Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. A Family of Reformers: The Weld-Grimke Manuscript Collection (January 17, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36866 36866-5967758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Angelina Grimké, her sister Sarah Grimké, and Angelina's husband Theodore Dwight Weld were renowned abolitionists who knitted together women's rights issues with anti-slavery advocacy beginning in the 1830s.

The William L. Clements Library acquired the papers of Theodore Weld and the Grimké sisters in 1939 and since then, they have been the largest collection of abolitionist papers on the University of Michigan campus. Please join Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray and University of Michigan School of Information graduate student Tessa Wakefield to discuss the Weld-Grimke manuscript collection and Wakefield's work to make these papers available for research

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:32:34 -0500 2017-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2017-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Cheney Schopieray, Tessa Wakefield
2017 Graduate School Panel for Undergraduates (January 17, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37590 37590-6635778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Alumni Center
Organized By: Alumni Association

Have you thought about becoming a lawyer, doctor or pursuing a Masters or PhD? Take a quick 1 hour break from studying and get to know graduate students who have been there and succeeded in gaining admission.

Undecided? Get a chance to learn new things about your interests and find a field that is right for you! Or simply come hang out with fellow LEAD Scholars as well as other UM students.

Light refreshments will be provided. Dress is casual.

--Event details--
Who:
Panelists are current graduate students with backgrounds in JD, MS, DDS, MSW, and PhD programs. Additional MD and MBA panelists are pending confirmation.

Where:
Alumni Center - Founder's Room
200 Fletcher St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Program Outline:
​​6:30 pm - 30 minute optional meet & greet for all attendees
7 p.m. - Our official panel will begin at 7 o'clock sharp. Please arrive as early as possible. We will not start on Michigan time.
8 p.m. - Event end time

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:38:12 -0500 2017-01-17T18:30:00-05:00 2017-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Alumni Center Alumni Association Careers / Jobs Alumni Center
Fourth Annual Gilbert S. Omenn Lectureship (January 18, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36930 36930-5999958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Please save-the-date to attend the Fourth Annual Gilbert S. Omenn Lectureship. Lecturer will be George Poste, Ph.D. (Dr. George Poste is Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI) (http://www.casi.asu.edu/), Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation at Arizona State University.)

Wednesday, January 18, 2017
1:00 p.m. - Lecture in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
2:30 p.m. - Poster Session & Reception in Great Lakes South & Central

For more information, please contact Jane Wiesner (jwiesner@umich.edu or 734-615-4432)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:55:58 -0500 2017-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2017-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Photo of George Poste, Ph.D.
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (January 18, 2017 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36201 36201-5492542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 4:10pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Discussants :
Martha S. Jones (History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Law);
Megan Sweeney (English, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Women's Studies);
Tiya Miles (Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, History, and Women's Studies)

This panel of U-M faculty members will discuss the recent book, Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) edited by Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage.

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated and self-taught, and explore the broad community of ideas in which their work participated. The end result is a field-defining and innovative volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:37:35 -0500 2017-01-18T16:10:00-05:00 2017-01-18T17:40:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover
Problems and Possibilities for International Service Learning (January 19, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37518 37518-6610220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

This presentation raises critical concerns about the power asymmetries and politics of knowledge that are embedded within the dominant paradigm of international service-learning in higher education. In particular, it critiques the awkward incentive structures that emerge when volunteering is commodified.

The presentation then introduces the case study of Omprakash EdGE and its attempt to disrupt these interlocking trends. It proposes an alternative vision of what it might mean for students to 'know the world' in an era marked by increasing connectivity as well as increasing inequality.

Please register for this exciting and free event! https://goo.gl/forms/7M9KToOfirgRvYta2

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:34:11 -0500 2017-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion Presentation
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (January 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Mastering the American Accent (January 20, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2017-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
SoConDi Discussion Group (January 20, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37727 37727-6687029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ian Calloway

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:21:42 -0500 2017-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (January 20, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36774 36774-5845718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join director Melissa Freilich for a pre-show discussion of Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's Tony Award-nominated play. Funny and poignant, In the Next Room concerns nineteenth century treatment of "hysteria." The New York Times calls Ruhl "one of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent years." The discussion, which will focus on an aspect of dramaturgy, directorial choices or stage design, will allow you to engage more deeply in the show. This discussion is for adults over 50. Tickets are $17. You will pay for your ticket at the pre-show discussion.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:09:35 -0500 2017-01-20T18:30:00-05:00 2017-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Inauguration of Donald Trump: The Political Issues in the Fight Against Inequality, War, and Dictatorship (January 20, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37896 37896-6776458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Come hear Jerry White, SEP 2016 Presidential Candidate, speak on the fundamental political issues facing the working class in the era of Trump.

The inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States on January 20 marks a significant political turning point. Trump has assembled a cabinet of billionaires, military generals, and corporate CEOs dedicated to war, the destruction of democratic rights and the eradication of whatever remains of the progressive reforms—achieved through decades of mass struggles—that ameliorated conditions of life for the working class.

The election of Trump has exposed, in all its disgusting nakedness, the reality of oligarchic rule in the United States. However, Trump is not some sort of monstrous interloper in what had been, until Election Day 2016, a flawed but essentially decent society. Trump—the product of the criminal and diseased couplings of the real estate, finance, gambling and entertainment industries—is the genuine face of the American ruling class.

The Democratic Party is concentrating its criticism of Trump not on his ultra-right wing agenda, but on his alleged “softness” toward Russia, there is a burning necessity for workers and young people to develop a genuine political alternative to the policy of war and social reaction that is being planned.

This is a public meeting hosted by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan.

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Meeting Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:50:26 -0500 2017-01-20T19:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T22:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting The Inauguration of Donald Trump: The Political Issues in the Fight Against Inequality, War, and Dictatorship
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Diversification in the freshwater bivalve family Unionidae: understanding the role of parasitism (January 24, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36835 36835-5948518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A brown bag lunch series featuring topics of interest.

Image credit: Tim Lane.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:33:53 -0500 2017-01-24T12:10:00-05:00 2017-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar mussel lure
Current Events (January 24, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37017 37017-6121764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This discussion group is for people 50 and over interested in what’s happening at the local, national and global level. All opinions receive a courteous hearing.

No materials or special expertise required. Just bring an open mind and a good sense of humor.

This group, facilitated by Joan Innes and Bill Milne, meets for two hours on Tuesdays, January 24 through August 22, except for April 11 and July 4.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 21 Dec 2016 07:31:23 -0500 2017-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37219 37219-6457663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Janyuary 24, 2017
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public; reception to follow.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan Ave
Colloquium, 6th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:

Gain inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in people. Learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the Talk:

While business can play an important role in addressing society’s grand challenges, enterprise leaders and their partners have yet to fully deliver on this promise. To fulfil these aspirations, we must challenge imbedded assumptions and provide business leaders with actionable strategies and tools for achieving impact at scale. Focusing on the base of the pyramid – which includes the four billion poorest people on this planet – Ted London will draw from his new book to present a roadmap for building sustainable, scalable businesses that generate positive impacts for companies and move us toward a more equitable and inclusive global society.

About London:

Ted London is Vice President, Scaling Impact Initiative at the William Davidson Institute and a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. An internationally recognized expert on the intersection of business strategy and poverty alleviation, London focuses his research on developing enterprise strategies for base of the pyramid (BoP) markets, building cross-sector collaborations, and enhancing mutual value creation.

His latest book, The Base of the Pyramid Promise: Building Businesses with Impact and Scale, translates over 25 years of research and field-based experience into actionable strategies, frameworks, and tools for developing sustainable, scalable enterprises in BoP markets.

Hosted by:

Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Learning & Professional Development, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane and Paul Jones (MBA ‘75), for their support of the 2016-17 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:15:25 -0500 2017-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Protection of Cultural Heritage During Crisis (January 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37054 37054-6128230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will explore the destruction of cultural property through history using lecture and discussion, covering looting and iconoclasm from ancient times to the present.

Topics in this study group for those 50 and over include: Nazi art looting; the work of the Monuments Men and recent restitution efforts; the looting and destruction of monuments by ISIS and others; and the effectiveness of international efforts to prevent the destruction of cultural heritage.

Optional readings will be provided by instructor Sarah Swanz, a former lawyer and current graduate student at the UM School of Information and 2016 participant in the Association for Research Into Crimes Against Art summer program in Italy.

This study group will meet for 90 minutes on Wednesdays from January 25 through February 15.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:00:35 -0500 2017-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T11:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
Life in the U.S. as a Scientist-Artist with Chinese Heritage (January 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37468 37468-6553120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

This lecture is Dr. Jinsheng Zhang’s autobiographical reflection on living in the U.S. as a scientist-artist with Chinese heritage. He will discuss his life and research experiences, underscoring cross-cultural and transnational issues that he has confronted living in the U.S. As an artist and a scientist, he has been working in his adopted country, speaking English as a second language, and doing academic research with a mode of thinking that combines Asian and Western elements.

Dr. Jinsheng Zhang is Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and Disorders at Wayne State University. His research encompasses mechanisms underlying noise- and blast-induced tinnitus, hearing loss, traumatic brain injury, and development of drugs and medical devices to treat these disorders. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and private foundations. Dr. Zhang is an accomplished lyric operatic tenor. His favorite arias include “Che gelida manina” “E lucevan le stele”, “La donna è mobile”, “Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön”, “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée”, and “Cielo e mar”.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Jan 2017 06:26:10 -0500 2017-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Dr. Zhang Lecture
Revisiting Rosa Parks in the Age of Black Lives Matter (January 25, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37370 37370-6508700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Jeanne Theoharis is an American Culture Ph.D. Alum who is now a Distiguished Professor of
Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY. Her book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, won a 2014 NAACP Image Award and the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:28:39 -0500 2017-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Theoharis Poster
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (January 25, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-01-25T19:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T20:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion
CANCELLED: EEB Thursday Seminar: Microbial community dynamics and function at micro-scales. (January 26, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36322 36322-5562273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

In this talk I will present our work showing how ecological interactions control the assembly and function of microbial communities at micro-scales. Using model marine particles composed of a variety of biopolymers commonly found in the ocean, I will show how microbial interactions such as cross-feeding and social cheating control community dynamics, leading to rapid successions on particles, while decreasing the metabolic rate of the system by slowing down or even blocking the particle degradation process. Particle degradation slow-down occurs because of competition for space between primary degraders and cheaters or cross-feeders, which act as parasites. The results indicate that the rates of carbon cycling in the environment can be under direct control of community ecology processes that unfold at micro-scales. Finally, I will also discuss how communities that self-assemble on particles made of different substrates converge to a set of species that display ‘universal’ dynamics, which are independent of the substrate and instead driven by the ecological wiring of the community.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:43:52 -0500 2017-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar marine bacteria
(FULL) 35th Annual Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) Career Conference (January 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37205 37205-7063812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Registration for this conference is now closed, as we have reached capacity. Thank you!

The 35th Annual WCTF Career Conference will be held on Friday, March 3, 2017. This year's featured keynote speakers are Ms. Jane Elliott, Diversity Scholar and Pioneer, and Mr. Roland S. Martin, Host & Managing Editor of News One Now.

Jane Elliott has been teaching her "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes" groundbreaking anti-racist group social exercise for over thirty-six years, working to make people permanently more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism. Starting the exercise in her third-grade classroom in all-white, all-Christian Riceville, Iowa, immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this exercise has provided dramatic results for both children and adults throughout the country. Elliott’s work has also been the subject of several television documentaries, written up in many psychology and social studies texts, and a book, A Class Divided, Then and Now. Elliott is a recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous colleges, universities, and corporations, and has appeared on a plethora of television shows, including 60 Minutes, Oprah, and Today.

Roland S. Martin is a journalist who is the host and managing editor of TV One’s News One Now, the first daily morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports and culture from an explicitly African American perspective. Martin is also the creator and host of The Roland Martin Show, as well as senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Honored with the 2013 National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Journalist of the Year Award, Martin is a two-time winner of the NAACP Image Award and has received more than 40 professional media awards. Spending six years as a CNN Contributor, and as a member of the network's "Best Political Team on Television,” he was granted the Peabody Award in 2009. Named three times to Ebony Magazine's 150 Most Influential African Americans list, and recognized as one of the Top 50 Political Pundits by the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom, Martin is also the author of three influential books.

The keynote is free and open to the public, however, pre-registration is requested online here:
http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFKeynote

Register here for the full day conference:
http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFConference

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:45 -0500 2017-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Conference / Symposium Roland Martin & Jane Elliott
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (January 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
PhonDi Discussion Group (January 27, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37930 37930-6789432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The discussion on stress in Arabic in the literature has primarily focused on the phonological constraints/rules behind the grammar of stress in Arabic. A rather limited number of studies delve into the topic of stress acquisition. The objective of this study is to investigate into the acquisition of stress and how it is biased by frequency. Following the usage-based approach to language acquisition, it is predicted that the more frequent a stress pattern is, the better the performance of the learners.

To examine this prediction, I conducted an experiment consisting of three tasks: stress identification, lexical decision, and stress production. The stimuli implemented in the experiment are real and nonsense words that have contrastive frequency of stress pattern. By exposing these stimuli to the learners of Arabic in the experiment, a biased performance preferring frequent stress pattern is predicted.

The results confirm this prediction, as the participants react to words with frequent pattern with significantly faster reaction time and accuracy in the production task. Additionally, it is found that the frequency of the stress pattern seems to interfere with word recognition as nonsense words with frequent stress pattern tend to be perceived as real words by the participants. These findings strongly support the role of frequency in language learning and processing.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:16:25 -0500 2017-01-27T13:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (January 27, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37931 37931-6789433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:25:23 -0500 2017-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (January 27, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-01-27T14:30:00-05:00 2017-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
SynSem Discussion Group (January 27, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38216 38216-7012663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

We are reading a paper by Beltrama on Intensification, gradability and social perception: the case of totally.

Abstract
The notion of social meaning, widely investigated in sociolinguistics, is
rarely considered in experimental semantics, mainly due to the assumption that this
type of meaning is relatively independent from the semantic properties of its carrier.
Following a recent strand of inquiry (Acton and Potts (2014), Glass (2015)), this
paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the role of semantic and pragmatic factors
in determining the salience of the social meaning of a linguistic expression. Relying
on a social perception task, it is shown that listeners perceive the social meaning
of the intensifier totally − measured in terms of Solidarity and Status attributes
− as particularly prominent in situations in which the morpheme combines with
a commitment scale provided by the pragmatics, as opposed to when it combines
with a scale lexically supplied by the subsequent predicate. This evidence suggests
that listeners keep track of semantic information when making social evaluations
about speech, pointing to social perception as a novel methodology for research in
experimental semantics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:03:36 -0500 2017-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights Artist's Talk and Reception (January 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38172 38172-6987084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Artist Michael Mergen gives a talk followed by the Opening reception of his installation: "Marked Landscapes: From Civil War to Civil Rights"

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Reception / Open House Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:59:25 -0500 2017-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Reception / Open House Mergen
Post Post-It (January 27, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38040 38040-6859809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2017 4:15pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Detroit School RIW

As the launch for the Detroit School Project RIW Winter lecture series, we are delighted to host Anya Sirota for a lecture and conversation about community-based design and architecture in Detroit. Thank you for forwarding this message.

Anya Sirota is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Taubman College and the principal architect at Akoaki, a Detroit-based art and architecture practice with an established reputation for original projects that materialize utopian ambitions in complex urban scenarios (www.akoaki.com). A prolific innovator whose work spans film, print, performance, and architecture, Sirota is a driving force behind multiple collective avant-garde productions in Detroit, including the Detroit Culture Council, the One Mile Project and One Mile Zine, the Mothership, and the Oakland Urban Farm, as well many other ongoing projects, temporary exhibits, and targeted actions aimed at sustaining community in SE Michigan and in France. In her practice and her teaching, Sirota focuses on the relationship between architecture and contemporary cultural production, critically re-evaluating how architecture can sustain heritage and participate in public discourse.

On Friday, January 27 from 4:15-6:15 PM in the Rackham West Conference Room, Sirota will discuss with us her vision for community-based learning and design, the partnership process, and "radical preservation." Please join us!

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Presentation Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:00:43 -0500 2017-01-27T16:15:00-05:00 2017-01-27T18:15:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Detroit School RIW Presentation Akoaki
BLI Lunch & Learn (January 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38218 38218-7012665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: BLI Fellows

BLI Lunch & Learns are designed to help you become more acclimated to the BLI community and broaden access to all that the organization has to offer. Come meet other BLI fellows and talk about your leadership development with free food.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:53:12 -0500 2017-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2017-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building BLI Fellows Social / Informal Gathering Ruthven Museums Building
Failure Factories: When Education Policies Desert Our Children (February 1, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36887 36887-5993509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Please check back here just before the event for viewing details.

Livingston Award winning journalists and education policy experts discuss "Failure Factories," the Tampa Bay Times investigation of what happened after the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration in favor of a neighborhood school system, and the policy changes prompted by the reports.

About the Article:

On Dec. 18, 2007, the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration. They justified the vote with bold promises: Schools in poor, black neighborhoods would get more money, more staff, more resources. They delivered none of that.

