Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (August 16, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-9324500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:44:31 -0500 2017-08-16T14:00:00-04:00 2017-08-16T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
SSD Disability Services Open House (September 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41414 41414-9215196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Services for Students with Disabilities

UM Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) is hosting an open house to welcome new and returning students and their parents. Stop by our office to meet our staff, register with us, and learn about the services SSD offers. We provide accommodations for students with many different kinds of disabilities and will confidentially discuss any concerns relating to potential or documented disabilities. Visit us on the ground floor of G-664 Haven Hall to find out more!

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Reception / Open House Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:19:12 -0400 2017-09-01T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Services for Students with Disabilities Reception / Open House Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Economics (ISQM): Saving Science from Itself: Rethinking the Value of Research in an Era of Electronic Expertise (September 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43688 43688-9832601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

ABSTRACT:
Many scientists who want public or private sector support seek to do work that informs and improves decisions. Changes in technology introduces challenges for researchers who have these kinds of aspirations. An explosion of information that is available for "free" have led many people to question the kinds of scientific activities for which they or the government should pay. A simultaneous promulgation of online "experts" have led many to question the role or authority of science in decision making. This presentation explains these challenges and then examines how changes in researcher training, particularly improvements in communication, increased commitments to rigor and transparency, and improved stakeholder engagement, can affect the types of opportunities that future scientists will (and will not) have.

BIO:
Arthur Lupia studies decision making and learning. He uses this information to explain to convey complex ideas to diverse audiences. His work clarifies how information and institutions affect policy and politics and how people make decisions when they lack information. He draws from multiple scientific and philosophical disciplines and uses multiple research methods. His topics of expertise include information processing, persuasion, strategic communication, and civic competence. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow at the Center for the Study of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and is one of the inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellows. His awards include the American Political Science Association's Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, the American Association for Public Opinion Research's Mitovsky Innovator's Award, and the National Academy of Sciences' Initiatives in Research Award. His articles appear in political science, economics, and law journals, and his editorials are published in leading newspapers. His research has been supported by a wide range of groups including the World Bank, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Markle Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. In 2016, Oxford University Press released his latest book, Uninformed: Why People Know So Little About Politics and What We Can Do About It.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:39:14 -0400 2017-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-06T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Legacy: Art across Generations Grand Opening and DAAS Welcome Reception (September 8, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43034 43034-9697029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:36:38 -0400 2017-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
DISC Lecture. Political Shari‘a, Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Love in Razinat T. Mohamed’s Novel "Habiba (Beloved)." (September 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42227 42227-9585111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

By 2002, Islamic law–Shari‘a–had been introduced in several northern Nigerian states. This development took place in the context of democratization and opening up of the political space after a prolonged period of military dictatorship. Claiming to establish a new moral order, these sharia-cratic states imposed new and sometimes draconian penalties against some “sexual offenses.” In the main, these alleged offenses targeted women and other gender minorities. This state of affairs triggered strong reactions from Nigerian women and human rights activists as well as from some non-governmental organizations. Included in this momentum of activism were Nigerian women writers and more particularly Muslim women writers from states that adopted Shari‘a, using both the Soyyaya (love story) genre in Hausa language and English novels to convey their messages of protest. The primary aim of this essay, then, is to explore this literary response to the moral order imposed by sharia-cracy through an examination of Razinat T. Mohamed’s novel, "Habiba (Beloved)" (2013).

Ousseina D. Alidou is professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature. She is a theoretical linguist whose research focuses mainly on the study of women’s orality and literacy practices in African Muslim societies; African Muslim women’s Agency and gender justice; African women’s literatures; Gendered discourses of identity; and the politics of cultural production in African Muslim societies.

Sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) with support from the African Studies Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Islamic Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:32:32 -0400 2017-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Alidou
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
A Conversation with Chrislan Fuller Manuel about Legacy: Art across Generations (September 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43142 43142-9728919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Please join us as artist Chrislan Fuller Manuel discusses her first exhibit, which also includes pieces by her great-grandmother Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:32:11 -0400 2017-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (September 20, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-9324501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:44:31 -0500 2017-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Targeted Undersmoothing (September 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44208 44208-9897587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a post-model selection inference procedure, called targeted undersmoothing, designed to construct uniformly valid confidence sets for functionals of sparse high-dimensional models, including dense functionals that may depend on many or all elements of the high-dimensional parameter vector. The confidence sets are based on an initially selected model and two additional models which enlarge the initial model. We apply the procedure in two empirical examples: estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in a job training program and estimating profitability from an estimated mailing strategy in a marketing campaign. We also illustrate the procedure’s performance through simulation experiments.

BIO: Christian B. Hansen studies applied and theoretical econometrics, the uses of high-dimensional statistical methods in economic applications, estimation of panel data models, quantile regression, and weak instruments. In 2008, Hansen was named a Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, and he was named the Wallace W. Booth professorship in 2014. Hansen's recent research has focused on the uses of high-dimensional data and methods in economics applications. The papers “Sparse Models and Methods for Optimal Instruments with an Application to Eminent Domain” with A. Belloni, D. Chen, and V. Chernzhukov (Econometrica, 2012) and “Inference on Treatment Effects after Selection amongst High-Dimensional Controls” with A. Belloni and V. Chernozhukov (Review of Economic Studies, 2014) present approaches to estimating structural or treatment effects from economic data in canonical instrumental variables and treatment effects models. These papers are extended in “Valid Post-Selection and Post-Regularization Inference: An Elementary, General Approach” with V. Chernozhukov and M. Spindler (Annual Review of Economics, 2015) and the forthcoming papers “Inference in High Dimensional Panel Models with an Application to Gun Control” with A. Belloni, V. Chernozhukov, and D. Kozbur (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics) and “Program Evaluation with High-Dimensional Data” with A. Belloni, V. Chernozhukov, and I. Fernández-Val (Econometrica).

