Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. A Conversation with Chrislan Fuller Manuel about Legacy: Art across Generations (September 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43142 43142-9728919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:32:11 -0400 2017-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Gifts of Art presents Jazz, Funk & Blues (September 14, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42652 42652-9622477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:10pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The MotorCity3 is a trio from Berkley, Michigan that play a variety of jazz standards and
jazz/funk/blues from the 1930s up to today. Each member has performed in other ensembles and groups for many years in the jazz, rock and blues genres, but it’s the jazz format they love the most for presenting the greatest challenges and rewards. Cliff Barrer is on guitar, Len Gervasi, bass and Paul Price, drums. Look for live stream video and event subscriptions on Gifts of Art Facebook. Rain location: University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.

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Performance Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:33:33 -0400 2017-09-14T12:10:00-04:00 2017-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Performance Photograph of The MotorCity3 by Paul Price. High resolution version available upon request.
From Propaganda to 'Fake News': A History of how not to be duped (September 14, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42903 42903-9677719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Will Potter is an award-winning author, TED Senior Fellow and Internationally recognized civil liberties advocate

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Presentation Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:28:31 -0400 2017-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Presentation
Memoirs and Personal Essays (September 14, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42445 42445-9601990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This group meets weekly from September to June. There are no specific assignments. Each writer finds his/her own subject and voice. We read our work aloud and discuss it, making constructive suggestions for improvement. The important thing is to write well enough to interest others and convey our ideas clearly. Some people work on extended manuscripts, while others write shorter pieces. Participants may plan to publish their work, just share it with family and friends, or keep it strictly private.

Instructor Eleanor Linn, a published author, will lead this study group for those 50 and above for two hours on Thursdays from September 14, 2017 through June 14, 2018 (except Thanksgiving and December 28, 2017).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:55:22 -0400 2017-09-14T14:30:00-04:00 2017-09-14T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Guest Lecture: Sachal Vasandani, jazz vocalist (September 14, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42609 42609-9614641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

SMTD alumnus Sachal Vasandani is recognized for his singular voice, with a tone and unique phrasing that mark him as one of the most compelling voices on the scene today. Thoroughly rooted in jazz, he has the swagger to front the most swinging big bands, and the vulnerability to present definitive takes on ballads. His deeply creative approach to improvisation across changes and time signatures is as unique as it is disciplined, and he has come be regarded as one of the great vocal improvisers. At this master class he will discuss his career and the choices he has made since graduating from U-M’s jazz program.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:15:29 -0400 2017-09-14T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Guest Lecture: Sachal Vasandani, jazz vocalist
When Courts Call Out Political Actors (September 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43187 43187-9737075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Linda Greenhouse, the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, writes a biweekly column about the Supreme Court and the law in The New York Times. She reported on the Supreme Court for The New York Times from 1978 to 2008. She teaches at Yale Law School and is the author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, as well as a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun,
Becoming Justice Blackmun. She also co-authored Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling.

Introduction by Richard D. Friedman, Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:39:08 -0400 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Constitution Day poster
Guest Workshop/Storytelling Session: THE BLACK CLOWN with Davóne Tines (September 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43622 43622-9824251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

"When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself" —Langston Hughes 

Explore the power of collective engagement of the individual narrative in a group exercise led by composer Michael Schachter and opera singer/creator Davóne Tines as part of their ongoing creation of the show THE BLACK CLOWN for the American Repertory Theater.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:15:28 -0400 2017-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Guest Workshop/Storytelling Session: THE BLACK CLOWN with Davóne Tines
Lost in Translation: Perception and Expression across Borders and Languages (September 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43657 43657-9829803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia. How does an American academic culture of expression interact with the increasingly international body of authors on campus? And, can non-normative writing paradigms find footing in American academia? Please join us for a scholarly conversation on multilingualism and the pleasures and difficulties of translation.

Participating Panelists:
Samer Ali (Near Eastern Studies)
Miranda Brown (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Ana Morcillo Pallares (Architecture)
Acrisio Pires (Linguistics)

Hors d'oeuvres to be served

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:51:14 -0400 2017-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
jessica Care moore: We Want Our Bodies Back (September 14, 2017 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42260 42260-9593294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Native Detroiter jessica Care moore is a playwright, author, activist, musician, performance artist, and institution-builder. A five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner and returning star of the HBO Series Def Poetry Jam, moore’s forthcoming collection of poems and visual art installation, We Want Our Bodies Back, honors the life of Sandra Bland. Moore has performed readings for audiences around the globe and has received numerous awards, including a 2016 Kresge Arts Fellowship; the 2013 Alain Locke Award from the Detroit Institute of Arts; and the 2015 Great Expectations NAACP Award. Her poetry and voice is prominently featured in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History. Additionally, moore is the CEO of Moore Black Press, a publishing company dedicated to preserving the new generation of writers and poets, and Executive Producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, a movement showcasing the music and stories of Black women who build institutions around their craft.

Supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

All Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series presentations are free and open to the public; visit http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps to view upcoming events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:15:55 -0400 2017-09-14T17:10:00-04:00 2017-09-14T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/moore17.jpg
Vievee Francis & Sebastian Matthews (September 14, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42886 42886-9675070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Known for her explorations of racial identity, modernist poetics, and feminist legacies, poet VIEVEE FRANCIS received the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection Forest Primeval (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press). She is also the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), and Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012). She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for Callaloo. Of her own work, Vievee has said: “I want to know how poetry serves us collectively and as individuals in ways that meet this era, this moment; however, in order to gain that understanding contexts cannot be ignored, nor can history be set aside. It is the intent of my instruction and an inherent objective of my own poetry to upturn how we think about poetry, its lineage, and the cultural impact of received aesthetics.”

SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS is the author of the memoir In My Father’s Footsteps (W.W. Norton & Co.) as well as two collections of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day, both published by Red Hen Press. A third collection, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, is forthcoming from Red Hen in 2017. His poetry and prose have appeared in or on, among others, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Sun, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Matthews received his MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. He taught for over a decade at Warren Wilson College in their undergraduate writing program, and currently serves on the board of the Vermont Studio Center and on the advisory board for Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters. He lives with his wife and son in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is working on a novel and a collection of personal essays.

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Other Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:05:21 -0400 2017-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 2017-09-14T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other Vievee Francis & Sebastian Matthews
Sustainability Without Borders Informational Meeting (September 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44116 44116-9886091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Sustainability Without Borders

Sustainability Without Borders (SWB) would like to invite you to join or first meeting of the year! There will be free FOOD and we will discuss current projects and how new people can get involved!

SWB partners with practitioners worldwide to promote environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable development projects that strengthen community capacity.

We work in fields such as sustainable agriculture, resource scarcity, environmental education, and more. Our primary project locations are in Peru, Liberia, Mexico, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, and we also have projects in the pipeline in China, Nepal, and Brazil!

If you are interested in attending please RSVP on the link so we can gauge attendance and plan accordingly.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:18:19 -0400 2017-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Sustainability Without Borders Rally / Mass Meeting Liberia Project Team
The Activists (September 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42175 42175-9582839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

A documentary film that brings to life the stories of ordinary people who tried to stop and end the
U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It considers their backgrounds, their tactics, the organizations
that supported them, and their historical context.

Following the film, Michael Heaney, the film’s producer and U-M Assistant Professor of
Organizational Studies and Political Science, will speak and lead a discussion with the audience.

This event is free and co-sponsored by: U-M Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Ann Arbor District Library

For more information contact: mcsprogram@umich.edu

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Film Screening Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:41:40 -0400 2017-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Film Screening The Activists
Joe Purdy w/sg Sara Vachal (September 14, 2017 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41127 41127-8981750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New music!

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Performance Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:26:26 -0400 2017-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Joe Purdy
Bicentennial Detroit Seminar (September 15, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42759 42759-9653805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bicentennial Office

The Detroit Festival will celebrate and reflect upon U-M’s connections to the city in the past, present and future. It begins with the Bicentennial Detroit Seminar and Michigan faculty and alumni presenting engaging programs focused on investing in Detroit, educational pathways, innovative technologies and innovative arts.

Registration will be required. Please check website for details.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:50:01 -0400 2017-09-15T08:30:00-04:00 2017-09-15T15:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bicentennial Office Conference / Symposium Detroit Seminar
Performance and American Cultures (September 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43499 43499-9777856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

How do American studies and performance studies intersect in our research and teaching? What theories, methodologies, fields of evidence, and habits of mind do these fields offer one another? Where and how do performance studies and American studies not mesh well? What problems at their intersection might be unsolvable? How can these fields together produce new knowledge about US cultural history, particularly aobut the histories of race?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:36:35 -0400 2017-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer