Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Saturday Morning Physics | Are Concussions the Downfall of Football? (February 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59479 59479-14745550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

With the potential for long term effects, the media has placed significant attention on concussions in football. But is all of it accurate?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:41:04 -0500 2019-02-16T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-16T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Ohio-Michigan Helmet Impact
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Brazil Initiative Lecture. From Hope to Hate: The Rise of Conservative Subjectivity in Brazil (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61038 61038-15024924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Brazilians have recently elected a far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain. The talk introduces the general panorama of Brazilian macro and micro politics from ‘Lula-ism’ to ‘Bolsonaro-ism’, marked respectively by the rise and fall of economic growth as well as by democratic collapse. These changes in national development have also shaped the individual self and the capacity to aspire to a better life, as well as ways of doing politics and understanding the world. An examination of these processes can help us understand how the very citizens that exemplified Brazil's rise as a global democratic power came to support military intervention and Bolsonaro.

Pinheiro-Machado will draw on her longitudinal ethnography (with Dr. Lucia Scalco) on consumption and politics among young people from Morro da Cruz, the largest favela of Porto Alegre. In an effort to understand the conservative subjectivity that has emerged amongst low income groups (especially amongst male voters) the researchers have been following youth since 2009, through the political polarization that took place in Brazil after 2013, to the recent transformations that resulted in the election of Bolsonaro.
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Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is a social scientist and an anthropologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM, Brazil). Previously, she was a Lecturer at the Department of International Development at University of Oxford, and held visiting positions at University of São Paulo and Harvard University. She is the author of the award winning book ‘Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South (Routledge 2017) as well as numerous peer-review journal articles. With Dr Lucia Scalco, Pinheiro-Machado has been carrying out ethnographic research on the ‘politics of the poor’ since 2009. They are currently completing a book manuscript entitled: From Hope to Hate: Poverty and Politics in Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro. Funded by the Australian Research Council, she is part of a team examining the new consumer practices in the Global South (Mexico, Brazil, China, and Philippines). Pinheiro-Machado also acts as a public intellectual and writes for The Intercept Brasil.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:15:01 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Quantifying human behavior in epidemiology (February 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60413 60413-14875273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Emergent epidemics present major challenges to both global health and international politics. The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa alone took over ten thousand lives despite international aid nearing $5 billion from 70 countries. In retrospect, the declaration of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern came late, over 4 months after the first international transmission event. These apparent systemic failures likely reflect the fact that emergent epidemics are incredibly difficult to predict. The last decade saw Ebola emerge in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018, 2017, 2014 and 2012, as well as Uganda in 2007, but these previous outbreaks never exceeded a few hundred cases, compared to nearly 30,000 cases in the West African epidemic.

A key problem is that the dynamics of emergent epidemics are shaped in large part by societal and behavioral factors, which are all highly variable. We will discuss these behavioral factors using stories from local communities, contact tracing, genomic data, and reports from the most extensive social mobilization effort to date. All of these distinct data sources influence how we use and interpret models from epidemiology, network theory and collective behavior. Slowly but surely, this synergy data sources and modeling approaches should pave the way for a new approach to epidemiology.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:54:32 -0500 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Headshot
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Ethics, Identity and Sociality in Wuna Wu’s First-person Documentaries (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59913 59913-14797378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Touted as a representative of the “Me” generation of documentary makers in 21st-century Taiwan, Wuna Wu has frequently appeared as both the filmmaker and a major social actor in her documentaries. This talk examines her first-person positioning in three prize-winning films: “Happy or Not” (2002), “Farewell 1999” (2003), and “Let’s Fall in Love” (2008). I argue that Wu has experimented with a broad variety of first-person positionings, which underscore the question of documentary ethics, the importance of mediation for self-identity, and the opportunities for building sociality and community through documentary.

Tze-lan Deborah Sang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media Studies at Michigan State University. Among her major publications are “The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China” (2003), “Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries” (2012), and a forthcoming book on the “Modern Girl in Early 20th-century China.” She is currently at work on a study on Taiwanese women documentary makers as public intellectuals and innovative artists.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:54:25 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ethics, Identity and Sociality in Wuna Wu’s First-person Documentaries
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (February 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53375 53375-14306149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Walk-in advising for students interested in studying abroad. Come with your questions to speak with both a Psych Advisor and CGIS Advisor in one session!

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Other Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Other Psych and CGIS study abroad co advising
Conversations on Europe/CREES Lecture. Making a New Europe: A Transnational Ethnography of Far-right Activism (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59373 59373-14734949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Contemporary far-right activists in Europe are often portrayed as anti-European. Given that “Bruxelles” is one of their chief enemies, such a portrayal might seem legitimate. The far-right critique of the European Union, however, ought not to be read as a simple rejection of Europe. Numerous far-right groups represent themselves as Europe’s defenders, faithful “believers” and “practitioners” of the “true” – white, Christian – Europe, and consider the EU to be their Europe’s enemy.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among far-right activists in Italy, Poland, and Hungary, Pasieka examines how far-right actors conceptualize regional and national sovereignty vis-à-vis a broader European context; how they perceive individual, civic, and social rights; and how they relate those to the widely debated issues of migration and multicultural diversity. Her multi-sited ethnography sheds much needed light on the challenges far-right movements and parties address, and the reasons why they are increasingly compelling to many.

Agnieszka Pasieka holds an M.A. in sociology (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) and a Ph.D. in social anthropology (Martin Luther University, Halle). Her first monograph, "Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland" (Palgrave 2015), discussed the situation of religious and ethnic minorities in the context of church-state relations in Poland. She was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (2007-11); the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (2011-12); the Polish Academy of Sciences (2012-15); and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Vienna (2015-18). Currently she is Elise Richter Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, where she carries out a research project entitled "Living right: an anthropological study of far-right activism."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:48:36 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Pasieka
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Looking through the 2018 Winter Olympics: The Complexity of Contemporary Korean Nationalism and National Identity Politics (February 19, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58072 58072-14401072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Due to the Japanese colonialism, the Korean War and the partition of the nation, the nature of Korean national identity becomes complicated and often incurs a political dispute. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games offers a useful occasion through which this complexity of Korean nationalism can be examined. I observed at least four distinctive discourses on Korean identity being displayed via the winter sporting competition: pan Korean ethno-nationalism, South Korean state patriotism, post-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism. Some of these nationalist views are mutually exclusive, and this situation gave rise to the tensions and divisions between political parties and pressure groups in South Korea during the sports mega-event. This indicates that the characteristics of Korean nationalism are constantly in flux, and each nationalist ideology is continually campaigning for securing a dominant position in Korean culture and politics. This also suggests that it is necessary to consider the intersection between primodialism and constructionism, and between civic and organic national identities in order to draw a more accurate picture of the spectrum of Korean nationalism today. It that sense, I argue that sport is not simply a physical contest between athletes but more importantly is a field of the hegemonic struggle between adherents of different nationalism.

Jung Woo Lee is Programme Director of MSc Sport Policy, Management and International Development, and Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He received a PhD in the sociology of sport from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He is an editor of Sport in Society Asia Pacific Special Issue.

Dr Lee is also a special contributor to a British current affair magazine, New Statesman. His research interests include sport media and communication, semiotics, sport mega-event studies and globalisation of sport. He has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals, including "Sociology," "International Review for the Sociology of Sport", the "Journal of Sport and Social Issue," the "International Journal of Sport Communication," "Communication and Sport" and "Sport in Society." Recently, he published with two co-editors an edited volume of the "Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:17:19 -0500 2019-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Jung Woo Lee, Lecturer, Sport and Leisure Policy, University of Edinburgh, UK
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (February 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Teaching Assistantship Information Session (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60266 60266-14855612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your project.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:21:14 -0500 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Cognitive Science Community (February 20, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61346 61346-15090331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The next professor talk will take place on Wednesday, February 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. Professor Chandra Sripada will be joining the group to discuss "Empirically Investigating the Stream of Consciousness." His talk is about spontaneous streams of thought -- ideas, images, and memories -- that meander across the mind when otherwise unoccupied. Professor Sripada will report on new studies from his lab that shed light on how these streams are constructed. He will also discuss agency in the stream of consciousness: Do we actively construct streams of thought or do they passively “pop” into our minds?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:55:21 -0500 2019-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CogSci Community logo
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Response to the ‘US-China Cold War (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59102 59102-14677982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit.

A strong and wealthy America meets Japan’s security as well as economic interests. In this sense Tokyo prefers Trump’s type of leadership to Obama’s. However, as the U.S.-China relations become confrontational, Japan has to make sure that they will not spill over to itself. Trade war between Washington and Beijing will affect Japanese trade and eventually its economy. Military tensions in the South China Sea may prevent Japan’s vital trading route from safe use. China is conducting “smile diplomacy” for Japan and is trying to drive a wedge between Japan and the United States. Japan should sustain the strong alliance with the United States in this triangular relationship.

President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, which he assumed in 2006. A graduate of Kyoto University (BA) and a holder of an MA and PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. He was Professor of International Relations at the National Defense Academy in 1977-2000 and served as President of the Academy in 2000-2006.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:32:44 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masashi Nishihara, President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo, Japan
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60360 60360-14866456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This week's speaker is Federico Cella, who will present "Social generics; inferential asymmetry, negative framing and cross-linguistic evidence."

The Cognitive Science Seminar Series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:58:26 -0500 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
ELI Winter Workshop Series: MAKING CONVERSATION WITH POWERFUL PEOPLE (February 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59850 59850-15063354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Making conversation can be one of the most challenging types of speaking to master in a second language. This can be particularly true with people in a position of authority, such as one’s research advisor, work supervisor, or future employer. In this workshop, we will explore conversation topics, turn-taking strategies, active listening, and sources for sample conversations. We will consider different types of conversations, such as seeming friendly and confident at a job interview or competent and insightful in a research group meeting. Come ready to practice with one another and to identify effective ways to practice on your own.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:37:44 -0500 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar ELI Winter Workshops
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
ASP Workshop: Contested Landscapes, Competing Narratives: Armenian and Global Perspectives (February 22, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57966 57966-14381741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Download workshop program here: https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/asp-assets/asp-documents/2019-Workshop-program.pdf

This Workshop will be devoted to the multi-facetted topic of contested historical landscapes. Bridging Armenian and global perspectives—encompassing a vast geography from Southeastern Europe to the Middle East and the post-Soviet space—the workshop participants will explore competing narratives on cultural heritage, history and, ultimately, homeland. Drawing from the mutually-enriching expertise of different academic disciplines—from history and political science to sociology and anthropology—this workshop will excavate from the debris of 20th century landscapes silenced narratives on disappeared populations, alien homelands and collective violence.

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

Photo caption: Caption: Garmravank and Lake Van
Photo Credit: Anoush Suny

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:57:39 -0500 2019-02-22T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Garmravank and Lake Van
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Return to authoritarianism in Cambodia (February 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58678 58678-14542708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In 2017, the Cambodian government dismantled the Cambodian National Rescue Party, clamped down on civil liberties and organized elections in 2018 without the presence of a credible opposition party. The presentation examines the reasons underlying the government’s decision to close down democratic space by focusing on the following arguments. First, the presence of some semblance of democracy in Cambodia was the outcome of the Western community’s pressure through its granting financial assistance and preferential trade access to Cambodia. So long as this order permitted the Cambodian People’s Party to maintain its domination, it conceded to Western demands. Second, by the 2013 elections, key socio-economic and political changes culminated in a counter-movement to the CPP’s patronage-based politics. When the CPP felt that its grip on power was threatened, it instituted hegemonic electoral authoritarianism. Third, since Cambodia’s democracy is a product of Western intervention and continued engagement, Cambodia’s recent return to authoritarianism can to great extent be attributed to China’s role as a counter-leverage to Western pressure.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Dec 2018 09:26:52 -0500 2019-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Leadership Lab Lunch and Learn (February 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61120 61120-15036271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Come learn about the Barger Leadership 1 credit course and gain insight into the leadership lab that provides a One-of-a-Kind Leadership Experience! Get details on the class and what to expect before and after signing up!

Sign up for ALA 170, also known as the Leadership Lab, for the Winter 2019 semester! 

Classes start on March 11th.

Mondays | 7:00-9:00 PM | Class #29837
Tuesdays | 6:00-8:00 PM | Class #29869
Wednesdays | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Class #29870

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:29:13 -0500 2019-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar First Tuesday Class Fall 2018
Stories Never Told: Yemen’s Crises & Renaissance (February 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58863 58863-14567902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Stories Never Told is a traveling display curated by local Yemeni-American social entrepreneur Hanan Ali Yahya. The display visually narrates the artistic renaissance born out of Yemen’s crises. It will pilot at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn in February 2019 and travel through Michigan, parts of the United States, and beyond. The gallery will feature the visual art, short films, poetry, writing and productions of Yemeni artists residing in Yemen and the diaspora.

Doors will open at 6:00 PM, and there will be a film showing and talkback at 7:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public, however, an RSVP is required at: https://goo.gl/forms/7lwjMHo4wHb23AFc2.

Sponsored by U-M's Global Islamic Studies Center and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, in partnership with the Arab American National Museum.

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

This display will have two showings, one in Dearborn at the Arab American National Museum on February 21st and one in Ann Arbor at Weiser Hall on February 22nd. Please ensure you RSVP to whichever showing you plan to attend by navigating the events tab on the GISC website.

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Exhibition Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:52:45 -0500 2019-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T22:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Exhibition Stories Never Told
Saturday Morning Physics | Searching for Dark Matter with Antimatter (February 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59484 59484-14745555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Antimatter cosmic ray measurements can advance our understanding of high-energy astrophysical phenomena in our own Galaxy. Over the last years, satellite experiments as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board the International Space Station measure antimatter cosmic ray fluxes, including positrons (the antiparticles of electrons), antiprotons (the antiparticles of protons) and recently antimatter nuclei. These measurements provide a novel probe to search for new physics including annihilations of dark matter in the Milky Way, which I will present.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:42:13 -0500 2019-02-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark Matter and Antimatter Collage
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Informing economic complexity with ecological complexity: Studying sustainable fisheries with complex food webs (February 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61123 61123-15036279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The FAO has warned that fishing rates have reached ecologically unsustainable levels. The risk posed by high fishing rates will increase as economic demand and per-capita fish consumption continue to rise. Considering both these ecological and economic realities is essential to developing long-term sustainable fishing strategies. By incorporating the dynamics of fishing effort into complex, realistic network models of fishery ecosystems, our research can more concretely ask: 1) How does food web structure drive the effect of fisheries on food webs and 2) How do different economic models affect the sustainability of fisheries?

While we find that the initial direct effects on the biomass of the extracted species correlates with the level of fishing effort, the longer term effects on overall food-web structure and community biomass depend upon the identity and connectivity of the species harvested. Intuitively, the structural properties of the food-web itself feed back into the effects of different extraction rates. The additional complexity of variable fishing effort through different economic strategies makes clear the need to consider how to measure sustainability in transient oscillating systems when many traditional economic models concentrate on dynamic equilibrium.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:55:32 -0500 2019-02-26T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Paul Glaum
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mao’s Secret Photo Retoucher: Redefining Chinese Masculinity for a New China (February 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59707 59707-14780086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Dr. Lex Jing Lu is Assistant Professor of History at Clark University. He got his BA at East China Normal University and PhD at Syracuse University. His research focuses on Chinese physiognomy, legitimacy, and the changing conceptualization of political masculinity. His book manuscript “Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China” (under a preliminary contract at Cornell University Press) explores the role that physical appearance has played in Chinese political culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:50:48 -0500 2019-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Lex Jing Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Clark University
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Judicial Politics in Africa (February 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58185 58185-14435500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

This lecture has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances and will be rescheduled for the Fall 2019 semester.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:29:09 -0500 2019-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Shen-Bayh
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CREES Noon Lecture. The Worlding of Eastern Europe: Architects from Socialist Countries in Cold War West Africa (February 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58913 58913-14578307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk revisits one of the most under-researched topics in the history of 20th century modern architecture: African and Asian engagements of architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist countries. Upon their arrival to postcolonial Ghana and Nigeria, architects from socialist Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia drew analogies between the historical experience of Eastern Europe and West Africa as underdeveloped, colonized, and peripheral. This talk will show how these analogies allowed them to draw upon specific design tools and procedures from Eastern European architectural culture—and how their work in West Africa testified to the limits of these correspondences.

Łukasz Stanek is a visiting associate professor of architecture at U-M, and senior lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, the University of Manchester, U.K. Stanek authored "Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory" (2011) and edited Lefebvre’s book "Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment" (2014). He published on cold war mobilities of architecture between socialist countries, West Africa, and the Middle East, which is the topic of his forthcoming book. Previously Stanek taught at ETH Zurich and Harvard University, and received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts (Washington D. C.), among other institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:41:35 -0500 2019-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Pavilion of Ghana
Barger Leadership Institute Speaker Series (February 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59953 59953-14803923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Food for Thought: How two local leaders cultivated mindful careers in the specialty food and food bank sector

Paul Saginaw, Partner, and Co-Founder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses and Food Gatherers
Eileen Spring, President/CEO of Food Gatherers

In 1988 and a few days before Thanksgiving, Food Gatherers became Michigan’s first food rescue program and the first program of its kind to be founded by a small local business, Zingerman’s Delicatessen. Today, co-founder Paul Saginaw is a partner to the Zingerman’s Community of Businesses powered by nearly 600 people in ten different businesses with nearly $60M in annual sales. Eileen Spring, who has been in her role for 24 years, has worked to meet rising levels of food insecurity with a staff of 30 people, more than 7,000 volunteers who deliver 6.5 M pounds of food to people struggling with food insecurity in Washtenaw County. Join us to hear from these two respected local leaders from different sectors but with a singular purpose to provide food to people with excellent service, dignity, and purpose.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:43:09 -0500 2019-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLIspeakerseries
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61374 61374-15097045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join the Cognitive Science Seminar this week as featured speaker Steven Jones (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) presents "A Review of Event Memory." This informal biweekly seminar series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:46:37 -0500 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CSAS Film Series | Soz - A Ballad of Maladies (February 28, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60592 60592-14910410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

India | 2016 | 85 mins

Of folk, rock and hip-hop, this documentary captures the rhythm and blues of resistance in the Kashmir valley. It is a portrait of those musicians and artists who have turned their art into weapons of resistance during periods of heightened state repression and violence in the region. As the Kashmiri satirist and poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef ponders over the credibility of his pen, a sparrow’s song of lament takes over; taking us on a journey to discover the threads of people's history of Kashmir, which has been preserved in the region's folk poetry and music for centuries. A departure from Kashmir's orientalist stereotype of a 'paradise' unfurls a transformed cultural landscape of the deeply militarized valley where spiritual ideals of Sufyana music and traditional poetry metamorphose into political lyricism of modern Hip Hop and Rock. From underground artists and rock musicians to cartoonists and performance artists, the cultural practitioners in the film evoke collective memory of their people whilst negotiating with questions of survival, resistance and freedom – all deeply embroiled in the complex conflict of Kashmir.

About the Directors:
Tushar is an independent filmmaker and film editor based in Mumbai. He has worked on numerous independent and NGO-based documentary films over the last seven years. A post-graduate in mass communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, he has also taught filmmaking at several universities besides filming and editing independent work. Sarvnik is a writer and independent filmmaker based out of the Mumbai film industry. She has worked as a screenwriter in the industry over the last seven years after completing her graduation in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre. Besides writing for films she has also authored a book titled ‘Where arrows meet’. This is the debut feature-length flm of both the filmmakers.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:37 -0500 2019-02-28T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Soz - A Ballad of Maladies
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2019-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 5, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2019-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 6, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2019-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 7, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2019-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 8, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2019-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 11, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
International Institute. How to Build a Competitive PhD Program Application: A Faculty Panel Discussion (March 11, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60918 60918-14988674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Are you interested in pursuing doctoral studies, now or in the future? This interactive panel discussion features four faculty admissions committee veterans: Paroma Chatterjee (History of Art), Allen Hicken (Political Science), Reginald Jackson (Asian Languages and Cultures), and Rob Jansen (Sociology). Based on questions generated by International Institute MA students, as well as questions from the audience, these faculty will share their advice and insights on how to build a stand-out application that showcases your knowledge and abilities.

