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 (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.

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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
Department GSI Orientation (August 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53065 53065-13217959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:22:14 -0400 2018-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-27T10:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (September 5, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-12340760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 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 2018-09-05T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (September 7, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53553 53553-13401561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

The positive role of negative emotions in facilitating democratic engagement has come to the fore in recent political science research. But negative emotions are not always a democratic plus. In this study, we focus on the ways in which negative emotions drive selective news exposure, focusing on the decision to consume news about terrorist violence. Drawing on data from a two-wave national online panel of Americans, we find that anxiety is associated with avoidance of news stories about recent terror attacks whereas anger is linked to increased consumption and repeat exposure. Panel data confirm that emotions precede selective exposure. Those angry at terrorists in wave 1 were more likely to watch a complete news story about the Boston marathon in wave 2 whereas those who felt anxious in wave 1 were less likely to watch the entire story in wave 2. These findings are consistent with an emotion regulation model of selective news exposure in which news is consumed if it is expected to arouse positive emotions or satisfy functional goals and avoided if it is expected to arouse negative emotions. We also find that exposure to terrorist violence is politically consequential. Those who reported greater exposure to stories of terror attacks were more likely to support aggressive national security policies in wave 1. In addition, a graphic reminder of the Boston marathon bombing in wave 2 boosted support for national security policies by enhancing the effects of anger on support for torture and increasing the effects of anxiety on support for heightened domestic surveillance policies. In developing an emotion regulation approach to the study of selective news exposure, we underscore the political implications of a highly arousing online news environment in which news consumption is driven by both emotional and informational goals.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:41:10 -0400 2018-09-07T15:30:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 10, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53749 53749-13459381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Come learn more and ask questions about the Michigan in Washington Program! Open to all majors and scholarships are available.

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Meeting Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:34:49 -0400 2018-09-10T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 10, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53068 53068-13217996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:48:12 -0400 2018-09-10T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
JIT Exchange: JIT Dance Workshop (September 10, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53503 53503-13392466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

This workshop will introduce participants to basic footwork of both Detroit JIT and Zimbabwean jiti dance forms. Wear comfortable clothing.

The Jit Exchange is a ZCCD project made possible through John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, presented in collaboration with U-M Center for World Performance Studies and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Co-sponsored by the African Studies Center, Institute for Humanities, Residential College, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the King•Chavéz•Parks Visiting Professors Program and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:50:09 -0400 2018-09-10T19:30:00-04:00 2018-09-10T21:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Stringz Workshop
Interest Group/RIW Orientation-- Department of Political Science (September 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52690 52690-12927444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This session will talk through some of the best practices for planning your political science event. We will also discuss the LSA hosting guidelines and will advise on the process for reimbursements and honoraria.

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Meeting Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:04:11 -0400 2018-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53749 53749-13459383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Come learn more and ask questions about the Michigan in Washington Program! Open to all majors and scholarships are available.

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Meeting Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:34:49 -0400 2018-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53069 53069-13217997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:51:42 -0400 2018-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
AEM Publications Training (September 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40930 40930-13392477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Web Services

Make the most of AEM's publications feature in this fun and informative training session.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:11:56 -0400 2018-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
I wish you were here: Postcards through the eyes of the Other (September 13, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53870 53870-13470154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies’ GalleryDAAS in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit presents I wish you were here, a postcard project, which is curated through the Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit (ZCCD) in Partnership with the National Gallery of Zim­babwe in Mutare, Zimbabwe.

Two border cities that exist as immigrant cities look at how postcards are seen as a memory of a space, and in this case, a fantasy of a space. Images of cultural or historical locations from one city are taken and sent to artists to illustrate from the other city more than eight thousand miles away. The postcards for the city of Mutare have been illustrated by Detroit artists similarly to the postcards of Detroit and Hamtramck where illustrated by artists in Mutare. The initial images where photographed by Aisha Haji-Jama (Detroit) and Abraham Mudefi (Mutare). This project is co-curated by Chido Johnson (ZCCD) and Elizabeth Muusha, the Regional Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare.


Participating artists from Detroit: Stephanie Beur, Julie George, Sabrina Nelson, Clinton Snyder, Dylan Spaysky, Tim VanLaar

Participating artists from Mutare: Sharon Bilang, Bradean Chitenduru, Eben Gowero, Biggie Matore, Enock Matumbure, Kundai Mharadze, Brendon Muchabaiwa, Christwish Mulunga


The exhibit will feature the original drawings for the postcards created, as well as other selections from the centre’s archive in Detroit. I wish you were here will run from September 13–November 14, 2018.

The exhibit is in conjunction with another ZCCD project called “The Jit Exchange.” This project is centered between Detroit Jit dance and Zimbabwean dances derived from their Jit Music. More information on the project and participating artists look at http://zccd.org/projects/jit/ The performance will be at the UMMA Aspe, with musical support from SMTD students and alumni, and in collaboration with the Center for World Performance Studies.

