Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Cognitive Science Seminar Series (September 28, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77453 77453-19854035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Rachel Weissler will give a talk titled "Cognitive behavioral evidence of linguistic expectation based on both speaker identity and language variety in American Englishes."

ABSTRACT
In order to understand the intersection of linguistics, neurological processing, and race, I engage with language variation and social cognition to better understand how we as listeners interact with people who speak varying language varieties in the U.S., particularly African American English (AAE), through a three study dissertation using mixed methodologies. Bountiful neurolinguistics evidence shows that people invoke prediction during sentence processing through ERPs (Kutas et al 2014), and that these predictions are conditioned by the identity of the speaker, as early as 200-300 milliseconds after the beginning of a word(van Berkum et al 2008). However, ideologies about standard language in the U.S. often posit Standardized American English (SdAE) as a morally superior variety (Hill 2008). This hierarchical treatment of language varieties leads to negative perceptions of minoritized language varieties, such as AAE, which in turn makes them stigmatized, and ultimately perpetuates minoritized language discrimination. Thus, the first two studies ask, does positing SdAE as superior lead us to treat all minoritized language varieties equally, or do people have language variety-specific expectations? We test this using two EEG experiments. The final study (in progress) examines how the influence of varied linguistic knowledge modulates perception and online processing of AAE, as indexed by responses elicited from a virtual eye-tracking study. This final study seeks to understand how listeners of varied knowledges process linguistic variation in AAE & SdAE, and also brings together eye-tracking and emotion, expanding upon previous research which shows that various cultural groups are differently sensitive to emotional differences expressed in language, and arguably, through prosody (Weissler & Boland 2019). With this dissertation, I want to enhance the linguistics field by tapping into the find-grained knowledge correlates that listeners bring with them when processing language, specifically AAE. I also want to make the connection between language knowledge and racialization based on that language knowledge.This work has implications not only for intracultural perception, but more broadly, for understanding the functionality of the human language faculty in general. Ultimately, perceptions of stigmatized languages and language varieties leads to language discrimination, which affects the way speakers, people, are treated in their day to day lives. Through a multi-method neurolinguistic and sociolinguistic approach, we can better understand how the human language faculty is capable of recognizing and processing American English language varieties.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:08:32 -0400 2020-09-28T14:30:00-04:00 2020-09-28T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Rachel Weissler
EEB graduate student panel for new students (September 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77805 77805-19931629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A few grad student panelists will cover helpful information and answer questions on:
Resources available to students
Courses, research, and teaching in the first two semesters
Choosing a committee
Applying for internal and external grants
Mentorship

We will also spend some time at the end answering other questions that come up or that you've submitted.
The panel is intended to help give the first years information about the program, especially since we aren't all in the building chatting right now. However, everyone is welcome to come! Especially during a semester where many of us aren't seeing most of the department, checking in with familiar faces can be a nice way to reconnect!

Check your email for the Zoom link. Let us know if you have any questions, and we're looking forward to seeing and/or meeting you all on Tuesday!

The Retreat/Social Committee (Bridget, Tom, and Will)

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:09:57 -0400 2020-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Laptop with Zoom screen, multiple faces
Vehicle to Pavement Sensing for Lateral Lane Position Research Review (September 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76507 76507-19719168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

While autonomous vehicles (AVs) offer significant safety benefits for drivers, to gain widespread approval from the public and road agencies, redundant vehicle to infrastructure capabilities are necessary. This is especially true in areas with adverse weather conditions such as snow and ice.

Existing AV technology is able to send safety messages to roadside units (RSUs) and other vehicles (V2V), but communication with concrete and asphalt requires embedded sensors. This research proposes a passive sensing approach that detects local changes in the pavement’s electromagnetic signature so that vehicles can determine their lateral lane position. This free webinar will include a Q&A session. We hope that you can join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:41:30 -0400 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Bioethics Discussion: Artificial Intelligence (September 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58828 58828-14563719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on how we know machines know.

Here are a few readings to consider:
––Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
––Regulatory responses to medical machine learning
––Will artificial intelligence solve the human resource crisis in healthcare?
––Medical ethics considerations on artificial intelligence

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/047-artificial-intelligence/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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One's intelligence might be artificially enhanced by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:09:51 -0400 2020-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Intelligence
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Virtual Seminar - Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D. (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77549 77549-19883820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: The human genome is organized into small compartments to allow for the proper gene expression regulation in the physiological process. With the advance of next-generation sequencing and imaging technologies, we can now investigate how the genome is folded into 3D space and how the 3D genomic organization regulates gene expression in development and disease. Currently, most of the studies are focusing on CTCF and cohesion complex which partner together to facilitate the formation of topological associated domains (TAD). The presenter will mainly discuss his recently published work on the DNA methylation -3D genomics cross-talk. Unpublished work on the 3D genomics in AML will be discussed as well.

Short bio: Xiaotian Zhang obtained his Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Margaret Goodell on the role of DNA methylation synergy in leukemia development. He was previously the Van Andel special postdoc fellow in Gerd Pfeifer lab working on the 3D genomics in normal hematopoietic stem cell and leukemia. He is now a Research track faculty (Research Investigator) in Pathology Department under Tomek Cierpicki working on the HOXA regulation in leukemia development. Xiaotian's research focuses on the epigenetic regulation of key pathogenic genes in leukemia, particularly on high order chromatin structure in disease. He published on Nature Genetics, Molecular Cell and Blood as the first author and corresponding authors.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:31:31 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D., Research Investigator in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan
SLE Community Nights (September 30, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (October 1, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-10-01T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 2, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-10-02T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (October 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact mirs-info@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 5, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77842 77842-19933640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Research fellow Elisa Felsche (U-M Psychology) will give a talk on "The origins of inference: A hierarchical Bayesian modelling approach to imitation and abstraction in children and primates."

NOTE: If you would like to attend this meeting, please send an email to cogsi-seminar@umich.edu to receive the passcode.

ABSTRACT

Humans have an immense behavioural and cognitive repertoire that has been shaped by cumulative cultural evolution. In my PhD project I investigated two cognitive abilities that crucially enlarge the efficiency of skill and knowledge acquisition: 1) the capability for abstraction that enables powerful generalization of information to make wide ranging predictions in new situations and 2) the ability to imitate others which allows the quick and low-risk adoption of new behavioural strategies. Despite decades of accumulating data in both domains, it is still debated to what extent other species share these abilities and how they develop in humans. Solving these persisting disagreements requires an alteration of how data are generated and analysed.
In my dissertation project, I introduced the approach of hierarchical Bayesian modelling to the field of comparative psychology to investigate abstract rule formation and action copying in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees (only abstract rule formation) and children. In the first two studies participants had to use sampled evidence to infer abstract rules about the item distributions in containers and efficiently guide behaviour in novel test situations. In a third study, we investigated children's and capuchin monkeys' ability to integrate causal and social information when copying a goal-directed behaviour. Whereas children’s performance was mostly in line with the predictions of the computational models, showing that they are capable of abstraction and consider causal information when imitating, capuchin monkeys performed in all experiments at chance and chimpanzees showed some understanding of abstract rules.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:51:03 -0400 2020-10-05T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Art & the Intersectional Revolution: Gender & Sexuality in the Legacy of the Arab Spring (October 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75968 75968-19629768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2020 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "The Arab Spring: 10 Years Later."
(Please register at http://myumi.ch/jxDBz; a Zoom link will be emailed to you the day of the event.)

About the Presentation:
While the Arab Spring is characterized as a call for political revolution, for many it also inspired a drive for social revolution. Calls for freedom and equality in the removal of dictatorial rule made space for more vocal calls for this same sort of equity for people of all genders and sexual orientations. At the same time, women, non-binary and trans folks, and individuals who engage in non-heteronormative relationships have been targeted by these repressive regimes, as well as many of those that have replaced them. Visual culture and art produced during the Arab Spring and the aftermath has often utilized their imagery, as seen with the “Girl in the Blue Bra” in Egypt and the “Woman in the Red Dress” in Turkey, to name two examples, as a means to highlight the particular experiences of women and queer individuals. This talk presents works by contemporary artists from the Arab world whose works have addressed aspects of gender and sexuality during, and in the aftermath of the 10 years since, the Arab Spring.


About the Speaker:
Sascha Crasnow, Ph.D. is a Lecturer of Islamic Arts in the Residential College and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) and in the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) program. She received her BS Honors in Psychology from the University of Washington, her MA in Art History from CUNY-Hunter College, and her PhD in Art History from the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on contemporary art from the SWANA region, with a particular focus on issues related to contemporary socio-politics, critical race studies, and gender & sexuality.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: Kristin Waterbury at waterbuk@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:58:06 -0400 2020-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Livestream / Virtual colloquium_poster
Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality (October 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75663 75663-19558810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In Undermining Racial Justice, Matthew Johnson (Texas Tech University) contends that over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible.

Focusing on the University of Michigan, Johnson argues that U-M leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.

Join the author for a discussion of Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality. Angela Dillard (University of Michigan) will serve as interlocutor.

Matthew Johnson is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow working on a book about the impact of urban campus police forces on Black communities and students.

Angela Dillard is the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and in the Residential College. She specializes in American and African American intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics—on both the Left and the Right sides of the political spectrum—and maintains an active interest in urban studies.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a90DMOeVRZy18VWjsPyc_A

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:17:02 -0400 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Undermining Racial Justice cover
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78232 78232-19996937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: The chromosomes of the human genome are organized in three-dimensions by compartmentalizing the cell nucleus and different genomic loci also interact with each other. However, the principles underlying such nuclear genome organization and its functional impact remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will introduce some of our recent work in developing machine learning methods by utilizing whole-genome mapping data to study the higher-order genome organization. Our methods reveal the spatial localization of chromosome regions and exploit chromatin interactome patterns within the cell nucleus in different cellular conditions, across mammalian species, and also in single-cell resolution. We hope that these algorithms will provide new insights into the principles of nuclear spatial organization.

Bio: Jian Ma is an Associate Professor in the Computational Biology Department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lab develops algorithms to study the structure and function of the human genome with a focus on nuclear organization, gene regulation, comparative genomics, and single cell biology. He received several awards, including an NSF CAREER award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the Contact PI of a UM1 Center project in the NIH 4D Nucleome Program (Phase 2; 2020-2025). https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jianma/

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:47:39 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
SLE Community Nights (October 7, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (October 8, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-10-08T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
Virtual Gathering for Community-Engaged Course Instructors (October 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75351 75351-19442253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you teaching or supporting a virtual community-engaged course this fall (or beyond)? Looking to connect with and learn from others who are too?

The Ginsberg Center invites you to join us for a lightly facilitated virtual community of practice on community-engaged course design and instruction. These gatherings are designed to encourage connections, troubleshooting and resource sharing as we adjust to virtual teaching and engagement during the pandemic.

This session will focus on managing and facilitating post-election classroom conversations.

Please RSVP to receive a zoom link and password.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:46:56 -0400 2020-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual conversations mug + phone taken by Cody Engel on Unsplash
Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78000 78000-19951595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
All National Coming Out Week events: https://bit.ly/SC-NCOW

Young people who identify as LGBTQ+ face significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues than their peers who are not sexual or gender minorities. Gary Harper, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, and his team are working to ensure that primary care clinics in the US are equipped to screen at-risk LGBTQ+ youth and provide them with welcoming, competent, and high-quality care. Listen to Dr. Harper as he talks about his research and advocacy to improve policy for LGBTQ+ youth.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:49:59 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Promotional flyer of the time, date, location, and a picture of Gary Harper. Dr. Harper is wearing a blue quarter-zip sweater over a white collared shirt, posing and smiling at the camera. Text below his photo states that he is a professor for The Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; and Global Public Health
2020 Organ Conference: Challenging Conventions: Student Perspectives on Collaboration on the Carillon (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76701 76701-19737035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan carillon students Anthony DiBello, Michelle Lam, Isaac Levine, Kavitha Lobo, and Jenna Moon
Taking Turns: Ascanio Mayone and His Collaborators
Kaelan Hansson, graduate organ student and PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Open Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen and Museum Staff (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78246 78246-19998912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

These office hours are open for drop-in. Registration is not required.: .

There’s a lot to talk about. Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), wants to hear from you. This fall’s edition of Open Office Hours  will focus on hearing your feedback about UMMA’s Commitment to Anti-Racist Action, what you’d like to see UMMA doing in the midst of the pandemic, and your ideas about the future. Meet Tina and one other member of her team over Zoom for a chance to share your views in an informal and intimate setting. Dates and times as follows:

12-1 pm Friday, October 9

12-1 pm Friday, October 16

12-1 pm Friday, November 13

Zoom discussions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis. Individual discussions can be up to 15 minutes. Participants will queue using Zoom’s  “waiting room” feature if another discussion is already underway. The meeting host will message people in the waiting room to keep them informed on approximate wait times.

To drop-in to Open Office Hours use this link: 



Meeting ID: 969 8100 4915

 

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Other Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:15:59 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Phondi Discussion Group (October 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (October 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
HistLing Discussion Group: "The origin of the Greek future deponents" (October 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77802 77802-19931626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

This week's featured speaker is professor Ben Fortson, who will give a presentation entitled "The origin of the Greek future deponents."

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:40:53 -0400 2020-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
SynSem Discussion Group (October 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-10-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Colloquium: “The ecology of L2 learning and L1 change in adult bilingualism” (October 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77371 77371-19846045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Antonella Sorace, Professor of Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, will give a virtual colloquium: “The ecology of L2 learning and L1 change in adult bilingualism.”

ABSTRACT
Recent research on adult bilingualism shows that selective aspects of grammar become variable in speakers experiencing native language (L1) attrition from learning a second language. I will first show that the structures affected involve “complex contingencies” (Phillips & Ehrenhofer 2015) that require efficient integration of information across (syntactic, pragmatic and contextual) domains. These are the same structures that remain variable even in highly proficient non-native (L2) speakers of the same language (Sorace 2011, 2016). I will then consider various factors that may play a role in these phenomena, including cross-linguistic effects, the cognitive costs of handling two languages, and the role of over-expliciteness. I will finally point to the possibility that L1 change and L2 acquisition may be functionally related in active proficient bilinguals. I will conclude that L1 attrition is a natural consequence of language contact, first in the bilingual brain and then in bilingual communities, which may eventually lead to language change. Understanding the big picture requires interdisciplinary research on different facets of bilingualism that combines the strengths of both linguistic and cognitive models.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:15:36 -0400 2020-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual Antonella Sorace
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Which linguistic theory for CogSci?" (October 12, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77894 77894-19941560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics professor Jeffrey Health will give a talk titled "Which linguistic theory for CogSci?"

Please visit the seminar website for Zoom link and details.

ABSTRACT
The linguistic theory most familiar to cognitive scientists, the syntax-centric generativist model, has deep-seated problems for which no patches are available. Syntax-centrism alienates the model from processing and especially from speaking, and therefore from any natural cognitive processes. Its emphasis on economy now seems quaint in the context of the brain’s massive storage and computational power. The evo-devo theory that is joined to the theory’s hip makes no sense biologically. Under the microscope, current minimalism consists largely of ad hoc devices to account for language-specific linear ordering: functional projections some of which are meaningless, unnecessary specifier positions for these projections, phonological deletion due to unmotivated “computational efficiency,” and ad hoc processes like “remnant movement” when all else fails. Even with this proliferation of makeshift entities and processes, the model cannot account for basic morphosyntactic phenomena in many nonwestern languages. In this talk I discuss how a directional, speaker-centric model that stands up to crosslinguistic findings might be cobbled together from “cognitive linguistics” on the semantic end and morphophonological (including prosodic) theories on the output end. I describe some linguistic issues that are, and some that are not, amenable to experimental study and to computational modeling.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:31:58 -0400 2020-10-12T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
LACS and Latina/o Studies Virtual Panel Discussion. Monumental Injustice in the Americas (October 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77720 77720-19907803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration required: http://myumi.ch/2DVXB

As a joint effort between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) and the Latina/o Studies Program, this panel brings together scholars whose work helps us think about past and present efforts to topple physical monuments to historical figures across the Americas. As the United States recognizes "Hispanic Heritage Month," we push for thinking that cuts across borders. We highlight the hemisphere's interconnected histories of racism, colonialism, conquest and slavery that are at the center of both efforts to memorialize certain figures and stories, and efforts to upend these commemorative structures and the narratives they support. Public discussions around contested symbols of injustice are themselves opportunities to remake historical narratives, and we anticipate this panel will add a rich and important discussion.

