesy of Sweetland Center for Writing.

While your there check out our Writing Center, talk to an undergraduate peer tutor, and find out how we can help you with your essays, research papers, and other writing projects in the coming year.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:09:43 -0500 2018-01-18T09:30:00-05:00 2018-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Reception / Open House
Hopwood Tea (January 18, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Mapping Austen's World: Movement and Journeys in the 19th Century (January 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48202 48202-11188799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:25:03 -0500 2018-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Conference / Symposium conference image
CCS Dissertation Workshop w/Crystal Lie (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47407 47407-10891056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us to workshop a dissertation chapter by English PhD candidate Crystal Lie entitled, "Dementia, Temporality, and Forms of the (Auto)Biographical in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Susan Schultz’s Dementia Blog.” The paper will be shared one week before the workshop.

Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:40:48 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Unforgiving Him: On Himpathy and History (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48656 48656-11265182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Presented by:
Race, Gender & Feminist Philosophy
Minorities and Philosophy

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:03:50 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Unforgiving Him Poster
Practice Job Talk by Kyle Grady (January 23, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48942 48942-11331189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Making Much of Racial Mixing: Reading Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus alongside the American Multicultural Movement

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:39:00 -0500 2018-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Careers / Jobs
Benjamin Keating Practice Job Talk (January 24, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48910 48910-11328388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

“A Hard Time Understanding”: Authority and Disability in College Writing Peer Review

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:06:53 -0500 2018-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Careers / Jobs
5 Ways to Ace Your Interview (January 24, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48047 48047-11170225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Have you interviewed for a job, internship, or other opportunity and wondered what you could have done differently? Do you have, or hope to have, an upcoming interview? Then you should attend Business by LSA's 5 Ways to Ace Your Interview event on January 24 at 3 p.m. Register now to make sure you learn the five key things you need to do to be successful in your upcoming interviews! Space is limited, so RSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/6525

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:58:05 -0500 2018-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Business by LSA logo
Growth, Grit, & Stick (January 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48758 48758-11383825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Every student knows how to study, right? Wrong! This session will cover learning strategies every student should know. This session will help you learn which of your study strategies you should abandon and expose you to some the top strategies backed by years of empirical research. The session will also help you understand how your mindset can affect your performance before you even step foot in a classroom and the importance of grit in your academic and life success. This is the most popular workshop ever offered by the SLC.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:56:55 -0500 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
C21 Conversation Series (January 25, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47401 47401-10891049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This series, held monthly, brings together four faculty members from different disciplines to offer flash talks about 21st-century arts, culture, and politics and contemporary research methodologies. In the discussion that follows, we'll have the chance to think together about key questions produced by and animating our present moment. No pre-reading; just join us for conversation and catered lunch! (Lunch will be available at 12:30; presentations will start at 1:00)

Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:48:26 -0500 2018-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Tea (January 25, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Keith Taylor Retirement Event (January 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47701 47701-10973777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Keith Taylor Retirement Event

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Other Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:13:07 -0500 2018-01-26T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other
2018 Pallas Lecture: Philhellenism and the Invention of American History (January 29, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41705 41705-9438397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

What does the landing of the Mayflower in Plymouth have to do with the Battle of Marathon? When the Greek revolutionaries declared independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821, to which American citizen did they first send their proclamation? How did the Greek War of Independence shape American identity on the eve of the United States' 50th anniversary celebration in 1826? This presentation will explore intersections between philhellenism and nationalism, European and American identity, and ancient and modern Greece in early republican America. It will argue that the era's patriot-orators drew heavily on Greece, both ancient and modern,as they drafted new--and enduring--blueprints of U.S. patriotism.

Johanna Hanink holds a BA in Classics from the University of Michigan, an MA in Latin from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MPhil and PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge (Queens' College). She works primarily on theater and performance, literary biography, the cultural life and afterlife of classical Athens, and the historical notion of an ancient "Greek miracle."
The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Harvard University Press 2017) is her latest book; it explores how Western fantasies of classical antiquity have created a particularly fraught relationship between the European West and the country of Greece, especially in the context of Greece's recent "tale of two crises." She is also author of Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Cambridge University Press 2014) and co-editor, with Richard Fletcher, of the volume Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists, and Biography (Cambridge University Press 2016).
She is active in Brown's Program in Modern Greek Studies and is on the board of the Modern Greek Studies Association. She is also on the editorial boards of The Journal of Modern Greek Studies and Eidolon.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:47:46 -0500 2018-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion poster
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (January 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48146 48146-11180775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:47:01 -0500 2018-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law-newnan-logo
Practice Job Talk by Amrita Dhar, PhD English Language and Literature Candidate (January 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49282 49282-11409028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Writing Sight and Blindness in Early Modern England." (This work is at the intersection of early modern studies and disability studies, and looks at the various ways in which patterned/poetic language of this time bears the weight of visual difference, such as extreme visual ability, partial sight, or no sight at all.) The middle section of the talk will involve some granular textual engagement of the kind that is representative of my work. The third and final section will indicate onward trajectories, while also making clear the ways in which my scholarly and pedagogical selves connect to and lead one another.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:16:01 -0500 2018-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Careers / Jobs
Active Minds Mass Meeting (January 30, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49356 49356-11445396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Active Minds at the University of Michigan