This event is open to all International Institute MA students, as well as undergraduate juniors and seniors, and MA students from all U-M departments.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, we are eager to help. Please contact asbates@umich.edu. We are able to make most accommodations very easily, but advance notice is appreciated as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. All rooms in Weiser Hall are wheelchair accessible, and a reflection room and lactation room are available.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:17:00 -0500 2019-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Careers / Jobs desk
CSAS Film Series | Is it too much to ask? (March 11, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60594 60594-14910412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

India | 2017 | 30 mins

The film follows the journey of two friends, Smile and Glady, looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in the process for being single and for being transgender women. Their identity renders them vulnerable before the caste ridden, feudal and patriarchal landlords of the city who, by denying them their apartments, deny their existence too. But Smile and Glady face every day as it comes with grace, humor and positivity, turning their anger and frustrations into songs, dances, plays and works of art that supply them with the hope to live.

About the Director:
Leena Manimekalai is a multple award winning flm-maker with ttles like Goddesses (2008), Sengadal (2011), White Van Stories (2015).

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:15:00 -0500 2019-03-11T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Is it too much to ask?
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 12, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-12T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (March 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-03-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Towards a neural and mathematical understanding of how we generate and keep a musical beat (March 12, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59963 59963-14806083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

While many people say they have no rhythm, most humans when listening to music can easily discern and move to a beat. On the other hand, many of us are not so adept at actually generating and maintaining a constant beat over a period of time. Demonstrating a beat is a very complicated task. Among other things, it involves the ability of our brains to estimate time intervals and to make physical movements, for example hitting a drum, in coordination with the time estimates that we make. How the complex system comprised of our brain and body solves this problem is an open and active area of research. In this talk, I will introduce a neuromechanistic model of a beat generator, which is defined here as a group of neurons that can learn to keep a constant beat across a range of frequencies relevant to music. The model is a biophysical manifestation of two different types of models: error/correction and neural entrainment models, both of which will be reviewed. The goal of the talk is not just to introduce a new way of thinking of beat generation, but also to raise a series of questions about the nature of time and the role of perception in our ability to make decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:16:51 -0500 2019-03-12T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Amitabha Bose Photo
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prizes of the "Great Upheaval": The International Politics and Business of Chinese Art During World War I (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59396 59396-14737081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Among the many legacies of World War I (1914–1918) was the rise of the United States as a cultural superpower as seen in the international race to collect and study Chinese art in the early 20th century. The war disrupted many of the institutions that Europeans had built and the social networks they had cultivated over the previous century. Drawing on sources from across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, this talk shows how American collectors and curators took advantage of openings to make uncontested acquisitions and to launch new scholarly projects. Their successes depended in turn on art dealers in China, who saw and seized their own opportunities to build thriving international businesses in the midst of the Great War.

Ian Shin is Assistant Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where his teaching and research focus on the history of the U.S. in the world and Asian American history between 1850 and 1950. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Imperfect Knowledge: Chinese Art and American Power in the Transpacific Progressive Era,” which examines the geopolitics of Chinese art collecting and scholarship in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. His publications have appeared in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations and the Connecticut History Review. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:17:13 -0500 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Fulbright U.S. Student Program General Information Session (March 12, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58739 58739-14551045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will provide an overview of the program and provide basic details related to the application and campus process.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:03:35 -0500 2019-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar logo
Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Korea: Translating Blackness Across the Pacific (March 12, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58074 58074-14401076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

In 1913 the renowned novelist Yi Kwang-su adapted Japanese translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In this work Yi borrows the language of the Japanese colonizer and presents US slavery as a symbolic form of the colonial condition in Korea. But while creating a sympathetic connection between the enslaved and the colonized, Yi refuses to identify Koreans with African Americans as a means of counteracting the colonized’s own subaltern status. This talk explores the entanglements between U.S. sentimentalism, Japanese colonialism, and Korean nationalism in order to define the promises and liabilities of translating blackness in a transpacific context.

Jang Wook Huh is Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is currently working on a book that examines the literary connections between black liberation struggles in the U.S. and anticolonial movements in Korea during the Japanese and American occupations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:39:21 -0500 2019-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Jang Wook Huh, Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
WCED Panel. What's Up with Authoritarian Elections? (March 12, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58923 58923-14578310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Erica Frantz is an assistant professor of political science at Michigan State University. She specializes in authoritarian politics, democratization, conflict, and development. She has published six books on dictatorships and development, the most recent of which is “Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford University Press).

Allen Hicken is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. He studies political institutions and political economy in developing countries with a primary focus on political parties and party systems in developing democracies and their role in policy making. His regional specialty is Southeast Asia where he has worked in Thailand, the Philippines, and Cambodia. He is the author of “Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.

Masaaki Higashijima is an associate professor of political science at Tohoku University, Japan and a visiting research scholar in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. Before arriving in Tohoku, he was a Post-Doctoral Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute and an assistant professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. His research interests include comparative political economy, autocratic politics, democratization, civil conflict, ethnic politics and Central Asia. His articles related to these topics appeared in “British Journal of Political Science,” the “Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Studies in Comparative International Development,” and “World Development.”

Carl Henrik Knutsen is a professor of political science at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Research Group Leader for the Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) group at the same department. He also holds a secondary position as Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), is co-PI of Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), and is a member of the Norwegian Young Academy. He defended his PhD, "The Economic Effects of Democracy and Dictatorship," at the University of Oslo in 2011. Knutsen's research concerns, for example, the economic effects of political institutions, democracy measurement, and the determinants of autocratic breakdown and democratization.

Alberto Simpser is an associate professor of political science at ITAM in Mexico City. He is the author of “Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections” (Cambridge University Press 2013), coeditor (with Tom Ginsburg) of “Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes” (Cambridge University Press 2014), and has published articles in the “American Journal of Political Science,” “Journal of Politics,” “Public Opinion Quarterly,” “Latin American Research Review,” and “Annual Review of Political Science,” among others. He has a PhD in political science from Stanford University. His research interests include the political economy of development, democracy, election fraud, corruption, political culture, and political methodology. Prior to joining ITAM in 2014 he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago’s political science department as assistant professor.

Organized by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies with support from the Center for Political Studies (U-M) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:12:47 -0500 2019-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Authoritarian Elections
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 13, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-13T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CREES Noon Lecture. The Language Politics of Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema: From Unreflective Confusion to Strategic Multilingualism (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58921 58921-14578308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk traces the evolution of post-Soviet Ukrainian cinema, from the excitement and experimentation of the early post-independence years to the serious economic and institutional challenges during the late 1990s and early 2000s, to the creative revival of the latest 5 years, in the post-Euromaidan era. The language choices made by the filmmakers serve as a window into the struggles with questions of identity, implied audience, and aesthetic and political choices. Films examined range from those by leading filmmakers of the older generation, such as Kira Muratova and Iurii Illienko, to prominent younger innovators, such as Myroslav Slaboshpyts´kyi and Kateryna Hornostai.

Vitaly Chernetsky is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. A native of Ukraine, he received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania (1996). He is the author of "Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007; Ukrainian-language edition, Krytyka, 2013) and of numerous articles on Russian and Ukrainian literature and film. A volume of his selected writings in Ukrainian translation is forthcoming from Krytyka. He co-edited an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation, "Crossing Centuries" (2000); a bilingual anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, "Letters from Ukraine" (2016); and an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (2007). He also guest-edited an issue of Kinokultura on Ukrainian cinema (2009). His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels "The Moscoviad" (2008) and "Twelve Circles" (2015) and a volume of his selected poems, "Songs for a Dead Rooster" (2018, with Ostap Kin). He is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and the current vice president and learned secretary of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:46:54 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Vitaly Chernetsky
DiSC Lunch and Learn (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61625 61625-15154690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

DiSC Lunch and Learn, with Lisa Miller | How to lead successfully by understanding yourself and understanding others.

Do you ever wonder what your behavior says about your leadership style? If you are interested in increasing your self-knowledge, responding better to stress and conflict, or you just want to be more effective and understand what motivates you, please come to the next BLI Lunch and Learn with Lisa Miller.

Attendees will be asked to complete a quick online DiSC questionnaire prior to the workshop to determine their key leadership indicators, and also invite four friends to take the same questionnaire, based on their perception of your leadership style.

During the Lunch and Learn, Lisa will discuss your self-assessment and the results of your peer assessments using the DiSC profile. This tool will not only help you recognize your strengths and shortcomings, but it will also increase your relationships by recognizing the communication needs of others while teaching you productive conflict skills. Knowing your style is just part of the puzzle. The DiSC tool will provide you with the opportunity to identify how people's perceptions of you, can either help an/or hinder your leadership style.

Knowing how to lead effectively helps you understand the dispositions and priorities of those around you, which in turn, will increase your effectiveness as both, a leader, and as a person.

Lunch served | Free event

Lisa Miller has over 25 years of experience working in the travel, human resource management, consulting, and education industries as a manager, teacher, and entrepreneur. She has a depth of experience and academic background in business, human resource management and education, which, coupled with her passion for travel and entrepreneurial spirit, has enabled her to combine her love for travel and learning with her work in a variety of venues and situations. | Mrs. Miller graduated from the University of Michigan in 1986, with a B.A. in Managing Human Resources. Lisa began her career with American Airlines, working as a corporate trainer, as well as an operational supervisor in Chicago and New York. After moving from New York to London, she earned her M.A. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, in 1993 from Kingston Business School in England. Upon completion of her graduate degree, Mrs. Miller moved to Boston, where she worked as a senior quality advisor for the Bank of Boston, managing and leading change by providing consultation to senior management throughout the corporation. In 1995, Mrs. Miller moved from Boston to Houston, where she started her own consulting company, Corporate Consulting, where she provided professional training and facilitation services for senior executives and line management personnel. She also started work as an adjunct instructor in the business department of LSC Montgomery Community College in Houston, TX.| Mrs. Miller moved to Minneapolis in 1998. There she continued to teach, holding adjunct teaching positions at both St Thomas University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. She is currently in her 18th year of teaching. In 2011, Mrs. Miller started up her own travel company, which specializes in unique luxury travel for those that are seeking an experience rather than a destination. Lisa is married to Clay Miller and they have 2 daughters. One who graduated for U of M in 2015, and is currently working in PR at Olson Engaged in Chicago, and a current sophomore at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:45:15 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar DiSC
Young Leaders in Human Rights Lecture. How Panzi Hospital and its Foundation Added Advocacy to its Pillars of Care (March 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60784 60784-14963967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Alain Mukwege is a Congolese born physician and a human right activist. His work was inspired by his father’s, Denis Mukwege, the 2018 Nobel Peace prize recipient for his advocacy against sexual violence in conflicts. Alain Mukwege is a member of the advisory board of Panzi Foundation USA, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide holistic care to victims of sexual violence and to advocate to end violence against women and girls in DR Congo and beyond its borders. He holds a Master a Clinical research and Translational Science and his research interests lie in the development of mechanisms to improve Women’s health and to prevent gender based violence.

Presently living in Ann Arbor Michigan to prepare for a training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, his work also involves building partnerships between American institutions and Panzi Hospital to help develop local Congolese capacities to address local problems. This framed collaborations with notably, the University Of Michigan School Of Nursing and with World without Genocide. He believes that the cessation of violence against women would be indispensable in the advancement of healthy communities and that violence against women in addition to be a violation of basic human rights is also a global health hazard.

This event is sponsored by: Program in International and Comparative Studies and Donia Human Rights Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:52:17 -0500 2019-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker
Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking For and How to Get Them (March 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62053 62053-15282558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking For and How to Get Them Workshop.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:19:53 -0400 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
BLI Engaged Leadership: Psychology of Creativity (March 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61624 61624-15154689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Prof. Seifert is an Arthur Tharnau Professor of Psychology, a Cognitive Scientist with and an authority on psychological research on creativity. 

She has received several awards for her research and teaching. Prof. Seifert’s workshop will focus on the relevance of current research on creativity for mindful and engaged leadership. 

BLI Engaged Leadership Sessions: The overarching goals of these workshops are: (a) to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on engaged leadership; (b) to learn about the complex dimensions of being an engaged leader; (c) to provide a variety of tools to cultivate leadership skills.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:55:33 -0400 2019-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar Engaged Leader
Cognitive Science Community (March 13, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62052 62052-15282557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The group's next professor talk will be this Wednesday, March 13th, at Weiser 955, starting at 7:30 pm. Associate Professor Eric Lormand will be joining us to discuss "The Easy Hard and Hard Easy Problems of Consciousness."

Professor Lormand’s research concerns those mental phenomena that inspire philosophical challenges to cognitive science, including consciousness and qualia, self-knowledge, meaning, mental representation, emotions, skills, and rationality. Currently he is working on the epistemic justification of logic, of inference to the best explanation, and of evaluations. He is also interested in pursuing related issues in phenomenology and metaphysics.

Overview
"The Easy Hard and Hard Easy Problems of Consciousness: Two Reasons to Be Nice"
The famous so-called “hard problem” about explaining conscious experience--which many like David Chalmers take to be a show-stopper--turns out to be easy. If you’re nice I’ll tip you off on how to solve it. But there’s a different reason why none of the famous theories you can read about in online encyclopedias (theories from philosophers and scientists like Tye, Tononi, Prinz, Penrose, Lycan, Kriegel, Koch, Dennett, Chalmers, Carruthers, Block, Baars) come anywhere close to explaining conscious experience. I’ll describe that second easy-to-understand problem, and if you’re extra nice I’ll tip you off on how to solve it, too.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:50:54 -0400 2019-03-13T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Lormand flyer
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 14, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Trying to Figure Out Japan for 50 Years (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61479 61479-15114927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

I first noticed Japan in 1959, thanks to being sent to Okinawa by the US Army. Since then it has stimulated my curiosity and life almost continuously. My PhD thesis focused on whether the “incremental” theory of American budgeting worked for Japan. I then tried to see if non-traditional decision-making theories helped to disentangle the development of Japanese old-age policy. More recently, I have worked on analyzing Japanese public policies in health care and long-term care, which are distinctive and interesting and also may offer lessons for other countries.

John Campbell: Professor Emeritus of Political Science and the University of Michigan. Campbell served as director of the Center for Japanese Studies from 1982 to 1987. He received the Order of the Rising Sun (Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon) from the Japanese government in 2019. Campbell studies the relationship between politics and substantive public policy in Japan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:30:22 -0500 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker
CGIS / LSA Program Leader Health & Safety Workshop (March 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61823 61823-15212840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Join us for our annual Health & Safety Workshop for our 2019 CGIS Faculty! While not required, faculty / staff who are leading LSA students on a (non-CGIS) program abroad are also strongly encouraged to attend.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail the LSA International Health & Safety Advisor Rachel Reuter at reuterra@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:59:41 -0500 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Workshop / Seminar Professor teaching students abroad
2019 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture: Views of the Ottoman Empire: Discovering the Visual Record in Motion (March 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57980 57980-14383891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

A wave of handsome volumes about photography in the Ottoman Empire has appeared in the past decade, straddling an uneasy border between nostalgic evocations of a voiceless time just beyond our grasp, and visual markers guiding us to a more complex reading of a challenging historical epoch. The reproductions of these images are a fairly easy task that enable widespread distribution, but what of the hours of footage from the same period, largely sitting uncatalogued in film archives across the globe? Mostly shot by Western cameramen sent by studios such as Lumière, Pathé, Urban, and Edison, these actualities, ranging from views of the ruins at Ani to street performers in Constantinople, panoramas of minarets in Sarajevo to newsreels of Sultan Mehmed V, are now largely inaccessible and poorly researched. The surviving record for Armenia is particularly problematic, existing in unidentified fragments recording refugees from the genocide or international inspectors sent to investigate the massacres. “Views of the Ottoman Empire” is a project begun in 2014 by several archivists and independent scholars to identify what moving images remain, research their history, distribution and reception, and screen curated programs in both the countries where they were initially shot and among diasporic communities for whom film provides an emotional connection that is difficult to quantify. This lecture will discuss the identification and reevaluation of these little-seen films, alongside thoughts regarding their meaning for audiences today.

New York-born Jay Weissberg lives in Rome and has been a film critic there for Variety since 2003, traveling to film festivals throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America. His work on contemporary cinema has appeared in international publications including Sight & Sound and The London Review of Books. He has contributed essays in numerous festival and retrospective catalogues, with a particular focus on recent Arab and Romanian film. He was appointed director of the Giornate del Cinema Muto/Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 2015, has written widely about silent film, and is co-curator of the Ottoman Film Project, an initiative to identify, catalog, and screen films shot in the Ottoman Empire. A frequent participant on festival juries, he often takes part in panel discussions on the current state of cinema and film criticism, has been a guest of the Harvard Film Archives/Gulbenkian Foundation’s Cinema Dialogues, and is a regular moderator of Masterclasses with filmmakers such as Ethan Hawke, Sally Potter, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mia Farrow, and Gabriel García Bernal. In programs for young film critics in Rotterdam, Berlin, Cairo, Locarno, Abu Dhabi and Melbourne he has acted as a mentor. His discussion on new Romanian cinema appears as an extra on Criterion’s new Bluray/DVD release of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

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Cosponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Media.

Photo Caption: Caption: Museo del Cinema, Turin, Italy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:11:22 -0500 2019-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Caption: Museo del Cinema, Turin, Italy
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 15, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CJS US–Japan Automotive Conference 2.0 (March 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61072 61072-15027205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please find full conference details here: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/conferences-and-symposia/us-japan-auto-conference-2-0---friday--march-15--2019.html

A revival of the US-Japan Automotive Conference held annually between 1981 and 1989, USJAC 2.0 will gather industry leaders, policymakers, and scholars from both sides of the Pacific to discuss the past, present, and future of the US and Japanese auto industries, paying particular attention to the issues of trade, management, and technological change. Keynote speaker and panelist announcements forthcoming.

The conference is free and open to the public. Please register your attendance via our EventBrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-japan-automotive-conference-20-tickets-55346759648

Questions? Feel free to contact Brad Hammond at bradlyh@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:31:33 -0400 2019-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium CJS US–Japan Automotive Conference 2.0
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. On filthy nouns and dirty verbs: Translating sex in Tagalog missionary linguistics (March 15, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58608 58608-14517942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Some of the oldest specimens of indigenous literacies in the Philippines are found in the linguistic texts written by Catholic missionaries who wanted to talk about Christianity in any of the archipelago’s many tongues. These texts, the object of the discipline we now refer to as missionary linguistics, constitute the earliest systematic attempt to reduce these languages into a set of replicable rules. While current research directions generally analyze missionary linguistics as a resource for studying early written forms of non-European languages or for reconstructing the initial stages of linguistics as a scientific pursuit, I argue that it can similarly be examined as a corpus of translation. This is particularly true for colonial articulations about sex. In this presentation, I will describe how missionary texts on Tagalog, the basis of the modern-day national language called Filipino, commemorated sexual practices in the early modern Philippines through the use of a specific translational repertoire. I will show instances where the juxtaposition of the translational parameters of equivalence, incommensurability and untranslatability with the moral teachings on human sexuality resulted in peculiar translation strategies for describing indigenous sexualities and inscribing them into a Christianized discourse on civility.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:18:46 -0500 2019-03-15T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-15T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: Lunch & Learn (March 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59954 59954-14803924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Are you considering studying, researching, or teaching English abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program? Are you wondering what a Fulbright year abroad is really like?

Join us for a presentation and discussion with Chiamaka Ukachukwu: Fulbrighter (Study/Research-Belgium, 2017-18) and newly named Fulbright U.S. Student Program Alumni Ambassador (2019-2020).

There will be a short presentation by campus advisors about the opportunities available and application process through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, followed by an open Q & A with Chiamaka.