Speaker Biographies:

ERIN L. THOMPSON is America’s only full-time professor of art crime (John Jay College, CUNY). She studies a variety of relations between art and crime, including the looting of antiquities, museum theft, art made by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage. She has discussed these topics for the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Freakonomics podcast, among many others. She is currently writing Smashing Statues: On the Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments (Norton 2021). She has written and spoken about the science of public art, the history of protests, the legal barriers to removal of controversial art, and examples of innovative approaches to the problem in venues including Art in America, Hyperallergic, the LARB Blog, and the New York Times.

ANA LUCIA ARAUJO is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Shadows of the Slave Past: Heritage, Memory, and Slavery (Routledge, 2014), and Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (Cambria Press, 2010). She also edited or coedited five books and published dozens of refereed articles in journals and chapters in edited books on topics related to the history and memory of slavery. In 2017, Araujo joined the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. She also serves on the board of editors of the American Historical Review (the journal of the American Historical Association) and the editorial board of the British journal Slavery and Abolition. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD), the editorial review board of the African Studies Review, and the board of the blog Black Perspectives maintained by the African American Intellectual History Society. Currently, Araujo is working on two book projects: Human in Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) and The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (under contract with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora series). She just finished Museums and Atlantic Slavery, a short-format book to be published in 2021 by Routledge in the series Routledge Museums in Focus.

ANDREA QUEELEY is a native of Berkeley, California and holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has a joint appointment in Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the African & African Diaspora Studies Program. Her research interests include black and diasporic subjectivity, race and representation, intra-Caribbean migration, and the African Diaspora in Latin America. She has published several journal articles on these themes in addition to her book ”Rescuing Our Roots: The Anglo-Caribbean African Diaspora in
Contemporary Cuba” (University Press of Florida 2015).

OLIVIA CHILCOTE (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and a Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Riverside. Dr. Chilcote's research and teaching focus on the areas of interdisciplinary Native American Studies, federal Indian law and policy, Native American identity, and Native California. Dr. Chilcote grew up in the center of her tribe’s traditional territory in the North County of San Diego, and she is active in tribal politics and other community efforts.

VANESSA FONSECA-CHÁVEZ is an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. She received her MA in Hispanic Southwest Studies from the University of New Mexico and her PhD in Spanish Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. She is the co-editor of Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (University of New Mexico Press, 2020). Her monograph, Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Looking through the Kaleidoscope is out with the University of Arizona Press.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:55:22 -0400 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Monumental_Injustice-image
Race and Business Education: Deans Panel (October 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78092 78092-19963479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

RACE AND BUSINESS EDUCATION: DEANS PANEL

Does business education make the grade on issues of race? A power panel of deans from leading business schools discuss the challenges and opportunities they face in their efforts to prepare their graduates to be inclusive leaders of a racially diverse workforce.

MODERATOR // DAVID WOOTEN // MICHIGAN ROSS
UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR

WILLIAM BOULDING // DUKE FUQUA

KERWIN CHARLES // YALE SOM

FRANCESCA CORNELLI // NORTHWESTERN KELLOGG

SCOTT DERUE // MICHIGAN ROSS

NICOLE THORNE JENKINS // VIRGINIA MCINTIRE

JONATHAN LEVIN // STANFORD GSB

RAGHU SUNDARAM // NYU STERN

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:21:50 -0400 2020-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T16:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business and Society
Bioethics Discussion: Artificial Parts (October 13, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58829 58829-14563720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what is replaceable.

For the discussion, consider a few readings:
––Implant ethics
––Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability
––Why Not Artificial Wombs?
––Going Out on a Limb: Prosthetics, Normalcy and Disputing the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/048-artificial-parts/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Part way between "the real" and "the artificial", "the blog": https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:42:47 -0400 2020-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Parts
Democracy Conversations (featuring the UMMA Dialogue Deck) (October 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78247 78247-19998913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Register for October 13th: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehcay0gjdcc701ce.

In advance of the Presidential election, UMMA and U-M's Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning created the “Dialogue Deck for Personal and Political Reflection." The Dialogue Deck pairs twelve images from UMMA’s permanent collection with provocative discussion prompts designed to encourage conversation and reflection about US culture and politics. The Dialogue Deck activity is meant to encourage meaningful dialogue and connection with your family, friends, colleagues, and maybe even yourself.

During the month of October, UMMA will host three "Democracy Conversations" via Zoom that feature the Dialogue Deck activity. Participants will be sorted into small breakout groups of 4-5 people and paired with a host who will gently guide the activity and conversation.  Conversations will last one hour, and offer the opportunity for individuals to learn more about the Dialogue Deck activity and engage in conversation with others outside their immediate social circles. 

The Dialogue Deck can be used by anyone as a self-guided discussion tool, and the print version of the deck is available for free at the UMMA Shop.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Other Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:15:59 -0400 2020-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78234 78234-19996940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Gaussian processes provide flexible non-parametric models of data and we are using them to model temporal and spatial patterns in gene expression. Single-cell omics measurements are destructive and one cannot follow the high-dimensional dynamics of genes across time in one cell. Similarly, the spatial context of cells is often lost or only known with reduced resolution. Computational methods are widely used to infer pseudo-temporal orderings of cells or to infer spatial locations. We show how Gaussian processes (GPs) can be used to model temporal and spatial relationships between genes and cells in these datasets. As examples I will show how we use Bayesian GPLVMs with informative priors to infer pseudo-temporal orderings for single-cell time course data [1] and branching GPs to identify gene-specific bifurcation points across pseudotime [2]. Gene expression data are often summarized as counts and there may be many zero values in the data due to limited sequencing depth. We therefore recently extended these methods to use negative binomial or zero-inflated negative binomial likelihoods and we show that this can lead to much improved performance over standard Gaussian noise models when identifying spatially varying genes from spatial transcriptomics data [3].

[1] Ahmed, S., Rattray, M., & Boukouvalas, A. (2019). GrandPrix: scaling up the Bayesian GPLVM for single-cell data. Bioinformatics, 35(1), 47-54.

[2] Boukouvalas, A., Hensman, J., & Rattray, M. (2018). BGP: identifying gene-specific branching dynamics from single-cell data with a branching Gaussian process. Genome biology, 19(1), 65.

[3] BinTayyash, N., Georgaka, S., John, S. T., Ahmed, S., Boukouvalas, A., Hensman, J., & Rattray, M. (2020). Non-parametric modelling of temporal and spatial counts data from RNA-seq experiments. Bioarxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.227207

Short bio: Magnus Rattray is Professor of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Manchester and Director of the Institute for Data Science & AI. He works on the development of methods for machine learning and Bayesian inference with applications to large-scale biological and medical datasets. He has a long-standing interest in longitudinal data analysis and a more recent interest in modelling single-cell, spatial omics and live cell imaging microscopy data. He is a Fellow of the ELLIS Health Programme and the Alan Turing Institute and his research is funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:35:21 -0400 2020-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Magnus Rattray, PhD (Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Manchester)
SLE Community Nights (October 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (October 15, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-10-15T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
DISC Virtual Screening and Q&A. *Hamtramck, USA* (October 15, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77885 77885-19939578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Virtual Screening starts October 15 at 5:00 PM EST
Q&A with Co-Directors and Producers Razi Jafri & Justin Feltman:
October 22 at 6:30 PM EST

Please register here: https://forms.gle/qkFpWnprVBJqh6NVA

Hamtramck, USA is a documentary film exploring life and democracy in Hamtramck, MI – America’s first Muslim majority city. Through an exploration of the city’s rich history and a heated mayoral election, Hamtramck, USA wrestles with identity politics, power dynamics, and the immigrant experience in America.

Registrants for this event will receive a link to a virtual film screening of Hamtramck, USA opening on Oct. 15, 2020 and an invitation to a Q&A with co-producer and directors Razi Jafri and Justin Feltman on Oct. 22, 2020 at 6:30pm Eastern.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:22:02 -0400 2020-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Livestream / Virtual event_image
Navigating an Uncertain Future: Live Discussion (October 15, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78186 78186-19989049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Campus Mind Works, in collaboration with Munger Graduate Residences, is excited to offer free mental health education and support groups for graduate and professional students! These groups will discuss different factors specific to graduate and professional students that can impact mental health and provide space to share your experience with others.

Watch the 30-minute asynchronous presentation of Navigating an Uncertain Future prior to the live group discussion. Join the virtual discussion group to ask questions and connect with other students about their experience! Pre-registration is required.

**Navigating an Uncertain Future presentation is available under Related Links

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Well-being Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:20:34 -0400 2020-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Blue and white rectangle logo that says Campus Mind Works
Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M (October 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78057 78057-19957547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this "Making Michigan" webinar with U-M Professor Stephen Ward, who will discuss the impact of the Black Power movement and struggles around race, nationally and locally, at U-M during the 1960s and 1970s. You'll learn about the Black Action Movement (BAM I), an important moment in U-M's history of student activism. He'll also discuss the motivations and rationale for Black Studies as an academic discipline, and the origins of U-M's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:51:06 -0400 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and picture of Stephen Ward
The Clements Bookworm: The papers of William H. Busbey, Civil War Soldier and Newspaper Editor (October 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76966 76966-19782529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Manuscripts Curator Cheney Schopieray hosts a conversation about the story of William H. Busbey and his family with Ted Young, a Busbey descendant, and Linda Zimmermann (Author of “Civil War Memories: The Collected Writings of Sgt. William H. Busbey (1839-1906)”). The Busbey papers (1838-1928, bulk 1848-1903) reside at the Clements Library.

The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:33:49 -0400 2020-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Open Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen and Museum Staff (October 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78248 78248-19998914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

These office hours are open for drop-in. Registration is not required.: .

There’s a lot to talk about. Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), wants to hear from you. This fall’s edition of Open Office Hours  will focus on hearing your feedback about UMMA’s Commitment to Anti-Racist Action, what you’d like to see UMMA doing in the midst of the pandemic, and your ideas about the future. Meet Tina and one other member of her team over Zoom for a chance to share your views in an informal and intimate setting. Dates and times as follows:

12-1 pm Friday, October 9

12-1 pm Friday, October 16

12-1 pm Friday, November 13

Zoom discussions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis. Individual discussions can be up to 15 minutes. Participants will queue using Zoom’s  “waiting room” feature if another discussion is already underway. The meeting host will message people in the waiting room to keep them informed on approximate wait times.

To drop-in to Open Office Hours use this link: 



Meeting ID: 969 8100 4915

 

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Other Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:16:01 -0400 2020-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (October 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: Extending a task-general computational model of procedural learning (October 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77895 77895-19941561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Bryan Stearns will give a talk titled "Extending a task-general computational model of procedural learning."

Please visit the seminar series website for Zoom link and details.

ABSTRACT
Can we understand human generality and learning well enough to make computer systems that learn the way we learn? Many models exist that help us describe various aspects of human learning or let us evaluate competing theories. It is harder to find models that specify processing at a level that is detailed enough to allow a computer system to actually perform human-like learning. This talk presents some of my thesis work that extends a model of human procedural learning to have more specific computational detail. In the process, I also extend the model by discovering connections with prior theoretical work in human skill acquisition and some neuroscience.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:20:34 -0400 2020-10-19T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Race, Gender, and Rights: Histories of the Practice of Democratic Citizenship (October 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77555 77555-19883827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

A panel discussion presented in partnership with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

What does it mean to be a citizen of the United States? The Constitution does not define who gets to be a citizen, or what citizenship means. Rather, citizenship has been defined over time, often through struggle and activism by people who were denied the full rights of citizenship. The Clements Library at the University of Michigan in partnership with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences will host a virtual panel discussion featuring Derrick Spires of Cornell University (author of *The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States*) and Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University (author of *Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America* and *Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All*). The conversation will be moderated by Ben Vinson III, Provost of Case Western Reserve University.

In anticipation of the discussion, Clements Library Director Paul Erickson highlights recent work by Spires, Jones and AAA&S in this blog post: myumi.ch/2DlAZ

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:30:16 -0400 2020-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Burning the Mortgage of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, Detroit, 1915. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-1887/wcl001978
LHS Collaboratory-LHS as a Driver of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (October 20, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77545 77545-19879862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Healthcare and health remain unconscionably inequitable. This year, the disproportionate toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on those historically least well-served by our health system, has highlighted the pressing societal challenge of health disparities.

Beyond simply striving to do no harm, Learning Health Systems (LHSs) have the potential to serve as forces for justice in healthcare and health; indeed, they can be powerful drivers of diversity, equity, and inclusion. LHSs are anchored in multi-stakeholder consensus Core Values that explicitly incorporate principles such as inclusiveness, transparency, and accessibility. Their proximal goal is "to efficiently and equitably serve the learning needs of all participants, as well as the overall public good."

The October 2020 LHS Collaboratory will share lessons from health advocates working on the front lines to make healthcare and health more equitable. These thought leaders and do-ers will illuminate the transformative power of LHSs - and the diverse and inclusive communities of interest that are collaborating to realize them.

Moderator:
Joshua C. Rubin, JD, MBA, MPP, MPH
Program Officer, Learning Health System Initiatives, Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Luis Belén
Chief Executive Officer of the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT Collaborative)

Danielle Brooks, JD
Director of Health Equity, Amerihealth Caritas

Melissa S. Creary, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:18:37 -0400 2020-10-20T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo puzzle pieces
Democracy Conversations (featuring the UMMA Dialogue Deck) (October 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78249 78249-19998915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Register for October 13th: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehcay0gjdcc701ce.

In advance of the Presidential election, UMMA and U-M's Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning created the “Dialogue Deck for Personal and Political Reflection." The Dialogue Deck pairs twelve images from UMMA’s permanent collection with provocative discussion prompts designed to encourage conversation and reflection about US culture and politics. The Dialogue Deck activity is meant to encourage meaningful dialogue and connection with your family, friends, colleagues, and maybe even yourself.

During the month of October, UMMA will host three "Democracy Conversations" via Zoom that feature the Dialogue Deck activity. Participants will be sorted into small breakout groups of 4-5 people and paired with a host who will gently guide the activity and conversation.  Conversations will last one hour, and offer the opportunity for individuals to learn more about the Dialogue Deck activity and engage in conversation with others outside their immediate social circles. 

The Dialogue Deck can be used by anyone as a self-guided discussion tool, and the print version of the deck is available for free at the UMMA Shop.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Other Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:15:58 -0400 2020-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
A Conversation with Trevor Noah (October 20, 2020 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78552 78552-20060211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Daily Show star Trevor Noah will join the U-M community for a casual and interactive conversation on this pivotal moment that reflects both adversity and possibility.

In this virtual event, Trevor Noah reflects on the state of our nation and discusses how the U-M community can, in spite of isolation, come together around the arts, pursue racial justice, and rise to the challenge of this moment.

The free event is open to the University of Michigan community, as well as UMS and Ford School supporters and event attendees. You must register for this event in advance; the link for the livestream will be sent out on Tuesday, October 20.

Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, is widely known for his social commentary touching upon issues of racism, immigration, incarceration, and the protest movement. Born in South Africa to a Black South African mother and a white European father during apartheid, Noah knows what it means to live in a divided nation, and he brings a unique perspective in his incisive social and political criticism of the larger issues at play in the U.S. and in the world today. In 2019, he launched a podcast series “On Second Thought: The Trevor Noah Podcast” in which he challenges himself, and his listeners, to explore unfamiliar angles, embrace differing viewpoints, and celebrate the contradictions that make our modern world both bewildering and exciting.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:57:53 -0400 2020-10-20T20:30:00-04:00 2020-10-20T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Livestream / Virtual Trevor Noah
Pronouns 101 (October 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78349 78349-20012790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Other IPD happenings: https://bit.ly/SC-PronounsDay

Celebrate International Pronouns Day by learning more about how to use personal pronouns inclusively and tips for correcting mistakes. This event will include a panel of students who are bilingual/multilingual that will share about their experiences with pronouns. This event is a partnership between the International Center and the Spectrum Center.

