Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (April 27, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 27, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-04-27T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-27T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (May 4, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-11417457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-05-04T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Locating Belleville (May 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51860 51860-12265834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: RC Forums

Join Darian Razdar & Clem Turner as they present their collaborative thesis project, "Locating Belleville", in the RC Gallery for 4 days in the month of May. This pop-up gallery exhibits first-hand research conducted by Darian Razdar in Belleville--a working-class and immigrant neighborhood in northeastern Paris. Belleville is a space of immense complexity; the words migration, gentrification, activism, community, diversity, and struggle just begin to characterize Belleville. Clem Turner turns Darian Razdar's thesis research and analysis into an interactive experience via audiovisual technology & installation. Come to immerse yourself in Belleville, Paris's most singular neighborhood.

Friday May 4 : Opening reception from 4-6pm
Friday May 11 : Artist Talk with Darian - Curating & Art as Research, 4-5pm
Friday May 18 : Discussion - Neighborhood Activism & Translocal Solidarity, 4-5pm
Thursday May 24 : Artist Talk with Clem - Installation Technologies , 4-5pm
Hours: noon-5
Address: 701 East University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI
Entrance: North doorway on East Quad's East University side
Free and open to the public/all ages

Clem Turner (clemgt@umich.edu) is a BFA student in the Performance Arts & Technology Class of 2018.
Darian Razdar (drazdar@umich.edu) is a BA student in the Social Theory & Practice and French & Francophone Studies Class of 2018.

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Exhibition Sun, 13 May 2018 22:53:59 -0400 2018-05-04T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle RC Forums Exhibition Locating Belleville image
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (May 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-11417458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-05-11T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Locating Belleville (May 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51860 51860-12265835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: RC Forums

Join Darian Razdar & Clem Turner as they present their collaborative thesis project, "Locating Belleville", in the RC Gallery for 4 days in the month of May. This pop-up gallery exhibits first-hand research conducted by Darian Razdar in Belleville--a working-class and immigrant neighborhood in northeastern Paris. Belleville is a space of immense complexity; the words migration, gentrification, activism, community, diversity, and struggle just begin to characterize Belleville. Clem Turner turns Darian Razdar's thesis research and analysis into an interactive experience via audiovisual technology & installation. Come to immerse yourself in Belleville, Paris's most singular neighborhood.

Friday May 4 : Opening reception from 4-6pm
Friday May 11 : Artist Talk with Darian - Curating & Art as Research, 4-5pm
Friday May 18 : Discussion - Neighborhood Activism & Translocal Solidarity, 4-5pm
Thursday May 24 : Artist Talk with Clem - Installation Technologies , 4-5pm
Hours: noon-5
Address: 701 East University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI
Entrance: North doorway on East Quad's East University side
Free and open to the public/all ages

Clem Turner (clemgt@umich.edu) is a BFA student in the Performance Arts & Technology Class of 2018.
Darian Razdar (drazdar@umich.edu) is a BA student in the Social Theory & Practice and French & Francophone Studies Class of 2018.

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Exhibition Sun, 13 May 2018 22:53:59 -0400 2018-05-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle RC Forums Exhibition Locating Belleville image
UMMAA community, past and present, gather to say goodbye to the Ruthven Museums Building (May 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48564 48564-11254285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

SAVE THE DATE - Saturday, May 12th, 2018

You are invited to join alumni and friends of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology in saying goodbye to their home at the Ruthven Museums Building. To celebrate our 90 years in this beautiful historic building, we are planning a full day of tours, guest speakers, and a reception.

Check back for more details ...

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Reception / Open House Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:55:48 -0500 2018-05-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T20:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Reception / Open House Ruthven date
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (May 18, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-11802353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 18, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-05-18T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-18T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Locating Belleville (May 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51860 51860-12265836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: RC Forums

Join Darian Razdar & Clem Turner as they present their collaborative thesis project, "Locating Belleville", in the RC Gallery for 4 days in the month of May. This pop-up gallery exhibits first-hand research conducted by Darian Razdar in Belleville--a working-class and immigrant neighborhood in northeastern Paris. Belleville is a space of immense complexity; the words migration, gentrification, activism, community, diversity, and struggle just begin to characterize Belleville. Clem Turner turns Darian Razdar's thesis research and analysis into an interactive experience via audiovisual technology & installation. Come to immerse yourself in Belleville, Paris's most singular neighborhood.

Friday May 4 : Opening reception from 4-6pm
Friday May 11 : Artist Talk with Darian - Curating & Art as Research, 4-5pm
Friday May 18 : Discussion - Neighborhood Activism & Translocal Solidarity, 4-5pm
Thursday May 24 : Artist Talk with Clem - Installation Technologies , 4-5pm
Hours: noon-5
Address: 701 East University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI
Entrance: North doorway on East Quad's East University side
Free and open to the public/all ages

Clem Turner (clemgt@umich.edu) is a BFA student in the Performance Arts & Technology Class of 2018.
Darian Razdar (drazdar@umich.edu) is a BA student in the Social Theory & Practice and French & Francophone Studies Class of 2018.

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Exhibition Sun, 13 May 2018 22:53:59 -0400 2018-05-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-18T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle RC Forums Exhibition Locating Belleville image
Locating Belleville (May 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51860 51860-12265838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RC Forums

Join Darian Razdar & Clem Turner as they present their collaborative thesis project, "Locating Belleville", in the RC Gallery for 4 days in the month of May. This pop-up gallery exhibits first-hand research conducted by Darian Razdar in Belleville--a working-class and immigrant neighborhood in northeastern Paris. Belleville is a space of immense complexity; the words migration, gentrification, activism, community, diversity, and struggle just begin to characterize Belleville. Clem Turner turns Darian Razdar's thesis research and analysis into an interactive experience via audiovisual technology & installation. Come to immerse yourself in Belleville, Paris's most singular neighborhood.

Friday May 4 : Opening reception from 4-6pm
Friday May 11 : Artist Talk with Darian - Curating & Art as Research, 4-5pm
Friday May 18 : Discussion - Neighborhood Activism & Translocal Solidarity, 4-5pm
Thursday May 24 : Artist Talk with Clem - Installation Technologies , 4-5pm
Hours: noon-5
Address: 701 East University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI
Entrance: North doorway on East Quad's East University side
Free and open to the public/all ages

Clem Turner (clemgt@umich.edu) is a BFA student in the Performance Arts & Technology Class of 2018.
Darian Razdar (drazdar@umich.edu) is a BA student in the Social Theory & Practice and French & Francophone Studies Class of 2018.

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Exhibition Sun, 13 May 2018 22:53:59 -0400 2018-05-24T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RC Forums Exhibition Locating Belleville image
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (August 17, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-08-17T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (August 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-08-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Aph Ko (August 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54208 54208-13539466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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 2018-08-24T16:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Aph Ko (August 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54208 54208-13539467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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 2018-08-24T16:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (August 31, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-08-31T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 7, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-07T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
SoConDi Discussion Group (September 7, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-09-07T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Neuroethics (September 11, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49420 49420-11453762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the origins of our moral situation.

Readings to consider:
"Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society"
"Neuroethics: the practical and the philosophical"
"Neuroethics for the new millennium"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/.

Please also swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:39:23 -0400 2018-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Neuroethics
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 14, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-14T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The Transformations of Complex N1 during the Late Horizon (AD1470-1534), Chincha Valley, Perú (September 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55485 55485-13747853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Chincha Valley of Peru has been the subject of archaeological studies since the 1920s due to its rich ethnohistoric record and wealth of archaeological sites with excellent preservation. This presentation will share recent data from Complex N1 at the site of Las Huacas. Las Huacas is a large 105-hectare agricultural center that was occupied since the Early Intermediate Period (AD200-600) into the Colonial Period (AD 1534-1821). Research in 2017 and 2018 focused on excavations within a 12 x 8-meter room and the Late Horizon (AD 1470-1534) occupation of Complex N1. During the Late Horizon, the Chincha were incorporated into the Inca Empire and were granted a prestigious position. Excavations of the room within Complex N1 recovered a wealth of information about craft production, mortuary traditions, and architectural transformations during this dynamic time period. The talk will conclude by introducing future directions for the investigations which will provide important details on how the inhabitants of Las Huacas were affected by Inca expansion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:08:04 -0400 2018-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Decolonizing Our Disciplines: A Roundtable Discussion (September 21, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53183 53183-13274238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Global Postcolonialisms Collective for an interdisciplinary lunch conversation on grappling with colonial legacies and enacting decolonial methodologies and practices in academic institutions. Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/akOrsbew0Vn1Yk7D3.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:04:42 -0400 2018-09-21T12:30:00-04:00 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
SoConDi Discussion Group (September 21, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Revisiting Violence (September 24, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55592 55592-13759178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This initiative seeks to bring together a community of thinkers, readers, and practitioners of theoretical, literary, and visual works to advance conversations between Critical and Postcolonial/de-colonial theories (broadly defined) at Michigan.

This meeting will discuss the work of Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon in the context of Walter Benjamin.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:51:36 -0400 2018-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Drugs (September 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49421 49421-11453763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the manipulation of our biochemical status.

Readings to consider:
"Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy"
"Adverse health effects of marijuana use"
"Practical, legal, and ethical issues in expanded access to investigational drugs"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/017-drugs/.

Partake in the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:53:37 -0400 2018-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Drugs
Bifaces, Burned Bone, and Other Finds from the 2018 Central Alaskan Field Season - AND - Settlement patterns in Albania from the Iron Age through Greek colonization and Roman integration (1100 BC - AD 395) (September 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55892 55892-13802787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Ph.D. Candidate Bree Doering will share the results from her third season of excavations in Central Alaska, including material correlates related to the late Holocene behavioral transition among western subarctic Athabaskans. 2018 excavation results from three dated archaeological sites spanning the Holocene provide new insights on subsistence economy and mobility within the middle Tanana Valley. This brief presentation will contextualize these new data within the broader scope of the late Holocene transition that took place in central Alaska and the Yukon Territory.

First-year PhD student Erina Baci will share the results of her master's thesis, a GIS-based settlement pattern analysis completed in 2018 at Mississippi State University. The Illyrians were an Indo-European group of people who once inhabited a large expanse of the western Balkans. As interactions with the Greeks and, later, the Romans increased, the traditional way of life and sociopolitical organization of the Illyrians were undoubtedly altered. Her thesis takes a geospatial approach in order to address how interactions with other groups of people influenced Illyrian settlement patterns. Specifically, how Greek colonization followed by Roman incorporation affected Illyrian settlement patterns in Albania.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:40:56 -0400 2018-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
EIHS Lecture: Untopics in History: Air Travel Anthropology (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52313 52313-12631413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Abstract: Anthropologists and historians fly to work. We fly to the archive. We fly to the field. (At least those of us with documents, time, and money do.) Yet airline travel seldom appears as a topic in the ethnographic pieces we write, though other modes of transport frequently do. In this talk, I explore how this form of flight became an untopic in anthropology. I delve into the works of black surrealists and structural anthropologists from the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by critical race studies, I think historically about the origins of a claim often heard when discussing airborne ethnographic fieldwork: “I’ve never thought about that.” The aim of the talk is to understand how untopics and unthoughts are made, grapple with their effects, find ways to dismantle them, and envision what does not come next.

Chandra D. Bhimull, an associate professor of anthropology and African American studies at Colby College, is a graduate of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. As an anthrohistorian, she combines archival and ethnographic methods and carries out her fieldwork in the Caribbean, Europe, and the transatlantic skies. Her research has been supported by organizations such as the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Her first book, Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora (New York University Press, 2017), examines the racial politics of flying. Among her other works are a co-edited volume on transdisciplinarity and creative non-fiction essays about air culture and deportation flights. She is currently writing a book about race, sense, and scale.

Free and open to the public.