The fall exhibit for GalleryDAAS & the Jit Exchange Performance are part of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art’s exhibit of modern African artists “Beyond Borders: Global Africa”(August 11–November 25, 2018).

Zimbabwean Cultural Centre of Detroit (ZCCD) has been founded for and by artists living in Zimbabwe and outside its borders. The organization serves to dismantle naturally occurring as well as constructed boundaries, both physical and otherwise with a view to promote community with the global and local in mind. Recognizing our role as cultural ambassadors we endeavor to foster a culture of research, dialogue, and production across geographic boundaries of Detroit, Michigan and Zimbabwe. Our goal is to encourage strong ties between culture producers and residents in both Zimbabwe and Detroit acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between these two diverse communities.

GalleryDAAS exhibits contemporary black visual art. Collaborating with artists, curators, critics and art historians as well as with DAAS/U-M faculty and students, the gallery celebrates and interrogates the creativity of artists of Africa and its diasporas, not only in our exhibitions, but through our artist residency program and by offering gallery-based learning opportunities for DAAS and the broader U-M community.

GalleryDAAS presents two or three exhibitions a year during the fall and winter semesters. The gallery is located on the ground floor of Haven Hall in Room G648.

For more information, please contact us at gallerydaas@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:57:10 -0400 2018-09-13T16:30:00-04:00 2018-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Postcolonial Studies Paper Workshop w/ Bassam Sidiki (September 14, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54294 54294-13565706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 10:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Hosted by the Global Postcolonialisms Collective. Email hummel@umich.edu or basidiki@umich.edu to receive a copy of the paper. Please RSVP atbhttps://goo.gl/forms/5zp6cVoGTQMeTPN22; brunch will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:03:58 -0400 2018-09-14T10:30:00-04:00 2018-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Eldersveld Prize Lecture (September 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52765 52765-13027851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

When Sam Eldersveld died, he generously donated money to the Department of Political Science to be used to honor faculty and graduate students (in alternating years) for their research accomplishments. Every other year the Department's Executive Committee chooses a faculty member to receive the Eldersveld Prize. Iain Osgood is this year's recipient of the prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:47:17 -0400 2018-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
GAPS (September 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54016 54016-13513097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:27:48 -0400 2018-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53749 53749-13459384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Come learn more and ask questions about the Michigan in Washington Program! Open to all majors and scholarships are available.

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Meeting Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:34:49 -0400 2018-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Ato Quayson (New York University) (September 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54109 54109-13528454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Ato Quayson is a Ghanaian academic and literary critic, and Professor of English at New York University. His writings on African literature, postcolonial studies, disability studies, urban studies and in literary theory have been widely published. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the Royal Society of Canada (2013). He is founding editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and is on the editorial boards of Research in African Literatures, the University of Toronto Quarterly, and New Literary History. He was Chief Examiner in English of the International Baccalaureate (2005–07) and has been a member of the Diaspora and Migrations Project Committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK, and the European Research Council award grants panel on culture and cultural production.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:28:49 -0400 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53071 53071-13217999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:53:31 -0400 2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Latina/o Studies Program Welcome Back Luncheon! (September 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55706 55706-13775070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Join us for food, music, and fun to kickoff Latinx Heritage Month! You'll be able to meet faculty, students and staff part of the LS Program and learn more about the majors and minors.

Catering by Chela's Restaurant & Taqueria

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Reception / Open House Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:05:31 -0400 2018-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Reception / Open House Poster
AMAS Lecture: As Black Muslim as Bean Pie: Food, Faith, and Nationhood in African American Islam (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54303 54303-13565725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

*Bean pie will be served!*

If American national identity can be signified by apple pie, then African American Muslim identity can be signified by navy bean pie. Developed in the early 20th century by members of the Nation of Islam (NOI), the bean pie has achieved iconic status in Black urban communities as a tasty dessert associated closely with African American Muslims (in and out of the NOI) who produce and distribute it. As a signature dish, the pie is much more than an edible treat—baked into the pie are communities’ spiritual commitments, political ideologies, cultural discourses, and economic programs. Drawing on oral histories and archival sources, this presentation will examine what the navy bean pie and food practices of African American Muslims can tell us about their faith, politics, and culture.

Zaheer Ali is the Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society, where he currently directs Muslims in Brooklyn, a public history and arts project designed to amplify the stories of Brooklyn’s Muslim communities and contextualize those stories in the broader histories of Brooklyn, New York City, and the United States. His work on the project was recently featured in a now viral video on the Muslim bean pie for Slate.com’s Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail? that has been viewed over 4 million times on Facebook, with over 50,000 shares. He also co-hosts and co-produces Flatbush + Main, Brooklyn Historical Society’s award-winning monthly podcast, now in its third year of exploring Brooklyn’s past and present through scholarly discussions, historical archives, and oral histories. Formerly, he served as Project Manager of Columbia University’s Malcolm X Project under the direction of the late Manning Marable, and served as a lead researcher for Marable’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011). In addition to Brooklyn, Muslims in America, and Malcolm X, his scholarly interests include 20th century United States history, the Black freedom movement, and Prince Rogers Nelson—topics explored in courses he has taught as an adjunct lecturer at New York University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:25:25 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Picture
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Women in Political Science Speaker Series (September 28, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54099 54099-13528368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:52:15 -0400 2018-09-28T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Film Screening Haven Hall
The African Politics Reading Group (September 28, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 55104-13687191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

We are a small, informal group of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles, working papers, published books, and book manuscripts.