Learn more about International Pronouns Day: https://pronounsday.org/

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:13:57 -0400 2020-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Presentation "Pronouns 101" will be held October 21st from 12:00 to 1:30 PM. Image features Spectrum Center and International Center logos and event information on a blank Spectrum Center pronoun pin design.
CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (October 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78174 78174-19989054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns virtually this October with Trevor Pawl!

On July 2nd, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer formally announced the launch of the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) with Trevor Pawl named as Chief Mobility Officer. Trevor will provide insight into the creation of OFME, its vision, and its use as a tool for all key mobility stakeholders in Michigan. This webinar will include a Q&A session.
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About the speaker: Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, and leads Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. In this position, Pawl is responsible for working across state government, academia and private industry to grow Michigan’s mobility ecosystem through strategic policy recommendations and new support services for companies focused on the future of transportation. Prior to this position, Pawl served as the Senior Vice President of Business Innovation at the MEDC, where he led the official state programs for mobility (PlanetM), supply chain assistance (Pure Michigan Business Connect), export assistance (Michigan International Trade program) and entrepreneurial assistance (Michigan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Before joining the MEDC, Pawl brought with him experience in supply chain matchmaking, having led the creation of the economic development program, Connection Point, at the Detroit Regional Chamber, which later became Pure Michigan Business Connect. Trevor has been named Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 Under 40” and “50 Names to Know in Government”. He’s also been named Development Counsellors International’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Economic Development” and the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council’s “Government Advocate of the Year”. Pawl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Marketing from Grand Valley State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:35:03 -0400 2020-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image
The Educated Voter (October 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78504 78504-20052323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

With the 2020 election looming and the ever-present noise coming from the internet and tv, it can be hard to sort through all of the information to become an educated voter. But what is an educated voter and how do we become one? Join us as we discuss the absentee voting process, how to find your sample ballot, how to research candidates and more.

Presenters: Deborah Lynn Bunkley, League of Women Voters, Catherine Morse, U of M Libraries, and Dr. Kimberly Saks McManaway, U of M Flint

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:37:28 -0400 2020-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion The Educated Voter
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (October 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78531 78531-20058232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract
Although machine learning applications are now pervasive to every industry, adoption into healthcare remains a challenging and arduous process. Barriers to implementation include clinician trust, algorithm credibility and actionability, promoting clinician literacy in machine learning methods, and mitigating unintended consequences.

In the high-risk operating room setting, anesthesiologists are recognized leaders in patient safety, and manage uncertainty through careful considerations of risk and benefit based upon a thorough understanding of disease processes and treatment mechanisms. In this talk, the speaker highlights how obstacles to implementation of machine-learning based healthcare applications can be mitigated, and how an understanding of such applications can be promoted among clinically-minded anesthesiologists who may not necessarily be expert data scientists.

Short Bio:
Dr. Mathis has research interests in improving perioperative care for patients with advanced cardiovascular disease, particularly for patients with heart failure. As part of the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG), an international consortium of perioperative databases for which U-M serves as the coordinating center, he serves as Associate Research Director and plays a lead role in integration of MPOG data with data from national cardiac and thoracic surgery registries. He also has interests in leveraging novel data science methods to understand patterns within highly granular intraoperative physiologic data, studying hemodynamic responses to surgical and anesthetic stimuli as a means for early detection of cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:43:15 -0400 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Image which promotes the content of Dr. Mathis' talk (https://jamanetwork.com/collections/5584/critical-care-medicine)
SLE Community Nights (October 21, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Election Integrity: A WeListen Staff Discussion (October 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78175 78175-19987076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: WeListen Staff

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link will be shared once you've RSVP'd!

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLOctober20

We will discuss Election Integrity as the 2020 Presidential Election approaches amidst conversation around mail-in voting, the counting of absentee ballots and access to the polls across the country.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is supported by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:03:47 -0400 2020-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location WeListen Staff Lecture / Discussion WeListen October 2020
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (October 22, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
2020 Election Virtual Town Hall (October 22, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78677 78677-20099545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Join staff from the Michigan Department of State to learn about and prep for the 2020 Election!

We'll discuss how to make a plan to vote, what to expect on Election Day and answer your election-related questions.

Sponsored by the Big Ten Voting Challenge and the Michigan Department of State.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:27:10 -0400 2020-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Town Hall Graphic
DISC Virtual Screening and Q&A. *Hamtramck, USA* (October 22, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77885 77885-19939579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Virtual Screening starts October 15 at 5:00 PM EST
Q&A with Co-Directors and Producers Razi Jafri & Justin Feltman:
October 22 at 6:30 PM EST

Please register here: https://forms.gle/qkFpWnprVBJqh6NVA

Hamtramck, USA is a documentary film exploring life and democracy in Hamtramck, MI – America’s first Muslim majority city. Through an exploration of the city’s rich history and a heated mayoral election, Hamtramck, USA wrestles with identity politics, power dynamics, and the immigrant experience in America.

Registrants for this event will receive a link to a virtual film screening of Hamtramck, USA opening on Oct. 15, 2020 and an invitation to a Q&A with co-producer and directors Razi Jafri and Justin Feltman on Oct. 22, 2020 at 6:30pm Eastern.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:22:02 -0400 2020-10-22T18:30:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Livestream / Virtual event_image
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in State Government Panel (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78591 78591-20068100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

Leading Women of Tomorrow at the University of Michigan is hosting the first event in its new Bridging the Gap Series on Thursday, October 22nd from 7-8:30pm!

The first event will be a Women in State Government Panel featuring Michigan State Representatives Christine Greig, Kristy Pagan, and Padma Kuppa. Each representative will introduce themselves followed by an open Q&A.

Please follow the Zoom link to participate. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:20:21 -0500 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in State Gov Panel
Phondi Discussion Group (October 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (October 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
GISC Event. Muslims in Comics: Superheroes & Scapegoats (October 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78302 78302-20004861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Friday, October 23, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Zoom Webinar Link: http://bit.ly/MuslimsInComics

Panelists will include: Esra Mirze Santesso, Chris Gavaler, Aliyah Khan, & Karla Mallette. The event will be moderated by Sena Duran

This event is free and open to the public but please RSVP: Zoom Webinar Link: http://bit.ly/MuslimsInComics

Schedule:
2:00 PM: Esra Mirze Santesso - Human Rights, Narratives of War in Iran and Kashmir

2:15 PM: Karla Mallette - Resistance of Muslims in Comics

2:30 PM: Aliyah Khan - Orientalist Representations of Muslim Female Superheroes

2:45 PM: Chris Gavaler - Islamic History of 20th Century Superhero

3:00 PM: Talkback

3:30 PM: Q&A


From dissidents to villains to superheroes, how are Muslim characters written--and how does the public read them--in comic books today? This workshop explores the roles open to Muslim characters in serialized comics and graphic novels. The medium of serialized comics, commercialized in the twentieth century by mainstream comics publishers such as Marvel and DC, and epitomized by their respective superhero universes, has long been associated with a lack of racial and religious diversity, the sexualization of female characters, and a reader base that is stereotypically young, male, and white. Minority characters were often limited to tokenized villains or sidekicks designed for comic relief. But the contemporary young Muslim female superhero Ms. Marvel symbolizes a comics landscape that is changing. In the contexts of the Gulf Wars, 9/11, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian conflict, ongoing civil unrest in the Middle East, and worldwide refugee migrant crises, writers and artists from the Muslim and Arab worlds, and others writing journalistically and historically about those locales, are at the forefront of graphic medium literary production.

Graphic novels and comics by and about Muslims and Arabs comprise a growing and distinctive narrative strain within comics studies—one that this event of comics and Muslim and Arab Studies artists and scholars seeks to investigate.

Chris Gavaler (On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1, 2015) explores the Islamicist history of the 20th-century superhero.

Esra Mirze Santesso (Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature, 2013) discusses human rights discourse in narratives of war and dissidence in Iran and Kashmir.

Karla Mallette (European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean, 2010) reports on resistance to Muslim and other minority identity politics from some comics readers.

Aliyah Khan (Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean, 2020) examines orientalist representations of Muslim female superheroes.

Sena Duran is a third-year PhD student in the department of American Culture. Her research approaches representations of Muslims in U.S. visual media through Feminist and Genre Studies frameworks, with specific attention to the use of monstrosity and eroticism in narratives of U.S. nationalism, empire, and racial subjugation.


The presenters bring postcolonial, decolonial, comics studies, and historicizing methodologies to bear on understanding commonalities and differences among Islamic, Muslim, and Arab graphic narratives, reading them as transnational works that, as many of their subjects do, cross borders and resist authoritarian states.


Cosponsored by: The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Middle East Studies, and Arab and Muslim American Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:13:47 -0400 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
HistLing Discussion Group: Old Chinese messages from underground (October 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77831 77831-19933621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:00:24 -0400 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
SynSem Discussion Group (October 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Linguistics Colloquium: Accessibility and timing (October 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77591 77591-19885836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguist Matt Wagers of the University of California, Santa Cruz, will give a talk on Friday, October 23, titled "Accessibility and timing."

ABSTRACT
Subject relative clauses are generally easier to comprehend than non-subject relative clauses. This subject gap advantage (SGA) is a fact that grounded, conjecturally, Keenan & Comrie (1977)’s Accessibility Hierarchy and one which has been extensively investigated (e.g., Kwon, Lee, Gordon, Kluender & Polinsky, 2010). In recent years a new generation of studies has challenged or re-characterized the SGA by incorporating data from language users whose grammars provide better resources for disentangling competing theories, and who are not typically included in psycholinguistic experiments. This has certainly resulted in a more nuanced understanding of the SGA and relative clause processing. But more than that, it has also mapped out new topics, such as the processing of verb-initial clauses or ergative-absolutive case systems. In the first part of the talk, I will tour this new state-of-the-art to highlight some of these emerging findings and research agendas. In the second part of the talk, I will draw on work from my own group on Chamorro and Zapotec to support the idea that the SGA is driven fundamentally by timing, that is, the order in which syntactic hypotheses are projected from partial evidence.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:26:37 -0400 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
The Boys: Q&A with Stephan Fleet (October 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78713 78713-20107421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Activities Center

We are excited to have Stephan Fleet, the VFX Supervisor from The Boys, join us for a live Q&A session. Join the meeting for a trivia event where you could win Amazon gift cards.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95659714609

Be sure to follow us on Instagram @umflicks and add M-Flicks on LinkedIn!

Background on The Boys:
The Boys is an American superhero streaming television series developed by Eric Kripke for Prime Video. Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they combat superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities

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Other Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:34:14 -0400 2020-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Activities Center Other The Boys: Q&A with Stephan Fleet (4:30pm-6:00pm)
Ibrahim Mahama: In-Between the World and Dreams (October 23, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77323 77323-19840078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This conversation brings together collaborators of the ambitious Institute for the Humanities-led project, In-Between the World and Dreams: Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator UM Institute for the Humanities and Lead Curator; Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator for Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Laura De Becker, Curator of African Art and Interim Chief Curator at UMMA; Neil Barclay, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History; and Ibrahim Mahama, internationally known Ghanaian artist and Director of the Savannah Center for the Arts in Tamale, Ghana. 

The project presents public facing installations at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for engagement with the arts are limited. Mahama’s work acknowledges the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world, and the labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange. At the same time, the work and overall project speaks to building new worlds out of failed systems, futures out of disappointments, asking the question, What can we do? Mahama addresses this prompt in a statement for the project: “promises of the present can start with ghosts from both the future and past. Ghosts are an embodiment of failed revolutions and unrealized futures, which need to be used as a starting point for new conversations within this century and beyond. Every life form is a gift.” The conversation discusses the critical role art and artists can play in times of crisis, and the significance of public art at a time when we are changing the picture as to who we honor and what we value.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supporting the Institute for the Humanities commitment to High Stakes Art. In partnership with Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Charles Wright Museum of African American History.

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

Notice of uncensored content

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:09 -0400 2020-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Ibrahim-Mahama.jpg
Special Joint Seminar - Hosted by DCMB, Department of Mathematics, and the Smale Institute (October 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78673 78673-20099541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Dr. Leland Hartwell won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for the discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.

“We want our students to have an authentic experience of science. Nearly all science activities designed for schools require the students to demonstrate an established scientific principle by getting the right answer. Getting the “right” answer is not authentic science. Science is the exploration of the unknown – the answer cannot be known.“
- Leland Hartwell

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:04:27 -0400 2020-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Dr. Leland Hartwell, Nobel Laureate
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: Children's intuitions about trade (October 26, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77896 77896-19941562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Margaret Echelbarger, University of Chicago, will give a talk titled "Will she give you two cookies for one chocolate? Children’s intuitions about trade."

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom link and access details.

ABSTRACT
Trade is a cornerstone of economic exchange and can take many different forms. In simple trades, one item is often exchanged for another; but in more complex trades, agents can trade different numbers of items, reflecting the differing value of the items being traded. Though young children regularly engage in simple trades, we examine whether they understand a key element involved in more complex trades—the idea that people may subjectively value the same item differently and accept trades that numerically disadvantage themselves in the service of acquiring more of a preferred item. To do so, we ran three studies with 5- to 10-year-old children (N = 314) in which they were asked to predict whether a third party would accept or reject different types of trades. Results revealed that children across this age range predict that a third party will accept a numerically disadvantageous trade when they prefer one resource over another, but not when they have an equal preference for both resources. Importantly, their predictions were not merely a reflection of what they thought was fair, but rather what was in the best interest of the third party—they thought a third party would be more likely to accept an “unfair” trade that benefitted himself rather than someone else. We discuss our findings in terms of what they reveal about children’s early economic intuitions.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:44:19 -0400 2020-10-26T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Democracy Conversations (featuring the UMMA Dialogue Deck) (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78250 78250-19998916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister for October 13th.

In advance of the Presidential election, UMMA and U-M's Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning created the “Dialogue Deck for Personal and Political Reflection." The Dialogue Deck pairs twelve images from UMMA’s permanent collection with provocative discussion prompts designed to encourage conversation and reflection about US culture and politics. The Dialogue Deck activity is meant to encourage meaningful dialogue and connection with your family, friends, colleagues, and maybe even yourself.

During the month of October, UMMA will host three "Democracy Conversations" via Zoom that feature the Dialogue Deck activity. Participants will be sorted into small breakout groups of 4-5 people and paired with a host who will gently guide the activity and conversation.  Conversations will last one hour, and offer the opportunity for individuals to learn more about the Dialogue Deck activity and engage in conversation with others outside their immediate social circles. 

The Dialogue Deck can be used by anyone as a self-guided discussion tool, and the print version of the deck is available for free at the UMMA Shop.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, MUSIC Matters, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Other Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:49 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-14563721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-20162611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
DCMB / CCMB Seminar (October 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78528 78528-20058229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows researchers to examine the transcriptome at the single-cell resolution and has been increasingly employed as technologies continue to advance. Due to technical and biological reasons unique to scRNA-seq data, clustering and batch effect correction are almost indispensable to ensure valid and powerful data analysis. Multiple methods have been proposed for these two important tasks. For clustering, we have found that different methods, including state-of-the-art methods such as Seurat, SC3, CIDR, SIMLR, t-SNE + k-means, yield varying results in terms of both the number of clusters and actual cluster assignments. We have developed ensemble methods, SAFE-clustering and SAME-clustering, that leverages hyper-graph partitioning algorithms and a mixture model-based approach respectively to produce more robust and accurate ensemble solution on top of clustering results from individual methods. For batch effect correction, we have developed methods based on supervised mutual nearest neighbor detection to harness the power of known cell type labels for certain single cells. We benchmarked all methods in various scRNA-seq datasets to demonstrate their utilities.