Part of the semester-long series celebrating 30 years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. Additional support from the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:22:42 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Chandra Bhimull
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
Inaugural Lecture as the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies. Democracies Emerging and Submerging (September 27, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52006 52006-12793954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Does it still make sense to study emerging democracies in a historical moment when democracies seem mostly to be submerging? In his inaugural address as WCED Director, Dan Slater discusses how research on authoritarianism and democratic dysfunctions might ironically shed light on enduring questions of democratic emergence—especially when it builds on concepts transcending disciplinary boundaries.

Dan Slater specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. He comes to Michigan after twelve years on the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he served as director of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and associate member in the Department of Sociology. His book manuscript examining how divergent historical patterns of contentious politics have shaped variation in state power and authoritarian durability in seven Southeast Asian countries, entitled "Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia," was published in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series in 2010.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:47:40 -0400 2018-09-27T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Dan Slater
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 28, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
EIHS Workshop: Technologies of Movement and Belonging (September 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54003 54003-13513045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

As we travel through a world that moves ever more rapidly around us, how and where do we build and maintain senses of belonging? Showcasing work of graduate students researching contemporary media environments in south India, the Nigerianization of the hajj, and how road construction shaped governance in Palestine, this workshop engages critical questions about how power manifests in the ways people move, how movement shapes our social worlds, and how community bonds and notions of selfhood develop as we navigate changing technological environments.

Panelists:
Padma Chirumamilla, PhD Student, School of Information, University of Michigan
Sara Katz, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Omer Sharir, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Chandra D. Bhimull (respondent), Associate Professor, Anthropology, African American Studies, Colby College
Deirdre de la Cruz (chair), Associate Professor, History, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

Part of the semester-long series celebrating 30 years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

photo: "ghost station," Matthias Rhomberg (CC BY 2.0)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:35:58 -0400 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar "ghost station," Matthias Rhomberg (CC BY 2.0)
Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53563 53563-13407925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Fran Antmann’s photographs, taken in Guatemala over a period from 2006 to 2017, evoke the life and culture of the indigenous communities that live along the shores of Lake Atitlán. The photographs speak to the close relationship of these communities with the natural and spiritual worlds. They record the daily lives of the Maya but also evoke their underlying world of mystical and religious experience -- the rituals that give continuity and permanence in a world of disposable culture. The work focuses on indigenous healers, many of whom are women believed to have connections with the supernatural. They use ancient Maya practices and derive theirpower and knowledge from dreams. These rituals survive despite the genocide of the Maya people perpetrated over several decades until 1996. The resurgence of Maya identity in the renewal of formerly suppressed Maya practices celebrates the endurance of indigenous cultures.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Maya Healers will be on display in Lane Hall from September to December 2018, with an exhibit opening taking place on September 28 from 3 to 5 pm in the Lane Hall Gathering Space.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:11:41 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Reception / Open House Fran Antmann, Maya Healers
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: “Culinary Spectacles: Gastro-Politics, Race and Species in Peru” (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51711 51711-12205471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

Peru is in the midst of what many have called a gastronomic revolution. Dominant narratives in the country and beyond celebrate the fusion of Peru’s diversity (cultural, racial, culinary) as a pathway to social inclusion and Peruvian economic success. While culinary fusion has been a key part of this moment, the rise of chef Virgilio Martínez—famously known as the chef who “cooks ecosystems”—has expanded discussions (gastronomic and political) to highlight Peruvian biodiversity, indigeneity and cultural “authenticity.” In this talk I explore this moment as one that illuminates the contemporary aesthetics of what Peruvian theorist Anibal Quijano has termed “the coloniality of power.” While there may indeed be some material benefits for emerging young chefs and some indigenous producers, I argue that this gastronomic boom in fact perpetuates gendered and racial hierarchies in the country, and obscures violence against marginalized human and non-human bodies.

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:40:42 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "The sensory ecology of fruit selection by wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator) in Sector Santa Rosa, Costa Rica" (October 1, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51705 51705-12202560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Sensory systems are our interface with the external world. Longstanding hypotheses concerning primate origins hinge on the relationships among sensory systems, diet and activity pattern and revealing these dynamics is important to understanding primate adaptive radiation. I ask how primates use their senses to find and select foods, and how diet and habitat have shaped vision, olfaction, taste, touch and hearing over the course of primate evolution. Here, I will discuss my collaborative research on the sensory ecology of wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator) in the tropical dry forests of northwestern Costa Rica over the past 14 years. Data from behavioral, genetic, life history, and visual modelling approaches provide compelling evidence that color vision polymorphism is maintained by balancing selection, and that monkeys with different sensory phenotypes have distinct ecological advantages and disadvantages. Trichromatic (color-normal relative to human) capuchins have higher foraging efficiency on many ripe fruits, while dichromats (red-green colorblind) are more efficient at capturing surface-dwelling insects. Capuchins also integrate their senses of vision, olfaction, touch and taste in complex ways during foraging, and their sensory gene repertoire is diverse. Additionally, I will discuss how plant properties shape primate behavior - variation in the frequency of fruit sniffing can be linked to the chemical profile and odors of fruits as they ripen, as well as presence/absence of haptic and color variation. Investigation of primate sensory ecology is still in its infancy; I end by highlighting promising avenues of future research in this dynamic and enthralling area."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:46:44 -0400 2018-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44037 44037-9877694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Advisors, CGIS Alumni, and program representatives from around campus and the world will answer your questions about UM study abroad opportunities. Learn about UM faculty-led programs and meet with staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office. Enjoy performances from global student orgs, maize-n-blue giveaways, and free candy from around the world!

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Fair / Festival Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:01:54 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Study Abroad!
Lost in Translation: The Architecture and/of Chinese Edition (October 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55224 55224-13700533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Have you ever wondered how architecture sounds in Chinese? Or questioned if the language of architecture would sound any more esoteric if it were in Chinese? Does linguistic difference matter? What is lost and what is gained when designspeak traverses the Chinese-English divide? How does the medium of design discourse affect its content? Is graphic communication the great equalizer? Is architecture sinicizable? Do you doubt that these are answerable questions? Find out on October 3rd, 5–7pm, at the Taubman College Commons.

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.

Panelists:
FU Liangyu, Communications & Media Studies
WANG Jieqiong, Architecture & Urban Studies
William THOMSON, Anthropology & Architecture
ZHANG Fang, Fine Arts, Design, & Economics

Hors d'oeuvres to be served.
All are welcome!
No registration is required but please RSVP so we can provide enough food for everyone.

This event is organized by GRIN with generous support from Rackham and in partnership with Taubman College DEI.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 13:00:55 -0400 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Flyer
AIA Lecture | Bones and Borscht: How Neolithic Human Remains from Ukraine Are Enabling the Reconstruction of European Population History and Our Understanding of Ancient Warfare (October 4, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52046 52046-12382004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Recent developments in ancient DNA research have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct human migrations in ways that are reshaping our understanding of the past. One of the most remarkable aspects of this new research has been the recognition of two large-scale migrations in European prehistory. The first included the migration of Neolithic farmers into Europe from the Near East, while the second involved the movement of nomadic pastoralists out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe at the close of the Neolithic and beginning of the early Bronze Age. Many archaeologists and paleogeneticists have gone so far as to suggest this massive movement of people from the steppe was the mechanism that spread Indo-European languages and established modern European genetic signatures. However, these events remain imperfectly understood. For example, to what extent did expanding Neolithic farmers interbreed with existing Mesolithic hunter-gatherers? How did Neolithic farmers who neighbored the steppe populations interact with this important group? Is there any evidence for intergroup conflict associated with these massive population movements? These questions have been the focus of our research at Verteba Cave, Ukraine, one of the only known mortuary sites associated with the farmers of the Late Neolithic that bordered the steppe. The skeletal and genetic data we have collected from Verteba Cave are beginning to shed additional light on these extremely consequential time periods in European population history.

Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture at Kelsey Museum 5:30 PM, reception to follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:31:26 -0400 2018-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion AIA lecture
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
New Methods for Detecting Natural Selection in Large Samples of Genetic Data (October 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56321 56321-13878530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Understanding how humans evolved and adapted to their environment is one of the most important and interesting questions in science. The recent emergence of large, publicly available genetic data sets places the answers to these questions closer within reach than ever before. New statistical methods are needed to take full advantage of these resources.

In this talk Dr. Terhorst will discuss some recent progress towards detecting signals of recent natural selection in genetic data from tens of thousands of individuals. On the computational side, he will describe new memory- and compute-efficient inference algorithms that allow us to analyze thousands of genomes in parallel using GPUs. On the theoretical side, he will describe a new test for neutrality based on combinatorial properties of Kingman’s coalescent. The test turns out to have interesting connections to a classic problem in theoretical statistics which has been studied by LeCam, Moran, Hall, and other luminaries. Some of this work is joint with Dan Erdmann-Pham, Kamm, Pier Palamara, Alkes Price and Yun Song.

Bio: Jonathan Terhorst joined the University of Michigan in the fall of 2017 as an assistant professor in the statistics department. Before that, he was a PhD student in statistics at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Yun Song. He is broadly interested in applications of statistics and machine learning to problems in biology, with a particular emphasis on statistical and population genetics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:06:12 -0400 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Jonathan Terhorst, PhD
PitE Info Session (October 9, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56402 56402-13896799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS Intercultural Program Advisor Cristina Zamarron for an information session on study abroad programs that focus on environmental studies such as:

AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST
• Wildlife Management Studies in Tanzania

THE AMERICAS
• Environment and Sustainable Development in San Jose, Costa Rica
• GIEU Peru- Healthy Kitchens and Agriculture
• Marine Resource Studies in the Turks and Caicos Islands

ASIA-PACIFIC
•Biodiversity & Development of the Amazon
•Conservation & Development Studies in Cambodia
•EcoQuest Field Studies in Whakatiwai, New Zealand
•Development and Globalization in Khon Kaen, Thailand
•Frontiers Abroad in New Zealand •Sustainable Food Systems in Thailand

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Meeting Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:39:59 -0400 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-09T18:30:00-04:00 Dana Building Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting Photo
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (October 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56058 56058-13823424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

"Creating a Narcissism of Small Differences: Cultural Politics in a Multiethnic Village in Shan State, Myanmar"

Tuesday, 10/9, 6pm
East Quad Room 1405

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our U-M Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:09:35 -0400 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T19:15:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion ShinPhyu
Bioethics Discussion: Alternative Medicine (October 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49423 49423-11453765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion at the boundaries of the medical sciences.

Readings to consider:
"The placebo effect in alternative medicine"
"The use of complementary and alternative medicine in pediatrics"
"Efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine therapies in relieving cancer pain: a systematic review"
"Trends in the use of complementary health approaches among adults: United States, 2002-2012"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/018-alternative-medicine/.

Be mindful at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:54:30 -0400 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Alternative medicine
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
EIHS Symposium: The Past and Futures of Anthropology and History (October 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54009 54009-13513091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

As part of a semester-long celebration of the thirtieth year of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History, this panel brings together alumni and current students to reflect on the purchase and promise of our program at a time when established regimes of authority, knowledge, and expression are being called into question by groups spanning the political spectrum. A discussion that focuses on Anthro-History as an institutional, as much as intellectual, project seems especially opportune, and speakers will put their research and experience with the Anthro-History program in conversation with larger debates about disciplinarity, the university, privilege and power in academia, and the place of specialized knowledge in the public sphere.