This is the story of how district leaders turned five once-average schools into Failure Factories.

About the Journalists:

Lisa Gartner is a writer on the enterprise team at the Tampa Bay Times. In 2016, she and Times reporters Cara Fitzpatrick and Michael LaForgia won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for "Failure Factories." The series also won the Livingston Award, the Polk Award for Education Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, among other honors. Gartner joined the Times in 2013. She grew up in Wellington, Florida, and attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. After graduating in 2010, she joined The Washington Examiner to report on education in the D.C. metro area. At the Times, Gartner covered Pinellas County Schools and higher education before joining the enterprise team in 2016.

Michael LaForgia is investigations editor at the Tampa Bay Times. He is a Livingston Award winner and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting - in 2014 for exposing problems in a Hillsborough County homeless program and in 2016 for the "Failure Factories" series. He joined the Times in 2012.

Nathaniel Lash joined the Tampa Bay Times in 2015 as an intern and became a data reporter. He was a fellow at The Center for Investigative Reporting, an intern at Newsday and a news applications developer at The Wall Street Journal. A Livingston Award winner, Lash graduated from the University of Urbana-Champaign with a degree in news-editorial journalism.

About the policy expert
Tabbye M. Chavous is the director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and a Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her expertise and research activities include social identity development among Black adolescents and young adults; and diversity and multicultural climates in secondary and higher education settings and implications for students' academic, social, and psychological adjustment.

About the moderator
Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, professor of economics, co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and Youth Policy Lab, and director of the Ford School’s doctoral program. His research focuses on urban school reform, virtual schooling and teacher labor markets; other recent work examines school choice, education accountability programs, and housing vouchers. He leads ongoing research collaborations with policymakers and practitioners, including State of Michigan Department of Education, DC Public Schools and Miami-Dade Public Schools. Jacob was a school teacher before his graduate studies. Jacob holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and an AB magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University.

About the Livingston Awards:
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan are the most prestigious honor for professional journalists under the age of 35. Livingston judges, drawn from the most accomplished figures in the profession, select winners in local, national and international reporting. Entries from print, broadcast and online journalism are judged against one another as technology blurs distinctions between platforms. The prizes are sponsored by the University of Michigan, the John S. and the Indian Trail Charitable Foundation. The Livingston Awards area program of Wallace House at the University of Michigan, home to the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists.

This event is co-sponsored by the Ford School the Education Policy Initiative and the School of Education.

2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:05:11 -0500 2017-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lisa Gartner, Michael Laforgia, Nathaniel Lash and Tabbye Chavous
ASC Presentation. UMAPS Research Colloquium Series (February 2, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/34310 34310-4903638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

Since 2009, the U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Program brings early career faculty from African universities to Ann Arbor for residencies generally lasting six months. While on campus, the scholars, representing a wide range of disciplines, further their research with a U-M faculty mentor.

This colloquium series is where each UMAPS fellow will present their work in a session of an ongoing monthly series which is designed to increase skills in effective communication, promote dialogue on topics, and share the UMAPS scholar’s research with the larger U-M community.

Gerald Walulya, Makerere University, Uganda: “The Press Coverage of Elections in East Africa’s One Party Dominant States: A Comparative Study (ASRI)”

Moses Flomo, Cuttington University, Liberia: “The Impact of Low Density Polyethylene (Water Sachets) on the Mechanical Property of Cement Mortar (STEM)”

Fitsum Andargie, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia: “Accelerating Computer Vision Using Mobile GP GPUs (STEM)”

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Presentation Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:02:17 -0400 2017-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-02T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Presentation UMAPS
EEB Thursday Seminar: Comparative genomics reveals ecological drivers of plant diversification (February 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36323 36323-5562274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

When adaptive evolution occurs rapidly it can leave little historical signature with which to trace and reconstruct evolutionary events. However, with the application of genome-scale data we now have unprecedented statistical power to investigate and tease apart even the most rapid cases of evolution, in the form of reconstructed demographic scenarios, or population and species divergences. Here, I will present two cases from flowering plants. First, demonstrating the role of interspecific reproductive interactions in driving diversification of Pedicularis in alpine communities of the Tibetan plateau; and second, demonstrating an association of climatic differences with phenotypic evolution during a radiation of Viburnum in neotropical cloud forests. In both cases, I apply new statistical models to restriction-site associated DNA (RAD-seq), and discuss the benefits and pitfalls of these approaches

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

Watch YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cZ-cwSsLokE

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:04:53 -0400 2017-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar EatonPic
Immigration, DACA-Dreamers, and the University of Michigan (February 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36948 36948-6070426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

As part of the University of Michigan Bicentennial Events, the Latina/o Studies Program in the Department of American Culture is presenting the forum “Immigration, DACA-Dreamers, and the University of Michigan.” This event will address the impact of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy at the national level and at the University of Michigan. The forum participants include Dr. Karma R. Chávez, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas – Austin; Dr. Silvia Pedraza, Professor in the Departments of Sociology and American Culture, University of Michigan; Dr. Jorge Delva, Kristine A. Siefert Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Community Engagement Program at the University of Michigan Institute for Clinical & Translational Research; and Dulce Rios, a senior in the College of Engineering, studying Engineering Physics with a concentration in Optics. Dr. Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Department of Psychology and School of Social Work, University of Michigan, will serve as the moderator.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:18:17 -0400 2017-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion poster
Our Future University Community: Reflections on Justices Susanne Baer and Sonia Sotomayor's Remarks (February 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36639 36639-5761739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This panel discussion follows the January 30th bicentennial colloquium,"The Future University Community," featuring German Justice Susanne Baer and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In this follow-up conversation, three faculty members discuss how can the University of Michigan can resurrect, revive, or otherwise reinvigorate its lofty mission.

Audience members will be able to ask questions and participate in the event. Refreshments will be served.

Panelists include:
- Martha S. Jones, Presidential Bicentennial Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies; Co-director, Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History
- Terrence McDonald, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of History; Director, Bentley Historical Library; former Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Women's Studies
- Moderator: Anna Kirkland, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science; Associate Director, Institute for Research on Women & Gender

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:51:29 -0500 2017-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Poster image
Archival Methods and American Literature (February 3, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37972 37972-6814974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2017 10:30am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Please join us as three esteemed scholars discuss how archival research shapes the practice of American literary and cultural history in the 21st century. Panelists will share stories about their experiences using archives and discuss how archival work can facilitate cross-disciplinary efforts in the humanities.

Panelists:

Eric Slauter, Director of The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago, focuses his scholarship chiefly on transformations in political thought and behavior in the eighteenth century. He has a strong interest in the material history of books, and completed a project, Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Classic. A blend of environmental, labor, and literary history, the project examines the supply-chain of raw materials in the 1854 first edition of Thoreau’s book (from cotton-based paper and linen thread to animal-skin glue), considers the many people who contributed to its production (including enslaved African-Americans in the South, commodity brokers, northern mill workers, European rag-pickers, and women and children in the printing trades), and reflects on the literary genealogy of our contemporary desire to know the origin as well as the environmental and social impact of objects in our daily lives. Eric will also be lecturing on Thursday, Febuary 2 at 4:00 PM at Angell Hall, Room 3154 on his project Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Classic.

Cathleen Baker, Conservation Librarian Emerita (U of M), is a paper and book conservator and educator for more than forty-five years in England and the United States. She is the author of numerous articles and books including By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter (2000) and the award-winning From the Hand to the Machine. Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation (2010).

Susan (Scotti) Parrish - Susan Scott Parrish is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan; she is also a Fellow at the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (UM). Her book American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (UNCP, 2006) was awarded the Jamestown Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; the Emerson prize is given by the Phi Beta Kappa Society to one book each year for its contribution to understanding “the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:55:48 -0500 2017-02-03T10:30:00-05:00 2017-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Slauter
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 3, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38184 38184-6993114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:49:14 -0500 2017-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-03T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (February 3, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-02-03T14:30:00-05:00 2017-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
2017 MLK, Jr. Luncheon Series II (February 8, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38044 38044-6859813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Interested in discussions on social culture at UofM? How about social entrepreneurship, diversity, inclusion, and many other important topics? Then look no further than the MLK, Jr. Luncheon Series.

These events are held every Winter term, hosted by Tau Beta Pi and the College of Engineering and seek to promote a culture of inclusion while helping encourage attendees to continue their development as a "whole person" rather than simply as an "engineer." Lunch will be served.

Please RSVP at: https://tbp.engin.umich.edu/calendar/event/946/

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:05:24 -0500 2017-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 2017-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Screening of ESPN's 30 for 30 Fab 5 Documentary (February 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38151 38151-6961513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Black Male Athlete. "Who is He and What is He to You?" Save the Date(s) for the screening of ESPN's 30 for 30 Fab 5 Documentary on Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. in the Trotter Center Lounge. Be sure to stay for the Q & A session with members of the Fab 5 immediately following the screening; food will be served.

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Film Screening Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:00:51 -0500 2017-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2017-02-08T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Film Screening Flyer for Fab 5 Documentary Screening. All info in graphic contained in article.
EEB Thursday Seminar: Thinking inside the box: community consequences of stage-structured populations (February 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36324 36324-5562275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A central challenge in community ecology is to understand the connection between biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. The traditional approach in community ecology is based on the premise that predictions can be made by treating a species as a homogenous entity. However, no population is truly homogenous and individuals within a species often vary considerably in their ecology. By far the largest source of this functional variation between individuals stems from differences in size and ontogenetic stage. The unresolved question is how this functional variation within species affects the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems. Using a combination of experiments and theoretical studies I demonstrate that these changes in the ecology of individuals during their development have important consequences on the dynamic, structure and functioning of entire ecosystems and how they respond to natural or anthropogenic disturbances.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:32:56 -0500 2017-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar CommonWhitetailTexasEagle
The Prison Teaching Initiative (February 10, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38545 38545-7223762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 9:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics

Abstract

The Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI) is an all-volunteer organization comprised of Princeton graduate students, postdocs, and faculty that teaches college-accredited courses in State (and one Federal) Correctional Facilities in New Jersey. As background, I will discuss mass incarceration in this country, and the impacts of higher education on recidivism. Then, I will talk about the history of our program and our model, in the context of other programs nationwide.

About the Speaker

Jenny Greene is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University. She is interested in galaxy evolution and the important role played by supermassive black holes. She spends the rest of her time making sure PTI runs, being the director of graduate study at Princeton, and designing a galaxy evolution survey for the upcoming Prime Focus Spectrograph Survey.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:34:29 -0500 2017-02-10T09:30:00-05:00 2017-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Lecture / Discussion Professor Jenny Greene
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (February 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
PhonDi Discussion Group (February 10, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38461 38461-7191697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Björn Köhnlein will give a presentation on "Prosodic and segmental structure at the interface of synchrony and diachrony"

Abstract
Prosody, the structure above the individual sounds of a language (e.g. syllables, stress / foot structure, intonation), often interacts with segmental structure in language change. This talk discusses the complexity of such processes, with a focus on the relationship between vowel height / vowel duration, obstruent voicing, intonational tone, and abstract prosodic categories (syllable structure, foot structure). As I show on the basis of data from Continental West Germanic, such interactions can lead to a variety of innovations in languages: for instance, intonational languages can introduce lexically contrastive tonal contours (similar to tonal languages); some stressed vowels can lengthen while others shorten at the same time; seemingly opaque phonological rules can emerge, as well as apparent cases of subtractive morphology.

The talk also addresses the question how speakers integrate such novel patterns into the grammar. In a nutshell, I shall argue that a more refined set of prosodic representations resolves many emerging problems and helps to improve our understanding of the interface between synchronic and diachronic phonology. The main idea is that prosodic structure can sometimes be retained even after corresponding segmental information has been deleted.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:55:23 -0500 2017-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
DocDi Discussion Group (February 10, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38462 38462-7191698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Emily Sabo will give a presentation on corpus data

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:57:20 -0500 2017-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Semantics Reading Group (February 10, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38812 38812-7422729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Acton, E. K., & Potts, C. (2014). That straight talk: Sarah Palin and the sociolinguistics of demonstratives. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 18(1), 3-31, will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:23:56 -0500 2017-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (February 10, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 2017-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
Alfred L. Edwards (ALE) Annual Conference (February 10, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38596 38596-7320026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ross School of Business

The Black Business Student Association at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business invites you to attend the 41st Annual Alfred L. Edwards Conference and Celebration. Michigan Ross' longest-running conference will kickoff on Friday, Feb. 10, with Susan L. Taylor as the 2017 William K. McInally Memorial Lecture keynote speaker. Taylor is the former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine and the Founder/CEO of CARES National Mentoring Movement. This year's conference theme is "Breakthrough to Excellence: Investing in You and Your Community." The ALE Conference includes various sessions/workshops that focus on the issues, challenges and opportunities encountered by underrepresented minorities in the business world. The keynote address will be in Ross' Robertson Auditorium and is free and open to the public. To register, click on the "Keynote address tickets" link provided below.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:22:25 -0500 2017-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ross School of Business Conference / Symposium Susan L. Taylor will deliver the 2017 William K. McInally Memorial Lecture at the 41st ALE Conference.
Stemming the Breach: Cybersecurity Reform for the 21st Century (February 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38830 38830-7429333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Three panels (civil liberties, corporations and national security) with panelists who will debate on various legal concerns and how best to fix them!

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:38:56 -0500 2017-02-11T09:00:00-05:00 2017-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 South Hall Michigan Journal of Law Reform Conference / Symposium Schedule
ASP Workshop | Photography at the Nexus of Armenian Studies and Visual Culture (February 11, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36434 36434-5613610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 11, 2017 2:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This workshop is the first in a series of discussions about photographs as objects with which to trace the Armenian past and present. How do we read photographic images? How can photographs be deployed as autonomous sources for reading the past, rather than as props for written texts? How can they be used as a way to think about material production? We will reflect on how photography complements the study of Armenian history at the same time as it enriches and questions the field of visual culture. The notion of witnessing and rendering legible objects of photographs will be interrogated. What do photographs hide and what do they reveal? How can we read the internal tensions that photographs visualize productively to write about trauma and violence?

Complete workshop program: http://ii.umich.edu/content/dam/asp-assets/asp-documents/new-workshop-program.pdf

Organizers: Kathryn Babayan, Armenian Studies Program Director, Yaşar Tolga Cora and David Low, Manoogian Post-doctoral Fellows

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:45:35 -0500 2017-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Unidentified ruins and the church of St Gregory of Tigran Honents, Ani, Turkey, August 2016 | Credit: David Low
Perspectives on Im/Migration, Exclusion and Discrimination (February 13, 2017 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38610 38610-7326446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2017 4:10pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

How can moments in Jewish, Muslim, and African American history and tradition be activated to bear upon the present moment? Scholars present short talks that explore histories of exclusion and displacement in Jewish culture, Muslim traditions of solidarity, and Jewish Arab and African-American activism, drawing links to the Muslim ban and actions against immigrants and refugees. Discussion will follow. All invited.

Karla Goldman, "American Exclusions/American Ideals: From the Immigration Restriction Acts to the Trump Administration"
Devi Mays, ""'Jew’ Means War, Hunger, and Prostitution:” Interwar Ethnonationalism and Jewish Exclusion"
Bryan Roby “'We too shall overcome': Transnational Alliances between African-Americans and Arab Jews"
Shira Schwartz, "Solidly Inscribing: Body as Sign, Body as Protest in Deuteronomy, Nazi Europe and Now"
Logan Wall, "Emma Lazarus' 'The New Colossus' as Dissent"
Rudolph (Butch) Ware, "Quranic Visions of Religious, Racial, and Human Solidarity"

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:18:39 -0500 2017-02-13T16:10:00-05:00 2017-02-13T17:40:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jewish Refugees
PitE Internship Information Session (February 13, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37131 37131-6173162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

During this info session, faculty & advisors will discuss strategies to finding an internship that works for you. Employers will talk about what they look for when hiring, and student interns will talk about the benefit & value of an internship, and give advice on how to make the most of the experience. Ideal for any student interested in environment or sustainability. Food will be provided.

Please copy the link below to RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/rOITZk32ZnundEbF2

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Presentation Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:03:24 -0500 2017-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 2017-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Program in the Environment (PitE) Presentation Information Session Flyer
Community Town Hall (February 13, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38646 38646-7320033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Campus Information

President Schlissel, along with members of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Advisory Committee, invite members of our community to a town hall where they can learn and ask questions about UM's next Provost and search advisory committee. This is an informal session open to the public.