A light lunch will be served. Limited attendance and registration is required.

Register for this event here: https://goo.gl/forms/HBxsKYJQSp5Oy08N2

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:21:43 -0500 2019-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar ChiChi
CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation (March 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53188 53188-13278543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

One of the primary strategies through which the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM) in India seeks to challenge the reform of laws of marriage and gender-based violence established through feminist mobilization, is to claim recognition within global discourses of human rights and gender equity, aligning with the messages of a range of groups across the political spectrum. This paper explores how these alignments draw on images of feminism as modernity and menace, and normative masculinity as bewilderment, abandonment and alienation, appropriating the identities of marginalized men and feminized weakness to their advantage. I draw upon my ethnographic fieldwork with Men’s Rights Activists across Indian cities to identify some of the contradictions about gendered and intersectional power within such representations and their connection to MRM movement strategies. I argue that Men’s Rights Activists’ practices of projecting vengeance and claiming vulnerability in legal and political realms are premised upon inversions of discourses of power, elisions of gender, caste and class, and conflations of feminism and the State.

Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia Center Affiliates. She has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Cultural Studies/ Anthropology/ Women's Studies, and her teaching, research and community work interests include Legal Anthropology, Women in Development, Feminist Jurisprudence, South Asia, Feminist Theory and Methodology, Work, Property and Violence Against Women. Following an ethnographic study of feminist legal reform, marriage, courts, mediation, rape and domestic violence law, she conducted fieldwork on men's rights activits, marriage and domestic violence, the subject of her 2013-14 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship in India and now a monograph in process.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:37:40 -0500 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Srimati Basu
Saturday Morning Physics | Rare Events in the Short Happy Lives of Muons and Kaons (March 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59599 59599-14754552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

As our understanding of the building blocks of matter and how they interact has increased, particle physicists have turned their attention to finding processes not known in the Standard Model. We will talk about two searches for rare processes involving the decays of muons and kaons.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:42:36 -0500 2019-03-16T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-16T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Full Detector
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Conversations on Europe. Different Pathways, Common Destination? Public Policy and Institutional Changes in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain during and after the Economic Crisis (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59375 59375-14734950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

While Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain slid into economic crisis in the 2010 for different reasons and at different time points and have already started overcoming the crises in a varied manner, there was visible policy convergence among the four countries. There were similar policy responses regarding fiscal, macroeconomic, incomes, welfare and labor relations’ issues. Moreover, despite the fact that the four countries had followed different paths to government reform and administrative modernization before the crisis, they eventually converged towards similar policy responses regarding government organization and public administration. The observed convergence may be interpreted through external constraints imposed by Europe and international organizations and creditors and through the adoption of public management ideas, which prevailed in international and domestic policy networks. Policy shifts were not evenly implemented across the four countries for reasons related to historical legacies of state-society relations and variations in political party systems. Such legacies may also help explain why Greece remained a reform laggard compared to the rest of South European countries.

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and Onassis Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in 2018-19. He is on leave from his post as professor of political science at the University of Athens. In 2003 he was senior research fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics; in 2009-10 visiting fellow in South East European studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; and in the autumn of 2016 visiting fellow at Science Po, Paris. He serves on the editorial boards of "South European Society and Politics," "Journal of Mediterranean Politics," "South East European and Black Sea Studies," "European Political Science Review," and the "Greek Review of Political Science." Sotiropoulos studied law and sociology at the Law School of the University of Athens (LLB), the London School of Economics (MSc), and Yale University (Ph.D., awarded with distinction, 1991). Recent books in English include "Αusterity and the Third Sector in Greece: Civil Society at the European Frontline," (with J. Clarke and A. Huliaras, 2015) and "Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion under the Crisis" (co-edited with D. Katsikas and M. Zafeiropoulou, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:14:00 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Dimitri Sotiropoulos
International Studies Alumni Career Panel (March 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58484 58484-14508638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) will host the third annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel on March 18, 2019 in 1010 Weiser Hall (10th Floor). This alumni panel will showcase and celebrate the university’s rich history of contributions made by International Studies alumni, while providing valuable insight for current students as they start to develop their own career paths. The panel will include a student Q&A portion; a networking reception with light appetizers will follow.

PICS is home to the International Studies major and minor. Established in 2009, International Studies is one of the largest majors in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with over 1,500 accomplished alumni worldwide. International Studies graduates pursue numerous career paths, many going on to work with corporations, non-profits, or government agencies, as well as progressing directly on to graduate school.

Learn where an International Studies major can take you!

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Department of Political Science, LSA Opportunity Hub, Residential College, and Sigma Iota Rho – Honor Society for International Studies.

Panelists:

Zoe Berkery, CleanCapital, New York, NY
BA International Studies – Global Environment and Health; BA Environment ’12
Zoe Berkery is the vice president of CleanCapital. Zoe’s responsibilities include asset management and optimization of CleanCapital’s solar portfolios, as well as assisting with operations and investor relations. Zoe’s passion for clean energy first took her to Washington, D.C. to focus on the policy side of the sector. She worked for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE), a clean energy trade association, where she managed its clean air program area and assisted with international programs at the United Nations climate conferences. Prior to BCSE, Zoe worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Office of Federal Sustainability. She is the New York chapter co-chair for Women in Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy and a Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellow. Zoe has also lived and studied in Dakar, Senegal.

Peter Calloway, San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, San Francisco, CA
BA International Studies – International Security, Norms and Cooperation ’13
Peter Calloway is a lawyer working with the San Francisco Public Defender’s office on a project targeting misconduct by prosecutors, the primary drivers of the American incarceration crisis. Through his project, he hopes to help re-sensitize the public and the actors in the criminal legal system to the harm and suffering the system produces daily. He is developing tools to enable public defender offices across the country to track and respond to the prosecutorial misconduct they routinely encounter. Peter graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies – International Security, Norms, and Cooperation. From there, he attended the University of Michigan Law School, where he developed a pro bono project designed to help people incarcerated in Louisiana prisons access the legal research they needed to litigate their appeals. Upon graduating in 2016, he spent a year serving as a law clerk to a judge on the Superior Court of Washington, D.C. Peter wants to help end mass human caging, racism, sexism, capitalism, many of the other “isms”, poverty, inequality, and injustice, and he hopes to align with people who want the same things. In his spare time, he tries to play the piano.

Eileen Enright, World Education, Cambridge, MA
BA International Studies – International Security, Norms and Cooperation; BA Political Science; BA Spanish ’16
Eileen Enright graduated in 2016 with bachelor's degrees in Political Science, Spanish, and International Studies. During her time at Michigan, she co-founded the Panhellenic Peer Educators, interned at the U.S. House of Representatives and for KIWAKKUKI Women Against AIDS Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, studied abroad in Buenos Aires, and earned Highest Honors for her thesis examining the relationship between election quotas and female political power. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2016 to 2018 in Mozambique, where she managed HIV prevention and treatment campaigns. Eileen currently lives in Cambridge and works for an international development company called World Education, where she and a team of other returned Peace Corps Volunteers manage USAID projects in Mozambique.

Martha Fedorowicz, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
BA French; BA Political Science; minor, International Studies ’11
Martha Fedorowicz received bachelor's degrees in Political Science and French with a minor in International Studies from the University of Michigan in 2011. Following graduation, she moved to Morocco to serve as a youth development volunteer in the Peace Corps from 2012 to 2014. After returning from the Peace Corps, Martha continued to work in the youth development field as a site-based program coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Chicago. In 2016, she returned to the University of Michigan to pursue a masters of public policy degree from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. While there, she specialized in neighborhood development, local government innovation, civic engagement, and housing policy. As a masters student, Martha interned with the City of Detroit Mayor’s Office in the Department of Neighborhoods and worked on consulting projects for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the City of Lansing Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement. During school, she also worked part-time as the head U-M campus recruiter for the Peace Corps and was a graduate student instructor for the “Introduction to Arab Culture” class in the Department of Middle East Studies. Following graduation, Martha was hired as a special projects administrator for the City of Lansing's Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement. She is now working as a policy analyst in the Research to Action Lab at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. In this role, she works with local government agencies and nonprofits to deliver technical assistance and translate research into implementable policy.

Daniel Habif, Comcast NBCUniversal, Washington, D.C.
BA International Studies – International Security, Norms and Cooperation ’15
Daniel graduated from the University of Michigan in 2015 with a BA in International Studies focused on International Security, Norms and Cooperation. After graduating, Daniel moved to Washington, D.C. and began working for Congressman David Scott. Interested in going to law school, Daniel then got a job as a paralegal at a white-collar law firm where he worked until he began law school at American University. At law school, Daniel has gained professional experience from numerous government agencies, including the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission, as well as the federal courts for Judge Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Through these internships, Daniel found his legal focus in antitrust and communications law. Last summer, Daniel worked in the Brussels office of Bryan Cave on European Union antitrust law, and is currently interning in the Public Policy Office of Comcast NBCUniversal.

Nicole Khamis, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Detroit, MI
BA International Studies – International Security, Norms and Cooperation; BA Middle Eastern and North African Studies ’17
Nicole Khamis graduated in 2017 from the University of Michigan with majors in International Studies and Middle Eastern and North African Studies. During her time as a student, Nicole founded the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, a nonprofit organization which serves to utilize students as resources for recently resettled refugees during the global refugee crisis. In her first year as a postgraduate, Nicole was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and lived in Jordan while working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees as a teacher. During her time in Jordan, Nicole also interned with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), where she worked as a translator and legal intern. With these experiences and exposure to the injustices and structural inequalities refugees face, Nicole hopes to go to law school in the near future and specialize in refugee and asylum law. Currently, Nicole is an intern at the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.

Hugo Le Du, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Columbus, OH
BA International Studies – Political Economy and Development; BA Economics ’14
Hugo Le Du was born in Grenoble, France, immigrating to the United States with his family in 1998. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014 with dual majors in International Studies and Economics. While in school, Hugo was a part of the WE READ volunteer organization, which focused on helping underserved elementary students improve their reading skills. He has carried on this passion for helping to increase literacy by currently volunteering in the Columbus Public Library System. Hugo started his career at J.P. Morgan Chase in 2015 as an analyst in a corporate development program where he was exposed to both the consumer bank, and asset and wealth management sides of the business. After completion of the program, Hugo settled in his current full-time role as a control manager in the consumer bank. His responsibilities include ensuring that all risks within consumer banking are properly mitigated, as well as performing reporting and analytics. In his free time, Hugo enjoys playing soccer, hiking, traveling, and going to concerts.

Aditi Shetty, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY
BA International Studies – Political Economy and Development; BA Political Science ’14
Aditi Shetty is the senior program coordinator at Human Rights Watch, where she has worked in the Program Office since 2016 to support strategy, research, and programming across the organization’s 15 regional and thematic divisions. She has also conducted field research in Kenya and currently manages the production process for the annual World Report. As an elected union representative at Human Rights Watch, she also works to protect and defend the rights of United States–based support staff and provides input on institutional initiatives and priorities. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Aditi interned with the Global Policy and Advocacy team at Global Citizen, where she supported campaigns on global refugee education and women’s rights, published editorials and op-eds, and provided research assistance on various domestic and international policy issues. She is also a volunteer crisis counselor and advocate with the Crime Victims Treatment Center, providing emergency room intervention and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault and domestic and intimate partner violence in New York City. Aditi is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Young Professionals Briefing Series and was a 2018 Fellow for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Aditi graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014 with bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and International Studies – Political Economy and Development. She also pursued coursework in History and International Law at Trinity College, University of Oxford.

Moderator:
Bryna Worner, Program in International and Comparative Studies and Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
BA International Studies; BA Political Science; BA Spanish ’13

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

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:07:21 -0500 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Careers / Jobs place holder
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Globally Engaged Career Panel (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60919 60919-14988676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Students and community members interested in globally-engaged career paths will gain new perspectives and job search insights from this interactive panel discussion. Three distinguished professionals from JPMorgan Chase’s Global Philanthropy Department, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the Inter-American Foundation will share their stories and experiences, based on questions prepared in advance by International Institute MA students. A Q&A with the audience and a catered reception will follow.

FERNANDO SNOWDEN-LORENCE
Vice President, Global Philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase

As a vice president in Global Philanthropy, Fernando Snowden-Lorence leads the Fellowship Initiative (TFI) in New York. Created by JPMorgan Chase in 2010, TFI is a nationally recognized youth development program that prepares young men of color for academic and professional success. Fernando manages the curriculum, partnerships, budgeting, and internal collaborations for the program. In addition, he has contributed to a number of employee resource groups including VETS, BOLD, and PRIDE; he has served as the co-chair of the Advocacy and Community Partnerships Committee for the Hispanic and Latino Business Resource Group, Adelante.

A veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Fernando served in the United States Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve for nine and a half years, where he held the rank of Staff Sergeant. Before joining JPMorgan Chase, Fernando spent 15 years working in education, volunteer management, and political advocacy, and he was an entrepreneur in the non-profit and youth development fields. He has held senior leadership roles in regional non-profits working throughout the Northeast focused on community and civic engagement, next generation learning models, and educational diversity. He holds a B.A. in organizational anthropology and philosophy from Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife.

COURTNEY MEYER
Communications Specialist, HarvestPlus, International Food Policy Research Institute

Courtney Meyer is the communications specialist for HarvestPlus at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. HarvestPlus improves nutrition and public health by developing and promoting biofortified staple crops rich in vitamins and minerals. She draws on experiences as a storyteller, project manager, researcher, and editor to translate research and knowledge into impact and outcomes. Passionate about ending malnutrition, she has worked with the nongovernmental organization Helen Keller International, communicating their holistic efforts preventing malnutrition and blindness, and volunteered with the humanitarian organization Million Meal Movement to run meal packs and organize an annual million meal marathon.

Courtney is also a 12-year volunteer and leadership seminar chairwoman with Hugh O’Brian Youth (HOBY), a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring young people to become catalysts for positive change. Courtney graduated with distinction with a M.S. in development studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London, England). She holds a B.A. (Honors) in economics and management and international studies from Albion College in Michigan. Following graduation, she interned with the U.S. Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 2018, she was awarded the college’s Young Alumni Award for exceptional achievement within ten years of graduating.

AMBER FORBES
Senior Advisor, Inter-American Foundation

Amber Forbes is an international development specialist with nearly a decade of experience representing U.S. interests at diplomatic and development agencies. Currently a senior advisor at the Inter-American Foundation, Amber works directly with the CEO to promote inter-office collaboration, implement agency-wide strategies, and lead the agency's 50th anniversary campaign. Amber previously worked at the Department of State as a civil service employee in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs for seven years. She spent her first three years as a public affairs specialist in the Bureau’s Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and later accepted a position as a social development officer in the Bureau’s Office of Economic Policy and Summit Coordination. In this role, she managed more than $3.5 million in presidential initiatives promoting women’s entrepreneurship and social protection throughout the hemisphere and was a member of the negotiating team for the VII Summit of the Americas. During her tenure at the Department of State, Amber completed a six-month rotation as a program officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation where she managed the $277 million El Salvador Investment Compact. Amber holds a masters in public affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School where she focused on international development. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan where she double majored in political science and Latin American and Caribbean studies.

This event was made possible thanks to generous funding from the International Institute, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, II Academic Services, Global Scholars Program, and Residential College. This event is also funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, we are eager to help. Please contact asbates@umich.edu. We are able to make most accommodations very easily, but advance notice is appreciated as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. All rooms in Weiser Hall are wheelchair accessible, and a reflection room and lactation room are available. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be provided at the reception.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:30:23 -0500 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Careers / Jobs event_image
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China's Universities in Perspective (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59391 59391-14737080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In this talk, Professor Qian will review the major initiatives for China's universities in the past two decades, analyze the major global rankings of these universities, and discuss the challenges of China's higher education.

Yingyi Qian is Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University and former Dean (2006-2018), of the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. He was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University. He was on the economics faculties at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Qian was elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2012 and a recipient of the 2009 Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Sciences and the inaugural 2016 China Economics Prize. His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition and the Chinese economy. He is the author of the book "How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market" (The MIT Press, 2017) and has published articles in international journals such as "The American Economic Review," "Journal of Political Economy," "The Quarterly Journal of Economics," and "The Review of Economic Studies."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:14:38 -0500 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CREES Distinguished Lecture. The Truth about Lies in International Relations: Reflections on the Media in Russia and Beyond (March 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59377 59377-14737029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Lots of countries lie.

Some call it “winning hearts and minds,” others call it “strategic communications,” still others call it “softening the battlefield.” However it’s described, propaganda is a key component of international relations, a tool employed both by diplomats and warriors. Russia has used propaganda since the 1917 Russian Revolution both to mold the minds of its own citizens and to spread the gospel of Marxism-Leninism around the world. Today’s Russia uses a well-honed media strategy to craft public opinion at home—and to promote the country’s public image abroad.

But the Kremlin also uses propaganda—now turbo-charged by digital advances like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big-data analytics—as a tool of war, a less-costly form of conflict than shedding blood, to undermine and weaken foes.

Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief, examines how Russia uses information, and disinformation, to achieve its strategic objectives.

Jill Dougherty served as CNN correspondent for three decades, reporting from more than 50 countries. She is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and a CNN Contributor who provides expert commentary on Russia and the post-Soviet region. Ms. Dougherty joined CNN in 1983, and was appointed Moscow Bureau Chief in 1997. During nearly a decade in that post, she covered the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, Russia's post-Soviet economic transition, terrorist attacks, the conflict in Chechnya, Georgia's Rose Revolution and Ukraine's Orange Revolution. After a long career with CNN, Ms. Dougherty pursued academic interests, most recently as a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. An alumna of the University of Michigan, she has a B.A. in Slavic languages and literature, a certificate of language study from Leningrad State University, and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. In addition to writing for CNN.com, her articles on international issues have appeared in the “Washington Post,” "Huffington Post,” and “The Atlantic,” among other publications. Jill Dougherty is also a member of track-two diplomatic initiatives seeking to improve the U.S.-Russia relationship.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:08:27 -0500 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jill Dougherty
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CREES Roundtable. Ukraine Now: What's at Stake? (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59871 59871-14795177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Ukraine is at a crossroads, facing multiple challenges. This roundtable of U-M experts will discuss the ongoing conflict in the east, the current human rights situation in Crimea, and upcoming presidential elections.

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, CREES director. Presenters: Oksana Malanchuk, senior social science research associate (retired), U-M; Greta Uehling, lecturer of international and comparative studies, U-M; Yuri M. Zhukov, assistant professor of political science, U-M.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:50:54 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Study/Research, Arts Information Session (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60264 60264-14855609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your project.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:18:40 -0500 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
ASP Book Tour: The Armenian Legionnaires: Sacrifice and Betrayal in World War I (March 20, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59724 59724-14780107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Following the devastation resulting from the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, Europe and North and South America. Not content with watching World War I silently from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian volunteers joined the Légion d'Orient. They were trained in Cyprus and fought courageously in Palestine alongside Allied commander General Allenby, eventually playing a crucial role in defeating the German and Ottoman forces in Palestine at the Battle of Arara in September 1918. The Armenian legionnaires signed up on the understanding that they would be fighting in Syria and Turkey, and, should the Allies be successful, they would be part of an occupying army in their old homelands, laying the foundation for a self-governing Armenian state.

Susan Pattie describes the motivations and dreams of the Armenian Legionnaires and their ultimate betrayal as the French and the British shifted their priorities, leaving their ancestral homelands to the emerging Republic of Turkey. Complete with eyewitness accounts, letters and photographs, this book provides an insight into relations between the Great Powers through the lens of a small, vulnerable people caught in a war that was not their own, but which had already destroyed their known world.

Copies of "The Armenian Legionnaires" will be available for purchase (cash only) at the event.

Susan Pattie, former Director of the Armenian Institute in London is currently leader of the Pilot Project of the Armenian Diaspora Survey, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:03:52 -0500 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Susan Paul Pattie, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University College London
BLI Speaker Series: What's going on in the world of work? (March 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61871 61871-15223795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The recipe for career success used to be clear: get into the best college you can, study something practical, take a job with a name-brand corporation, work your way up the career ladder, and retire to Boca with a company pension and health plan.