Hansen has published articles regarding identification and estimation in panel data models, inference with data that may be spatially and temporally dependent, quantile regression, and instrumental variables models with weak or many instruments. His published work has appeared in several journals including Econometrica, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2000. In 2004, he received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a graduate research fellow of the National Science Foundation. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2004.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:21:12 -0400 2017-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, University of Western Ontario (September 26, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43156 43156-9729076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join us for our Africa Workshop series

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:11:37 -0400 2017-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 28, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Regime vs. Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia (September 28, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43526 43526-9810357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Lecture. “Regime vs. Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia.” Vladimir Gelman, Professor, European University at St. Petersburg and University of Helsinki.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:51:28 -0400 2017-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Rubin Speaker Poster
Legacy: Art across Generations (September 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 4, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-04T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Identification and Estimation of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments (October 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44209 44209-9897588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

ABSTRACT:
I provide a non-parametric potential-outcomes framework to study causal spillover effects in a setting where units are clustered and their potential outcomes can depend on the treatment assignment of all the units within a cluster. Using this framework, I discuss parameters of interest and provide conditions under which spillover effects can be identified in a randomized experiment. In addition, I characterize and discuss the causal interpretation of the estimands that are recovered by three specifications that are widely popular in empirical work: a regression of an outcome on a treatment indicator (difference in means), a regression of an outcome on a treatment indicator and the proportion of treated neighbors (a reduced-form linear-in-means model) and a regression exploiting variability in treatment assignment probabilities in two-stage designs. Finally, I provide conditions for uniform consistency and asymptotic Normality of direct and spillover effects estimators with special focus on the effect of potential outcome modeling assumptions and treatment assignment mechanism on inference. I illustrate my findings with data from a randomized conditional cash transfer pilot in Colombia and with a simulation study.

BIO:
Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan, where he is also completing the M.A. in Statistics. He works on econometrics and methodology, with focus on program evaluation and causal inference in experimental and non-experimental settings. He has worked with Matias Cattaneo and I in several papers on regression discontinuity designs, and has an exciting research agenda on estimation and inference of treatment effects in the presence of externalities and interference between units.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:07:40 -0400 2017-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 5, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Immigration, Religion and Race in the U.S. and Europe - Politics in an era of populism (October 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43527 43527-9810358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Immigration has been an important topic in elections in Europe since the rise of the Front National in France in the 1980s. In the last year the far right has seen mixed results, but immigration has played an important role for populist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, Islamic terrorism and the refugee issue has played a key role in raising the salience of the immigration issue. In the U.S., undocumented immigration from Latin America and the spread of immigrants to new regions of the country has also raised the salience of the issue. Using evidence from previous research, including research examining the importance of the salience of the immigration issue, Professor Givens will examine the connection between immigration, religion and race and the rise of populist politicians in the U.S. and Europe.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:27:56 -0400 2017-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Rubin Speaker Poster
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-09T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-10T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 11, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-11T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 12, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-16T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-18T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (October 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-10242995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:44:31 -0500 2017-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Emilie Diouf (Brandeis University) (October 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45825 45825-10310509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

With the best of intentions governmental and nongovernmental humanitarian advocacy groups assemble and collect stories of suffering in order to inform their claims for restoration. They collect trauma narratives for the purpose of supporting their interventions into nations and communities. But they also collect and disseminate these stories to acquire funding and political capital in order to promote their own institutional security even as they promote human dignity in their practices (James 2004). As a result of advocacy against HIV/AIDS, Female Genital Mutilation, and armed conflict in particular, African women’s stories of trauma have often been interpreted and showcased as evidence of extreme gender based abuses in the global rights discourse. How do we ethically empathize with the suffering of women across nations and cultures whose gendering processes are different and who are racialized, remains an exegetical question for both feminist and trauma studies as well as humanitarian work and policies. I suggest that cross-cultural solidarity can only happen if there is a willingness to ethically translate African women’s traumatic experiences. I argue that ethical translation of pain takes into consideration the intersubjective dimension of trauma narration and considers the cultural, social, and political locations of African women as well as the subjects who bear witness to their testimonies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:16:36 -0400 2017-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 25, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 26, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 27, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (October 31, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 1, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 2, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-02T11:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
ASC Lecture.Trepidation, Longing, and Belonging: Liberating the curriculum at universities in South Africa (November 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46187 46187-10409867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

The lecture will focus on the political and higher educational context that has led to the call for decolonization of the curriculum at universities in South Africa, and the contested and varying ideas of curriculum decolonization. Dr. Badat will argue (i) that liberation of the curriculum and curricula is urgent and long overdue, and that there is a historic opportunity for liberating the curriculum from old and pernicious orthodoxies that impede knowledge making, arbitrarily value certain modes of knowledge making and certain knowledges, and constrain the construction, teaching, and assessment of courses and syllabi; (ii) that liberating the curriculum is inextricably connected to transforming institutional cultures, and to clarifying the purposes, goals, and roles of universities in South Africa, a society that must simultaneously ensure environmentally sustainable economic development, advance social equity, and consolidate and deepen democracy.

Dr. Saleem Badat is the program director of International Higher Education
and Strategic Projects at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His portfolio includes the South Africa program and international grantmaking in higher education.

Dr. Badat has served as the director of the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape, as the first head of the Council on Higher Education, which advises the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, and as vice-chancellor (the equivalent of the president in the US system) of Rhodes University in South Africa. He has been chairperson of Higher Education South Africa, and of the Association of African Universities Scientific Committee on Higher Education. He is a board member of the Centre for Higher Education Transformation, a member of the Carnegie 3 Study on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa Think Tank, and a trustee of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:12:41 -0400 2017-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion liberating-curriculum
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 3, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Student Life Open House: Services for Students with Disabilities (November 3, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46246 46246-10421248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Dean of Students Office

Staff will share information about the services, resources, and events they offer students.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:32:02 -0400 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Dean of Students Office Reception / Open House Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 6, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 7, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-07T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Africa Workshop with Ray Silverman (November 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46505 46505-10512724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

For the last 30-40 years mechanically reproduced (printed) religious imagery that originates from outside Ethiopia has been imported in Ethiopia where it has had a profound impact on the visual practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewehedo Church. The paper considers the processes by which this imagery has been adopted and adapted by contemporary artists who produce paintings for Orthodox churches as well as the roles it has played in shaping the spiritual lives of Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:39:40 -0400 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
And You Will See Wonders: Magic, Fraud, and Deceit in Late Medieval Venice (November 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45540 45540-10228828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Michael A. RYAN is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Minnesota, working under the direction of Professor William D. Phillips, Jr., and Professor Carla Rahn Phillips. His first job was as an Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University, where he earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. In 2011, he joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico as Associate Professor of History. He is a specialist in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the late medieval (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) Mediterranean Basin, with geographic foci on the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas. His thematic foci include the history of apocalyptic expectations and apprehensions; the intersection of magic, science, and religion; and gender and sexuality. With Karolyn Kinane, he is the co-editor of End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity (McFarland, 2009), the author of A Kingdom of Stargazers: Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (Cornell, 2011), and the editor of A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse (Brill, 2016). He is currently working on a new book-length manuscript on the parameters of magical fraud, counterfeiting, and charlatanry, tentatively entitled And You Will See Wonders: Magic, Deceit, and Fraud in Late Medieval Venice.

