Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Inexpensive Bookbinding (September 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86068 86068-21631262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger demonstrates how to craft a small pamphlet-bound notebook using recycled materials. She'll discuss some alternatives to traditional bookbinding tools and materials using items you may already have on hand. She'll also show examples of other artist books which were created inexpensively using everyday materials.

U-M affiliates can register via TTC: https://myumi.ch/0WQvO
All others, please register via Google form: https://myumi.ch/xmqnz
Register by September 6.

This workshop is also being offered on September 17; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:21:10 -0400 2021-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Pamphlet-bound notebook made with recycled card stock
Inexpensive Bookbinding (September 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86069 86069-21631263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger demonstrates how to craft a small pamphlet-bound notebook using recycled materials. She'll discuss some alternatives to traditional bookbinding tools and materials using items you may already have on hand. She'll also show examples of other artist books which were created inexpensively using everyday materials.

U-M affiliates can register via TTC: https://myumi.ch/yKyeR
All others, please register via Google form: https://myumi.ch/qgoDW
Register by September 6.

This workshop is also being offered on September 16; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:26:13 -0400 2021-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Pamphlet-bound notebook made with recycled card stock
Faculty Workshop: Set Yourself Up for Book Publishing Success (September 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86695 86695-21635594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In this 90-minute online workshop, publishing consultant and developmental editor Laura Portwood-Stacer will guide participants through the often opaque world of scholarly book publishing, providing the clarity you need in order to approach publishers and pitch your book with confidence. Topics covered in the workshop will include the acquisitions process for scholarly books, how to select presses to ensure the best response, and when and how to approach editors (and how many to approach). The workshop will also cover the differences between an "advance" contract and a "full" contract and how to ensure that your book pitch doesn't sound like an unrevised dissertation. Supplemental handouts and worksheets will be provided to all participants.

Presenter bio:
Laura Portwood-Stacer has been a publishing consultant and developmental editor since 2015. Through her business, Manuscript Works, she has helped hundreds of scholarly authors craft compelling book proposals, and her clients have landed publishing contracts and released books with dozens of competitive university presses. She is the author of The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors, published by Princeton University Press in 2021.

Prior to launching Manuscript Works, Laura earned a PhD in Communication with a certificate in Gender Studies from the University of Southern California in 2010. Her first book, Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism, was a revision of her dissertation and was published by Bloomsbury in 2013.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:39:47 -0400 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Speaker: Laura Portwood-Stacer, Ph.D.
Homecoming Welcome Tent at the Clements Library (September 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87329 87329-21641156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Stop by the front lawn of the Clements Library on South University to enjoy a chat with us and pose for a photo-op with Audubon's ca. 1830s wolverine and orange-bellied squirrels. Pick up a free postcard, bookmark and sticker! Learn more about the incredible collections of Americana at the William L. Clements Library.

*Weather permitting.*

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:04:17 -0400 2021-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T19:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Social / Informal Gathering In Front of the Clements Library with the Audubon Squirrel Photo-Op
Meet the Authors: Cheers to Michigan (September 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86628 86628-21635238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join this month’s author event to learn about Michigan’s fascinating drinking history and today’s cocktail culture! Cheers to Michigan authors Tammy Coxen and Lester Graham are the co-hosts of Michigan Radio's biweekly Cheers! segment. The discussion will include a Q&A for attendees.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube for anyone who cannot attend live.

About the Authors:
Tammy Coxen is the owner of Tammy’s Tastings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where for over a decade she has created unique food and drink experiences for clients. Find more information at https://www.tammystastings.com/
Lester Graham is a nationally award-winning reporter at Michigan Radio and host of Stateside and The Environment Report, where he covers a wide range of news and policy issues in the state.

"Cheers to Michigan" will be on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of September. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/11330882/cheers_to_michigan and use the discount code "UMGL12CHEERS" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:04:39 -0400 2021-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Cheers to Michigan"
Positive Links Speaker Series (September 29, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86990 86990-21637993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

About the talk:
Remote or hybrid work is not new—domestic and global companies have had virtual work arrangements for nearly 30 years. However, the rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated these transitions, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to remote work in a matter of weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust.

On one hand, companies have seen opportunities that remote work can afford them: nonexistent commute times, lower operational costs, and a larger pool of global job applicants. Many are planning to permanently incorporate remote days into their long-term routines or even give their employees the option to work from home full-time. On the other hand, these circumstances have brought to light many challenges that are inherent with virtual arrangements: employees feel lost, isolated, and out of sync and out of sight.

People are looking for insights; they want to know how to keep their teams motivated, what digital tools they’ll need, how to keep track of employee productivity, how to maintain connections without face-to-face interactions, and how to combat the draining feelings of tech exhaustion. Based on nearly two decades of experience working with virtual and global teams, Neeley provides evidence-based answers to the most pressing questions about how teams can feel more connected and be well-prepared to deliver optimal results.

About Neeley:
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile.

Host:
Jane Dutton, Center for Positive Organizations Co-Founder; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://myumi.ch/dOmD5

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:17:44 -0400 2021-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Positive Links Speaker Series
Handmade in Cuba: The Artists' Books of Rolando Estévez (September 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85709 85709-21628305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

U-M Anthropology Professor Ruth Behar presents on the extraordinary work of Rolando Estévez, a renowned creator of artists' books. Estévez was born in Matanzas, Cuba, where he still resides, and has created over 500 original books that are appreciated in Cuba and collected by the British National Library, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the Library of Congress, as well as numerous universities in the U.S., Canada, and other countries in the Americas. At the University of Michigan, the Special Collections Library holds a major collection of these extraordinary books.

Behar will discuss the range of books that Estévez has created over the years; will explore her own intellectual, literary, and artistic collaboration with him over the past thirty years as a Cuban-American scholar and writer who returns frequently to the island; and will address the meaning of handmade books in our society today as we increasingly move toward digital books and the idea of the book as virtual rather than tactile. For further information, see the anthology Behar recently co-edited, Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía.

Join us in Zoom!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:52:33 -0400 2021-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Emily Dickinson, Sesgo de Luz (Vigia 1998), house with veil - estuche con vela
"Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide" by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (October 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85050 85050-21625507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare—and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go to healthcare. What are we paying for, exactly?

Healthcare policy is notoriously complex, but what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that's easy to use and doesn't break the bank.

Medicare for All is the leading proposal to achieve universal health coverage in America. But what is it exactly? How would it work? More importantly, is it practical or practicable?

“Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide” goes beyond partisan talking points to offer a serious examination of how Medicare for All would transform the way we give, receive, and pay for healthcare in America.

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, educator, author, speaker, and podcast host. His newsletter, “The Incision”, cuts to the heart of the trends shaping our moment. He is a commentator at CNN. In addition to “Medicare for All” he has written “Healing Politics”, calling for a politics of empathy to cure our epidemic of insecurity. He is the host of “America Dissected,” a podcast by Crooked Media, which goes beyond the headlines to explore what really matters for our health. He is a Senior Fellow at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Wayne State University and American University, teaching at the intersection of public health, public policy, and politics. He is formerly the Health Director for the City of Detroit and candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2018.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:06:03 -0400 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
Translation and Migration: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87136 87136-21639082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us from 3-4:30 pm via zoom on October 1, 2021 for a virtual conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio about translation and migration in her debut book of creative non-fiction, The Undocumented Americans.

To kick off the tenth annual Translate-a-thon at the University of Michigan, Professor William Stroebel will sit down and talk with Villavicencio about the roles, methods, and uses of translation lurking behind and inside the pages of her book: translation between languages, translation between dialects and registers, translation between spoken and written media, translation between genres of translation like interpretation in legal or journalistic settings and literary translation, along with her current attempts to translate the book into Spanish.

Her book breaks many things. It breaks boundaries between genres, mixing the rhythms of rock and the cadences of hip hop and the political anger of punk and the slow contemplation of lyric poetry into the burning advocacy of its prose reportage (along with a little dose of magical realism to boot). The book also breaks the mold of representation traditionally deployed by advocates and allies, who elevate the gifted DREAMers of DACA into poster children above a faceless, nameless mass of day-laborers, cleaners, construction workers, factory hands, deliverymen, dish washers and dog walkers.

These are the ones who take center stage in her book, and tell their stories as beautifully imperfect, hardworking, weird, and “just people,” sorting through the trauma of an oppressive system built and sustained by their exploitation and terrorization and invisibility. Villavicencio breaks through this invisibility and the taboos of representation and in doing so she calls upon its readers to break the system: “it’s time to fuck some shit up.” But amidst the great praise that this finalist for the National Book Award has won, very little has been said about another thing that her avant-gardism breaks: conventions of translation.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Language Resource Center at the University of Michigan, with support from the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Presentation Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:41:25 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Presentation Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-02T10:30:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Science Success Series | Ace Your Courses: Metacognition is Key! (October 12, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85316 85316-21626219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Have you ever found yourself putting forth a great deal of effort into your courses, but not feeling like you are actually learning or are left unsatisfied with your grade? This workshop, based on the work of Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, will enable you to analyze your current learning strategies, understand exactly what changes you need to implement to earn an A in your courses, identify concrete strategies to use during the remainder of your semester, and become a more efficient learner.

Register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/VPrbE

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:35:07 -0400 2021-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Teach Yourself How to Learn Book Cover
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (October 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84840 84840-21625173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Discussants:
- David Caron, Professor, French and Women's and Gender Studies, U-M
- Holly Hughes, Professor, Art & Design, Theater and Drama, and Women's and Gender Studies, U-M

Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance, written by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes and published in 2021 by the University of Michigan Press, focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists, television programs, films, and literary works. La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and abjection.