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Other Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:41:02 -0500 2017-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2017-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Campus Information Other
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Tempo and mode in the 21st century: gleaning insights from the fossil record in the genomic era (February 14, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36838 36838-5948522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A brown bag lunch series featuring topics of interest.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:11:05 -0500 2017-02-14T12:10:00-05:00 2017-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar graph showing phenotype over time
SAC Speaker Series Presents (February 14, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38719 38719-7352061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

“Parallax Effects: Stereoscopic 3D and the Postwar Uncanny in House of Wax (André de Toth, 1953) and Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)”

Stereographic 3D cinema is best known for its transformation of the dimensionality of the moving image through the production of positive and negative parallax (“immersion” and “emergence” effects). Scholars tend to critique the use of negative parallax in 3D films of the 1950s, especially, as a gimmick that doomed the format to failure by disrupting narrative and and disturbing the spectator’s absorption into the fictional world of the film by foregrounding the screen as surface and threshold. This paper departs from prevailing scholarship on 3D films by situating positive and negative parallax effects along a continuum that aligns the first with the epistemological drive - the desire to see and know - and the second with an affective charge that is irreducible to the provocation of shock and surprise.The association of positive parallax and negative parallax with knowledge and affect, respectively, made stereoscopic 3D an ideal format for the cinema’s investigation into the uncanny culture and experience of technological modernity in the postwar era in 3D films such as Dial M for Murder (1953) and House of Wax (1953).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:36:02 -0500 2017-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 2017-02-14T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Book cover
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Terrance Hayes (February 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38436 38436-7178892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead (Penguin 2010), winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002), and Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a United States Artists Zell Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn (Penguin 2015), his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which bringsoutstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon '13).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:42:01 -0500 2017-02-14T18:00:00-05:00 2017-02-14T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Umma
RC CPC (February 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36398 36398-5607160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Curriculum Planning Committee Meeting

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Meeting Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:44:44 -0500 2017-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2017-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Meeting East Quadrangle
Tuần lễ: Vietnamese Studies Week (February 16, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37361 37361-6508690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Scholars who specialize in Vietnam lead a roundtable discussion to accompany the exhibition "Women & War: Wartime Posters from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975," a series of posters and related printed material.

Nora Taylor, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Karen Turner, Professor of History at College of the Holy Cross; Sophie Quinn-Judge, Associate Director, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society, Temple University

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:34:41 -0500 2017-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Southeast Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Hatcher Graduate Library
EEB Thursday Seminar: Unexpected responses of disease to global change (February 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36352 36352-5581492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

With the threat of changing climate, species invasions, shifts in land use, and other anthropogenic changes, ecologists are increasingly concerned about the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. The common assumption is that environmental changes will facilitate disease spread and increase the risk to humans and species of agricultural and conservation concern. Yet most ecological processes are nonlinear, and the response of infectious diseases to environmental change is no exception. In this talk, I will explore two ways in which nonlinearities in disease transmission lead to unexpected responses of disease to environmental change: (1) pathogen spillover from exotic to native plant species, and (2) impacts of temperature on vector-borne disease transmission. To understand the importance of nonlinearity in these systems, I use mathematical models fit to empirical data. In both cases the field-parameterized models show, counter-intuitively, that environmental change does not necessarily lead to negative disease-mediated outcomes. In fact, the fungal pathogen is predicted to benefit the native grass species in competition with the invasive grass, and warm temperatures are expected to decrease malaria transmission in currently heavily-infected areas. These surprising results underscore the importance of integrating models and data to predict responses of disease to environmental change in nature.
Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

Watch YouTube video: https://youtu.be/gkHBUv3EGgA

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:05:30 -0400 2017-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Mordecai
Sexual Assault on UM Campus: Challenges, Policy, & Prevention (February 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38041 38041-6859811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Please check back here just before the event for viewing details.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

This event is made possible in part through the generous support of the Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling Health Policy Fund

About the speakers:

William Axinn is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies and a professor of public policy. He is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests center on fertility and family demography. Axinn’s program of research addresses the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, marriage, cohabitation, fertility and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn’s interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.



Pamela Heatlie is an attorney who represented institutions of higher education for 15 years. Her legal practice was wide-ranging, with a particular emphasis on employment law and student-related legal issues. She now serves as the senior associate director of the University of Michigan's Office for Institutional Equity, where her work focuses on creating a welcoming and inclusive campus environment. She is also the University's deputy Title IX coordinator. Heatlie's particular areas of expertise include civil rights law and related investigations, diversity initiatives, and legal and compliance issues related to affirmative action.

In addition to her work at U-M, Heatlie speaks nationally on a variety of civil rights issues affecting higher education, including Title IX compliance. Most recently, in response to a White House task force report, she has worked with the National Center for Campus Public Safety to develop training related to Trauma Informed Sexual Assault Investigations and Adjudications. She also has taught Legal Issues in Higher Education at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Vermont. Heatlie received her BA with highest distinction from Wayne State University and her JD from the University of Michigan Law School.



Holly Rider-Milkovich currently serves as the Senior Director of Prevention Education, EverFi. As the former Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center at the University of Michigan (SAPAC), Ms. Rider-Milkovich provided direction and leadership to the University’s sexual and intimate partner violence response, education and prevention efforts across campus. Ms. Rider-Milkovich also co-chaired the Abuse Hurts Initiative, a cross-campus effort to address the effects of domestic violence in the workplace and connect survivors to appropriate campus and community-based resources. Ms. Rider-Milkovich is the former Executive Director of a three-county domestic violence prevention and services program and emergency shelter in southeast Georgia and provided state-level leadership while serving on Executive Board of the Georgia Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. She has worked in teams with law enforcement as a Police Response Advocate and has experience as an Emergency Room Advocate for an urban SANE program. Ms. Rider-Milkovich has taught women’s studies courses at the college level and has expertise in curriculum development and evaluation as well as program development, implementation and evaluation.



Emma Zorfass (BA '17) is from Port Washington, NY, and has been volunteering and working for the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) since her freshman year. Along with public policy, Emma hopes to pursue an economics minor. She particularly interested in education and economic policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:44:24 -0500 2017-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-16T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion SAPAC
Detroiters Speak: Detroit Public Schools - Race, History, & Purpose (February 16, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37440 37440-6534084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:09:23 -0500 2017-02-16T19:30:00-05:00 2017-02-16T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (February 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
PhonDi Discussion Group (February 17, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38009 38009-7422730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ian Calloway: "Power Priming and Speech Perception"

Abstract
English listeners use information about the speaker's gender in categorizing sibilants as /s/ or /ʃ/. This study investigates whether self-perceived power influences how listeners process this social information, and, in turn, how listeners categorize sibilants. Self-perceived power, the perceived capacity to control the resources or punishments of others, is associated with the style of processing of social information an individual tends to adopt. The percept of high-power listeners tend to depend more on attributes associated with a social category, rather than attributes unique to the speaker, which may conflict with the category assigned to the speaker (Fiske & Neuberg 1990). I expected that when a listener is presented with conflicting information about speaker gender (e.g. a female face but a male voice), the percept of the low-power listener will be sensitive to both sources of information, while that of the high-power listener will be sensitive to just one.

In this study, Participants were primed for a high or low degree of self-perceived power (as in Galinsky et al. 2003) and completed a forced choice identification task. During each trial, they were presented with an image of a face and manipulated auditory stimuli, which ranged from "sigh" to "shy"; the participants indicated hearing "sigh" or "shy"'. For a given participant, the gender of the face was paired with either the same or the opposite gender voice for the duration of the experiment. Responses were significantly influenced by the gender of the speaker's voice, whether the gender of the face and that of the voice matched, and the power priming group to which the participant was assigned; in most instances the direction of the influence matched predictions. I also frame these results with respect to other studies on the relationship between power and linguistic perception, research on individual differences, and research on language change.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:25:15 -0500 2017-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
DISC Symposium. Investigating Islam: A Community Forum (February 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36865 36865-5967757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Moderator: Pauline Jones, DISC director. Panelists: Kadin Herring and Amir Khafagy, Beyond Sacred cast members; Mohammad Khalil, associate professor of religious studies, Michigan State University; Rudolph (Butch) Ware, associate professor of history, U-M.

“Investigating Islam: A Community Forum” explores the diverse experiences of Muslims in America at a time of increasing Islamophobia. The forum will include professors from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University and cast members of "Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity," an interview-based theater production presented by Ping Chong + Company. Sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum in partnership with UMS, this forum aims to inform conversations about the daily experiences of Islamophobia and to foster greater understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:23:30 -0500 2017-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Investigating Islam
HistLing Discussion Group (February 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37932 37932-6789434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Professor William Baxter will give a presentation on "How to reconstruct Old Chinese -- and why"

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:47:07 -0500 2017-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (February 17, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-02-17T14:30:00-05:00 2017-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 17, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38463 38463-7191699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:59:09 -0500 2017-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (February 17, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38464 38464-7191700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:06:11 -0500 2017-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Jelena Krivokapic Colloquium (February 17, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36372 36372-5587912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Jelena Krivokapic will present a talk entitled, "Prosodic structure in speech and body gestures."

Abstract

The term “prosody” refers to linguistic structure above the segmental level, such as phrasal organization, rhythmic structure, and prominence. Prosodic structure introduces systematic variation in the temporal and tonal properties of speech. Thus segments and speech movements (gestures) become longer in the vicinity of prosodic boundaries and under prominence. This lengthening is cumulative for prosodic boundaries, i.e., it increases with boundary strength, and there is some evidence that it is cumulative for prominence as well, increasing from broad to narrow to contrastive focus. In addition to tonal and temporal manifestations of prosodic structure, there is substantial evidence that body gestures (e.g., speech-related movements of the hands and eyebrows) are also implicated in the expression of prosodic structure. However, the extent and exact nature of this relationship is still poorly understood.

I will present a series of experimental studies examining how structural properties of prosody are reflected in speech production. I start with a brief introduction to prosodic structure and then turn to four experimental studies examining the relationship between body gestures (specifically manual movements) and prosodic structure. The focus is on the coordination of manual and speech gestures (experiment 1) and on the temporal properties of manual gestures under prominence (experiment 2) and at prosodic boundaries (experiments 3-4). The implications of the findings for our understanding of the linguistic representation of prosodic structure are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:52:16 -0500 2017-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Linguistics
RC Faculty Talks 2017: Stephen Ward: On the Meaning and Memory of 1967 (February 17, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37481 37481-6603843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2017 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The year 2017 will occasion a range of commemorative activities on campus in recognition of various noteworthy historical anniversaries. The university, of course, will celebrate its bicentennial, while the Residential College will proudly mark its 50th year. Indeed, reaching this milestone provides a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the RC’s evolution and its many accomplishments over this half-century. We can gain valuable perspective on this milestone by recalling something of the intellectual and political moment from which the RC emerged. Pivotal developments of that year that shocked and shaped the world in 1967 continue to have enduring impacts today. This talk will suggest the value in reconsidering selected events of that momentous year—including the Arab-Israeli War, the Detroit Rebellion, and Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam”—and use this to offer some thoughts on the unfolding of intellectual and political currents since 1967.

Dr. Ward is Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Associate Professor of Residential College, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:21:35 -0500 2017-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Meaning and memory
Beyond the Ivory Tower Series: Building the Engagement Dossier for Teaching - Talk and Workshop for Graduate Students (February 18, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38368 38368-7140415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 18, 2017 11:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Do your teaching objectives include encouraging students to situate their classroom learning within larger social issues, and further social justice inquiry through engagement in and with distinct communities? Have you been thinking about the relationship between critical pedagogy, research scholarship, and community engaged work? Would you like to develop your teaching philosophy statement around community-based learning goals with experienced individuals in the field of engaged pedagogy?

In this integrated talk and workshop, you will have an opportunity to engage with the experiences of Dr. Sarah Hamilton, U-M History and Arts of Citizenship alumna, and current Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Auburn University, Alabama. You will also have the chance to work on your teaching statements in a facilitated setting, with Professor Hamilton and members of the U-M community.

Participating students should bring a 1-page draft of their teaching statements, as well as questions and thoughts about cover letters in the context of community-engaged pedagogy in higher education. Prior experience in engaged pedagogy training or assistantship is desired, but not required. You will receive feedback from faculty members and administrative staff experienced in such pedagogical practices, and leave with a revised draft of your teaching statements.

Bus transportation to and from the U-M Detroit Center will be provided.

SCHEDULE
11:00-12:30: Talk by Dr. Sarah Hamilton
12:30-1:00: Lunch
1:00-3:00: Workshop (Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement on Engagement)

Presenters:
- Sarah Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, Alabama
- Matthew Countryman, Associate Professor of History and American Culture and Faculty Director of Rackham Program in Public Scholarship
- Denise Galarza Sepúlveda, Director, Center for Engaged Academic Learning, College of LSA
- Laura N. Schram, Director, Professional, and Academic Development, Rackham Graduate School

Moderator:
- Kush Patel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Humanities & Michigan Humanities Collaboratory

Participants:
- U-M Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:03:24 -0500 2017-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Ivory-Tower
In Conversation: Constructing Gender (February 19, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38435 38435-7178891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 19, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email.

Two brothers. Two million dollars. Two Buildings. Two gendered spaces. Constructing Gender: the Origins of Michigan’s Union and League (January 28 – May 7, 2017), looks not only at how brothers (and U-M alumni) Irving K. and Allen Pond meticulously conceived and constructed the two clubs—one for men, one for women—but how they built ideas about gender and society into the very fabric of the Union and League themselves. Join exhibition curator Nancy Barlett of the Bentley Historical Library, for an exploration of the origins of these iconic buildings through an architectural lens, and showing how their design reflected the era’s ideas about gender, morals, and coeducation.

Lead support for Constructing Gender: Origins of Michigan's Union and League is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:38:31 -0500 2017-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Michigan Union
Leaks, Whistleblowers and Big Data: Collaborative Journalism Across Borders (February 20, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38412 38412-7172371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan

A panel of Knight-Wallace Fellows and the deputy director for The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) will share the stories behind the biggest data leaks in history, the establishment of global networks for investigative reporters and the seismic impact of collaborative journalism.

Bastian Obermayer, Knight-Wallace Fellow and head of investigative unit for Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is the reporter contacted by the anonymous source for The Panama Papers.

Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and co-manager of The Panama Papers investigation.

Edouard Perrin, Knight-Wallace alum and investigative journalist for Premières Lignes Télévision, received the initial information for the Luxembourg Leaks.

Laurent Richard, Knight-Wallace Fellow and editor-in-chief for Premières Lignes Télévision, oversaw coverage of the Luxembourg Leaks.

Will Potter, a 2016 Knight-Wallace Fellow and Marsh Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan, will moderate the discussion.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:25:43 -0500 2017-02-20T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan Conference / Symposium Obermayer, Walker Guevara, Perrin and Richard
EEB Special Seminar: Dominance patterns of woody plants in the Madidi region (Bolivian Amazon and Andes) (February 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38088 38088-6885018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The study of commonness patterns that include both local abundances and spatial distributions is a promising field for the floristic description of tropical forests. A major advance at this regard was the Oligarchy Hypothesis, which states that the same set of common species ('oligarchic species') dominates in different sites in tropical forests. This hypothesis places the focus of attention on the common components of these highly diverse systems, instead of on the rarity of most of its species. The seminar describes the hypothesis and the results of some research conducted in the Madidi region (Bolivia), one of the longest forested gradients in the world. The results indicate that regional connectivity and dispersal are important for oligarchic patterns. Although niche-based processes could shape oligarchies in the Amazon, maybe they are not so important in other systems like the Andean forests. Overall, the elevational gradient has a great impact on the extent at which oligarchic patterns can be detected, as well as on the extent of the dominance of the oligarchic species in those systems.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:56:35 -0500 2017-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Madidi region
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37222 37222-6457667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

February 20, 2017
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public; reception to follow.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Colloquium, 6th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:

Gain inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in people. Learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About Lee:

Julia Lee is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Management and Organizations Department at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Beginning in the summer of 2017, she will join Michigan Ross as a Faculty member. She focuses on the motivation of employees to reach their full potential, healthy, and honest behavior in organizations.

Her current work relates to how relational self-affirmation, by highlighting one’s contributions, can lead to positive outcomes. These results are measured at an and creative performance, team level (information exchange and team performance), and organizational level (reduced burnout and turnover).

Hosted by:

Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:

The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Learning & Professional Development, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane and Paul Jones (MBA ‘75), for their support of the 2016-17 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:19:16 -0500 2017-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Honors Info Session (February 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39053 39053-7602761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Do you have a passion for learning?
Do you hope to deepen your engagement with faculty and other highly motivated students?
Are you looking for new ways to dive deeper into the topics that mean the most to YOU?

Come to our information session offered at CSP for CSP students.

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Other Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:17:14 -0500 2017-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Other Info Session Flyer
Sentence Processing Reading Group (February 21, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39024 39024-7577066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The paper to discussed will be Jäger, Engelmann & Vasishth (in press) "Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:38:43 -0500 2017-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Film screening and Q & A: Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness (February 21, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38992 38992-7551385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

Please join us in celebrating Black History Month by attending a film screening of Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness. The screening will be followed by a Q & A and spoken word with Bocafloja Quilomboarte. Complete details are below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th Floor of Rackham
Date: February 21, 2017

7:00p.m. (Welcome and Intro. by Bocafloja Quilomboarte)
7:30p.m. (film begins)
8:10p.m. (film ends; Q & A begins)
9:00p.m. (Q&A ends)
9:00-9:15p.m. (spoken word performance conclusion)

About the film and Bocafloja:

• Bocafloja is a Multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, author, and founder of the Quilomboarte collective. Decoloniality, Body Politics, African Diaspora in Latin America and Intersectionality are fundamental topics addressed in his body of work. Bocafloja has been featured in newspapers, magazines and media outlets globally.