Short bio: Yun Li, PhD is an Associate professor of Genetics and Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Li is a statistical geneticist with extensive experiences with method development and application on genotype imputation (developer of MaCH and MaCH-admix), genetic studies of recently admixed population, design and analysis of sequencing-based studies, analyses of multi-omics data including mRNA expression, DNA methylation and chromatin three dimensional organization. Dr. Li has been playing an active role in genetic studies of complex human traits resulting many GWAS and meta-analysis publications, including >30 in Nature, Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics. Dr. Li has been leading multiple R01 projects on statistical method development for complex trait genetics. Dr. Li has also been the Director for the Data Science Core of IDDRC (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center). Dr. Li has received many awards and became the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher due to her high impact scientific work. Specifically, her work has been cited >60,000 times with h-index of 64 and i10-index of 113.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:41:20 -0400 2020-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Yun Li, PhD (Associate Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics; Adjunct Associate Professor, Applied Physical Sciences at School of Medicine, Genetics at University of North Carolina)
SLE Community Nights (October 28, 2020 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-10-28T21:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
AIGA Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote Exhibition Panel Discussion (October 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78930 78930-20156696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lease RSVP to reserve your place for this free event..

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with designers from the AIGA “Get out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery. Hear about the ideas behind their poster designs, why they believe it is important to vote, and what the 19th amendment means to them. Panelists will include Stamps School of Art & Design Professors Audrey Bennett and Hannah Smotrich, and Michigan State University Professor Kelly Salchow Macarthur. Panelists will be joined by the U-M Museum of Art Student Engagement Council members Emily Considine and Sarah Jacob who have worked closely with partners across campus to develop voter participation initiatives for U-M students. The discussion will be moderated by Stamps Gallery Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and followed by a Q&A. U-M Students, Faculty, and Staff will be able to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and vote early at UMMA every weekday between Sept. 24 and election day. To find out more visit UMMA Vote2020.

 

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with UMMA.

 

Find out more about the AIGA “Get out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition here. Read more from the U-M Museum of Art Student Engagement Council on their blog. 

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, MUSIC Matters, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:15:47 -0400 2020-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (October 29, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-10-29T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
Distinct Analyses, One Sustainable Direction: Students and Faculty Share Insights from U-M’s Carbon Neutrality Push (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78539 78539-20060198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality

This event is free and open to the public. Register for the event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CC1y8Qp2SduEZBjeEsGoYg

Tasked with identifying opportunities for U-M to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality brings together students, staff, and faculty from across the university to develop and recommend bold, transferrable, and sustainable solutions. Join student researchers from the commission’s various analysis teams, as well as co-chair, Jennifer Haverkamp, for a panel discussion on what it means for U-M to pursue carbon neutrality. Students will share their distinct expertise on buildings, commuting, campus culture, food, and mobility electrification, and answer questions from the U-M community. Attendees will learn how they can contribute ideas and get involved.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:40:14 -0400 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality Lecture / Discussion PCCN Logo
MEMS Grad Student Coffee Hour (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77876 77876-19939559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In the absence of some of our usual opportunities for interdisciplinary community-building, such as the Medieval Lunch, MEMS will host occasional informal opportunities for grad students from PhD programs across LSA to meet each other and gain a broader view of medieval and early modern studies, at Michigan and beyond, from the vantage of your colleagues and their research interests. Chat with other grad students about classes they're taking or recommend, the MEMS certificate, funding opportunities, the best recent book in their field, etc. We'll mix up breakout rooms frequently, and you're welcome to pop in briefly or stay the hour.

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Meeting Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:42:32 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Meeting Premodern socializing. Tapestry.
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series (October 29, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78648 78648-20085803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

With Election Day quickly approaching, Trotter Multicultural Center is beyond excited to present Civic Engagement & the Power of Speechwriting: Reflections from Former Presidential Speechwriters, a continuation of our beloved Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series, on October 29th (Thursday) from 5:30-7:00 PM. Hear from speechwriters, Sarah Hurwitz and John McConnell, as they discuss their experiences speechwriting for the Bush and Obama administration, as well as the role of speechwriting within civic engagement. The event will be moderated by Aaron Kall, U-M Director of Debate.

Want to learn more about our speakers? Check out their bios down below!

About Sarah Hurwitz
Sarah Hurwitz was a White House speechwriter from 2009 to 2017, serving as as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and as well as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. Before working at the White House, Sarah was chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential primary campaign as well as a deputy chief speechwriter for Senator John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Hurwitz is also the author of Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life -- in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There).

About John McConnell
John McConnell served as a senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney—part of the three-person team responsible for all of the 43rd President’s major addresses. He served all eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration, and held the unique position of both Deputy Assistant to the President and Assistant to the Vice President.

Please note this event will be recorded.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:05:19 -0400 2020-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Livestream / Virtual Image of event flyer
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (October 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (October 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 30, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (November 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-11-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTALEtuLRdiO6kd8TjtaCA

In Manufacturing Celebrity, Vanessa Díaz pulls the curtain back on Hollywood, tracing the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Díaz examines the racialized and gendered labor involved in manufacturing and selling relatable celebrity personas. The predominantly male Latino paparazzi can face life-threatening situations and endure vilification that echoes anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, celebrity reporters, most of whom are white women, are expected to leverage their sexuality to generate coverage, which makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and assault. In pointing out the precarity of those who hustle to make a living by generating the bulk of celebrity media, Díaz highlights the profound inequities of the systems that provide consumers with 24/7 coverage of their favorite stars. Highlighting the highly visual nature of Manufacturing Celebrity, this talk explores the main themes and theoretical frameworks of the book while engaging with several of the images that fill its pages.

Vanessa Díaz is a multimedia ethnographer and journalist whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor in popular culture across the Americas. Grounded in her experience as a red carpet reporter for People magazine, Díaz’s first book Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood focuses on hierarchies of labor as well as racial and gender politics in the production of celebrity-focused media. Díaz is a co-author of UCLA’s 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report, director of the film Cuban HipHop: Desde el Principio, and the media editor for Transforming Anthropology. Her research has been profiled in such outlets as the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC News. Díaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Post-Election Debrief (November 4, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78901 78901-20152758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Everyone is talking about the election now, and these conversations will continue after Election Day, November 3. Is it possible to engage in civil conversation around politics in academic and professional contexts? This workshop happens to fall on the date after all voting in the Fall 2020 U.S. election is completed. This workshop is an opportunity to talk about (and to explore how we can talk about) what we’ve seen in the news, in our local communities, on social media, and in conversations with friends and colleagues and to practice language for commiserating and sharing potentially opposing perspectives.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/2D9GG

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:35:14 -0400 2020-11-04T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78770 78770-20121164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Metabolomics is a powerful approach to characterize small molecules produced in cells, tissues, and other biological systems. Metabolites are direct products of enzymatic reactions and provide a snapshot of cellular activities. Metabolomics-based research has already had a profound impact on biomarker discovery, nutritional analysis, and other biomedical and biological discoveries. The most pressing problem in metabolomics however is identifying compounds in the sample-under-study from the metabolomics measurements. Current analysis tools are capable of annotating only a small portion of sample measurements.

In this talk, we present machine learning solutions to three challenges related to the interpretation of metabolomics data. To mimic the function of a mass spectrometer in generating a mass spectrum, we use graph neural networks to translate a molecular structure into its respective spectral signature. To interpret the biological measurements in the context of the biological sample, we use Bayesan learning to deduce the likelihood of pathway activities. To suggest putative candidate molecules that are biologically relevant matches to the measured spectra, we explore several methods for predicting possible enzymatic products. We discuss several results, highlighting the value of using machine learning for advancing metabolomics analysis.

Short bio: Soha Hassoun is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Soha received her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, the Master's degree from MIT, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington in Seattle. Soha’s lab uses Machine Learning to develop analysis and discovery tools for synthetic and systems biology, with a focus on enzyme promiscuity prediction and metabolomics analysis. Soha was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and several technical and service awards from various professional societies. She provided technical leadership for several conferences including ICCAD and DAC. She co-founded the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation in 2009. Soha serves on the board of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:33:23 -0400 2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
SLE Community Nights (November 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Creating Common Ground for a Kinder, Better Future: Growing the Capacity to Listen and Connect in Politically Charged Times DEIOL2125 (November 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78995 78995-20168554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Holding a civil, productive conversation with individuals who may not agree with you is always a challenge. This year, it seems to be an even bigger challenge, but it is still an important skill to continuously improve. Political or personal values conversations are an important part of civil discourse, especially if each party is willing to listen and connect with mutual respect and a goal to seek common ground. This session will provide a framework for better conversations around very complicated and potentially emotional topics.

Audience:
Any U-M faculty or staff who would like to connect and create common ground with others during difficult conversations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:50:43 -0400 2020-11-05T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (November 5, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
November Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings (November 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78682 78682-20101509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black/Indigenous/Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event's host will be Krishna Han (he/him/his). Krishna's professional student affairs journey in the US took him from Oberlin College to Bowling Green State University (BGSU) prior to joining University of Michigan. Originally, from Cambodia, Krishna graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh with a dual degree in Biology and Education. After completing a master degree in Community Forestry at Shinshu University, Japan he pursued and earned a Ph.D. in Regional Environmental Resources Management at Hokkaido University, Japan.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:14:28 -0400 2020-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering November's Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings event will be held Thursday the 5th from 5:30 to 7:00 PM and will be hosted by Krishna Han, who is pictured in the advertisement. Krishna is a brown-skinned Asian man with side-parted short black hair smiling widely and looking at something off-camera. He is wearing a white collared shirt with pink flower designs.
We Voted. What's Next? BLI Leadership Lunch (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79178 79178-20225557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

A lot has happened — and is still happening — in the 2020 presidential election.

Join the BLI students to discuss the 2020 election in a safe and welcoming space. There will be two speakers, Erin Byrnes — lead for the Big Ten Voting Challenge at the Ginsberg Center, Getty Kasole — Cofounder of ACTIVE:CHI, who will share what civic engagement looks like beyond voting and how to create change in your communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:07:38 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI Leadership Lunch
Phondi Discussion Group (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
HistLing Discussion Group: Discussion of Explanation in Typology (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77832 77832-19933622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Assistant Professor Savi Namboodiripad and Linguistics graduate student Alex Kramer will present "Discussion of Explanation in Typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations, and the nature of evidence."

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:29:20 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
SynSem Discussion Group (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Linguistics Colloquium: MI Diaries: Tracking language change during a pandemic (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77623 77623-19893759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguists Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner of Michigan State University will present their project "MI Diaries: Tracking language change during a pandemic."

ABSTRACT
Face-to-face interaction has long been hypothesized to be a central component of both sociolinguistic development for individuals as well as of language change across an entire community. The social distancing conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic introduced a deep and long term disruption to typical face-to-face interaction for Michiganders, which in turn enables researchers to test precisely how these widescale disruptions to face-to-face interactions impact sociolinguistic development for children and participation in lifespan change for adults. In this talk, we introduce the MI-Diaries project, which has been tracking audio diaries from participants since the beginning of the pandemic. We highlight some of the major theoretical goals of the project, as well as discuss some of the methodological innovations necessary for conducting sociolinguistic fieldwork during a pandemic.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:57:57 -0500 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual Event promotion
[CANCELED] In-Gallery Conversation | Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past (November 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69150 69150-17252917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join University of Michigan photographer Randal Stegmeyer as he discusses the stories behind the photographs on view in the special exhibition *Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past.* This will be an informal conversation with the artist himself and an opportunity for you to ask him your questions. The event is free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:05:57 -0400 2020-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion coffin of Djehutymose
Creating Common Ground for a Kinder, Better Future: Growing the Capacity to Listen and Connect in Politically Charged Times DEIOL2126 (November 9, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78996 78996-20168555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Holding a civil, productive conversation with individuals who may not agree with you is always a challenge. This year, it seems to be an even bigger challenge, but it is still an important skill to continuously improve. Political or personal values conversations are an important part of civil discourse, especially if each party is willing to listen and connect with mutual respect and a goal to seek common ground. This session will provide a framework for better conversations around very complicated and potentially emotional topics.

Audience:
Any U-M faculty or staff who would like to connect and create common ground with others during difficult conversations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:54:40 -0400 2020-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
LACS Brazil Initiative Webinar. Fake News Brazil: How a Misinformation Campaign Has Aroused Hatred of Minorities and Negatively Impacted Democracy in Brazil (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79233 79233-20233428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Zoom webinar registration link: http://myumi.ch/gjVmP

Jean Wyllys was the first LGBTQ activist to serve in Brazil’s federal congress. His platform focused on human rights and the rights of minorities, and policies for social and political inclusion. A vocal opponent of current President Jair Bolsonaro, since 2018, Wyllys has been in exile. He continues to work as a journalist, writer, and human rights activist.

The event will be moderated by Victoria Langland, Director, UM Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center. Interpretation provided by Lucas Koutsoukos Chalhoub, Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in History.

This public lecture is sponsored by the Brazil Initiative, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:43:12 -0500 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Cognitive Science Seminar: Daily cognition: The design and validation of open intensive longitudinal assessments (November 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77897 77897-19941563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dominic Kelly, U-M Department of Psychology, will give a talk titled "Daily cognition: The design and validation of open intensive longitudinal assessments."

ABSTRACT

Although cognition is often assumed to be stable, there is evidence that it can in fact vary over relatively short timespans, including from day to day. Investigations of cognitive fluctuations, especially fluctuations in cognitive skills that show gender differences, however, are limited by a lack of suitable instruments that are specifically designed for intensive longitudinal assessment (e.g., that reflect daily variation instead of practice effects). Our goal was to design and validate two new, freely available 75-occasion measures of gendered cognition – three-dimensional mental rotations and delayed paired verbal recall. We accomplished this by conducting a 75-day study with 121 participants who completed the novel cognitive measures every evening. Focusing on an age- and language-matched sample of 27 men and 27 women, results suggested that the novel measures are valid, and that they show parallel forms reliability across 75 days and the expected gender differences each day. Moreover, significant intra-individual variation was observed in cognition across the 75 days, indicating that gendered cognition fluctuates daily (in men and women). These findings encourage future work on the antecedents and consequences of cognitive fluctuations and on intra-individual variation in spatial and verbal skills with the new 75-occasion assessments.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:31:31 -0500 2020-11-09T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78916 78916-20154726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Monday, November 9, 2020
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information
http://myumi.ch/zx15Q

About the Event:
Creating a strong purpose is essential to wellbeing in our lives and our organizations during times of uncertainty. With an authentic purpose, individuals and organizations become more resilient, creative, and engaged with their work and the world around them. And employees realize a greater sense of meaning and empowerment.

Join us for a conversation with Vic Strecher hosted by Robert E. Quinn to learn more about the science and practice of building purposeful, thriving organizations. Together, they’ll explore the current scientific research illustrating the positive impact an authentic and well-communicated purpose can have on individuals, teams, and organizations, as well as some keys to help you unlock your own potential.

About Strecher:
Victor J. Strecher (pronounced Streker), PhD, MPH is a visionary leader and expert in the fields of behavior change, digital communication, and wellbeing. His pioneering research led to successful ventures, reaching millions of lives. He’s Founder & CEO of Kumanu, a next generation wellbeing company, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, renowned speaker, and author.

In 1995, Vic founded the U-M Center for Health Communications Research, studying the future of digitally-tailored health communications when fewer than 15% of Americans had Internet access. In 1997, he founded HealthMedia, a digital health coaching company that was sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2010. More recently, Vic created Kumanu (Maori for “nourish” and “cherish”), a digital platform designed to help individuals and organizations live more purposefully.

Vic and the organizations he founded have won numerous national and international awards, including two Smithsonian Awards, the Health Evolution Partners Innovations in Healthcare Award, the National Business Coalition on Health’s Mercury Award, and the Health Enhancement Research Organization’s (HERO) Mark Dundon Research Award. In 2010, Vic won the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Innovator Award. In late 2017, Dr. Strecher was the Donald A. Dunstan Foundation’s “Thinker in Residence” in Adelaide, Australia to develop a “Purpose Economy” of business, government, and communities. His 2009 TedMed presentation has been cited by MPHonline as one of the “Top 10 Ted Talks on Public Health.”

His latest neuroscience, behavioral, and epidemiologic research; his two books, Life On Purpose and the graphic novel On Purpose; his free massive open online course Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life, which in its first six months has over 75,000 enrollees; and the Purposeful application his business (Kumanu) created are all focused on the importance of developing and maintaining a transcending purpose in life.