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.

Register to receive the Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/MEPVG

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Aug 2021 09:19:17 -0400 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover with drag queen in pink and black dress with a decorative hat
Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights (October 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86424 86424-21634283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

New York based artist, writer and scholar Coco Fusco presents a virtual talk entitled The Rights to Have Rights. In this talk, Fusco will present research on Cuban artists confronting the state, and work dealing with repressed histories of the revolutionary era in Cuba. This talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by U-M Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes (American Culture, Latino/a Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures and Women and Genders Studies).

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Arts Award, a 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship, a 2018 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, a 2016 Greenfield Prize, a 2014 Cintas Fellowship, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York. She is a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.

Fusco is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015). She is also the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). She contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and numerous art publications.

Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985) and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007).

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.    

This program is organized by the Center for World Performance Studies and presented in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from UMMA.

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Other Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:16:23 -0400 2021-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
The Clements Bookworm: Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86917 86917-21637563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Livestream discussion with Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair organizers Jay Platt and Garrett Scott. They will discuss the history of the AAABF as well as share tips on how to make the most of attending book fairs while forging new friendships and expanding or beginning a collection.

Register for the link to join at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Jean and Robert Julier.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:29:07 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Jay Platt of Ann Arbor's West Side Book Shop
Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global Conference (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87638 87638-21644650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pelevin is the most significant and popular Russian author of the post-Soviet era as well as the most extensively translated one into the English language. Debates around his prolific output are often very heated in post-Soviet cultural circles. Participants will look at Pelevin's oeuvre from his groundbreaking writings of the 1990s to his recent output. They will articulate the continuities and transformations of his art and flesh out its importance. This is a hybrid event. The ONLY in-person events are 2 panels held in the Rackham East Conference room — one on Sat, Oct 16th from 4-6 pm and one on Sun, Oct 17th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments served. Please Register to receive the Zoom link for all sessions: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0x8U3zIThiib19fw5pVew

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:08 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Victor Pelevin Conference
Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global Conference (October 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87638 87638-21644651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pelevin is the most significant and popular Russian author of the post-Soviet era as well as the most extensively translated one into the English language. Debates around his prolific output are often very heated in post-Soviet cultural circles. Participants will look at Pelevin's oeuvre from his groundbreaking writings of the 1990s to his recent output. They will articulate the continuities and transformations of his art and flesh out its importance. This is a hybrid event. The ONLY in-person events are 2 panels held in the Rackham East Conference room — one on Sat, Oct 16th from 4-6 pm and one on Sun, Oct 17th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments served. Please Register to receive the Zoom link for all sessions: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0x8U3zIThiib19fw5pVew

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:08 -0400 2021-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-16T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Victor Pelevin Conference
Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global Conference (October 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87638 87638-21644652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pelevin is the most significant and popular Russian author of the post-Soviet era as well as the most extensively translated one into the English language. Debates around his prolific output are often very heated in post-Soviet cultural circles. Participants will look at Pelevin's oeuvre from his groundbreaking writings of the 1990s to his recent output. They will articulate the continuities and transformations of his art and flesh out its importance. This is a hybrid event. The ONLY in-person events are 2 panels held in the Rackham East Conference room — one on Sat, Oct 16th from 4-6 pm and one on Sun, Oct 17th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments served. Please Register to receive the Zoom link for all sessions: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0x8U3zIThiib19fw5pVew

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:08 -0400 2021-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-17T15:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Victor Pelevin Conference
Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair (October 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84874 84874-21625220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Returning in 2021 for its 45th year, the Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the Michigan Union on the campus of the University of Michigan on Sunday, October 17, 2021. Admission to the book fair is $5 at the door (cash only), benefitting the U-M William L. Clements Library.

The Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair brings together booksellers and dealers from across America, all handling a wide range of old and rare books, Americana, children’s books, autographs and manuscripts, maps, prints, ephemera, photography, fine press material and more.

See real books. See real people. See a real book fair. October 17, 2021.

*The University requires that guests comply with masking and social distancing policies, and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screen before entering any building on campus.*

For more information, visit http://www.AnnArborBookFair.com

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Fair / Festival Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:52:12 -0400 2021-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union William L. Clements Library Fair / Festival Dealers and shoppers fill the Michigan Union ballroom during a past book fair.
Positive Links Speaker Series (October 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87335 87335-21641175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

EVENT CANCELED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must regrettably cancel our October 18, 2021 Positive Links event with Katy Milkman.

Details about a possible rescheduling of this event will be shared once they are available. Questions can be directed to cpo-events@umich.edu.

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About the Positive Links Speaker Series:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Whether you’re a manager, coach, or teacher aiming to help others change for the better or are struggling to kick-start change yourself, this conversation can help. Katy Milkman and host Julia Lee Cunningham will talk about How to Change, a science-based guide to achieving your goals, once and for all, and helping others do the same.

About Milkman:

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the author of the bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. She is the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change.

Over the course of her career, Katy has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the White House, Walmart, the American Red Cross, 24 Hour Fitness, and Morningstar. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Katy writes frequently about behavioral science for major media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, and Scientific American. She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude), where she studied Operations Research and American Studies, and her PhD from Harvard University, where she studied Computer Science and Business.

Free, registration required to obtain login information.

Host:

Julia Lee Cunningham, Center for Positive Organizations Faculty Co-Director; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:43:27 -0400 2021-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Katy Milkman
Michigan Minibook (October 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86071 86071-21631265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger shows how to create a miniature maze book that she designed, entitled "Maze 'N Blue." This is a complex version of an accordion book which also includes pockets, a foldout map, pamphlet-stitched pages, and miniature facsimiles of photos, postcards, and other U-M related ephemera.

Registration: https://myumi.ch/wlB1v
Registration ended September 30, and the workshop is full.

This workshop is also being offered on October 20; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:18:01 -0400 2021-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Maze 'N Blue, a maze book by Lara D. Unger.
Michigan Minibook (October 20, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86072 86072-21631266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger shows how to create a miniature maze book that she designed, entitled "Maze 'N Blue." This is a complex version of an accordion book which also includes pockets, a foldout map, pamphlet-stitched pages, and miniature facsimiles of photos, postcards, and other U-M related ephemera.

Register via Google form: https://myumi.ch/qgoDy
The registration deadline has been extended to October 10.

This workshop is also being offered on October 19; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:18:55 -0400 2021-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Maze 'N Blue, a maze book by Lara D. Unger.
The Wandering Palestinian: A Conversation with Writer & Activist Dr. Anan Ameri (October 21, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86411 86411-21634187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Dr. Anan Ameri is an activist, scholar, author, and founding director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and the Palestine Aid Society of America. She is also the co-founder of many progressive political and cultural coalitions in the US. For over four decades, Ameri has advocated for social justice and for immigrants’ rightful place in the US. She is the author of many books and articles.

Anan Ameri was born in 1944 in Damascus Syria to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother. She grew up in Amman, Jordan. She received her B.A. in sociology at the University of Jordan, Amman; her M.A. in sociology at Cairo University in Egypt; and her Ph.D. in sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Ameri is the recipient of numerous local and national awards in recognition of her work within the Arab American community as well as society at large including 2006 Michiganian of the Year, and 2020 Arab American of the Year. In 2016, she was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Ameri has served as acting director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies in Jerusalem; visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the founding director and national president of the Palestine Aid Society of America, and the Founding Director of the Arab American National Museum. Prior to immigrating to the US in 1974, she worked as a program producer at Jordanian Television and a researcher at the Palestine Research Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Anan Ameri is the author of numerous books and articles including the two-volume memoir The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus (2017, Interlink Publishing) and The Wondering Palestinian, (2020, BHC Press)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:51:05 -0400 2021-10-21T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Anan Ameri
University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium (October 26, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88346 88346-21653422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

For each of two evening sessions, four presenters — book arts educators, students, and/or community members — each have 15 minutes to share about a project they are working on or a facet of their book-arts-related work that they are passionate about. We'll have about 30 minutes after the presentations for Q&A or discussion. Please register and we'll send you more information along with a Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/YybyM

Presenters on Tuesday, October 26th include Lee Marchalonis, Fritz Swanson, Toby Millman, and Jim Horton. Presenters on Wednesday, October 27th include Ingrid Ankerson, Endi Poskovic, Gabe Brower, and Emily Legleitner.

Read more about the presenters and their talks: https://myumi.ch/er5rn

We hope you can join us for this first University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium, which was developed to build community, promote a sense of unity, and cultivate an atmosphere of collaboration and connection across the multiple manifestations of the book arts programs and educational initiatives on the U-M Ann Arbor campus and related Washtenaw County communities.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:57:53 -0400 2021-10-26T07:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Conference / Symposium Collage of artists' books
University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium (October 27, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88346 88346-21653423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

For each of two evening sessions, four presenters — book arts educators, students, and/or community members — each have 15 minutes to share about a project they are working on or a facet of their book-arts-related work that they are passionate about. We'll have about 30 minutes after the presentations for Q&A or discussion. Please register and we'll send you more information along with a Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/YybyM

Presenters on Tuesday, October 26th include Lee Marchalonis, Fritz Swanson, Toby Millman, and Jim Horton. Presenters on Wednesday, October 27th include Ingrid Ankerson, Endi Poskovic, Gabe Brower, and Emily Legleitner.