Come out on Tuesday, January 30th, 6:30pm-7:30pm to G228 Angell Hall to learn more about Active Minds and what we do! We are a chapter of a national nonprofit organization that focuses on fostering student mental wellness through education, resources, and community. Our organization is broken down into committees that specialize in events, fundraising, and social media, and more general community meetings that are open to the public!

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at
Active.Minds.UofM@umich.edu!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:13:32 -0500 2018-01-30T18:30:00-05:00 2018-01-30T19:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Active Minds at the University of Michigan Rally / Mass Meeting Active Minds Mass Meeting
Q&A with Antonya Nelson (January 31, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49178 49178-11386613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Antonya Nelson is the author of four novels, including Living to Tell and Bound, and seven short story collections, including Some Fun, Nothing Right, and, most recently, Funny Once. Her short stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Harper's, and other magazines. They have been anthologized in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, as well as in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program.

This Q&A is facilitated by MFA candidates Thea Chacamaty and Nell Koring, and is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:16:19 -0500 2018-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2018-01-31T13:20:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Antonya Nelson photo
Hopwood Tea (February 1, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
On Miracles and Spacetime (February 1, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48780 48780-11306110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Abstract: I argue for the existence of two coincidences—or ‘miracles’—in the foundations of general relativity, which do not admit of explanation from within that theory. I suggest that these ‘miracles’ may be accounted for naturally in one particular successor theory to general relativity, namely perturbative string theory. I close by reflecting on the nature of spacetime in general relativity versus string theory.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:50:42 -0500 2018-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (February 2, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49299 49299-11409078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.

Our first meeting will be next Friday (February 2) from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.

We'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations.

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Meeting Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:53:11 -0500 2018-02-02T13:30:00-05:00 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Refutation (February 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47013 47013-10725028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The practice of refutation has been a central preoccupation of philosophers since Socrates. But what is a refutation? And why do philosophers feel impelled to produce them? With reference to the first question, I produce a definition of refutation: a refutation disproves one proposition in order to discredit another. With reference to the second question, I argue that the refuter’s activity to undermine her interlocutor's account solves a problem facing the project of knowledge-acquisition. This problem was articulated by William James: the project of coming to believe truths is in tension with the project of avoiding belief in falsehoods. The first motivates one to embrace dogmatism, the second to retreat to skepticism. The practice of refutation solves James’ problem by way of a division of labor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:32:01 -0500 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Refutation
Nutrition Facts (February 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49354 49354-11445245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER HERE: 
https://docs.google.com/…/1MrTdFOyURtQ9bp2peSEniJP3Jk…/edit…This is an outreach event with the intent to raise funds and awareness to diet/nutrition deficits and Puerto Rico. 
Interact with other volunteers/club members through educating students and faculty with true/false nutrition facts on a biiig spinny wheel! 
Hand out DELICIOUS free fruit to those who answer right, and proceeds for an optional donation will ALL go to Puerto Rico's disaster aid (Global Giving). 
What you will get out of this event: learning about nutrition facts from sites like UNICEF, WHO, and UCSF/other medical centers + raising MUCH NEEDED $ for those in Puerto Rico who do not have clean water nor healthy food.

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Community Service Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:00:18 -0500 2018-02-05T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Community Service
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (February 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Are You Looking to Do an Honors Thesis? (February 6, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49715 49715-11498740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

An Honors thesis is one of many ways to enrich your undergraduate education. Come to this session to hear from a Honors advisor about:

the benefits of and challenges to completing a thesis
the application process and deadlines
the many values of completing a Honors thesis

This session is for all students, whether you have been thinking about doing a Honors thesis or this is the first time you have heard of such an opportunity.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:29:59 -0500 2018-02-06T15:30:00-05:00 2018-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Book Talk with Melanie Yergeau on Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (February 6, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49265 49265-11397848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