Panelists:

Jamie Andreson, PhD Candidate in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
Luciana Aenășoaie, Assistant Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of Michigan (PhD, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan)
Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor, History, University of Toronto Scarborough (PhD, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan)
Reuben Riggs-Bookman (chair), PhD Student in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

Part of the semester-long series celebrating 30 years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. Additional support from the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:15:20 -0400 2018-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Glendalough
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
MEMS Workshop. Domesticating Dragomans: Affect, Homosociality and Textual Circulations (October 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56315 56315-13878514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The chapter under consideration is from a book in progress about dragomans (diplomatic interpreters) in seventeenth-century Istanbul and explores the relationship between (homosocial) space and affect in the making of a dragoman corps. Through two case studies it examines how Venetian officials sought (and often failed) to cultivate dragomans’ heteronormative affective ties and loyal Venetian political subjectivity through the practice of extended residential apprenticeship in the Venetian embassy compound (bailate) and attended technologies of surveillance and controlled textual circulation. The two cases explored here, of dragomans’ attempted unionization in 1660 and of an aborted love affair between a dragoman apprentice and the bailate barber in 1588, suggest the competing ways in which dragomans and their Venetian employers attempted to control publicity about potentially scandalous affairs, how they mobilized patronage networks that linked the bailate with Venetian metropolitan institutions and powerful patrons, and how the archival traces from which these cases of "misplaced" affect are reconstructed themselves need to be situated in the context of evolving diplomatic protocol and Ottoman--as much as Venetian--social structures and sexual regimes.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:08:36 -0400 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Dragoman ms illustration
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
Lecture on the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55926 55926-13805095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Curator Cheney J. Schopieray explores the breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century, which includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy. Free and open to all, but please register online or by emailing Anne Bennington-Helber, abhelber@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:25:59 -0400 2018-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion D.N. Diedrich Collection poster
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (October 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (October 18, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-19T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "The Biopolitics of Baby Talk" (October 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51637 51637-12179235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

ais un abus de tout autre importance. . . est qu'on se presse trop de les faire parler, comme si l'on avait peur qu'ils n'apprissent pas à parler d'eux-mêmes (Jean- Jacques Rousseau, Émile ou de l’Éducation, 1762)

Figuring Émile as his pupil, Rousseau’s primer on education argues against Locke’s Enlightenment missive to begin engaging children in verbal reasoning at an early age. Useless, he argues: leave them to their own devices and they will flourish linguistically, morally, and intellectually. More than three centuries later, this essay revives this argument in light of a 21st century ideology that privileges intensive reflective dialogue between caregivers and young children as the bedrock of normal neurocognitive development and children’s talk as evidence of knowledge. This ideology has taken hold in US middle-class households and developmental psychology scholarship, motivating global biopolitical governance of the speaking bodies of economically disadvantaged caregivers and infants in the first months of life. The analysis weighs the complicated entailments of elevating not just a young child’s detached reflectivity but verbal displays of such reflectivity as a biological capacity waiting to be nurtured versus Western civilization’s handmaiden to rationality, scientific progress, capitalism, and the formation of the free ethical subject.

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:47:20 -0400 2018-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
STS Speaker. Unbalancing the Senses and Sciences of Moving Fascia: Practicing Research (October 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54692 54692-13636285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Inside of the norming power of "balance" as a concept, lies the layering of balance as a moving-idea of ideal-movement. How "we" learn and incorporate the concept-practice of balancing gives shape to our lifeworld in political, historical, gymnastic and practical ways. Even the figuring of our "sense" of balance within and without "the five senses" is consequential for the shaping of ability and disability. Take this simple example: one hand touches another and each feels the skin, and under the skin, of each hand. One hand touches another and both change in skin and under the skin. The many senses—of touching, feeling, tactility, thermal, mechanical, and kinesthetic impressions, proprioceptive movement, weight and balance of self and others, affective pleasures, pain, distention, tickling, itching, tension and tone, anticipation and inspection—are in flux, social and cultural, yet trainable, extendable, transformable. Each nameable variable of the experience seems to matter and feedback into the experiment: pressure, weight, angle, movement, direction, depth of feel, intent, relaxation, length of time, sensitivity, attention. These “senses” complicate the world -- defined by Stengers with Whitehead as that which our senses testify to and raise questions about experimental ethical relations. At a more practical level among those who start thinking conceptually with training, the effect of ideas about body and movement on the practice of moving has been critically examined as "ideokinesis" by Mabel Todd in her 1930s Posture Lab – in which students became taller in a semester of imaginative exercises, since taken up into the training of dancers. Bourdieu describes this loop of habitus as: history turned into nature. Csordas describes perception itself "in the midst of arbitrariness and indeterminacy". Anatomy itself is also put into variation as different groups insist, discover and practice alternate claims to body “parts” such as “fascia”. Often called connective tissue (the goop or structure between muscles, organs, skin, and cells), but also found to be active, intelligent, communicative, and a sensory organ (the “interstitium”); sometimes three, sometimes many and sometimes one, liquid, solid and mucus, fascia stretches between communities of biologists, massage therapists, anatomists and pathologists, yoga and pilates teachers, doctors and dancers. Palpating these balancing practices and membranes through participant observation and interviews, experience and experiments, this work attends to the training of sensitivity and habit across fields of research and training, structures and sensibilities.

Biosketch: Joseph Dumit is chair of Performance Studies, and professor of Science & Technology Studies, and of Anthropology at University of California, Davis. His research and teaching ask how exactly we come to think, do, and speak the way we do about ourselves and our world; and what are the material ways we encounter facts and things, and take them to be relevant to our lives and our futures? He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans & Biomedical America (Princeton 2004), Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (Duke 2012), and co-editor of Cyborgs & Citadels: Cyborg Babies and Biomedicine as Culture. His current research includes comparative anatomies and the study of fascia via movement and improvisation, capitalism and health, three-dimensional visualization (virtual reality) environments for science, and game studies. He is developing a game on fracking at http://modlab.ucdavis.edu, a book on playing with methods, and is in the process of creating an undergraduate program in Data Studies, which will help undergrads learn to think critically and computationally about data. http://dumit.net

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:01:27 -0400 2018-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Dumit
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
Bioethics Discussion: Zombies (October 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49424 49424-11453766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the rights of the living, the dead, and those in between.

Readings to consider:
"Consciousness: the most critical moral (constitutional) standard for human personhood"
"CDC preparedness 101: zombie pandemic"
"Zombies v. materialists"
"In vitro meat"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/019-zombies/.

Have your brain eaten by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:55:12 -0400 2018-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Zombies
Beyond the Lines: Exploring Long-Term Cultural Dynamics in Nasca, Peru (October 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56469 56469-13906094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Nasca region of Peru is best known for the lines (geoglyphs) that were created on the desert floor. While the geoglyphs were an integral part of the Nasca Culture (AD 100-650) this ancient society was just one of many that made Nasca their home. During the several thousand years of occupation the region saw many transformations including the development of regionally integrated complex societies, imperial conquest by the highland Wari, collapse and abandonment, resettlement of the region possibly by highlanders, and imperial conquest once again by the Inca. Many factors were involved in these shifts, and included the organization of kinship groups, subsistence strategies, influxes of immigrants and new ideas, religious movements, climate change, trade and social networks, and external imperial policies. This talk will explore these issues and the implications for broader patterns of change in the Andean region.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:54:29 -0400 2018-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Conlee
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The Angamuco Urban Landscape: LiDAR, survey, and excavation at a Purépecha City, Michoacán, Mexico (October 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57003 57003-14059413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Angamuco is a newly documented Purépecha (Tarascan) urban center within the Imperial heartland of the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico. Over the last decade we have conducted full coverage survey, urban mapping, LiDAR scanning and analysis, and excavation to better understand the growth and abandonment of Angamuco during the centuries prior to European contact. This work shows that (1) large urban centers with complex spatial organization and social stratification were present centuries prior to the formation of the Purépecha Empire, (2) the settlement incorporate gardens and other landscape features within and around the settlement demonstrating a high degree of human environmental modification, (3) current models for the evolution of social complexity in the region cannot account for the presence of Angamuco.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:48:20 -0400 2018-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Fisher Cohen
Technosemiotics (October 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56548 56548-13942261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

A roundtable conversation about new ways to study and think about the entanglements of medial technologies in sociocultural life.
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How should we understand the vast and often unexpected entanglements of media technologies in social and cultural life? This roundtable draws into dialogue linguistic and semiotic anthropology, media ethnography and archaeology, and science and technology studies. From syllabic typewriters to sound recorders, from postwar Japan and America to contemporary Punjab and Nigeria, we examine how human, media, and machine do not simply “interact” but variably combine and sometimes co-constitute each other with far-reaching effects. How do we take seriously the materiality of media and their infrastructures without neglecting cultural significance or resorting to species of determinism? In what ways are we helped or hindered by concepts such as “interface,” “indexicality,” and “technique,” and amalgams like “sociotechnical” and, indeed, “technosemiotic”?
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Participants
Padma Chirumamilla | Doctoral Candidate, School of Information, University of Michigan
Matthew Hull | Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Miyako Inoue | Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Brian Larkin | Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University
Michael Lempert | Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Nishita Trisal | Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of Michigan
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Questions?
Email the Department of Anthropology at michigan-anthro@umich.edu or visit lsa.umich.edu/anthro.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:53:56 -0400 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Conference / Symposium Technosemiotics Poster
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Resource Diversification and Resilience: The Bioarchaeology of Bronze Age Northwest China (October 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52912 52912-13142322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Northwest China experienced several marked transitions during the Bronze Age (~2000-1000 BCE), including climate change, the spread of mobile pastoralism, the rise of new technologies, and increasing interregional interaction. Ancient human skeletons bear the embodied traces of these transitions, and of the accompanying changes to human health and diet. This evidence, when incorporated into a multidisciplinary archaeological analysis, points to a patchwork of successful adaptive strategies leading to social-ecological resilience in the region.

Elizabeth Berger is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her ongoing work in bioarchaeology focuses on ancient adaptation to climate change, ancient human health, and subsistence strategies in northwest China. She has also worked on archaeological human remains from central China, investigating Warring States period migration and Ming dynasty foot binding. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina in 2017.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:42:50 -0400 2018-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Berger, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
The Author's Forum Presents: Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays (October 30, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54124 54124-13530644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Alaina Lemon (professor of anthropology) and Karla Mallette (professor of Italian and Middle East studies) discuss Lemon's new book "Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays," followed by Q & A.

About the book:
Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for Intuition theorizes phaticity—the processes by which people make, check, discern, or describe channels and contacts, judging them weak or strong, blocked or open. This historical ethnography of intuition juxtaposes telepathy experiments and theatrical empathy drills, passing through settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes, where locals open channels with foreigners, and where skeptics of contact debate naifs. Tacking across geopolitical borders, the book demonstrates how contact and channel shift in significance over time, through events and political relations, in social conflict, and in conversation. The author suggests that Cold War preoccupations and strategies have marked theoretical models of communication and mediation, even while infusing everyday, practical technologies for intuition.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:06:14 -0400 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Technologies for Intuition
Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (RAPID-K): A New, Regional Archaeological Project in Europe's Newest Nation (November 1, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57002 57002-14059412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In 2018, Dr. Michael Galaty helped launch a new archaeological project in the young Balkan nation of Kosova. Over the course of one month, members of RAPID-K surveyed 15 square kilometers and discovered 13 new sites. RAPID-K builds on two decades of archaeological research conducted by Galaty in Albania, with a particular focus on inter-regional interaction during late prehistory. His presentation will review the results of RAPID-K's first season and situate them in a wider, Balkan archaeological context.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:45:26 -0400 2018-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Galaty pic
A War Remembered: Biafra at 50 (November 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57054 57054-14077265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

By some estimates, the Nigerian Civil War was the greatest catastrophe ever to have occurred in Africa. Over the June, 1967 to January, 1970 period, the conflict may have claimed as many as two million lives. This presentation will be delivered by a former relief officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross who participated in the Biafra relief action over the May to October, 1969 period as an entry-level logistics worker, and from November 1969 to July 1970 as a “UN Forward Observer” assigned to the Third Division of the Nigerian Army. The presentation outlines causes and consequences of the conflict, procedures followed by the relief action, and examples of strategies that failed to have their intended impact. Lessons from Biafra attest to the value of implementation science in crisis situations.