• Nana Dijo is a cartography of the Black experience through a collection of narratives in first person. Nana Dijo is an urgent historical registry filmed in Mexico, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and the United States, which opens a crucial platform of analysis about race relations/politics by transgressing beyond the parameters of hegemonic discourses imposed by culturalist agendas. The narrative sewed into Nana Dijo grows out of the body of the oppressed trespassing geo-political borders. Nana Dijo pursues processes of empowerment while being critical towards exoticization within hegemonic cultural industries. Nana Dijo is the complexity in the colonized psyche; Our elders vernacular manifestation. Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness is the first documentary collaborative project directed by Bocafloja in collaboration with Cambiowashere.

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Film Screening Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:27:07 -0500 2017-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2017-02-21T21:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Munger Graduate Residences Film Screening Bocafloja Quilomboarte
Honors Info Session (February 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39053 39053-7602762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Do you have a passion for learning?
Do you hope to deepen your engagement with faculty and other highly motivated students?
Are you looking for new ways to dive deeper into the topics that mean the most to YOU?

Come to our information session offered at CSP for CSP students.

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Other Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:17:14 -0500 2017-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Other Info Session Flyer
RC Faculty Meeting (February 22, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36397 36397-5607157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 3:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Monthly meeting of RC faculty

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Meeting Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:37:29 -0500 2017-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T16:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Meeting East Quadrangle
Understanding Social Action in a Contested Environment (February 22, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38919 38919-7480744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 6:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

The current shifting and salient political climate has catalyzed divergent responses of millions of individuals across the nation. Specifically, legislative actions enacted by contested congressional governance has resulted in heightened grassroots action, increased public dissent, accelerated journalism, and difficult dialogues among deeply divided communities.

The following co-sponsored program with CASC, University of Michigan School of Social Work and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs will offer insight about existing social divisions, the complexities of unity, and the importance of social change. Through a moderated interview, presenters will also share knowledge about emergent policy changes and its effect on national and campus climate, discuss multiple levels of social action in challenging contexts, and offer strategies for coalition building.

The presenters for this event include Trelawny "Trey" Boynton, Director of the Office of Multiethnic Student Affairs and Austin McCoy, PhD, Michigan Mellon Fellow. The event will be moderated by Larry Gant, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Art and Design.

The program will be held at the School of Social Work, Room 1840 Educational Conference Center. Light dinner provided. RSVP to attend: http://bit.ly/2jUE6kA

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:38:31 -0500 2017-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion A short description of the event, along with pictures of the speakers and moderator for the discussion
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (February 22, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T20:30:00-05:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion
Warren Herb Wagner Guest Lecture in Plant Evolution: Mosaics, megabases, and matryoshki: a leaf-to-landscape perspective on the symbiotic renaissance (February 23, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36326 36326-5562276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract
We are fortunate to be living in one of the most exciting times in the history of symbiosis research: a true renaissance period in which ecological and evolutionary theory, organismal knowledge, and the dual powers of technology and computational biology are framing a new understanding of symbiotic interactions. From studies of diffuse coevolution and horizontal transmission to context- dependency, the -omics of interactions, and new evidence of nested symbioses, recent work is revisiting — and sometimes rewriting — the rules for how we think about 'the living together of unlike organisms.' In this presentation I will focus on one of earth's most prevalent symbioses — the association of endophytic fungi with photosynthetic organisms — to highlight (1) recent findings regarding ecological interactions at levels from leaves to landscapes; (2) new insights into mechanisms underlying plant-fungal associations from local to global scales; and (3) emergent questions, which together speak to the challenge, excitement, and promise that engage us across disciplines and organisms in the broader study of symbiosis.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

Watch YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8nDTJ5KKdZE

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:06:49 -0400 2017-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Betsy Arnold and her dog
Eco Equity Roundtable (February 23, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38723 38723-7352066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Dinner Included -- RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/1KYeQJS8OLQ7LIJl2

With support from the Provost's Office, join fellow U-M Undergraduate and Graduate students to build a movement for equity in the environment by connecting with new leaders across campus and identifying opportunities for personal and organizational growth. A summary of this event will help inform future programs, including student and faculty engagement.

Guiding Principles & Assumptions:
- A just society is embedded within the vision of a sustainable future as it is critical to “enhance well-being for present and future generations”.

- Formal and informal networks of U-M community members are needed to advance sustainability.

- Clear articulation of the importance of social equity in sustainability mobilizes support and resources.

- Community-driven processes are important to achieve equity and sustainability
- The Environmental field suffers from inequity (Green 2.0 Report)

-- Green Ceiling
-- Unconscious Bias, Discrimination, and Insular Recruiting
-- Lackluster Effort and Disinterest in Addressing Diversity

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Other Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:20:52 -0500 2017-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Graham Sustainability Institute Other Eco Equity
Detroiters Speak: Black, Brown, & Red Power - Schooling Resistance (February 23, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37965 37965-6814967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Tonight's session will be co-moderated by eliza qualls perez, Director, Detroit Equity Action Lab, and Stephen Ward, Associate Professor, UM-Ann Arbor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies/Residential College, faculty director, UM Semester in Detroit.

Speakers will include Dr. Karl Gregory and Sarah Brant, SOC Care Coordinator with American Indian Health and Family Services

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:52:31 -0500 2017-02-23T19:30:00-05:00 2017-02-23T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (February 24, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
DocDi Discussion Group (February 24, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39027 39027-7577068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Details to come.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:12:55 -0500 2017-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (February 24, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-02-24T14:30:00-05:00 2017-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
SynSem Discussion Group (February 24, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39028 39028-7577069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Details to come.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:14:16 -0500 2017-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
(FULL) 35th Annual Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) Career Conference (March 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37205 37205-6451224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

Registration for this conference is now closed, as we have reached capacity. Thank you!

The 35th Annual WCTF Career Conference will be held on Friday, March 3, 2017. This year's featured keynote speakers are Ms. Jane Elliott, Diversity Scholar and Pioneer, and Mr. Roland S. Martin, Host & Managing Editor of News One Now.

Jane Elliott has been teaching her "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes" groundbreaking anti-racist group social exercise for over thirty-six years, working to make people permanently more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism. Starting the exercise in her third-grade classroom in all-white, all-Christian Riceville, Iowa, immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this exercise has provided dramatic results for both children and adults throughout the country. Elliott’s work has also been the subject of several television documentaries, written up in many psychology and social studies texts, and a book, A Class Divided, Then and Now. Elliott is a recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous colleges, universities, and corporations, and has appeared on a plethora of television shows, including 60 Minutes, Oprah, and Today.

Roland S. Martin is a journalist who is the host and managing editor of TV One’s News One Now, the first daily morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports and culture from an explicitly African American perspective. Martin is also the creator and host of The Roland Martin Show, as well as senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Honored with the 2013 National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Journalist of the Year Award, Martin is a two-time winner of the NAACP Image Award and has received more than 40 professional media awards. Spending six years as a CNN Contributor, and as a member of the network's "Best Political Team on Television,” he was granted the Peabody Award in 2009. Named three times to Ebony Magazine's 150 Most Influential African Americans list, and recognized as one of the Top 50 Political Pundits by the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom, Martin is also the author of three influential books.

The keynote is free and open to the public, however, pre-registration is requested online here:
http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFKeynote

Register here for the full day conference:
http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFConference

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:45 -0500 2017-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium Roland Martin & Jane Elliott
Race, Gender & Identity in the Workplace featuring Jane Elliott and Roland S. Martin (March 3, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38113 38113-6891407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

In honor of the 35th Annual Women of Color Task Force Career Conference, please join us for an engaging discussion on Race, Gender & Identity in the Workplace featuring Jane Elliott and Roland S. Martin, and moderated by Professor Robin Means Coleman.

This morning keynote address is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, however, registration is required for those who are not attending the 1-day paid WCTF conference.

Register to attend here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/2017WCTFKeynote

Jane Elliott has been teaching her groundbreaking anti-racist group social exercise “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” for over 36 years, working to make people more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism, prejudice, and privilege. Elliott started the exercise in her third-grade classroom immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recognizing that continuous education, introspection, and commitment to this issue should be taught at an early age.

Roland S. Martin is an award-winning journalist who has always maintained a clear sense of his calling and delivered a critical analysis of the news and politics from an explicitly African American perspective. The host of his own news show on BET, Martin also serves as senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Martin is the author of three books, including The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:11:45 -0500 2017-03-03T08:30:00-05:00 2017-03-03T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Headshots of Roland S. Martin & Jane Elliott
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (March 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2017-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Mastering the American Accent (March 3, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-03-03T14:30:00-05:00 2017-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
“An Unprecedented Obligation and Opportunity for the South”: World War II and the Death of the Southern Renaissance (March 6, 2017 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38642 38642-7320021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 3:10pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Dr. Gardner surveys the changes wrought by World War II to the book industry in general and to the southern renaissance in particular. Taking Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit and Richard Wright’s Black Boy, both published in 1944, as case studies and expanding out, Dr. Gardner argues that during the 1940s the South came to occupy a different literary position in the minds of industry insiders. The war changed which books were produced, how they were produced, and the ways they were pitched to an expanding market that demanded reading material that explained new wartime realities. In this climate, few southern titles fit the bill. It also notes the ways in which the industry itself had changed. Southerners continued to publish fiction, of course, but by the 1940s there was hardly anything new about the overturning of the moonlight and magnolia school of southern letters. Renaissances cannot continue forever. Southern authors still might have something new to say, but that was no longer revolutionary. The modern literary marketplace that had emerged in the 1920s and 1930s looked markedly different in the 1940s and 1950s. The war might not have signaled the death of Dixie, as some prognosticators had suggested, but it did signal the death of the southern literary renaissance.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:13:20 -0500 2017-03-06T15:10:00-05:00 2017-03-06T16:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion East Quadrangle
International Women's Day in Lane Hall (March 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39232 39232-7860180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

On Wednesday, March 8, International Women's Day, Lane Hall will be open and available to any students, faculty, staff, and community members seeking a safe and accessible space for rejuventation, discussion, and action in pursuit of gender equity and justice. Free snacks and refreshments available.

To reserve meeting space for discussion or social justice work, please send requests to irwg@umich.edu.

At 3pm in Room 2239, listen to Victoria Reyes' research talk, “The Rape of Nicole and the Murder of Jennifer: Gender, Sovereignty and the U.S. Military in Subic Bay, Philippines.“ More information: goo.gl/g14sJC

Lane Hall is located at 204 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI. Ramp and elevator access at E. Washington Street entrance. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Women's Studies.

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Other Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:26:40 -0500 2017-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Other women's empowerment symbol
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (March 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion Dana Natural Resources Building
Michigan China Forum (March 9, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39281 39281-8118458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Chinese Students and Scholars Association

The Michigan China Forum (MCF) was co-founded by Chinese Students and Scholars Association, China Entrepreneur Network, and SJTU Student & Alumni Association in 2017 as part of the bicentennial of the University of Michigan. It is aimed at connecting the future of the U.S. and China. World leading experts and professionals from different sectors including entrepreneurship, finance, automotive, media, academia, and governments, will come and share their insights. It will be a great opportunity for the young people from all nations to further understand the challenges and opportunities they will likely to take on and make meaningful connections.

In addition to the Forum itself, we will host an international career fair for students who are interested in working in China. Notable global companies from China will come and recruit on campus.

Lastly, the Chinese Business Challenge will hold its final round at the Forum. The finalists will receive exclusive mentorship from venture capitals and entrepreneurs from both countries to help them address opportunities at a global scale.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:29:24 -0500 2017-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Chinese Students and Scholars Association Conference / Symposium MichiganChinaForum Info
EEB Thursday Seminar: Coexistence in diverse coflowering communities: importance of post-pollination interactions (March 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36327 36327-5562277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

In the wild plants exist in multispecies groups and often share pollinators which can lead to exchange of pollen between different species. Interspecific pollen transfer leads to conspecific pollen loss and heterospecific pollen receipt, the latter of which leads to a unique suite of plant-plant interactions on the stigma. The question of how plant-pollinator interactions contribute to flowering plant communities has largely focused on plant traits that mediate pre-pollination interactions, and ignored the potential for traits that mediate these post-pollination processes. In this talk I describe how common and complex post-pollination interactions can be in the wild, especially in the diverse coflowering communities of the serpentine in California. I further explore the diverse effects of heterospecific pollen receipt on plant fitness, with a focus on understanding the traits that mediate this diversity. I put forward a hypothesis for the involvement of post-pollination interactions in plant species coexistence and test elements of it with data from the serpentine seep communities. By understanding the consequences of plant interactions via their shared pollinators we can better predict sustainability of natural flowering plant communities, as well as the consequences of disruption of these from global change, such as climate warming, invasive species, or pollinator decline.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:55:50 -0500 2017-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ashman
Free International Business Panel and Webinar (March 9, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39283 39283-7911605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Alumni Center
Organized By: Alumni Association

Please join us for a special Global Mentoring Event to network with our Alumni from around the world and learn more about International Business and International Business opportunities. The event will include a virtual panel from various countries sharing their global expertise and how to leverage International Business opportunities as student and as a future alumnus.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:52:46 -0500 2017-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Alumni Center Alumni Association Lecture / Discussion REGISTER TO CONNECT WITH INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI IN BUSINESS
"Remnants" (March 9, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38490 38490-7191732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

"Remnants" is an award-winning, minimalist piece that includes the voices of 3 men and 4 women, currently presented as a one-man performance by the author. The play reflects more than 40 years of conversation between the playwright and a small group of Holocaust survivors. "Remnants" is thus not testimony, but rather recreates memory as it erupts within sustained and deepening acquaintance.

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Performance Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:00:26 -0500 2017-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Remnants
Detroiters Speak: The Crisis in Public Education in Detroit Since the 1990s (March 9, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38404 38404-7165985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

This panel will be moderated by Peter Hammer (WSU Detroit Equity Action Lab & Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights).

Speaker Bios:

HELEN MOORE

Helen Moore has been a life-long advocate and warrior for the children of Detroit, beginning with her days as a State of Michigan Social Worker and continuing with Black Parents for Quality Education and The Keep the Vote No Takeover Coalition. She is also a member of Detroit’s Council of Elders. Ms. Moore educates her community on school district policy, student rights, and other education-related legal issues and parental involvement efforts. She earned a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University and a juris doctorate from the Detroit College of Law.

BERNA RAVITZ

My passion for education began bubbling within me long before I could articulate it. As a youngster I was decidedly unchallenged by school. Ironically that led me to acquire a Bachelor’s in Psychology, a Master’s in Education, certification in Bilingual Education, and finally, a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. All of this was in pursuit of the magic formula for 'evening the playing field' for all of my students. I began utilizing gifted and talented strategies (constructivist education) and saw amazing results in the progress of our students. My Experience as Michigan Teacher of the Year, National Distinguished Principal as well as an Educational Fulbright exchange allowed me such incredible experiences that are invaluable in my work even today. Upon retirement from my being a principal, I worked for several years as an Educational Coach in Detroit Public Schools; I currently dedicate my time towards fulfilling the mission of Simply Start Kids.

RUSS BELLANT

Russ Bellant is a retired City of Detroit employee, President of the Helco Block Club, President of the Detroit Library Commission, member of the Detroit Public Schools Task Force and also a founding steering committee member of RESTORE northeast Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:26:41 -0500 2017-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 2017-03-09T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
"Water, Microbes, & Human Health" (March 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38190 38190-6993516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: MAC-EPID

From the developing world to the developed world, there are increasing challenges to maintaining the safety and accessibility of drinking water. The aim of this symposium is to examine how medical, industrial, environmental and domestic uses of water enhance or hinder microbial growth and transmission and their effects on human health. 


Guest speakers:

Dr. Jimmy Walker
Scientific Leader for Water and Decontamination, Biosafety, Air and Water Microbiology Group, Public Health England

Nicholas J. Ashbolt
Alberta Innovates Translational Health Chair in Water, School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Karen Levy
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

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For more information and registration for this FREE event:
www.MAC-EPID.org
Anna Cronenwett, weaverd@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:54:02 -0500 2017-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower MAC-EPID Conference / Symposium Event Flyer
Collaboration is Not a Luxury: Writing in the Humanities (March 10, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38633 38633-7320003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Graduate Workshop with Prof. Mimi Khúc.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:03:29 -0500 2017-03-10T11:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T12:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (March 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
PhonDi Discussion Group (March 10, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38010 38010-6840670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Arthur Brakel will present a talk entitled, "Phonological Markedness and Levels of Analysis"
Abstract
My project, Portuguese Morphophonology: A Markedness Approach, attempts to provide a complete grammar of that language’s inflectional and derivational morphophonology, as well as that of nominal compounding. The analyses it provides are based on A) constraints on representation advocated by ‘natural’ phonologists, B) a theory of morpheme boundary affinities, C) notions of markedness (rarity, restriction, complexity, and opposition) I advanced in Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features (Indiana, 1983).