If you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:14:30 -0400 2018-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (September 28, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53932 53932-13502205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:00:41 -0400 2018-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (September 28, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-09-28T15:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55576 55576-13759163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:40:53 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 5, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Jacqueline-Bethel Bougoue (Baylor University) (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54150 54150-13530693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

JACQUELINE-BETHEL MOUGOUÉ is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar who is particularly interested in the gendering of identities in state politics, body politics, and religious politics in Cameroon. Currently, she is an assistant professor of history at Baylor University. Her first book, Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon is forthcoming with University of Michigan Press in 2019. Using oral interviews and archival records, such as Cameroon’s first cooking book and women’s advice columns, the book examines issues related to cookery, gossiping, sagacious female politicians, “sluggish” women who fail to attend the meetings of women’s organizations, and unruly housewives known as “women extremists,” to illuminate how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence. The book uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate how political elites and formally educated urbanites implied that women’s everyday patterns of behavior and comportment—the clothes that women wore, the foods they cooked, their abstention from gossip, and their adherence to appropriate marital behavior in public spaces—might make a suitable Anglophone Cameroonian persona physically conspicuous on the local, national, and international stage. By drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, Mougoué demonstrates how preserving conservative ideal Anglophone womanhood, cultural values, and political identity came to be seen as the lynchpin of Anglophone unity in English-speaking towns in Cameroon during the 1960s and early 1970s. Mougoué is currently finalizing research on her second book on the history of the Bahá’í Faith and masculine identities in English-Speaking Cameroon from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Mougoué’s scholarly articles have appeared in Gender & History, Journal of West African History, and Feminist Africa. She has forthcoming articles in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism and African Studies Review. In addition, she has a forthcoming chapter on gender, leisure, and sports in Cameroon in Everyday Life on the African Continent: Fun, Leisure, and Expressivity (Ohio University Press). Mougoué is also a guest editor for a forthcoming topical forum, or “issue,” in African Studies Review (“Bodily Practices and Aesthetic Rituals in 20th Century Africa”). Her research has also appeared in academic blogs including African Studies Association News and Africa is a Country.

Mougoué has been a visiting scholar at the University of Buea (Cameroon) and a fellow at Northwestern University (United States). Currently, Mougoué is Co-Convenor of African Studies Association (ASA) Women’s Caucus, Advisory Member of ASA North American Scholars on Cameroon Association, Conference Liaison for Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) and a member of the CCWH Mentorship Program Committee. Please click here for a CCWH brochure.

Mougoué has been invited to share her research at various academic institutions including Yale University (United States), Northwestern University (United States), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco), University of Leuven (Belgium), and Paris Diderot University (France). See the following for additional information on upcoming/past plenary talks.

Mougoué received her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Purdue University. She holds an additional degree from Purdue, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) from the WGSS Program. Mougoué’s hobbies include long-distance running (her favorite runs were on Mount Cameroon and in Hawaii, the big island), traveling, photography, painting, and writing poetry and short stories.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:55:37 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Asian Pacific Islander American Studies Fall Welcome Reception (October 9, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56272 56272-13869410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program and the Critical Ethnic and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop warmly invite you to join us for delicious refreshments and good company as we open the 2018-19 academic year in A/PIA Studies at the University of Michigan! Fall is in the air, and there is no better time to reunite with old colleagues and meet new ones. This event is open to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in APIA Studies. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:29:31 -0400 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Reception / Open House Poster
Statistical Learning Workshop (October 11, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56289 56289-13876218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:59:02 -0400 2018-10-11T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 12, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
NAISIG Lecture: "We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms and Coming-of-Age Ceremonies" (October 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55836 55836-13780058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy is an Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. Her research is focused on Indigenous feminisms, California Indians and decolonization. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from the University of California, Davis and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Literary Research from San Diego State University. She also has her B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University. She is the author of a popular blog that explores issues of social justice, history and California Indian politics and culture: www.cutcharislingbaldy.com/blog. Dr. Risling Baldy's first book, We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies considers how revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities. The book is available with the University of Washington Press and major book sellers and retailers. Dr. Risling Baldy is Hupa, Yurok and Karuk and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California. In 2007, Dr. Risling Baldy co-founded the Native Women's Collective, a nonprofit organization that supports the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:23:08 -0400 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
GAPS (October 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54018 54018-13513098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:29:16 -0400 2018-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (October 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55578 55578-13759164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:43:43 -0400 2018-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
The African Politics Reading Group (October 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 55104-13687192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

We are a small, informal group of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles, working papers, published books, and book manuscripts.