Dr. James Phillips is currently Professor, Population and Family Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health where he teaches demography and directs research on health systems development in Africa. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology/Demography from the University of Michigan.

A reception will follow the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:18:17 -0500 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-02T10:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: “Winds, Currents, and Histories of Seafaring: How Oceanographic Effects Influenced Ancient Voyaging and the European ‘Age of Discovery’” (November 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51638 51638-12179236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"For millennia, humans have developed different kinds of watercraft to travel across the world’s seas and oceans to settle new lands. The contacts they made with both pristine island ecologies and indigenous peoples dramatically changed the scope of human history in myriad ways that we are only beginning to understand. What environmental and social reasons influenced how humans traveled over open-ocean and how is archaeology and other scientific fields helping to decipher these clues? Here I examine how computer modeling, archaeological research, and other lines of evidence are providing answers to these questions, with a special focus on events that occurred in the Pacific and Caribbean."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:12:15 -0400 2018-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
AIA Lecture | Maternity in Antiquity (November 6, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56910 56910-14023820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America (Alan Boegehold Lecture). This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture at Kelsey Museum 5:30 PM, reception to follow.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:13:31 -0400 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-06T18:30:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion AIA lecture
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series | Mbala Nkanga, Associate Professor of Theatre (November 6, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57197 57197-14128659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

This presentation presents the preliminary findings on the use of memory of the violent past in popular artistic expressions, performances and plays in Central Africa. It explores the use of myths such as the Mvett of the Fang people of Gabon and historical figures like Lumumba and Mulele, along with the violent events surrounding their existence.

Mbala Nkanga is a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and comes to U-M with extensive experience as a teacher, director, and scholar. Since 1979, he has taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC).He specializes in theatre history, performance theories, and world drama. His research interests include: interculturalism and the performance of memory in world theatre and performance; the study of Jean Genet’s aesthetics of profanation and its relation with black theatre (object of a manuscript in progress); and the Mvett epic and its performance (book in preparation: Mvett: Performance, Cultural Memory, Identity Among the Fang). He is preparing the upcoming publication of his Performance, Rumor, and Audience: The Theatre of Resistance in Central Africa, 1990-2000, and an anthology of francophone African plays in translation.

He is a former Fulbright scholar and winner of Northwestern University’s Gwendolyn Carter Award for Academic Excellence.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:42:36 -0400 2018-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Mbala Nkanga
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
The Almost Lost Art of Hula Ki`i Hawaiian Puppetry (November 7, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57198 57198-14128658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell 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 2018-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T20:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
Archaeological Interpretations of Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways in the Past: Questioning Traditional Assumptions (November 8, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57145 57145-14121947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In the 1970s and 1980s, under the banner of “processual archaeology,” new ideas such as logistically organized hunting strategies, embedded toolstone procurement as indicator of annual foraging range, biface technology as response to transport constraints, and many others provided innovative ways to think about the archaeological record. These were small yet bold steps away from the field’s traditional obsession with description, typology, and chronology toward a more anthropologically grounded endeavor. But over the intervening years many of these ideas have become fossilized, transformed from interesting hypotheses to unquestioned “givens.” What has genuinely continued to advance over this period is our understanding of chronology, paleoclimate, and many technical matters. But our understanding of past hunter-gatherers as real peoples with real cultures—the anthropological part of the endeavor—has progressed much more slowly, in part because we remain wedded to a host of underlying assumptions, some flawed, others very likely wrong. In this brown bag I will identify a number of these, and provide reasons why I think they are in serious need of a fresh look.

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Presentation Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:05:31 -0400 2018-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Presentation School of Education
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
EIHS Workshop: History Between Disciplines: An EIHS Exploration of Methodology (November 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54014 54014-13513116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

By examining the possibilities and pitfalls of working within and across disciplines, this workshop provides a forum for discussing historical methodologies. Featuring mini-talks by five graduate students in History, Anthropology and History, and Greek and Roman History on topics from a wide range of chronologies and geographies, please join us for a lively conversation about how we do what we do.

Panelists:
Farida Begum, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Ren Chao, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
Amanda Respess, PhD Candidate, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
William Soergel, PhD Student, Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan
Parrish Wright, PhD Student, Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan
Vazira Zamindar (respondent), Associate Professor, History, Brown University
Matthew Woodbury (chair), Postdoctoral Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

Together with Professor Zamindar’s Thursday lecture, this workshop is part of a semester-long celebration of 30 years of Anthro-History at Michigan.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:43:16 -0500 2018-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar architecture
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (November 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
MAS Lecture | Projectile Points From the US Southwest: Who Learns from Whom, and Why Does It Matter? (November 15, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57519 57519-14209020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lectures

Archaeological evidence suggests conflict among groups living in southeastern New Mexico ca. AD 1300, perhaps as a result of competition over dwindling bison populations. Projectile points from sites in the region are highly standardized during this time, which might reflect a heightened sense of group membership—"we are US, they are THEM"—in the face of social tensions. In this talk, I explore this hypothesis and some alternatives, and also, more generally, how who we learn skills from might affect technological change through time.

About the Speaker: Raven Garvey studies the influences of ecological, demographic, and social factors on prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ behaviors and broader cultural change through time. Her current field projects in Patagonia use simple economic models incorporating these factors to generate predictions of hunter-gatherer settlement and resource use at different times in the past. Her current lab-based projects are designed to test and develop models of cultural transmission and technological evolution, and to refine Patagonian chronologies using obsidian hydration.

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:41:42 -0500 2018-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 2018-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lectures Lecture / Discussion MAS logo
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch 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
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Museum of Art
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location African Studies Center Conference / Symposium
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 30, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54705 54705-13636374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:01:01 -0400 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "The Good, The Bad, and the Maladapted: Fetal Sensitivity in Light of Evolutionarily Novel Environments" (November 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51710 51710-12205470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Developmental plasticity is an important mechanism for evolutionary adaptation. This talk explores how developmental plasticity in the human stress response system shapes patterns of health and disease in contemporary environments. It will also consider how an evolutionary perspective can inform our approach to public health intervention to reduce the impacts of adverse environments on health."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:45:32 -0400 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
CSAS Lecture Series | “We Were Always Buddhist:" Caste Emancipation and Sexual Politics in South India (November 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53320 53320-13340971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

I am a medical and sociocultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including feminist, postcolonial and queer theories; religion and secularism; medicine and the body; and South Asia. My research projects in South India and the United States have roots in longstanding engagements with the politics of sexuality, gender and religion. These projects have focused in particular on the body as an artifact of culture and power in relation to questions of sexual subjectivity, social transformation and citizenship projects. I have conducted research in the US on sexual ‘risk’ and transsexual medicine and in South India on ‘sacred prostitution’ (devadasi dedication) and Dalit conversion to Buddhism.

My first book, Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion (Duke University Press, 2014), is an ethnography of a contemporary practice in which girls are married to a goddess. I take this ongoing practice and its reform as an occasion to consider what can count as religion and who and what marriage is for. In 2015, Given to the Goddess received the first Michelle Rosaldo best first book prize in Feminist Anthropology, the Ruth Benedict prize from the Association for Queer Anthropology, and the Clifford Geertz Prize for best book in the anthropology of religion from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. The book also received honorable mention for the best book in South Asian Studies from the Association for Asian Studies in 2016.

I serve as the director of graduate studies in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. In college and university service, I am a member of the core faculty of the Nilgiris Field Learning Center, a Cornell-Keystone Collaboration; a member of the Humanities Council, Society for the Humanities; a member of the Qualities of Life Working Group, Einaudi Center; a member of the steering committee for Faith, Hope and Knowledge: Interfaith Dialogues for Global Justice and Peace, Einaudi Center, and a member of the Provost’s Social Sciences Idea Panel, 2017-present.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:11:35 -0400 2018-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Lucinda Ramberg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) Mass Meeting (December 3, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57862 57862-14363815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Learn about a new six-week Humanities Program at Michigan's Biological Station in Spring Term 2019. GLACE offers an immersive core curriculum focusing on the history, arts, culture and environments of the Great Lakes. At GLACE, students will explore their surroundings, connect with each other, and dive into the full complexity of their experience.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:47:53 -0500 2018-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting GLACE mass meeting
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
Bioethics Discussion: Suicide (December 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49428 49428-11453770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our (chosen?) ends.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of Sisyphus"
"The ethics of suicide"
"Suicide: rationality and responsibility for life"
"Suicide responsibility of hospital and psychiatrist"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/022-suicide/.

Please consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/. (And your own health and well-being if you're in that place in your life right now.)


[If you and/or someone you know is currently feeling suicidal, please feel free to reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.]

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:27:01 -0400 2018-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Suicide
Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation by Jennifer Robertson (December 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52654 52654-12918935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Discussants:
- JENNIFER ROBERTSON, Professor of Anthropology, History of Art, Women's Studies, and Art and Design; Affiliate Faculty, Robotics Institute
- JOY ROHDE, Associate Professor of Public Policy and History
- ALEXANDRA STERN, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, History, and Women's Studies; Chair, Department of American Culture

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots—humanoids, androids, and animaloids—are “imagineered” in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether “civil rights” should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the “normal” body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.

Attendees will have the chance to win a free copy of the book! There will be at least 5 winners. You must be present to win.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:28:54 -0500 2018-12-05T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T16:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover "robo sapiens japanicus"
Late Glacial Hunters in Michigan (December 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58145 58145-14433274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Some 13,500 years ago, the first Michiganders arrived in a land of glacial hills and ice-edge lake features covered with a mosaic of tundra and spruce parkland. This was very different from the rich Carolinian forests whose remnants we can see today in Lower Michigan. These earliest colonists were foragers adapted to harsh and rapidly changing environments, determined to exploit their populations of caribou, elk, mammoth, mastodon, peccary, and other animals. Both subsistence systems and human social system have been defined by the devoted efforts of generations of University of Michigan museum researchers and students, and Michigan’s avocational archaeologists. In today’s talk, LaDuke and Wright will summarize what we have learned about a formative step in the evolution of Late Glacial foragers based on recent excavations at the Palmer site, ending with some predictions about the directions of future research.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:13:02 -0500 2018-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (December 7, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-12-07T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Javanese Gamelan Music & Dance (December 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57345 57345-14157788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Residential College

Under the guest direction of renowned Yogyakarta gamelan musician Raharja, this program features pieces for concert and dance in the Yogyakarta and Surakarta styles of Javanese gamelan. From crashing loud- to meditative soft-style pieces, this performance will expose listeners to some of the diverse styles of Javanese gamelan.

Free and open to the public.

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Incorporation of Native Communities in Archaeological Projects, Bolivia (December 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58375 58375-14491983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This presentation deals with the development of cooperative relationships with Aymara-speaking communities in the northern Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia, describing some of our experiences as foreign archaeologists, and the long-term benefits that have resulted for both the communities and our interdisciplinary projects. For example, the establishment of multi-functional site museums, a bilingual adult education program, and other projects in rural areas. In addition, I will show how our efforts to train local workers in the archaeological methods of field and laboratory, and integrating them in our projects have created a positive atmosphere of close friendship, trust, and support in our studies and dating of ancient stone-faced terraces built on a monumental scale, and documenting for the first time maize cultivation at high altitudes.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:38:13 -0500 2018-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion tiah
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (December 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (December 14, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-12-14T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (December 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-12-21T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-21T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-04T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-04T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59260 59260-14719684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 14, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Disease in African-American Women: Moving Beyond Experiences.”

By Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor, Emory University
Rollins School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:10:41 -0500 2019-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
G.L.A.C.E (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) Mass Meeting (January 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59229 59229-14719612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come learn more about a new six-week Humanities Program at Michigan's Biological Station in Spring Term 2019. GLACE offers an immersive core curriculum focusing on the history, arts, culture and environments of the Great Lakes. At GLACE, students will explore their surroundings, connect with each other, and dive into the full complexity of their experience.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:21:35 -0500 2019-01-14T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting Glace Jan 2019
DAAS Africa Workshop 'What would you like to be when you grow up? The Imagined Futures of Secondary School Men in Kenya, 1940-1960’ (January 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59210 59210-14717514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Kenda Mutongi is Professor of Africa History at Williams College. She is the author of MATATU: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, 2017); and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which received an Honorable Mention from the African Studies Association’s Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best scholarly book on Africa in all disciplines. She has also published articles in the main African studies journals.

Her current project focuses on the history of secondary schooling in Kenya. The study focuses on post-colonial Kenya but also looks back to the turn of the twentieth century when the first schools were established in Kenya. The study will help provide a picture of what it has been like for the students to grow up in a Kenya that is buffeted by all the fears, expectations, and contradictions of a new African nation.

Mutongi has been a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. She has also received grants from the NEH, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Mutongi has served as chair of the Africana Studies and the Africa/Middle Eastern Studies Programs at Williams, and is on the editorial boards of several journals in African Studies.

She teaches a wide range of courses in the history of 19th and 20th century Africa.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:29:23 -0500 2019-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
Bioethics Discussion: Race (January 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49429 49429-11453772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on (in)equality that is more than skin deep.

Readings to consider:
"Racial disparity in emergency department triage"
"Dealing with the realities of race and ethnicity"
"Race/ethnicity and success in academic medicine"
"Race and trust in the healthcare system"
"Why bioethics has a race problem"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/023-race/.

Feel free to visit the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:28:05 -0400 2019-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Race
(1) Contextualizing Research at Notion, Turkey: A Museum and Archival Approach AND (2) The Roman Period of the Western Argolid: Initial Analysis and Interpretations of an Intensive, Siteless Field Survey (January 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59660 59660-14777894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

(1) DeFabio: The Notion Archaeological Survey, started in 2014 and directed by Prof. Christopher Ratté, is the first comprehensive study of the ancient port-city of Notion in western Turkey. Our surface collection results have found that the main dates of occupation at Notion were the Hellenistic to early Roman periods (3rd c. BCE to 1st c. CE). Our survey, however, was not the first investigation of Notion. Several earlier projects conducted limited excavations within and around the city. While preliminary results of these excavations have been published, there have been no detailed artifact studies. This talk will present the preliminary results of an ongoing project that uses museum collections and archival documents related to these previous projects to complement what we know about Notion from our survey.

(2) Frankl:The Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP) is an Intensive, siteless pedestrian survey investigating a 30 km² area of the Inachos River Valley in Greece’s North-East Peloponnese. The project seeks a diachronic understanding of the city of Argos’ hinterland with attention to settlement patterns, land-use, and microregional paths of movement. WARP conducted three field seasons between 2014 and 2016 and has now moved into the first stages of data analysis and publication. This brown bag will highlight the project’s methodologies as well as its initial analysis of Roman period data (1st BCE-7th CE). Our analysis of the Roman period begins with the examination of landscape-wide artifact distributions. These distributions are rendered at multiple chronological scales with attention to different artifact function types and measures of diversity. Additionally, these findings will be contextualized with other survey data collected in the region, which remains one of the most extensively investigated areas in Greece. WARP’s findings can, thus, revise and add further texture to existing narratives of Roman Imperialism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:02:32 -0500 2019-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (January 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2019-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
MAS Lecture | Looking at the Late Woodland and Early Mississippian in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: The Averett Culture (January 17, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58922 58922-14578309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In this talk, Kimberly Swisher discusses some of the current work she has been doing with material from the Averett Site, the type site for the Averett Culture. This was a local population with a primarily hunting and gathering economy that lived in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley in southwest Georgia from roughly AD 900 to AD 1300. After AD 1300, immigrant Mississippian populations intensified their habitation in the region, impacting the Averett existence. In her talk, Ms. Swisher also discuss her future plans and her dissertation research, which focuses on the social and cultural practices of these small-scale local populations and how they acted, re-acted, and interacted with the Mississippian immigrants, including how these local populations were affected socially and culturally. 

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Other Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:22:36 -0500 2019-01-17T19:30:00-05:00 2019-01-17T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other MAS logo
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-18T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Mississippian Migration and Polity Formation in Central Alabama: Conflict or Communitas?" (January 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51871 51871-12274331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Mississippian cultural practices appear somewhat later in Central Alabama than in other regions of the Southeastern United States. Although evidence of trade and exchange between Late Woodland communities in the region and Mississippian groups is present, it appears as though local Woodland groups were reluctant to fully embrace what archaeologists have defined as “classic" Mississippian culture. This talk centers on archaeological research at several Terminal Woodland sites in Central Alabama, highlighting cases where interactions with Mississippian groups generated archaeological remains that can be interpreted as either evidence of conflict or communitas as initial Mississippian settlement of the region took place."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:43:58 -0500 2019-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (January 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58198 58198-14441905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Discourses of White nationalism & racism today" by Alexandra Stern, Professor & Chair
Dept of American Culture, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:37:59 -0500 2019-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ASP Lecture: Bridging Memories in a Contested Geography – Eastern Turkey between Western Armenia and Northern Kurdistan (January 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57956 57956-14381732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Grounded in the field of late Ottoman history this lecture will draw on the disciplines of political sociology and anthropology to challenge bottom-up narratives and relate the past of contested geographies located in the shattered zones of the post-Ottoman and the post-Soviet. Dr. Leupold will examine the relationship between biographical subjects, the politics of memory and communal boundaries in the region around Lake Van - a geography where collective violence stretches back in time to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and into the contemporaneous Kurdish conflict. The lecture will begin by reconstructing the history of competing national movements and collective violence in the late-Ottoman period, and then deconstruct official Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish accounts to juxtapose ‘official histories’ with their local counter-narratives.

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

Photo caption: Yüksekova, Southeastern Turkey

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:32:27 -0500 2019-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Yüksekova, Southeastern Turkey
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Rally Days: Violence and Political Aesthetics in post-war Sierra Leone" (January 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52365 52365-12650113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"In March, 2018, voters in Sierra Leone went to the polls to elect a new president. These were arguably the first post-war elections in this West African state in which the dominant parties did not threaten to remobilize veterans of the country's long recent war. But this did not mean the end of violence in Sierra Leonean political campaigns. Violence and the threat of violence remain an integral part of the political imaginary in national politics. Drawing on film footage from the final rally days of the various political parties, I explore in this talk the fundamental role of violence in Sierra Leone's political aesthetics."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:37:41 -0500 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59182 59182-14694668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

Monday, January 28, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Paul Fleming, University of Michigan, Health Behavior & Health Education

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:24:49 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Science, Technology, and Society and Digital Studies Forum: Tour and discussion (January 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58521 58521-14510843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA from December 15, 2018 to April 7, 2019, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. The exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Open galleries from 4-5 p.m. will be hosted by UMMA staff. At 5 p.m. participants will convene for an open discussion about the exhibit. The conversation will begin with a dialogue between the artist Osman Khan (U-M School of Art and Design) and the cultural critic Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M American Culture) facilitated by Jennifer Robertson (Art History and Anthropology). Meet in the exhibition in the A. Alfred Taubman I gallery on floor 2 of the Alumni Memorial Hall wing the the Museum.

 

This program is organized and presented in partnership with the Science, Technology, and Society Program and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:17:08 -0500 2019-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Bioethics Discussion: Gender (January 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49430 49430-11453774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who we are, who society sees, and who we want to be.

Readings to consider:
"Doing gender"
"For whom the burden tolls"
"Performative acts and gender constitution"
"The restroom revolution: unisex toilets and campus politics"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/024-gender/.

Take a look at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:29:55 -0400 2019-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Gender
2018-19 Tanner Lecture on Human Values: Concepts and Persons (January 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47518 47518-10940127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE GRADUATE HOTEL TERRACE BALLROOM. IT WILL STILL OCCUR FROM 4PM TO 6PM.***

The 2018-2019 Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan will be given by prominent anthropology professor Michael Lambek. This year's Tanner Lecture will discuss the consideration of conceptual error and its application towards both philosophy and anthropology. In addition, Lambek will reflect on the duality of metapersons—how they are simultaneously concepts and persons—and common category mistakes such as the simplification of concepts.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:04:12 -0500 2019-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion 2018-2019 Tanner Lecture
2018-19 Tanner Lecture on Human Values: Symposium (January 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60256 60256-14855598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE BELL TOWER HOTEL LOWER LEVEL MEETING ROOM DUE TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE. IT WILL STILL TAKE PLACE FROM 10AM TO 12PM.***

Following the lecture on Wednesday, Professor Lambek will participate in Thursday's symposium with Professor Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge), Professor Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago), and Professor Sherry Ortner (University of California, Los Angeles).

This event is free and open to the public.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:10:32 -0500 2019-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Tanner Lecture
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (February 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Quantitative analyses of the early ape Ekembo with implications for hominoid evolution" (February 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51780 51780-12248759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:07:17 -0500 2019-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59559 59559-14752318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 4, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Racialized Costs of ‘Traditional’ Banking in Segregated America.”

By Terri L. Friedline, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:35:12 -0500 2019-02-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Sociology of Health and Medicine: Rethinking Autonomy? (February 6, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60210 60210-14849101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:15pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Dr. Stonington will share stories from around the world that call into question the pervasive use of individual autonomy as the organizing framework of bioethics. Cases will include: cancer care in Thailand, obesity prevention in Mexico City, primary care for diabetes in Ypsilanti, MI, and others. The goal of these stories will be to challenge assumptions about how people do and/or should engage with their bodies, their health, and health interventions.

Dinner provided, RSVP Required: https://myumi.ch/aVA37

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:40:00 -0500 2019-02-06T18:15:00-05:00 2019-02-06T19:15:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
LRCCS Conference | Environments and Adaptation in Ancient China: Recent Advances and Global Context (February 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60228 60228-14849131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Conference schedule and complete details: https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/conferences/environments-and-adaptation-in-ancient-china--recent-advances-an.html

This conference will gather experts in history, archaeology, anthropology, environmental studies and classical studies to discuss topics such as human adaptation to climate change, the relationship between humans and the environment, and much more, in ancient China.

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:36:10 -0500 2019-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Conference / Symposium LRCCS Conference | Environments and Adaptation in Ancient China: Recent Advances and Global Context
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (February 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Cooperation without Submission: The Juris-diction of Significance in Hopi-U.S. Relations" (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56314 56314-13878513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The founding principles of U.S. law regarding Native Americans, first articulated in the 1830s, define them as “domestic dependent nations” who retain powers of self-government but who are also in a “state of pupilage” to the federal government, in a relationship like that of a “ward to its guardian.” This ambiguous status has offered cover for the shifting winds of U.S. political sentiment, leading sometimes to calls for the assimilation of Native peoples, sometimes for their rights to self-determination. Despite these shifts, tribes like the Hopi Nation in Arizona persist in their claims to being sovereign nations who nonetheless enjoy a unique trust relationship with the U.S. Since the 1990s, and passage of laws like Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, this relationship has been executed pursuant to rules requiring “meaningful tribal consultation” whenever U.S. agencies or their grantees propose actions that may impact Native peoples and their resources, particularly those of substantial natural and/or cultural significance. Disagreement persists about meaningful tribal consultation and its efficacies however. This paper deploys insights from indigenous studies, and legal and linguistic anthropology to analyze the details of the consultations I have observed, since 2012, between Hopi Nation officials and their non-native counterparts in the U.S. Forest Service and the Field Museum of Natural History. Unpacking those interactions in light of Hopi theories of knowledge and authority, through a theory of legal language as juris-diction, I argue that these consultations enact Hopi and Anglo-legal norms of “significance” in complex, contradictory ways. I suggest that understanding “meaningful tribal consultation,” and the settler legal status of Native Nations more generally, requires understanding how indigenous nations enact the conditions of their authority through juris-diction and the relations and refusals to settler colonialism this inevitably entails.