LangRhet and the Disability Studies Group are excited to invite you to a book talk with Melanie Yergeau on her newly-released Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. The talk will take place in Angell 3222 on Tuesday, February 6th from 5-7pm.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:39:56 -0500 2018-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Tea (February 8, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Nate Mills Lecture (February 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42999 42999-9693637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The concept of the lumpenproletariat, the “proletariat in rags,” is peculiar to Marxism (Marx and Engels created the term) yet under-explicated by Marx and neglected in Marxist theoretical discourse. The term names individuals who persist outside of capitalist productive relations and, as a result, lack a place within capitalist social formations. Marx typically invokes such types only to dismiss them as irrelevant to theoretical concerns of production and class struggle, or to scorn them as immoral, criminal, and self-interested enemies of the proletariat. The dispossessed of modern society—drifters, criminals, underworld agents, etc.—are thus named by Marxism but denied proper epistemological scrutiny. The lumpenproletariat thus possesses a somewhat archival character: it’s catalogued and registered in Marxism’s conceptual finding aid, but awaits full exhumation and serious study. Similarly, much of the Depression-era fiction and poetry of two African American writers—Ralph Ellison and Margaret Walker—that resituates the lumpenproletariat as a means of understanding U.S. social arrangements and imagining revolutionary African American political desires also resides, unfinished and unstudied, in manuscript archives.

In this talk, I discuss Ellison and Walker’s innovative 1930s writings, showing how the concept of the lumpenproletariat allowed them to, in various ways, renovate Marxist theory in order to illuminate and challenge the intersectional dynamics of capitalism, patriarchy, and Jim Crow in America. Ellison and Walker also provide an occasion for thinking the importance of the archive, not only as a site of innovative experiments in radical literature and culture, but as a means of designating the place of the understudied within the conceptual topography of Marxist and radical thought. If Walker and Ellison were inspired by a concept Marxism had overlooked and by individuals Depression America had discarded, then we might consider their efforts as models of how to engage with Marxism through its archive, through its de-prioritized and unexamined resources.

Nathaniel Mills is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017). His articles on U.S. and African American literary radicalism have appeared or are forthcoming in venues such as African American Review, MELUS, Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in American Naturalism, The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright, and The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:08:19 -0500 2018-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Supersymmetry and the Philosophy of Space and Time (February 8, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48908 48908-11328385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Abstract: Some areas of physics are heavily discussed by philosophers; others are engaged with more sparsely. Despite its being a central component of many attempts to go beyond the standard model of particle physics, supersymmetry (SUSY) is an example of the latter. This talk is part of an ongoing project to establish a discussion in the philosophy of SUSY.

SUSY is a proposed dynamical symmetry between bosons (broadly speaking, force carriers) and fermions (matter). As a result of being a transformation between particles of different spin, the algebra of its generators has an interesting feature---it appears to allow for an interpretation as a (generalisation of a) spacetime symmetry. Construing SUSY as such, it is possible to re-express the theory in a new setting---superspace, in which ordinary Minkowski spacetime is augmented with a number of anticommuting ‘dimensions’. These are dimensions along which, counter-intuitively, coordinate values are sensitive to the order in which they are multiplied---they cannot, therefore, be visualised in the way that ordinary spatial or temporal dimensions are, as lines extending in some direction. Even though superspace is not a geometry in the familiar point-set sense, it manifests geometric structure in a more general, algebraic way: objects with the algebraic properties of vectors, tensors, derivative operators and so on are well-defined. Thus metrical and inertial structures exist in superspace, but algebraically. In this talk, I address the question of what difference this generalisation makes to our understanding of the roles of the metric and inertial structure in constituting spacetime.

(No prior familiarity with supersymmetry or quantum field theory will be assumed)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:37:38 -0500 2018-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety (February 8, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49239 49239-11397812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Language Resource Center

Producers Scilla Andreen and Karin Gornick have one goal: to start a global conversation and raise awareness around anxiety. Through candid interviews, they utilize the power of film to tell the stories of many kids and teens who discuss their anxiety and its impacts on their lives and relationships, as well as how they’ve found solutions and hope. The film also includes a special interview with Michael Phelps, a mental health advocate and one of the greatest athletes of all-time. In addition, the documentary provides discussions with mental health experts about the causes of anxiety and its sociological effects, along with the help, resources and tools available to address the condition.

After the 56 minute screening, there will be a discussion facilitated by professionals from U-M Counseling and Psychological Services.

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Film Screening Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:42:38 -0500 2018-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Language Resource Center Film Screening Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety
Writing Aware (February 9, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49112 49112-11375495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

HZWP community discussion forum on issues of identity and intersectionality and the craft of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:07:57 -0500 2018-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Workshop / Seminar
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (February 9, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49794 49794-11535285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.

We have multiple meetings throughout winter term on Fridays from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.