Read more about the presenters and their talks: https://myumi.ch/er5rn

We hope you can join us for this first University of Michigan Book Arts Symposium, which was developed to build community, promote a sense of unity, and cultivate an atmosphere of collaboration and connection across the multiple manifestations of the book arts programs and educational initiatives on the U-M Ann Arbor campus and related Washtenaw County communities.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:57:53 -0400 2021-10-27T07:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Conference / Symposium Collage of artists' books
Meet the Author: Conquering Heroines (October 27, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87858 87858-21647164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join us to learn about the group of Ann Arbor women who banded together in the 1970s to force the University of Michigan to treat women the same as men. "Conquering Heroines" author Sara Fitzgerald drew on oral histories and new interviews with living participants to chronicle this pivotal moment in the history of the women's movement and the University of Michigan. There will be a Q&A for attendees. One Zoom attendee will be awarded a free copy of the ebook!

About the Author:
Sara Fitzgerald is a former editor and new-media developer for the Washington Post and was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily. She is the author of Elly Peterson: “Mother” of the Moderates (University of Michigan Press, 2012) and The Poet’s Girl (Thought Catalog Books, 2020). www.sarafitzgerald.com

"Conquering Heroines" is on sale for $15 and free shipping during the month of October. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/11513692/conquering_heroines and use the discount code "UMGL15HERO" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:32:28 -0400 2021-10-27T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Conquering Heroines over photo of the Commission on Women, CC-BY Regents of the University of Michigan, courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library
Slavic Colloquium — Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin (Slavic PhD students) (October 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88625 88625-21656213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Slouching Towards Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Writing the Crimean War
with Sara Ruiz and Valentin Rasputin and the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life with Michael Martin:

This presentation features Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin, Ph.D. students in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sara will argue that Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories enact a performance of a war story that is purposefully contradictory and deeply ambivalent in regards to the societal function and meaning of an individual soldier’s wartime experience. Michael examines how Valentin Rasputin’s body of work is centrally concerned with the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life. While his later output paints a Russo-centric image of the region, his early works betray a much less stable notion of local belonging rooted in a personal, rather than cultural, connection. This colloquium is organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Kindly RSVP to receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96120613090?pwd=RXN6K29QY3VqdDVld2F4ODdGMFY1Zz09.
Questions? Please contact Tricia Kalosa (triciak@umich.edu)
For more information, visit our website at https://lsa.umich.edu/slavic

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:30:17 -0400 2021-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Colloquium with Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86703 86703-21635604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine (NYU Press, 2021), stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today.

Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers’ lack of clinical experience and scientific research undermines their ability to interact with patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes, but over gender itself.

stef m. shuster is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Their work on transgender healthcare has appeared in Gender & Society, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science & Medicine.

Register: https://myumi.ch/88rbx

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:42:01 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Trans Medicine
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 3, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88103 88103-21650296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Wednesday, November 3, 2021
1:00-1:50 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/think-again

Positive Links:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones.

Join us for a virtual fireside chat with Adam Grant, Wharton’s top-rated professor and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take. He’ll share his bold ideas and rigorous evidence from his new book, Think Again, that reveals we don’t have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. Learn how to let go of views that are no longer serving you well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. Questioning your opinions and opening other people’s minds can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.

About Grant:

Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for 7 straight years. As an organizational psychologist, he is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40.

​He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 5 books that have sold millions of copies and been translated into 35 languages: Think Again, Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves. His books have been named among the year’s best by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His New York Times article on languishing is one of the most-shared articles of 2021.

Adam hosts WorkLife, a chart-topping TED original podcast. His TED talks on original thinkers and givers and takers have been viewed more than 30 million times. He received a standing ovation at TED in 2016 and was voted the audience’s favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation. He writes on work and psychology for the New York Times, has served on the Defense Innovation Board at the Pentagon, and has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has more than 5 million followers on social media and features new insights in his free monthly newsletter, GRANTED.

Host:

Julia Lee Cunningham, Center for Positive Organizations Faculty Co-Director; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:22:53 -0400 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T13:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Adam Grant
"The Fortunes" by Peter Ho Davies (November 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85051 85051-21625508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Peter Ho Davies novel “The Fortunes” has been aptly described as “sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured.” “The Fortunes” expands the notion of a multigenerational novel by moving beyond the saga of a single family to the story of Chinese Americans beginning in the 1860’s - - - Ah Ling, a laundryman and railway worker in the1860’s; Anna May Wong a film star in 1920’s and 30’s; Vincent Chin, a young man beaten to death by two auto workers in Detroit in 1982; and finally, a Chinese American and his wife who travel to China to adopt a baby girl.

Joyce Carol Oates describes it as “A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty…”

The Times Literary Supplement said The Fortunes “Should take its place as a seminal, defining text on the Chinese-American experience.”

“The Fortunes” was a New York Times Notable Book, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. He was born and raised in Coventry, England. He studied physics at Manchester University and then English at Cambridge University. In 1992, he moved to the United States to study in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.

He has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently the Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature in the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novels “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself” (2021), “The Fortunes” (2016) and “The Welsh Girl” (2007), as well as the story collections “The Ugliest House in the World” (1997) and “Equal Love” (2000).

He has won numerous prizes for his short stories as well as his novels. Professor Davies lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and son.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:09:46 -0400 2021-11-05T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation (November 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88348 88348-21653427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join Comparative Literature as we welcome Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor on November 11th, 2021 @ 4:30pm in room 4310 of the Modern Languages Building.

Translators of literary works perform numerous functions simultaneously in relation to both a written work and its author. These functions include the linguistic, the cultural, the socio-political and the personal. Varied though they are, these functions might be summed up in the words “partner” and “mouthpiece.” After a brief detour into how her life trajectory led her to the field of Arabic-English translation, Nancy Roberts will relate her attempts to serve as “partner” and “mouthpiece” in the process of translating works originating in Palestine (Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses [زمن الخيول البيضاء], Lanterns of the King of Galilee [قناديل ملك الجليل] and Gaza Weddings [أعراس آمنة], and Ahlam Bsharat’s Codename: Butterfly [اسمي الحركي فراشة]) and Libya (Najwa Bin Shatwan’s, The Slave Yards [زرايب العبيد], and Ibrahim al-Koni’s The Night Will Have Its Say [كلمة الليل في حق النهار]).

Nancy Roberts is a free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor with experience in the areas of modern Arabic literature, politics and education; international development; Arab women’s economic and political empowerment; Islamic jurisprudence and theology; Islamist thought and movements; and interreligious dialogue. Literary translations include works by Ghada Samman, Ahlem Mostaghanemi, Naguib Mahjouz, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ibrahim al-Koni, Salman al-Farsi, Laila Al Johani, and Haji Jabir, among others. Her translation of Ghada Samman’s Beirut ’75 won the 1994 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award; her rendition of Salwa Bakr's The Man From Bashmour (Cairo: AUC Press, 2007) was awarded a commendation in the 2008 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, while her English translations of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings (Cairo: Hoopoe Press, 2017), Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015) and Time of White Horses (Cairo: Hoopoe Reprint, 2016) won her the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She is based in Wheaton, Illinois.

This event will be held IN PERSON.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:45:08 -0400 2021-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Nancy Roberts
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88724 88724-21656974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Monday, November 15, 2021
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Rescheduled from an original October date
Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://myumi.ch/PlgdD

Positive Links:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Whether you’re a manager, coach, or teacher aiming to help others change for the better or are struggling to kick-start change yourself, this conversation can help. Katy Milkman and host Julia Lee Cunningham will talk about How to Change, a science-based guide to achieving your goals, once and for all, and helping others do the same.

About Milkman:

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the author of the bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. She is the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change.

Over the course of her career, Katy has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the White House, Walmart, the American Red Cross, 24 Hour Fitness, and Morningstar. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Katy writes frequently about behavioral science for major media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, and Scientific American. She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude), where she studied Operations Research and American Studies, and her PhD from Harvard University, where she studied Computer Science and Business.

Host:

Julia Lee Cunningham, Center for Positive Organizations Faculty Co-Director; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:57:00 -0400 2021-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Katy Milkman
Meet the Author: Isadore's Secret (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88673 88673-21656595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Do you enjoy true crime? Join us on November 17 to learn about the Michigan Notable Book “Isadore’s Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town.” Author Mardi Link wrote a gripping account of the mysterious disappearance of a young nun in a northern Michigan town and the national controversy that followed when she turned up dead and buried in the church basement. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

About the Author:
Mardi Link is a journalist; a former police reporter; and the author of several books, including two other true crime books, When Evil Came to Good Hart and Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan.