If you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:14:30 -0400 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 19, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-19T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Aph Ko (October 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54208 54208-13539460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Aph Ko is a decolonial theorist and founder of the website, Black Vegans Rock. In 2017, Aph co-authored her first book, Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters. She is currently writing her second book about afro-zoological anti-racist activism.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:39:40 -0400 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Graduate Student Open House (October 24, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56847 56847-14012667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join us for lunch to learn more about
our Graduate Certificate Program and
other graduate student opportunities
at DAAS. Meet DAAS faculty, staff, and
other graduate students and come
through for a chance to win DAAS gear!

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Reception / Open House Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:14:39 -0400 2018-10-24T11:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Reception / Open House Haven Hall
Statistical Learning Workshop (October 25, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56842 56842-14012660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Roll call scaling techniques are empirical standards for studies of voting behavior within legislative bodies. Though ideal point estimation techniques are frequently used, the theoretical implications of assumptions made in order to empirically estimate ideal points provide cause for concern. Current scaling techniques ignore the role of group-level dependencies within the data. Assumptions about independence of observations in the scaling model ignore the possibility that members of the voting body have shared incentives to vote as a group. In turn, this leads to potential biases in the estimated values of the ideal points and underestimation of the number of dimensions needed to model the ideal point space. In this paper, I propose a new ideal point model that explicitly allows for group contributions in the underlying spatial model of voting. I derive a corresponding empirical model that utilizes flexible Bayesian nonparametric priors to estimate group ideological effects in ideal points and the corresponding dimensionality of the ideal points. I apply this model to the 114th U.S. House and show how grouped ideological effects can be uncovered using only a set of roll call votes. This model provides insights into open questions related to group dynamics in legislative voting and has important implications for literature that utilizes ideal point estimates.

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Meeting Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:58:05 -0400 2018-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (October 26, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54931 54931-13654173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:09:28 -0400 2018-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 26, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-26T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Tying the Big Man’s Hands: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes. (October 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53536 53536-13399424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Professor Meng's research centers broadly on political institutions in dictatorships and authoritarian durability, using game theory and statistical methods. In particular, she examines party building in autocratic regimes with the goal of understanding why we see variation in the institutional capacity of ruling organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:44:48 -0400 2018-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (November 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55579 55579-13759165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:47:00 -0400 2018-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (November 2, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53934 53934-13502207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:02:09 -0400 2018-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 2, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-02T15:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Almost Lost Art of Hula Ki`i Hawaiian Puppetry (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57198 57198-14128657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

A Dinner meet-and-greet with Kumu Auli‘i will be held on Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, at 7:00pm, in 3512 Haven Hall. All native students on campus invited.

The Lecture will take place on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018
7:00 - 8:30 PM
ANGELL AUD C
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Kumu Hula Auli‘i Mitchell is Cultural practitioner and kumu hula of Halau o Kahiwahiwa in the District of Puna, Hawai i and Hālau o Moana-nui-a-Kiwa in Aotearoa (New Zealand). He holds a Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge and works as a cultural anthropologist and cultural specialist in the disciplines of archaeology and cultural impact studies focusing on the Hawaiian archipelago. Kumu Auli‘i is dedicated to the carving, the dance and the perpetuation of what is considered to be one of the dances of old, the hula ki‘i or Hawaiian puppetry.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:44:06 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
Cookies, Cocoa, and Courses: History Department Course Fair (November 7, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57099 57099-14092924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Learn more about the 70+ courses History will offer in 2019!

Meet professors ... learn about History major and minor programs ... talk with other undergrads who love History ... warm up with cocoa ... and munch on some cookies!

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Reception / Open House Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:23:44 -0400 2018-11-07T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of History Reception / Open House course_fair_logo
Emerging Scholars (November 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53073 53073-13218000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:03:28 -0400 2018-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Emerging Scholars (November 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53074 53074-13218001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:05:30 -0400 2018-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Digital Studies "Backpack-A-Palooza!" (November 12, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57387 57387-14184488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies

Interested in a Digital Studies Minor? Not sure when or how to declare? Have questions about courses or requirements?

Get answers, learn about W2019 Digital Studies courses, get FREE FOOD, and even declare your minor at:

Digital Studies Minor "Backpack-a-Palooza"
Monday, Nov. 12
4:30-6:00 pm
3512 Haven Hall

Free food! Bring a friend or two! (or three.. four?)

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Reception / Open House Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:58:22 -0500 2018-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Reception / Open House Photo
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
African Politics Reading Group (November 15, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56287 56287-13876217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

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Meeting Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:51:18 -0400 2018-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 2018-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55579 55579-13759166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:47:00 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52959 52959-13159590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

visiting talk by Severine Autesserre (Barnard)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:26:08 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Severine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University) (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54151 54151-13530694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Séverine Autesserre is a Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College, Columbia University. She works on civil wars, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and humanitarian aid.