But with the corporate world dis-integrating, careers turned into jobs and now jobs are turning into gigs. What are the opportunities and hazards for leaders in this new world of work? Does everyone have to learn Python and SQL, or can you get by on great soft skills?
This talk has all the answers.

Jerry Davis is the Associate Dean for Business+Impact at Michigan Ross, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published widely in management, sociology, and finance.

Davis’s research is broadly concerned with the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether "shareholder capitalism" is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States.

The Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) is a student-powered, faculty-guided community dedicated to developing student leadership learning and practice. The BLI Speaker Series offers an opportunity to explore the rich body of research about engaged leadership and to hear from faculty, organizational leaders and alumni who have worked to develop their own leadership capacity.

Open to the public, free of charge, light snacks

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:03:46 -0400 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Presentation BLISS
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
Islamic Peace Studies Conference. The Abode of Peace: Spirituality and Harmony in Islam (March 22, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60785 60785-14963969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

This conference explores the spiritual dimension of peace in Islam. Negative peace has been defined as the absence of violent conflict and concerns security arrangements. Positive peace has been defined as actions, policies, and attitudes that promote peace. Our concern here is with positive peace, and with its inner manifestations, in affect, attitude and personal behavior. Sufism has been a major site of such peace-related themes, but they appear in other arenas of Islamic practice as well.

This conference includes:

Thursday, March 21, 6:00–9:00 p.m., Michigan Room, Michigan League
Evening Keynote, “Reframing Peace: Muslim Stories of Peacemaking for the 21st Century,” with Dr. Irfan Omar (Marquette University) at 7:00 pm.
Dinner starts at 6:00 pm.

Friday, March 22, 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., 1010 Weiser Hall
All day conference with presentations by Professors Juan Cole (University of Michigan), Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois), Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan), Jennifer Nourse (University of Richmond).

Saturday, March 23: 6:00–8:30 p.m., Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church
Islamic Peace Presentations and Community Dinner
Presentations by Professors Juan Cole (University of Michigan), Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois, Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan), and Jennifer Nourse (University of Richmond).
Dinner starts at 6:00pm. Presentations will begin at 6:30pm.

Funding for this project comes from the International Institute Enterprise Fund. This event series is free and open to the public.

Cosponsors: African Studies Center, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Department of Middle East Studies, Michigan State University's Muslim Studies Program, Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar, and the Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: Jessica Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu, 7-4143

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:45:00 -0400 2019-03-22T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Conference / Symposium image
AMAS and CMENAS Event. Islamophobia Working Group Meeting (March 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54295 54295-14433282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We -- a group of faculty, staff, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years, the IWG has been run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture; starting in Fall 2018, the IWG will be co-led by AMAS and CMENAS.

Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student, staff, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus, if you encounter a pertinent issue, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group.

If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu), or IWG student coordinator, Silan Fadlallah (silanf@umich.edu).

Cosponsors: American Culture; Arab Muslim & American Studies; Islamic Studies Program; Office of Multiethnic Student Affairs; Muslim Students' Association; Arab Students' Association; International Institute

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:43:10 -0500 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Meeting event_image
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (March 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61942 61942-15241348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Despite the promise of big data, inferences are often limited not by sample size but rather by systematic effects. Only by carefully modeling these effects can we take full advantage of the data -- big data must be complemented with big models and the algorithms that can fit them. One such algorithm is Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, which exploits the inherent geometry of the posterior distribution to admit full Bayesian inference that scales to the complex models of practical interest. In this talk I will present a conceptual discussion of the challenges inherent to Bayesian computation and the foundations of why Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in uniquely suited to surmount them.

Bio: Michael Betancourt is the principal research scientist with Symplectomorphic, LLC where he develops theoretical and methodological tools to support practical Bayesian inference. He is also a core developer of Stan, where he implements and tests these tools. In addition to hosting tutorials and workshops on Bayesian inference with Stan he also collaborates on analyses in epidemiology, pharmacology, and physics, amongst others. Before moving into statistics, Michael earned a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:43:04 -0500 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Michael Betancourt, PhD
CSEAS Film Series. “Yanan,” a film by Mae Caralde. Film screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. (March 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59601 59601-14754554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Ka Yanan, a member of the Philippine revolutionary movement, died during an encounter with government troops in 2012, and is survived by a son and two daughters. The film shows how the revolutionary’s children, grown into young adulthood, cope with their grief and pay homage to their departed mother. As they ponder their memories of Ka Yanan and the cause to which she pledged her life, they find among her possessions poems, letters, and recordings. Kept away for 15 years, the materials reveal aspects of Ka Yanan’s personal and political struggles that her children had previously not fully grasped.

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Film Screening Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:22:03 -0500 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening event_image
3rd Annual Cognitive Science Colloquium (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62236 62236-15335281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The third annual Cognitive Science Colloquium, hosted by the Cognitive Science Community student organization, will take place on Saturday March 23, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall. The colloquium features an undergraduate research showcase, a graduate and professional panel session, and presentations by guest speakers Jonathan Brennan (Linguistics), Nick Ellis (Psychology/Linguistics) and Nia Dowell (School of Information). The event is a great opportunity to learn about a variety of new ideas in cognitive science, opportunities in research, and career pathways, as well as a great way to engage with people in cognitive science from a wide range of different backgrounds. Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:48:57 -0400 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Conference / Symposium CogSci Colloquium flyer
Galaxies Galore! Precision Cosmology with Large Scale Structure - Saturday Morning Physics (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62416 62416-15364098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

What is the universe made of? How does it behave on the largest scales? I will discuss how cosmologists are attempting to answer these questions and more using state-of-the-art telescopes that map millions of galaxies across the cosmos.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:08:48 -0400 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | From Tiny to Huge and Something in Between: Exploring the Universe of Neutrinos, Magnets and Galaxies (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59602 59602-14754555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The Elusive Neutrino
Rory Fitzpatrick, Graduate Student Research Assistant (U-M Physics)
The neutrino is simultaneously one of the most abundant and evasive particles in our universe; it is particularly difficult to detect, but holds the key to understanding fundamental questions about the world in which we live. How do we photograph rare neutrino interactions? And what can we learn from those images once we capture them?

Magnetic Microscopy: New Techniques to Measure Magnetism
Lu Chen, Graduate Student Research Assistant (U-M Physics)
The quartz tuning fork has been used as a time standard in the wrist watch for over 50 years. We use it to develop a high-resolution magnetometry, which could be used to measure the magnetism in many novel materials.

Galaxies Galore! Precision Cosmology with Large Scale Structure
Noah Weaverdyck, Ph.D. Candidate (U-M Physics)
What is the universe made of? How does it behave on the largest scales? I will discuss how cosmologists are attempting to answer these questions and more using state-of-the-art telescopes that map millions of galaxies across the cosmos.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:43:05 -0500 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Observation
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (March 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-03-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Confined curved shells and their elaborate conformations (March 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61796 61796-15186441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Curved shells, when confined, can deform to a broad assortment of large scale shapes and smaller scale wrinkling and folding patterns quite unlike those produced by their flat counterparts. The intrinsic, natural curvature of an elastic shell is the central element that allows for this rich and very interesting morphological landscape. It is also the source of the geometric nonlinearities that render a direct analytic treatment of non-Euclidean shells difficult, even under small forces or applied loads. In this talk we examine some snapshots of this morphological landscape. Inspired by the natural folding and unfolding of pollen grains, we use theory, simulations and experiments to explore the large scale deformation of a confined thin spherical shell with an opening. We then proceed to investigate the surface topography of shallow doubly curved shells resting on a fluid substrate. The frustration due to the competing flat geometry of the substrate and the curved one of the shell produces a wealth of highly reproducible and ordered wrinkling patterns, in conjunction with other random and disordered patterns as well. These examples illustrate that Gaussian curvature can be a powerful tool for the creation of complex patterns

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:13:24 -0500 2019-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Eleni Katifori
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Government Campaigns and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60370 60370-14866472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

How do business elites express policy preferences in the presence of government campaigns in China? This talk advances a theory of strategic preference expression in authoritarian systems, where business elites express dissent or conformity to the government based on material incentives. Their position-taking strategies vary depending on whether firms have the bargaining power to extract benefits or avoid punishment from the government.

Boliang Zhu is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on foreign direct investment, multinational corporations, corruption, development, public opinion, and Chinese politics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the “American Journal of Political Science,” the “Journal of Politics,” “International Studies Quarterly,” “Comparative Politics,” and “Research & Politics.” He received his B.A. from Peking University, M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:55:25 -0500 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Boliang Zhu, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
IISS Book Workshop (March 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61037 61037-15024923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us for a lively discussion with Professor Christiane Gruber about her new book, "The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images." The book, published by Indiana University Press, is an exploration of the Prophet Muhammad’s significance in Muslim life and thought from the beginning of Islam to today.

The first twenty graduate students who sign up will receive a free copy of the book! Please RSVP using this link by February 19th: https://goo.gl/forms/GDZ6fEUuuC2VhUTD2.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:52:13 -0500 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar The Praiseworthy One
Professor L. Lacey Knowles, the Robert B. Payne Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Inaugural Lecture (March 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58806 58806-14561454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

From the patterns of genomic variation in individuals living today, phylogeographic analyses provide a window into a species’ past. When viewed in a comparative context, examples of concordant genetic structure across assemblages of species, despite their biological difference, have reinforced a conceptual and methodological focus on abiotic factors in shaping species’ histories. This emphasis has also promoted an adherence to generic expectations of phylogeographic concordance irrespective of the composition of communities and a tendency to attribute discord to the idiosyncracies of history. However, from the increased sampling densities and unprecedented amounts of genomic data, what is emerging in comparative phylogeography is a complex of concordant and discordant genetic structure across community members. In my talk, and with reference to computational advances and recent developments at the molecular level, I will highlight how discordant patterns of genetic variation may arise from difference in the traits and ecologies of taxa. That is, discord across species may reflect deterministic processes linked to species-specific traits. In addition to reviewing the methodologies that are propelling this promising area of research, and based on examples of comparative phylogeographic studies, I will show how considering the contribution of taxon-specific traits, rather than adhering to the concordance-discordance dichotomy, can provide more meaningful insights about the evolutionary history of organisms. These studies emphasize that to understand how the divergence process may differ among geographic regions, or why genetic structure may differ among members of communities, both biotic and abiotic factors need to be considered jointly.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:33:48 -0400 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Photo
Nam Center Colloquium Series | De/militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ (March 26, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59704 59704-14780084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

With the discovery of rare and endangered species in areas around the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and inspired by the paradoxical flourishing of nonhuman nature in the context of unending war, a wide network of scientists, bureaucrats, journalists, natural scientists, citizen ecologists, and others have become captured by a utopian vision in which nature, peace, and life constitute a tightly-wound bundle of naturalized associations. Especially since the late 1990s, in the context of increasingly dire planetary futures presented by global climate change and mass extinction, as well as with the deteriorating prospects of national reunification or reconciliation between the two Koreas, the DMZ’s nature has offered the conceptual ground for mainstream and marginal imaginaries of peace in South Korea and beyond. While it would be easy to dismiss these hopeful discourses as naive and romanticizing, this paper seeks to take them seriously as empirically-grounded logics in which the existence of biodiversity of the DMZ offers alternatives to geopolitics as usual. How is the DMZ’s nature temporally operationalized as transhistorical and universal, connecting a pre-division, yet national, space to a “context yet to come” of a post-division Korea? What imaginative possibilities does it offer beyond state-centric and nationalist frameworks for unification?

Eleana Kim is associate professor of anthropology at UC Irvine and author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke UP, 2010). Her research on the ecologies of the Korean DMZ has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the ACLS, and related articles may be found in Cultural Anthropology, Social Research, and the forthcoming edited volume, How Nature Works (SAR Press).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:22:20 -0500 2019-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Eleana Kim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California- Irvine
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CREES Noon Lecture. "They Treat Us Like Animals Here": Romani and Egyptian Belonging in Albania (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58186 58186-14435501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

While many scholars in the Balkan region have analyzed identity and the politics of difference through the lens of ethnicity and ethnic conflict, few have done so through frameworks of racialization and racial belonging. Drawing from anthropological and ethnographic research with Romani and Egyptian communities in Albania, this talk features a critical discussion of social inequality with a particular focus on processes of racialization, dehumanization, and marginalization. In Albania, Roms and Egyptians are often racialized as dorë e zezë or ‘black’ while Albanians are racialized as dorë e bardhë or ‘white’. Additionally, many Roms and Egyptians in Albania frequently invoke the language of dehumanization to articulate their experiences with discrimination and non-belonging in Albania. Through an exploration of ethnographic cases, this talk will examine local constructions of these racial identities in the post-communist period, specifically as they pertain to housing segregation, health, labor, and the environment. This talk will also shed light on the ways that Roms and Egyptians in Albania mobilize around issues of inequality to promote social justice.

Chelsi West Ohueri is a sociocultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Population Health at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. Her research interests include race and racialization, belonging, marginalization, health disparities, and global health. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Albania, southeastern Europe, and Central Texas. West Ohueri is a native of Jackson, MS and completed her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Her dissertation analyzed racialization and belonging in Romani, Egyptian, and Albanian communities of Albania.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:52:04 -0500 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Chelsi West Ohueri
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Teaching Assistantship Information Session (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60266 60266-14855613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your project.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:21:14 -0500 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS). Al-Ghazālī and the Foundations of Medieval Islamic Ontology, Epistemology, and Scientific Inquiry (March 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61478 61478-15114926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Medieval Muslim scientists trace most of their foundational ontological and epistemological underpinnings to Al-Ghazālī’s (1058-1111 CE) contribution in bridging the gap between scholastic theology (kalām) and scientific inquiry and experimentation. In doing so, Al-Ghazālī draws on two related subdomains: philology and exegesis. This talk sheds some light on Al-Ghazālī's holistic rational view which informed Medieval Islamic ontology, epistemology, and the scientific method, falling at the nexus of language, scholastic theology, Qur’anic hermeneutics, and the philosophy of science. Al-Ghazālī’s thought has implications for positivism and post-positivism, including the rejection of the behavioral psychology view of knowing and learning through mere habituation.

Mohammad T. Alhawary is Professor of Arabic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. In addition to his research in applied linguistics, his interests lie in the Medieval Arabic grammatical tradition and its interactions with neighboring disciplines such as exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy, and scholastic theology.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:50:34 -0500 2019-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion poster
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of Japan (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58690 58690-14544794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The lecture describes and analyze (i) why the Japan suffered from two decades of stagnation and fifteen years of deflation; (ii) how economic policy packages, commonly known as Abenomics, introduced by Prime Minister Abe at the end of 2012 to early 2013 has lifted the economy out of stagnation and deflation in 6 years; and (iii) remaining challenges in Japan, including the failure to achieve 2% inflation target and lack of productivity increases that make possible higher real wage increases.

Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (since 2015) and Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (since 2016), has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan since finishing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1979. He taught at the University of Minnesota (1979-1988), Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002), and the University of Tokyo (2004-2014). He held visiting professor positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and University of Malaya.

He has distinguished academic and research appointments such as President of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; Fellow of the Econometric Society, since 1992; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985. He was awarded by the Government of Japan the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:09:16 -0500 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Takatoshi Ito
LRCCS Distinguished Speaker Series | Reconfiguring the Box — Stan Lai on Creativity (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61812 61812-15188675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Stan Lai's theories on creativity, heretofore only published in Chinese, are considered groundbreaking in the field (Stan Lai on Creativity, in Chinese, 赖声川的创意). Through his invention of bold new genres and innovative staging, Lai has sparked new interest for theatre audiences in China. He will be joined by Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music. Sheng is one of the foremost composers of our time whose works are performed regularly across the globe. He collaborated with Stan Lai in the opera production of Dream of the Red Chamber, a much anticipated new opera, which debuted in San Francisco in 2016.

Please see also our March 26 event: Film Screening of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" An Lian Tao Hua Yuan 暗戀桃花源. More information at: https://events.umich.edu/event/61759

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:52:24 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Stan Lai's theories on creativity, heretofore only published in Chinese, are considered groundbreaking in the field (Stan Lai on Creativity, in Chinese, 赖声川的创意). Through his invention of bold new genres and innovative staging, Lai has sparked new interest for theatre audiences in China. He will be joined by Bright Sheng, Professor of Composition at the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance and MacArthur Fellow. Sheng is one of the foremost composers of our time whose works are performed regularly across the globe. He collaborated with Stan Lai in the opera production of Dream of the Red Chamber, a much anticipated new opera, which debuted in San Francisco in 2016. The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the unive
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Diaspora as Counter Response: Human Rights Stories and Violence Against Women (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59847 59847-14795151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

There is no doubt that the Islamists’ rise to power in the 1980s has put Sudan at the center of transnational media attention. Consequently, the worldwide resurgence of conservatism and right wing politics reanimated a politics of fear and reproduced new clashing discourses over identity, ethnicity, and citizenship. Within these contexts, Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how the production and circulation of violence narratives about Sudan’s conflicts branded humanity in a neoconservative fashion and shaped the practices of Sudanese activists and their allies in the United States, the Sudans, and online. In many temporary and newly formed humanitarian publics, she argues, the ethno-gendered representation of Sudanese women (and men) as victims and survivors is transformed into powerful narratives that won them the status of role models within the human rights and humanitarian fields. These representations reproduced Sudanese ethnic divisions and racial politics in new forms in the diaspora and hardened existing gender and class divisions. In response, many secular Sudanese in the United States and in the Sudan created their own platforms to respond to these new forms of exclusions. These tensions and debates, Fadlalla argues, highlight the post-Cold War politics and confrontations among different national and transnational actors over the meanings of rights, sovereignty, and global citizenship.

This talk is based on Amal Hassan Fadlalla’s newly released book “Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship,” in which the author treats Sudan—a dispersed nation due to sixty years of violent conflicts—as a site for examining these historical shifts and tensions before the country’s division into two nations states in 2011.

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests and teaching focus on global issues and perspectives related to gender, health, reproduction, diaspora, transnationalism, population, development, and human rights and humanitarianism. She holds a B.Sc. and Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and a PhD from Northwestern University, United States.

She is the author of "Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence and Global Citizenship" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018) and "Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan" (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). She is also the co-editor of the book, "Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa" (Routledge, 2012), and the "Humanity Journal Issue: Human Rights and Humanitarianism in Africa" (Volume 7, No. 1, Spring 2016). Some of her other publications appear in: "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society," "Urban Anthropology," "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power," and in the School for Advanced Research (SAR) advance seminar series edited volume: "New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America," 2008.

Professor Amal Hassan Fadlalla is the recipient of many prestigious awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Harvard Population and Development Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Human Rights Award and Humanity award from the University of Michigan, and the Mercator fellowship from the Special Priority Program “Adaptation and Creativity” of the German Research Foundation at the University of Halle, Germany.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:53:13 -0500 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion speaker
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61382 61382-15097056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This informal biweekly seminar series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:53:10 -0500 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CPPS Exhibition. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59304 59304-14728508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. It tells the unique story of the short-lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the concluding weeks of the First World War. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Zakopane 1918
CGIS / LSA Program Leader Health & Safety Workshop (March 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61823 61823-15212843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Join us for our annual Health & Safety Workshop for our 2019 CGIS Faculty! While not required, faculty / staff who are leading LSA students on a (non-CGIS) program abroad are also strongly encouraged to attend.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail the LSA International Health & Safety Advisor Rachel Reuter at reuterra@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:59:41 -0500 2019-03-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T10:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Workshop / Seminar Professor teaching students abroad
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Neither Mahāyāna Nor Theravāda: Ashin Jinarakkhita and the Indonesian Buddhayāna Movement (March 29, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58861 58861-14567900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Widely regarded as the first Indonesian-born Buddhist monk (biksu pertama putra Indonesia), Ashin Jinarakkhita took it as his mission to propagate Buddhism in the archipelago nation. His Buddhayāna movement, which combined the doctrines and practices of Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhism, had a profound impact in Indonesia during the second half of the twentieth century. Ashin Jinarakkhita established an inclusive and nonsectarian monastic community, consisting of Sangha from various Buddhist traditions. He crafted a vision of Indonesian Buddhism as a diverse, yet unified religion in line with the motto of “Unity in Diversity” (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika) of the modern Indonesian nation. Later, he introduced the concept of “Sang Hyang Adi-Buddha” to make Buddhism compatible with the first principle of the Pancasila, the five philosophical pillars of Indonesia during the New Order era (1966–98). The Buddhayāna movement continues to attract a following of Indonesian people in the twenty-first century.