"Isadore’s Secret" is on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of November. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/1481044/isadores_secret and use the discount code "UMGL12SECRET" when you check out.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:23:05 -0400 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Isadore's Secret over fall leaves with text "Meet the Author: Mardi Link, Wednesday, Nov 17th at 7:00 PM"
Artists' Books Among the Shelves (November 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85817 85817-21629111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join Curator Juli McLoone for a walk through the library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) collections through the lens of artists' books. The SCRC collects artists' books, but does not have an artists' book collection. Instead, artists' books may be found spread throughout the collections and topical collecting areas of SCRC, from artists' books that play with the genre of children’s alphabet books to Emily Martin’s three-dimensional Shakespeare adaptations, to works like The Diabolical History of the Chicken by Laura Ladendorf that engage with our culinary past and present.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:01:26 -0400 2021-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, by Emily Martin, 2012; held in the U-M Library, Special Collections Research Center.
Public Talk: Sir David Adjaye + Chika Okeke-Agulu: Homeward (November 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86425 86425-21634284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

The debate about restitution and the ethics of Western museums’ owning African artworks collected during the era of colonization has never been more in the public eye. Most well-known, perhaps, are the “Benin bronzes,” artistic and royal heirlooms made since the 13th century by highly specialized metalworkers in the Kingdom of Benin (now southern Nigeria). In 1897, British forces sacked the capital of this prosperous kingdom. They tore sculptures and plaques from the palace walls, and took them back to Europe, where the looted treasures were sold to museums and private collectors. The royal court of Benin, Nigerian officials, and high-profile scholars such as Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton) have been demanding their return for decades. Over the last decade, some museums based in the Global North have been listening to these calls for repatriation, and some have pledged to return works from their collections. To provide a new home for the repatriated works, plans for a new Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), are currently in development with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye leading the building design project. 

On the occasion of Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution, a public investigation into our own collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Sir David Adjaye and Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss their current and recent projects that address   how works of art may re-enter the societies they were torn away from. Laura De Becker, Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at UMMA, will introduce the event.   Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. His ingenious use of materials, bespoke designs and visionary sensibilities have set him apart as one of the leading architects of his generation. In 2000, David founded his own practice, Adjaye Associates, which today operates globally, with studios in Accra, London, and New York taking on projects that span the globe. The firm’s work ranges from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and temporary pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. His largest project to date, The National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by The New York Times.

In 2017, Adjaye was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME Magazine. Most recently, Adjaye was announced the winner of the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal is considered one of the highest honors in British architecture for significant contribution to the field internationally. Sir Adjaye is also the recipient of the World Economic Forum’s 27th Annual Crystal Award, which recognizes his “leadership in serving communities, cities and the environment.”

Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic and art historian, is director of the Program in African Studies and professor of African and African Diaspora art in the Department of African American Studies, and Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira, 2020); Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira, 2016); Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (2015); and (with Okwui Enwezor), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2010). He recently co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019). He is co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, has written for The New York Times and Huffington Post, and maintains the blog Ọfọdunka.

His many awards include The Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English during the preceding year (African Studies Association, 2016); and Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (College Art Association, 2016).Okeke-Agulu serves on the advisory boards of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern, London, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Bët-bi/Le Korsa Museum Project, Senegal. He is also on the advisory council of Mpala Research Center, Nanyuki, Kenya; serves on the executive board of Princeton in Africa, and on the editorial boards of African Studies Review and Journal of Visual Culture. 

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. After many years of working with a team to research to envision a new installation of UMMA’s African art collection, De Becker’s , a project that doubled the footprint of the African galleries at UMMA, opened in September 2021. De Becker’s work on the reinstallation led to , a separate project grappling with issues of restitution, also on view at UMMA for the 2021-22 academic year.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

This program is presented in partnership with the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:15:54 -0500 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
NAHM presents: Firekeeper's Daughter, Author Presentation with Angeline Boulley (November 19, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88521 88521-21654672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Come join us as we engage with Angeline Boulley, author for the #1 NYT Bestseller novel, Firekeeper's Daughter.

This event will provide a free book and meal pickup available at the Michigan Union for those that register.

Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller.

Register here!:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocOmurz4pGtPqbX0aurjqQNkuiMUNZETZ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:46:03 -0500 2021-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Presentation Event Description
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86704 86704-21635605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Participants:
Alicia Spencer-Hall, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (UK)
Blake Gutt, Assistant Professor of French, Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan
Scott Larson, Lecturer IV, American Culture, University of Michigan
LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Amsterdram University Press, 2021) presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists.

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.

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.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/9o2bX

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:19:41 -0400 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (December 10, 2021 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21662057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2021-12-10T16:15:00-05:00 2021-12-10T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
The Clements Bookworm: Readings that have influenced Clements Staff (December 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89709 89709-21665069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us as Clements Library staff highlight books and articles that shaped their professional approaches to primary sources from early American history. Panelists and their readings of choice are: Jayne Ptolemy ("Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History" by Sarah Knott), Paul Erickson ("Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville" by David S. Reynolds) and Claire Danna ("Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service" by Devin Leonard).

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR.

The Clements Bookworm is a monthly webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics, while live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.

This episode is generously sponsored by Karolyn Tiefenbach.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:08:44 -0500 2021-12-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (December 17, 2021 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21665954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 17, 2021 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2021-12-17T16:15:00-05:00 2021-12-17T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (January 7, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21666538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 7, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-01-07T16:15:00-05:00 2022-01-07T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Spanish Treasures at the University of Michigan Library (January 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90676 90676-21672190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Special Collections Research Center holds an extraordinary collection of early printed books published in Spain from the fifteenth century onward. Particularly significant are the holdings illustrating the Golden Age of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that is, the so-called “Siglo de Oro," which includes world-renowned writers like Garcilaso de la Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, and Francisco de Quevedo.

Join us at 4:00 p.m. via Zoom or in person! Curator Pablo Alvarez will give an opening presentation from 4:00-4:30 p.m. via Zoom for both online and in person attendees — a tour of artifacts as witnesses of how literary masterpieces such as El Lazarillo de Tormes or Don Quixote were published and read centuries ago, as well as additional documents illustrating some of the political and religious anxieties of Spanish society at that time, including books produced by the formidable Holy Inquisition.

For the rest of the allotted time, while in-person attendees browse the material on display in Room 660D in the Special Collections Research Center (on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library), Alvarez will answer questions from everyone, online and in person.

Please register: https://myumi.ch/2998R
If you plan to attend virtually, you'll receive a Zoom link via email. If you plan to attend in person, registration is appreciated but not necessary.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:11:56 -0500 2022-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Detail from ”The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters,” one of Los Caprichos, a collection of 80 aquatints by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Madrid: Calcografía Nacional, 1881-1886.
Spanish Treasures at the University of Michigan Library (January 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90676 90676-21672191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

The Special Collections Research Center holds an extraordinary collection of early printed books published in Spain from the fifteenth century onward. Particularly significant are the holdings illustrating the Golden Age of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that is, the so-called “Siglo de Oro," which includes world-renowned writers like Garcilaso de la Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, and Francisco de Quevedo.

Join us at 4:00 p.m. via Zoom or in person! Curator Pablo Alvarez will give an opening presentation from 4:00-4:30 p.m. via Zoom for both online and in person attendees — a tour of artifacts as witnesses of how literary masterpieces such as El Lazarillo de Tormes or Don Quixote were published and read centuries ago, as well as additional documents illustrating some of the political and religious anxieties of Spanish society at that time, including books produced by the formidable Holy Inquisition.

For the rest of the allotted time, while in-person attendees browse the material on display in Room 660D in the Special Collections Research Center (on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library), Alvarez will answer questions from everyone, online and in person.

Please register: https://myumi.ch/2998R
If you plan to attend virtually, you'll receive a Zoom link via email. If you plan to attend in person, registration is appreciated but not necessary.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:11:56 -0500 2022-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Reception / Open House Detail from ”The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters,” one of Los Caprichos, a collection of 80 aquatints by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Madrid: Calcografía Nacional, 1881-1886.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (January 14, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21665070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 14, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-01-14T16:15:00-05:00 2022-01-14T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
The Clements Bookworm: "Vanguard" Author Conversation with Martha S. Jones (January 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90355 90355-21670449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. Historian Martha S. Jones’ 2020 book “Vanguard” shows how African American women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, black women—Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more—were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Tom Wagner.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:03:17 -0500 2022-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Vanguard" Book Cover
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 25, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88142 88142-21650719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Tuesday, January 25, 2022
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/ethical-learning-and-character-development/

Positive Links:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Individuals’ experiences at work can provide the opportunity for them to become a better person, in all aspects of their life. Instead of helping workers make more ethical decisions in the moment, organizations can and should create environments that help them become more ethical people in the long run.

In her talk, Maryam Kouchaki will present a bottom-up approach to ethics, focusing on what individuals can do for themselves to take ownership over their moral development at work. She will also talk about a top-down approach to helping workers develop moral character at work, focusing on what organizations can do to create a workplace environment conducive to ethical learning.

Taken together, these bottom-up and top-down approaches highlight the potential role of the workplace as a moral laboratory that allows individuals to engage in an ongoing process of ethical learning, to find the opportunities and support they need to learn, grow, and further develop their moral character.

About Kouchaki:

Maryam Kouchaki is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Kellogg School of Management. She is an organizational psychologist who seeks to understand everyday moral encounters, particularly at work. Her research is organized around two conceptual themes that involve 1) understanding the dynamic nature of moral decision-making and 2) understanding how individuals psychologically experience everyday moral encounters. Maryam examines these with a particular emphasis on the consequences of these encounters for individuals and groups. Across a series of articles, she has uncovered novel and often counterintuitive forces that continually create widespread unethicality. Notably, she offers evidence that everyday moral encounters cannot be fully understood without a thorough consideration of the individual’s psychological experience of them.

She is the editor-in-chief of journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Her work has appeared in scholarly publications such as Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science, and has been featured in media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, and BBC world radio. Maryam was also named to Poets and Quants 2020 list of Best 40 Under 40 Professors.