Identifying Portuguese’s 26 phonemes requires 12 distinctive features. In representative Portuguese texts each of the 12 distinctive features (phonological marks) should be present in fewer phoneme tokens than in the tokens lacking that distinctive feature (e.g. there should be fewer [+nasal] tokens than [-nasal] tokens.) And that is the case for all features, save one: [+contoid], whose presence among the 18,455 tokens in the study’s morphophonemic segmental dataset outnumbers the phoneme tokens lacking that feature. However, in ‘systematic phonetic’ representations [+contoid] occurs in fewer tokens than [-contoid]. The issues this result brings up are: A) At what level of analysis are these markedness criteria valid evaluators of linguistic data? B) What would be the results of a feature count in Portuguese texts with extreme vowel reduction? C) Are my results a peculiarity of Portuguese? D) Are they an artifact of my analysis? E) Are they valid for Portuguese? F) In other languages’ texts do contoids’ and vocoids’ tokens occur in similar proportions?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Mar 2017 10:37:28 -0500 2017-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (March 10, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37933 37933-6789435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ben Fortson will give a presentation on "A meretricious tale: Feminine agent nouns in Latin."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:31:31 -0500 2017-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (March 10, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-03-10T14:30:00-05:00 2017-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
SynSem Discussion Group (March 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39029 39029-7577070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Details to come.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:16:33 -0500 2017-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Angel Gallego Colloquium (March 10, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36370 36370-5587910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Angel Gallego (UAB) will present a talk entitled, "Strict and flexible cyclicity in phase theory."

Abstract
This talk has two goals. On the one hand, it discusses recent phase-theoretic conceptions of “strict cyclicity,” which typically involve the application of an operation (Spell-Out, Transfer, etc.); in particular, I discuss the possibility that Transfer does not remove the syntactic objects created in the course of a derivation (which I relate to the similar role played by the Phase Impenetrability and the No Tampering Conditions). On the other hand, I review the empirical evidence suggesting that NPs and PPs do not align with CPs and vPs when it comes to certain strict-cyclicity defining properties; although the facts do not argue that NPs and PPs are locality-free domains, they do suggest that the notion “phase” (sensu Chomsky 2000 et seq.) does not quite apply to them.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:29:24 -0500 2017-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Angel Gallego
Academic Innovation Forum on Broadening the University of Michigan Community (March 13, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39438 39438-8063178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How might we bring a Michigan education to learners around the world and bring learners from around the world to Michigan? As part of the Academic Innovation Initiative, President Mark Schlissel will open a community wide forum on broadening the Michigan community of learners with a special announcement about an innovative mechanism for Michigan faculty to dialogue with the public around current events and issues. Forum participants will explore the many ways in which U-M is leveraging academic innovation to address the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Following President Schlissel’s remarks, edX CEO Anant Agarwal will deliver a keynote address about how technology is affording scholars with new audiences and new channels for public engagement. Agarwal will share examples of innovation taking place at universities across the globe. A panel of U-M innovators will then share insights into how we are currently engaging pre-college, lifelong and lifewide learners and how we can create catalysts for academic innovation to further scale and enhance these efforts. The panel will provide examples of programmatic, technological, and pedagogical innovation already underway.

Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/Uqa6ic

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:45:52 -0500 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Office of Academic Innovation
Book Panel: Feminist Object / Object Oriented Feminism (March 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39353 39353-8001512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

On Tuesday, March 14, join us for a book panel and discussion with interdisciplinary artist and author Katherine Behar, Stamps Professor Irina Aristarkhova, alumni Emily Dibble (BFA 2016) and Kit Parks (BFA 2015), and student Riley Hanson (BFA 2017).

Is painting an object that can be objectified? Should objects give “consent”? This panel discusses these questions within the context of Object Oriented Feminism (Minnesota University Press, 2016), a new book edited by guest speaker Katherine Behar and including a chapter by Stamps Professor Irina Aristarkhova, and artwork made by Stamps students (Hanson, Parks, Williams, Dibble).

Book Panel: Feminist Object / Object Oriented Feminism
Tuesday, March 14 from 5-8pm
Room 2417, Art & Architecture Building
2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor



 

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 04 Mar 2017 18:16:01 -0500 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/news/Behar_OOF_FRONT.jpg
CASC Talks: Opening Minds and Borders (March 14, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39359 39359-8241174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

We are proud to host both Professor Samer Ali, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Culture. Professor Ali will speak on the history, evolution, and current prevalence of Islamophobia in the United States.

Presentations will be followed by a collective Q&A. Refreshments will be provided!

RSVP: http://archive.ssw.umich.edu/forms/rsvp/index.html?eventID=E2579
If you have questions, please contact cascboard@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:21:11 -0500 2017-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion Green and blue background with text reading: "CASC Talks - Opening Minds and Borders: Perspectives on Islamophobia and Refugee Assistance" with additional description of the date and time of event, along with the CASC and Near Eastern Studies Logo.
SpeakABLE (March 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39191 39191-7763700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Services for Students with Disabilities

A speech event to raise awareness for disabilities on campus.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:03:48 -0500 2017-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Services for Students with Disabilities Presentation Hatcher Graduate Library
Watching While Latinx: Media Reception and Latinz Audiences (March 16, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39302 39302-7937695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

This two day symposium explores Latinx audiences and their reception of the US and Latin American media.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:08:31 -0500 2017-03-16T11:30:00-04:00 2017-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 North Quad Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion poster
EEB Thursday Seminar: Plant phylogenomics: comparative analyses of plant genes and genomes (March 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36328 36328-5562278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract
Phylogenetic frameworks for species relationships and gene families are becoming increasingly essential for organization and analysis of the avalanche of sequence data that has come with development of massively parallel sequencing technologies. Sequence clustering approaches such as OrthoMCL are providing approximations of gene families. Phylogenetic analyses of these gene family clusters are yielding improved understanding of species relationships and new insights into gene and genome evolution. I will illustrate the utility of low copy gene families for estimating species relationships and how resulting species tree inferences serve as a framework for inferring the evolution of multi-copy gene families and whole genomes. For example, a phylogenomic framework has been used to resolve the timing of known and previously unknown paleopolyploidy events in angiosperm history. Moreover, understanding the timing of paleopolyploidy events allows us to test hypothesized links between polyploidy, diversification and the origin of novel traits.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:14:59 -0500 2017-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram
Soundings: A Cartographic Celebration of Marie Tharp (March 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38824 38824-7429147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Hali Felt, author of “Soundings: the Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor," reads from and discusses the book at 4:00 p.m. Hear about the fascinating life of Michigan alumna and Ypsilanti native, Marie Tharp, whose work led to the acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift. After the presentation, explore samples of Tharp’s work and the exhibit "The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus," which features Marie Tharp.

Third Thursday is a monthly open house that showcases the highlights of the Clark Library’s vast collection. These fun, thematic events are open to everyone, offering the community a look at some of our favorite maps and other materials.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:39:30 -0400 2017-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion event poster
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (March 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
PhonDi Discussion Group (March 17, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38011 38011-6840671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:33:30 -0500 2017-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
DocDi Discussion Group (March 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39031 39031-7577072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

General discussion on tools for linguistic fieldwork.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:20:32 -0500 2017-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Mastering the American Accent (March 17, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 33399-5890722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

If English is not your first language, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you "hear" the American accent for better listening, while also helping to improve your own speech.

Call 734-764-8440 to register or for more information.

Weekly Sessions Include:
- Group conversations
- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals
- Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:11:51 -0500 2017-03-17T14:30:00-04:00 2017-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Class / Instruction Accent Reduction Program flyer
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 17, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39030 39030-7577071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Details to come.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:19:10 -0500 2017-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Cool Town: Athens, Georgia and the Promise of Alternative Culture in Reagan's America (March 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39761 39761-8290324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

a talk on music in Athens, GA by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Chair of American History, University of Virginia

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:20:17 -0400 2017-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Cool Town
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Ecological genetic insights on stickleback speciation (March 21, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36841 36841-5948525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A brown bag lunch series featuring topics of interest.

Abstract
Although the role of natural selection in the origin of species is now broadly established, we know little about mechanisms of selection and how they lead to the evolution of reproductive isolation. I describe recent experiments in ponds that address components of this problem in threespine stickleback, a group of fish that has diversified in postglacial lakes of the Pacific Northwest.

Image: Nicole Bedford.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:08:00 -0400 2017-03-21T12:10:00-04:00 2017-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar stickleback fish
Teach-in: What is Fascism and How Does It Work? (March 21, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39616 39616-8210443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Contemporary political discourse in the US and across the
world is rife with references to “fascism” or “authoritarianism.”
This teach-in provides some much needed historical context
and allows for an informed discussion about what fascism
actually is, how it has worked in the past, and how it has been
resisted. Co-sponsored by the Democracy in Action Fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:30:16 -0400 2017-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Event poster
Writer to Writer with special guest Clare Croft (March 21, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36897 36897-5993519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Center for Writing's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

This month Writer to Writer welcomes Clare Croft. Clare Croft is a historian, theorist, and dramaturg, working at the intersection of dance studies and performance studies. She specializes in 20th and 21st century American dance, cultural policy, feminist and queer theory, and critical race theory. In all of these areas, Croft considers how dance is a way of thinking and a mode for asking questions. What does it mean to acknowledge that people have bodies and that they use their bodies to make meaning, create community, and critique social structures?

Croft's current book project, Funding Footprints: Dance and American Diplomacy (Oxford University Press), examines the history of U.S. State Department funding of international dance tours. Croft's writing about dance has appeared in Dance Research Journal, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Topics, and is forthcoming in Dance Chronicle. From 2002-2005, Croft was a regular contributor to The Washington Post, and from 2005-2010, she covered dance, as well as theatre and musical theatre, for the Austin American-Statesman.

In 2010, Croft's article, "Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet's 1962 U.S. State Department-Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union," received the American Society of Theatre Research's Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize, which recognizes the publication that best explores the intersections of theatre and dance/movement. Croft was also the 2007 recipient of the Society of Dance History Scholar's Selma Jeanne Cohen Award. At the University of Michigan, Croft teaches courses in the BFA and MFA dance programs, as well as in the BFA interarts program.

Writer to Writer takes place at the Literati bookstore and are broadcast live on WCBN radio. These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:24:57 -0400 2017-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury (March 22, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38659 38659-7326430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Discussants :
-ANNA KIRKLAND, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science; Associate Director, IRWG
-SHOBITA PARTHASARATHY, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
-PETER D. JACOBSON, Professor of Health Law and Policy, Director, Center for Law, Ethics, and Health

This panel of U-M faculty members will discuss the recent book, "Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury" (NYU Press, December 2016) by Anna Kirkland.

The so-called vaccine court is a small special court in the United States Court of Federal Claims that handles controversial claims that a vaccine has harmed someone. While vaccines in general are extremely safe and effective, some people still suffer severe vaccine reactions and bring their claims to vaccine court. In this court, lawyers, activists, judges, doctors, and scientists come together, sometimes arguing bitterly, trying to figure out whether a vaccine really caused a person’s medical problem.

In "Vaccine Court", Kirkland draws on the trials of the vaccine court to explore how legal institutions resolve complex scientific questions. What are vaccine injuries, and how do we come to recognize them? What does it mean to transform these questions into a legal problem and funnel them through a special national vaccine court, as we do in the U.S.? What does justice require for vaccine injury claims, and how can we deliver it? These are highly contested questions, and the terms in which they have been debated over the last forty years are highly revealing of deeper fissures in our society over motherhood, community, health, harm, and trust in authority. While many scholars argue that it’s foolish to let judges and lawyers decide medical claims about vaccines, Kirkland argues that our political and legal response to vaccine injury claims shows how well legal institutions can handle specialized scientific matters. Vaccine Court is an accessible and thorough account of what the vaccine court is, why we have it, and what it does.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:13:32 -0500 2017-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover "Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury"
The Intersection of National Security and Human Rights (March 22, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38780 38780-7397070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Join the conversation: #policytalks
This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing details.

Towsley Policymaker in Residence Hardy Vieux (MPP/JD '97) will moderate a panel discussion on the intersection of human rights and U.S. national security.

Panelists:
Rear Admiral John Dudley Hutson, former United States Navy officer, attorney, and former Judge Advocate General of the Navy.
Phil Klay, American author, Dartmouth graduate, and former Marine, who frequently writes for The New York Times.
Ian Fishback (MA ‘12), University of Michigan PhD Candidate in Philosophy and former United States Army officer.

Moderator:
Hardy Vieux, Legal Director at Human Rights First, Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence

From the speakers' bios:

John D. Hutson was born in North Muskegon, Michigan. He was commissioned in the U.S. Navy upon graduation from Michigan State University in 1969. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1972. Upon admission to the State Bar of Michigan, he attended the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I. In 1973, he was assigned to the Law Center in Corpus Christi, TX, where he served as Chief Defense Counsel and Chief Trial Counsel. In 1975, he was transferred to Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, CA. He served as the Station legal officer for two years before returning to Newport to serve as an instructor at the Naval Justice School, where he taught Civil Law, Procedure, and Evidence.
In 1980, Hutson attended Georgetown University Law Center where he earned a Master of Laws degree in labor law. He was then assigned as a legislative counsel in the first of three tours in the Office of Legislative Affairs for the Navy. In 1984, he was assigned to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME, where he served both as Staff Judge Advocate and Administrative Officer.
Hutson assumed duty as Executive Officer of the Naval Legal Service Office, Newport, RI, in 1987. In 1989, he returned to Washington, DC, to serve as Staff Judge Advocate and Executive Assistant to the Commander, Naval Investigative Command.
In August 1989, Hutson moved to the Office of Legislative Affairs as Director of Legislation. Between October 1992, and November 1993, he was assigned as the Executive Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. In November, 1993, he resumed duty in the Office of Legislative Affairs.
In August 1994, he assumed duty as Commanding Officer, Naval Legal Service Office, Europe and Southwest Asia, located in Naples, Italy. In July 1996, Hutson returned to the Naval Justice School as Commanding Officer. He was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, and assumed duties as the Judge Advocate General of the Navy in May 1997. He also served as the DOD/JCS Representative for Ocean Policy.
Hutson served as Dean & President of the University of New Hampshire School of Law from July 2000 through January 2011.
Hutson was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (with three gold stars), Meritorious Service Medal (with two gold stars), Navy Commendation Medal, and Navy Achievement Medal.

Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College and received an MFA. His story “Redeployment” was originally published in Granta and is included in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Granta, Tin House, and elsewhere.
In 2014 Klay’s short story collection Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction. He was also shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize and named a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree. In 2015 he received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundations James Webb award for fiction dealing with U.S. Marines or Marine Corps life, the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Award for best debut work in any genre, the American Library Association’s W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize, and the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing.

Ian Fishback is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy who holds an M.A. from the Department of Political Science. His research interests are political and moral philosophy, moral psychology, conflict studies, the law of armed conflict, and criminal law. He is writing a dissertation on the relationship between the morality and law with respect to two principles: proportionality and necessity.
Ian has a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to transitioning to academia, he served as an officer in the paratroopers and Special Forces from 2001-2010, including four combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. He also served as a philosophy instructor at West Point from 2012-2015.
TIME magazine named Ian one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his role in reforming detainee treatment standards in the US military from 2005-6.

Moderator Hardy Vieux is the legal director at Human Rights First, “an independent advocacy and action organization” that uses American influence to protect “human rights and the rule of law." He currently manages the organization’s refugee representation work. Previously, he worked for Save the Children International on issues impacting Syrian refugee children in Amman, Jordan.
Within HRF, Vieux leads the refugee representation program, which arranges pro bono legal representation and addresses the psychosocial needs of clients seeking asylum. In addition, Human Rights First is currently conducting campaigns to protect LGBT rights, to prevent the torture of terrorism suspects and to close Guantanamo, and to fight anti-Semitism. While most other organizations specialize in one activity or the other, one of HRF’s strengths is that its direct legal services work informs its advocacy and vice versa. Vieux teaches at the Ford School during the Winter 2017 semester as Towsley Policymaker in Residence.

The Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence program (T-PMR) was established in 2002 to bring individuals with significant national and/or international policymaking experience to campus, enhancing our curriculum and strengthening our school's ties to the policy community.

Cosponsored with: Human Rights First.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Mar 2017 11:03:08 -0500 2017-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Hardy Vieux
Hot Topics with Sex & Relationship Expert Megan Stubbs (March 22, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39432 39432-8063166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Come learn about healthy sex and relationships at our annual Hot Topics lecture series with Sexologist Megan Stubbs. Students with leave with extra knowledge about what they're preferences are, becoming comfortable with their preferences, the difference between healthy and toxic relationships, inclusive language around sex preferences, and much more.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 09:06:28 -0500 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion megan stubbs
Privacy & Security Challenges in Investigative Journalism (March 22, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39380 39380-8044709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information Assurance

Knight-Wallace journalists, Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard will share the stories behind the biggest data leaks in history, and how privacy and security play important roles and present significant challenges in investigative journalism in the digital age.

Admission is free and light refreshments included. For more information visit www.safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance .

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 09:13:53 -0500 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-22T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event Series: Privacy & Security Challenges in Investigative Journalism
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (March 22, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion
EEB Thursday Seminar: Bayesian phylogenetic methods for synthesizing paleontological and neontological data (March 23, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36329 36329-5562279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Understanding macroevolutionary processes and evolution in deep time requires data from the fossil record. In recent years, advances in phylogenetic inference methods have provided ways to integrate fossil and extant taxa. These approaches allow simultaneous estimation of the divergence times and phylogenetic relationships of extant and fossil species, thus making full use of morphological and temporal data, rather than just molecular sequence data from living species. I will highlight our recent and ongoing work using the fossilized birth-death process to estimate species phylogenies and divergence times. Both simulation and empirical studies demonstrate how making full use of available fossil data and properly modeling lineage sampling and diversification improve estimates of species divergence times.

Sponsored by the U-M Museum of Zoology Theodore H. Hubbell Memorial Lectureship

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

Watch YouTube video: https://youtu.be/EEErKsKmv4g

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:59:06 -0400 2017-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar phylogenetic tree
LINGFO: Linguistics Information Session (March 23, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39728 39728-8265742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Please mark your calendar for the 2017 Lingfo Session, which is coming up on Thursday, March 23 at 5:30 pm. The event, which will take place in the south wing of the 4th floor of Lorch Hall, will offer pizza and pop, as well as linguistic trivia and prizes! Many of our faculty and advisors will be present to answer questions, and undergraduate clubs will also be represented. Finally, we will offer our students a chance to talk with each other about class registration advice. Please drop by and see what the Linguistics Department will have to offer in the fall and beyond!

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Other Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:07:46 -0400 2017-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Other LingFo poster
AMAS Community Dinner (March 23, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39052 39052-7602759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab and Muslim American Studies invites its minors, faculty, affiliates, and friends to a community building event. Come have dinner with UM students, staff, and faculty who are interested in Arab and Muslim American Studies. Enjoy music, poetry, dance and other talents from our community. Free dinner. If you would like to sign up for the open mic, please email: Haleemah Aqel (aqelhs@umich.edu).

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Meeting Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:40:36 -0500 2017-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Meeting backpacking 2017
Detroiters Speak: Examining University Engagement with Detroit (March 23, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37967 37967-6814969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Speakers will include:

---Dr. Kendra Hearn - Clinical Associate Professor, UM School of Education, Director of Teach for American Interim Certification Program

---Joel Berger - UM Alum ('10), TFA Corps member 2010-2012 (Winan Academy Middle School), 2012-2014, Brenda Scott Middle School (EAA), 2014-present, Cass Technical High School, DFT Executive Board Member (2017-)

---Ashley Lucas - Associate Professor, UM School of Music Theatre and Dance/Residential College, Director, Prison Creative Arts Project

---Aaron Kinzel, Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies, UM Dearborn

---Jamila Martin, Operations Director, 482Forward

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:22:20 -0400 2017-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Generations X, Y and Beyond: Maximizing Your Team's Success (March 24, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39624 39624-8210488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 8:30am
Location: Administrative Services Building
Organized By: Organizational Learning

For the first time in our history, there are five generations in our workforce. The diverse perspectives, motivations, attitudes and needs of these generations have changed the dynamics of today’s work environment. By learning the motivations and the footprint of each generation, you can leverage your team’s talents and capitalize on its diversity to maximize unit outcomes.

You will learn to:

Describe each generations work ethic and how it contributes to the success of the team
Apply techniques that will allow you to communicate effectively across all generations
Determine which strategies to use for delegating work to others from differing generations
Practice coaching techniques for giving effective feedback across generations

You will benefit by:

Understanding how the background/history of each generation has molded how they approach their job
Knowing how different generations process information and change
Avoiding the tendency to stereotype generations
Understanding the current changing workplace demographics

Audience:

Anyone wanting to better understand how to work with and communicate across generations

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:29:17 -0400 2017-03-24T08:30:00-04:00 2017-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 Administrative Services Building Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
SEGREGATED SPACES (March 24, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39863 39863-8394892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The Initiative for Inclusive Design invites you to join us for our presentation on segregated spaces. There will be a lecture from disability rights activist Celeste Adams, covering disability history and culture, followed by a panel discussion on the group’s research concerning accessible spaces on campus. We aspire to create a lasting effect on the Ann Arbor community and architecture students, who will be responsible for accessibility in the future. Please join us to support this crucial, yet frequently overlooked issue.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:30:58 -0400 2017-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 2017-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Segregated Spaces at Taubman College
HistLing Discussion Group (March 24, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37934 37934-6789436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:08:16 -0400 2017-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 24, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39569 39569-8143008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:03:32 -0500 2017-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Jane Stuart-Smith Colloquium (March 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36371 36371-5587911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Jane Stuart-Smith will present a talk entitled, "A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular."

Abstract
Sociophonetic research unites the social and the phonetic in terms of theory, method and practice (e.g. Foulkes and Docherty 2006; Foulkes 2010). Insights can be gained from placing phonetic and phonological findings within their social context. Recent advances in phonetic methods can enhance our descriptions and understanding of speech in practice. This talk illustrates the rewards of doing sociophonetic research by considering a case study which takes a particular sociological context, Glasgow, a large industrial city over the 20th century, and examines phonological variation and change over the same period in its vernacular dialect (Stuart-Smith et al in press 2017; Stuart-Smith et al in press 2017; Sounds of the City). Specifically I will present findings from novel phonetic investigation into three areas of the consonantal system, coda /r l/ (cf Stuart-Smith et al 2015), fricatives /s ʃ/ (cf Stuart-Smith 2007), and the stop voicing contrast /b d t d k g/ (cf Stuart-Smith et al 2015). The results demonstrate how sound changes are linked with the changing social context in which they occur for this speech community over time. They also show how the inclusion of social information can enhance our understanding of phonetic and phonological processes more generally.

References

Foulkes, Paul, and Gerard Docherty. 2006. The social life of phonetics and phonology. Journal of phonetics 34: 409-438.

Foulkes, Paul. 2010. Exploring social-indexical knowledge: A long past but a short history. Laboratory Phonology 1: 5-39.

Stuart-Smith, Jane, Jose, Brian, Rathcke, Tamara, Macdonald, Rachel, and Lawson, Eleanor. In press 2017. Changing sounds in a changing city: An acoustic phonetic investigation of real-time change across a century of Glaswegian. In: Emma Moore and Chris Montgomery (eds.) Language and a Sense of Place. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Stuart-Smith, Jane, and Lawson, Eleanor. In press 2017. Scotland: Glasgow and the Central Belt. In: Ray Hickey. (ed.) Listening to the Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Stuart-Smith, Jane, Sonderegger, Morgen, Rathcke, Tamara, & Macdonald, Rachel. 2015. The private life of stops: VOT in a real-time corpus of spontaneous Glaswegian. Laboratory Phonology 6: 505-549.

Stuart-Smith, Jane, Lennon, Robert, Macdonald, Rachel, Robertson, Duncan, Soskuthy, Marton, Jose, Brian, & Evers, Ludger. 2015. A Dynamic Acoustic View of Real-Time Change in Word-Final Liquids in Spontaneous Glaswegian. Proceedings of ICPhS 2015, Glasgow.

Stuart-Smith, Jane. 2007. Empirical evidence for gendered speech production: /s/ in Glaswegian. Laboratory Phonology 9: 65-86.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:01:53 -0500 2017-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Jane Colloq Poster
Michigan China Forum (March 25, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39281 39281-7905186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 9:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Chinese Students and Scholars Association

The Michigan China Forum (MCF) was co-founded by Chinese Students and Scholars Association, China Entrepreneur Network, and SJTU Student & Alumni Association in 2017 as part of the bicentennial of the University of Michigan. It is aimed at connecting the future of the U.S. and China. World leading experts and professionals from different sectors including entrepreneurship, finance, automotive, media, academia, and governments, will come and share their insights. It will be a great opportunity for the young people from all nations to further understand the challenges and opportunities they will likely to take on and make meaningful connections.

In addition to the Forum itself, we will host an international career fair for students who are interested in working in China. Notable global companies from China will come and recruit on campus.

Lastly, the Chinese Business Challenge will hold its final round at the Forum. The finalists will receive exclusive mentorship from venture capitals and entrepreneurs from both countries to help them address opportunities at a global scale.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:29:24 -0500 2017-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2017-03-25T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Chinese Students and Scholars Association Conference / Symposium MichiganChinaForum Info
Optics & Photonics Industry Snapshot and Outreach Event (March 27, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39252 39252-7866657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Optics Society at the University of Michigan

The Optics and Photonics Industry Snapshot and Outreach Day is designed to bring together people from optics and light-related industries in Michigan, the academic community, students and the general public. The evening’s activities are intended to foster discussion, inspiration and building relationships within the region. This event is made possible by the Ann Arbor Section of the Optical Society of America (AAOSA), the Optics Society at the University of Michigan (OSUM) and the Michigan Photonics Cluster (Mi-Light). The keynote address is given by Prof. James C. Wyant. This year we highlight the history of optics in Michigan and the treasure chest of photonics-related industries, facilities and human resource in the local area and ways to enhance public understanding of science. Join us for a great evening of networking, talk, outreach and light refreshment.

Program: 6:00-10:00pm

6:00-7:00 pm: Registration and name-tags, refreshments, booth setups and networking
7:00-8:00 pm: Keynote presentation by Prof. James C. Wyant
8:00-8:30 pm Industry spotlight, (1-2 mins company and organization pitch)
8:30-10:00 pm: Coffee, networking, exhibitions and outreach
10:00 pm End

RSVP is requested, but not required.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:41:18 -0500 2017-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T22:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Optics Society at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Michigan Union
Health Equity at Industrial Scale: the Frank Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act under the Trump Administration (March 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39679 39679-8241166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Environmental Practice Workshop, with reception to follow.
The Trump Administration will be setting precedents for the new Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (amended Toxic Substances Control Act). This law was the first major environmental statute to be updated in over 20 years and passed with bipartisan support. The new law promises to change how chemicals are evaluated for environmental health hazards. Chemicals from consumer products and industrial processes find their way into our bodies as well as our water, soil, and air. National leaders will discuss implications for research, children's health, equity and policy.

The free event is open to the public and it will be live-streamed and recorded for future viewing. Please Register for this free event to help us plan for the refreshments: https://goo.gl/lS2EBf

Speakers include Dr. Gina Solomon, Deputy Secretary Cal EPA and Dr. Tracey Woodruff, UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment. You may have heard Dr. Woodruff on NPR or To the Point or read her piece in the BNA. US EPA's Dr. Tala Henry is the division director responsible for risk assessment for the Lautenberg TSCA implementation. Nick Schroeck, J.D., from Wayne State's Transnational Environmental Law Clinic will provide an overview of the new law.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:29:36 -0400 2017-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Workshop Speakers
Eye on Detroit: Outside the 7.2 Panel Discussion (March 28, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39433 39433-8063167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

This panel will explore the housing options available to individuals looking outside of the boundaries of the most prominently discussed and publicized communities commonly referred to as the 7.2.

Our panel will be featuring moderator Eric Dueweke, DLBA Director Darnell Adams, GRDC Director Tom Goddeeris, Realtor Harriet Johnson and Detroit Housing Director Arthur Jemison.

To RSVP for the event, click the link below.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:57:31 -0400 2017-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Outside the 7.2
RC CPC (March 29, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36398 36398-5607161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Curriculum Planning Committee Meeting

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Meeting Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:44:44 -0500 2017-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Meeting East Quadrangle
Songs for the Resistance: The Role of Folksongs in U.S. Social Movements (March 29, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39673 39673-8235032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Corey Dolgon has a PhD from the University of Michigan in American Studies and has published five books including the award winning End of the Hamptons: Scenes From the Class Struggle in America's Paradise (NYU Press) and the new Kill it to Save it: An Autopsy of Capitalism's Triumph Over Democracy (Policy Press). He is also a long time activist, organizer and folksinger, whose Ann Arbor experiences in tent cities and diag demonstrations paved the way for a career as a scholar activist.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:35:28 -0400 2017-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion corey
Helping Student Parents & Other Nontraditional Students Succeed (March 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39237 39237-7866642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: CEW+

(This panel is targeted specifically to U-M staff, however students are welcome.)

As the percentage of college students with children and other nontraditional students (NTS) increases, U-M staff and faculty will need to know how best to serve this diverse population. Workshop panelists will highlight the special challenges facing nontraditional students and inform attendees of the university policies, resources and community supports available to address them. Join us to learn how you can assist in retaining student parents at UM and helping them thrive!

PANELISTS:
Jacqueline Bowman, Ph.D., Senior Counselor and Program Specialist, Center for the Education of Women
Amy Szczepanski, B.S., Community Child Care Resources/Campus Child Care Homes Manager, Work-Life Resource Center
Mark Moldwin, Professor of Space Sciences and Engineering and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Faculty Associate in the Center for Research, Learning and Teaching in Engineering
Paul Artale, M.E., Manager Graduate Student Engagement, Rackham Graduate School, Ph.D. Student and Father
Leslie Pittman, Masters of Social Work Student and Mother
Ashley Bostic, Graduate Student in Nursing and Mother

MODERATOR:
Beth Sullivan, M.P.H., Senior Associate for Advocacy & Policy, Center for the Education of Women

This event is co-sponsored by Work-Life Resource Center and the Rackham Graduate School.

Food will be offered, so please register here by Wednesday, March 22nd: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/helping-student-parents-other-non-traditional-students-succeed/20170227

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:35:20 -0500 2017-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Student Parent Handbook Cover
Journeys between the Chinese Traditional and Contemporary Arts (March 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38974 38974-7532144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Director Danny Yung will give a talk about traditional performing arts. Yung is a pioneer of experimental performance, video, and installation art in the Sinophone region, and Artistic Director of Zuni Icosahedron – Hong Kong’s leading arts collective. He is the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards Artist of the Year 2015, a Fukuoka Prize Laureate (2014), the recipient of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009), and of the UNESCO Music Theatre NOW Award (2008).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:48:08 -0500 2017-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion danny yung photo
With or Without US? International Climate Agreements in Uncertain Times (March 29, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38949 38949-7512864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: ClimateBlue

Our spring symposium will bring together students and community members to discuss the outcome of recent United Nations climate negotiations in Marrakech, Morocco. Join us in hearing perspectives from University of Michigan student delegates who were there as observers. Stay to learn some takeaways from a panel of experts and policymakers on what’s next for climate policy, globally and locally. After the delegate talks and the expert panel we invite you to speak to student and community groups at our Organization Fair. Additionally, the call for the COP 23 U of M delegation will be announced at this event, opening the spring application period.
Please join us for the Delegate Talks and stay for Pizza Dinner at 6pm! RSVP required for dinner: http://bit.ly/WithOrWithoutUS

Schedule:
Delegate Talks: 4:30 pm - 6 pm, pizza dinner to follow
Expert Panel: 6:20 pm - 7 pm
Organization Fair: 7 pm - 7:30 pm

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:19:29 -0500 2017-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T19:30:00-04:00 North Quad ClimateBlue Conference / Symposium web flyer
Sterilization and Social Justice: Past and Present (March 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40000 40000-8448843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

The University of Michigan Sterilization and Social Justice Lab invites you to a one-day mini-conference convening interdisciplinary scholars who study historical and contemporary patterns of sterilization and are concerned about social and reproductive justice. The goal of the event is to discuss and compare practices and contexts for medical sterilization in the United States, from the 20th century to the present, exploring patterns in sterilization according to gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, age, sexuality, and medicalization.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:12:02 -0400 2017-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of American Culture Conference / Symposium poster
EEB Thursday Seminar: Variation and selection of genes controlling ecologically important traits in nature (March 30, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36330 36330-5562280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Although many studies provide examples of evolutionary processes such as balancing selection or deleterious polymorphism, the relative importance of these processes for phenotypic variation is unclear. To understand the evolutionary forces that influence variation in a wild relative of Arabidopsis, we are studying genes that control complex traits and fitness in nature. We performed a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) for ~100 traits, using sequenced genotypes from 430 populations across the species range. Among the significant results, we focus on a gene that is widely polymorphic and experiences heterogeneous selection among natural populations in the Rocky Mountains. Field experiments show that this polymorphism is influenced by fitness trade-offs in nature.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:37:21 -0400 2017-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar rainbows over mountain scene
Queer Geek Methodologies: Social Justice Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities (March 30, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39814 39814-8382337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies

Mobilized in contexts ranging from the Movement for Black Lives to debates about safe spaces and freedom of speech on university campuses, digital demands for social justice are often expressed in creative forms that draw from popular media. This talk draws from early work on a new book project that explores the digital production of knowledge about gender, race, and disability through the intersection of social justice discourse and fan culture, exploring ways that the creative production of media fan subcultures has preceded and shaped the development of contemporary digital politics. Participants in creative fan communities have theorized their own knowledge production as in conversation with, yet distinct from both media industrial and academic models; drawing from these approaches enables us to understand “digital humanities” as a phenomenon that need not be contained within the bounds of academic disciplines. Through the creation, circulation, and reception of fan fiction, vids, and other creative works, fans have developed complex methodologies for social justice activism, bringing together concepts from feminist, queer, critical race, and disability studies with the intense effective investments that being a fan entails.

