Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 4-Week Mindfulness Course (November 22, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68634 68634-17113792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:30pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness is a 4 session course that will teach you the skill of mindfulness. It will also help you build the habit of using it in your life on a regular basis. We’ve found that folks get a lot more out of Koru if they stick with it from beginning to end, therefore attendance at all 4 sessions is required. So double check your calendar and then sign up here: https://dashboard.korumindfulness.org/web/index.php?r=course%2Fsignup&id=2563
If you have any questions, you can contact the instructor at jeselzer@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Sat, 19 Oct 2019 17:31:28 -0400 2019-11-22T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:45:00-05:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Class / Instruction Koru Logo
Interdisciplinary Advances in Palaeoethnobotanical Research in Egypt and Sudan. New perspectives on diet, nutrition and agricultural strategies. (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71479 71479-17834191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This paper presents some recent interdisciplinary advances in the study of ancient agriculture in Egypt and Sudan through the lens of palaeoethnobotany. It will engage with the rich tradition of the study of crop selection of the region, looking at longue durée changes from the mid-2nd millennium B.C. until the late Islamic period through a series of case studies from the authors’ own archaeological sites. It will also briefly reflect on some of the first results of biochemical analyses of ancient cereals and pulses from Roman Karanis.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:04:38 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Koru Mindfulness Basic Class (January 17, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70940 70940-17758024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 4:30pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness Basic class is a four-week course focused to help reduce stress, better sleep, improve self-judgment, and support overall wellbeing. Whether you have practiced mindfulness before or are new to it, you are more than welcomed to stop by!
Please secure your seat at the link below:
https://student.korumindfulness.org/course-detail.html?course_id=2871

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Other Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:19:56 -0500 2020-01-17T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Other Koru Logo
Koru Mindfulness Basic Class (January 24, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70940 70940-17758025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 4:30pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness Basic class is a four-week course focused to help reduce stress, better sleep, improve self-judgment, and support overall wellbeing. Whether you have practiced mindfulness before or are new to it, you are more than welcomed to stop by!
Please secure your seat at the link below:
https://student.korumindfulness.org/course-detail.html?course_id=2871

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Other Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:19:56 -0500 2020-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Other Koru Logo
Koru Mindfulness Basic Class (January 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70940 70940-17758026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness Basic class is a four-week course focused to help reduce stress, better sleep, improve self-judgment, and support overall wellbeing. Whether you have practiced mindfulness before or are new to it, you are more than welcomed to stop by!
Please secure your seat at the link below:
https://student.korumindfulness.org/course-detail.html?course_id=2871

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Other Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:19:56 -0500 2020-01-31T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:30:00-05:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Other Koru Logo
Stone in the Age of Clay: Lithic Use-Wear from Prehistoric Ceramic Period Sites in Chachapoyas, Peru (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72360 72360-17998143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This paper will discuss a microscopic use-wear analysis of the lithic assemblages of Ceramic Period prehistoric sites in Chachapoyas, Peru. After a brief review of the state of lithic studies in Peruvian archaeology, I will describe the results of the low-power use-wear study, including the production of a comparative experimental collection. By contextualizing these results with other lines of evidence, I will discuss what conclusions may be drawn regarding subsistence and cultural behaviors at each site. In particular, I will highlight raw material acquisition and selection, which offer tantalizing insights into possible ceremonial behaviors in prehistoric Chachapoyas.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:52:19 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Koru Mindfulness Basic Class (February 7, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70940 70940-17758027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 4:30pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness Basic class is a four-week course focused to help reduce stress, better sleep, improve self-judgment, and support overall wellbeing. Whether you have practiced mindfulness before or are new to it, you are more than welcomed to stop by!
Please secure your seat at the link below:
https://student.korumindfulness.org/course-detail.html?course_id=2871

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Other Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:19:56 -0500 2020-02-07T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Other Koru Logo
By land or by sea? Investigating early routes and inter-zonal connections during the settlement of South America (February 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72707 72707-18061835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The settlement of the Americas represents the most extensive and rapid biogeographic expansion of our species. My working group is studying how this settlement process took place in western South America. I will share new insights from our team’s excavation and dating of sites from the Pacific Coast to the high Andes and outline an approach combining survey, provenance analysis, and GIS path modeling to trace human movements. Ultimately, the goals of this work are to understand migration routes, processes of adaptation in extreme environments, and inter-zonal connections in the Andean world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:12:11 -0500 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion R
Culture contact dynamics in the Iron Age central Mediterranean: new approaches and new data (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73031 73031-18129630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