We'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:48:48 -0500 2018-02-09T13:30:00-05:00 2018-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Science, Values, and the Public (February 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41546 41546-9334661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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

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

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

4:30-5:00pm Coffee

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

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

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

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

12:00-1:30pm Lunch

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:38:25 -0500 2018-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium SC Poster
Minor in Writing Info Session (February 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47813 47813-11015152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.

Students currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology, Business, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.

With a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.

If you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty you can attend our informal Minor in Writing Information Session on Friday, February 9th from 4-5:30pm at Sweetland's Peer Writing Center in Angell Hall G219. Food and refreshments provided.

The deadline to apply for Fall 2018 is Monday, March 12th at noon.

More info at http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/minor-in-writing/application-process.html

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:26:20 -0500 2018-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Rally / Mass Meeting event flyer
Science, Values, and the Public (February 10, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41546 41546-9334662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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

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

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

4:30-5:00pm Coffee

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

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

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

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

12:00-1:30pm Lunch

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:38:25 -0500 2018-02-10T09:30:00-05:00 2018-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium SC Poster
Carey Salerno (Alice James Books) (February 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47699 47699-10973775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Alice James Books is a prominent independent poetry press that was founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher, Jean Pedrick, Lee Rudolph, Ron Schreiber, Betsy Sholl and Cornelia Veenendaal. Their objectives were to give women access to publishing and to involve authors in the publishing process.

AJB remains committed to its founders’ original mission while expanding upon the scope to include poets of all genders, backgrounds, and stages of their careers. In keeping with our efforts to foster equity and inclusivity in publishing and the literary arts, AJB seeks out poets whose writing possesses the range, depth, and ability to cultivate empathy in our world and to dynamically push against silence. The press sees the work it publishes as instrumental in cultivating conversations that help us overcome the barriers we face as a nation.

Alice James also stands out for its collaborative partnerships with authors, as well as the level of attention given to the aesthetics of each book we publish. AJB believes in supporting writers throughout their careers, connecting them to their readers, and allowing them to tell their stories.

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Other Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:09:55 -0500 2018-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other
Suspicious Minds and Anti-Poverty Policies (February 12, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49335 49335-11420286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Suppose that a democratic society has an associative duty to assist a specific group of individuals, the Usual Suspects group. Members of this group frequently do not go to their jobs. They are seen mostly in streets, smoking, drinking and having fun. They are defaulting debtors. They often cheat on the welfare system, claiming to be unable to work. Since they run quickly out of money, they often shoplift in small quantities and evade taxes. They are more prolific than their fellow citizens. Their children, for some combination of a culture of poverty, low opportunities and bad parenting, usually miss classes, medical appointments and reproduce the eternal cycle of poverty and dependence.

A democratic society could assume this duty for several reasons: they are citizens, they are humans or for their children extreme vulnerability. However, this obligation can be fulfilled in multiple ways. Society can assist them conditionally or unconditionally; can offer them lucrative jobs or can force them to work in exchange of meager assistance; can give them cash or untradeable vouchers; can demand sterilization from mothers or can improve public services; can create special houses for their children. These choices depend heavily in the accuracy of Usual Suspects diagnose.

In this communication, I challenge this Usual Suspects narrative in social protection, which has been active since English Poor Laws to the expansion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin-America. First, I will claim that there are no empirical nor normative arguments for taking suspicion as a default attitude to poor. Second, I argue that there are relational reasons for reducing suspicion in social protection policies: it will not only improve the probability of the least advantaged of escaping poverty but it will also improve the most advantaged members capacities for moral reasoning.

(Link to paper for pre-read is available below.)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:40:30 -0500 2018-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Personal Statement Workshop (February 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48143 48143-11180774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics of the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:33:57 -0500 2018-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law-newnan-logo
C21 Conversation Series (February 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47402 47402-10891050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This series, held monthly, brings together four faculty members from different disciplines to offer flash talks about 21st-century arts, culture, and politics and contemporary research methodologies. In the discussion that follows, we'll have the chance to think together about key questions produced by and animating our present moment. No pre-reading; just join us for conversation and catered lunch! (Lunch will be available at 12:30; presentations will start at 1:00)

Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:41:53 -0500 2018-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
ISP Lecture. A Fiction Reading with Saladin Ahmed (February 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49783 49783-11532475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us for a literary reading with acclaimed science fiction and comic book writer, Saladin Ahmed. Ahmed will read from his work, which combines Muslim and sci-fi themes.