This presentation draws upon Ashin Jinarakkhita’s career to reconsider the category of Southeast Asian Buddhism in Buddhist Studies. I argue for the need to broaden the category of Southeast Asian Buddhism beyond Theravāda Buddhism on mainland Southeast Asia to include varied forms of Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia that use Mandarin Chinese, Southern Chinese dialects, and Southeast Asian languages in their liturgy and scriptures. Ashin Jinarakkhita’s Buddhayāna movement, which promoted nonsectarian doctrines and practices to be in line with the national discourse of “Unity in Diversity,” was a calculated strategy to ensure the survival of Buddhism as a minority religion in the world’s largest Muslim nation.

Jack Meng-Tat Chia is a Senior Tutor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia, Chinese popular religion, overseas Chinese history, and Southeast Asia-China interactions. He is currently completing his first book manuscript titled “Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea,” which explores the history of Buddhism in inter-Asian contexts and the intersections between national and Buddhist institutional projects in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Chia is co-editor of Living with Myths in Singapore (2017) and has published articles in journals such as Archiv Orientální, Asian Ethnology, China Quarterly, History of Religions, Journal of Chinese Religions, Material Religion, and Sojourn. His next book project, “Beyond the Borobudur: Buddhism in Postcolonial Indonesia,” focuses on the history and development of Buddhism in the world’s largest Muslim country since 1945.
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:38:06 -0500 2019-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
So You Wanna Be a PA? BLI Lunch & Learn (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62364 62364-15355263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

So You Wanna Be a Program Assistant?
This Lunch and Learn is for you!
Join us on May 29th, from 12-1:30pm, to learn all about what it means to be a BLI program assistants!
This will be a relaxed info session about what the role of program assistant entails, as well as application details for students who are interested in joining our team next year.
And, of course, free food!

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Other Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:33:57 -0400 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Other PA
CSAS 9th Annual Pakistan Conference: Spaces of Capital (March 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62097 62097-15291266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This conference was made possible with the generous co-sponsorhips by: the Institute for the Humanities, the Rackahm Graduate School, the Department of History, the History of Art Department, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology, the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, the Residential College, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and The American Institute of Pakistan Studies. This event is free and open to the public.

Full conference details are here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/9th-annual-pakistan-conference--spaces-of-capital.html

Conference Schedule

10am

Opening Remarks

10:15-11:30am

Capital Flows
Amen Jaffer: Discarded Flows: Circulation and Value in Lahore's Waste Economy
Maira Hayat: 10 km of responsibility: Adjudications of the public-ness of water in Pakistan

12:30-1:45am

The Social Life of Capital
Nicolas Martin: Democracy and Discrimination: Comparing Caste-Based Politics in Indian and Pakistani Punjab
Muhammad Ali Jan: The social origins of capital: trajectories of industrialization in Pakistani Punjab

1:45-2:30pm

Public Art
Saima Zaidi: Sheherezade: The Walled City Anthology

2:45-3:45pm

Documentary
Perween Raman:The Rebel Optimist by Mahera Omar

4-5pm

Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:42:33 -0400 2019-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium CSAS 9th Annual Pakistan Conference: Spaces of Capital
Saturday Morning Physics | Update on Physics from the LHC (March 30, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59603 59603-14754556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The quest to understand fundamental particles and forces in our Universe with the world's largest particle accelerator.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:43:29 -0500 2019-03-30T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-30T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar LHC Tunnel
CSAS Film Series | Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist (March 30, 2019 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60595 60595-14910414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 2:45pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

"No one is safe in this city. Those who think otherwise are living in a fool's paradise", says Perween's best friend and colleague Anwar Rashid as he navigates the chaotic roads of Karachi. An architect and urban planner, Perween Rahman dedicated her life for the poor of Pakistan. She was shot dead by armed assailants on her way home in March 2013. When she joined the Karachi based Orangi Pilot Project, founded by Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan, Orangi's lanes were full of filth and choking gutters. Back in the early 80s, the people of Orangi, most of them migrants from India and Bangladesh, were taking their own steps to improve sanitation. Dr. Khan assigned Perween the task of developing a low cost sanitation model for Orangi. Perween's pioneering work in Orangi led her on a collision course with the various mafias in the city. She surveyed the water supply to Karachi and pinpointed locations from where water is being stolen from the bulk supply lines. She mapped and documented Karachi's informal settlements to provide the poor security against land grabbers. Perween had an alternate vision for the development of Karachi. "Development doesn't come from concrete. Development is not five star hotels and mega road projects. What we need is human development."

About the Director:
Mahera Omar is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. After a brief stint doing laboratory research on the structure of proteins at the Tufts University Department of Biochemistry, she moved back to the city by the sea, Karachi. While in college, she co-produced and directed Dispatches from the Loo, a feature film about a love triangle shot entirely in a loo. Her short film Piano premiered at the vintage 3rd Kara Film Festival. Her other short films include Makhan Toast, Time's fun when you're having files and Aik tha jin. She directed Janu Janwar, a weekly series on animals for Geo Television. Her documentary Sea Turtles was nominated for the Humane Society of the United States 22nd Genesis Award in the Brigitte Bardot International category. She's currently working on a feature length documentary about the birds of Karachi, and is on a dream journey recording qawwali and classical music across Pakistan.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:15:19 -0500 2019-03-30T14:45:00-04:00 2019-03-30T15:45:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist
PICS Career Event. Coffee Chat for Prospective Students: Graduate Studies at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin, Germany) (April 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62148 62148-15302372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) invites you to a coffee chat for prospective students with Katharine Lin of the office of recruitment and admissions at the Hertie School of Governance, an accredited graduate school for public policy in Berlin, Germany. Katharine will present about the school's graduate programs. The Master of Public Policy and the Master of International Affairs at the Hertie School are both highly international, practice-oriented programs taught in English. The programs could be a great fit for University of Michigan undergraduate students currently pursuing topics in Political Science, International Studies, and European Studies.

Light refreshments will be served. Open to all undergraduate students.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:36:19 -0400 2019-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Careers / Jobs logo
Inaugural Lecture: Honoring Professor Robert M. Sellers on his Appointment to the Charles D. Moody Professorship in Psychology (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61606 61606-15152467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In his seminal work, "Souls of Black Folk", W. E. B. DuBois (1903) suggested the only way that African Americans can develop healthy self-concepts within American society is to come to "an understanding" within themselves regarding the duality of their status as African and American. We argue that the nature of "this understanding" varies across African Americans. Our research has attempted to explicate and describe the role that race plays in the psychological lives of African Americans. This research has focused on the racial identities that African Americans hold, the processes by which African Americans transmit attitudes and beliefs about the meaning of race across generations to their children, as well as documenting their experiences with racial discrimination and the consequences of such experiences. Our research program has attempted to place African American's experiences at the center and explicitly recognize their humanity as core assumptions of our analyses. The current presentation provides a brief overview of our work. In doing so, we also honor the legacy of Prof. Charles D. Moody.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:39:14 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion RSellers
Directional Entropic Forces from Lattice Dimers (April 2, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62340 62340-15353056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Recent investigations show that minimal interactions of particles can give rise to complex emergent structures. In particular, complex crystalline structures can be assembled from anisotropic colloids exclusively via entropic excluded-volume interaction. These emergent interactions can be quantified and explained via directional entropic forces (DEFs). Here we study the emergent arrangement in a much simpler system of finite density lattice dimers. We propose a new computational paradigm based on tensor network contraction that does not rely on Monte Carlo sampling. Computing DEFs for the dimers with this method poses new types of questions in study of lattice models in statistical physics. We indicate the ways in which tensor networks can serve as a new graphic language to discuss rigorous computations in statistical physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:10:29 -0400 2019-04-02T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Andrei Klishin
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing Nature and Culture In and Out of the Studio (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60790 60790-14963973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The studio is an enclosed site specifically used for reading, writing and art creation. During the Song dynasty (960–1279), the studio became a significant cultural space for literati. This talk will analyze the attributes of this cultural space by going beyond the studio, in terms of its relationship with its natural surroundings. In Song literary and pictorial representations, this interplay between the studio and its surrounding scenery is represented as the "mise-en-abyme," through which nature and culture are continuously framed, transformed, and intertwined.

Yunshuang Zhang is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. She received her Ph.D. in classical Chinese literature and culture from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 2017. She obtained her M.A. and B.A. in Chinese Literature from Peking University, China. Her research interests center on the literature and literati culture during Middle Period China (800–1400). She is now working on her book project, entitled “Porous Privacy: The Literati Studio and Spatiality in Song China.” This project examines the privacy of the studio space and the way by which it works as a medium for the reproduction of literati culture.

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Image Caption: Liu Songnian, Reading Changes by the Autumn Window, album leaf, ink and color on silk, 25.7 × 26 cm. Liaoning Provincial Museum.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:20:39 -0400 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Liu Songnian, Reading Changes by the Autumn Window, album leaf, ink and color on silk, 25.7 × 26 cm. Liaoning Provincial Museum.
CPPS/Frankel Lecture. Space and Spirit, or How to make a Historical Atlas of Hasidism (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57605 57605-14220074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Marcin Wodzinski has produced the first cartographic reference book on Hasidism, one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. In this lecture, he will discuss Hasidism's emergence and expansion in Eastern Europe; its spread to the New World; and its remarkable postwar rebirth. Wodzinski’s innovative mapping allows him to show to what extent Hasidism dominated the Eastern European Jewry, which Hasidic dynasties were strongest and why, and how the Hasidim resurrected in the Post-Holocaust era.

Marcin Wodziński (b. 1966) was born and raised in Silesia, Poland. He currently works at the Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland, where he is professor of Jewish history and literature. His research focuses on the history and culture of East European Jews in modern times, especially the Haskalah and Hasidism. Of his recent publications, he is most proud of "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (2018) and "Hasidism: Key Questions" (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:08:24 -0500 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Backpack 'N Snack Pizza Party (April 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62745 62745-15460043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The Backpack 'N Snack Pizza Party is your opportunity to learn which Cognitive Science courses are being offered in Fall 2019, talk to a Cognitive Science advisor or peer facilitator, meet other CogSci majors, and enjoy free pizza! Stop by any time between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:22:32 -0400 2019-04-03T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Social / Informal Gathering Weiser Hall
Fulbright U.S. Student Program General Information Session (April 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58739 58739-14551046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will provide an overview of the program and provide basic details related to the application and campus process.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:03:35 -0500 2019-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar logo
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58152 58152-14433286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Short-time work (STW) schemes, publicly subsidized work time reductions, are designed to incentivize firms to use worksharing and avoid layoffs in a recession. Japan is known for the extensive use of STW, and we assemble unique data on STW for over 3, 000 Japanese firms. Firms that used STW during a recession following the financial meltdown of 2008 are found to have slower employment growth in subsequent years. Such firms are, however, found to have similar growth of productivity and profitability in subsequent years. Japanese STW helps reduce employment volatility over the business cycle without harming firm performance.

Naomi Kodama is a Professor in the College of Economics at Nihon University in Japan. Her research interests focus on firm dynamics, labor market institutions, and policy evaluation. She has published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and World Economy as well as a chapter in Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy. She holds a PhD in Economics from Kyoto University and a BS in Geophysics from University of Tokyo.

This lecture is based upon co-authored paper: "The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan," Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama.

Kato is W.S. Schupf Professor of Economics and Far Eastern Studies, Colgate University; Research Fellow, IZA-Bonn; Faculty Fellow and Mentor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University; Research Fellow, TCER-Tokyo; Research Associate, CJEB (Columbia Business School) and CCP (Copenhagen Business School and Aarhus University); and Senior Fellow, ETLA (Helsinki). email: tkato@colgate.edu. Naomi Kodama is Professor of College of Economics, Nihon University and Research Associate of RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry). email: kodama.naomi@nihon-u.ac.jp.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:27:30 -0500 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Naomi Kodama
CSAS Film Series | Lock and Key (April 4, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60596 60596-14910416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

Five former addicts at a rehabilitation center in Punjab, India, are helping families recover from the rampant drug problem in the state. While they struggle to establish new relationships with their pasts, their partners strive to redefine the meaning of love and the labor of everyday life.

About the Director:
Shilpi Gulat is a filmmaker based out of New Delhi. Her body of work largely engages with gender, identty and oral narratives of regional communities in India. While her independent projects Dere tun Dilli (2012) and Inside Out (2010) have been screened at various festivals internationally, her film Qissa-e Parsi won her the National Film Award for the Best Ethnographic Film of 2014. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Cinema Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:18 -0500 2019-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Lock and Key
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled The World And The Saga Of Its Return (April 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58862 58862-14567901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This presentation will profile the return of a rare Buddha image that was stolen from a remote temple in Bagan in 1988 and would travel around the world before finally being returned to its home country in 2012. This long saga, which involved looters, antique dealers, art historians, lawyers, ambassadors and curators, demonstrates the intricate complexities in restituting objects. The priceless sculpture was transported from Myanmar (also known as Burma) to Bangkok, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Paris. It would be saved from the auction block, before drawing the involvement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and becoming the subject of a precedent setting lawsuit for antiquities.

This research explored the different phases of this complex and successful story but also question how to implement restitutions most efficiently in the 21st century. Indeed, as the themes behind this stolen Buddha’s history have wider resonance for the region. Southeast Asian policymakers have been debating for decades on how to best protect their national heritage from criminals, while fighting for the restitution of stolen artworks. While the level success within each country has varied, much remains to be done in facing the continuing challenge of art trafficking.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:41:14 -0500 2019-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
BLI Lunch & Learn with Yodit Mesfin-Johnson (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62365 62365-15355264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Join us as we welcome special guest Yodit Mesfin-Johnson to our Lunch & Learn.
Yodit works as a consultant and trainer in the areas of leadership development, non-profit management, strategic planning and diversity, equity and inclusion. She is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer and facilitator having provided workshops and keynote presentations in business development, nonprofit management, social justice and entrepreneurship for nearly two decades.
Her insight on community organizing and non-profit work will be incredibly insightful!

REGISTER - https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/2284

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Other Mon, 25 Mar 2019 07:56:47 -0400 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Other yodit ll
CSAAW TALK "How Cancer Arises Based on Complexity Theory." (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62711 62711-15434130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Background: The War on Cancer has failed, due in part to its reliance on reductionist thinking to understand how cancer arises and evolves.

Methods: We reviewed cancer risk factors across major sites and categorized them based on a complexity theory approach of analyzing patterns of network behavior, which are more uniform than changes to downstream oncogenes. Focusing too much on specific details of the networks ignores the overriding theme that the emergence of generic network features is independent of these details.

Results: Cancer is caused by 9 sources of chronic cellular stress which often interact to provide the multiple “hits” that produce malignancy. They are: chronic inflammation (due to infection, infestation, autoimmune disorders, trauma, overweight, diabetes and other causes); exposure to carcinogens; reproductive hormones; Western diet (low fiber, vegetable and fruit consumption; high fat); aging; radiation; immune system dysfunction; germ line changes and random chronic stress / bad luck.

Conclusions: Cancer is an inevitable tradeoff of human biologic design that will always be with us, particularly as life expectancy increases. However, we can often prevent it, we can detect it earlier and we can treat it more effectively. Most cancer is cause by chronic cellular stress, which disturbs the delicate balance of our interconnected biologic networks. Malignancy arises due to a build up of hierarchies, in which combination of agents (biomarkers and networks) at one level become agents at the next level. Hierarchies are identifiable by patterns of molecular changes and sometimes by accompanying histologic changes. New cancer treatment approaches will focus on targeting multiple networks to overcome tumor heterogeneity, reducing the chronic stressors, moving networks into less lethal states and targeting the chaotic nature of tumors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:53:10 -0400 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar CSAAW GRAPHIC
Saturday Morning Physics | On the Shore of the Cosmic Ocean (April 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59605 59605-14754557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.” Carl Sagan visualized our perspective on Earth as looking out to a vast ocean, and with an international fleet of space-based and ground observatories now and soon to come, we are poised more than ever to jump into the larger universe. The upcoming Solar Orbiter mission gives us a perfect example of how far we can go when we work together across traditional boundaries and realize that nothing in science is done in isolation. Understanding our own star leads to an increased awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s place in our solar system, as well as the Sun’s influence on planets near and far, all the way out to the boundary of our solar system. And our vision doesn’t stop there; using our star as a template informs our view of other star systems and their worlds. What we learn now, sitting on that shore, will enrich our journey out into the endless cosmic sea.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:10:15 -0500 2019-04-06T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-06T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Explore Science
International Institute. Reflecting on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and Civil War (April 6, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62253 62253-15337491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

This event, held on the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and civil war, will explore what we know and what we do not know with leading scholars in the field. It will also feature the debut of the first installment of Christian Davenport and Darick Ritter’s nonfiction graphic novel, called RW-94: Reflections on Rwanda. The book bridges a gap between storytelling and social science and moves deeper into a systematic understanding of 1994 Rwanda, Rwanda itself, and the complexity of understanding the diverse forms of political violence that happened alongside the genocide.

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EVENT SCHEDULE

1:30 PM: Welcome and Introductions: Laura Beny, associate director of the African Studies Center and Christian Davenport, co-director of the International Institute's Conflict and Peace Initiative

1:40-2:40 PM: Presentation by Christian Davenport and Darick Ritter on their book, RW-94: Reflections on Rwanda

2:40-3:40 PM: Public Round Table with Rwanda Research Scholars: Christian Davenport (professor of political science at University of Michigan), Cyanne Loyle (associate professor of political science at Indiana University), Jens Meierhenrich (associate professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science), and Luc Reydams (professor of law at Catholic University of Lublin and associate professor at the University of Notre Dame)

3:40-5:00 PM: RW-94: Reflections on Rwanda Art Display and Reception

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Presentation Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:17:18 -0400 2019-04-06T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Presentation book
LACS Lecture. On Marketing and Militarism: Demobilizing Guerrillas and Mobilizing Affect, Colombia and Propaganda in the Early Twenty-First Century (April 8, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62831 62831-15477383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk explores the principle arguments in Alexander Fattal’s new book “Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) about the convergence of marketing and militarism in twenty-first century propaganda. The talk considers the Colombian government’s efforts to engage in a form of ‘brand warfare’ against members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the smaller guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN). Since 2007, the government has been working with the same advertising firm that stewards brands such as Mazda and RedBull in Colombia, to lure guerrillas out of the insurgency and transform them into consumer citizens. The ethnography critiques those efforts, pointing to problems that emerge when branding captures critical state functions, like waging a war.

Dr. Alexander L. Fattal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is also a documentary artist whose creative and scholarly work focuses on the mediation of the Colombian armed conflict.
@FattAlx | www.alexfattal.net

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:10:30 -0400 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (April 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-04-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Origins and Evolution of Social Surveillance in China (April 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59706 59706-14780085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk focuses on the post-1949 efforts of the Chinese state to develop a panoptical surveillance capacity. Although these efforts have been largely successfully with regard to the Han majority, the talk argues that from the 1950s to the present day, territorially concentrated minority groups like the Tibetans and the Uighurs have remained poorly penetrated and thus present a persistent powerful obstacle for the highly sophisticated Chinese surveillance apparatus. The paper is based on internal circulation (neibu) materials from China.