With Framing Comments by Carol Lansing: Carol Lansing is a Professor of History at the University of California -- Santa Barbara. Her work focuses on the society, politics, and culture in Medieval Italy. Her most recent book, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes, explores the thirteenth-century Italian city-states imposed laws on how people should grieve at funerals. She analyzes why the laws emphasized histrionic female grief, but in practice stressed not female but male public decorum.She also published The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune and Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy. Prof. Lansing also co-edited A Blackwell Companion to the Medieval World.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:24:31 -0400 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion mike ryan
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 9, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-09T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 13, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 14, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 15, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 16, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 21, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-21T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Legacy: Art across Generations (November 22, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43036 43036-9697102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration, her great-grandmother, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.

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Exhibition Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:22 -0400 2017-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Live Streaming-- "March" Keynote Address (November 27, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46444 46444-10489761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The Department of Political Science will live stream the event featuring Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell.

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Other Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:15:52 -0400 2017-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T21:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Other Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (December 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44212 44212-9897591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:11:26 -0400 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Winter Wonder Gathering (December 8, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46829 46829-10647796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Email pswebevents@umich.edu for details.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:38:00 -0500 2017-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T16:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Social / Informal Gathering Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 10, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 11, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 12, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 13, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 14, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 15, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Africa Workshop (January 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48319 48319-11220083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Zachariah Mampilly is the Director of Africana Studies and an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Vassar College. In 2012/2013, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is the author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War (Cornell U. Press 2011). Co-written with Adam Branch, Africa Uprising! Popular Politics and Unarmed Resistance is forthcoming from Zed Press.

Mampilly teaches courses on civil wars and rebel movements; race, ethnicity and nationalism; and the international relations of the Third World.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:55:04 -0500 2018-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 16, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 17, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 18, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 19, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 20, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 21, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 22, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 24, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 25, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 26, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 27, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 28, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 29, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 30, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (January 31, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Comics In Color: The Past, Present, and Future (February 1, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49377 49377-11450951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

A look into the history of Blacks and other people of color in comic books, along with an examination of the present and future of both the marvel and DC cinematic universes for people of color.

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Community Service Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:08:04 -0500 2018-02-01T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Community Service logo
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (February 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49195 49195-11386632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

We are pleased to announce the Rubin Speaker Series Lecture, Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason of the University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Mason's research on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Professor Mason received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2017.

We invite you to join us for an engaging conversation in the Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall on Thursday, February 1, 2018 from 4:00-5:30 PM.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:02:34 -0500 2018-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (February 1, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Navigation by Judgement: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work (February 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49509 49509-11465109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

High-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Tight controls and a focus on reaching pre-set measurable targets often prevent front-line workers from using skill, local knowledge, and creativity to solve problems in ways that maximize the impact of foreign aid. Drawing on a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects across nine aid agencies and eight paired case studies of development projects, I conclude that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. This “Navigation by Judgment” is particularly valuable when environments are unpredictable and when accomplishing an aid program’s goals is hard to accurately measure. Accomplishing results and accounting for results are sometimes in tension; focusing agents on meeting metrics sometimes undermines performance.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:12:12 -0500 2018-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (February 2, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (February 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (February 4, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Sessions-1/18 and 2/5 (February 5, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48473 48473-11241166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from ANY MAJOR to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology).

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
Funding is available.

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Meeting Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:52:52 -0500 2018-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Africa Workshop (February 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48348 48348-11222725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Dorothy L. Hodgson is Professor of Anthropology and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School - New Brunswick at Rutgers University. She is the President of the African Studies Association and has previously served as Chair and Graduate Director of the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Rutgers’ Institute for Research on Women, and President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. As a historical anthropologist, she has worked in Tanzania, East Africa, for over thirty years on such topics as gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, colonialism, nationalism, modernity, the missionary encounter, transnational organizing, and the indigenous rights movement.

She is the author of Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World (Indiana, 2011), The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries (Indiana, 2005), andOnce Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development (Indiana, 2001); and editor of The Gender, Culture and Power Reader (Oxford, 2016), Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights (Pennsylvania, 2011), Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives (Palgrave, 2001) and Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist (James Currey, 2000); and co-editor of “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa (Heinemann, 2001).

Her work has been supported by awards from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, American Council for Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:50:19 -0500 2018-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Curious Rise and Fall of African Authoritarian Successor Parties (February 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49748 49748-11510004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

This week CPW is hosting Nicolas van de Walle (Professor of Government, Cornell University). Nic will be presenting, "The Curious Rise and Fall of African Authoritarian Successor Parties", a chapter from his forthcoming Cambridge University Press book, Electoral Politics in Africa: Continuity in Change since 1990. The book is co-authored with Jaimie Bleck (Assistant Professor, Notre Dame).

Several hundred multi-party elections have been held in 46 of the 49 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa since a wave of democratization swept across the region in the early 1990s. This book explores the role of electoral politics in Africa from multi-party transitions drawing on cross-national data and more in-depth analysis of 8 countries: Senegal, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Kenya and Mozambique. Multi-party elections have been institutionalized during this quarter century but, we do not observe broader democratic consolidation in most of these countries. Instead the democratization of the early 1990s remains incomplete in much of the region to this day. Despite much apparent change since 1990, many of the same men, and rather fewer women, remain in positions of power today. On the whole, and with notable exceptions, the same political class that dominated national politics before transitions continue to do so.

This book will both document the paradoxical disjuncture between a rapidly changing Africa and stagnant electoral politics and investigate its implications for electoral politics. Given the regularization of multi-party elections, coupled with the change in media landscape and demographic trends including higher growth rates, urbanization, and unprecedented access to schooling –why do we observe relative political stasis? We argue that two key factors promote continuity: presidentialism and the “liability of newness.” These factors enhance the sitting president’s incumbency advantage. Still, elections can serve as “political moments” which generate substantial change. In very young and still unsettled electoral systems, in addition, we argue that each election also provides a moment of temporary political fluidity. This political opportunity can result in substantial democratic gains, or conversely, backsliding.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:00:51 -0500 2018-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Trumped Up: Combating Misinformation about LatinUs and Our Language(s) (February 19, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49298 49298-11409049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita (University of California/San Diego and Hunter College/ CUNY). She is an anthro-political linguist recognized for her research on U.S. LatinU languages, language socialization, "Spanglish," and "English-only" laws. In addition to her award winning community ethnography, Growing Up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York (1997), she co-authored Spanish in New York: Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity (2012) with Ricardo Otheguy, and edited three volumes, Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities (2005), Multilingual San Diego (2009), and Multilingual Philadelphia (2010). Recent articles include a study of language and identity on the Tijuana–San Diego border by Mexican-origin college students and at a border high school, and Puerto Rican assimilation to Mexican Spanish in San Diego.