Saladin Ahmed is the author of the Hugo and Nebula-nominated "Throne of the Crescent Moon," praised by George RR Martin as "a rollicking swashbuckler." His essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, the Boston Globe, Slate, NPR, and BuzzFeed. He is currently writing "Black Bolt" and "Exiles" for Marvel Comics and "Abbott" for BOOM! Studios.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:47:14 -0500 2018-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Saladin Ahmed
Transfer Student Open House (February 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49615 49615-11484721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Have no fear, the Sweetland Center for Writing is here! Learn about all of the free writing services available to you as a U-M transfer student. We can help you sign up and schedule your first appointment, walk you through a typical writing consultation, and answer any other writing questions you have to help prepare you for your first visit with us. Coffee and bagels, of course.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:19:36 -0500 2018-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering Event flyer
Hopwood Tea (February 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (February 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Heather Houser Workshop: Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (February 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47288 47288-11611148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

To receive a copy of the reading, please contact Katie Hummel (hummel@umich.edu)

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Meeting Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:37:01 -0500 2018-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T12:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Q&A with poet Robin Coste Lewis (February 22, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50234 50234-11690311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Q&A with poet Robin Coste Lewis! Open to all.

Robin Coste Lewis, the winner of the National Book Award for Voyage of the Sable Venus, is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. She is the writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California, a Cave Canem fellow, and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. She received her BA from Hampshire College, her MFA in poetry from New York University, an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University, and a PhD in poetry and visual studies from the University of Southern California. Lewis was born in Compton, California; her family is from New Orleans.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:15:32 -0500 2018-02-22T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Robin Coste Lewis
Hopwood Tea (February 22, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Public lecture (February 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44765 44765-9971938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Heather Houser (Professor of English at UT Austin) will lecture from her latest work-in-progress. Hosted by the American Studies Consortium RIW, the Critical Contemporary Studies RIW, and the Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities RIW.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:29:51 -0400 2018-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (February 23, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49795 49795-11535286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.

We will meet on various Fridays from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.

We'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:02:53 -0500 2018-02-23T13:30:00-05:00 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
First Person Plural: Global echoes of rape and resistance (February 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47014 47014-10725029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Survivors of rape, sexual assault and sexual violence are speaking around the world, instigating a social movement. However, their speech enters mainstream media and legal institutions that edit, interpret, and spin their stories. States and institutions in general are responding in ways that sideline the movement toward agendas that have little to do with addressing the epidemic of sexual violence. What can we learn from this moment and how can we make resistance more effective?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:12:16 -0500 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Transcultural Studies Information Session (March 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50342 50342-11713028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Program in Transcultural Studies

Are you a current junior interested in earning an interdisciplinary MA degree with just one year of study beyond your bachelor's degree?

Join us for an information session covering the new accelerated master's degree program in Transcultural Studies! Learn about the program requirements, what you can study, how to apply, and more. Bring your questions!

This session is open to LSA undergraduate students and LSA program advisors.

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Other Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:54:46 -0500 2018-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Program in Transcultural Studies Other
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48146 48146-11180776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:47:01 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law-newnan-logo
VCW's Critical Visualities conference (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50557 50557-11802347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:04:48 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities schedule
VCW's Critical Visualities conference (March 9, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50557 50557-11802348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:04:48 -0500 2018-03-09T09:30:00-05:00 2018-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities schedule
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (March 9, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49796 49796-11535287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.

We will meet on various Fridays from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.

We'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:01:49 -0500 2018-03-09T13:30:00-05:00 2018-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Ursula K. Heise lecture (March 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47970 47970-11159794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Ursula K. Heise (UCLA) will discuss her recent work in a public lecture sponsored by the Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities Workshop and Environmental History Interest Group

Contact: hummel@umich.edu, cvfair@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Jan 2018 14:37:37 -0500 2018-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
ADG/EDGe Event (March 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47717 47717-11002095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:54:20 -0500 2018-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (March 13, 2018 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 4:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-03-13T04:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Working Through the Past: What Americans Can Learn from the Germans (March 13, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48044 48044-11170222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

As America is struggling with its own racist past, and present, it makes sense to examine what the Germans have done with their own. For the past 70 years, many Germans have been engaged in what they call Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung - working-off the past. Though the process has been slow, fitful, and often problematic, Americans can learn from the ways in which Germany has - partially - confronted its racist past, as we begin to examine our own.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:55:22 -0500 2018-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Theater and Social Justice (March 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50733 50733-11859078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Residential College

This conversation between eminent practitioners of socially engaged theater will set the context for Rhodessa Jones and Company's performance on March 16th. Please come to this discussion to learn about the links between theater and social justice.

Panelists:
Rhodessa Jones (the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women & HIV Circle)
Anita Gonzalez (Professor of Theatre & Drama)
Holly Hughes (Professor of Art & Design)
Ashley Lucas (Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project)

http://www.culturalodyssey.org/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:44:50 -0500 2018-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Residential College Lecture / Discussion rhodessa jones
Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Greek Tragedy (March 14, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50754 50754-11861933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

Panel discussion with Rhodessa Jones (the Medea Project) moderated by Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature)
with Heidi Morse (DAAS), Amy Pistone (Classical Studies, U Notre Dame), and Francesca Schironi (Classical Studies)

The panel will consider the work of Rhodessa Jones for the Medea Project (Theater for Incarcerated Women) in light of modern engagements with ancient Greek tragedy. Please write to ghobbs@umich.edu for pre-circulated reading about Rhodessa Jones.