Host:

Gretchen Spreitzer, Associate Dean for Engaged Learning and Professional Development; Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:07:39 -0400 2022-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Maryam Kouchaki
Meet the Author: The Kirtland's Warbler (January 26, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90357 90357-21670452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you interested in birds, or perhaps endangered species? Join us on Wednesday, January 26 to learn about the Michigan Notable Book “The Kirtland's Warbler: The Story of a Bird's Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It” by William Rapai. This book looks at the history of this unique bird, examines the people and policies that kept the warbler from extinction, explores the cult of personality that surrounds it, and examines the challenges of the future—all through the eyes of the people who have acted so passionately on its behalf. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. You can register for Zoom at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/9116412438935/WN_82XVKmSeSm-DoZiIWPwmhw
A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube.

About the Author:
William Rapai is an amateur naturalist who is also the author of "Lake Invaders" and "Brewed in Michigan." He was previously an award-winning reporter and editor for the Grand Forks Herald, the Detroit Free Press, and the Boston Globe.

"The Kirtland's Warbler" is on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of January. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/6875019/kirtlands_warbler and use the discount code "UMGL12WARBLE" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:30:05 -0500 2022-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2022-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of The Kirtland's Warbler
MLK Event — The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture (February 7, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90496 90496-21671197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Scholar, artist, and writer Yevgeniy Fiks presents an archive of Soviet media images of Africans and African Americans — from propaganda posters to postage stamps — mainly related to African liberation movements and civil rights struggles. The project is named after Wayland Rudd (1900-1952), a Black American actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932. Fiks brings together post-colonial and post-Soviet perspectives, mapping the complicated and often contradictory intersection of race and Communism in the Soviet context, exposing the interweaving of internationalism, solidarity, humanism, and Communist ideals with practices of othering and exoticization. The Wayland Rudd Collection focuses on the Soviet Union’s critique of systemic racism in the US.
Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has lived and worked in New York since 1994. As a “post-Soviet artist,” his works build on research into Cold War narratives to explore the dialectic between Communism and “the West.”

Please Register in Advance at: https://tinyurl.com/49bn7zcu

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Presentation Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:46:09 -0500 2022-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation The Wayland Rudd Collection
In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC (February 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90678 90678-21672193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Celebrate the launch of Ed Yellin and Jean Fagan Yellin’s book, "In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC," with a virtual panel discussion by Julie Herrada, U-M Library curator of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection; Howard Brick, U-M Louis Evans Professor of History; Erin Ramamurthy, assistant United States attorney; and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, associate professor of philosophy at Sam Houston State University and the authors' grandson. Register to receive a Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/RWWPk

The Yellin family, which included three young children, faced a decade of hardship in the 1950s and 60s when they faced the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The repressive weight of the U.S. government, caught up in the throes of McCarthyism, crashed down upon their careers, their daily household budget, and their relationships to colleagues, neighbors, and their country.

The authors drew heavily upon materials that are now part of the Labadie Collection for the book; an online finding aid for the collection will be available soon.

Presented by the U-M Library's Special Collections Research Center and Michigan Publishing.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:49:30 -0500 2022-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Reception / Open House Detail from the book cover of "In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC" (2022) by Ed Yellin and Jean Fagan Yellin.
IISS Book Workshop Series. Writing the Lives of Muḥammad in the World of Early Islamic Late Antiquity (February 9, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90573 90573-21671705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The IISS is pleased to announce a book workshop with Professor Sean Anthony. In this workshop, Professor Sean Anthony will discuss his recently published book, *Muhammad and the Empires of Faith *(2020), introduce some of the most current methods being used in the historical study of the life of Muḥammad, and explore how these cast light on the earliest written accounts of his life.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:05:51 -0500 2022-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Writing the Lives of Muḥammad in the World of Early Islamic Late Antiquity
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 11, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21677910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-02-11T16:15:00-05:00 2022-02-11T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88145 88145-21650722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Thursday, February 17, 2022
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET
Free and open to the public, registration required: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/management-as-a-calling/

Positive Links:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

Business leaders have tremendous power to influence our society, how it operates, whether it is fair, and the extent to which it impacts the environment. And yet, we do not recognize or call out the responsibility that comes with that power. This session is meant to challenge future business leaders to think differently about their career, its purpose, and its value as a calling or vocation, one that is in service to society. Its message is for current and prospective business students, business leaders thinking anew about the role of business in society, and the business educators that train all these people.

We face great challenges as a society today, from environmental problems like climate change and habitat destruction, to social problems like income inequality, unemployment, lack of a living wage, and poor access to affordable health care and education. Solutions to these challenges must come from the market (as comprised of corporations, the government, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as the many stakeholders in market transaction, such as the consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance companies, and banks), the most powerful institution on earth, and from business, which is the most powerful entity within it.

Though government is an important and vital arbiter of the market, business is the force that transcends national boundaries, possessing resources that exceed those of many nations. Business is responsible for producing the buildings that we live and work in, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the forms of mobility we employ, and the energy that propels us. This does not mean that only business can generate solutions or that there is no role for government, but with its unmatched powers of ideation, production, and distribution, business is positioned to bring the change we need at the scale we need it. Without business, the solutions will remain elusive. Indeed, if there are no solutions coming from the market, there will be no solutions. And without visionary and service-oriented leaders, business will never even try to find them.

About Hoffman:

Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability. Professor Hoffman's research uses organizational behavior models and theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations.

He has published over 100 articles/book chapters, as well as 18 books, which have been translated into five languages. In this work, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political, and managerial issues, including: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome. He also writes about the role of academic scholars in public and political discourse.

Among his list of honors, he has been awarded the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award (2016), American Chemical Society National Award (2016), Strategic Organization Best Essay Award (2016), Organization & Environment Best Paper Award (2014), Maggie Award (2013), JMI Breaking the Frame Award (2012), Connecticut Book Award (2011), Aldo Leopold Fellowship (2011), Aspen Environmental Fellowship (2011 and 2009), Manos Page Prize (2009), Aspen Institute Rising Star Award (2003), Rachel Carson Book Prize (2001), and Klegerman Award (1995).

His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Atlantic, and National Public Radio. He has served on numerous research committees for the National Academies of Science, the Johnson Foundation, the Climate Group, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1), Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design, and the Amoco Corporation. Andy serves on advisory boards for ecoAmerica, Next Era Renewable Energy Trust, SustainAbility, the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Center for Environmental Innovation, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Host:

Sara Soderstrom, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:36:07 -0500 2022-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Andy Hoffman
The Clements Bookworm: The Varieties of Retail Experience; or, Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91288 91288-21677911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Few retail sectors have been as thoroughly transformed by the revolution in online commerce as the retail bookstore. The retail storefront dedicated primarily to the sale of printed books (new or used) has become a vanishing breed. Or so we are told. But how did readers in the past buy things to read? What sorts of retail outlets sold reading material? And what did it *feel* like to shop there? Clements Library Director Paul Erickson will draw on printed, manuscript, and visual sources to shed light on the various settings for the retail traffic in print in the 19th-century northern United States.

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:05:15 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Trade Card for New York Bookseller William W. Swayne, Clements Library.
Meet the Author: Idlewild (February 23, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91472 91472-21679945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

What do you know about Idlewild, an African American resort community founded in western Michigan in 1912? Join us on Wednesday, February 23rd for a discussion on “Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town” by Ronald J. Stephens. The book looks at the rapid rise and decline of this pivotal landmark in African American and leisure history, as well as how it intersects with race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historical preservation in the US. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube.

About the Author:
Dr. Ronald J. Stephens is Professor of African American Studies at Purdue University. A leading Idlewild scholar, he has contributed to numerous programs on the resort, including Ted Talbert's award-winning documentary Idlewild: A Place in the Sun, an edition of Tony Brown’s Journal, and an NPR production.

"Idlewild" will be on sale for $18 and free shipping during the month of February. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/7131374/idlewild and use the discount code "UMGL18IDLE" when you check out. Michigan residents can also read the ebook for free on ReadMichigan.org

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:19:57 -0500 2022-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Idlewild to the left of the text "Meet the Author: Ronald J. Stephens"
Book Launch | *Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia* (February 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90945 90945-21674995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., book author, Leiden University; Vineet Thakur, moderator, Leiden University; Michael Barnett, discussant, George Washington University; Hitomi Koyama, discussant, Ritsumeikan University; Karen Smith, discussant, Leiden University; Samuel Moyn, discussant, Yale University; Dan Slater, discussant, U-M

Please join us in the virtual book launch of Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr’s latest book, *Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia,* published in November 2021 by the University of Michigan Press as part of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Book Series.

Webinar: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/68976948901
Passcode: AidImp21. (including period)

Save 30% discount code (UMF21) for purchasing the book via: https://www.press.umich.edu/12036762/aid_imperium.

Hosted by Leiden University, Netherlands.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. 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, 22 Feb 2022 09:47:29 -0500 2022-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Aid Imperium discussion
Race & Tech Reading Group (February 25, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-02-25T16:15:00-05:00 2022-02-25T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
IISS Lecture Series. Palimpsests of Themselves Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (March 8, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92131 92131-21687044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is pleased to announce a book workshop with Professor Asad Q. Ahmed on his new groundbreaking monograph "Palimpsests of Themselves Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (University of California Press, 2022).

Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam’s intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcu2rqzMtGdfi9eFQHGUAG26OTtA4Mg7n

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:41:44 -0500 2022-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Palimpsests of Themselves Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
From the Archive to the Page: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman (March 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90680 90680-21672195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join us for the book launch of "ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman," published through University of Edinburgh Press’s American Director Series. Speakers include Phil Hallman, U-M Library, and the book's editors: Lisa Dombrowski, Center for Film Studies, Wesleyan University; and Justin Wyatt, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island.