In her talk, Prof. Zentella will discuss recent debates about language, truth, facts, news, and the rise of linguistic intolerance and hate crimes. As she indicates, “An anthro-political linguistic perspective helps us understand the recent attacks on speakers of other languages by the general public, employers, teachers, judges, senators, and by the President and his advisors, by explaining how racial ideologies of superiority/inferiority and purity/contamination have been remapped from biology onto language, with damaging repercussions for the education, employment, and safety of people of color who speak varied languages.”

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served following the lecture. For more information please contact Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes at lawrlafo@umich.edu.

This event is organized by the Latina/o Studies Program and cosponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, Romance Languages and Literatures, and by the RLL Diversity Committee.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:12:49 -0500 2018-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
CASC OUT! 2018 (February 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48728 48728-11297746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

You are invited to our second annual CASC OUT! event.

CASC OUT! will be in celebration with World Day of Social Justice on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.

What is World Day of Social Justice? The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 20 February as World Day of Social Justice in 2007. Observance of World Day of Social Justice should support efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, gender equity and access to social well-being and justice for all.
Fore more information: http://www.un.org/en/events/socialjusticeday/

Join us in the Haven Hall Posting Wall A to build community with people who committed to social justice. Share the topics related to social justice you are passionate about and the social problems you will change.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 09 Feb 2018 09:45:56 -0500 2018-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Social / Informal Gathering CASC OUT 2018
Africa Workshop (February 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48350 48350-11222730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

My primary area of research addresses the rhetoric of application forms within a historical and sociological framework that accounts for the way biographic details are used to distribute institutional resources. My current book project, Forms of Submission: Writing for Aid and Opportunity in America explores a 125-year history of applications for financial support and college admission, and the ways institutions address problems with inequality at the level of the applicant’s biography.

The second area of research emerged from my previous position, teaching in the Rhetoric Department at The American University in Cairo, and through an affiliation with the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR). With Ira Dworkin, I co-edited a volume of Comparative American Studies on transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa. I also have two forthcoming articles on Egypt, appearing in The Drama Review and Transition.

The third area of research represents my latest project as well as a shift from paperwork to logistics, in an exploration of a little-known back-to-Africa movement that resets the timeline for African American migration to Ghana. Building on research that began as a biography of my ancestor Alfred Charles Sam (1880-1932), the book reconstructs the logistical complexity and inspiration for an African organizing African American return to Ghana in 1915. Pan-African Logistics: Chief Sam and the Origins of African American Migration to Ghana identifies African descendants of the movement, the role of African Americans in an emerging West African nationalism, and the complex interface between blackness, business, and migration.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications


Application Forms/Paperwork:
Special Issue Editor,"Biographic Mediation: On the Uses of Disclosure in Bureaucracy and Politics,"Biography, forthcoming 2019.

“Funding the American Dream: On the Biographic Mediation of Aid and Institutional Change in Horatio Alger Scholarship Narratives, forthcoming, a/b: journal of auto/biographical studies, 33.1.

“Biographic Mediation,” Special Issue on What's Next? The Futures of Auto/Biographical Studies, a/b: journal of auto/biographical studies, 32:2, Spring 2017.

“Biographic Currency in Crisis,” in Occasion: Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal, Special Issue on States of Welfare, Vol 2 Dec 2010.

Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and Africa:
“A Complicated Embrace: Alex Haley’s Roots in Egypt,” Transition 122, 2017.

“On Demand and Relevance: Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa,” (w/Ira Dworkin), Introduction to Comparative American Studies Special issue, 13:4, Winter 2016.

“The Chief Sam Movement, A Century Later,” (w/Kendra Field) in Transition 114, 2014. (Winner of the 2016 Boahen-Wilks Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Article from the Ghana Studies Association)

Counter/Revolution in Egypt:
“Waiting for the Tragedy to Unfold: Protest, Performativity, and the Spectacle of Massacre at Rabaa Al Adawiya,” forthcoming, The Drama Review

“Visualizing Revolution: The Politics of Paint in Tahrir,” Jadaliyya, April 2012.

“Women in (Post) Revolutionary Egypt,” The Feminist Wire, April 2011.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:43:46 -0500 2018-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Out of Bounds? Testing for Long Run Relationships under Uncertainty Over Univariate Dynamics (February 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50742 50742-11859088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

ABSTRACT: Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (2001) (PSS) proposed a bounds procedure for testing for the existence of long run relationships between a unit root ependent variable (y_t) and a set of weakly exogenous regressors x_t when the analyst does not know whether the independent variables are stationary, unit root, or mutually cointegrated processes. This procedure recognizes the analyst's uncertainty over the nature of the regressors but not the dependent variable. We extend their analysis to the case where the analyst is uncertain whether y_t is a stationary or unit root process. In this case, the test statistics proposed by PSS are uninformative for inference on the existence of a long run relationship between y_t and x_t. We propose the LRM test statistic as an alternative. Using stochastic simulations, we demonstrate the behavior of the test statistic given uncertainty about the univariate dynamics of both y_t and x_t, illustrate the bounds of the test statistic, and generate small sample and approximate asymptotic critical values for the upper and lower bounds for a range of sample sizes and model specifications. We demonstrate the utility of the bounds procedure by re-examining the relationship between economic conditions and domestic policy mood.

You can see the list of upcoming speakers on our website [https://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/events/isqm/].

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:43:52 -0500 2018-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Perpetually Foreign, Perpetually Inferior: Racial Microaggressions and Linguistic Othering (February 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49475 49475-11464922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Racial microaggressions are subtle and persistent insults that position people of color as “less than” – less intelligent, less American, less qualified, etc. In the presence of racial microaggressions, white people experience a “stereotype lift,” benefiting from comparisons to other racial categories (McGee and Martin). In this talk, I describe how the practice of responding to student writing can work to reaffirm the Americanness and intelligence of white students while de-Americanizing Asian American and Latinx students and positioning Black and African American students as inferior and less capable.