Sponsored by Contexts for Classics, this Classical Receptions Workshop is part of the Rhodessa Jones residency at the University of Michigan,March 14-16, 2018.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:10:16 -0500 2018-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Contexts for Classics Lecture / Discussion Rhodessa Jones and Greek Tragedy
Writing Aware (March 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49112 49112-11375496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

HZWP community discussion forum on issues of identity and intersectionality and the craft of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:07:57 -0500 2018-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Workshop / Seminar
"no monument except the ditch": Negative Space and Lateral Grace on Grant and Twain's Mississippi (March 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50544 50544-11793860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a paper workshop with Kyle McCormick, PhD candidate at Michigan in English Language and Literature.

This essay is an attempt to think through changes in narrative form and methods of memorialization that emerge in the Civil War reflections of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain. I use the debate over the narrative quality of Grant’s prose that developed between Matthew Arnold and Twain as a starting point from which to consider unique formulations of identity, an event that resisted romantic codification of heroic identity in favor of a more dynamic and flux-like sense of self and occurrence.

Please RSVP to rcawkwe@umich.edu to receive a copy of the paper.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:02:21 -0500 2018-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar ulysses_s_grant
Hopwood Tea (March 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
"'If You Should Lose Me': The Archive, the Critic, the Record Shop & the Blues Woman" (March 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50930 50930-11927735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This talk examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history, Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as the critics who’ve loved and chased after them. By placing the politics of queer archival studies and black performance theory in conversation with canonical blues historiographies, the talk will explore the aesthetics and cultural resonances of Wiley and Thomas’s rare recordings. It aims as well to trace a black feminist counter-history of record collecting and listening publics in order to tell a different story of blues lives that mattered.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:40:09 -0400 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Daphne Brooks lecture
Public lecture by (March 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43053 43053-9705046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Daphne Brooks (professor of African American Studies and Theater Studies at Yale University) will discuss her latest work in a public lecture hosted by the American Studies Consortium.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Sep 2017 22:59:07 -0400 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Black Performance Archives and Methodologies (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50933 50933-11927738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Faculty roundtable discussion of archives and methodologies of black performance, drawing from the research of Professors Brooks, Gonzalez, and Parrish.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:39:59 -0400 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T11:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Daphne Brooks faculty roundtable
Early Modern Colloquium Annual Graduate Student Conference (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44891 44891-10003598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:29:51 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
International Territorial Rights: An Institutional Account (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47015 47015-10725031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

A state’s bundle of territorial rights includes an "international" territorial right. This is the presumptive right of a state to a defined territorial space that other states (and international actors) have a duty to respect. This international dimension of territorial rights is distinct from and prior to the more local aspects of territorial rights. For instance, a justification of a state’s jurisdictional authority over persons within its dominion does not by itself say why the state (or the political society it represents) has any international claim to the territory within which it exercises this authority. Recent arguments for territorial rights invoke, variously, the right of individuals to a location in which to maintain conditions of justice, the right of acquisition, and the right of self-determination. Contra these arguments and others, I propose instead that a state’s international territorial right is ultimately an institutional right, a right that is defined and sanctioned by the rules, norms and practices of the global order. This institutional account of international territorial rights has significant implications for our understanding of global justice.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:00:07 -0500 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Early Modern Colloquium Annual Graduate Student Conference (March 17, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44891 44891-10003599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:29:51 -0500 2018-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Goethe Institut Spring/Summer 2018: Mass Meeting (March 18, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50608 50608-11816522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This mass meeting is intended for all students who will take language courses at a Goethe Institut this spring or summer.

The full session will eventually break up into small groups and separate rooms where Goethe Institut alums will talk about their experience and answer questions about course content, accommodation, early arrival, free time, other participants, transportation, travel, homework, class hours, costs, etc.

Please bring a list of your own specific questions for the alums to this meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact Kalli Federhofer (kallimz@umich.edu, MLB 3422).

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Meeting Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:07:16 -0500 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Germanic Languages & Literatures Meeting robert fenton germany photo
Kinohi Nishikawa Workshop (March 19, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49111 49111-11375494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 10:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for a discussion of a pre-circulated essay by Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton).