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:26:11 -0500 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
LRCCS Conference | Environments and Adaptation in Ancient China: Recent Advances and Global Context (February 9, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60228 60228-14849133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 9, 2019 9:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Conference schedule and complete details: https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/conferences/environments-and-adaptation-in-ancient-china--recent-advances-an.html

This conference will gather experts in history, archaeology, anthropology, environmental studies and classical studies to discuss topics such as human adaptation to climate change, the relationship between humans and the environment, and much more, in ancient China.

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:36:10 -0500 2019-02-09T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Conference / Symposium LRCCS Conference | Environments and Adaptation in Ancient China: Recent Advances and Global Context
FellowSpeak: "Small Talk: Talk Therapy and the Microscopic Science of Face-to-Face Interaction" (February 12, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58288 58288-14452847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Associate Professor of Anthropology and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow Michael Lempert will give a 30 minute talk followed by Q & A.

"Small Talk: Talk Therapy and the Microscopic Science of Face-to-Face Interaction"

When the sciences of face-to-face interaction became a boom industry in postwar and early Cold War America, many grew convinced that interaction was small: a micro-sociological world knowable through mechanical recording, painstaking transcription, and fine-grained analysis. The most feverishly microscopic researchers tried to catch the subtlest verbal and nonverbal signs that people gave off, as if straining to touch the nerve of interpersonal life. This microscopy arose from an intimate dialogue between psychiatry and communication science that began in the 1930s with the study of psychoanalysis using dictation machines. Recording-based talk therapy research left the sciences of conversation with a microscopic sensibility and a conviction about the scale of their object of knowledge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:21:04 -0500 2019-02-12T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Photopolygraph
Bioethics Discussion: Circumcision (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49431 49431-11453775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on health, tradition, and mutilation.

Readings to consider:
"Male circumcision"
"Female genital alteration: a compromise solution"
"Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework"
"Rationalising circumcision"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/025-circumcision/.

Feel free to visit the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:30:45 -0400 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Circumcision
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
The Transition to Cultural Adaptations in the Middle Stone Age in East Africa (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61043 61043-15024929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Middle Stone Age began over 300 thousand years ago in East Africa. It marks the beginning of the Revolution that wasn’t in the evolution of modern behavior. Binford characterized the transition to cultural adaptations as the development of a “culturally-constructed” environment or “niche” that was strategically exploited with advanced planning. Gamble proposed that this transition involved the development of intergroup social interaction and information exchange networks to extend the social landscape beyond the boundaries of the local home range. Cultural niche construction using social information for planning is a key feature of the transition from primate troop to human tribal organization. I will present new archaeological evidence from Middle Stone Age sites in the Kenya Rift Valley for this troop-to-tribe transition.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:22:35 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion ambrose
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (February 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Figure (of Personhood) Drawing: Pictorial Representations of Signing and Signers in Nepal" (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51729 51729-12214205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Nepali Sign Language (NSL) has primarily been represented in print through pictorial images of signing persons. This talk draws on long-term ethnographic research with Nepali signers to explore the affordances of drawings for representing and generating linguistic form, reference, connotation, and entanglement with other modes of semiosis. I focus specifically on post-Maoist Civil War changes in visual representations of the figures of personhood portrayed performing signs in NSL texts; the role of both drawings and the act of drawing in recent initiatives to include previously marginal elderly novice signers into deaf life; and my own efforts to follow deaf artists in incorporating drawings into my toolkit for recording, analyzing, and sharing representations of signing practices. Across these contexts, how does the production and interpretation of pictorial images function as a resource for creating indexical icons that can performatively call forth new conditions? In addition to analyzing social change among deaf networks in Nepal, this talk shows that ethnographic attention to drawing can contribute to conversations about how linguistic anthropology can forge connections with visual anthropology in order to help our research processes and products embody our commitment to analyzing multimodal total semiotic facts."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:11:06 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Science, Technology, and Society and Digital Studies Forum: Tour and discussion (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61224 61224-15054307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA from December 15, 2018 to April 7, 2019, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. The exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Open galleries from 4-5 p.m. will be hosted by UMMA staff. At 5 p.m. participants will convene for an open discussion about the exhibit. The conversation will begin with a dialogue between the artist Osman Khan (U-M School of Art and Design) and the cultural critic Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M American Culture) facilitated by Jennifer Robertson (Art History and Anthropology). Meet in the exhibition in the A. Alfred Taubman I gallery on floor 2 of the Alumni Memorial Hall wing the the Museum.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:17:13 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Conversations on Europe/CREES Lecture. Making a New Europe: A Transnational Ethnography of Far-right Activism (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59373 59373-14734949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:48:36 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Pasieka
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (February 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Linguistic Relativity with an Attitude: Navajo place-names and the public sphere" (February 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52364 52364-12650103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"This talk reflects on the controversy on the Navajo Nation of changing the name of Kit Carson Drive to the Navajo place name Tséhootsooí. I outline the structure and use of traditional Navajo place names and then show that Navajo place names have had a renaissance in signage for shopping centers and elsewhere on the Navajo Nation. I then detail the controversy over a proposal to change a street name in Fort Defiance. Place names are not neutral, but fully implicated in concerns about who has and does not have the right (and power) to name. In debates about linguistic relativity, questions of the inequalities of language need to be engaged. This, I argue, is linguistic relativity with an attitude--taken out of the free-floating ahistorical itemizable lexical unit and put back--where it has always been--in the lives of people."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:02:38 -0500 2019-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58202 58202-14441912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical racism & contemporary social structure" by
David Cunningham, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Hedwig Lee, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Geoff Ward, Associate Professor, Dept of African & African American Studies
all of Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:41:38 -0500 2019-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (February 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59183 59183-14694669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

"Constraints and conventions in African assortative mating"

Monday, February 25, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Maggie Frye, University of Michigan, Sociology

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:48:21 -0500 2019-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59563 59563-14752322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, and U-M School of Social Work

Monday, February 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Recruitment and Retention Studies with African American Adults: Lessons Learned.”

By Marvella Ford, PhD
The Medical University of South Carolina

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:08 -0500 2019-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Beyond Crisis: Science and Technology Studies in the Age of Emergency (February 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61066 61066-15027193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Environmental crisis, financial crisis, states of emergency and urgency. Crisis forms the backdrop of contemporary debates about the role of science and technology in society. Is there a "beyond crisis" when the concept itself has shaped so many of the critical tools in the humanities and social sciences? This graduate student panel will consider the insights that STS theories and methods bring to bear on discussions of various political, environmental, and financial crises in the present.

Presenting:
Nick Caverly (Anthropology) "Detroit, Crisis City"
Nishita Trisal (Anthropology) "Managing Risk and Volatility in Kashmir's Economy"
James Arnott (Sustainability and Environment) "The Sustainability Crisis and the Science Crisis"

Discussant:
Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Center for Internet & Society, Delhi, India

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:22:13 -0500 2019-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Science, Technology & Society Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Forum on Climate Change & Health -- What the Science Says & What We Can Do (February 26, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59580 59580-14754546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

The program includes: a keynote discussion (3:30-5:00 pm) in Forum Hall followed by a reception concluding the event (5:00-6:00 pm). The keynote panel will be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing.
Register (free) here: https://goo.gl/forms/3uK2Qj8SztrhzK4o2
Keynote Panel Live Stream: https://youtu.be/s9zCthg0G8M
This event is organized by the UM Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), NIEHS grant P30ES017885 and is co-sponsored by the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), and UM SPH Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
More information is available here:http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2019.php

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:29:18 -0500 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Climate Change & Health
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2019-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59564 59564-14752323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 11, 2019
Rm 6050, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Health Contextualized: Inequalities in Physical and Mental Well-Being at the Intersection of Race, Skin, and Place.”

By Taylor W. Hargrove, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:59:44 -0500 2019-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Mental Health (March 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49433 49433-11456547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our internal (dys)functions.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of mental illness"
"Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses"
"Diagnostic issues and controversies in DSM-5"
"How stigma interferes with mental health care"
"Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/027-mental-health/.

Please, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:07:55 -0500 2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Mental health
Gender: New Works, New Questions- Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship by Amal Hassan Fadlalla (March 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57790 57790-14306146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Speakers:
- Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, Anthropology, Afroamerican and African Studies
- Sandra Gunning, Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies, and American Culture;
- Victor Mendoza, Associate Professor, English and Women’s Studies; Faculty Associate, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudanese diaspora in the United States situate their own notions of rights, nationalism, and identity?

Based on interviews with Sudanese social actors, activists, and their allies in the United States, the Sudan, and online, Branding Humanity (Stanford Press, 2018) traces the global story of violence and the remaking of Sudan identities. Amal Hassan Fadlalla asks readers to consider how national and transnational debates about violence circulate, shape, and re-territorialize ethnic identities, disrupt meanings of national belonging, and rearticulate notions of solidarity and global affiliations.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:19:41 -0500 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Branding Humanity cover
Peace Ethology: A Paradigm Shift in Peace Research (March 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61327 61327-15088048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

The Global Scholars Program in partnership with the Office of the Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts presents

Peace Ethology:
A Paradigm Shift in Peace Research

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 4 PM
2435 North Quad
105 South State Street, Ann Arbor

Free and open to the public

The popular belief persists that, by nature, humans are not predisposed to peace. However, archeological and paleontological evidence reveals that the vast majority of our time as a species has been spent in small hunter-gatherer bands that are basically peaceful and egalitarian in nature. We welcome Darcia Narvaez and Peter Verbeek to talk about humans' developmental niche for peace and findings from and future directions for peace ethology, the interdisciplinary science of peace.

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and integrates evolutionary, anthropological, neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her work. She is author of the award-winning Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom (W.W. Norton, 2014) and contributor to Peace Ethology: Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace (Wiley, 2018).

Peter Verbeek is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Anthropology of Peace and Human Rights at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and studies behavioral processes and systems of peace at the levels of species, individuals, groups, communities, and cultures. His work has been published in Science, Behaviour, and other scientific journals, and he is co-editor with Benjamin Peters of Peace Ethology: Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace (Wiley, 2018).

Co-sponsored by the LSA Department of Psychology and the LSA Department of Anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:32:18 -0500 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Global Scholars Program Lecture / Discussion GSP Peace Ethology
Creating Handmade Books in Cuba: Ruth Behar Reflects on Rolando Estévez's Artistic Designs for Ediciones Vigía and El Fortín (March 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61798 61798-15186443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

join us for a special presentation by Professor Ruth Behar about the University of Michigan’s extensive collection of works by renowned Cuban book artist, Rolando Estévez. During the presentation, Professor Behar will discuss the lineage of book arts in Cuba, specific works from the Ediciones Vigía and El Fortín Collections, and her ongoing collaborations with Estévez. Participants will have a chance to engage with the books directly.