Bethany Davila is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of New Mexico where she co-founded (along with Cristyn L. Elder) their Stretch and Studio Composition program. She is a co-editor of a forthcoming collection, Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace (with Cristyn L. Elder) published by Utah State University Press. Her research focuses on the social construction of linguistic difference; written standardness and racial privilege; instructors’ perceptions of student writers based on written language features; and workplace bullying as it pertains to WPAs. Her publications appear in Written Communication, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Composition Forum, and Composition Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:43:36 -0500 2018-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Bethany
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (March 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-11690352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:44:31 -0500 2018-03-02T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
Examining Heterogeneity in Social Movements Using Social Media Data (March 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50560 50560-11802351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

Most collective action models conceptualize a social or political movement as actions taken by a rather homogeneous group of activists that come together for a common goal and put in the same amount of effort with similar costs. The availability of online traces of protest participation allows us to move beyond such simplifying assumptions and study heterogeneity in contentious politics along various dimensions. In this talk, drawing from data on various cases of contentious politics that differ in scales, geographies, and goals, I will discuss various forms of heterogeneity observed in online social and political movements. First, through the case study of #occupygezi, I will examine heterogeneity in political attitudes of participants and the implications of exposure to such heterogeneity for behavioral changes observed for the protesters. Second, through an examination of Black Lives Matter and Women’s rights movements on Twitter, I investigate the heterogeneity in participation intensity and protester type. Findings highlight the potential for a better understanding and modeling of movements by leveraging data driven methods that identify such heterogeneity.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:41:36 -0500 2018-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2018-03-05T15:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
A Hierarchical Non-Parametric Mixture Model to Detect Heterogeneity in Preferences for Redistribution (March 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50489 50489-11779670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Abstract: This paper proposes a hierarchical semi-parametric Bayesian model that generalizes Generalized Linear Models (GLM) and Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM). It generalizes GLMs and GLMMs in the sense that it can be used whenever using GLM or GLMM is justifiable, either in the context of observational or experimental studies. However, whenever GLM/GLMM are not appropriate because there might be heterogeneity in the effect of the covariates/treatment due to latent or unobserved variables, the proposed model can be used to estimate clusters in the population based on those latent factors. Additionally, the hierarchical structure of the model allows us to investigate if the latent heterogeneity is a function of context-level features. A Gibbs sampler is derived for cases with continuous outcome variable, and a Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo within a Blocked Gibbs sampler algorithm is proposed for cases in which the outcome is binary or discrete. A Monte Carlo exercise is conducted and shows, first, that the proposed model and MCMC estimation have good coverage and recover the true value of the linear coefficients when the assumptions underlying the use of GLM or GLMM holds. So, it can be used to estimate the linear coefficients whenever using GLM or GLMM is justifiable. Second, when there is latent heterogeneity in the data and GLM/GLMM are not appropriate, the MC simulations show that the proposed model can be used and estimates the correct clusters of linear coefficients with good coverage. The model is then applied to a real data sets to investigate latent heterogeneity in support for redistributive policies. There are a variety of political economy models designed to explain voters' support for redistribution. The model is applied is to investigate if there are latent sub-populations containing different types of voters for which different behavioral models seem to be adequate. In other words, the proposed model allows us to investigate empirically if there is heterogeneity in the population in terms of how voters' socio-economic characteristics are associated with their support for redistributive policies, and therefore estimate the number and characteristics of types of voters. The hierarchical structure of the model allows the estimation of how country-level features are associated with the number and characteristics of types of voters.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:15:57 -0500 2018-03-06T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Measuring attentiveness on self-administered surveys (March 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50674 50674-11847614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

ABSTRACT: Inattentive and distracted respondents are increasingly a concern for survey researchers. The failure of respondents to pay attention to questions and treatments introduces noise into data sets, weakening correlations between items and increasing the likelihood of null findings. The Instructional Manipulation Check, or “Screener", has recently been proposed as a way to identify inattentive respondents. While Screeners hold potential for identifying inattentive respondents, questions remain regarding their implementation. In this talk, I will discuss the costs and benefits of using measures of attentiveness of self-administered surveys. The talk will be based on these two articles, as well as on ongoing research.

BIO: Adam Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT. He studies the political behavior of ordinary citizens. While he is primarily concerned with questions of representation and the communication of public sentiment to political elites, he has also studied public opinion and foreign policy, the continuing power of group-based stereotypes, the effect of voting reforms, the power of the media, and survey research methods. In 2013, Adam received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research, for outstanding work on public opinion or survey methodology.

As always, you can see the list of upcoming speakers on our website [https://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/events/isqm/] and I have also included a short list of next semester's future speakers and dates at the end of this message.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:50:21 -0500 2018-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence (March 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50807 50807-11873340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Abstract: Do foreign interests influence US politics? I investigate this question by examining patterns of campaign contributions among foreign firms. While statutorily forbidden from directly giving campaign money, foreign multinationals may be able to influence American politics through their US subsidiaries. Consistent with this, I show that the US subsidiaries of foreign multinationals are more likely to give campaign contributions, give contributions that are vastly larger, and locate significantly closer to Capitol Hill than domestic firms, controlling for industry sector and firm size. While contributing 5% to US GDP, majority foreign-owned firms account for more than 11% of all corporate campaign contributions. I argue that this greater political intensity is driven primarily by the desire of subsidiaries to represent the political interests of their foreign parent corporations, and rule out alternative explanations like a `foreignness premium' and political inexperience. I conclude that foreign multinationals are a significant political actor in the US, and that foreign direct investment in the US partly serves as an investment in political influence.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:29:57 -0500 2018-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Never Again: The Political Lessons of Repression (March 15, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50847 50847-11884750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Abstract: What political lessons do victims of extreme repression learn and pass on to their children? This project explores how the personal experience of repression may change the political attitudes of survivors and their descendants in two distinct and competing ways. First, experiences of repression could engender empathy toward other victims, making survivors of repression (and their descendants) more supportive of oppressed outgroups. On the other hand, experiences of repression could heighten levels of fear such that the future security of the group becomes paramount. This could make these individuals less supportive of other repressed groups, if they believe these groups constitute some type of threat. In this study, we explore these two divergent effects in the context of the Jewish experience of the Holocaust and their commitment to the abstract principle of ‘never again.’ Specifically, we use a survey experiment among American Jews (including survivors, descendants, and those with no family connection to the Holocaust), priming empathy or threat considerations and then measuring support for US acceptance of Syrian refugees, and other outgroup political attitudes.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:20:59 -0500 2018-03-15T14:30:00-04:00 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Academics as Art Critics (March 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50935 50935-11930525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Craft workshop focusing on published music criticism by Professor Brooks (rsvp to kfrisina@umich.edu or ygtolle@umich.edu for pre-reading).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:40:21 -0400 2018-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T14:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Daphne Brooks craft workshop
The Politics of Housing as Healthcare: Intergovernmental Competition and Social Deviance (March 16, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51029 51029-11942017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Abstract:
Homelessness is a public health problem. Chronic-homelessness perpetuates poor health outcomes, while adverse health outcomes contribute to chronic-homelessness. In 2015, the Obama Administration mandated evidence-based, non-punitive homelessness policy approaches. However, municipal policies vary widely, ranging from providing healthcare and housing services to criminalizing homelessness. Criminalization policies perpetuate homelessness and incur high costs. Housing and healthcare is most effective and reduces costs compared to
criminalization. Why do municipalities approach chronic-homelessness so differently, despite federal action and programmatic costs? This dissertation applies a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design to understand municipal characteristics associated with disparate policy outcomes and explain the effects of intergovernmental relations and social constructions of the homeless on municipal policy decision-making.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:02:47 -0400 2018-03-16T15:30:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Politicization of Place: UKIP and Perceptions of Local Diversity in the UK (March 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50921 50921-11927729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