Illuminating the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic significance of the later years of one of American cinema’s most influential auteurs, the anthology combines scholarly essays, original interviews with Robert Altman’s collaborators, and previously unseen photographs from the Robert Altman Papers held at the Special Collections Research Center, U-M Library. Contributors from the book will discuss how the archive functioned in its formation and the challenges of putting a large-scale anthology together.

Register to receive a Zoom link via email: https://myumi.ch/844W5

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Reception / Open House Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:12:28 -0500 2022-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Reception / Open House Image from the cover of "ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman," edited by Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt, 2022.
Race & Tech Reading Group (March 11, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (March 11, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21665072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
The 6th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90218 90218-21692643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan invites you to the sixth annual Berkhofer Lecture on Native American Studies to be given virtually by Robin Kimmerer.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. www.robinwallkimmerer.com/

The past five Berkhofer Lectures, featuring Tommy Orange, author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, were grand affairs, with some 300 people in attendance each year. These audiences consisted of students and faculty from U-M, interested residents of Ann Arbor, Native Americans from the Metro-Detroit area, and with the event now online, audiences worldwide. In asking Robin Kimmerer, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment we seek to shift the focus of the Berkhofer lecture to highlight emerging indigenous literary talent.

The Berkhofer Lecture series (named for a former U-M professor and founder of the field of Native American studies) was established in 2014 by an alumni gift from the Dan and Carmen Brenner family of Seattle, Washington. In close consultation with the Brenners, Native American Studies decided to create a public lecture series featuring prominent, marquee speakers who would draw audiences from different communities (faculty and students, Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Michigan tribal communities as well as writers and readers of all persuasions). Native American students at U-M have consistently expressed their desire to make Native Americans more visible both on campus and off, and we believe that this lecture takes a meaningful step in that direction. Additionally, because of the statewide publicity it generates, we think it is already becoming another recruitment incentive for Native American students. It goes without saying that the speakers we are inviting provide tremendous value to the mission and work of Native American Studies at U-M.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kreg1LmxTCuWxF61YyGEJg

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:29:02 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Robin Kimmerer
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88148 88148-21650724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Tuesday, March 15, 2022
4:00-5:00 p.m. ET
Free and open to the public, registration required: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/the-power-of-flexing-growing-into-your-best-self/

Positive Links:

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:

One of the best things you can say about someone is that they continued to grow, develop, change, improve, and evolve throughout their life. Indeed, personal growth is crucial if you want to become like that role model you most admire, have more influence as a leader, create better relationships with those joining you on a task, and ultimately, to bring positive change into our troubled world.

In September, I achieved a lifelong goal of publishing a book, The Power of Flexing, that summarizes decades of research and teaching on this very topic. This talk brings that book alive by sharing some of the stories of people who have put growth prominently on their agenda, suggesting key practices that facilitate growth for anyone anywhere, and highlighting what companies can do to enable the growth journeys of their employees.

About Ashford:

Susan (Sue) Ashford is the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor in the Management and Organizations group at Michigan Ross. She served previously on the faculty of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and received her MS and PhD degrees from Northwestern University.

Sue’s passion is using her teaching and research work to help people to be maximally effective in their work lives, with an emphasis on self-leadership, proactivity, change from below, and leadership and its development. She teaches across several programs at Ross, in the Leading Women Executives program of the Corporate Leadership Center, and for various companies. Sue recently published a book that lives out her passion entitled The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth (Harper Collins Business, 2021).

Sue is an award-winning scholar, having published papers in the fields’ best journals in the areas of leadership development and leader effectiveness, middle management voice and issue selling, job insecurity, and individual proactivity (e.g., self-management and feedback seeking). Her research has been summarized as advice for managers in the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Business Review blog, New York Magazine, and The Conversation. Sue is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and was awarded the prestigious Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management by that Association in 2017.

Host:

Dave M. Mayer, Center for Positive Organizations Research Director; John H. Mitchell Professor of Business Ethics; Chair of Management and Organizations Area

Series Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2021-22 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Series Promotional Partners:

Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:34:00 -0500 2022-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Sue Ashford
Captioning the Archives: A Conversation with Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Photographer Lester Sloan (March 15, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92378 92378-21690683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In this webinar, RC Lecturer and photographer Isaac Wingfield will interview Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan and her father, photographer Lester Sloan, about the making of their latest co-authored book and how the visual and creative arts, history, and family ties guided their project.

Photographer and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths notes, “In this rich meditation with [Lester Sloan’s] gifted daughter, author Aisha Sabatini Sloan, we find ourselves in a narrative of discovery and revelation. Sloan’s photographs are necessary instruments of history, as is the palpable sensation of love between himself and his daughter.”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:15:05 -0500 2022-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Webinar Flyer
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
WDI to Host Top Diplomat to Vietnam on Building Trust & Taking Risks (March 16, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92377 92377-21690682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

The William Davidson Institute (WDI) will host a discussion with Ted Osius, former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam and leader of the US-ASEAN Business Council. He will discuss Vietnam’s economic transformation and the skills necessary to succeed in cross-cultural business. The talk, “Building Trust and Taking Risks,” is set for 2 p.m. March 16, via Zoom.

A diplomat for 30 years, Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam during the Obama Administration. Leading a team of 900, Osius devised and implemented strategies to deepen economic, security and cultural ties between the two countries. Only the second openly gay career diplomat in U.S. history to achieve the rank of ambassador, Osius went to Vietnam with his husband and two children.

After leaving government, Osius joined Google as its Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google Asia-Pacific and currently serves as President of the US-ASEAN Business Council, which represents 170 of the largest American businesses in Southeast Asia through its headquarters in Washington, D.C., and its seven regional offices.

During the talk, Osius will share some of the key insights from his 2021 book “Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam.” He’ll then discuss his fascinating career, including his time in the foreign service, his transition to Google, and how he landed in his current position at the US-ASEAN Business Council. He’ll talk about the differences in working in the public sector vs. the private sector.

“As a leader in foreign service, private enterprise and nonprofit organizations, Ambassador Osius offers a unique perspective for how building understanding can lead to historic opportunities,” said Amy Gillett, Vice President for Education at WDI who will convene the discussion with Osius.

Participants will have an opportunity to submit questions during the discussion.

Earlier in his career, Osius was a senior advisor at the Albright-Stonebridge Group and Vice President of Fulbright University Vietnam. Osius was associate professor at the National War College and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

As a diplomat, Osius served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Political Minister-Counselor in New Delhi, India. Osius also served as deputy director of the Office of Korean Affairs at the State Department, regional environment officer for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and senior advisor on Asia and trade to Vice President Al Gore.

Osius earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and an Honorary Doctorate from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:52:01 -0500 2022-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Ted Osius is author of the book "Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam"
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
QTPOC Book Club (March 17, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92816 92816-21696293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: oSTEM

QTPOC Book Club is a new initiative by oSTEM and MESA to elevate the voices of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). We meet every Thursday, 9-10pm at Mason Hall room 3460.

This month, we'll be reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzladúa was a lesbian and Chicana scholar, activist, and author. Her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera is considered to be important work of literature in queer theory, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and gender studies. Sign up for our QTPOC book club to receive a FREE copy of Borderlands/La Frontera: https://tinyurl.com/oSTEMBorderlands

NOTE: Our first meeting has been postponed to Thursday, March 17th, 9-10pm.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, contact us at ostem-board@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:30:10 -0500 2022-03-17T21:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T22:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall oSTEM Meeting QTPOC Book Club Flyer
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Race & Tech Reading Group (March 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 19, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 20, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Parable Paint Night (March 22, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92408 92408-21691037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 7:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Come join us as we spend an evening creating art centered around themes of Afrofuturism, climate activism, and science fiction. All materials will be provided. Open to all members of the undergraduate community! Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities Public Humanities Interns and the Black Student Union.

About Octavia Butler Week:
Octavia Butler was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. With Octavia Butler Week, we aim to explore the work and legacy of this visionary writer. It’s part of a larger series of events that include a community read, a multimedia performance, an open-mic night, and additional events that together comprise Parable Path A2Ypsi.

Culminating Parable Path A2Ypsi is Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s genre-defying musical adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. UMS will present this powerful performance March 25-27, 2022 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Tickets and info at ums.org.

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:55:45 -0500 2022-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Treats for the Trail (March 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92428 92428-21691397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

In partnership with MDining, the Institute for the Humanities Public Interns are hosting a DIY Trail-Mix Station as a part of Octavia Butler Week. Stop by and make yourself a healthy snack, inspired by the themes of food accessibility and sustainability in Butler’s work. Additionally, there will be giveaways and further information on upcoming events, so bring your friends! Open to all!

*About Octavia Butler Week:*
Octavia Butler was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. With Octavia Butler Week, we aim to explore the work and legacy of this visionary writer. It’s part of a larger series of events that include a community read, a multimedia performance, an open-mic night, and additional events that together comprise Parable Path A2Ypsi.

Culminating Parable Path A2Ypsi is Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s genre-defying musical adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. UMS will present this powerful performance March 25-27, 2022 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Tickets and info at ums.org.

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Other Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:47:29 -0500 2022-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
QTPOC Book Club (March 24, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92816 92816-21696294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: oSTEM

QTPOC Book Club is a new initiative by oSTEM and MESA to elevate the voices of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). We meet every Thursday, 9-10pm at Mason Hall room 3460.