This is event is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Latina/o Studies Program, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan Library, and ArtsEngine.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:12:24 -0500 2019-03-14T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
Campfires and Footprints: Small Geophysical Targets with Big Potential (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62040 62040-15276120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Geophysical prospection methods have been used for decades as an aid to archaeology. Much of this work has focused on defining boundaries of known sites, helping to guide ongoing excavations, and especially imaging large architectural targets. In contrast, this talk focuses on detecting very small geophysical targets, many of which would never likely be found without geophysical methods. We will first focus on magnetic detection of small, discrete campfires in Alaska, with examples spanning 12,000 years. Implications of hearth detection will be considered in the context of broader debates about the peopling of N. America. We will then turn our attention to White Sands, New Mexico, where recent geophysical work with magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar has successfully detected thousands of Pleistocene “ghost tracks”. These footprints, many of which are invisible to the eye, record the interactions of humans and megafauna at the close of the last Ice Age. Recently collected examples of human, mammoth, and ground sloth prints will be presented. Together, these examples show instances where geophysical imaging takes on a more indispensable role in archaeological research by allowing access to untapped archaeological and iconological archives that have eluded conventional detection methods.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:01:13 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion urban
FAST Lecture co-sponsored by CAW (Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup) (March 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61919 61919-15239144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Jennifer Larios, PhD student in Anthropology, "Chincha Exchange Systems: A Preliminary Investigation into Patterns of Distribution in the Chincha Valley, Peru, During the Late Intermediate Period and the Late Horizon"

James Torpy, PhD student in Anthropology, "Gods in the Landscape: Environmental Context of Rural Cypriot Sanctuaries"

Presented by Field Archaeology Series on Thursday and the Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup; sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Department of Classical Studies, and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.

Reception at the Kelsey Museum 5:30 p.m., lecture to follow at 6:00 p.m.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:06:36 -0400 2019-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion FAST poster
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58374 58374-14491981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers
23rd Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 15-16, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?

Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture.

Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

SCHEDULE:
15th March, Friday
10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast
10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks
10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Activism
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel
Panel Papers:
Mina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”
Elisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”
Seon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Panel 2: Untranslatability
Respondent: Maya Barzilai
Panel Papers:
Corbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”
Aaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”
Elias Pitegoff: “What Remains; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”
2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Panel 3: Violence and Witnessing
Respondent: Tatjana Aleksić
Panel Papers:
Martha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty
Nina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”
Kristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception
5.30 pm - 7 pm
Keynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question, or when silence is the only answer”

16th March, Saturday:
9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast
9.30 am - 11 am
Panel 4: Sounding Queer Desire
Respondent: Shira Schwartz
Panel Papers:
Benjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants, LGBTQ Inclusion, and Religious Devotion”
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism, Violence, and White Heteronostalgia”
Amanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm
Panel 5: Poetics
Respondent: Yopie Prins
Panel Papers:
Lisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness
Jasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”
Sara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”
12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch
2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm
Panel 6: Silence, Address, Redress
Respondent: Liz Wingrove
Nathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”
Luiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”
Grace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”
4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks
7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore

Grace Zanotti, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun
CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
cliff.complit@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:13:45 -0500 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Poster
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
FIXED INTEREST (March 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61628 61628-15159075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: RIW: Risk, Lending, & the Future of Debtor Urbanization

Fixed Interest centers debt as a determinant of contemporary urbanization. We have assembled graduate students and leading scholars to explore the constellation of borrowing and lending and its expression in a variety of geographies, fields of practice, technologies, institutions, labor, and political ideologies. These presentations and discussions will interrogate the fringes and the FIREs (finance, insurance, and real estate) of debtor urbanization. This scholarship examines the relationship between debt and urban and neighborhood decline (in growing and shrinking cities).

Fixed Interest will include three graduate student papers and two lectures by path-breaking UM scholars relating debt to forms of urban and institutional power. Dr Rachel Weber, Professor of Urban Planning & Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will provide the closing lecture on value, property, and urban development.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:59:59 -0500 2019-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) RIW: Risk, Lending, & the Future of Debtor Urbanization Conference / Symposium Symposium Poster
CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation (March 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53188 53188-13278543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:37:40 -0500 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Srimati Basu
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58374 58374-14491982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers
23rd Annual CLIFF Conference
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 15-16, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?

Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture.

Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

SCHEDULE:
15th March, Friday
10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast
10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks
10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Justice and Activism
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel
Panel Papers:
Mina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”
Elisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”
Seon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch
1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Panel 2: Untranslatability
Respondent: Maya Barzilai
Panel Papers:
Corbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”
Aaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”
Elias Pitegoff: “What Remains; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”
2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break
3 pm - 4.30 pm
Panel 3: Violence and Witnessing
Respondent: Tatjana Aleksić
Panel Papers:
Martha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty
Nina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”
Kristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”
4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception
5.30 pm - 7 pm
Keynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question, or when silence is the only answer”

16th March, Saturday:
9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast
9.30 am - 11 am
Panel 4: Sounding Queer Desire
Respondent: Shira Schwartz
Panel Papers:
Benjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants, LGBTQ Inclusion, and Religious Devotion”
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism, Violence, and White Heteronostalgia”
Amanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”
11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break
11.15 am - 12.45 pm
Panel 5: Poetics
Respondent: Yopie Prins
Panel Papers:
Lisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness
Jasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”
Sara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”
12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch
2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz
3.15 pm - 4.45 pm
Panel 6: Silence, Address, Redress
Respondent: Liz Wingrove
Nathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”
Luiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”
Grace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”
4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks
7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore

Grace Zanotti, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun
CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
cliff.complit@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:13:45 -0500 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Poster
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-15335278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
STS Speaker. Just in Time: The Chronopolitics of the Queue (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58143 58143-14433273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk examines the politics of time as they play out through various problems of the queue—the organizational science and logistics of waiting lines. Drawing on ethnographic analysis of civility campaigns and customs inspection reform in contemporary China, I will show how the queue offers insight into shared concerns about “quality control” over the flows of both global supply chains and the movement of populations. These concerns link the market metrics of timeliness as configured by the dominant global production model of JIT or Just-in-Time with social questions of expedience and justice in the other sense of being "just" in time. These entangled issues converge in what I will explain as a politics of tempo--that is, as a question of pace and rhythm--in contradistinction to the conventional emphasis on "speed" or "space-time compression" in the analysis of global temporalities.

Biosketch: Julie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state regulatory regimes. Her book, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press, 2010), received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers, this work will analyze various infrastructures in place (legal-rational, financial, cosmic, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. A graduate of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media, she is also currently completing video projects related to her fieldwork as well as developing a new ethnographic focus on Chinese soundscapes, especially in relation to the changing qualities and valuations of the Chinese concept of renao (热闹, a bustling scene, social liveliness or, literally, “heat and noise”).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:06:35 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Chu
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59565 59565-14752325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, & U-M School of Social Work

Monday, March 19, 2019
Rm 1430, 2:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action.”

Winkelman Lecture

By David Williams, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:36:02 -0500 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-14441913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
MAS Lecture | Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (RAPID-Kosova): Results of the 2018 Field Season (March 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61679 61679-15170126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This lecture reports the results of an initial season of regional archaeological survey in the districts of Peja and Istog in western Kosova. RAPID-Kosova is the first intensive, systematic survey ever conducted in the Balkan Republic of Kosova, and aims to document settlement and settlement change through time. During June of 2018, we ran three survey teams in three zones covering 15.4 square kilometers in 1,510 tracts. The 15 new sites we identified and the 3,521 pieces of pottery we collected and analyzed indicate significant occupations in the region in all periods of the past. Perhaps the most important discovery was a large Bronze Age settlement, called Pepaj, located on the foot slopes below the Gradina hill fort near the village of Lubozhdë. Such “flat” Bronze Age sites are rare in the Balkans. Most late prehistoric sites are located on eroded hilltops with little remaining stratigraphy. Pepaj thus presents the opportunity to investigate an intact late prehistoric village of the type that must certainly have been in contact with villages in northern Albania. Ultimately, we hope to gauge the importance of such contacts to the formation of complex societies in Kosova, including as a result of trade with Greece and, later, Rome.

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:26:01 -0400 2019-03-21T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion MAS logo
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58205 58205-14441914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical trauma: Racial dispossession & Native populations" by Joseph Gone, Professor, Dept of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:40:41 -0500 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59566 59566-14752326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Physically Vulnerable, but Psychologically Resilient?: Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health.”

By Christy Erving, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:40:32 -0500 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
LACS Lecture. Judicial Abolitionism in Nineteenth- Century Spanish America: Afro-Uruguayan Soldiers and Spanish Diarist José María Márquez (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60662 60662-14937077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This presentation examines how judicial litigation about the freedom of formerly enslaved black soldiers in late 1820s Montevideo shaped the first arguments about the abolition of slavery in the newly created country of Uruguay. Spanish diarist José María Márquez, who occupied the position of “Public Attorney for the Poor and Slaves” in Montevideo, published in his newspaper stories about the black soldiers he defended. This news became the first public arena to discuss the complete abolition of slavery. The actions of former slaves then black soldiers and their negotiations to secure freedom provided strong arguments and nationalist bases for conceiving a plan for full abolition. Through the lens of these actions and the communication between the courts and the public arena, here we examine judicial actions as one of the sources of abolitionism in the newly formed Spanish American republics, instead of Anglo-centric and North Atlantic models of abolitionist societies and newspapers.

Alex Borucki is associate professor of history in the University of California, Irvine, where he also is director of the Latin American Studies Center. He is the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), which was finalist of the 2016 Harriet Tubman Book Prize. Apart from Spanish-language books and articles published in Argentina and Uruguay, he has published articles on the slave trade and the African diaspora in the American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, History in Africa, Itinerario, Atlantic Studies, and Slavery and Abolition.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of History at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:54:18 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
FellowSpeak: "The Digital Popular: Media, Culture and Politics in Networked India" (March 26, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58291 58291-14452849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M Associate Professor of Communication Studies and 2018-19 Steelcase Faculty Fellow Aswin Punathambekar gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

U-M Associate Professor of Communication Studies and 2019 Steelcase Faculty Fellow Aswin Punathambekar explores political salience of popular culture in the context of rise of digital media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media use in contemporary India. In a context where cassette culture, color television, VCRs, cable and satellite broadcasting, the internet, and mobile phones all arrived within a span of two decades, digital media platforms are layered onto existing media infrastructures, institutions, and the intensely mediated routines of daily life for hundreds of millions of people. The result is the emergence of a hybrid arena defined by two distinct zones of public culture: on the one hand, powerful film and television industries that are shaped primarily by logics of scale, audience niches, and a politics of representation, and on the other hand, social media companies defined by emergent logics of data-driven programming and production, algorithmic curation, and user participation. As part of an ongoing project on mediated political cultures, this talk will address how these media dynamics have transformed links between popular culture and politics and, in the process, reconfigured the meanings and performances of citizenship in contemporary India.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:39:15 -0500 2019-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Ha Ha Land
Nam Center Colloquium Series | De/militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ (March 26, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59704 59704-14780084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:22:20 -0500 2019-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Eleana Kim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California- Irvine
Bioethics Discussion: Eugenics (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49435 49435-11456548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who ought to be here.

Readings to consider:
"Eugenics: its definition, scope, and aims"
"The second international congress of eugenics"
"CC Little renaming resolution"
"Buck v. Bell Supreme Court opinion"
"Moderate eugenics and human enhancement"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/028-eugenics/.