Abstract:
Although most social science studies involving geography assess the effect of place on politics, we ask whether and how politics, and specifically political campaigns, can change individuals' perceptions and understandings of their local geographies. If geographic context effects arise from both objective experience and subjective perceptions, can "context effects" or "community effects" on political attitudes and behaviors be constructed or at least influenced by the political environment of the person? We use the case of UKIP campaign contact in the UK and measure perceptions of place using thousands of Google Maps drawn by the respondents of the 2014-2015 British Election Study.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:42:02 -0400 2018-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Diversity, Institutions, and Economic Activity: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland (March 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51030 51030-11942019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Abstract: How do migration and the resulting cultural diversity affect social organization? Do institutional differences between diverse and homogeneous migrant communities influence economic development? This paper argues that heterogeneity and disruption of social ties not only impede informal cooperation, but also increase demand for formal institutions. Greater reliance on formal institutions, in turn, facilitates arm’s length transactions and entrepreneurship. I test this argument using an original dataset on the size and composition of population uprooted by the post-WWII border changes in Poland. I find that localities settled by more homogeneous migrants were more successful in reestablishing private-order institutions that relied on informal enforcement, such as volunteer fire brigades, while localities populated by heterogeneous migrant population relied on formal third-party enforcement for the provision of public goods. Economically similar during state socialism, more heterogeneous migrant communities registered higher incomes and entrepreneurship following the transition to a market economy.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:06:57 -0400 2018-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
History Department Fall 2018 Course Fair + Meet & Greet (March 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49663 49663-11487550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Mingle, eat, and learn about fall courses with History students and professors.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:59:35 -0400 2018-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of History Reception / Open House Course Flyer Rotary
Populism, Pluralism, and Ordinary People (March 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50561 50561-11802352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Benjamin McKean is a political theorist whose research concerns global justice, populism, and the relationship between theory and practice. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and the Journal of Politics. His manuscript _Disposed to Justice_ argues that people subject to unjust institutions and practices should be disposed to solidarity with the others who are also subject to them, even when those relations cross state borders. A neoliberal global economy characterized by inequality, financialization, and transnational supply chains creates a widely shared interest in resisting injustice, grounded in the way that existing institutions impair freedom. Identifying this interest as the basis for solidarity provides a new perspective not only on the possibility of achieving global justice, but on the nature and limits of contemporary egalitarian liberalism. He is also at work on a second book project tentatively titled _Political Freedom and Resentment_ about the relationship between democracy and populism

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:45:45 -0500 2018-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Politics of Skin Color (March 23, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51235 51235-12021447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Abstract:
Heterogeneity in skin color is linked to significant differences in life experiences both within and across racial groups. For example, darker skinned African Americans have worse health outcomes, lower incomes, less education, lower rates of marriage, and even receive harsher criminal sentencing than lighter skinned blacks. Within political science, the focus on racial groups as largely homogenous entities has overlooked potentially important heterogeneity within groups based on skin color and gender. Drawing evidence from the 2012 American National Election Study, two online surveys, and 67 in-depth qualitative interviews, the following is clear: (1) Skin tone is a salient identity to a sizable portion of black people, especially those with dark skin; (2) Darker skin tone is associated with higher levels of support for more liberal policies in domains where darker-skinned people are often marginalized; and, (3) The intersection of skin tone and gender relates to stereotypes and perceptions of racialized policies. The goal of this line of research is to explore how skin color and gender inform social and political judgments, as well as feelings of efficacy and marginalization from the political system. This work not only offers important implications for scholars and policymakers alike, but also has implications extending across racial groups.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:38:13 -0400 2018-03-23T15:30:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Polemical Identities, Electorate Demographics and Electoral Rules: Strategic Identity-Signaling by Protestant Candidates in Brazilian Municipal Elections (March 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51236 51236-12021450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Abstract: I analyze how electoral rules and electorate demographics affect whether candidates who hail from polemical minority groups highlight or downplay this identity when running for political office. I present a model predicting that when voters rely entirely on identity signals, an office-motivated candidate’s decision to broadcast or downplay her polemical identity will depend on 1) Electoral rules, 2) Constituency demographics and the 3) The electoral salience of the candidate’s identity. This model motivates my analysis of the use of Protestant ballot titles by Protestant candidates in Brazilian municipal elections from 2002 to 2014. In line with the model’s predictions, I find that Protestant candidates are significantly more likely to broadcast their Protestant identity in proportional city council races compared to majoritarian mayoral races, but that this difference shrinks as Protestants compose a relatively larger fraction of the electorate. This model and accompanying empirical analysis build on behavioral findings regarding the pervasiveness of identity voting as well as the fundamental prediction from political economy that proportional rules allow for a wider range of competitive alternatives relative to majoritarian rules to show why candidates often project median identities. Additionally, it provides a novel assessment of how electoral rules mediate the expression of Protestant Christianity in Brazilian politics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:43:27 -0400 2018-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Africa Workshop (March 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48356 48356-11222731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Jemima Pierre (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora.