About Quinn:
Robert E. Quinn’s life mission is to inspire positive change. He does this as a faculty member, author, consultant, and speaker. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and one of the co-founders of the Center for Positive Organizations.

As an author he has published 18 books. His best-selling volume, Deep Change, has been used across the world. His book, The Best Teacher in You, won the Ben Franklin Award designating it the best book in education for 2015. The Harvard Business Review has selected his paper, “Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership,” as one of their 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself.

As a consultant he has 35 years of experience and is best known for the competing values framework, a tool that has been used by tens of thousands of managers. As a speaker he is recognized for drawing on research, opening minds to possibility, and arousing the desire to grow. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management and the World Business Academy.

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2020-21 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Session Sponsor:
Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:43:09 -0400 2020-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Positive Links Speaker Series
MES Webinar Series: Public Scholarship in Middle East Studies (November 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78686 78686-20105420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Please register for the Zoom webinar here: http://myumi.ch/ZQNem

We know how important public scholarship is in our fields of study. What's the best way to manage our public profile? What platforms and outlets reach the widest and most curious audience? How do we invite engagement - and manage the trolls? Join us for a conversation with Christiane Gruber (Art History), Ellen Muehlberger (Middle East Studies & History), and Shachar Pinsker (Middle East Studies & Judaic Studies). Moderator: Karla Mallette (MES).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:13:39 -0400 2020-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Public Scholarship in Middle East Studies
Mini-Workshops at the MIDAS symposium (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78763 78763-20121154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

There will be six workshops to choose from:
- Agent-based modeling and systemic racism
- Introduction to Python for community members and K-12 teachers and students
- Natural Language Processing for free text analysis
- Scrubbing and cleaning of sensitive data
- Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science
- Video coding and its research applications

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:33:12 -0400 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar MIDAS Symposium 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
LGBTQ+ Election Processing (November 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79048 79048-20178465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center Programming Board invites you to join them for their Election Processing event on Tuesday, November 10th at 7 PM EST. They hope that this will serve as a safe place for LGBTQ+ folx to come together to share how they’re feeling post-Election Day and discuss where we go from here. This event is open to all LGBTQ+ folx, including students, faculty, alumni, and community members! Registration is required, so please register at https://bit.ly/SCPB-Election2020 if you are interested in attending. Upon registering, an email containing the Zoom link for the event will be sent out. Thank you, we hope to see you there!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Well-being Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:27:00 -0400 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Well-being The Spectrum Center Programming Board presents this LGBTQ+ community space to share election reactions & take care of ourselves. This event will be hosted Tuesday, November 10th starting at 7 PM. The design of the flyer is based on the American flag, but in a purple color scheme. There is a purple rainbow at the top of the text which is centered on the page.
Fireside Chat with Eric Horvitz (November 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78764 78764-20121155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fireside Chat with Eric Horvitz, Microsoft, Chief Scientific Officer, November 11th, 11:00

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:23:02 -0400 2020-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion Eric Horvitz
Fireside Chat with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and U-M VPIT-CIO Ravi Pendse PhD (Keynote event) (November 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79301 79301-20266758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan IT

Join U-M VPIT-CIO Ravi Pendse, PhD for a virtual fireside chat with Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom. Ravi and Eric will discuss how Zoom has adapted to the organization’s tremendous growth, lessons learned from their journey, and other questions.

WHEN
November 11 from 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

WHERE
Virtually through Zoom. The link is available on the event webpage: it.umich.edu/community/michigan-it-symposium/2020/keynote

COST
Free! The symposium is sponsored by the office of the VPIT-CIO and organized by the Michigan IT Steering Committee.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:33:10 -0500 2020-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T15:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan IT Livestream / Virtual Fireside Chat with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and U-M VPIT-CIO Ravi Pendse PhD (Keynote event)
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79286 79286-20264787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: There is a growing understanding that stress and depression during the process of training to become physicians is high. In this talk, we will discuss how we have used mobile and wearable data as well as genomics to understand the prevalence in the US and China, drivers and possible solutions about training physician depression and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them in the two countries.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:13:58 -0500 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Drs. Margit Burmeister and Srijan Sen
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Post Election Conversations (November 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78750 78750-20117230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites the campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues through the lens of race and ethnicity that will assist with the further understanding of intersectional identities within contexts of history, culture, and society. Each session is peer-led and aims to provide an informal and supportive environment for mutual learning through active listening, inquiring and deep reflection.

Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:06:08 -0400 2020-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Love & Zombies & Literature: What makes Genre Writing Literary? (November 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79154 79154-20217710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join RC Creative Writing faculty Christopher Matthews and Avi Steinberg for a discussion and Q & A about how speculative fiction and the romance genre intersect with literary fiction. If writers such as Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler have proven that genre writing can also be literature, how do the publishing industry and creative writing programs distinguish between commercial and literary markets? Our panelists will read from their own work and offer their perspective on what makes genre literary.

>> Avi Steinberg is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction published by Knopf Doubleday: Running the Books (2010), The Lost Book of Mormon (2014), and The Happily Ever After (2020). His books have been translated into five languages and cited as Best of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Yorker, among others. He is currently at work on a biography of the writer and political activist, Grace Paley, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and on a translation of the biblical story of David, which will be published by Norton/Liveright. In 2019, he was awarded a writing residency at Yaddo. He is a contributor to the New Yorker’s Culture Desk, and a regular features writer for the New York Times Magazine. His essays and reportage have also appeared in the Guardian magazine (‘The Long-Read’), Salon, the Paris Review, and n+1. He has been leading creative nonfiction workshops in the Residential College since 2018.

>> Christopher Matthews is a poet, fiction writer, and sometime scholar of nineteenth-century literature with an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD from the University of Michigan. Raised in California and schooled in Michigan, he has taught at Kalamazoo College, Washington & Lee University in Virginia, and now the Residential College. His creative, scholarly, and teaching interests include lyrical and discursive poetry, storytelling and narrative theory, film, monsters, ghosts, studies in race/class/gender/sexuality, and more. Chris’ creative work has appeared widely in such journals as The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Cortland Review, and has been recognized with three Pushcart nominations and two features in Ted Kooser’s syndicated "American Life in Poetry" project. His scholarship has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Studies and Victorian Studies, among others.

>> Join the event at http://myumi.ch/yK195

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 13:54:21 -0500 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Presentation Love & Zombies & Literature poster
SLE Community Nights (November 11, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Alum Connections: LSA Alums with Venture Capital Careers (November 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79033 79033-20176491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

During this alum career panel, learn from three experienced finance professionals as they tell their personal career stories and share helpful career advice with LSA students. Panelists include:

Seyonne Kang (Sociology ’94), Partner at Greenspring Associates
Stacey Bishop (Communication and Media Studies ’93), Partner at Scale Venture Partners
Wayee Chu (Political Science, Economics ’97), General Partner at Reach Capital

These three will spend most of the hour answering your questions and discuss how to be entrepreneurial with your career choices; explain the hustle and conviction required to chart a path into Silicon Valley; and help students articulate to recruiters the impact their LSA education can bring to their organizations. Find out more about our panelists below

You should attend this session if you are:
A U-M Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) undergraduate student
Interested in pursuing a career in finance, venture capitalism and/or Silicon Valley
Considering applying for graduate school, especially an MBA

What you’ll gain from attending this session:
Gain an understanding of the varied career paths one can carve out within venture capitalism
Make smart career decisions by gleaning insights and receiving career advice from experts in finance fields
Discover the importance of non-technical educational backgrounds in Silicon Valley

RSVP today to be part of the conversation

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact Carla Huhn at Carlavoy@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

Please be advised that this virtual event will be recorded and may be published later at a future date through LSA Opportunity Hub’s media channels. If you'd prefer not to be recorded, please make sure to mute your video at the start of the event. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:38:03 -0400 2020-11-12T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Stacey Bishop, Wayee Chu, and Seyonne Kang Photo
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (November 12, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-11-12T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
Virtual Gathering for Community-Engaged Course Instructors (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75351 75351-19442254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you teaching or supporting a virtual community-engaged course this fall (or beyond)? Looking to connect with and learn from others who are too?

The Ginsberg Center invites you to join us for a lightly facilitated virtual community of practice on community-engaged course design and instruction. These gatherings are designed to encourage connections, troubleshooting and resource sharing as we adjust to virtual teaching and engagement during the pandemic.

This session will focus on managing and facilitating post-election classroom conversations.

Please RSVP to receive a zoom link and password.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:46:56 -0400 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual conversations mug + phone taken by Cody Engel on Unsplash
City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans and the World of Work (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71756 71756-20178449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Join us as Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr. explores the themes of his research captured in his latest book, From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work. His extensive interviews with the low-income African American community in Ypsilanti bring new insights about perceptions of and preparation for the future of work outside of the major cities and middle to upper-class society.

This event will include a brief interview with Dr. Young conducted by Dr. Earl Lewis (University of Michigan), and a panel discussion with Dr. H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan) and Derrick Jackson (Director of Community Engagement, Washtenaw County), moderated by Dr. Carla O'Connor (University of Michigan).

Dr. Young is the Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy [by courtesy] at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy & Director of the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan.

Dr. Shaefer is the the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and Director of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan.

Derrick Jackson, MSW, is the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Director of Community Engagement.

Dr. O'Connor is the Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Education, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Director, Wolverine Pathways.

We encourage you to purchase a copy of the book if interested through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Solutions, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Ann Arbor YMCA.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:07:53 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans, and the World of Work. Featuring Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr.
U.S. Presidential post-election reflection (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79155 79155-20217727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

A non-partisan space for students to collectively reflect on their U.S. Presidential Election experiences with staff across Student Life. We warmly welcome all students and their political perspectives. During this time, students will have the opportunity to engage in large and small groups. Small breakout groups will focus on several topics such as self-care, being an International Student in a U.S. Presidential Election, how to remain civically engaged, and more.

Register via Sessions: http://bit.ly/postelectionreflect

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:56:40 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual a dark blue background with student life logos and text for post-election reflection details
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in Political Campaigns Panel (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79322 79322-20272780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

We are hosting the second event in our Bridging the Gap Series this Thursday, November 12th from 7-8:30pm!

The second event will be a Women in Political Campaigns Panel featuring Laura Marsh, Michigan Fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Kellie Lounds, Political Director for Debbie Dingell; and Carina Teoh, Multimedia Content Producer for Representative Elissa Slotkin and former Senior Videographer/Photographer on Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign.

Each panelist will introduce themselves and answer a few prepared questions, followed by an open Q&A.

Please follow the Zoom link to participate. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:22:46 -0500 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in Political Campaigns Panel
Building Your Vision Muscle; Leaning Into Resilience (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79099 79099-20209834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

PRESENTER: Patricia Berry, Owner and Lead Consultant, Patricia Berry Consulting

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/building-your-vision-muscle-leaning-into-resilience

Tacit Knowledge, a.k.a. your “Vision Muscle”, is the things we know, but don’t yet have words to express. It is the culmination of our lifetime of experiences, along with the experiences and lessons handed down from those who raised us. Other ways to say it is our sixth sense or our gut intuition; knowledge that is inside us and that we access on a regular basis but haven’t yet, or maybe don’t yet know how to, put into words. It is the thing that entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people put to use to know what they should do next, because they can imagine it, and they know it is right because it feels right. It’s hard to quantify, but your own personal visionary knowledge can often be accessed by getting our left brain — what I like to think of as our resume brain — out of the way, just for a while, so that we can let loose our own unique creative knowing that is tacit knowledge. As we begin to recognize and trust our own tacit knowledge, we can begin to learn how to intentionally access it in order to help us make decisions that allow us to successfully navigate a sometimes uncertain future. Come along with me for a series of Vision Muscle workshops focused on aspects of work and life where easy access to our vision muscle might be particularly helpful. All of the workshops will be using Vision Muscle strategies, with unique subjects for you to explore based on your own experience, vision and expertise. This self-directed experience will allow you to access your own unique knowledge and leave you with skills that will allow you to call up your Vision Muscle on a regular basis.

Using visual images and reflective writing, participants will learn how to access their tacit knowledge, or Visioning Muscles, to gain insight into tools they already have for living with a resilience that supports a more joyful and celebratory life, no matter their current circumstances. Join facilitator, entrepreneur and visioning geek Patricia Berry for a hands-on, interactive experience that brings out your natural visioning abilities. The Zoom Doors to this interactive and reflective workshop will close promptly at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early to ensure your participation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:33:50 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Patricia Berry
Open Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen and Museum Staff (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78251 78251-19998917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

These office hours are open for drop-in. Registration is not required..

There’s a lot to talk about. Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), wants to hear from you. This fall’s edition of Open Office Hours  will focus on hearing your feedback about UMMA’s Commitment to Anti-Racist Action, what you’d like to see UMMA doing in the midst of the pandemic, and your ideas about the future. Meet Tina and one other member of her team over Zoom for a chance to share your views in an informal and intimate setting. Dates and times as follows:

12-1 pm Friday, October 9

12-1 pm Friday, October 16

12-1 pm Friday, November 13

Zoom discussions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis. Individual discussions can be up to 15 minutes. Participants will queue using Zoom’s  “waiting room” feature if another discussion is already underway. The meeting host will message people in the waiting room to keep them informed on approximate wait times.

To drop-in to Open Office Hours use this link: 



Meeting ID: 969 8100 4915

 

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Other Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:15:34 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
The Old Globalization and the New Globalization (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79042 79042-20178457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Globalization isn’t dead, but it increasingly has to do more with trading ideas and services than with moving metal containers stuffed with manufactured goods. This talk will discuss how globalization is changing and why.
Marc Levinson is an independent historian, economist, and journalist whose career has centered on making complex economic issues understandable to the general public. Marc spent many years as an economic journalist, including a turn as finance and economics editor of The Economist in London. Returning to New York, he worked as an economist for J.P. Morgan Chase, developing a unique industry economics function and then initiating the bank’s environmental research for stock and bond investors. He later served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include the business classic The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger; The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, which won wide praise from across the political spectrum for exploring the tension between capitalism and competition in the U.S. economy; and An Extraordinary Time, showing how the sudden end of the postwar boom in the early 1970s led voters in many countries to turn away from activist government in favor of free-market ideas. He will be speaking about his latest book, Outside the Box, a lively history of globalization and its consequences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:25:29 -0400 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Marc Levinson talk
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Functioning of Democracy across the Urban-Rural Spectrum (November 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78986 78986-20164583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Free and open to the public – this is a virtual webinar on Zoom
Please register at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VFRI4TtESPGTnsQ-jnBUvQ

The Functioning of Democracy across the Urban-Rural Spectrum
There is much talk, especially in recent years, about the urban-rural divide: the idea that people from urban and rural places think fundamentally differently about a whole range of policy issues, and about governance itself. This semester, Ford School students have been analyzing data from previous iterations of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), a survey of Michigan local government officials conducted annually since 2008 by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), to identify where there are and—importantly—are not differences along the urban-rural continuum.

In this virtual event, these student researchers will share their research on the similarities and differences across the continuum with respect to:
• The state of civic discourse (Kyron Smith)
• Public participation in decision-making (Karley Thurston)
• Citizen engagement (Christian Hunter)
• Internet connectivity and access to information (Julie Rubin)
• Privatization of local government services (Kristina Curtiss)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:00:39 -0500 2020-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Functioning of Democracy across the Urban-Rural Spectrum
Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM (November 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79065 79065-20319909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This organized panel will focus on trans-accessible and trans-inclusive healthcare/wellness practices on campus and in the local vicinity. Panelists will join us from UM Michigan Medicine, University Health Services, and UM Spectrum Center. The goal of this panel is to provide valuable information to trans-inclusive healthcare and wellness information that is typically not readily accessible on public outreach platforms.