This month, we'll be reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzladúa was a lesbian and Chicana scholar, activist, and author. Her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera is considered to be important work of literature in queer theory, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and gender studies. Sign up for our QTPOC book club to receive a FREE copy of Borderlands/La Frontera: https://tinyurl.com/oSTEMBorderlands

NOTE: Our first meeting has been postponed to Thursday, March 17th, 9-10pm.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, contact us at ostem-board@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:30:10 -0500 2022-03-24T21:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T22:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall oSTEM Meeting QTPOC Book Club Flyer
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Race & Tech Reading Group (March 25, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
Jewels to the Free: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Volume 14 (March 27, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91904 91904-21683733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 27, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Hear selections from the 14th edition of the *Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing*, read by family and friends of contributing authors. Books will be for sale following the reading along with a special performance by PCAP’s Out of the Blue Choir.

PCAP’s *Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing* seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan's incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers —writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

Presented with support from Jackson Social Welfare Fund of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation, U-M Department of English Language and Literature, and the Michigan Humanities Council.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:26:12 -0500 2022-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 2022-03-27T14:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Untitled, Dutch, 2019
Meet the Author: Great Lakes Rocks (March 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92877 92877-21697629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you fascinated by rocks? Join us on Tuesday, March 29th for a discussion on “Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region” by Stephen E. Kesler. The book takes readers on a fascinating journey through geologic history, beginning with an investigation of the surface features—the hills and valleys, waterfalls and caves, and the Great Lakes themselves—that we encounter on a daily basis. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook.

About the Author:
Stephen E. Kesler is Emeritus Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan.

"Great Lakes Rocks" will be on sale for $16 and free shipping during the month of March. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/9437670/great_lakes_rocks and use the discount code "UMGL16ROCK" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:06:18 -0500 2022-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Great Lakes Rocks"
NOBUKO MIYAMOTO (March 30, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93972 93972-21712971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program in the Department of American Culture presents

NOBUKO MIYAMOTO
- dance and theater artist -
- Asian American Movement activist -
- songwriter and author of
Not Yo' Butterfly:
My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution

in conversation with
Prof. Emily P. Lawsin
ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course
in commemoration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

REGISTER for Zoom Link: tinyurl.com/NobukoWebinar


ABOUT THE BOOK:
Not Yo' Butterfly
My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution

By NOBUKO MIYAMOTO
(University of California Press, 2021)

www.ucpress.edu/9780520380653

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose.
Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art.
Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation.
Through it all, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog: A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and 120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021.

ABOUT THE ALBUM:
120,000 Stories
Nobuko Miyamoto
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2021.
https://folkways.si.edu/nobuko-miyamoto/120000-stories?mc_cid=e752c698a4&mc_eid=4d22403658

Nobuko Miyamoto is an icon of Asian American music and activism. Since the early 1970s, she has been exploring ways to reclaim and respirit our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and forge solidarity. 120,000 Stories collects powerful new songs, reinterpretations of old ones, and recordings from across her career, including from the seminal 1973 album A Grain of Sand and the band Warriors of the Rainbow. These songs speak to past and present struggles—for self-determination, Black Lives, the environment. They chronicle difficult histories, they celebrate resilient traditions, and most of all, they endeavor to connect communities.
www.nobukomiyamoto.org

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:09:47 -0400 2022-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T14:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Livestream / Virtual Poster with a picture of the artist and information about the event.
Sarah Kendzior: Hiding in plain sight (March 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92677 92677-21694336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

This virtual event will have a live watch party in Weill Hall, Room 1110.
Attendance at this watch party is limited to current University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff. All attendees will be required to complete the ResponsiBlue screening before entering the building, and masks are required. Registration is required to attend.
https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/sarah-kendzior-hiding-plain-sight

Sarah Kendzior, author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, will be in conversation with Jonathan Hanson, political scientist and lecturer in statistics at the Ford School as part of the spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series.

For bios and more information visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/sarah-kendzior-hiding-plain-sight

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-sponsored by Democracy & Debate, Wallace House, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:37:16 -0500 2022-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
QTPOC Book Club (March 31, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92816 92816-21696295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: oSTEM

QTPOC Book Club is a new initiative by oSTEM and MESA to elevate the voices of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). We meet every Thursday, 9-10pm at Mason Hall room 3460.

This month, we'll be reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzladúa was a lesbian and Chicana scholar, activist, and author. Her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera is considered to be important work of literature in queer theory, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and gender studies. Sign up for our QTPOC book club to receive a FREE copy of Borderlands/La Frontera: https://tinyurl.com/oSTEMBorderlands

NOTE: Our first meeting has been postponed to Thursday, March 17th, 9-10pm.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, contact us at ostem-board@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:30:10 -0500 2022-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T22:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall oSTEM Meeting QTPOC Book Club Flyer
Race & Tech Reading Group (April 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
2022 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Reception (April 6, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84754 84754-21624874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Annual Hopwood Awards Ceremony includes the 2022 Hopwood Lecture by Jia Tolentino. Following the ceremony, Black Stone Bookstore will sell copies of Tolentino's essay collection, Trick Mirror and Jia will sign books. Free and open to the public. This event will also be live-streamed. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:40:59 -0400 2022-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Jia Tolentino wearing a black top and jeans. Photo credit: Elena Mudd.
Hopwood Reading: Jia Tolentino (April 7, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89275 89275-21661670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

A reading by Jia Tolentino, the 2022 Hopwood Lecturer. Jia is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Copies of Trick Mirror will be available for purchase. The reading is free and open to the public. This event will be in-person and live-streamed; no pre-registration necessary. Log in here: https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

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Performance Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:36:52 -0400 2022-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Performance Jia Tolentino wearing a black top and jeans. Photo credit: Elena Mudd.
Race & Tech Reading Group (April 8, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 8, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-04-08T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-08T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
LSI SciComm Speaker Series: Matt Richtel (April 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92899 92899-21697950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

* The LSI's SciComm Speaker Series highlights the importance of disseminating scientific findings beyond the walls of the academy and effectively communicating the impact of publicly-funded research. This annual event provides world-leading science writers and communicators with an opportunity to share their experiences with faculty, staff and students, while also tapping into U-M's vast scientific research community. This year's speaker is best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Matt Richtel.*

In 2019, Richtel's book about the immune system, An Elegant Defense, hit shelves. Richtel steeped the book in deep science, but covered all that deep science in frosting: story, anecdote and humor. When the book came out, the New York Times published an excerpt. What chapter did they choose? The one that asked: Should you pick your nose? Richtel had asked the question as a way of exploring whether our urge to probe our noses is actually a way for evolution to sneak some outside information to our immune systems. While we may not have a definitive answer to that question, after more than two decades at the New York Times and as author of several best-of-the-year science books, Richtel does know the answer to this: How do you make science information palatable? What does it take to educate the public?

There are two answers: One is story. The second is existential crisis. When Covid hit, the public started paying attention to science as never before. But this talk about the former—how to turn science into a story that people are eager to consume and that they will remember.

Over the course of this conversation, Richtel will offer specific examples of how he has married complicated science with compelling stories without sacrificing the sanctity and complexity of the research and scholarship. He will also tackle a number of specific, key issues around the marriage of science and storytelling: ethics, the role of the scientist/scholar, the relationship between scientist and journalist and how to improve it; the responsibility of media to understand how to read science, and accurately calibrate its weight. Plus, all the questions you want to ask!

*Coffee and light refreshments will be offered beginning at 9:30. Richtel will be available to sign books and bookplates immediately following the event.*

About the Speaker:
Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, lauded speaker and bestselling author. He writes about technology, its impact on society, and how it changes the way we work, play and relate to each other. In 2010 he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his series of articles on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while driving. Richtel lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two children. He is an avid tennis player, a recreational athlete, a prideful maker of guacamole for parties and a periodic (and not good) songwriter. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado, the son of two avid readers, attended Boulder High School, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:05:21 -0400 2022-04-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T11:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI SciComm Speaker Series: Matt Richtel, Author and Reporter
Kelmscott at the Special Collections Research Center (April 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90681 90681-21672196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Marieka Kaye, head of Conservation and Book Repair for the U-M Library, presents the collection of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press books held at the Special Collections Research Center. While most turn to Morris’s printing prowess with scholarly and artistic interest, we'll look at how he added soul back into the 19th-century mechanized book trade with a simplicity and elegance that we must guard with careful preservation.

Register to receive the Zoom link via email: https://myumi.ch/z11R9

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Reception / Open House Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:11:12 -0500 2022-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Reception / Open House Holland linen bindings on the three volumes of "The Golden Legend," Special Collections Research Center, U-M Library. Share
The Clements Bookworm: “Legends and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier" Author Conversation (April 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94201 94201-21724111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, University of Michigan Professor Gregory Dowd joins us to discuss his book *Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier* (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries.

This episode is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:24:26 -0400 2022-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Groundless
Race & Tech Reading Group (April 15, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92722 92722-21694825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

The Race & Tech reading group is meeting every Friday at 1 PM this semester.

For Friday, 2/25th, we will be talking about this really fantastic article, "Critical Race Theory for HCI". Co-author Professor Kentaro Toyama from SI will be facilitating the discussion.

Even if you aren't able to read each week's article, or haven't been able to make it to previous discussions, you are very welcome to join and listen in on the conversation. This group welcomes all - whether you're a student, staff, faculty, or community member.

Zoom Meeting Passcode: racetech

After the break, we will start reading chapters of Wendy Chun's new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.
We also welcome anyone to facilitate a discussion - if you would be up for it, please add your name to the schedule, linked below.