Professor Autesserre's latest research project examines successful international contributions to local and bottom-up peacebuilding. Her 2014 article in International Peacekeeping presents some of the early ideas for this research. Her 2017 article in the International Studies Review, her Op-Eds in the Washington Post (here and here), and her Foreign Affairs pieces (here and here) present her first findings. In academic years 2016-2018, she will work full time on this project as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, with additional research support from the Folke Bernadotte Academy and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Her previous project focused on the everyday elements that influence peacebuilding interventions on the ground. It included extensive fieldwork in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and briefer comparative research in Burundi, Cyprus, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste. The book based on this research, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention, was released by Cambridge University Press in 2014. It won the 2016 Best Book of the Year Award and the 2015 Yale H. Ferguson Award from the International Studies Association as well as honorable mentions for two other book prizes (the 2015 Chadwick Alger Prize from the International Studies Association and the 2014 African Argument Book of the Year). Findings from this project have also appeared in Critique Internationale and African Affairs (the latter piece won the 2012 Best Article award from the African Politics Conference Group).

Her earlier research project focused on local violence and international intervention in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Dr. Autesserre has travelled regularly since 2001. Her fieldwork and analysis culminated in The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. The book won the 2012 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order and the 2011 Chadwick Alger Prize presented by the International Studies Association to the best book on international organizations and multilateralism. Research for this project has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Organization, the Review of African Political Economy, the African Studies Review, the African Security Review, International Peacekeeping, the Revista de Relaciones Internationales, and the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs. It is the topic of a recent TED Talk that has more than 750,000 views.

Professor Autesserre's work has won numerous other prizes and fellowships, including two research awards from the United States Institute of Peace (2004-2005 and 2010-2012), two Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grants (2010 and 2011), a Presidential Research Award from Barnard College (2010), several grants from Columbia University (2010 – 2016), two Mellon Fellowships in Security and Humanitarian Action (2004-2006), the 2006 Best Graduate Student Paper award from the African Studies Association, and a Fulbright Fellowship (1999-2000).

Professor Autesserre teaches undergraduate classes such as "Civil Wars and International Interventions in Africa," "Building Peace," and "Aid, Violence, and Politics in Africa." She also regularly offers a SIPA course ("Civil Wars and Peace Settlements") and a doctoral seminar entitled "Debates on International Peace Interventions."

Before becoming an academic, Dr. Autesserre worked for humanitarian organizations (including Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the World) and development agencies in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua, and India. She holds a post-doctorate from Yale University (2007), a Ph.D. in political science from New York University (2006), and master’s degrees in international relations and political science from Columbia University (2000) and Sciences Po (France, 1999).

Academic Focus:
Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
Democratic Republic of Congo
International relations
Politics of humanitarian and development aid

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:05:33 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Digital Studies Workshop (November 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57527 57527-14209029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies

Does your work involve digital tools? Are you wondering about where you might find a community of scholars who also find digital methods significant in their work? Are you interested in learning more about Digital Studies at UM?

If you answered yes, then please join the Digital Studies Program and RIW for the Digital Studies Across the Disciplines workshop and networking event on Friday, November 16 from 1-3 pm in 4701 Haven Hall.

During this workshop we will explore the field of Digital Studies and learn more about the Digital Studies Graduate Certificate and programming at the University of Michigan. We are excited to create a community of Digital Studies scholars from various disciplines and fields including American Culture, History, Communication Studies, Taubman, English, Education, Film, TV and Media Studies, STS, and the Information School, and we would love for you to join us for lunch catered by Zingermann's.

RSVP here to indicate your plans to attend: (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4aY0AdXaR6sDMyfF8UpOIz-9uiCPZrjFg7E2YYS4zFuB_6w/viewform)

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Reception / Open House Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:43:23 -0500 2018-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Reception / Open House Picture
Political Theory Workshop (November 16, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53935 53935-13502208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:03:41 -0400 2018-11-16T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 16, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-16T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Antonio Tomas (African Centre for Cities) (November 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54152 54152-13530697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

António Tomás is a senior lecturer at African Centre for Cities and the course convener of the newly-launched MPhil Southern Urbanism.



Tomás’s work engages with social sciences, particularly the anthropological theory to grapple with the materiality of cities in Africa. He has been particularly concerned with the relationship between imaginaries, or theories on the urban form, and concrete realities. Put it differently, he is interested in the ways which new forms of imagining and representing the city may emerge, and how they can be put to the use of recalibrating the transformation of spaces historically inherited, through colonialism for instance. This argumentation is at the centre of the book he has been working on called In the skin of the city:Luanda and the dialectics of Spatial Transformation.



Another trend of his work is the theory and practice of nationalisms and national liberation movements in Africa. He is the author of a study of the African nationalist Amílcar Cabral, O Fazedor de Utopias: uma Biografia de Amílcar Cabral [The Maker of Utopias: A Biography of Amílcar Cabral], published in Portugal in 2007, and in Cape Verde in 2018. The book is being currently translated and updated into English by the author himself.