Alexis Lothian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and Core Faculty in the Design Cultures and Creativity Program at University of Maryland College Park. Her scholarship is situated at the intersection of queer studies, speculative fiction, and social justice in digital culture. Her book Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility is under contract with NYU Press, and she has also published in venues that include Poetics Today, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Social Text Periscope, Journal of Digital Humanities, Extrapolation, and Ada: a Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. She is a founding member of the #transformDH digital humanities collective and the editorial team of the open access journal Transformative Works and Cultures, a member of the Tiptree Award motherboard, and co-chairs the academic track at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:05:38 -0400 2017-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Lecture / Discussion alexis
Environmental Criminal Enforcement (March 30, 2017 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39541 39541-8118456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:15pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join the Environmental Law & Policy Program for its 2017 conference on environmental criminal enforcement. The conference will begin on Thursday, March 30, at 4:15 PM with a keynote session commemorating the 30-year history of the Environmental Crimes Section at the Justice Department. This panel discussion will feature the eight prosecutors who have served as Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section: Jud Starr (1987-1989), Jerry Block (1989-1991), Neil Cartusciello (1991-1994), Ron Sarachan (1994-1997), Steve Solow (1997-2000), David Uhlmann (2000-2007), Stacey Mitchell (2007-2014), and Deborah Harris (2014-present). Their discussion will provide an overview of criminal enforcement under the environmental laws from the Exxon Valdez, Colonial Pipeline, and Koch Petroleum to the Gulf oil spill, Volkswagen, and Lumber Liquidators, along with hundreds of other cases prosecuted over the last 30 years.

The conference will continue on Friday, March 31. We will begin the morning with a panel discussion about the role of criminal enforcement in environmental and worker safety disasters, with a focus on the Gulf oil spill and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. Environmental prosecutors often focus on cases where the harm is greatest but those cases also raise questions about whether criminal prosecution is appropriate for industrial accidents. Our second panel of the morning will focus on fraud and concealment, with a focus on the recent prosecution of Volkswagen and the use of Title 18 charges generally. During lunch we will feature breakout discussions in two recurring areas of environmental criminal enforcement: pipeline safety issues (with an emphasis on the 2010 Enbridge oil spill in the Kalamazoo River) and international smuggling cases (with a focus on the 2016 prosecution of Lumber Liquidators for importing illegally seized hardwoods from Asia). These smaller breakout sessions will give conference participants a greater opportunity to join the discussions. Our conference will conclude with a panel discussion about the criminal prosecution of state and local officials for the Flint drinking water crisis. We will explore the extent to which residents of Flint, Michigan were betrayed by their state and municipal governments–as well as the difficult question of under what circumstances government officials should face criminal charges. Our moderators are University of Michigan law professors who are joined by panelists that include academics, prosecutors, and defense attorneys from throughout the United States who are leading experts on environmental crime. Our conference participants include Michigan faculty and students, as well as Ann Arbor residents and interested citizens from throughout Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:34:48 -0400 2017-03-30T16:15:00-04:00 2017-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Conference / Symposium South Hall
Object Lessons (March 30, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36400 36400-5607164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture

Professor Kerstin Barndt will share new findings about the history of U-M's world-class collections of natural history, ethnography and art. Her talk traces the collections’ origins in the State Geological Survey and global collection expeditions. As Michigan’s first acclaimed public museum, the University Museum in Ann Arbor was a showcase of the State and of U-M as a leading research university. What kind of exhibitions could visitors expect to see? How did the collections foster the University’s research mission and its growing disciplinary specialization? The talk draws on Barndt's forthcoming co-edited book, Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries and Collections 1817-2017.

A dessert reception will follow the talk.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 08:19:23 -0500 2017-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Ruthven Museums Building
Detroiters Speak: Emergency Mismanagement - The State's Role in Detroit's Public Education (March 30, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37968 37968-6814970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:11:10 -0500 2017-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-30T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Environmental Criminal Enforcement (March 31, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39541 39541-8118457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 8:30am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join the Environmental Law & Policy Program for its 2017 conference on environmental criminal enforcement. The conference will begin on Thursday, March 30, at 4:15 PM with a keynote session commemorating the 30-year history of the Environmental Crimes Section at the Justice Department. This panel discussion will feature the eight prosecutors who have served as Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section: Jud Starr (1987-1989), Jerry Block (1989-1991), Neil Cartusciello (1991-1994), Ron Sarachan (1994-1997), Steve Solow (1997-2000), David Uhlmann (2000-2007), Stacey Mitchell (2007-2014), and Deborah Harris (2014-present). Their discussion will provide an overview of criminal enforcement under the environmental laws from the Exxon Valdez, Colonial Pipeline, and Koch Petroleum to the Gulf oil spill, Volkswagen, and Lumber Liquidators, along with hundreds of other cases prosecuted over the last 30 years.

The conference will continue on Friday, March 31. We will begin the morning with a panel discussion about the role of criminal enforcement in environmental and worker safety disasters, with a focus on the Gulf oil spill and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. Environmental prosecutors often focus on cases where the harm is greatest but those cases also raise questions about whether criminal prosecution is appropriate for industrial accidents. Our second panel of the morning will focus on fraud and concealment, with a focus on the recent prosecution of Volkswagen and the use of Title 18 charges generally. During lunch we will feature breakout discussions in two recurring areas of environmental criminal enforcement: pipeline safety issues (with an emphasis on the 2010 Enbridge oil spill in the Kalamazoo River) and international smuggling cases (with a focus on the 2016 prosecution of Lumber Liquidators for importing illegally seized hardwoods from Asia). These smaller breakout sessions will give conference participants a greater opportunity to join the discussions. Our conference will conclude with a panel discussion about the criminal prosecution of state and local officials for the Flint drinking water crisis. We will explore the extent to which residents of Flint, Michigan were betrayed by their state and municipal governments–as well as the difficult question of under what circumstances government officials should face criminal charges. Our moderators are University of Michigan law professors who are joined by panelists that include academics, prosecutors, and defense attorneys from throughout the United States who are leading experts on environmental crime. Our conference participants include Michigan faculty and students, as well as Ann Arbor residents and interested citizens from throughout Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:34:48 -0400 2017-03-31T08:30:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Conference / Symposium South Hall
Mapping Geopolitical/Corazon Space Platica Workshop (March 31, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39371 39371-8038555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Celeste De Luna's artist talk "Sleeping with the Enemy" traces sociopolitical changes along the border by interweaving narratives of her activism as well as her experience living with policing along the border.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:29:28 -0500 2017-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion poster
Graduate Workshop: Queer Geek Methodologies: Social Justice Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities (March 31, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39894 39894-8403434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies

Alexis Lothian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and Core Faculty in the Design Cultures and Creativity Program at University of Maryland College Park. Her scholarship is situated at the intersection of queer studies, speculative fiction, and social justice in digital culture. Her book Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility is under contract with NYU Press, and she has also published in venues that include Poetics Today, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Social Text Periscope, Journal of Digital Humanities, Extrapolation, and Ada: a Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. She is a founding member of the #transformDH digital humanities collective and the editorial team of the open access journal Transformative Works and Cultures, a member of the Tiptree Award motherboard, and co-chairs the academic track at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:09:17 -0400 2017-03-31T11:30:00-04:00 2017-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Workshop / Seminar alexis
CSEAS Noon Lecture Series. Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon (March 31, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38598 38598-7243191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Today’s Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon, is a city of contrasts. New luxury housing developments rise from the rubble of demolished neighborhoods. Emergent forms of property rights, known in Vietnam as “land-use rights,” have produced both new real estate opportunities and unprecedented rates of dispossession. This talk, based on research informing my new book, Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon, will focus on two cases. On one side of the city, a new urban zone named Phú Mỹ Hưng is commonly said to have “risen from the swamps” and to have transformed a “wasteland” into a space of civilized living. It is a place of hope and aspiration that promises to deliver new models for urban development, transparent governance, and social consciousness. On the other side of the city, in a place called Thủ Thiêm, thousands of households are being evicted from prime real estate located at a bend in the river immediately across from downtown Saigon. This area was also commonly described as an empty wasteland, despite the fact that entire neighborhoods had to be demolished in order to “clear the land.” Tracing the tensions embodied in these two sites, I show how the politics of civility and rights are often entangled with dispossession. In the process, a central paradox emerges: on the one hand, the logic of property rights emboldens residents to stand up for their rights in the face of dispossession; on the other hand, this very same logic of property rights fuels the real estate boom that currently drives mass-dispossession.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Feb 2017 09:32:36 -0500 2017-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion erik
PhonDi Discussion Group (March 31, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38012 38012-6840672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:56:21 -0400 2017-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
DocDi Discussion Group (March 31, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39940 39940-8412124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:42:38 -0400 2017-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
RC Faculty Meeting (March 31, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36397 36397-5607158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Monthly meeting of RC faculty

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Meeting Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:37:29 -0500 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Meeting East Quadrangle
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 31, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39938 39938-8412122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Joint meeting with SynSem

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:40:13 -0400 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (March 31, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39939 39939-8412123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Joint meeting with SoConDi

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:41:14 -0400 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Journal Club (March 31, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31340 31340-4205455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

We will continue our discussion of how departments and candidates navigate the hiring process, now in the context of the job visits that we hosted over the last six weeks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:34:22 -0400 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Malaysia-Southeast Asian Forum (April 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40106 40106-8468267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Malaysian Students' Association (MiMSA)

This April 1st, we're holding the third iteration of the Malaysian Studies Forum, and this time, we've included Southeast Asia as a region into the discussion!

Listen to these experts talk about everything from economic policy in SEA in the age of Trump to authoritarianism in the region.

Lunch and refreshments will be served at the event.

Most importantly, it's all FREE OF CHARGE! Don't miss out.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:19:55 -0400 2017-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Michigan Malaysian Students' Association (MiMSA) Conference / Symposium MSEA Forum
Change Our World with Nyle DiMarco (April 2, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40087 40087-8466108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Nyle DiMarco, the first deaf winner of America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, shares how he overcame adversity to become a successful and influential advocate for many diverse groups.

Learn about how you can embrace your unique identities and support all the diverse identities on the University of Michigan campus. Get your FREE ticket at the Michigan Union Ticket Office with a valid MCard!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:15:08 -0400 2017-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2017-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Change Our World
Fictions of Fabric: Art, Literature, Design (April 4, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37130 37130-6173160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

- Susan Siegfried (History of Art): Chair

- Martha Jones (History, Afroamerican and African Studies): Introduction
- Anne Lafont (University of East Paris/Marne-la-Vallée, Norman Freeling Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities): “The Fabric as Skin Tissue : Layering Race”
- Megan Sweeney (English language and Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies): "Selvedge, Salvage".
- Courtney Wilder (Graduate Student, History of Art): “Printing and Representing Fashionable Novelty, 1820-1850”

- Jean Hébrard (EHESS, Visiting fellow at the Institute for the Humanities), Katie Lennard (Graduate Student, American Culture), and Susan Siegfried (History of Art): Comment

Jesper Svenbro in Le Métier de Zeus explains that to weave (uphainö) was one of the most prolific metaphors in Ancient Greece. The form textis referred not only to the production of an oral text, but also to the complex links between lyrical poets and their public. “Fabric” has the same fecundity in our modern languages, but it seems to speak less of its process of production than of the object produced. In the racialized social world constructed with the Atlantic expansion of the West, fabric has served as a second skin, hiding/transforming/exposing the varieties of the skin underneath. When fabric is produced as a fashion artifact that can be exchanged for a slave on the African market, when it is painted on a canvas in relationship to the skin it offers/refuses to the spectators of colonial territories, when it is literally and metaphorically called upon to define the borders of bodies and selves, fabric interlaces design, art, and literature. Our round-table will explore some of these many-textured layers of fabric.

Anne Lafont is a visiting fellow at the Institute for the Humanities, an assistant professor of modern art history at the University of Paris-Marne la Vallée, and a scholarly advisor in the field of the history of art history at the French National Institute of Art History (INHA, 2007-2012).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:08:15 -0400 2017-04-04T12:30:00-04:00 2017-04-04T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Lafont
Womentoring: Female Faculty–Grad Student Mixer (April 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40086 40086-8466107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The Graduate Society of Women Engineers in combination with the College of Engineering Community Grant Program is hosting Womentoring, a female faculty-graduate student mixer in the Johnson Rooms at the Lurie Engineering Center. Professors, professionals, and post-docs will lead table discussions on mentoring, implicit bias, getting published, finding fellowships, choosing a post-doc mentor, job search for international students, and more. Lunch will be provided! RSVP required.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:29:06 -0400 2017-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Bicentennial Interfaith Conference (April 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39360 39360-8026261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Bicentennial Interfaith Conference

The theme of the event is the history and the future of religious diversity on the University of Michigan campus. Through invited talks and dialogues among participants, we aim to 1) deepen our understanding of the history of religious diversity in our community, to 2) promote constructive discussions on how to foster religious diversity at the University of Michigan, and 3) celebrate interfaith cooperation.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 05 Mar 2017 20:44:09 -0500 2017-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Bicentennial Interfaith Conference Conference / Symposium Ross School of Business
Bicentennial Interfaith Conference (April 5, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39360 39360-8026262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Bicentennial Interfaith Conference

The theme of the event is the history and the future of religious diversity on the University of Michigan campus. Through invited talks and dialogues among participants, we aim to 1) deepen our understanding of the history of religious diversity in our community, to 2) promote constructive discussions on how to foster religious diversity at the University of Michigan, and 3) celebrate interfaith cooperation.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 05 Mar 2017 20:44:09 -0500 2017-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Bicentennial Interfaith Conference Conference / Symposium Museum of Art
Environmental Justice Learning Circles (April 5, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 36646-5761803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:43:20 -0400 2017-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T20:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Sustainable Living Experience Lecture / Discussion
TED Talks (April 6, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37185 37185-6406935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Talks have become very popular. They are short presentations by notable people at TED conferences around the world. Over 1,500 talks are available on the internet. In each session we will view two or three talks as a group and then engage in a guided discussion of what we saw.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours every other Thursday from April 6 through June 1 and will be led by instructor Jerry Bricker.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:27:24 -0500 2017-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 2017-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
EEB Thursday Seminar: Molecular evolutionary genetics of the “two rules of speciation” in Drosophila (April 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36331 36331-5562281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Speciation involves the gradual evolution of reproductive incompatibilities— including prezygotic incompatibilities that prevent the formation of species hybrids and intrinsic postzygotic genetic incompatibilities that render hybrids sterile or inviable. Two strong “rules of speciation” implicate a special role for sex chromosomes in the evolution of postzygotic genetic incompatibilities: Haldane’s rule, the observation that hybrids of the heterogametic (XY or ZW) sex preferentially suffer hybrid sterility and inviability; and the large X-effect, the observation that the X chromosome has a disproportionately large effect on hybrid sterility. Despite decades of effort, why the X chromosome plays a special role in speciation remains unclear. I will present results from our integrated genetic and genomic studies of speciation among the three closely related species of the Drosophila simulans species complex— D. simulans, D. sechellia, and D. mauritiana. Our high-resolution genetic mapping studies, speciation genomics analyses, and molecular identification of a new hybrid sterility gene enable new inferences about the molecular and evolutionary basis of the large X-effect and its consequences for speciation.

Light refreshments served at 4 p.m.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:06:30 -0400 2017-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Drosophila
Detroiters Speak: Teaching & Learning in Detroit Schools Today (April 6, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37970 37970-6814972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:11:31 -0500 2017-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 2017-04-06T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
PhonDi Discussion Group (April 7, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38014 38014-6840674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:38:54 -0500 2017-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (April 7, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37936 37936-6789437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:13:14 -0400 2017-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
200-years and the Law: Title IX and Other Significant Legal Decisions . . . (April 7, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40015 40015-8448911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Student Legal Services

In honor of the bicentennial, Student Legal Services will present a compelling visual display, outlining significant laws which have impacted the student experience. Of these laws, the feature will be Title IX and its impact on women's sports at U-M.

The visual display will be accompanied by a speaking presentation by our keynote speakers, Sheryl Szady - a pioneer who led the fight for equal recognition of women's sports at U-M and Melanie Weaver Barnett - member of U-M Track and Field Hall of Fame. Ms. Szady and Ms. Weaver Barnett will speak from 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm. Also on display will be Ms. Szady's original women's letter jacket.

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Presentation Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:06:44 -0400 2017-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Student Legal Services Presentation Duderstadt Center
SoConDi Discussion Group (April 7, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40009 40009-8448868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:19:13 -0400 2017-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Germanga: German Comics Go Japanese to Stay in Business (April 11, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40198 40198-8518708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Please join the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop on Tuesday, April 11th, from 1:30-3pm in the 3rd floor Conference Room of the MLB (Room 3308) for a presentation on German Manga by Dr. Paul Malone (University of Waterloo). This event is generously cosponsored by the Alamanya Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, History of Art and Asian Languages and Cultures.

"Germanga: German Comics Go Japanese to Stay in Business"

Bio: Dr. Paul Malone's research interests include film, theatre, comic books, cinematic adaptations of literature, and translation. He has supervised graduate work on Goethe, Brecht, modern German literature and film. He has also published on rock musical versions of Goethe’s Faust, and has several publications on the influence of Japanese manga on German comic book culture.

Please RSVP to enijdam@umich.edu. Refreshments will be provided.

Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/transnationalcomicsstudies
Check out our website at: http://transnationalcomicsstudiesworkshop.blogspot.com/

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please email germandept@umich.edu or call 734-764-8018 by 4/6/2017. 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, 04 Apr 2017 12:29:00 -0400 2017-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 2017-04-11T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Germanga: German Comics Go Japanese to Stay in Business
Award Winning Author Dr. Ibram Kendi (April 11, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39709 39709-8259566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

The 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi joins the University of Michigan community to discuss the history of American racism. Kendi’s new book, Stamped from the Beginning, explains how looking deeper into the racist ideas entrenched in our society will enable us to develop a more equitable America. Dr. Kendi is an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Black Perspectives, and more. For more information on this Speaker, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.
A book signing will follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:41:08 -0400 2017-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 2017-04-11T19:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Munger Graduate Residences Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ibram Kendi
Conflict & Cyberspace: Emerging Challenges & Norms (April 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40225 40225-8525059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

As cyberspace becomes more and more central to the international security discussion, states are increasingly searching for common “rules of the road” related to behavior in this new domain. Tim Maurer, fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will moderate a conversation on the development of international cyberspace norms with Theodore Nemeroff (senior advisor at the U.S. Department of State Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues), Nadiya Kostyuk (U-M PhD candidate, Public Policy and Political Science), and U-M faculty members Robert Axelrod (Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, Departments of Political Science and Public Policy) and Alex Halderman (Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, EECS).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:12:34 -0400 2017-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-13T11:15:00-04:00 Michigan Union Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Conflict & Cyberspace: Emerging Challenges & Norms
Roland Barthes: The Image and the Imaginary (April 13, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40165 40165-8506737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In his semiotic critique of culture, Roland Barthes was dealing with signs, but also with images. This paper discusses two different aspects of image in his work, the visual and the “invisible,” the latter producing the category of the imaginary. The paper argues that the image is highly ambivalent for Barthes: not simply a field to explore, it is also a danger to escape, an adversary against which to fight, and a beloved object to preserve.

Sergey Zenkin is a research professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow. A specialist in French literature, theory of literature and the history of ideas, he has written several monographs including, most recently, The Experience of Relativity: French Romanticism and the Idea of Culture (in French, 2011), The Non-Divine Sacred (in Russian, 2012), and Writings on Theory (in Russian, 2012).

For further questions, please contact Olga Maiorova at maiorova@umich.edu.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please email slavic@umich.edu or call 734-764-5355 by 4/9/2017. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:54:08 -0400 2017-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 2017-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion sergey zenkin 4/13/17 event infografic
Detroiters Speak: Envisioning a Better Future: Public Education in Detroit (April 13, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37971 37971-6814973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:12:03 -0500 2017-04-13T19:30:00-04:00 2017-04-13T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
PhonDi Discussion Group (April 14, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38015 38015-6840675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:41:18 -0500 2017-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
DocDi Discussion Group (April 14, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40208 40208-8518718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

General Discussion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Apr 2017 14:35:45 -0400 2017-04-14T14:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (April 14, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40207 40207-8518717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Abstract

Creoles are notorious for the extreme variation they display within a single variety and across varieties. Such variation has been interpreted as symptomatic of alternate grammars punctuating a creole continuum consisting of a basilect, acrolect and mesolect (Le Page and Tabouret-Keller, 1985). However, I have shown in Baptista (2015) that distinct creole varieties (Santiago and São Vicente) of Cape Verdean Creole that have been traditionally described as basilectal and acrolectal do not uphold such characterization upon closer examination of their grammatical systems and of the speech patterns of individual speakers. In Baptista (2015), a careful analysis of the Santiago and São Vicente varieties of Cape Verdean Creole showed that Santiago for instance which has been typically described as basilectal actually displayed acrolectal features in core domains such as gender agreement and Tense, Mood and Aspect markers (TMA). The study of individual speakers also demonstrated that the same speaker may display speech patterns that swing like a pendulum between the acrolect and basilect. This study brought in plain view the descriptive inadequacy of the labels basilect, acrolect and mesolect and challenged well-established claims regarding the status of the Santiago and São Vicente on the Cape Verdean Creole continuum.
In light of the inadequacy of the creole continuum, I propose in this paper an alternative approach to the examination of variation observed in creoles. The main research questions driving this study are as follows: Is the variation observed in creoles better accounted for in terms of competing I-grammars that emerge over time? Would this new lens help us attain a higher level of descriptive and explanatory adequacy than the creole continuum provides?
In order to fully explore this topic, I carefully examine synchronic and diachronic data as well as acquisition scenarios by targeting the TMA system of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) and by comparing the degrees of variation that this particular creole displays at these three levels.
This paper is organized as follows. Following the introduction, in the second section, I lay out the traditional definition of the creole continuum and briefly summarize the arguments I made in Baptista (2015), pointing to its limitations and descriptive inadequacy. In the third section, I turn to the framework of competing I-grammars which I argue is a more descriptively and explanatorily adequate approach to analyzing the observed variation. I provide a definition of I-language in light of competing I-grammars, drawing from Lightfoot (2006), Yang (2002), Obata & Epstein (2015) and Epstein (2016) and show how the approach of competing I-grammars applies to the synchronic study of TMA markers in the creole under investigation. In the fourth section, I elaborate on a possible scenario of acquisition of TMA markers in CVC using diachronic texts in support of such scenario and in the fifth section, I propose a syntactic analysis accounting for their synchronic distribution. The sixth section summarizes the key findings of this study.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:39:34 -0400 2017-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (April 14, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40209 40209-8518719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Abstract

Creoles are notorious for the extreme variation they display within a single variety and across varieties. Such variation has been interpreted as symptomatic of alternate grammars punctuating a creole continuum consisting of a basilect, acrolect and mesolect (Le Page and Tabouret-Keller, 1985). However, I have shown in Baptista (2015) that distinct creole varieties (Santiago and São Vicente) of Cape Verdean Creole that have been traditionally described as basilectal and acrolectal do not uphold such characterization upon closer examination of their grammatical systems and of the speech patterns of individual speakers. In Baptista (2015), a careful analysis of the Santiago and São Vicente varieties of Cape Verdean Creole showed that Santiago for instance which has been typically described as basilectal actually displayed acrolectal features in core domains such as gender agreement and Tense, Mood and Aspect markers (TMA). The study of individual speakers also demonstrated that the same speaker may display speech patterns that swing like a pendulum between the acrolect and basilect. This study brought in plain view the descriptive inadequacy of the labels basilect, acrolect and mesolect and challenged well-established claims regarding the status of the Santiago and São Vicente on the Cape Verdean Creole continuum.
In light of the inadequacy of the creole continuum, I propose in this paper an alternative approach to the examination of variation observed in creoles. The main research questions driving this study are as follows: Is the variation observed in creoles better accounted for in terms of competing I-grammars that emerge over time? Would this new lens help us attain a higher level of descriptive and explanatory adequacy than the creole continuum provides?
In order to fully explore this topic, I carefully examine synchronic and diachronic data as well as acquisition scenarios by targeting the TMA system of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) and by comparing the degrees of variation that this particular creole displays at these three levels.
This paper is organized as follows. Following the introduction, in the second section, I lay out the traditional definition of the creole continuum and briefly summarize the arguments I made in Baptista (2015), pointing to its limitations and descriptive inadequacy. In the third section, I turn to the framework of competing I-grammars which I argue is a more descriptively and explanatorily adequate approach to analyzing the observed variation. I provide a definition of I-language in light of competing I-grammars, drawing from Lightfoot (2006), Yang (2002), Obata & Epstein (2015) and Epstein (2016) and show how the approach of competing I-grammars applies to the synchronic study of TMA markers in the creole under investigation. In the fourth section, I elaborate on a possible scenario of acquisition of TMA markers in CVC using diachronic texts in support of such scenario and in the fifth section, I propose a syntactic analysis accounting for their synchronic distribution. The sixth section summarizes the key findings of this study.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:39:09 -0400 2017-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Graduate Student Colloquium (April 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36659 36659-5768286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:34:48 -0500 2017-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Teaching English Abroad Workshop (April 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40555 40555-8603169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are You Teaching English Abroad This Summer?

Take our FREE workshop to learn skills and tips about how to prepare for your teaching position.

Time: Wednesday, April 19th, 11am - 2pm
Location: LSA Building, Room 2130

• Taught by an English Language Institute professional
• Friendly atmosphere to share ideas
• Learn how to build lesson plans
• Learn tips on classroom management
• Discover ideas on how to teach different ages and levels
• Arm yourself with a plan for discipline should that be necessary
• Learn creative and fun ways to approach teaching
• Become the engaging teacher you want to be

We will include some FREE FOOD to see you through the workshop.

Space is limited, RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/4sxQtCrdnL4pfDWp2

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:20:57 -0400 2017-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
21st Century Science with 19th Century Specimens: Next Generation Ornithology at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (April 19, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40570 40570-8627918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

More information at the link below.

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Presentation Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:07:44 -0400 2017-04-19T19:30:00-04:00 2017-04-19T20:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation
Capturing and Manipulating Functionally Specific Neural Circuits (April 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40493 40493-8578222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Duke University School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:22:43 -0400 2017-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Fan Wang, Ph.D.
Teach Out Series: Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (April 21, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40642 40642-8660526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2017 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish between credible information and “fake news?” Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate trustworthy journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on social networks and amplified by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This Teach-Out course will examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories and the factors that lead people to believe those stories. Participants will gain skills help them to distinguish fact from fiction.

A Teach Out is a free online course that takes place in a fixed, short period of time (1 week). Each Teach Out provides an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people with just a 3-4 hour commitment over the span of a week.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:20:34 -0400 2017-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach Out
From Chaos to Creatures: Pregnancy and Embryology in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America (April 21, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40520 40520-8586542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2017 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

In the early nineteenth century, American physicians and scientists referred to the objects included within pregnancy utilizing a variety of terms, including chaos, fruit, and “useless beings.” A hundred years later, most American medical officials agreed on a universal, standard interpretation of pregnancy that included “baby” within the pregnant woman. This talk will begin to explore the conceptual, medical, political, and social changes that transformed pregnancy, and the bodies involved, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring the role of physicians, early embryologists, pregnant women, and public health officials.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:43:10 -0400 2017-04-21T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-21T11:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion shannon
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (April 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Morning’s At Seven: (April 21, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37188 37188-6406938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join director Thom Johnson for a pre-show discussion of Ann Arbor Civic Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning play, Morning’s At Seven by Paul Osborn.

The play focuses on four sisters living in a small Midwestern town in 1938, and it deals with ramifications within the family when two of them begin to question their lives and decide to make some changes before it’s too late.

The one hour pre-show discussion for those 50 and over will be led by instructors Thom Johnson and Alexandra Berneis will focus on an aspect of dramaturgy, directorial choices or stage design. Tickets are $17. You will pay for your ticket at the pre-show discussion.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:42:14 -0500 2017-04-21T18:30:00-04:00 2017-04-21T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
Teach Out Series: Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (April 22, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40642 40642-8660527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 22, 2017 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish between credible information and “fake news?” Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate trustworthy journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on social networks and amplified by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This Teach-Out course will examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories and the factors that lead people to believe those stories. Participants will gain skills help them to distinguish fact from fiction.

A Teach Out is a free online course that takes place in a fixed, short period of time (1 week). Each Teach Out provides an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people with just a 3-4 hour commitment over the span of a week.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:20:34 -0400 2017-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach Out
Teach Out Series: Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (April 23, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40642 40642-8660528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 23, 2017 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish between credible information and “fake news?” Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate trustworthy journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on social networks and amplified by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This Teach-Out course will examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories and the factors that lead people to believe those stories. Participants will gain skills help them to distinguish fact from fiction.

A Teach Out is a free online course that takes place in a fixed, short period of time (1 week). Each Teach Out provides an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people with just a 3-4 hour commitment over the span of a week.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:20:34 -0400 2017-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach Out
Positive Links Speaker Series (April 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36743 36743-5800713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

April 24, 2017
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public; reception to follow.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
Gain inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in people. Learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About Cooperrider:
David L. Cooperrider, PhD is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professorship in Appreciative Inquiry at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, where he is the faculty founder of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit.

Cooperrider is best known for his original articulation of “AI” or Appreciative Inquiry with his mentor Suresh Srivastva. Today AI’s approach to strengths-inspired, instead of problematizing change, is being practiced everywhere: the corporate world, the world of public service, of economics, of education, of faith, of philanthropy, and social science scholarship—it is affecting them all.

He has published 25 books and authored over 100 articles and book chapters. His books include Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change (with Diana Whitney); Organization Dimensions of Global Change (with Jane Dutton); Organizational Courage and Executive Wisdom (with Suresh Srivastva); and The Strengths-based Leadership Handbook (with Brun and Ejsing).

Hosted by:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Learning & Professional Development, Sanger Leadership Center, Stryker, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Diane and Paul Jones (MBA ‘75), for their support of the 2016-17 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:34:37 -0500 2017-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-24T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
RC CPC (April 26, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36398 36398-5607162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Curriculum Planning Committee Meeting

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Meeting Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:44:44 -0500 2017-04-26T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-26T10:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Meeting East Quadrangle
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (April 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-6502332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
RC Faculty Meeting (April 28, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36397 36397-5607159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 28, 2017 3:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Monthly meeting of RC faculty

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Meeting Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:37:29 -0500 2017-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-28T16:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Meeting East Quadrangle
Teach Out Series- Stand up for Science: Practical Approaches to Discussing Science that Matters (May 5, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40647 40647-8660539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 5, 2017 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Everyone - non-scientists and scientists alike - has some form of expertise, but communicating across a gap in knowledge or experience is challenging. In this Teach-Out, we address this challenge by helping participants to develop core communication skills and more effectively communicate with one another.

Participants will learn why science communication is both essential and fundamentally challenging. Experts in three broad areas of public engagement with science - Policy & Advocacy, Education & Outreach, and Science in the Media - will weigh in to share their knowledge. Anyone with a STEM story to tell will have the opportunity to develop a better understanding of their audience, craft a clear message, weave a compelling story, and practice giving and receiving feedback on science communications. And all participants will be able to engage in a series of discussions addressing key issues in science communication.

Because the practice of science encourages dialogue, requires diverse perspectives, and has no political agenda, we hope this Teach-Out is a useful step in encouraging more science conversations between individuals and their local, national, and global communities.

A Teach Out is a free online course that takes place in a fixed, short period of time (1 week). Each Teach Out provides an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people with just a 3-4 hour commitment over the span of a week.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:19:12 -0400 2017-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Teach Out
Transnational German Studies Workshop (May 5, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40695 40695-8693120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 5, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Transnational German Studies Workshop Program

Friday May 5

3:00-3:10 ~ Opening Remarks (Kristin Dickinson, UMich)

3:10-5:00 ~ Current Scholarship in the Field
Discussion of Undeutsch, by Fatima El-Tayeb

Saturday May 6

9:30 - 10:30 ~ Panel 1, Nationalism in the 19th Century

Jakob Norberg (Duke): "German Studies and the Nation”

Emily Gauld (UMich): “Herder’s Volk: Literature, Music, and Nation in the 19th Century”

10:30 – 10:45 ~ Break

10:45-11:45 ~ Panel 2, Germany and its Others

Nick Jones (Carolina-Duke): “The Barbaric Language of the Greeks: The Construction of Alterity in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Kleist's Penthesilea”

Emma Thomas (UMich): "Bridewealth and European Imaginaries of Commodification."

1:15-2:45 ~ Panel 3, The Politics of Integration

Johanna Schuster-Craig (Michigan State): “Germany’s First Integration Law”

Kristin Dickinson (UMich): “Translating for and against Leitkultur”

Ela Gezen (UMass): "Poetic Empathy, Political Criticism, and Public Mourning: Esther Dischereit’s Klagelieder"

2:45-3:-00 ~ Break

3:00-4:00 ~ Panel 4, Non-normative Identities and the Posthuman

Priscilla Layne (UNC): “We are the Universe: Afrofuturist Interventions in Post-migrant Theater”

Steffen Kaupp (Notre Dame): “Transnationalism and the Queering of German Identity”

4:15 – 6:00 ~ Panel 5, Alternative Paradigms of Belonging

Nilgün Bayraktar (California College of the Arts): “Performing Non-belonging and Displacement: Representing Refugee Experiences in Contemporary Screen Art”

Damani Partridge (UMich): "Filming the Future of Detroit/Filming the Future from Berlin: Noncitizen Perspectives."

Sunday May 7

10:00-11:30 ~ Panel 1, Memory and National Identity in Media and Literature

Domenic DeSocio (UMich): “ ‘Ankommen’ in Deutschland: Refugee Smartphone Applications and the Temporalities of German National Identity."

Karolina Hicke (UMass Amherst): “Multidirectional Memory and Contested Belonging in Olga Grjasnowa’s Der Russe ist einer der Birken liebt”

Beth Anne Dorn (Carolina-Duke): "Immigration, Rejection, and Assimilation: Conversational Choreography in Fassbinder's Katzelmacher.”

12:45-2:15~ Roundtable on Teaching

2:20-2:45 ~ Closing Remarks; Brainstorming for the Future

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 May 2017 10:30:11 -0400 2017-05-05T15:00:00-04:00 2017-05-05T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Transnational German Studies Workshop May 5-7