At the end of the Early Iron Age (8th-7th centuries BC), one of the most impactful migrations in Mediterranean history cast settlers from the Aegean as far as the Black Sea and Spain, transforming the geopolitical and economic landscape of the Mediterranean. However, its importance as a key case study for understanding how contact shaped the ancient world is proportional to the degree of controversy surrounding its interpretation. This has pitted traditional views of Aegean settlers as hegemonic conquerors of passive indigenous populations against postcolonial views of more complex processes of contact and integration. The most recent results of my two fieldwork projects in southern Italy bring new important data to this debate: (1) the excavation of the site of Incoronata, an indigenous center with strong evidence of co-existence between newcomers and the local community, allows us to identify how space, beliefs and know-how were shared at the site; (2) bioarcheological analyses conducted in the region provide us with much needed demographic information, upending many of the assumptions held so far and opening up new questions. Both lines of research identify local agency as the main driver for these interaction dynamics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:11:15 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Multifocality and State Fragility in Iron Age Central Italy (February 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73247 73247-18181861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Western central Italian states have had a peculiar role in our intellectual history, starting with the most famous of them, the “eternal” city of Rome. With evident teleology, the narrative about the emergence of the earliest agglomerations in the early first millennium BCE has taken the form of an ascending curve. While there is no denying that this regional phenomenon has produced cities with 3000 years of uninterrupted occupation, recent archaeological and historical research have revealed how precarious the process was in its early stages. At various points in their trajectories, many of these centers were abandoned, moved or shrunk. Even more importantly, they all came together in a slow and hesitant way. It is now clear that they were the result of many distinct elite-led groups settling separately within the same defensible location. Such multifocality remained a long-term trait of these agglomerations, shaping their settlement patterns, their institutions and their sociopolitical life. Arguably, participating elites saw the city as a truce space to mitigate their conflicts and as a vehicle to further their long-range ambitions, but they never fully identified with it. This made all these polities inherently weak and impermanent, even when they lasted for centuries.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:23:48 -0500 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion NT
[POSTPONED] Toward Communities of Resistance: Rethinking Citizenship, Migration, and Belonging in Northeast India (March 20, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72571 72571-18018163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:30am
Location: School of Education
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Coloniality and structural violence are crucially implicated in the precarious existence led by the vast majority of people in the global South. Communities denied of the “right to have rights” are engaged in fights to reclaim their lands, their place in the world, and often their very right to exist. Yet this fight implicates us all as we resist crisscrossing vectors of injustice from our different relations to precarity and (dis)placement. Drawing upon activist research in solidarity with communities fighting labels of “illegal immigrant” and state-sponsored crisis of citizenship in Assam (Northeast India), this talk will grapple with multiple dimensions of structural violence, from its colonial underpinnings to ongoing peoples’ resistance against it. Anchored in decolonial, women of Color, and transnational feminist perspectives, this participatory action research project documents social suffering in disenfranchised communities and explores creative and culturally meaningful pathways for decolonial resistance. Centering defiant voices of these communities-in-struggle, the talk will illustrate the need to rethink dominant conceptualizations of citizenship, migration, and belonging; in doing so, troubling hegemonic ideas of “inclusion” tethered to nation state membership as well as illuminating possibilities for alternative collective imaginaries.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:07:33 -0400 2020-03-20T09:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 School of Education National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Urmitapa Dutta headshot
[POSTPONED] Beautiful Justice: The Aesthetics of Oppression and Freedom (April 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72573 72573-18018167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

What role does aesthetics play in the struggle for social justice? Aesthetic judgments saturate our interactions with media, from billion-dollar advertising campaigns to texts from ancient philosophy. However, aesthetics also play a crucial role in our lived experience of oppression and freedom. From the racist claims for white beauty as superior genetics to the liberating music inspirations of reggae, hip-hop, and soul, the aesthetic dimensions of struggles for social justice, and the hidden politics behind aesthetic perceptions, have received little attention. This presentation revisits the historical and cross-disciplinary conversations around aesthetics as beauty through form and function and introduces beautiful justice, a design framework that aims to extend the discussion to include justice.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:10:09 -0400 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 School of Education National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Audrey Bennett headshot