Martin K. Dimitrov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2004. His books include “Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China” (Cambridge University Press, 2009); “Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe” (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and “The Political Logic of Socialist Consumption” (Ciela Publishers, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:13:34 -0400 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Martin Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University
Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (April 9, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58150 58150-14433285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

This book examines how national policies and immigrant advocacy groups interact to shape collective identity formation, solidarity networks, and strategies for political empowerment among immigrants and their descendants in East Asian democracies, focusing on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. With immigrant agency at the center of its analysis, this book asks why foreign residents make the political choices they do as they become permanent members of their receiving societies. Based on over 150 in-depth interviews with immigrants, pro-immigrant activists, and government officials and 28 focus groups with the major foreign resident groups in each country conducted in the greater Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei metropolitan areas from 2009 to 2013, this book prioritizes the role played by civil society actors—including migrants themselves—in giving voice to migrant interests, mobilizing migrant actors, and shaping public debate and policy on immigration. Departing from the dominant scholarship on immigrant incorporation that focuses on national cultures or traditions, domestic political elites, and international norms, I argue that civil society actors drew on existing ideas, networks, and strategies previously applied to incorporate historically marginalized groups, or what I call civic legacies, to confront the challenges of immigrant incorporation. Rather than determining the paths available to later generations, civic legacies form the opportunities and constraints that demarcate the rules of the game for migrant claims making, thus framing the direction of immigrant incorporation, the level of penetration in society, and the potential for structural reform. As the first English-language book comparing three countries that represent a single model of immigrant incorporation in East Asia, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies proposes to shed insights into the gaps between policy intent, interpretation, and outcomes.

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She specializes in East Asian political economy, international migration, and comparative racial politics. She has been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar, an SSRC Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Korea University, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relation, and a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University. Her first book, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and translated into Japanese and published by Akashi Shoten in 2012. Her second book, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, is under contract at Cambridge University Press. She was recently awarded a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) to support the completion of her third book project on Citizenship, Social Capital, and Racial Politics in the Korean Diaspora.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:41:23 -0500 2019-04-09T16:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Erin Chung, Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
CREES Noon Lecture. How the West Corrupts the East: Swedish Bribes and Uzbek Dictators (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59380 59380-14737032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

With a world record fine and the CEO now on trial in Sweden, Europe’s fifth largest telecommunications provider, Telia Company AB, is slowly getting out from an expensive and morally corrupt endeavor in Uzbekistan. Award-winning Swedish journalist and 2019 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan Fredrik Laurin presents Swedish Public Service TV’s exposure of international corruption. The lecture will address the effects of corruption in Central Asia and the role of U.S. legislation as the only working law against corruption.

Fredrik Laurin is editor of special projects for Swedish Television’s (SVT’s) Current Affairs program. Before this he was editor of the investigative department for Swedish Radio, a reporter for SVT, and investigative reporter for National TV 4. Laurin’s investigations exposed tax havens and tax evasion by the global corporate elite and corruption in the Swedish government and abroad. One such investigation exposed how purportedly alliance-free Sweden secretly cooperates with U.S. authorities in eavesdropping, intelligence gathering, extraordinary rendition, and torture in the war on terror. He has received the Stora Journalistpriset, the Swedish equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize, and Guldspaden, the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award. He has received several other awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for his collaborative efforts on the Panama Papers with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Laurin graduated from the Gothenburg School of Journalism and studied political science at Gothenburg University. Currently he is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:59:24 -0500 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Fredrik Laurin
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Study/Research, Arts Information Session (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60264 60264-14855610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your project.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:18:40 -0500 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
IISS Book Workshop. Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (April 10, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61615 61615-15152489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Please join the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) for a lively discussion with Professor Juan Cole about his most recent book, "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires," which discuses the Prophet Muhammad's origin story in the seventh-century. Cole shows how Muhammad came of age in an era of unparalleled violence. The religion Muhammad founded, Islam, spread widely during his lifetime, relying on soft power instead of military might, and sought armistices even when militarily attacked. Cole sheds light on this forgotten history, reminding us that in the Qur'an, the legacy of that spiritual message endures.

We will be providing free copies of the book to fifteen graduate students and researchers. Please RSVP using this link: https://goo.gl/forms/Wrz6CvVeqB9iArqz2.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:59:23 -0500 2019-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Juan Cole Muhammad
Cognitive Science Community (April 10, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62981 62981-15528492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Guest speaker Felix Warneken, Associate Professor of Psychology at U-M, will join the group to discuss the cognitive foundation of reciprocal cooperation.

Overview of Professor Warneken’s talk: Reciprocity is a powerful strategy to sustain cooperation, but little is known about its cognitive prerequisites. Professor Warneken argues that studies on the developmental emergence of reciprocal sharing behaviors can provide insight into its cognitive underpinnings. Professor Warneken will present data on children’s delay of gratification and future-directed thinking abilities and how they might be related to reciprocal sharing behaviors of different complexity. Professor Warneken concludes with some thoughts on how the study of psychological mechanism can explain similarities and differences in the cooperation of humans and other great apes.

Speaker bio: Professor Felix Warneken studies the origins of human social behavior, with a focus on the development and evolution of cooperation and morality. He uses developmental and cross-cultural studies with children, as well as comparative studies with nonhuman apes. He completed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, was a faculty member at Harvard University and is now an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:17:41 -0400 2019-04-10T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T20:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CogSciCom logo
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Toward the Denuclearized Future: Ruses of Safety Myth and Citizen’s Activisms since the Fukushima Disasters (April 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58689 58689-14544792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese government and the nuclear energy industries have been attempting to promote a new safety myth by downplaying the harmful effects of radioactive exposure on the human body and the environment. How have citizens’ activism responded to the ruses of the safety myth? The talk will introduce various sites and forms of anti-nuclear activism that ordinary citizens have organized to defend their basic rights to health, safety, and dignity.

Katsuya Hirano teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan." He has published numerous articles and book chapters on cultural and intellectual history of Japan, Fukushima nuclear disaster, settler colonialism, and critical theory. His Fukushima interview series is available in the "Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:37:58 -0400 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61385 61385-15097058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Emily Atkinson, Language Learning Visiting Assistant Professor, will present "The learnability of a novel cue to prediction: An artificial language learning study of filler-gap dependencies."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:00:04 -0400 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CGIS / LSA Program Leader Health & Safety Workshop (April 12, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61823 61823-15212844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Join us for our annual Health & Safety Workshop for our 2019 CGIS Faculty! While not required, faculty / staff who are leading LSA students on a (non-CGIS) program abroad are also strongly encouraged to attend.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail the LSA International Health & Safety Advisor Rachel Reuter at reuterra@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:59:41 -0500 2019-04-12T08:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T10:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Workshop / Seminar Professor teaching students abroad
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. German and Vietnamese Refugees: Interactions and Comparisons (April 12, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58865 58865-14567903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This paper examines Germany as a country of and for refugees by focusing on two waves of refugees. The first is the influx of German refugees from Eastern Europe after the Second World War; the second is the influx of Vietnamese refugees to Western Germany and Vietnamese contract laborers to Eastern Germany around 1979. The paper asks a number of questions about the concept of ‘empathy’, about humanitarian ethics, and about global and national politics. It attempts to develop a comparative approach.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:54:29 -0500 2019-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
LSA Travel Pre-Departure Orientation (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61718 61718-15176761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Are you receiving funding from an LSA department to travel abroad this spring / summer?

Are you an LSA student who is going abroad to do thesis research or study / intern abroad on a non-UM program?

If either of the above apply to you, we invite you to attend one of the LSATravel Pre-Departure Orientations! The LSATravel Team wishes to help you prepare for your time abroad, whether you are doing independent research, interning with other UM students, or studying on a non-UM program!

In this pre-departure orientation, we will discuss the requirements of the LSA International Travel Policy, the basics of the UM international health insurance, registering your travel, managing your health, how to stay safe abroad, identity-specific resources, and more.

Sign up to attend on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/6x3WG.

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:28:21 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Presentation Picture of student abroad
LSA Travel Pre-Departure Orientation (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63008 63008-15534808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Are you receiving funding from an LSA department to travel abroad this spring / summer?

Are you an LSA student who is going abroad to do thesis research or study / intern abroad on a non-UM program?

If either of the above apply to you, we invite you to attend one of the LSATravel Pre-Departure Orientations! The LSATravel Team wishes to help you prepare for your time abroad, whether you are doing independent research, interning with other UM students, or studying on a non-UM program!

In this pre-departure orientation, we will discuss the requirements of the LSA International Travel Policy, the basics of the UM international health insurance, registering your travel, managing your health, how to stay safe abroad, identity-specific resources, and more.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:11:39 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation PHOTO
Mindful Leader Program Lunch & Learn (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62478 62478-15370752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Want to learn more about BLI's mindful leader program?
This Lunch and Learn will be your chance to get a brief run-down on the program and see if it's for you!
There will be a general info session followed by an opportunity for q&a.
And of course, food provided!

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Other Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:16:40 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Other mindful leader
AMAS and CMENAS Event. Islamophobia Working Group Meeting (April 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54295 54295-14433283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We -- a group of faculty, staff, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years, the IWG has been run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture; starting in Fall 2018, the IWG will be co-led by AMAS and CMENAS.

Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student, staff, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus, if you encounter a pertinent issue, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group.

If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu), or IWG student coordinator, Silan Fadlallah (silanf@umich.edu).

Cosponsors: American Culture; Arab Muslim & American Studies; Islamic Studies Program; Office of Multiethnic Student Affairs; Muslim Students' Association; Arab Students' Association; International Institute

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:43:10 -0500 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Meeting event_image
CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space (April 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52923 52923-13148783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Cinema’s heterogeneous artifactual status—as a regulated and profit-making commodity, technological apparatus, representational medium and employment opportunity—links the changing look of contemporary Hindi cinema’s mise-en-scène to the current commodification of land and leisure, the technologization of environment, and the shifting social range of Bollywood’s workers in globalizing India. Conceiving of filmed space as a tensile relationship between a film’s onscreen space and its defining social spaces, which together constitute a film’s visual appearance and its institutional materiality, I look at the ways in which Bollywood’s backgrounds register India’s politico-economic transitions. The composition and appearance of a film’s backgrounds encode socio-economic histories of India’s transition from an era of economic protectionism to the current phase of privatization and the commodification of everyday life. Based on my interviews with professionals who work on producing Hindi cinema’s locations and backgrounds, conducted in the months leading up to the national elections that put Narendra Modi in power in 2014, this talk proposes a spatial film historiography to account for the complex spatialities of a media form and society, when both are in transition.

Priya Jaikumar is Associate Professor at the Division of Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on her forthcoming book, Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space, in production with Duke University Press.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:15:59 -0400 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
LRCCS Conference | Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature (April 13, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63056 63056-15543234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The full two-day schedule is available here: https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/conferences/understanding-media--new-perspectives-on-ming-qing-literature/schedule--understanding-media--new-perspectives-on-ming-qing-lit.html

This international conference examines the critical role of media in the making and remaking of Ming-Qing literature. Invited scholars will bring to light the supports and surfaces that shaped sensory experiences of the “literary.” Some panels will trace the lives of literary works from the oral to the analog to the digital; others will consider how early modern readers understood what we now call “media.” Over the course of two days, the conference proceeds from the early modern moment to rethink 21st-century understandings of “new” media.

Friday, April 12, 2019
9am–6pm
Michigan Room at Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave.

Saturday, April 13, 2019
8:30am–5:00pm
10th Floor at Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:17:08 -0400 2019-04-13T08:30:00-04:00 2019-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Conference / Symposium LRCCS Conference | Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
Saturday Morning Physics | Why Physicists in Search of Dark Matter are Building the Most Sensitive Radios Ever Made (April 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59609 59609-14754563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Most of the "stuff" in our own Galaxy and the Universe as a whole is known to be in a form of a mysterious substance called dark matter. One idea for what this stuff is, that has been quickly gaining traction in recent years, is a hypothetical particle called the axion. Professor Safdi will explain why this model appears promising, and he will describe how researchers are trying to confirm this theory using ultra-sensitive radios.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:44:38 -0500 2019-04-13T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Abra 10cm
WCEE Lecture. From Montenegro to the Red Carpet: A Life of Giving (April 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62435 62435-15364116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan in 1984 to Albanian parents from Montenegro. She spent her childhood on a farm at the footstep of Montenegrin hills, helping with chores, earning good grades, and participating in village life. Emina has fond memories of those years, but what stands out to her was the fatalistic view of the plight of women, which motivated her to follow an atypical path. At 15, she was selected to represent Yugoslavia in a global modeling competition, leading to a successful modeling career that included appearances in Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and work for the fashion houses Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, and Roberto Cavalli.

But Emina was destined to pursue philanthropy. From a young age, she witnessed her mother’s generosity as the family harbored, fed, and dressed fugitives of war during the Balkan conflict in the ’90s. As a result, Emina constantly seeks to promote humanitarian endeavors and organizations such as the Fundjavë Ndryshe, which she discovered in the summer of 2017 on a trip to rural Albania. Her involvement intensified, and in 2018 she helped secure food supplies, wood burning stoves, and new homes for needy families in Albania. Emina is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Fundjavë Ndryshe and is actively planning her next Albanian campaign this summer. Her talk will explore “the love that I give and share with those in need,” the potential for a better life for many, and how to channel our capacity for good to make the world a better place.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 May 2019 10:29:58 -0400 2019-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Emina Cunmulaj
WCED Lecture. Politics Goes Pear Shaped. Old Regime Cultures and Revolutionary Politics, ca. 1792-1825 (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57820 57820-14314717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Can the story of a pear help us understand the rise of democracy in the West? This talk uses the career of Louis-Augustin Bosc, a French revolutionary and botanist—and namesake of the familiar pear—to explore the ambiguous political legacy of the Atlantic revolutions. The talk argues that revolutionary movements in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were united not just by a set of similar political structures and ideologies but by their reliance on a matrix of old regime, eighteenth-century cultural practices. These old regime practices left a common and illiberal stamp on the polities and political traditions that they helped to create.

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is a historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on epistolarity and revolutionary organizing, and then in 2015 published a first book on a different topic: "Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution" (Belknap/Harvard). His current book project is a wide-angle cultural history of the Atlantic age of revolutions, from the 1760s through the 1820s, which rethinks the era’s role in creating modern democratic politics. Nathan also maintains interests in early modern legal history; historical methods and historiography; and histories of material culture.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:11:24 -0500 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Perl-Rosenthal
CSAS Film Series | Rasan Piya (April 15, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60597 60597-14910417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018.

Rasan Piya is a documentary on the life of renowned Hindustani classical vocalist, Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, who represented the 16th generation of Miyan Tansen's lineage.

He continued not just to compose, but also to teach, travel and perform across all of India till he lived. He passed away recently, on 18th February 2016 at the age of 107 years. His story is that of an extraordinary musician, poet and teacher; of someone who has not only preserved but also added much to an ancient Indian art form; of a brave man who overcame his physical limitations to create beautiful music and inspire a whole generation of musicians and music lovers.

About the Director:
Writer, director Niharika Popli, after graduating in Engineering from University of Delhi in 2010, worked with a child NGO in Delhi, directing plays, writing, telling stories and teaching. The purity of Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan music and his zest for life inspired her to make this her first feature length documentary.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:15:46 -0500 2019-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Rasan Piya
The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It (April 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62736 62736-15453645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Across the world, the far-right occupies positions of power it has not held since World War Two. With social inequality reaching astronomical proportions, the ruling elites are resurrecting all the political filth responsible for the worst crimes of the 20th century.

In Germany, the scene of the holocaust and Hitler’s Nazi movement, fascism is once again rearing its ugly head. A neo-Nazi party, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), is now the main opposition party with high-level support from within the state and academia. Building a mass movement capable of defeating fascism requires learning the lessons of history.

The lessons of the 1930s show that the fight against fascism requires the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist system. Learning these critical lessons is the only way to prevent the disaster of Nazism on an even greater scale today.

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Speaker: Christoph Vandreier, German Trotskyist, prominent leader of the fight against fascism and author of “Why Are They Back? Historical Falsification, Political Conspiracy, and the Return of Fascism in Germany.”

Vandreier is Deputy National secretary of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) in Germany, which was placed under state surveillance on advise of the neo-Nazi AfD for its “anti-fascist” and “anti-capitalist” politics.

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Presentation Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:36:21 -0400 2019-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Youth and Students for Social Equality Presentation Public meeting: The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It – Speaker: Christoph Vandreier, author of Why Are They Back?
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reinstalling the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Asian Galleries: New Voices and New Perspectives (April 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60372 60372-14866473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In November 2018, the Detroit Institute of Arts opened expanded Asian galleries in its new Robert and Katherine Jacobs Asian Wing, completing the museum-wide reinstallation that had been inaugurated in 2007. To develop thematic ideas and object groupings for the galleries, DIA staff collaborated with both academic specialists and community members, bringing a range of voices into the planning process. In this talk, Dr. Kasdorf will discuss the DIA’s methodology of co-creation, its visitor-centered exhibition practices, and the ideas, objects, and interactive features in the new Asian galleries, with emphasis on areas where Chinese works of art are on view.

Katherine Kasdorf is Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Most recently, she collaborated with colleagues on the reinstallation of the Asian collection, opening new galleries of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, South & Southeast Asian, and Buddhist art in November 2018. Prior to joining the DIA in May 2017, she held a Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the Walters Art Museum, where her work focused primarily on the Tibetan, Nepalese, and South & Southeast Asian collections. She received her Ph.D. in South Asian art history from Columbia University in 2013.

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

Photo: Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:59:34 -0500 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Teaching Assistantship Information Session (April 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60266 60266-14855614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your project.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:21:14 -0500 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Winter 2020 Walk-in Advising! (April 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63011 63011-15534811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Don’t wait until the September 15th deadline, join CGIS & Newnan Advising Center for a walk-in advising event to discuss Winter 2020 CGIS applications.

Before you leave for the summer, come and find out how studying abroad can fit into your degree plan, learn about scholarships and financial aid, and more!

Popcorn & punch will be provided!

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:24 -0400 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Fourth Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture. “More Perfect”: A Politics of Empathy in a Challenging American Moment (April 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62079 62079-15284751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

“We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union.” Those are the first eight words of the preamble of our Constitution, the foundation of our system of government and politics. When I ran for Governor in Michigan, I aimed to advance universal healthcare, a sustainable energy system, access to public goods and services, and against corporate capture of our economy. And yet the focus was nearly always on my name, my faith, and my ethnicity—that I could be “first Muslim Governor.” In union halls, living rooms, and town watering holes across Michigan, I had the opportunity to listen to and learn from Michiganders—as a millennial, Muslim-American candidate. In this talk, I reflect on the roles of identity and ideals in our current political moment. I argue for a politics of empathy, that centers our actions on the systems of oppression, rather than its symbols, and embrace the responsibility to speak truth to power, only after we’ve learned to empathize with pain. I center these in what it means to be “more perfect,” advancing mutual aims from diverse perspectives in a pluralistic society.

Named “The new Obama” by The Guardian, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician and public health expert who ran to be the first Muslim-American governor of Michigan. His campaign excited Americans, with his progressive focus on public health, education, diversity, and dialogue. Before running for governor, El-Sayed served as Health Commissioner in Detroit, where he rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after it had been privatized during the city’s municipal bankruptcy.

Prior to his work in public service, El-Sayed was tenure-track faculty member at Columbia University’s Department of Epidemiology; director of the Columbia University Systems Science Program, and co-director of Global Research for Population Health. El-Sayed holds a doctorate in public health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, as well as an MD from Columbia University. He graduated with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan. At graduation, El-Sayed was selected to deliver the Student Commencement Address alongside President Clinton, who said of him, “I just wish every person in the world could have heard you speak today.”

For full bio, visit http://myumi.ch/6k4q8.

The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) aims to provide students with global perspective on Islam and the Muslim world by coordinating an Islamic studies curriculum across the Big Ten via synchronous videoconferencing and distance learning technology. DISC is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and housed at the U-M International Institute. The Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture features a prominent scholar or public figure speaking about issues related to Islamic studies.