To RSVP and receive the essay, please email Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) or Jeremy Mitchell (englishevents@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:57:07 -0400 2018-03-19T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Critical Crossings Lecture by Kinohi Nishikawa (March 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49110 49110-11375493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the English Department and Critical Contemporary Studies for a Critical Crossings Lecture by Kinohi Nishikawa

Scholars usually rely on a handful of categories to recount a literary history: period, aesthetic movement, authorship. As deployed over decades of academic institutionalization, these categories have proven useful for reconstructing scenes of literary creation as the key to understanding our literary past. This talk explains how twentieth-century African American literature recommends new categories for literary history, ones less invested in idealized notions of inspiration or creation. For most of the century, authors, editors, and publishers struggled mightily over the question of exactly who the audience for black writing was. As the material interface between a work and its audience, book design became an important point of contestation in these struggles. By attending to this highly visible yet not always noticed interface, the talk considers how twentieth-century book design negotiated between readers and markets, actual and imagined communities, to constitute a new literary tradition.

Kinohi Nishikawa is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. His writing on African American print and popular culture has appeared in PMLA, Book History, and African American Review. Kinohi’s first book, Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Additional support generously provided by: the Clements Library; LSA; and the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, Anthropology, and History of Art

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:53:57 -0400 2018-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
C21 Conversation Series (March 20, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47403 47403-10891051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This series, held monthly, brings together four faculty members from different disciplines to offer flash talks about 21st-century arts, culture, and politics and contemporary research methodologies. In the discussion that follows, we'll have the chance to think together about key questions produced by and animating our present moment.

No pre-reading; just join us for conversation and catered lunch! (Lunch will be available at 12:30; presentations will start at 1:00)

Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:48:47 -0500 2018-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Q&A with Lydia Davis (March 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50237 50237-11690314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Q&A with writer Lydia Davis! Open to all.

Lydia Davis, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, is an American writer noted for literary works of extreme brevity, commonly called “flash fiction.” Davis is also a short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including 'Swann’s Way' by Marcel Proust and 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert. Her books include a novel, 'The End of the Story' (1995), several full-length story collections—'Can’t and Won’t' (2014), 'Varieties of Disturbance' (2007), 'Samuel Johnson Is Indignant' (2002), 'Almost No Memory' (1997), and 'Break It Down' (1986)—and several small-press and limited-edition volumes.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:22:53 -0500 2018-03-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Lydia Davis
GLACE residential humanities program Mass Meeting (March 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51099 51099-11961999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come learn about this new, interdisciplinary program. Earn 8 credits in 6 weeks for 4 classes in English, American Culture and Anthropology. You will live and learn at the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Michigan from May 10 to June 21. You will explore such concepts as “place,” “natural history,” and “cultural identity” through an engagement not only with literary and other texts but also, in hands-on ways, with the local landscape and its inhabitants, ecologies, and histories.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:02:00 -0400 2018-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting GLACE Lake
Hopwood Tea (March 22, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Is the cosmos intelligent? (March 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50792 50792-11870490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Sponsored by Philosophy & Classical Studies

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:46:02 -0500 2018-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar Salles Poster
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (March 23, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49797 49797-11535288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.

Our first meeting will be next Friday (February 2) from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.

We'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:57:52 -0500 2018-03-23T13:30:00-04:00 2018-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
A classic problem in the Stoic theory of time (March 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50092 50092-11633667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Sponsored by Philosophy & Classical Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:42:10 -0500 2018-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Salles Poster
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (March 26, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising
Science, Values, and the Public: Pre-read discussion (March 26, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50359 50359-11721664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:10:40 -0500 2018-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Writing Roman History in China in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (March 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50920 50920-11927728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

In the first half of the twentieth-century, the writing of Roman History in a semi-independent China was dominated by the Chinese agenda of national revival and modernization rather than a scholarly desire to investigate Roman history for its own sake. This, however, did not detract from the complexity with which the Chinese reformists, thinkers, and writers engaged with Rome. It is precisely this complexity that this paper will try to unfold. In particular, Ancient Rome, as a negative exemplum, loomed large in the Chinese discourses on a range of key issues including the role of religion in nation building, the (re)formation of "national character", and the relationship between unification/centralization and local autonomy. To a great extent, Ancient Rome functioned as a site where evaluation of China’s past, concern over China’s fate, search for historical lessons, and a close attention to contemporary European affairs and their historical precedents were intricately coalesced.

Jinyu Liu is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University, and also Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University (2014-2020). Her research interests include social relations in Roman cities, the non-elite in the Roman Empire, Latin epigraphy, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China, as well as translating classical texts in a global context. As the Principal Investigator of “Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid’s Poetry into Chinese with Commentaries", a multi-year project sponsored by a Chinese National Social Science Foundation Major Grant (2015-2020), she is collaborating with more than a dozen scholars from four countries to translate the complete works of Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), arguably the most popular poet of ancient Rome, into Chinese for the first time.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:35:20 -0400 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Roman History
ASEH Paper Workshop: Mika Kennedy and Liz McNeill (March 28, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48073 48073-11177993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us for our final event of the semester as we workshop essays by Mika Kennedy (English L&L) and Liz McNeill (German Language and Literature).