She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. She is currently completing a manuscript whose working title is “Racial Americanization: Conceptualizing African Immigrants in the U.S.,” and working on a project on the racialized political economy of multinational resource extraction in Ghana. Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation, Ghana, immigration, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in a number of academic journals including, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Review, Social Text, Identities, Cultural Dynamics, Transforming Anthropology, Journal of Haitian Studies, Latin American Perspective, American Anthropologist, and Philosophia Africana.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:47:10 -0500 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop (March 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51278 51278-12032774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Jemima Pierre (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a sociocultural anthropologist
whose research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (Winner of the 2014 Elliot Skinner Book Award in Africanist Anthropology; long listed for the 2013 OCM - BOCAS Literary Prize; Recipient for the 2012 Bevington Fund First Book Grant). She is currently completing a book, Race and Africa: Cultural and Historical Legacies, which is under contract with Routledge Press (“Framing 21st Century Social Issues Series”). At the same time, she has an ongoing ethnographic research project that focuses on historical and contemporary resource extraction in Ghana as a way to think through the relationship of race and political economy in the African postcolony. Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation, Ghana, immigration, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in a number of academic journals including, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Review, Social Text, Identities, Cultural Dynamics, Transforming Anthropology, Journal of Haitian Studies, Latin American Perspective, American Anthropologist, Philosophia Africana, and Politique Africaine.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:41:51 -0400 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Contingent Value of Relationships: The Supply and Demand for Revolving-Door Lobbyists (March 30, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51379 51379-12089628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Abstract:
In seeking representation, organized interest groups are faced with a variety of lobbyist types to choose from. "Revolving door" lobbyists, or individuals who transition from governmental positions into lobbying for private entities, are one such type. Revolving-door lobbyists thrive on the value of their relationships. The value of a revolver's services is contingent on the continued presence of friends within the government and the proportion of their friends' influence over policy. As legislatures experience greater turnover, relationships between lobbyists and incumbents get disrupted. When there are increases in membership size, the proportional influence of individual lawmakers is diminished. While there are more former legislators available to lobby when legislatures have high turnover or large chamber sizes, fewer of them enter into lobbying as the value of their relationships with incumbents decreases. When adjusting for this curvilinear effect of legislator supply, demand for lobbying services helps to govern numbers of revolving-door lobbyists. Other factors, such as revolving-door laws or the presence of legislative staff, have little or no effect on rates of revolving. Interests and institutions are found to interact in ways that substantively affect political representation, and some institutional reforms might help to level the playing field for interests with fewer material resources.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:19:57 -0400 2018-03-30T15:30:00-04:00 2018-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Authoritarian Legacies: Persistent Patronage Networks and the Erosion of Merit-Based Judicial Selection in Mexico. (April 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51197 51197-12018596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Abstract:

During Mexico’s transition to democracy, at the end of 1994, a Judicial Council was created with the explicit aim of establishing a merit-based system for the selection and promotion of judges at all levels of the federal judiciary. However, a series of indicators including nepotistic practices and ad hoc examinations show a divergence between the formal merit-based judicial career and the actual practice of appointments and promotions, which is biased in favor individuals with connections to sitting judges and persons already working in the federal judiciary. Why? What is the source of the divergence between the formally merit-based career and the actually biased hiring practices? This paper argues that patronage networks formed during the authoritarian period, when the Supreme Court hand-picked lower court judges, have persisted under the democratic regime eroding the meritocratic selection system. Based on archival data, and on a unique dataset on nepotism within the judiciary, the paper uncovers the patronage networks, and aims at showing their persistence and effects on the performance of the Judicial Council set to select judges on merit since 1995. Leveraging a relational perspective, the paper offers a mechanism of transmission and reproduction of enduring authoritarian practices despite democratic efforts to uproot them.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:46:59 -0400 2018-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Clustering Analysis Through Integrating Diverse, High Dimensional and Noisy Data Sets (April 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50741 50741-11859087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

ABSTRACT:

Sample clustering has been studied in statistics for many decades and recent advances in collecting diverse, high dimensional, and noisy data present new challenges for clustering analysis. For example, high-throughput genomic technologies coupled with large-scale studies including The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project have generated rich resources of diverse types of omics data from thousands of patients to better understand disease etiology and treatment responses. Clustering patients into subtypes with similar disease etiologies and/or treatment responses using multiple omics data has the potential to improve the precision of clustering than using a single type of omics data. In another setting, single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology can generate genome-wide expression data at the single-cell levels from hundreds to thousands of cells. One important objective in scRNA-seq analysis is to cluster cells where each cluster consists of cells belonging to the same cell type based on gene expression patterns. In this presentation, we will discuss our recently developed methods for analyzing multi-omics cancer and single cell RNA data sets. The improved performance of these methods will be demonstrated on various simulated as well as real TCGA and scRNA-seq data sets. This is joint work with Seyoug Park and Hao Xu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:23:31 -0400 2018-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Africa Workshop (April 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48358 48358-11222735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Sana Aiyar is a historian of modern South Asia. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2009 and held an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 2009-10. From 2010 to 2013 she was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her broad research and teaching interests lie in the regional and transnational history of South Asia and South Asian diasporas, with a particular focus on colonial and postcolonial politics and society in the Indian Ocean.