Panelists
Hadrian Kinnear, he/him
MD-PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School

Diana Parrish, she/her
Clinical Social Worker, University Health Services

Roman Christiaens, they/them
Assistant Director, Spectrum Center

Moderator
Leslie Tetteh, they/them
Graduate Student, School of Social Work & School of Education

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM is going to be held November 17th from 6 to 7 PM. Events are open to the public, times are in EST. This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week 2020.
Cognitive Science Seminar: Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-reward Object-interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment (November 16, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77907 77907-19941573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Wilka Carvalho will give a talk titled "Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-reward Object-interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment"

ABSTRACT
Learning how to execute complex tasks involving multiple objects in a 3D world is challenging under any circumstances, and especially so when there is no ground-truth information about how to use the objects or any opportunity to learn by demonstration. Rewards for completing a task in such a setting are few and far between (sparse rewards), making it difficult for the agent to figure out what to do next. In this work, we show that these challenges can be overcome by including an auxiliary task: learning to predict how objects change upon interaction (the attentive object-model). We show that when this model is used to learn representations of objects, the core learner (a relational RL agent) receives the dense training signal it needs to rapidly find a solution. We demonstrate results in the 3D AI2Thor simulated kitchen environment with a range of challenging food preparation tasks. We compare our method's performance to several related approaches and against the performance of an oracle: an agent that is supplied with ground-truth information about objects in the scene. We find that our model achieves performance closest to the oracle in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. With further analysis, we also demonstrate that the attention model is key to the success of our method.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:35:34 -0500 2020-11-16T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Future of Art: Who Is Art For? (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79034 79034-20176492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Even as arts organizations, artists, and performers proclaim their dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, exhibitions and performances at most large institutions still primarily draw older, highly educated, white audiences. Donna Walker-Kuhne, an expert in audience development and founder of Walker Communications Group, has dedicated her career to increasing access to the arts. She will share projects that successfully work with arts organizations to forge meaningful relationships to build diverse audiences. She is joined by audience development specialists at the University of Michigan: Cayenne Harris, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement for University Musical Society; Sara Billmann, Vice President, Marketing & Communications for the University Musical Society; and Jim Leija, Deputy Director for Public Experience and Learning, University of Michigan Museum of Art. They will discuss “Who is art for, and what does a future of true inclusivity in the arts look like?”

Introduction by Aaron Dworkin, Professor of Arts Leadership & Entrepreneurship, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Monday, November 16, 4:00-5:10 pm

Register here to receive the join info: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/nov16_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:12:18 -0500 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Donna Walker-Kuhne, Cayenne Harris, Sara Billmann, Jim Leija
Deploying CV2X Infrastructure - CCAT Research Review (November 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78766 78766-20121156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The final CCAT Research Review of 2020 will feature Associate Professor, Gabor Orosz, of the University of Michigan.

The focus of this research is the deployment of connected smart infrastructure on highway I-275 in SE Michigan. Researchers will collect and aggregate traffic information that can be used by connected vehicles traveling the corridor to improve their efficiency. The system consists of a set of road side units (RSU) which collect traffic data via vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication. Vehicles of different levels of automation may utilize the collected data when selecting their lane and controlling their longitudinal motion in order to maximize their fuel economy and minimize their travel time. The impact of these vehicles on the rest of the traffic flow is also being evaluated.

About the speaker: Gabor Orosz received the MSc degree in Engineering Physics from the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary, in 2002 and the PhD degree in Engineering Mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2006. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Exeter, UK and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2010, he joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he is currently an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. During 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Professor in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and control, time delay systems, and reinforcement learning with applications to connected and automated vehicles, traffic flow, and biological networks. He served as the Program Chair of the 2015 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems and served as the General Chair of the 2019 IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles: Connected and Automated Vehicles. Since 2018 he has been serving as an editor for the journal Transportation Research Part C.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:09:41 -0400 2020-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM (November 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79065 79065-20184349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This organized panel will focus on trans-accessible and trans-inclusive healthcare/wellness practices on campus and in the local vicinity. Panelists will join us from UM Michigan Medicine, University Health Services, and UM Spectrum Center. The goal of this panel is to provide valuable information to trans-inclusive healthcare and wellness information that is typically not readily accessible on public outreach platforms.

Panelists
Hadrian Kinnear, he/him
MD-PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School

Diana Parrish, she/her
Clinical Social Worker, University Health Services

Roman Christiaens, they/them
Assistant Director, Spectrum Center

Moderator
Leslie Tetteh, they/them
Graduate Student, School of Social Work & School of Education

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM is going to be held November 17th from 6 to 7 PM. Events are open to the public, times are in EST. This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week 2020.
CSG COVID-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting (November 18, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79468 79468-20335621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Central Student Government created this task force to have a group dedicated to responding to and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on campus. Come to our meetings and tell us how you have been impacted by COVID-19, how we can help, or how the University hasn't. We welcome everyone and anyone. If you require any accommodations to participate or have any questions, please contact Task Force Chair Sam Burnstein (samburn@umich.edu) or Task Force Vice Char Annie Mintun (amintun@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:05:48 -0500 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Students of Michigan (CSG) Lecture / Discussion CSG Covid-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting- Open to All Students - An Opportunity to Actually be Heard and Solve Student Problems - Every Friday at 1PM
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79290 79290-20264791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Genetic variation affecting gene expression is wide-spread within and among species. This variation reflects the combined actions of mutation introducing new genetic variants and selection eliminating deleterious ones. Comparative studies of gene expression in fruit flies, yeast, plants, and mice have shown that the relative contributions of cis- and trans-acting variants to expression differences change over evolutionary time, indicating that selection has different effects on cis- and trans-regulatory variants. To better understand the reasons for this now widely observed pattern, we have been systematically studying the effects of mutation and selection on expression of the TDH3 gene of the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This work has revealed differences between cis- and trans-regulatory mutations in their frequency, effects, and dominance. Differences in pleiotropy are also generally assumed to exist between cis- and trans-regulatory that affect their evolutionary fate, but have been difficult to measure. In this talk, I will discuss how newly arising cis- and trans-regulatory mutations affecting expression of this focal gene are structured within the regulatory network, their pleiotropic effects on expression of all other genes in the genome, and how these pleiotropic effects influence fitness. A computational model of regulatory evolution integrating empirically observed differences in properties of cis- and trans-regulatory mutations will also be presented and discussed.

Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now the Sally L. Allen Collegiate Professor and Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and is a member of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:12:34 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
SLE Community Nights (November 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79333 79333-20272796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

A virtual panel discussion sponsored by the University of Michigan Health Sciences units, hosted by the School of Kinesiology, and featuring:

Vanessa Barrow, DPM
Podiatrist & Owner, Sole Aesthetic, LLC
Specialization: Aesthetic and regenerative medicine of the foot and ankle

Neha Gothe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology & Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research: Bio-psycho-social health benefits of physical activity across the lifespan; yoga as a means to improve health and quality of life

Samuel R. Hodge, PhD
Professor of Kinesiology, Ohio State University
Research: Intersection of diversity, disability, and social justice in education and sport

NiCole R. Keith, PhD, FACSM
Professor of Kinesiology & Associate Dean, Indiana University School of Health & Human Sciences
President, American College of Sports Medicine
Research: Community-based participatory research, physical activity, and health equity

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:05:27 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion University of Michigan Health Sciences present Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (November 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-11-19T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
Exercise & Sport Science Initiative (ESSI): Use of Wearable Devices For Return-To-Play in Sports and Physical Activity During COVID-19 (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79425 79425-20319911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Office of Research

Due to COVID-19, many organizations, including professional sports teams and the military, have used wearable devices for early detection of COVID-19. As individuals begin returning to sports and physical activity, there are public health concerns about close physical contact and potentially spreading the virus. This panel will examine these issues and discuss the effectiveness of wearables for daily health monitoring.

Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SM-e84yVTX-ld-qrFzr8TA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:17:18 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Office of Research Workshop / Seminar Looking at wearable device
Building Your Vision Muscle; Leaning Into Change and Transformation (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79115 79115-20209867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

PRESENTER: Patricia Berry, Owner and Lead Consultant, Patricia Berry Consulting

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/building-your-vision-muscle-nov-20

Tacit Knowledge, a.k.a. your “Vision Muscle”, is the things we know, but don’t yet have words to express. It is the culmination of our lifetime of experiences, along with the experiences and lessons handed down from those who raised us. Other ways to say it is our sixth sense or our gut intuition; knowledge that is inside us and that we access on a regular basis but haven’t yet, or maybe don’t yet know how to, put into words. It is the thing that entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people put to use to know what they should do next, because they can imagine it, and they know it is right because it feels right. It’s hard to quantify, but your own personal visionary knowledge can often be accessed by getting our left brain — what I like to think of as our resume brain — out of the way, just for a while, so that we can let loose our own unique creative knowing that is tacit knowledge. As we begin to recognize and trust our own tacit knowledge, we can begin to learn how to intentionally access it in order to help us make decisions that allow us to successfully navigate a sometimes uncertain future. Come along with me for a series of Vision Muscle workshops focused on aspects of work and life where easy access to our vision muscle might be particularly helpful. All of the workshops will be using Vision Muscle strategies, with unique subjects for you to explore based on your own experience, vision and expertise. This self-directed experience will allow you to access your own unique knowledge and leave you with skills that will allow you to call up your Vision Muscle on a regular basis.

Using visual images and reflective writing, participants will learn how to access their tacit knowledge, or Visioning Muscles, to gain insight into tools they already have for living with a resilience that supports a more joyful and celebratory life, no matter their current circumstances. Join facilitator, entrepreneur and visioning geek Patricia Berry for a hands-on, interactive experience that brings out your natural visioning abilities. The Zoom Doors to this interactive and reflective workshop will close promptly at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early to ensure your participation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:28:55 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Patricia Berry
CSG COVID-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79468 79468-20335618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Central Student Government created this task force to have a group dedicated to responding to and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on campus. Come to our meetings and tell us how you have been impacted by COVID-19, how we can help, or how the University hasn't. We welcome everyone and anyone. If you require any accommodations to participate or have any questions, please contact Task Force Chair Sam Burnstein (samburn@umich.edu) or Task Force Vice Char Annie Mintun (amintun@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:05:48 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Students of Michigan (CSG) Lecture / Discussion CSG Covid-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting- Open to All Students - An Opportunity to Actually be Heard and Solve Student Problems - Every Friday at 1PM
LACS Virtual Event. The Covid-19 Crisis: Effects on Criminal Violence and Public Security in Latin America (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78805 78805-20129170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free event; please register at http://myumi.ch/ZQbrP

Latin America is the region with the highest incidence of homicides per-capita in the globe. Whereas the region accounts for only 13 percent of the world's population, it reports around 40 percent of total homicides. In many areas, criminal groups contend the state for dominance as they cash in billions of dollars from the drug trade. The COVID health crisis has disrupted the drug market and the balance of power within criminal organizations. At the same time, countries across Latin America are struggling with weakening economies, massive unemployment, abusive police behavior, and the shadow of militarization and populism.

This panel brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to analyze the different channels in which the pandemic might accentuate criminal violence and other public security pre-existing challenges in the region. Examples will be drawn from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Presenter Biographies:

Edgar Franco-Vivanco is a MIDAS and NCID postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Edgar’s research agenda explores how colonial era institutions and contemporary criminal violence shape economic under-performance, particularly within Latin America. His dissertation-related book project studies the role Indigenous groups have played in the state-building process of the region since colonial times. Using extensive archival data of colonial Mexican courts, combined with automated text analysis, he examines the complex interactions between Indigenous communities and the colonial state. Edgar’s research on contemporary challenges to development focuses on criminal violence and policing. He is co-authoring a book that draws on extensive fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study the differentiated effects of state interventions against organized criminal groups.

Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Most of her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence. In 2010 she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (POVGOV) within FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her work has appeared in the *American Political Science Review*, *American Journal of Political Science*, *World Development, Comparative Political Studies*, *Annual Review of Political Science*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* and other journals. Her first book, *Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2006), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Her second book, *The Political Logic of Poverty Relief* (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez), also published by Cambridge University Press, studies the politics of poverty relief.

Eduardo Moncada is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. His research agenda focuses on the political economy of crime and violence as well as comparative urban politics in Latin America. Moncada is the author of *Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America* (Stanford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of *Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics* (Cambridge University Press, 2019). In his forthcoming book, *Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals and Police in Latin America* (Cambridge University Press), he analyzes the different ways in which victims mobilize to negotiate, end or prevent extortion at the hands of armed criminal groups. He has published articles in *Perspectives on Politics*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Comparative Politics*, *Studies in Comparative International Development*, and *Global Crime*, among others. Moncada's research has received support from the Fulbright-Hays program, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation / National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebecca Hanson is Assistant Professor of Crime, Law & Governance at the University of Florida, with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies. She has published research on Venezuela in the *Journal of Latin American Studies*; *The Sociological Quarterly*; *Crime*, *Law*, and *Social Change*; and *REVISTA M. Estudos sobre a Morte*, *os Mortos e o Morrer*. She has also published extensively in outlets such as *The Christian Science Monitor*, *NACLA*, *The Conversation*, and *Insight Crime*. Her book *Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Fieldwork*, co-authored with Patricia Richards (University of Georgia) was published last year with University of California Press.

Sandra Ley is Assistant Professor at the Political Studies Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE). Prior to her arrival at CIDE, she was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Sandra studies criminal violence and political behavior. Her research focuses on the political consequences of criminal activity. Her most recent work examines how violence affects the activation of civil society, political participation and accountability. Sandra’s work includes several sources of information. She conducted extensive fieldwork in the north and south of Mexico; she designed an original post-election survey and built a unique database on protests against crime and insecurity in Mexico. Together with Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, she is the coauthor of the book Votes, *Drugs, and Violence. The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work has been published in *British Journal of Political Science*, *Comparative Political Studies*, *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, *Latin American Politics and Society*, *Latin American Research Review*, among other international academic journals. Sandra received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2014.

This event funded in part by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu
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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:26:41 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual event_image
Phondi Discussion Group (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
HistLing Discussion Group: Loan Verbs in Sumerian (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77833 77833-19933623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:18:36 -0500 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
SynSem Discussion Group (November 20, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Sustainability Movie Night (November 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78152 78152-19985102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Come watch "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" and listen to Professor Bryan Goldsmith talk with us about sustainability! Cowspiracy is a great documentary film on how humans are creating environmental disasters in ways most people might not know about. And Professor Goldsmith is performing cutting-edge research to promote sustainability through advanced materials and computational modeling. This event is put on by the sustainability committee of the Engineering Student Government and we believe that with education, we can learn to become more sustainable together.

RSVP here to get a GrubHub food voucher for the event:
https://forms.gle/UqoPKGzYcKY2MRXr8

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Film Screening Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:35:08 -0400 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Student Government Film Screening Cowspiracy
Bioethics Discussion: The Coming Administration (November 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58832 58832-14563724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our (new?) government.

A few readings to consider:
––Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
––Affording Obamacare
––Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
––The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/051-the-coming-administration/.

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

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[OUR FIRST PLANNED REMOTE DISCUSSION]
While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:13:08 -0400 2020-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Coming Administration
Bioethics Discussion: The Coming Administration (November 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58832 58832-20382972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our (new?) government.

A few readings to consider:
––Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
––Affording Obamacare
––Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
––The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/051-the-coming-administration/.

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

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[OUR FIRST PLANNED REMOTE DISCUSSION]
While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:13:08 -0400 2020-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Coming Administration
CSG COVID-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting (November 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79468 79468-20335619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Central Student Government created this task force to have a group dedicated to responding to and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on campus. Come to our meetings and tell us how you have been impacted by COVID-19, how we can help, or how the University hasn't. We welcome everyone and anyone. If you require any accommodations to participate or have any questions, please contact Task Force Chair Sam Burnstein (samburn@umich.edu) or Task Force Vice Char Annie Mintun (amintun@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:05:48 -0500 2020-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Students of Michigan (CSG) Lecture / Discussion CSG Covid-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting- Open to All Students - An Opportunity to Actually be Heard and Solve Student Problems - Every Friday at 1PM
IISS Lecture Series. Islamic Law in Literature: Case Studies from Tanukhī (d. 384/994) and Hamadhanī (d. 398/1008) (November 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79542 79542-20375055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free event; please register at http://myumi.ch/zx790

What is the role of Islamic law in literature and, reflexively, the role of literature in Islamic law? We set about to answer this intriguing question, often asked in other interpretive communities of law and literature, with reference to two of the most acclaimed storytellers in early Islamic history. Abū ʿAlī al-Muḥassin al-Tanūkhī (d. 384/994) and Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (d. 398/1008).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 12:51:23 -0500 2020-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
Nineteenth-Century Forum Check-In Meeting (November 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79567 79567-20382969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

The Nineteenth Century Forum will meet over Zoom on Monday, November 30, at 12pm, to:

Check in as a group & welcome new members
Brainstorm ideas for the rest of the year
Set dates/formats for paper workshops, panels, and other events

If you can't make the meeting but want to contribute to the above discussion, please send Sarah (srvc@umich.edu) or Ani (abezirdz@umich.edu) an email.