He has also acted as a public intellectual and has written for newspapers in Angola and Portugal on topics ranging from racism, colonialism and decolonization, cultural studies, to contemporary politics in Angola. A collection of his journalistic writings has been published under the title: Poligrafia: das páginas dos Jornais Angolanos (Luanda, Casa das Ideias, 2010).



Tomás earned his PhD from Columbia University, in the city of New York, in 2012, and was the recipient of the Ray Pahl Fellowship in 2014 at the African Centre for Cities, the institution he has joined on a permanent basis in 2017 to help shaping the new academic programme focused on Southern Urbanism. He has taught and visited a number of institutions of higher education, such as École Normale des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Sciences Po, both in Paris – France, Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala – Uganda, as well as University of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape – South Africa.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:29:19 -0400 2018-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 23, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-23T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Digital Studies Panel (November 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57547 57547-14211242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies

This will be a relatively open and improvisational conversation about the variety of research that Digital Studies faculty do, and more importantly how they do this work. Our goal is to let students and participants think broadly about different approaches they could take to studying the digital and digitality.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:52:49 -0500 2018-11-26T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Rhea Rahman (Brooklyn College) (November 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54209 54209-13539463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Graduate institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST_ program assistant RHEA RAHMAN is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her research engages the multiple motivating logics and materializations of religiously inspired international development work. In her ethnographic investigation of a British-based, global Muslim NGO, she examines how institutionalized and secular accountability of professionalized development comes to bear on religious decrees and Islamic ethical stances. Having worked with the NGO in England, Mali, South Africa, and the Netherlands, she explores the complicated striving through which it tries to create a cohesive organizational identity that encompasses the diversity of the places, people, and things with which it engages.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:32:34 -0400 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (November 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55579 55579-13759167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:47:00 -0400 2018-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (November 30, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53936 53936-13502209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:03:04 -0400 2018-11-30T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Drawn to History: Dementia, Temporality and Graphic Life Narrative (November 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57929 57929-14375313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Disability Studies and Transnational Comics Studies RIWs for our upcoming discussion of English PhD candidate Crystal Yin Lie's chapter: "Drawn to History: Dementia, Temporality and Graphic Life Narrative."

Abstract: How do the formal qualities of graphic memoirs about dementia contribute to disability studies critiques of able-bodied temporalities; grapple with broader questions about representing trauma, history, and identity; and innovate as well as challenge what we think of as “comics”? Because comics stage time as space, examining graphic temporalities help expand our view of how dementia affects one’s orientation to normative constructions of time.

Both Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass (2016) and Stuart Campbell’s webcomic These Memories Won’t Last (2015) exploit the affordances of graphic narrative’s multimodal ability to visually layer stories and disrupt time, enabling the examination and reframing of cultural fears and stigmas surrounding aging and memory impairment. They each explore a family member’s experience with dementia as one that requires the recognition of alternate realities and a more flexible approach to expectations placed on their sense of past, present, and future. The stakes of visualizing dementia’s reorientations to time and history take on particular significance in these works as Aliceheimer’s and These Memories also navigate the telling of stories regarding the Armenian Genocide and World War II, respectively. For Walrath and Campbell, putting dementia into graphic form is a heuristic for processing and making accessible histories of trauma, furthering possibilities of artistic expression, and crafting spaces for healing.

To RSVP and request a copy of Crystal's paper please email Elise Nagy (ecnagy@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:16:02 -0500 2018-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 30, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
American Institutions Group (AIG) (December 3, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57837 57837-14323265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper.

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Meeting Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:37:00 -0500 2018-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University) (December 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54213 54213-13539465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Colin Dayan
Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities
Her areas of study include American literature, English and French Caribbean Literatures, Haitian historiography, and American legal scholarship. In A Rainbow for the Christian West: The Poetry of René Depestre (1977), she introduced to an English-speaking audience Depestre’s early epic poem about the vodou gods and their journey to the American South. With Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction (1987), she turned to Poe’s fictions as complicated critiques of the traditions of romance and the gothic. Emphasizing a Calvinist Poe rather than a transcendental one, she argued that his studies of mind (reinvigorating Locke, Newton, Edwards, and Swift) are not anachronistically modern but have simply been misread outside their natural context of early American writing. Haiti, History and the Gods (1998) tells the story of colonial Haiti from the composite perspectives of legal and religious texts, letters, fiction, and her own knowledge of the country.

Her recent books are The Story of Cruel and Unusual (2007), which exposes the paradox of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, showing that in the United States, cycles of jurisprudence safeguard rights and then justify their revocation; and The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons (2011), which examines how the fictions and language of law turn persons (and other legal non-entities like dogs, ghosts, slaves, felons, and terror suspects) into “rightless objects.” The Law is a White Dog was selected by Choice as one of top-25 "Outstanding Academic Books" for 2011. With dogs at the edge of life will be published in December 2015.

Over the past ten years,she has written widely on prison rights, the legalities of torture, canine profiling, animal law, and the racial contours of US practices of punishment for The Boston Review, The New York Times, The London Review of Books, and Al Jazeera America, where she is a contributing editor.

Honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Davis Center for Historical Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton.


Film screening of her presentation/monologue “Legal Sorcery,” Kassel documenta 14: http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/23458/legal-sorcery

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:38:16 -0400 2018-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The African Politics Reading Group (December 7, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 55104-13687194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

We are a small, informal group of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles, working papers, published books, and book manuscripts.

If you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:14:30 -0400 2018-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Winter Wonder Gathering (December 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53075 53075-13218002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Email pswebevents@umich.edu for details.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:10:15 -0400 2018-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T16:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Reception / Open House Haven Hall
GAPS (December 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54019 54019-13513099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:30:36 -0400 2018-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-10T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Editing Images: Basic Photoshop Training for AEM website editors (December 14, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38020 38020-14433278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 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 2018-12-14T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T12:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall LSA Web Services Class / Instruction Images Training
Kwanzaa Pre-Festival (December 14, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58579 58579-14511765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Come join us for a special celebration of the first fruits of Kwanzaa, including a presentation, discussion and a karumu (feast).

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:26:59 -0500 2018-12-14T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Social / Informal Gathering Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (December 14, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-12-14T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-18T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-18T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (December 21, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 21, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-12-21T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-25T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-25T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (December 28, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 28, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-12-28T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-01T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-01T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-08T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
African Politics Reading Group (January 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58409 58409-14494078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

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Meeting Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:32:46 -0500 2019-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-11T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Meet & Greet with Eduardo Chavez (January 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58792 58792-14559371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Please join us for a Meet and Greet with Eduardo Chavaz. Refreshments will be served.

As the grandson of both the legendary civil rights activist César Chávez and the Cuban revolutionary Max Lesnik, Eduardo Chávez is the scion of two revolutionary families. This background has informed the majority of his work so far.

Eduardo is making his directorial debut with the feature documentary, "Hailing Cesar," released in April 2018. He is the co-founder of Latindia Studios and a member of the Speakers’ Board for the Chávez Institute for Law and Social Justice.

Eduardo attended Loyola Marymount University on a golf scholarship and graduated with a B.A. in Communications. After college, he played professional golf and studied acting in Miami and Los Angeles.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:44:13 -0500 2019-01-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-15T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Social / Informal Gathering Poster
Statistical Learning Workshop (January 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 16, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 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). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

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, Greenpeace, 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 for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
GAPS Monthly Meeting (January 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59656 59656-14777847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Graduate Association of Political Science (GAPS)

GAPS exists to improve the lives of graduate students in the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science.

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:07:41 -0500 2019-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Graduate Association of Political Science (GAPS) Meeting Haven Hall
Statistical Learning Workshop (January 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 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). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

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, Greenpeace, 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 for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (January 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60196 60196-14849035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

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Meeting Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:18:48 -0500 2019-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (January 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59618 59618-14754576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:16:49 -0500 2019-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Statistical Learning Workshop (January 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
African Politics Reading Group (February 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58409 58409-14494079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

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Meeting Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:32:46 -0500 2019-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (February 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-02-01T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Statistical Learning Workshop (February 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (February 6, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 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). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

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, Greenpeace, 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 for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (February 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60196 60196-14849036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

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Meeting Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:18:48 -0500 2019-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (February 8, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59618 59618-14754578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:16:49 -0500 2019-02-08T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (February 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Latina/o Studies Graduate Student Outreach (February 13, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60940 60940-14990929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

The Latina/o Studies Program will be having an outreach event for graduate students interested in the Latina/o Studies Graduate Certificate. Lunch will be served.

The Latina/o Studies Program offers a 12-credit hour Graduate Certificate focusing on the study of Latina/o experience within the U.S. and in a transnational perspective. The goal of the Certificate in Latina/o Studies is to provide a structured program of study for graduate students in programs such as American Culture, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, English, History, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Screen Arts and Cultures, Sociology, Spanish, and Women's Studies and in the Professional Schools (Business, Education, Law, Medicine, Natural Resources and the Environment, Nursing, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, etc.) with in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of the field. The Certificate Program is particularly useful to graduate students whose academic and career trajectories require area-focused knowledge and training. Application deadline is March 15. For more information visit our website here: https://lsa.umich.edu/latina/graduates/graduate-certificate.html

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Reception / Open House Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:23:33 -0500 2019-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Reception / Open House Picture
Statistical Learning Workshop (February 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (February 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59618 59618-14754579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:16:49 -0500 2019-02-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (February 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
GAPS Monthly Meeting (February 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59656 59656-14777850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Graduate Association of Political Science (GAPS)

GAPS exists to improve the lives of graduate students in the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science.

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Meeting Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:07:41 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Graduate Association of Political Science (GAPS) Meeting Haven Hall
DAAS Graduate Student Open House & BRR Paper Workshop (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61057 61057-15027183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

oin us for a dinner to learn more about the DAAS Graduate Certificate Program and other graduate student opportunities at DAAS. Meet DAAS faculty, staff, and other graduate students, and come through for a chance to win DAAS gear!
A light dinner will be served, followed by a paper workshop with the Black Research Roundtable. (Email reubenr@umich.edu for the pre-circulated paper.)