Contact hummel@umich.edu or cvfair@umich.edu for copies of the readings.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:41:08 -0500 2018-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T12:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Critical Crossings Workshop with Seeta Chaganti (March 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45539 45539-10228827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Contact AmyArger@umich.edu for more details.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:07:48 -0500 2018-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Tea (March 29, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 48324-11222690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:52:58 -0500 2018-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Hopwood Room
Jeff Shotts (Graywolf) (March 29, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47698 47698-12089629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Graywolf Press was founded by Scott Walker in Port Townsend, Washington, in 1974. Graywolf’s first publications were limited-edition chapbooks of poetry, which were printed on a letterpress and hand sewn by Walker and his colleagues.

Over the years Graywolf has expanded its list to include novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, as well as poetry. The Press has discovered and/or promoted such writers as:
Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Baker, Mary Jo Bang, Kevin Barry, Charles Baxter, Sven Birkerts, Eula Biss, Robert Boswell, John D’Agata, Percival Everett, Nuruddin Farah, Nick Flynn, Tess Gallagher, Dana Gioia, Albert Goldbarth, Linda Gregg, Eamon Grennan, Matthea Harvey, Tony Hoagland, Leslie Jamison, Jane Kenyon, William Kittredge, Ander Monson, Maggie Nelson, Per Petterson, Carl Phillips, Claudia Rankine, Salvatore Scibona, Vijay Seshadri, Tracy K. Smith, William Stafford, Natasha Trethewey, David Treuer, and Brenda Ueland.

Today, Graywolf is considered one of the nation’s leading nonprofit literary publishers.

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Other Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:08:34 -0500 2018-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other
Visit with Dehn Gilmore (March 29, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51142 51142-11987515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

The Nineteenth Century Forum cordially invites you to join us in welcoming Dehn Gilmore, Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology and author of The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art: Fictional Form on Display.

Professor Gilmore's research centers on the relationship between Victorian literature and culture. Her current book project, "Large as Life": The Victorians' Disproportionate Reality, examines the Victorian obsession with "life-sized" representation and how this obsession both shaped and was shaped by Victorian ideas of political representation, scientific research, artistic depiction, and novelistic realism. Please join us for the following events:

Graduate Student Discussion: "Teaching and Working Across Disciplines"
Thursday, March 29 at 4:30pm
Angell 3154


Public Lecture: "Why We Describe Fictional Characters as 'Large as Life'"
Friday, March 30 at 1pm
Angell 3222

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:47:51 -0400 2018-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion
Visit with Dehn Gilmore (March 30, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51142 51142-11987516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

The Nineteenth Century Forum cordially invites you to join us in welcoming Dehn Gilmore, Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology and author of The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art: Fictional Form on Display.

Professor Gilmore's research centers on the relationship between Victorian literature and culture. Her current book project, "Large as Life": The Victorians' Disproportionate Reality, examines the Victorian obsession with "life-sized" representation and how this obsession both shaped and was shaped by Victorian ideas of political representation, scientific research, artistic depiction, and novelistic realism. Please join us for the following events:

Graduate Student Discussion: "Teaching and Working Across Disciplines"
Thursday, March 29 at 4:30pm
Angell 3154


Public Lecture: "Why We Describe Fictional Characters as 'Large as Life'"
Friday, March 30 at 1pm
Angell 3222

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:47:51 -0400 2018-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion
Literary Journalism Meeting (April 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49384 49384-11450959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

For more information, please contact amyarger@umich.edu

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Meeting Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:46:23 -0500 2018-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Science, Values, and the Public: Pre-read discussion (April 2, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50265 50265-11698721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

This event will be a pre-read discussion of selections from Shobitha Parthasarathy's recent book: Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe.

Details on selections TBA

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:52:56 -0500 2018-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2018-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
C21 Conversation Series (April 3, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47404 47404-10891053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This series, held monthly, brings together four faculty members from different disciplines to offer flash talks about 21st-century arts, culture, and politics and contemporary research methodologies. In the discussion that follows, we'll have the chance to think together about key questions produced by and animating our present moment. No pre-reading; just join us for conversation and catered lunch! (Lunch will be available at 12:30; presentations will start promptly at 1:10)

Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:57:01 -0400 2018-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions (April 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 44342-10725025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process, LSA requirements, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:19:35 -0500 2018-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation cross campus transfer newnan advising