Organized by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC), with support from the Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar, and International Institute.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:36:59 -0400 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Abdul El-Sayed
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (April 18, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-04-18T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Radical Adaptation: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era (April 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58148 58148-14433279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This event was originally on our calendar in January but had to be rescheduled because of inclement weather. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will join us on April 18!

Seemingly, Japan has adapted to Trumpian foreign policy like no other. Whereas many “western democracies” have maintained a distance to the Trump administration, Japan has not, and embraced it fully. How and why has this been done? Are the Japanese public behind? The lecture will focus on Japan’s choice in the Trump era.

Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at Keio University. Japan Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC until August 2019. Currently working on the long term effect of Trumpian foreign policy on American international commitment and its image around the world.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:57:27 -0400 2019-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Toshihiro Nakayama,Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy,Policy Management,Keio University, Japan
2019 Digital South Asia Conference | Portals and Platforms: Cultures of Entertainment in Digital India (April 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62691 62691-15425435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Full conference details, including schedule, is available here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/portals-and-platforms--cultures-of-entertainment-in-digital-indi.html

3:30 pm-6:00 pm Film Screening at Michigan Theater
Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain), 2019

6:00 pm-6:30 pm Q & A with Ankur Khanna, Producer, RSVP Films & Paromita Vohra, documentary filmmaker

Sponsors: Center for South Asian Studies and the Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:13:02 -0400 2019-04-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Portals and Platforms: Cultures of Entertainment in Digital India
CSAAW Talk by Bre Eder (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63157 63157-15578816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract: Irregular changes in menstrual cycles and sex hormones signal a woman’s transition into menopause. Common health outcomes associated with this time period include: vasomotor symptoms, osteoarthritis, decreased bone mineral density, and increased cardiovascular risks. Current research examines the biological mechanisms that regulate this transition. However, further research is needed to determine the best methods for characterizing cyclic patterns of hormones in reproductive physiology.

Fitted representation of these hormones will contribute vital knowledge to the field of women’s health and wellness. This presentation will outline ongoing epidemiological analysis and elicit feedback on potential mechanisms, dynamic modeling, and parameterization of estradiol and follicle stimulating hormone across the menopause transition.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:14:28 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar CSAAW Social Media Logo
LSA Travel Pre-Departure Orientation (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61718 61718-15176763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Are you receiving funding from an LSA department to travel abroad this spring / summer?

Are you an LSA student who is going abroad to do thesis research or study / intern abroad on a non-UM program?

If either of the above apply to you, we invite you to attend one of the LSATravel Pre-Departure Orientations! The LSATravel Team wishes to help you prepare for your time abroad, whether you are doing independent research, interning with other UM students, or studying on a non-UM program!

In this pre-departure orientation, we will discuss the requirements of the LSA International Travel Policy, the basics of the UM international health insurance, registering your travel, managing your health, how to stay safe abroad, identity-specific resources, and more.

Sign up to attend on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/6x3WG.

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:28:21 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Presentation Picture of student abroad
LSA Travel Pre-Departure Orientation (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63009 63009-15534809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Are you receiving funding from an LSA department to travel abroad this spring / summer?

Are you an LSA student who is going abroad to do thesis research or study / intern abroad on a non-UM program?

If either of the above apply to you, we invite you to attend one of the LSATravel Pre-Departure Orientations! The LSATravel Team wishes to help you prepare for your time abroad, whether you are doing independent research, interning with other UM students, or studying on a non-UM program!

In this pre-departure orientation, we will discuss the requirements of the LSA International Travel Policy, the basics of the UM international health insurance, registering your travel, managing your health, how to stay safe abroad, identity-specific resources, and more.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:13:31 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation PHOTO
CSEAS-WCED Forum. The Philippines Withdraws from the ICC: Now What? (April 22, 2019 11:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63055 63055-15543232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 11:20am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

As the Philippines withdraws from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, what are the prospects for justice in the context of President Duterte’s war on drugs and other crimes against humanity?

Panel followed by Q& A discussion.
FRANCIS TOM TEMPROSA, SJD Candidate, Law School, University of Michigan; Former Legal Adviser, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

LIGAYA LINDIO-MCGOVERN, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Kokomo; National Convenor of MALAYA-US Movement Against Killings and Dictatorship and For Democracy in the Philippines (organization works with victims of the drug war)

JUSTIN SUCGANG, LLM Student, Law School, University of Michigan

SONJA STARR, Professor, Law; Codirector, Empirical Legal Studies Center, University of Michigan

STEVEN R. RATNER, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan

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After-forum activity:
Show your support for human rights advocacy and join us in holding up the “Stop the Killings” banner in front of the Weiser Building. The banner is made out of black mourning pins symbolizing the fallen victims of the Philippine drug-war.

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Sponsors: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Donia Human Rights Center, Michigan Journal of International Law, and International Law Society.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:40:22 -0400 2019-04-22T11:20:00-04:00 2019-04-22T12:40:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion image
International Studies Information Session and Q&A (April 23, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52598 52598-12874400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. All sessions will be held in Weiser Hall located at 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

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

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Presentation Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:52:32 -0400 2019-04-23T16:15:00-04:00 2019-04-23T17:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Presentation photo
Cognitive Science Study Day (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63257 63257-15603735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science majors: Are you looking for a quiet place to study for final exams? The Weinberg Institute is pleased to open the Cognitive Science space on the 9th floor of Weiser Hall for extended study hours on Tuesday, April 23, & Wednesday, April 24, from 5 to 9 pm. Drop in anytime during the extended evening hours. Study with your fellow Cog Sci majors. Enjoy free pizza, snacks, and soda.

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Other Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:53:41 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Other Weiser Hall
BLI Destress Fest 2019! (April 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62906 62906-15492423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Come de-stress with us! Join BLI for an end-of-year celebration to unwind before finals!

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Other Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:41:43 -0400 2019-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Other Weiser Hall
Cognitive Science Study Day (April 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63259 63259-15603737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science majors: Are you looking for a quiet place to study for final exams? The Weinberg Institute is pleased to open the Cognitive Science space on the 9th floor of Weiser Hall for extended study hours on Tuesday, April 23 & Wednesday, April 24 from 5 to 9 pm. Drop in anytime during the extended evening hours. Study with your fellow Cog Sci majors. Enjoy free pizza, snacks, and soda.

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Other Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:33:29 -0400 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Other Weiser Hall
ASP Tenth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop: Armenian Studies and Material Objects (April 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57979 57979-14383890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Full workshop details are here: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2019--armenian-studies-and-material-objects.html

Inspired by the interdisciplinary possibilities and the innovative scholarly avenues that the study of materiality can open in the field of Armenian Studies, the 2019 International Graduate Student Workshop focuses on the theme of material objects. The exploration of society, arts, culture, and politics through material objects will provide opportunities to discover the ordinary or the everyday practices and experiences of Armenian communities across space and time.

This workshop is sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Armenian Studies Program and funded by the Alex Manoogian Foundation.

Cosponsored by the Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenia Studies and the Society for Armenian Studies

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:30:04 -0400 2019-04-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar ASP Tenth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop: Armenian Studies and Material Objects
CSAAW Workshop Special Guest Speaker will talk on paper crumpling dynamics (April 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63178 63178-15585198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

When describing the dynamics of a sheet of paper being crumpled one may be tempted to only take the elastic response of the thin sheet into account and consider only those deformations which minimize the elastic energy of the crumpled sheet. However, most materials yield and deform plastically, leaving permanent scars in the thin sheet. Indeed, the simple process of crumpling a sheet of paper with our hands results in a complex network of interconnected permanent creases of many sizes and orientations, along which the sheet preferentially bends. Thereby, history dependence is introduced into the system. I will present an experimental study of the dynamics of crumpling. Specifically, we investigate how a crease network evolves when a thin elastoplastic sheet is repeatedly crumpled, opened up and then re-crumpled. Is there a maximally crumpled state after which the sheet can be crumpled without further plastic deformations, or do creases and defects keep accumulating forever? Surprisingly, we find that much of the complex dynamics of the crease patterns can be captured using one simple global measure, which is independent of the crumpling history.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:04:37 -0400 2019-04-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar CSAAW logo
ASP Tenth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop: Armenian Studies and Material Objects (April 27, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57979 57979-14544811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Full workshop details are here: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2019--armenian-studies-and-material-objects.html

Inspired by the interdisciplinary possibilities and the innovative scholarly avenues that the study of materiality can open in the field of Armenian Studies, the 2019 International Graduate Student Workshop focuses on the theme of material objects. The exploration of society, arts, culture, and politics through material objects will provide opportunities to discover the ordinary or the everyday practices and experiences of Armenian communities across space and time.

This workshop is sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Armenian Studies Program and funded by the Alex Manoogian Foundation.

Cosponsored by the Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenia Studies and the Society for Armenian Studies

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:30:04 -0400 2019-04-27T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar ASP Tenth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop: Armenian Studies and Material Objects
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (April 30, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-04-30T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-30T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Cognitive Science Graduation Reception (May 2, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60986 60986-15000013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 2, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The Cognitive Science Graduation Reception will be held on Thursday, May 2, 2019 from 5:00-6:30 pm on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall. Graduating cognitive science seniors and their families are invited to attend. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP by April 19.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:45:41 -0400 2019-05-02T17:00:00-04:00 2019-05-02T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Reception / Open House Weiser Hall
Inaugural Rackham Faculty Symposium: What We’re Learning About Graduate Student Academic Life (May 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63073 63073-15547445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham is launching a new series of faculty conversations for advancing responsive research-based innovation in graduate education. Please join us for a lunch, symposium, and reception to discuss what is being learned about graduate student academic life and to share your ideas for strategic priorities to re-imagine the graduate academic experience as a cornerstone of excellence at the University of Michigan.
Schedule
12:30 to 1:30
Lunch
1:30 to 1:50
Developing Identity: Insights from the Longitudinal Michigan Doctoral Experience Study
John Gonzalez, Director of Institutional Research, Rackham Graduate School
Allyson Flaster, Research Fellow, Rackham Graduate School
1:50 to 2:00
Q&A and Discussion
2:00 to 2:30
Context Matters: Understanding Factors That Contribute to the Persistence and Success of Underrepresented Students Through Doctoral Study and Entry to the Professoriate
Tabbye Chavous, Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity • Professor of Education, School of Education • Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
2:30 to 2:40
Q&A and Discussion
2:40 to 3:00
Break
3:00 to 3:15
Developing Research-Based Innovations and Practices to Improve the Graduate Academic Experience Through the Mcubed Framework
Valeria Bertacco, Associate Dean for Physical Sciences and Engineering, Rackham Graduate School • Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
3:15 to 3:30
Q&A and Discussion
3:30 to 4:15
Focused Breakout Discussions, Report Outs, and Development of Action Suggestions
Mike Solomon, Dean, Rackham Graduate School • Vice President for Academic Affairs – Graduate Studies
4:15 to 5:00
Reception
Pre-registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Jd4rx.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:15:40 -0400 2019-05-06T12:30:00-04:00 2019-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Rackham Graduate School Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Reckless Ideas in Ecological Networks (May 9, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63099 63099-15570542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 9, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration will be required for lunch.

CLICK LINK AT BOTTOM TO REGISTER

SCHEDULE:

8:30A Light breakfast at Weiser Hall

9:00 Intro: Fernanda Valdovinos

9:05 Phillip Staniczenko, City University of New York - Brooklyn College "What is a reckless idea?"

9:30 Mark Novak, Oregon State University "Removing Species Interactions from Ecological Networks to Understand Community Dynamics"

10:00 Luis Zaman, University of Michigan "A Dynamics First Approach to the Evolution of Ecological Networks"

10:30 Lauren Ponisio, University of California - Riverside "How does network position relate to species' fitness?"

11:00 BREAK (30)

11:30 Paul CaraDonna, Chicago Botanic Garden | Northwestern University "Interaction rewiring & network flexibility"

12:00 David Hembry, Cornell University "How do networks evolve across space and time?"

12:30 LUNCH (60)

1:30 Benjamin Baiser, University of Florida "The Macroecology and Biogeography of Ecological Networks"

2:00 Allison Barner, University of California Berkeley "Why multilayer networks?"

2:30 Fernanda Valdovinos, University of Michigan "Addressing environmental problems with Ecological Networks"

3:00 BREAK (15)

3:20 Panel

4:00 End of Program

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 07 May 2019 10:37:09 -0400 2019-05-09T08:30:00-04:00 2019-05-09T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium RECKLESS POSTER
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (May 14, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-05-14T10:30:00-04:00 2019-05-14T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
ELI Conversation Circles (May 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63468 63468-15716667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

For over 30 years, the English Language Institute’s Conversation Circles have been bringing members of the U-M community together for English language practice and intercultural exchange. Conversation Circles are weekly hour-long meetings of international students and scholars led by volunteer facilitators who are current U-M students, faculty and staff.

Please join us for this Informational Open House to learn about the program, meet current and past facilitators and participants, and enjoy some ‘multicultural’ refreshments. Drop by anytime, stay as long as you like.

Leading a Conversation Circle is a great way to support international students and help build a more inclusive campus climate. It’s also a great way to hone your facilitating skills, learn about other countries and cultures, make friends, and have fun!

Registration Link: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/conversation-circle/

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Reception / Open House Thu, 02 May 2019 12:32:26 -0400 2019-05-15T15:00:00-04:00 2019-05-15T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Reception / Open House Event flyer
Ramadan Community Iftars (May 15, 2019 8:49pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63342 63342-15651038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 8:49pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M’s Muslim Students’ Association and Islamophobia Working Group invite Muslims and non-Muslim allies to join our Ramadan iftar meals at sunset throughout May and early June. Ramadan is the Islamic holy month, when Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn to sunset. Come to break bread, to show solidarity, and to learn more about each other. To ensure that there is plenty of food, please RSVP for each of the iftars here: myumi.ch/Jyyrn

IFTAR SCHEDULE

Most iftars will be at Trotter Multicultural Center (428 South State Street), unless otherwise listed. All addresses are in Ann Arbor.

8:39pm, MONDAY, MAY 6: Trotter
8:40pm, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8: International House (921 Church Street)
8:42pm, THURSDAY, MAY 9: Trotter
8:47pm, MONDAY, MAY 13: Trotter
8:49pm, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15: Weiser Hall 10th Floor (500 Church Street)
8:50pm, THURSDAY, MAY 16: Trotter
8:54pm, MONDAY, MAY 20: Trotter, sponsored by the Program on Intergroup Relations
8:56pm, TUESDAY, MAY 21: Muslim Community Association (2301 Plymouth Road). A shuttle bus will depart from the Central Campus Transit Center at 8:30pm and return to central campus by 10:30pm. More details will be provided by email to those who RSVP.
8:57pm, THURSDAY, MAY 23: Trotter
9:00pm, MONDAY, MAY 27: Trotter
9:02pm, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29: Trotter


If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, we are eager to help. Please contact asbates@umich.edu. We are able to make most accommodations very easily, but advance notice is appreciated as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. All facilities are wheelchair accessible. Vegetarian and halal food options will be provided at every meal; please indicate additional dietary restrictions on the RSVP form.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 28 May 2019 10:50:52 -0400 2019-05-15T20:49:00-04:00 2019-05-15T22:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Reception / Open House iftar
Nam Center for Korean Studies 2019 NEKST Conference (May 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58073 58073-14401073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please check http://bit.ly/NEKST2019 for more information.

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

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:38:48 -0500 2019-05-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Nam Center for Korean Studies 2019 NEKST Conference (May 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58073 58073-14401074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please check http://bit.ly/NEKST2019 for more information.

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

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:38:48 -0500 2019-05-18T09:30:00-04:00 2019-05-18T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium | A Hearty Higgs Boson: Exploring Higgs Boson Properties Through the Refined Palette of the ATLAS Detector (August 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64807 64807-16450928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The Higgs Boson is a newly introduced cuisine in the world of particle physics. We can now recognize it on the menu card of the Standard Model, but the details of its production, decay, and interactions are not yet precisely understood. I'll discuss the various recipes for creating a Higgs Boson with the Large Hadron Collider, and how these different methods affect the flavors we detect within the ATLAS detector. I'll also explore how refining our palette for Higgs Bosons can impact our broader understanding of fundamental physics.

Please Note: change in venue for this week's symposium.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:38:02 -0400 2019-08-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-08T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Technology Forum (August 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64601 64601-16394978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register today for the annual ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Technology Forum! The event starts with lunch and will be a great opportunity to network. An informative afternoon will follow where we will share new application features available for fall including new Gradebook options in Canvas, In-Video Quizzing and Canvas Assignments and Analytics 2.0 coming later this year.

The 2019 ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Technology Forum
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from Noon–4 p.m.
1010 Weiser Hall (tenth floor), 500 Church Street on the Ann Arbor campus

https://its.umich.edu/academics-research/teaching-learning/unit-technology-forum

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:06:42 -0400 2019-08-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Image from 2018 ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Tech Forum
International Institute Information Fair and Networking Reception (August 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64873 64873-16483039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The International Institute can help you make the most of your time here with funding opportunities for study, internship, or research abroad. All U-M students with an interest in international opportunities are invited to attend our annual information fair--directly followed by a social reception. We look forward to meeting you!

For your refreshment and to connect you with opportunities tailored to your specific interests, please RSVP: https://forms.gle/hCfZhYKVwiiCQBrw5. We would appreciate a response by Sunday, August 25.

About us: Our 17 centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study and bring together faculty experts from across campus.
Advantages of connecting with our centers include:

Funding opportunities: each year, the International Institute and its centers distribute over $4 million to U-M faculty and students, resulting in approximately 500 awards for international study and research. Course lists: utilize to identify classes relevant to particular regions, countries, or international issues of interest. Invitations: attend special events where you can connect with guest speakers, as well as other students and faculty who share similar interests. Masters degrees or graduate certificates: focus on a world region or theme. A number of students pursuing programs such as Law or Public Policy choose the II for a dual degree.

PARKING: U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor), across the street from Weiser Hall. Limited metered street parking near Weiser Hall on Church Street and South University Avenue is available. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is two blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

The building, event space, and restrooms are accessible. A lactation, reflection room, and gender-inclusive restrooms are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email hoyevan@umich.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:33:23 -0400 2019-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-08-29T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Reception / Open House student
Winter 2020 Open Advising (September 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64865 64865-16483029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS for an open advising event that will be held at CGIS for students interested in studying abroad during Winter 2020. Come in and speak to advisors about programs, the application process, scholarship and financial aid, and more! Popcorn and punch will be provided, and make sure to check-in at the front desk when you arrive. Note that the deadline to apply for all Winter 2020 programs is September 15th. Some programs may have earlier deadlines. Visit mcompass.umich.edu for more details.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:45:43 -0400 2019-09-05T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Franz Kafka in Central European Cultures of Memory (September 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63005 63005-15534805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

The presentation reconstructs the main strains of the reception of Franz Kafka within the historiography of literature in Central Europe and traces them to Central European cultures of memory. The lecture deals both with forgetting and functionalizing Franz Kafka in the memory of literature, as it occurred in Czech and German historiography of literature, as well as the obscuring and the focusing on details concerning his biography, networks, readings and text production during their way from the “storage” to the “functional memory”, as practiced within the paradigm of national historiography of literature. The lecture also focuses particularly on the invention of Franz Kafka as a “Czech” and/or Central European author in the Czechoslovakia of the 1960s and the transnational reinvention of Franz Kafka within the Central European context after 1989.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:54:16 -0400 2019-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion kafka
WCED Lecture. The Politics of the Middle-Income Trap (September 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64627 64627-16397015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Beginning in the mid-2000s, economists in both academia and development multilaterals have drawn increasing attention to countries, especially in Southeast Asia and Latin America, being stuck in middle-income. Political leaders in those regions have also expressed concerns about this “Middle-Income Trap.” But while economists point to policies required to move into higher income, they have generally ignored the political and institutional aspects of the trap. Two factors merit special attention: “disarticulation politics,” involving social cleavages that impede the creation of coalitions necessary to create effective institutions; and unstable, fragmented party systems that undermine the long time horizons necessary for institutional development and policy implementation. Doner will explore these issues through cross-national and cross-sectoral variation in specific issue areas and institutions.