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Reception / Open House Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:15:48 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Reception / Open House Haven Hall
'Like Your Favorite Auntie and Uncle Visiting': Podcasts, Social Media, and Black Digital Enclaves (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61243 61243-15061054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Sarah Florini is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University. Her research explores the intersections of Black American cultural practices and emerging technologies.

Among the first scholars to publish on Black Twitter and Black podcasting, her work has appeared in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Television and New Media. Her current monograph, Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks, is under contract with New York University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:37:39 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion Sarah Florini speaker
Black History Month: We Rise Documentary (February 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61092 61092-15033958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

We Rise Documentary

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Film Screening Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:19:24 -0500 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening We Rise Flyer
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (February 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61330 61330-15088050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for more than 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is told.

Directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities examines the impact Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have had on American history, culture, and national identity. Beginning with the earliest attempts at education to today’s campuses, the 90-minute film will be screened in the DAAS Lemuel Johnson Center (5511 Haven Hall) Monday, February 19, 2018 at 6 p.m.

The project is funded with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Lumina Foundation.


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Film Screening Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:44:16 -0500 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Film Screening Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop “Get Along without It”: Contested Domestic Desires in Imperial Sudan (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59211 59211-14717515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In recent scholarship and past imperial logic, the colonial marital home has stood as a symbol of civility, stability, and imperial order. However, a close examination of British civil servants’ domestic desires and relationships in Sudan reveal domesticity as a site of instability and persistent negotiation. Never formally declared a colony, Sudan’s marginal position within the British Empire resulted, in turn, in a marginalization of domestic desires, which were hidden, ignored, or relegated to “back-home” in England. Working with an expanded understanding of “domestic,” this paper traces complex and contested intimacies through a homosocial culture of bachelors, shifting relationships with Sudanese household help, and a generous yet disruptive annual leave policy. It reanimates the experiences of male and female civil servants, recasting them from fixed models of state power and instead recognizing their much more vulnerable position as desiring subjects in search of domestic care and comforts.


Marie Grace Brown (B.A., Bryn Mawr College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Kansas. Her award-winning first book, Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Stanford University Press, 2017), argues that Sudanese women used fashion and their bodies to mark and make meaning of the shifting sociopolitical systems of imperial rule. Before her career in academia, Brown worked at a nonprofit providing legal assistance to immigrant women fleeing gender-based violence. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:21:36 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Arab and Muslim American Studies Program Open House (February 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60361 60361-14866460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

POSTPONED TO February 20th!

Join the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program for an Open House! Stop by, meet new AMAS Director Professor Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, say hello to your favorite profs (and meet some new ones!), and enjoy a slice (or two) of one of the many pies we will be serving. Feel free to bring along a friend!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:34:58 -0500 2019-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Reception / Open House Flyer
Statistical Learning Workshop (February 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
AIG (American Institutions Group) (February 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60199 60199-14849044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

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Meeting Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:24:47 -0500 2019-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (February 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-02-22T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
"Show and Tell: Documenting Everyday Black Girlhood through Digital Media" (February 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61244 61244-15061056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Ashleigh G. Wade is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and a Pre-Doctoral Residential Research Fellow at University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute.

Ashleigh's intellectual work is situated within the fields of Black girlhood studies, media studies, and digital humanities. Ashleigh's primary research seeks to understand technology practices among Black girls, with her current project focusing on how Black girls use cellphone-generated photography and film to contribute to conversations about race, gender, and sexuality, and how these visual expressions inform and reflect Black girls' creation of and movement through space.

Ashleigh has published on Black digital practices in The Black Scholar, and The National Political Science Review, and has a forthcoming article describing Black girls' digital kinship formations in Women, Gender, and Families of Color.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:22:03 -0500 2019-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion Ashleigh Wade speaker
APIA RIW Lecture: Performing Racial Trans Senses (February 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59114 59114-14684209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Chen's talk focuses on the aesthetics, cultural imaginings, and political potential of twenty-first century trans Asian American multimedia performance. Chen describes and theorizes racially trans embodied practices which intervene in state and social regimes of sense that have sought to extinguish and control the multiplicity of Asian American genders. They explore connections between emerging trans Asian American cultures and longer standing queer and feminist cultural critiques and histories

Bio:
Jian Neo Chen (they/ he) is associate professor of English and previous director of Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Their research, teaching, writing, and cultural work focus on transgender and queer aesthetics and embodied practices in literature, visual culture, and contemporary theory and their reimagining and reconstruction of social relations and movements. Their first book Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement is forthcoming in spring 2019 with Duke University Press’s ANIMA series.

There will also be a Graduate Student Workshop in the morning from 11:30am-1pm. Contact Michael Pascual <pascualm@umich.edu> for details.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:04:01 -0500 2019-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Headshot