Her first book, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2015), explores the interracial and extraterritorial diasporic political consciousness of South Asians in Kenya from c. 1895 to 1968 who mediated constructions of racial and national identity across the Indian Ocean. Her research has appeared in several journals including the American Historical Review, AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute, and Modern Asian Studies. Professor Aiyar is currently working on two projects. One is a study of the everyday encounters of African soldiers and South Asian civilians during the Second World War when over a hundred thousand military recruits from East and West Africa were stationed in India and Burma. The second, "India's First Partition", is an examination of migration, religious and ethnic politics, nationalism, and anticolonial activism across India and Burma in the 1930s.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:00:08 -0500 2018-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop (April 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51279 51279-12032775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Sana Aiyar is a historian of modern South Asia. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2009 and held an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 2009-10. From 2010 to 2013 she was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her broad research and teaching interests lie in the regional and transnational history of South Asia and South Asian diasporas, with a particular focus on colonial and postcolonial politics and society in the Indian Ocean.Her first book, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2015), explores the interracial and extraterritorial diasporic political consciousness of South Asians in Kenya from c. 1895 to 1968 who mediated constructions of racial and national identity across the Indian Ocean. Her research has appeared in several journals including the American Historical Review, AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute, and Modern Asian Studies. Professor Aiyar is currently working on two projects. One is a study of the everyday encounters of African soldiers and South Asian civilians during the Second World War when over a hundred thousand military recruits from East and West Africa were stationed in India and Burma. The second, "India's First Partition", is an examination of migration, religious and ethnic politics, nationalism, and anticolonial activism across India and Burma in the 1930s.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:45:40 -0400 2018-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
"Domestic Preferences and Strategic Contexts: Why America Fights 'Dumb Wars'" (April 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51781 51781-12248760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Abstract: This paper develops a general theory of how US administrations define their collective policy preferences and, from those preferences, produce national strategies on interstate war and diplomacy. The paper applies this framework to variations in US strategy in the Middle East under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The theory begins with identifying whether an administration’s national security principals favor expansionism or non-expansionism in three main interest areas: force projection, regime behavior, and energy supplies. These collective preferences constitute the foreign policy posture of an administration, but they do not determine policy in isolation. Collective preferences intersect with the redistributive implications of a given strategic context: How much do the administration’s national security principals expect to gain or lose if the United States pursues aggression or negotiation with the target country? The resulting framework helps to explain why an expansion-inclined president (Bush) invaded Iraq while engaging Iran, and why an expansion-averse president (Obama) promoted regime change in Libya but exercised restraint toward Syria. Beyond the selected cases, the theory can help students of international politics understand America’s recurring pursuit — but also its periodic avoidance — of seemingly “dumb wars” in the Middle East.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:26:49 -0400 2018-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Legal Uniformity in American Courts (April 13, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51863 51863-12271495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Abstract:
Intercircuit splits occur when two or more circuits on the U.S. Courts of Appeals issue different legal rules about the same legal question. When this happens, federal law is applied differently in different parts of the country. Intercircuit splits cause legal non-uniformity, are an impediment to lawyering and judging, and have practical consequences for American law. Despite intercircuit splits' importance, there is almost no quantitative research about them. We created a unique original dataset that includes intercircuit splits that arose between 2005 and 2013. For each intercircuit split, we identified every circuit and every case involved. These data reveal that one-third of intercircuit splits are resolved by the Supreme Court. Two-thirds are not. We show that those that will be resolved are resolved within three years after they arise, and we show that splits are more likely to be resolved when they exhibit contemporaneous and growing disagreement. However, many such splits are never resolved by the Supreme Court. Those that are not resolved by the Supreme Court continue to yield litigation and do not dissipate on their own, and the likelihood of resolution does not rise as time passes.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:10:54 -0400 2018-04-13T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Memories of a Despot -- Historical Antecedents for Executive Constraints (April 13, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51790 51790-12248767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Abstract: What are the historical determinants of comparative executive constraints? In this paper, I explore memory of tyranny, i.e., the shared experience of having lived and survived under tyranny, as one plausible determinant. I expect executive constraints to be stronger when state institutions are formulated shortly after a reign of personalistic despotism, when collective memories of tyranny are fresh. I evaluate the proposition in two ways. First, I employ crossnational panel data on authoritarian regimes to compare executive constraints following the end of an authoritarian administrations. I find that constraints increase more following the end of a personalist tyranny than for other forms of authoritarian rule. Second, I narrow my scope to post-colonial regimes, comparing executive constraints in directly vs. indirectly colonized states. I find that post-colonial executive constraints tend to be stronger in indirectly ruled colonies, where colonial oppression was exercised by a local, homegrown tyrant rather than a foreign viceroy. I complement the quantitative analysis with illustrative case studies and survey data on public opinion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:46:12 -0400 2018-04-13T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
ORIENTATIONS: On Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Occupation - Rachel Lee (April 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50743 50743-11861924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

On 4.17.18 CEA/PIAS will host our final speaker of the event series. A graduate student workshop with Prof. Lee will occur from 11:30-1p, in Haven Hall 3773 (RSVP with Peggy at lepeggy@umich.edu). The public lecture will be held from 4-5:30 pm in Haven Hall 3512.

Rachel Lee is the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Professor of English, Gender Studies, and the Institute of Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality and Posthuman Ecologies (2014) winner of the Best Book in Culture Studies Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. Her scholarship draws on critical methods from race/ethnic studies in conjunction with theories of gender and sexuality, to examine the specific interfaces and choreographies of stand-up comedy, dance, new media/digital technology, and literature, most recently as they reflect on the life sciences.

Lecture Description:
The signature style of Korean-born, NY based artist Anicka Yi—winner of the 2016-17 Hugo Boss Award—involves repurposing materials associated with feminine domesticity--cooking paraphilia, edible ingredients, bath and vanity products—and coassembling them alongside industrial polymers, fiberboard, and metallic components. She has gained some notoriety as a smell portraitist due to her collaborations with perfumers and her incorporation into her work of molds and bacteria often sourced specifically from women’s mouths, armpits and vaginas. In this lecture, Dr. Rachel Lee attends to the anti-colonial critique threaded through key pieces of her oeuvre.

*Please refrain from wearing perfumes and scented body products to our events—share the air! Do let us know if you have any accessibility requests or questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:10:02 -0400 2018-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Headshot
2018 Political Economy Workshop End of Year Mini-Conference (April 20, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51959 51959-12327243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 10:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

The first half of the conference will feature 5 short presentations describing research presented at PEW this year.

10:30-10:45: Jieun Lee
10:45-11:00: Anil Menon
11:00-11:15: Iain Osgood and Corina Simonelli
11:15-11:30: Joe Ornstein
11:30-11:45: Nicole Wu

The second half of the conference will feature the 2018 Coordinator's Address by Yuhua Wang, which is jointly sponsored with the Exploring Historical Legacies and Memory (EHLM). We hope that you can attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:05:04 -0400 2018-04-20T10:30:00-04:00 2018-04-20T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Five Minute Friday (April 20, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52000 52000-12340872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Although most weeks we focus our attention on a single presenter, this week, IWAP will be hosting a lightning round of presentations that highlight research projects still in their infancy.

Each presentation will be limited to 2 minutes and will be followed by a 3 minute round of questions. It will be a fun opportunity to hear about the puzzles folks in our department are just beginning to tackle and to collectively prod their projects forward while enjoying snacks and coffee.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:51:09 -0400 2018-04-20T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Five Minute Friday (April 20, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52031 52031-12371051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Although most weeks we focus our attention on a single presenter, this week, IWAP will be hosting a lightning round of presentations that highlight research projects still in their infancy.

Each presentation will be limited to 2 minutes and will be followed by a 3 minute round of questions. It will be a fun opportunity to hear about the puzzles folks in our department are just beginning to tackle and to collectively prod their projects forward while enjoying snacks and coffee.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:02:46 -0400 2018-04-20T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Methods for Using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables (April 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50740 50740-11859086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

Abstract

We develop new estimation methods for estimating causal effects based on the idea that the amount of selection on the observed explanatory variables in a model provides a guide to the amount of selection on the unobservables. We discuss two approaches, one of which involves the use of a factor model as a way to infer properties of unobserved covariates from the observed covariates. We construct an interval estimator that asymptotically covers the true value of the causal effect, and we propose related confidence regions that cover the true value with fixed probability.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:31:53 -0400 2018-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (May 17, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-12338127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:44:31 -0500 2018-05-17T13:00:00-04:00 2018-05-17T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (July 12, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-12338128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Web Services created this training session to de-mystify Photoshop and make it easier to complete these types of tasks. You require no prior knowledge of Photoshop to come to this training. You should already be trained as an AEM site editor.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:44:31 -0500 2018-07-12T13:00:00-04:00 2018-07-12T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training