Richard F. Doner is Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Doner's research focuses on the political and institutional bases of economic development, especially in Southeast Asia. His books include "The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand’s Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective" (2009); "From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry" (with David McKendrick and Stephan Haggard, 2000); and "Driving a Bargain: Japanese Firms and Automobile Industrialization in Southeast Asia" (1991). His co-edited volumes include "Explaining Institutional Innovation: Case Studies from Latin America and East Asia" (2010), and "Economic Governance and The Challenge of Flexibility in East Asia" (with Fred Deyo and Eric Hershberg, 2001). His articles have appeared in journals such as "International Organization," "World Politics," "Journal of Development Studies," "Journal of Contemporary Asia," "Journal of Asian Studies," "Science, Technology and Society," "Journal of East Asian Studies," "Review of Policy Research," and "World Development." Dr. Doner has written or consulted for the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, and business associations in Southeast Asia. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Northeast Thailand and an assembly line worker at General Motors in California.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:42:02 -0400 2019-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Richard Doner
CREES Noon Lecture. Nature, Consumption, and Waste in the Cold War and Beyond (September 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64336 64336-16322405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The goal of this lecture is to reevaluate state socialism’s environmental record from a transnational rather than a comparative perspective. Zsuzsa Gille will argue that state socialist modernity had its own view of nature and materials, as well as a largely misunderstood ethical stance to consumption that is ignored in today’s studies of Capitalocene examining the interrelations of capitalism and climate crisis. The presentation will provide an overview of the environmental advantages and disadvantages of central planning with an eye to demonstrating how Cold War-era trans-bloc relations and a unique socialist economic logic mutually constituted each other. In discussing the post-1989 developments, she will demonstrate a missed opportunity for a greener postsocialism. Instead of returning to the rightfully criticized Anthropocene term, Gille will argue for a more central role for waste and materiality in our understanding of the current dilemmas around global environmental problems.

Zsuzsa Gille is professor of sociology and director of global studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of "Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union" (Indiana University Press, 2016); "From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary;" co-editor of "Post-Communist Nostalgia" with Maria Todorova (Berghahn Press, 2010); co-editor of the forthcoming book "The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe;" and co-author of "Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World" (University of California Press, 2000).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:33:55 -0400 2019-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Hungarian industrial poster
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A (September 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63247 63247-15601668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Please note: This information session will be held virtually through BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/800113384. Please see step-by-step instructions below for students to join the information session virtually through the BlueJeans Network App.

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu.

Connecting Using the BlueJeans Network App:

1. Make sure Skype and other meeting apps are shut down
2. Download the free BlueJeans app: https://bluejeans.com/downloads. You do NOT need to sign up for a BlueJeans account, the connection is paid for by the U-M subscription to the service
3. Launch the BlueJeans app
4.. Select “Use Computer audio”, then NEXT
5. Choose "Join as guest” (bottom 1/4 of your screen)
6. Enter meeting ID: 800113384. No Passcode needed
7. Put your name in the guest user field
8. Select JOIN
9. During the guest presentation, please keep your microphone and camera muted in the BlueJeans interface

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:31:17 -0400 2019-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual logo
CJS Noon Lecture Series | An Exploration of Japanese Game Audio (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66264 66264-16725775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Quite possibly the primary means that most Americans have encountered Japanese culture, if not by food, is through video game music. Japanese composed themes and game audio techniques from the 70s and 80s are still used in modern games and even played in concert halls. This music has become one of Japan’s most notable exports to the world. In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will lead a journey through some of the most famous and influential video game music that he enjoyed during his childhood in the early days of game audio, and then turn to more recent topics, including recent research on the influence of video game music on piano study in Japan.

Matthew Thompson, DMA — collaborative piano, is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. As a pianist, Thompson has performed with operatic celebrities like Thomas Hampson, Golden Mask winner Vince Yi, and musical theatre gurus like Tony Award winner, Gavin Creel. Equally comfortable collaborating with instrumentalists, Thompson’s most recent recording project, Japonica, is comprised of Japanese composed oboe/piano duos with recent U-M alumnus, Dr. Alex Hayashi. Thompson’s research interests in game audio pedagogy have garnered international attention; he presents regularly nationally and serves on the advisory board for GameSoundCon and a committee member for the North American Conference on Video Game Music.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:38:31 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
CGIS Romance Language Open Advising: Winter 2020 (September 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64870 64870-16483036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS will be hosting an open-advising event for all Winter 2020 Romance Languages programs. Whether you’re interested in studying French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, students can stop by and ask last-minute questions regarding the application process, questions on course curriculum, financial aid and scholarships, and more. Note that the deadline to apply for all Winter 2020 programs is September 15th. Some programs may have earlier deadlines. Visit mcompass.umich.edu for more details.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:00:30 -0400 2019-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
CSAS Lecture Series | Widows under Hindu Law: an Overview (September 13, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64842 64842-16460996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This talk will present a broad history of the Hindu widow, as she is treated within works of the voluminous, two-millennia-long tradition of classical Hindu law known as Dharmaśāstra. Specifically, it will show how the opinions of jurists working within the Hindu legal tradition changed over time on four major issues related to Hindu widows. These issues are: widow remarriage and levirate; a widow’s right to inherit; widow self-immolation or sati; and widow-asceticism. This talk will then argue that the shifting opinions of Hindu jurists on these four issues are, to a significant extent, causally related to one or another and that they allow us to identify and track major shifts in orthodox Brahmanical attitudes toward women during the early medieval period (c. 500-1300 CE).

David Brick is assistant professor of Sanskrit literature at the University of Michigan. His research deals with diverse aspects of early India and Sanskrit literature with a special focus on the influential tradition of classical Hindu law known as Dharmaśāstra. His first book, Brahmanical Theories of the Gift: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Dānakāṇḍa of the Kṛtyakalpatura (Harvard Oriental Series 2015), comprises the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a dānanibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. His next major project will be a comprehensive study of widows under Hindu law.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:21:55 -0400 2019-09-13T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-13T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion David Brick, Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Literature, University of Michigan
ASP Conference | Generations and Legacies: Louise Manoogian Simone’s Vision for Armenian Studies (September 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65017 65017-16501316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

For schedule and complete conference information: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/conferences/september-2019--generations-and-legacies--louise-manoogian-simon.html

Ms. Manoogian Simone was a consummate patron of many things Armenian. Thanks to her generosity, our program has been uniquely poised to train and support a new generation of scholars in Armenian Studies. This conference will highlight the innovative and field-defining work of former and current visiting and postdoctoral fellows, as well as the students of our program.

Presenters:
Former Directors of the Armenian Studies Program
Kathryn Babayan (2012-2019)
Gerard Libaridian (2007-2012)
Kevork Bardakjian (1995-2007)
Ronald Suny (1981-1995)

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:16:47 -0400 2019-09-13T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Conference / Symposium ASP Conference: Generations and Legacies: Louise Manoogian Simone’s Vision for Armenian Studies
ASP Conference | Generations and Legacies: Louise Manoogian Simone’s Vision for Armenian Studies (September 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65068 65068-16509335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Ms. Manoogian Simone was a consummate patron of many things Armenian. Thanks to her generosity, our program has been uniquely poised to train and support a new generation of scholars in Armenian Studies. This conference will highlight the innovative and field-defining work of former and current visiting and postdoctoral fellows, as well as the students of our program.

Presenters:

Former Manoogian visiting and postdoctoral fellows and students

Hakem Al-Rustom, University of Michigan
Sebouh Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles
Murat Cankara, University of Ankara
Dzovinar Derderian, Independent Scholar
Ohannes Kılıçdağı, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Pifer, University of Michigan
Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Christopher Sheklian, Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center
Alison Vacca, University of Tennessee

Current students and Manoogian postdoctoral fellows

Armen Abkarian, Ph.D. student
Ali Bolcakan, Ph.D. candidate
Karen Jallatyan, Manoogian postdoctoral fellow
Tuğçe Kayaal, Ph.D. candidate
Jane Kitaevich, Ph.D. student
Özge Korkmaz, Ph.D. candidate
Mano Sakayan, Ph.D. student
Anoush Suni, Manoogian postdoctoral fellow
Annika Topelian, BA student

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:54:36 -0400 2019-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Conference / Symposium ASP Conference: Generations and Legacies: Louise Manoogian Simone’s Vision for Armenian Studies
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Border Walls and Violent Borders (September 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64325 64325-16316272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

Since 2014, over 57,000 people died or went missing while migrating. Over the same period, the number of border walls around the world doubled to over 70. This presentation considers the relationship between border security and migrant deaths in the era of globalization, with a focus on the impact in North Africa and the Middle East.

About the Speaker:
Reece Jones is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geopolitics. He is the author of two books Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel (2012 Zed Books) and Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (2016 Verso). He has also edited four other books, most recently Open Borders: In Defense of Free Movement (2019 University of Georgia Press).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:45:42 -0400 2019-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (September 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66684 66684-16770199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

An introductory planning meeting for the Cognitive Science Seminar Series will take place on Monday, September 16, to establish the speakers and topics for the fall semester. The biweekly seminar series features informal presentations of work-in-progress by graduate students, post-docs, and faculty; networking and meeting other cognitive scientists and students on campus; reading groups that involve pairs of papers on the same topic from different disciplines; practice talks (especially talks that are interdisciplinary in nature or might be presented to an interdisciplinary audience); conference reports from cognitive science conferences; and occasional invited speakers of interest to the group.

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Meeting Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:49:08 -0400 2019-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Meeting Weiser Hall
ELI Fall 2019 Workshop Series: Writing Effective Email (September 16, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67147 67147-16805220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever struggled to write important email messages? Have you ever wondered whether your email messages reflect the professional persona you wish to project? Given the importance of email in academic and professional settings, the ability to write effective e-mail messages is an essential skill. In this workshop we will focus on strategies for writing clear, effective and professional email. We will discuss the aspects of email that make it likely to be read, to be easily understood, and to create a good impression. Bring a few samples of your important email messages to analyze.

Sign up here:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4661

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:51:37 -0400 2019-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar ELI Event Image
Design principles for organization and self-assembly far from equilibrium (September 17, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66305 66305-16727932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics provides a useful set of tools to analyze and constrain the behavior of far from equilibrium systems. However, these tools have not yet been broadly applied to aid in the control of many body systems and materials assembled far from equilibrium. In this talk, I will report an application of ideas from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to the problems related to morphological changes in membranes, non-equilibrium self-assembly and more broadly control of material properties far from equilibrium. In many of these contexts, I will show how the material properties can be substantially constrained (and even predicted) using tools from non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:34:54 -0400 2019-09-17T11:30:00-04:00 2019-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar S. Vaikuntanathan
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (September 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63855 63855-15945566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Why have the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin - all expanded their activism since the late 1970s despite the unfavorable domestic political environment? My investigation into the history of the three groups finds an answer in the galvanizing effects of global human rights on local social movements. Drawing on interviews and archival data, I document the transformative impact of global human rights ideas and institutions on minority activists, which changed the prevalent understanding about their standing in Japanese society and propelled them to new international venues for political claim making. The global forces also changed the public perception and political calculus in Japan over time, catalyzing substantial gains for the minority movements. Having benefited from global human rights, all three groups repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of international human rights principles and instruments. The in-depth historical comparative analysis offers rare windows into local, micro-level impact of global human rights and contributes to our understanding of international norms and institutions, social movements, human rights, ethnoracial politics, and Japanese society.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Donia Human Rights Center, and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other social science journals. His book publications include "Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan" (Oxford University Press 2018), and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) "Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World" (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, National Science Foundation grants, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010, 2013, 2019), Human Rights (2017, 2019), Asia and Asian America (2018, 2019), Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018), and Political Sociology (2019).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu, we'd be happy to help. As you may know, some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange, so please let us know as soon as you can.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:30:49 -0400 2019-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Kiyo
LRCCS Special Performance | The Chinese Hip-Hop Experience: Showcase and Discussion (September 18, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64930 64930-16491247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This event will feature two Chinese rappers (Lil Bag 小包 and Don Dream aka Tang King) from the Iron Mic (the largest MC competition in China), and the founder of the competition himself, Detroit native Dana "Showtyme" Burton. Don Dream (Shanghai) has been a full time rapper since 2003 and took second place in the Iron Mic. He also MCs large events and music festivals, such as EDC Shanghai. Lil Bag (Changsha) has been nominated for "Rap album of the year" three times (Abilu awards) and has 7 full length albums. He also has a history as one of the most famous journalists on Chinese hip-hop.

Our panelists will be talking about the evolution of Chinese hip-hop, moderated by LRCCS Faculty Associate Professor Emily Wilcox. There will also be an opportunity for questions from the audience. The artists will also give a short showcase of their microphone skills, which is a preview for a large scale Chinese hip-hop performance happening in Hart Plaza, Detroit on Saturday, Sept 21st at the Detroit Chinatown Festival.

The artists will also give a short showcase of their microphone skills, which is a preview for a large scale Chinese hip-hop performance happening in Hart Plaza, Detroit on Saturday, Sept 21st at the Detroit Chinatown Festival. ( http://www.detroitchinatownllc.com/event/ )

Click here for more info on the festival: http://www.detroitchinatownllc.com/event/

Cosponsored by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies and Detroit Chinatown.

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Performance Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:53:56 -0400 2019-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Performance The Chinese Hip-Hop Experience: Showcase and Discussion
ASP Roundtable | Pluricentric Armenian in a Diasporic Context: Reflections on Second Dialect Acquisition (September 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65099 65099-16517511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Roundtable Participants: Shushan Karapetian, Deputy Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies, University of Southern California; Tamar Boyadjian, Associate Professor of Medieval Literature, Michigan State University; and Vahe Sahakyan, Research Scholar, Senior Information Resources Specialist, U-M - Dearborn

Los Angeles, as an epicenter of the Armenian diaspora, nourishes a dynamic community of Armenian language speakers and learners. Consequently, the city accounts for a robust enrollment in Armenian day schools and language classes at the college level. The Armenian community is uniquely heterogeneous, differing in terms of country of origin, time of immigration, socioeconomic status, and linguistic standard or dialect. A significant demographic shift has been the recent increase in the number of speakers of Eastern Armenian, resulting in higher enrollments of Eastern Armenian students in day schools. In this context, the Eastern Armenian student faces a unique situation, as Western Armenian functions as the primary language of instruction for the Armenian curriculum in Los Angeles Armenian schools.

This presentation examines the experience of a growing number of heritage language speakers, for whom the home variant of the heritage language differs from the standard taught at school. The goal is to highlight the dynamic nature of a pluricentric language in a diasporic context. Unique instructional problems emerge for heritage speakers who have partially or fully acquired one variant of a language but find themselves in a classroom where another standard is taught. To address the difficulties, the process of second dialect acquisition (SDA), which involves the learning of a new variety of the same language, has to be fully understood. After surveying the growing body of work on SDA, this presentation will apply the findings to Armenian in a diasporic context and make concrete recommendations. Most importantly, Dr. Karapetian will argue that the natural sociolinguistic variation in the pluricentric manifestation of Armenian should not be seen as a problem but as a resource.

Dr. Karapetian’s talk is part of an effort by the Society for Armenian Studies to open a discussion on Western Armenian as highlighted by its latest publication - "Western Armenian in the 21 st Century: Challenges and New Approaches" (Fresno, CA: The Press at Fresno State, 2018) edited by Bedross Der Matossian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian.

Dr. Shushan Karapetian is Deputy Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies at the University of Southern California. She received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2014, where she has taught Armenian Studies courses over the past nine years. Her dissertation, “‘How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?’: A Study of Eastern Armenian Heritage Language Speakers in Los Angeles” received the Society for Armenian Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2015. Her research interests focus on heritage languages and speakers and particularly on the case of Armenian heritage speakers in the Los Angeles community, on which she has presented and lectured widely. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award at the Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages in recognition for outstanding scholarship in heritage language research.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:43:09 -0400 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Shushan Karapetian, Deputy Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies, University of Southern California
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Ann Arbor and Hikone: 50 years of Sister-City Relationship (September 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66943 66943-16787732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Mayor Taylor and guests will discuss the history and importance of the Ann Arbor - Hikone Sister-City relationship, the AAPS-Hikone exchange program, and the August 2019 Goodwill Mission to Shiga and Hikone.

The guests include Hikone's beloved, popular mascot Hikonyan!

Mayor Taylor was elected in November 2014, after three terms representing the Third Ward on Ann Arbor City Council.

Professionally, Mayor Taylor is a corporate/commercial and estate planning attorney. He is a partner in the Ann Arbor law firm of Hooper Hathaway, where his practice focuses on the representation of local and regional businesses, individuals, and non-profits.

Mayor Taylor has earned four degrees from the University of Michigan. During his years at the University of Michigan, Mayor Taylor served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review and as president of the Inter-Cooperative Council, a 550-member housing cooperative.

Active in the community prior to holding elected office, Mayor Taylor has served on the Board of Directors of non-profits including 826michigan and FestiFools, and has performed with numerous local choirs and community theaters.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:36:46 -0400 2019-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Christopher Taylor, Mayor, City of Ann Arbor
Cognitive Science Community (September 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66808 66808-16779002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Interested in consciousness and the mind? Artificial intelligence? How humans and animals make decisions? If so, join the Cognitive Science Community every other Thursday, starting September 19, to participate in student- and professor-led discussions exploring the latest topics in the cognitive sciences where psychology, philosophy of mind, linguistics, and computational modeling converge.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:23:21 -0400 2019-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Cognitive Science Community logo
CSEAS Lecture Series. Beyond the East-West Encounter: Inter-Asian Intimacies and Estrangements in Colonial and Postcolonial Burma, 1850–1950 (September 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65087 65087-16515414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Sexual, conjugal, and household relations between white colonial masters and native women have long served as the paradigm of the colonial encounter. The talk offers a different and as yet untold story of colonial interaction: inter-Asian intimacies. Under British (1826–1942; 1945–47) and Japanese (1942–45) colonial rule, Burma, as with much of Southeast Asia, was a destination for millions of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese merchants, laborers, soldiers, and civil servants. These overwhelmingly male Asian subjects and brokers of empire forged intimate ties with local women as sexual, emotional, domestic, and business partners—one role often bleeding into another—within and outside the institution of marriage. These intimacies became, over the course of the twentieth century, flashpoints for far-reaching legislative reforms, communal riots, and anti-colonial, Buddhist, feminist, and nationalist movements. Based on imperial archival, vernacular, and oral sources in Burmese, Japanese, Chinese, and English that have never been brought together, the talk explores shifts and continuities in perceptions, practices, and experiences of inter-Asian intimacy in colonial Burma, resisting both the stigmatization and the romanticization of inter-Asian intimacies as either treacherous liaisons or heroic acts of radical love. It shows how inter-Asian intimacies constituted the primary, and hitherto unrecognized, site for articulating and adjudicating modern understandings of race, religion, and nation that continue to vex Burma and other parts of Southeast Asia today. The talk concludes with a reflection on the significance of these prevalent yet neglected intimacies for new approaches to the study of modern colonialisms and their legacies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:09:02 -0400 2019-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - Islamophobia Working Group Meeting (September 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64316 64316-16314269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Dear IWG members,

We're cancelling the next IWG meeting scheduled for March 20th, in light of the public health guidelines and care for your wellbeing.

Please let me or Silan Fadlallah <silanf@umich.edu> know if you have any questions. Stay safe and take good care of yourself.

kind regards,
Samer Ali

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The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We—a group of faculty, staff, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years, the IWG was run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture; starting in Winter 2019, the IWG is led by CMENAS housed in the International Institute. Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student, staff, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus, if you encounter a pertinent issue, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group. If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu).
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Meeting Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:10:02 -0400 2019-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Meeting Weiser Hall