Also, feel free to swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:10:19 -0500 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Eugenics
CREES Noon Lecture. "They Treat Us Like Animals Here": Romani and Egyptian Belonging in Albania (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58186 58186-14435501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:52:04 -0500 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Chelsi West Ohueri
Everyday life of death: Accessing history on a human scale (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62624 62624-15414520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Understanding the role human agency and interaction play in the flows of history is a challenging task. Archaeology is well equipped to study history as sequences of transformative events linked together loosely by the thread of time, or as a continuous process of everyday life where time serves as a function of cultural persistence. On a macro-scale the sweeping reconfiguration of human-material relations marked by events and interpreted as cultural change have been at the center of archaeological practice since the first descriptions of ‘cultures’ as convenient analytical and spatio-temporal units of analysis. Within narratives of everyday life, the emphasis shifted to the mundane, to the multivocality and messiness of social existence. Corresponding to the decreasing scale of analysis and interpretive context, the struggle became to present the ways in which people’s repetitive day-to-day practices mattered and figured into broad-scale historical events. In my current project, I attempt to redirect focus from easily discernible events to political discourse, to the processes that lead up to change and to the ways in which agency constitutes the textur history. Through the analysis of mortuary practice, I will present a case study exploring the ways in which members of the Bronze Age Kajászó community engaged in political action surrounding change and persistence in the wake of some momentous transformations.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 08:57:11 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Diaspora as Counter Response: Human Rights Stories and Violence Against Women (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59847 59847-14795151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:53:13 -0500 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion speaker
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (March 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Lemnian Earth and Foreign Forms: ceramics at Koukonissi in the Late Bronze Age" (April 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51872 51872-12274522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Only a short distance offshore from Troy, the Bronze Age settlement on the islet of Koukonissi, Lemnos offers important evidence for the local production and consumption of Mycenaean pottery during the 14th century BCE, a time ostensibly of little contact of the North Aegean with the Mycenaean world, with the best evidence for Mountjoy’s “Upper Interface” being represented by Troy (phase VI late). This paper presents new evidence produced by integrated petrographic, chemical and stylistic ceramic analysis for Koukonissi as an outpost of the Southern Aegean, and contrasts this with its neighbor Troy on the Asia Minor coast.

At Troy during LH IIIA2, the bulk of the Mycenaean pottery seems to have been imported, mainly from the Argolid/NE Peloponnese, with assumed local pattern painted wares comprising only a small part of the total assemblage and standard Mycenaean wares (fine plain) being rare. In contrast, typical Mycenaean shapes were commonly imitated at Troy in local fabrics (grey and tan wares).

At Koukonissi, standard Mycenaean pottery, such as fine plain wares, are locally produced and well represented. Most importantly, the common local ware (Red Slipped pottery) seems relatively unaffected by the Mycenaean repertoire. This lies in contrast to other parts of the Eastern Aegean and Troy, where hybrid shapes and decorations are present.

This new identification of previously undocumented, substantial production of Mycenaean pottery on Lemnos has far-reaching implications, as some of the Eastern Aegean Mycenaean chemical compositional groups may have been produced on the island, something quite unexpected. The evidence from Koukonissi, therefore, offers the potential to alter our view of the interface between Mycenaean and other cultures. It suggests the existence of important differences at a social, economic and cultural level between Troy and Koukonissi, and a diversity of interaction with the southern Aegean and Mycenaean Greece between different sites in the North Aegean."




Mini-Bio:

Peter Day teaches and researches in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, running a research group on ceramics which has close ties with the the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’ in Greece and the University of Barcelona.

He gained his BA in Archaeology at the University of Southampton under Colin Renfrew and Peter Ucko as Heads of Department. Having trained in Ceramic Petrography with David Peacock, he worked as Research Fellow in Ceramic Petrology at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens from 1984-1986. He subsequently carried out doctoral research in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Sander van der Leeuw, on ceramic production in East Crete during the Neopalatial period of the Bronze Age and the twentieth century. He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge before a two year postdoctoral position at NCSR ‘Demokritos from 1991-1993.

From 1994 he has been based in Sheffield, working on analytical approaches to ceramics, both in terms of provenance and especially the reconstruction of ceramic technologies. From 1998-2002, he was Co-ordinator of the GEOPRO European Training Network and has been involved in a succession of other major, collaborative projects funded by the European Union. His research usually has a Mediterranean focus, though he has also been involved in a range of ceramic-based projects in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Although basically an anthropological archaeologist and prehistorian, Peter has been gradually civilized by a number of postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers that he has had the privilege of working with.

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:30:24 -0400 2019-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59567 59567-14752327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 1, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Stratification and Health: Patterns, Upstream Drivers and Mechanisms.”

By Tyson Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Duke University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:43:58 -0500 2019-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Using Behavioral Ecology to Understand Mobility among Prehistoric Andean Hunter-Gatherers (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62819 62819-15475213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In his monograph Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology (2009), Todd Surovell models mathematically the economics of prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ production, use, and discard of lithic technologies. Although there is great potential in his models to extend our understanding of hunter-gatherer mobility patterns and landscape use, they have received little empirical testing in the decade since publication. This talk describes the application of one subset of his models—those that use proportions of the lithic assemblage to estimate site occupation length—to a diachronic study of Cunchaicha, a stratified, multi-component prehistoric rock shelter of the Peruvian Andes.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:57:02 -0400 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (April 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-04-05T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
BOOK LAUNCH WITH FRIEDA EKOTTO AND CORINE TACHTIRIS (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62542 62542-15399287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at U Michigan. Corine Tachtiris received her PhD in Comparative Literature from U Michigan in 2012 and is Assistant Professor at U-Mass Amherst. Tachtiris will read and discuss her new translation of Ekotto's novel (Rutgers 2019), followed by open dialogue between translator and author.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:58:20 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster
Etruscan State formation (April 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62649 62649-15416720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Etruscans of first millennium BC central Italy are renowned for their artistic output, but what were the underlying processes of settlement and infrastructure that supported their political achievements? The lecture will provide the complementary evidence of state formation from regional survey and economy that allow comparison of Etruscan state formation with the classic studies from the Old and the New World. The lecture is based on Simon Stoddart's forthcoming book for Cambridge University Press: Power and Place in Etruria. The spatial dynamics of a Mediterranean civilisation. 1200-500 B.C. and more recent collaborative work.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:10:46 -0400 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Stoddart
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59568 59568-14752328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 8, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Psychosocial Stress, Health Behaviors and Disparities in Cardiovascular Health between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans.”

By Mosi Ifatunji, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for African American Research
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:48:49 -0500 2019-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Representing Latinx Voices in American Journalism (April 9, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62362 62362-15355261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
3:30pm (Reception)
4:00-5:30pm (Panel Discussion)
3512 Haven Hall
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Please join us for a panel discussion on the representation of Latinx issues, perspectives and voices in American journalism, featuring current Knight-Wallace Fellows Luis Trelles of Radio Ambulante and Aaron Nelsen, former Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News, together with Sarah Alvarez, Founder and Executive Editor of Outlier Media and Serena Maria Daniels, founder of Tostada Magazine in Detroit. This event is a collaboration between the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of American Culture, and Wallace House, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards. Reception will be held before the panel. Free and open to the public.

Luis Trelles is a producer for Radio Ambulante, a podcast distributed by NPR which tells the stories of Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. His work has appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab, and NPR’s Planet Money and All Things Considered. Trelles has reported on Cuban immigration, the ethnic tensions between Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, and the causes for Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. In 2017 he covered the emergency efforts in the U.S. commonwealth after Hurricane Maria. Trelles teaches at the journalism school of the City University of New York, where he mentors emerging Latino journalists through its bilingual program. @cu_bata

Aaron Nelsen is the former Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News. Previously, he was a Time correspondent and New York Times contributor in Chile. He also worked for Reuters covering the Chilean stock exchange and currency market. Prior to that he was the business editor and education reporter for the Brownsville Herald in Texas and a general assignment reporter for the Temple Daily Telegram in Texas. In 2017, he documented a small group of community activists in the Rio Grande Valley as they worked to save a wildlife preserve from the path of President Trump's border wall. @amnelsen

Sarah Alvarez, founder and executive editor of Outlier Media, started her career in civil rights law in New York. Before founding Outlier Media, she worked as a senior producer and reporter at Michigan Radio, the statewide NPR affiliate. In that role, she covered issues important to low-income families, child welfare and disability. Her work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Bridge Magazine, and The Detroit News. Sarah believes journalism is a service and should be responsive to the needs of all people. She lives in northwest Detroit. @media_outlier @sarahalvarezMI

Serena Maria Daniels is an award-winning Chicana journalist. A recovering daily newspaper reporter, she is the founder and chingona-in-chief of Tostada Magazine, a Detroit-based independent new media platform that uses food journalism as a means of preserving culture and breaking down barriers. Tostada empowers journalists of color or of immigrant backgrounds to report stories from within their communities. As a freelance food journalist, Serena writes about halal burgers, Ramadan IHOP, chapulín pizza and other topics at the intersection of food, culture, and migration for Thrillist, Eater Detroit, Latino USA, Remezcla, and others. Her favorite tacos come from back home in LA and she prefers her pizza square. Find Tostada on Twitter and Instagram @tostadamagazine and Serena @serenamaria36

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:29:07 -0400 2019-04-09T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Replicability of Medical Studies (April 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49436 49436-11456549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the significance of our results.

Readings to consider:
"Reproducibility in science"
"Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science"
"How many scientists fabricate and falsify research?"
"Is the replicability crisis overblown?"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/029-replicability-of-medical-studies/.

Or feel free to swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:36:18 -0400 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Replicability of medical studies
TempoRealities (April 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58680 58680-14542716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

It is time for science and technology studies (STS). The meaning of the past and threats to the future are hotly contested. Scientists simultaneously proclaim epochal ruptures and extrapolate present trends into the next millennium. New technologies promise to help us “be present” even as they stretch our attentions to the breaking point. The nature of time is of central importance to modern intellectual, cultural, and political life, and STS is well-positioned to address how divergent temporalities structure our public and private lives, environmental imaginaries, and embodied experiences. Recent work on the sciences of prediction and forecasting, the vital politics of science fiction, and the Anthropocene suggest some of the many ways scholars of STS can and should intervene in broader debates that trouble the present moment.

Panels: Experiencing Time, Embodying Time; Apocalyse Now?; Scholarship NOW; Is Ancient Science Studies an Anachronism?

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:24:33 -0400 2019-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Science, Technology & Society Conference / Symposium
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (April 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60270 60270-14855619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Christopher Mulvey (PhD, Anthropology)

The presenter will discuss his work at the University of Michigan Museum of Art where he used an online system to review underexplored aspects of the collection to generate new teaching collections and resources on themes of “whiteness” and “masculinities.” Such systems can offer chances for broader engagement with collections.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/museums-at-noon/

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Presentation Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:05:36 -0500 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation UM Museum of Art
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59570 59570-14752329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 15, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racism, Racial Identity, and Psychological Health: Developmental Mechanisms During the Transition to Adulthood.”

By Enrique Neblett, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology-Child/Family Track, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:53:14 -0500 2019-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Medieval Lunch. Oleg Grabar's Qasr al-Hayr Archives and the Beginnings of Islamic Archaeology. (April 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59686 59686-14777947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:35:13 -0500 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Oleg Grabar
Winter 2020 Walk-in Advising! (April 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63011 63011-15534811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

Popcorn & punch will be provided!

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:24 -0400 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (April 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-04-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Apparatuses of recognition: Google, Project Maven and targeted killing (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62315 62315-15346476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

In June of 2018, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and, by implication, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other?

The focus of a growing body of scholarship, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171), Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. I close with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses, in the service of wider movements for social justice.

About the Speaker
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Her research interests within the field of feminist science and technology studies are focused on technological imaginaries and material practices of technology design, particularly developments at the interface of bodies and machines. Dr. Suchman’s current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to contemporary warfighting, including the figurations that inform immersive simulations, and problems of "situational awareness" in remotely-controlled weapon systems. Dr. Suchman is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into these systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.

This lecture is also part of the ETHICS AND POLITICS OF AI series. Both series are generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Science, Technology and Society program and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:58:58 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Lucy Suchman
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59572 59572-14752331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 22, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Discrimination and Cortisol: One Pathway to Health Disparities among Black Americans.”

By Eleanor K. Seaton, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Center for Child and Family Success
Associate Professor, Social and Family Dynamics, T. Denny Sanford School of (SSFD)
Arizona State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:58:31 -0500 2019-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (April 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-04-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
ASP Tenth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop: Armenian Studies and Material Objects (April 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57979 57979-14383890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:30:04 -0400 2019-04-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar ASP Tenth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop: Armenian Studies and Material Objects