The full book is available online through the library, but we are working on securing funds to order some physical copies for those who would like one. If you'd like a copy, fill out a google form and we'll follow up.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:16:56 -0500 2022-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Other Poster for race and tech reading group.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's Reading (April 26, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94790 94790-21768311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Long time Ann Arbor writer and American Culture's Lecturer Frances Kai-Hwa Wang reads from her new book, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.
With many stories set on the streets and in the cafes of Ann Arbor, this is a mischievous and fierce collection of lyric essays and prose poems deftly navigating the space between cultures, punctuated by wise children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape that is Asian America. With artwork and stories behind the stories, we will discuss the challenges of writing in these political and pandemic times.

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:26:39 -0400 2022-04-26T18:30:00-04:00 2022-04-26T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event
Meet the Authors: The Forests of Michigan (April 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94479 94479-21741770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Celebrate the return of warmer weather by learning about Michigan's forests! Join us on Thursday, April 28th for a discussion on “The Forests of Michigan” by Donald I. Dickmann and Larry A. Leefers. The Michigan Notable book uses beautiful color photographs to give readers a look at the natural history, ecology, management, economic importance, and use of the amazing forests that cover Michigan. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook. You can register for Zoom at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/6716494314486/WN_YEZa17eeSrCFqn8QtGgTBA

About the Authors:
Donald I. Dickmann is Professor Emeritus of Forestry at Michigan State University and holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of "The Culture of Poplars." Larry A. Leefers is Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University. He holds a doctorate from Michigan State University.

"The Forests of Michigan" is on sale for $26 and free shipping during the month of April. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/7672161/forests_of_michigan_revised_ed and use the discount code "UMGLFORESTS" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:26:58 -0400 2022-04-28T19:00:00-04:00 2022-04-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Event image
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 29, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-04-29T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-29T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Spring DEI Book Discussion | Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (May 5, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94909 94909-21784752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 5, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

In this epic, unforgettable 2020 classic, Wilkerson -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of "The Warmth of Other Suns" -- examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and explores how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. All are welcome to this discussion, but please register to receive the Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 May 2022 11:01:55 -0400 2022-05-05T15:00:00-04:00 2022-05-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Author Isabel Wilkerson and image of the cover of her 2020 book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 6, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21724106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-05-06T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-06T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 20, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-05-20T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-20T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Meet the Authors: Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region (May 23, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95008 95008-21788250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 23, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you fascinated by amphibians and reptiles? Or do you just want to learn more about the ones in the Great Lakes area? Join us on Monday, May 23rd for a discussion on “Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region” by James H. Harding and David A. Mifsud. The book features detailed information on habitat, behavior, distribution and life history of over 70 species, complete with color photographs and maps of where they can be found. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook.

About the Authors:
James H. Harding is among the most respected herpetologists in the Great Lakes area. He has taught in the Department of Zoology at Michigan State University and at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.

David A. Mifsud is a certified professional wetland scientist and ecologist, and he sits on the State of Michigan Amphibian and Reptile Technical Advisory board. He is the director of Herpetological Resource and Management LLC.

"Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region" is on sale for $14 and free shipping during the month of May. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/8158176/amphibians_and_reptiles_of_the_great_lakes_region_revised_ed and use the discount code "UMGL14FROGS" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 May 2022 15:51:12 -0400 2022-05-23T19:00:00-04:00 2022-05-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of the book with the text "Meet the Authors: Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region"
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (June 2, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 2, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-06-02T04:15:00-04:00 2022-06-02T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
The Clements Bookworm (June 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95162 95162-21789934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Clements Library Fellows Dr. Richard Bell (Professor of History, University of Maryland) and Latoya M. Teague (PhD Candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) will join Maggie Vanderford (Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, Clements Library) to discuss the teaching of Black history with primary sources.

The roundtable conversation will address various approaches to Black history pedagogy in university lectures, secondary school classrooms, and in library primary source instruction. From curriculum design to syllabus and lesson plan creation, join the conversation to think more deeply about how to teach the triumphs and the heartbreaks of the past in ways that are both informed and intentional.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:11:45 -0400 2022-06-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 William L. Clements Library Presentation LaToya M. Teague (Left) and Dr. Richard Bell (Right)
The Clements Bookworm (June 17, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95162 95162-21788715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Clements Library Fellows Dr. Richard Bell (Professor of History, University of Maryland) and Latoya M. Teague (PhD Candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) will join Maggie Vanderford (Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, Clements Library) to discuss the teaching of Black history with primary sources.

The roundtable conversation will address various approaches to Black history pedagogy in university lectures, secondary school classrooms, and in library primary source instruction. From curriculum design to syllabus and lesson plan creation, join the conversation to think more deeply about how to teach the triumphs and the heartbreaks of the past in ways that are both informed and intentional.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:11:45 -0400 2022-06-17T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation LaToya M. Teague (Left) and Dr. Richard Bell (Right)
June DEI Book Discussion | Toni Morrison's "Recitatif: A Story" (June 23, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95718 95718-21790783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's "Recitatif: A Story" is a beautifully crafted, arresting piece about a multi-decade relationship between two women, whose races are never identified. Her only published short story, Morrison wrote it was "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." A free PDF copy of this very brief work (20 pages) is available online for download here: https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf
Open to all, but please register to join in on this virtual discussion about one of the most thought-provoking literary works you may ever read.

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Other Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:57:15 -0400 2022-06-23T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Other Color headshot of Toni Morrison [Credit: Princeton University]
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (June 23, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-06-23T16:15:00-04:00 2022-06-23T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Meet the Author: The North Country Tail (June 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95478 95478-21789967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you planning to do some hiking this summer? Join the University of Michigan Press on Monday, June 29th for a discussion on “The North Country Trail: The Best Walks, Hikes, and Backpacking Trips on America's Longest National Scenic Trail” by Ron Strickland and the North Country Trail Association. The book features trail tips and maps of 40 segments of the longest National Scenic Trail in the U.S, which winds through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook.

About the Speaker:
Andrea Ketchmark is Executive Director of the North Country Trail Association. She became Executive Director in 2017 after serving as NCTA’s Director of Trail Development since 2009. She enjoys exploring the Trail and other outdoor spaces in Michigan and beyond.

"The North Country Trail" is on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of June. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/4913001/north_country_trail and use the discount code "UMGL12TRAIL" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:19:08 -0400 2022-06-29T19:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "The North Country Trail"
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 7, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-07T16:15:00-04:00 2022-07-07T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 21, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21791486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-21T16:15:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 22, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21791487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-22T04:15:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Meet the Author: Looking for Hickories (July 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96003 96003-21791700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you looking for some summer reading? Join us on Thursday, July 28th for a discussion about the Michigan Notable Book “Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest” by Tom Springer. "Looking for Hickories" captures the essence of the upper Midwest's character with subjects particular to the region yet often universal in theme, from barn building to land preservation to the neglected importance of various trees in the landscape. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook. You can register for Zoom at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/6716575474956/WN_H1N2GgplR-aXx8ZcnbTtjw

About the Speaker:
Tom Springer is Vice President of Development at Kalamazoo Nature Center. Tom's writing also appears in publications such as Michigan Blue, Notre Dame Magazine and The Front Porch Republic. He earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Western Michigan University and holds a master's degree environmental journalism from Michigan State University.

"Looking for Hickories" is on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of July. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/310459/looking_for_hickories and use the discount code "UMGL12TOM" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:33:54 -0400 2022-07-28T19:00:00-04:00 2022-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Looking for Hickories"
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 2, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-02T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-02T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 24, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-24T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-24T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-25T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-25T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 26, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-26T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-26T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Meet the Author: Jazz from Detroit (August 30, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96448 96448-21792542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you interested in Detroit's role in shaping modern and contemporary jazz? Join us on Tuesday, August 30th for a discussion about the book "Jazz from Detroit” by Mark Stryker. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook.

About the Author:
Mark Stryker is an award-winning arts journalist and critic based in Detroit, Michigan, specializing in jazz, classical music, and visual art. You can find more information about the author, including upcoming events at https://jazzfromdetroit.com/

"Jazz from Detroit" is on sale for $20 and free shipping during the month of August. https://www.press.umich.edu/4454129/jazz_from_detroit and use the discount code "UMGL20JAZZ" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:29:36 -0400 2022-08-30T19:00:00-04:00 2022-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of book Jazz from Detroit with photo of author Mark Stryker
Hopwood Tea (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97246 97246-21794194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The Hopwood Program is pleased to announce the return of Hopwood Teas for the 2022-23 academic year. Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to enjoy tea, coffee, light refreshments and conversation in the Hopwood Room on most Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

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Other Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:50:24 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Other Wing chair, bookcase, and round table in the Hopwood Room
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
SPRING AWAKENING AUDITIONS! (September 11, 2022 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96527 96527-21792623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 11, 2022 11:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for *SPRING AWAKENING* at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by Sunday, September 11. Callbacks will be held Tuesday, September 13 and Wednesday, September 14. Our performances will be December 2-4 in the Arthur Miller Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:46:26 -0400 2022-09-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Spring Awakening Auditions!
Hopwood Tea (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97246 97246-21794195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The Hopwood Program is pleased to announce the return of Hopwood Teas for the 2022-23 academic year. Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to enjoy tea, coffee, light refreshments and conversation in the Hopwood Room on most Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

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Other Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:50:24 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Other Wing chair, bookcase, and round table in the Hopwood Room