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Meeting Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:01:15 -0500 2020-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting Image of books
Cognitive Science Seminar: What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism and partiality in “punish or protect” dilemmas (November 30, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77908 77908-19941574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Laura Soter, U-M Department of Philosophy, will give a talk titled "What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism and partiality in 'punish or protect' dilemmas."

ABSTRACT
After a long history of focusing primarily on judgments about anonymous strangers, moral psychologists have increasingly begun to study how social relationships influence people’s moral judgments. Weidman et al. (2020), for instance, found that in “punish or protect” dilemmas, people are more likely to say they would lie to protect a close other (vs. a distant other) who commits a crime, particularly when the transgression is severe. But do people believe it is morally right to behave this way? On the one hand, impartiality and universalism are key tenets in all three major philosophical ethical theories. On the other, there are philosophers who argue in favor of moral partiality, and there is increasing empirical evidence that social relationships matter for moral evaluations. In the context of Weidman et al.’s “punish or protect” dilemmas, these considerations deliver two competing hypotheses: either people think it is right to preferentially protect close others, suggesting that people believe moral norms are importantly sensitive to context; or people think they should treat close and distant others equally, revealing an inconsistency between judgments of what is right and how they would behave in the context of close relationships. I will present a series of studies that adjudicate between these hypotheses by exploring the relationship between what people think they would and should do in “punish or protect” dilemmas.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:24:50 -0500 2020-11-30T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Research Universities and the Public Good in the Time of COVID-19 (December 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79506 79506-20345431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

Jason Owen-Smith (Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS); Executive Director, Research Analytics; Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research)

Wednesday, December 2 at 2pm EST: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91211224326

America's most research intensive universities represent about 3% of higher education institutions, but they conduct 90% of the nation's academic research. Drawing on his recent book, Research Universities and the Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future and the work of ISR's Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS), which he directs, Jason Owen-Smith will explain how these unique and essential organizations serve as an important form of "social insurance" in the face of an uncertain future. Universities like U of M are uniquely able to address "unknown unknowns," problems and opportunities we do not know we have yet. No other sector or type of organization accomplishes is equipped to serve this purpose in our society. COVID-19 puts special pressures on the academic research mission that come after more than a decade of declining public support. The pandemic and its effects jeopardize the US Academic Research Enterprise (US-ARE) and with it the future health, wealth, and well-being of our nation and the world. Drawing on unique data science resources developed at IRIS, and 20 years of work on the economic and social value of research and innovation, Owen-Smith highlights the challenges and explains how they might be addressed by federal and state policy-makers, the leaders and faculty of institutions like ours.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual flyer
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (December 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79631 79631-20436379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

ABSTRACT: The brain is made of networks of neurons that send information to each other via spikes. Sleep and wake are the most clearly definable brain states and each exerts unique effects upon neural network spiking activity. We used large-scale recordings in the frontal cortex of mice and rats to examine the activity of neurons during wake/sleep cycles and found that a novel form of homeostatic action is taken by sleep: homogenization of firing rates. Whereas it was previously believed that sleep simple decreased firing rates, we found that this was much more true of the most active neurons only, thereby reducing the variance of the population.

To extend this observation of homeostatic forced during sleep we also examine how sleep and wake states interact with learning and performance, which is also facilitated by sleep. We have therefore begun to record before, during and after learning sessions to determine how learning interacts with the usual homeostatic effects of sleep. Further we can also record how waking changes in brain states such as motivation and attention modulate firing and information processing by neurons during behavior itself.

Finally, our end-goal to translate these kinds of basic neurobiologic observations in healthy rodents to states of stress or treatments of stress. Unfortunately the chronic stress states of relevance to psychiatric disease do not last seconds but days and weeks. We have therefore begun to build new long-term recording environments to enable future experiments over these time-spans.

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Watson is an assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He grew up in Ann Arbor and then obtained his BA from Cornell University and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. During his Ph.D. he used two-photon microscopy to study the behavior of neurons in local cortical microcircuits. During his doctoral work he also participated in technical development of multi-beam two photon imaging techniques. Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Watson pursued a residency in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College as well postdoctoral work at New York University. He received the National Institute for Mental Health’s Outstanding Resident Award, the American Psychiatric Association’s Lilly Research Fellowship and the Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellowship. He did a fellowship with Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki at NYU to record ongoing activity in naturally behaving and sleeping animals wherein he showed that sleep reorganizes neuronal firing architecture in the neocortex in previously unknown ways. He is now combining his electrical recordings with behavioral tools to deepen his understanding of both use and regulation of cortical brain circuits.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:45:44 -0500 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Near Term to Net Zero: A New Approach to Setting Carbon Prices (December 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78892 78892-20139089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Join Citizens' Climate Lobby for a presentation on a new method for determining the carbon price needed to achieve net zero CO2 emissions.

Economists widely agree that putting a price on fossil fuels is the most effective tool for reducing carbon emissions. But what level of carbon price is needed to reduce carbon emissions fast enough to prevent catastrophic climate change?

Prof. Alexander R. Barron will present a new method he and colleagues have developed to calculate the necessary carbon price. Their work was recently published in the paper "A near-term to net zero alternative to the social cost of carbon for setting carbon prices," N. Kaufman, A. Barron, W. Krawczyk, P. Marsters and H. McJeon, Nature Climate Change. As the authors have written,

"This approach enables policymakers to use both climate science and economics to chart an effective, efficient pathway to net-zero emissions."

Dr. Barron is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at Smith College. Before joining Smith, he worked in Congress to design comprehensive climate legislation (including the American Clean Energy and Security Act), and covered international climate negotiations. He also worked in the Office of Policy at the EPA, where he advised senior EPA leadership and worked on standards to reduce carbon pollution (e.g., the Clean Power Plan), cross-state air pollution, and mercury and other toxics. He also helped guide EPA’s work on environmental economics and climate adaptation.

The presentation will be followed by time for discussion.

Please register using the Eventbrite Registration link. Zoom connection instructions will be sent via email prior to the event.

Sponsored by the Ann Arbor and University of Michigan chapters of Citizens' Climate Lobby.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:36:49 -0400 2020-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Lecture / Discussion Photo of smoke stacks and inset photo of Dr. Alex Barron with text "Near Term to Net Zero: A New Approach to Setting Carbon Prices. Dr. Alexander Barron, Smith College"
SLE Community Nights (December 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-19566706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2020-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (December 3, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-12-03T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
CSG COVID-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting (December 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79468 79468-20335620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Central Student Government created this task force to have a group dedicated to responding to and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on campus. Come to our meetings and tell us how you have been impacted by COVID-19, how we can help, or how the University hasn't. We welcome everyone and anyone. If you require any accommodations to participate or have any questions, please contact Task Force Chair Sam Burnstein (samburn@umich.edu) or Task Force Vice Char Annie Mintun (amintun@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:05:48 -0500 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Students of Michigan (CSG) Lecture / Discussion CSG Covid-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting- Open to All Students - An Opportunity to Actually be Heard and Solve Student Problems - Every Friday at 1PM
The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (IWCP) (December 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76252 76252-19679580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

To receive the Zoom meeting link or join the IWCP listserv, please email waire@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:08:31 -0400 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Livestream / Virtual IWCP
CCN Forum - Non Academic Career Panel (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79561 79561-20380990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

This professional development workshop brings back home an excellent panel of CCN alumni who currently work outside of academia. We hope to answer your questions about how and when to look for non academic jobs and provide you with information on what options are available to you as psychology graduates on the job market.

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Presentation Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:07:01 -0500 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Psychology
HistLing Discussion Group: Deliberate Change vs. Language Families (December 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77834 77834-19933624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics professor Sarah Thomason will give a talk on "Deliberate Change vs. Language Families." The question she'll be asking is this: Can linguistic changes made intentionally cause problems for efforts to establish genetic relationships among languages? (The answer is yes, but rarely.)

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:19:04 -0500 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
SoConDi Discussion Group (December 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77888 77888-19939588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:30:22 -0400 2020-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
The Arab and Muslim Vote In Focus: How Arab and Muslim Americans Voted and What the Results Mean (December 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79535 79535-20373072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

A conversation on the recent elections with Ali Harb (Middle East Eye), Adbulkader Sinno (Indiana University), Dawud Walid (CAIR) & Fatema Haque (Rising Voices) Moderated by Prof. Khaled Mattawa

December, 4 2020 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Please register in advance for the event.

This event is free and open to the public.
A Q&A will take place after the conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:49:28 -0500 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (December 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
Cognitive Science Seminar: "Cognitive Tools for Learning and Communication" (virtual) (December 7, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76965 76965-19782527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dr. Judith Fan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC San Diego, will give a talk titled "Cognitive Tools for Learning and Communication."

ABSTRACT

How does the human mind transform a cascade of sensory information into meaningful knowledge? While traditional approaches to learning focus on how people process the data provided to them by the world, this approach leaves aside all of the powerful tools people have to actively reformat their experiences and generate new ones. For example, we choose what to look at, bring certain memories to mind, produce pictures to share, and compose stories to tell. The goal of our lab’s research is to “reverse engineer” the core mechanisms by which employing such cognitive tools enable humans to learn and communicate more effectively. Our recent work focuses on visual communication, one of our most basic and versatile tools, because it also represents a key challenge for understanding how multiple cognitive systems interact to support complex, natural behaviors. This talk will highlight our recent progress, as well as open research questions in this domain.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:22:51 -0500 2020-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Judith Fan
Detroit Center Talks (December 8, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79636 79636-20436383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Lisa Nuszkowski is the Founder and Executive Director of MoGo Detroit Bike Share. Join us as she shares her experience launching and running the nonprofit bike-sharing organization.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Dec 2020 11:51:32 -0500 2020-12-08T13:30:00-05:00 2020-12-08T14:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Detroit Center Talks
Bioethics Discussion: Annihilation (December 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58833 58833-14563725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our obliteration.

[Video-conference link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94651294615]

A few readings to consider before oblivion:
–– Bioethics and the Metaphysics of Death
––The Ontological Representation of Death: A Scale to Measure the Idea of Annihilation Versus Passage
––The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective
––Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President’s Council on Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/052-annihilation/.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:52 -0500 2020-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Annihilation
COVID-19: A WeListen Staff Discussion (December 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79500 79500-20343472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLDecember20

We will discuss COVID-19 as the global pandemic impacts the lives and livelihood of people across the world. Our discussion will focus on policy, both implemented and proposed, at the federal and state level and small-group time will be dedicated to a deep dive into the day-to-day implications of COVID-19.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is supported by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:34:22 -0500 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen December 2020
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79756 79756-20484062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Learning objectives:

1. Discuss the conceptual distinction and clinical utility of self-reported race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry in childhood asthma.
2. Discuss the role of genetic ancestry and socio-environmental exposures in childhood asthma.
3. Discuss ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores, precision medicine and childhood asthma disparities.

Short bio: Dr. Mersha is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Asthma Research and leads the Population Genetics, Ancestry, and Bioinformatics (pGAB) Laboratory (https://research.cchmc.org/mershalab/Home.php).
Dr. Mersha’s research combines quantitative, ancestry and statistical genomics to unravel genetic and non-genetic contributions to complex diseases and racial disparities in human populations, particularly asthma and asthma-related allergic disorders. Much of his research is at the interface of genetic ancestry, statistics, bioinformatics, and functional genomics, and he is interested in cross-line disciplines to unravel the interplay between genome and envirome underlying asthma risk. His long-term research goal is to understand and dissect how biologic predisposition and environmental exposures interact to shape racial disparities in complex disorders.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:27:42 -0500 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Tesfaye ("Tes") Mersha, PhD (Associate Professor, Division of Asthma Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
Post 2020 Election: A Nonpartisan Discussion ft. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79758 79758-20486018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Join us for a nonpartisan discussion featuring Dr. Abdul El-Sayed!

We'll look back on the 2020 election, and discuss what may lie ahead for both major political parties. This event will be hosted on Zoom, and you can visit this link to register: http://myumi.ch/yKmM3

This virtual event is co-sponsored by the UM-Dearborn Office of Student Life, the Ginsberg Center at UM-Ann Arbor and UM-Flint Office of Engaged Learning.

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Other Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:14:03 -0500 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Post Election 2020
Building Your Vision Muscle; Discovering the Leader In Me (December 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79129 79129-20211823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

PRESENTER: Patricia Berry, Owner and Lead Consultant, Patricia Berry Consulting

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/building-your-vision-muscle-dec-9

Tacit Knowledge, a.k.a. your “Vision Muscle”, is the things we know, but don’t yet have words to express. It is the culmination of our lifetime of experiences, along with the experiences and lessons handed down from those who raised us. Other ways to say it is our sixth sense or our gut intuition; knowledge that is inside us and that we access on a regular basis but haven’t yet, or maybe don’t yet know how to, put into words. It is the thing that entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people put to use to know what they should do next, because they can imagine it, and they know it is right because it feels right. It’s hard to quantify, but your own personal visionary knowledge can often be accessed by getting our left brain — what I like to think of as our resume brain — out of the way, just for a while, so that we can let loose our own unique creative knowing that is tacit knowledge. As we begin to recognize and trust our own tacit knowledge, we can begin to learn how to intentionally access it in order to help us make decisions that allow us to successfully navigate a sometimes uncertain future. Come along with me for a series of Vision Muscle workshops focused on aspects of work and life where easy access to our vision muscle might be particularly helpful. All of the workshops will be using Vision Muscle strategies, with unique subjects for you to explore based on your own experience, vision and expertise. This self-directed experience will allow you to access your own unique knowledge and leave you with skills that will allow you to call up your Vision Muscle on a regular basis.

Using visual images and reflective writing, participants will learn how to access their tacit knowledge, or Visioning Muscles, to gain insight into where they are, and where they would like to journey toward in developing their leadership abilities. Join facilitator, entrepreneur and visioning geek Patricia Berry for a hands-on, interactive experience that brings out your natural visioning abilities. The Zoom Doors to this interactive and reflective workshop will close promptly at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early to ensure your participation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:41:50 -0500 2020-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Patricia Berry
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) workshop (December 10, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76250 76250-19679564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

CPRD is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together students and faculty studying all forms of political conflict/violence and peace.

To receive the Zoom meeting link, please email talibova@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:04:49 -0400 2020-12-10T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual CPRD
Phondi Discussion Group (December 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77892 77892-19939597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:39:05 -0400 2020-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
SynSem Discussion Group (December 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77836 77836-19933630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:20:15 -0400 2020-12-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
HistLing Discussion Group (December 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77835 77835-19933625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:10:19 -0400 2020-12-18T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Nineteenth Century Forum (NCF) Reading Group (January 11, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80268 80268-20666617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 11, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

We will discuss Chapter 3: "Clare's Commonable Plants." Kindly RSVP to Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials.

Theresa Kelley's Clandestine Marriage delves into Romantic representations of botanizing culture, exploring in particular the role botany played in larger Romantic-era debates about life and the ability to know, categorize, and depict its various forms. The chapter we will read focuses on the unsettling perspective brought by John Clare's plant poetry; often considered a poet of place and of enclosure, Clare's refusal to use Linnaean plant names is characterized by Kelley as a small act of poetic and quasi-scientific rebellion. Kelley thus links what she calls "Clare's Commonable Plants" and his resistance toward what he saw as the authoritarian Linnaean system to a retroactive resistance to the similarly authoritarian system of enclosure and the damage it wrought on rural communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:31:38 -0500 2021-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Clandestine Marriage book cover
Mass Incarceration: A WeListen Staff Discussion (January 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79520 79520-20349388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members, and is part of the 'Just Community: A Reading and Action Program' series within LSA DEI.

All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLJanuary21

We will discuss Mass Incarceration in the United States-it's history and present day impact. Participants will receive a content presentation to review in advance of the virtual session, and the majority of our time will be spent in small group discussion.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine, and the LSA DEI Office.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:11:04 -0500 2021-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen January 2021
Bioethics Discussion: The Madness of Crowds (January 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58834 58834-14563726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on popular delusions.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings from the madding crowd:
––The Liverpool Cholera Epidemic of 1 and Anatomical Dissection—Medical Mistrust and Civil Unrest
––The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review in the Web Era
––The Hippocratic Thorn in Bioethics’ Hide: Cults, Sects, and Strangeness
––The Importance of Complying with Vaccination Protocols in Developed Countries: “Anti-Vax” Hysteria and the Spread of Severe Preventable Diseases

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/053-the-madness-of-crowds/.

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It would be shear madness if you did not crowd the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:27 -0500 2021-01-12T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Madness of Crowds
Adressing COVID Vaccine Hesitancy (January 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80458 80458-20722410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

The rapid development of vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is being heralded as a success of modern medicine. But vaccines can only curtail pandemics when enough people are willing to use them, and substantial vaccine hesitancy already exists in many populations. The speed of vaccine production and availability through an emergency use authorization, coupled with political divisiveness and broad skepticism of scientific claims, all affect people's perceptions of vaccines and hence threaten our ability to achieve herd immunity. In addition, a national history of research abuses and health inequities for communities of color influences how the medical community fosters and builds trust with those most in need. This panel will tackle these complex issues through the lens of history, law, decision science, and community engagement with a diverse cadre of nationally recognized leaders.
**This event is open access but capacity is limited, the event will be recorded and available afterward @ cbssm.med.umich.edu**

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:31:25 -0500 2021-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Lecture / Discussion Event Ad
Staff/Faculty/Community Member Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79814 79814-20501756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Ambassador

Designed for staff, faculty, and community members, this event (the first of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards staff, faculty, and community members. It will be hosted by the Planet Blue Ambassador program. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:57:17 -0500 2021-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Ambassador Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Student Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 14, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79816 79816-20501758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

Designed for students, this event (the first of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards students. It will be hosted by the Student Sustainability Coalition. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:48:41 -0500 2021-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Aphasia Social Hour (January 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80755 80755-20783464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP)

Aphasia, a speech-language disorder that can affect all aspects of communication — speaking, reading, writing, comprehension, etc. — is more common than previously understood. Acquired when the brain experiences trauma like that of a stroke or head injury, more than 2 million people in the U.S. are thought to have the disorder; yet, it's not something most people are aware of. It can be incredibly isolating, which is why staying social and connected is especially important.

The University of Michigan Aphasia Program (UMAP) at the University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL), hosts a free, virtual aphasia social hour each week to help facilitate social connecting while practicing communication skills.

All aphasia social hours in January are scheduled for 4 - 5 p.m. Thursdays (Eastern) and will take on the following topics:

*Jan. 14 - Resolve to participate in this session all about — you guessed it — resolutions. Love them? Hate them? Have a funny story about past resolutions? Bring it on.

*Jan. 21 - Hometown Proud! Share about where you’re from or where you now live! Bring maps, photos, and brag (or complain!) about that place where you were brought up.

*Jan. 28 - For us in Michigan, wintertime can mean hunker-time, as in hunker down until spring. But it doesn't have to. As the Nordic people say, "there is no such thing as bad weather, only poor preparation." We're not sure about all that, but come ready to share how you stay active in the winter months, either outdoors or indoors.

Registration is required in order to get the link to join. See: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlc-qhpjoqGNRqaI3Fepl8dswAWsS6SwuV

When you click the link to register, you can select which weeks you want to participate — all in one place. Sign up for them all to make sure you don't miss out on connecting with others in the aphasia community. Building confidence and staying social are some of the best things you can do for yourself and loved ones when aphasia is a part of your life.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:53:28 -0500 2021-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP) Social / Informal Gathering Aphasia social hours - Jan 2021
Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation (January 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80466 80466-20724373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Public monuments, public spaces, and museums shape the shared understanding of our nation’s history. From the removal of Jim Crow-era statues of Confederate leaders in cities across the country to the opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, a dramatic shift in our perceptions and ideas about the complex heritage of our monuments and museums has occurred over the last five years. More recently, the country has considered the role of monuments and the narratives they perpetuate with much greater focus and intensity in light of the protest movements for social justice and against systemic racism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020. In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, join us for an important discussion with four national experts on the power that monuments and public spaces assert in creating our nation’s stories. Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans; Earl Lewis, founding director of University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions; and Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Culture, will discuss the crucial role practice and policy play today in shaping our nation’s legacies, in a conversation moderated by Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.

From the speakers' bios:

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices and the legacies of the Vietnam War. She is at work on her next book, Blunt Instruments: A short field guide to a long history of everyday racist infrastructure in the United States. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Mitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). When he took office, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and in the midst of the BP Oil Spill.  Under Landrieu's leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.

In 2015, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing, and in 2016 was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors. He gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his New York Times best-selling book, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting racism, and tackles the broader history of slavery, race relations, and institutional inequalities that still plague America.

He recently launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund, which will work to bring people together across the South around the issues of race, equity, economic opportunity and violence. Prior to serving as Mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Noted social historian, award-winning author, and educational leader, Earl Lewis, is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions. Also the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and public policy, Lewis is president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-18), one of the premier philanthropies supporting the arts, humanities, and higher education. At Michigan, Lewis and colleagues in the center are addressing four core areas of social concern: diversity and race, slavery and its aftermath, water and security, and the dignity of labor in an automated world. Prior to returning to Michigan and before leading the Mellon Foundation, he served as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Emory University as well as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies (2004-2012). Lewis was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan (1989-2004) and the University of California at Berkeley (1984-1989). In addition to professorial roles and titles (Robin D.G. Kelley and Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor), he served Michigan as Vice Provost and Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1998-2004).

As a scholar and leader in higher education and philanthropy, he has examined and addressed critical questions for our society including the role of race in American history, diversity, equity and inclusion, graduate education, humanities scholarship, and universities and their larger communities. A frequent lecturer, he has authored or edited nine books, scores of essays, articles and comments, and along with Robin D.G. Kelley served as general editor of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans. He currently partners with Nancy Cantor in editing the Our Compelling Interests book series. That effort, published in partnership with Princeton University Press, investigates how diversity pairs with democracy to enhance the likelihood of shared prosperity. A member of numerous boards of directors or trustees, he was an Obama administration appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and is outgoing chair of the board of regents at Concordia College-Moorhead, vice chair of the board of the Educational Testing Service, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.

Christina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and co-director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. Before coming to Michigan she served as the Class of 1956 Director at the Williams College Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums and foundations, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Foundation, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a national leader in debates about the changing role of campus art museums and their relationships with the public and campus, and has lectured frequently on the topic. Olsen has curated and produced many exhibitions and programs, including most recently Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen is on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. She received a BA in history of art, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.  

This event is a collaboration of UMMA, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester.

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Other Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:44 -0500 2021-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T14:20:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Youth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond (January 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79927 79927-20515559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Presents:

Youth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond
January 18, 2021
2-3pm EST
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93313003054

Amariyanna "Mari" Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, is a youth activist from Flint, Michigan. She is best known for raising awareness about Flint's ongoing water crisis and fundraising to support underprivileged children in her community and across the country. Mari is currently 13 years old. At the age of 8 she wrote a letter to President Barack Obama challenging him to visit Flint to see the crisis firsthand. The letter was published in the Los Angeles Times and confronted the entire country with the reality faced by victims of state negligence.

https://www.maricopeny.com/

Event Contact Info
Anna Massey
7347639989
abeattie@umich.edu
http://isr.umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:12:02 -0500 2021-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual event flyer
2021 Virtual MLK Day Event | Overcoming Turbulence: Trials and Triumphs of Black Women in Aerospace (January 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80062 80062-20550961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

You're invited to join us for a candid and inspiring panel discussion in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Michigan Aerospace will host a panel of Black alumnae to discuss their unique career journeys, the impact of being "the only one," and how to overcome roadblocks. The panel discussion will be moderated by Black Students in Aerospace members, Erin Levesque and Erika Jones.

This event is free and open to the public via Zoom.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92087353589

Meet the panelists:

Aisha Bowe, BSAE ’08
STEMBoard

Sydney Hamilton, BSAE '13
Boeing

Dr. Jessica Jones, MSAE ’13, PhD AE '17
Aurora Flight Sciences

Jasmine LeFlore, BSAE ’15
Collins Aerospace

Jasmine Sadler, BSAE ’09
The STEAM Collaborative

Lizalyn Smith, BSME ’02
Self-Published Author

Tia Sutton, BSAE ’00
Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association

Belinda Worley, BSAE '96
Amazon

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:46:58 -0500 2021-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Aerospace Engineering MLK Day Event Flyer
Anti-Racism Exploration/ Discussion Series (January 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80000 80000-20541127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, has written a well-researched, narrative history titled “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents”, that is asking us to look at our collective history from a new paradigm, that of caste vs. race and/class. We are offering this Discussion Series to allow participants to examine and reflect upon this reframing of our history, and its implications for our present and future as a nation. We want to offer participants a safe space forum to interpret, consider, and challenge the insights offered in Caste. Our hope is that through these thoughtful and difficult conversations about our nation’s past, we will gain a better understanding of how that history is operating today.

This Discussion Series will serve our collective benefit by beginning to think of ways that we as individuals and as a community can make changes, big or small, to improve the circumstances and experiences for our children, grandchildren, family, and friends in the near and far futures.


This discussion group, led by co-facilitators Faye Askew-King and Karen Bantel will meet on January 19; February 2 and 16; March 2, 16, 30 from 2:00-4:00.

While the event is free, preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the discussion group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:46:30 -0500 2021-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Event
Staff/Faculty/Community Member Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79817 79817-20501759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Ambassador

Designed for staff, faculty, and community members, this event (the second of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards staff, faculty, and community members. It will be hosted by the Planet Blue Ambassador program. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:00:03 -0500 2021-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Ambassador Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Student Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79819 79819-20501764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

Designed for students, this event (the second of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards students. It will be hosted by the Student Sustainability Coalition. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:49:09 -0500 2021-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
SLE Community Nights (January 20, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20816999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
PCCN Draft Recommendations Informational Session (January 21, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80763 80763-20785436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality

The U-M President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality (PCCN) invites the university community to join the PCCN co-chairs at a virtual information session on its draft recommendations. This session, intended for those who haven't been closely following carbon neutrality efforts at U-M, will provide attendees with a high-level overview of the topic, the PCCN, its process, and its draft recommendations. Registrants are invited to submit questions in advance through the registration link, or during the webinar. The Commission encourages all U-M community members to review the PCCN's draft recommendations and share their feedback through a public comment portal through January 26, 2021. Register for the event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O3oBjsozQ3uCBc1Q_ksxyA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:32:28 -0500 2021-01-21T11:30:00-05:00 2021-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality Livestream / Virtual PCCN Logo
Aphasia Social Hour (January 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80755 80755-20783465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP)

Aphasia, a speech-language disorder that can affect all aspects of communication — speaking, reading, writing, comprehension, etc. — is more common than previously understood. Acquired when the brain experiences trauma like that of a stroke or head injury, more than 2 million people in the U.S. are thought to have the disorder; yet, it's not something most people are aware of. It can be incredibly isolating, which is why staying social and connected is especially important.

The University of Michigan Aphasia Program (UMAP) at the University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL), hosts a free, virtual aphasia social hour each week to help facilitate social connecting while practicing communication skills.

All aphasia social hours in January are scheduled for 4 - 5 p.m. Thursdays (Eastern) and will take on the following topics:

*Jan. 14 - Resolve to participate in this session all about — you guessed it — resolutions. Love them? Hate them? Have a funny story about past resolutions? Bring it on.

*Jan. 21 - Hometown Proud! Share about where you’re from or where you now live! Bring maps, photos, and brag (or complain!) about that place where you were brought up.

*Jan. 28 - For us in Michigan, wintertime can mean hunker-time, as in hunker down until spring. But it doesn't have to. As the Nordic people say, "there is no such thing as bad weather, only poor preparation." We're not sure about all that, but come ready to share how you stay active in the winter months, either outdoors or indoors.

Registration is required in order to get the link to join. See: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlc-qhpjoqGNRqaI3Fepl8dswAWsS6SwuV

When you click the link to register, you can select which weeks you want to participate — all in one place. Sign up for them all to make sure you don't miss out on connecting with others in the aphasia community. Building confidence and staying social are some of the best things you can do for yourself and loved ones when aphasia is a part of your life.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:53:28 -0500 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP) Social / Informal Gathering Aphasia social hours - Jan 2021
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80480 80480-20728304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

The way we communicate matters because it has consequences. When it is done well, communication creates human contact, enables a person to discover solutions, builds people up, deepens their relationships, and serves as a source of inspiration and influence. And although all of us communicate every day at work and at home, we often fall short of our own best aspirations. Most often, it is because we may not know how.

This session is an introduction to the art of positive communication. It is based on the premise that the “spoken word, spoken honorably and well, can make a difference that no other form of communication can equal.” In it, you will learn six critical behaviors that will improve your capacity for connecting with others, help you foster high-quality relationships, and lead others positively.

Framed by powerful stories and a practical model of communication you can use today, the session will invite you to transform your own communication and thereby create your own best moments as a person and a leader.

About Mirivel:
Dr. Julien C. Mirivel is Professor of Applied Communication at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. He is “among the founding scholars in the emerging field of positive communication” and an award-winning teacher and scholar.

Mirivel has published in the best journals in the field of communication and is the author of two books on positive communication: The Art of Positive Communication: Theory and Practice and How Communication Scholars Think and Act: A Lifespan Perspective. Mirivel has served in a number of leadership roles including co-director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Interim Chair, Associate Dean, and Dean of the College of Social Sciences & Communication.

In the last five years alone, he has delivered hundreds of keynotes, trainings, and workshops on how to communicate effectively across contexts. He is a TEDx speaker whose mission is to inspire individuals and groups to communicate more positively at work and at home. For more information and resources, please visit julienmirivel.com.

Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2020-21 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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

Free, registration required to obtain login information: http://myumi.ch/515RB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:58:51 -0500 2021-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Livestream / Virtual Positive Links Speaker Series
A Discussion on Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized (January 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81183 81183-20872041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Sikh Student Association

The Sikh Students Association at the University of Michigan is hosting an open conversation and discussion led by Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, author of Fauja Singh Keeps Going and American educator, writer, and activist for Religion News Service. He is also an accomplished professor with graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he speaks regularly on issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

We will be discussing the topic of Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized. Although we will be focusing on representation as it pertains to Sikhi, we definitely want to invite anyone that is interested in the topics of Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, etc.! This event is free and open to attendees of all religions, faiths, and backgrounds.

Any questions/comments can be directed to our co-chairs! We hope to see you there!

Jasnoor Singh: 248-912-5259 (jasnoors@umich.edu)
Ramneet Chauhan: 989-627-1288 (ramneetc@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:07:49 -0500 2021-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Sikh Student Association Lecture / Discussion Flyer for discussion with Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Ayana Evans, Live discussion and Q&A: Is Acceptance the Future of Art? (January 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81001 81001-20832757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister here to receive Zoom information.

Join Ayana Evans, described as “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur” (Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog) for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender.

In conjunction with her presentation as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series premiering January 22, Ayana Evans will talk with Reginald Jackson about her work, a body of performances that comments on the effort she must put in to be taken seriously as a Black woman – often with humor and impromptu community-creation. They will also discuss issues facing art-makers today: her mid-career shift to performance, and the potential for art to promote self acceptance and wider acceptance of all selves.

 

The Future of Art Series is hosted by the U-M Arts Initiative as part of a two-year startup phase. 
 






 

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Performance Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:15:46 -0500 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Bioethics Discussion: Population Control (January 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58835 58835-14563727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on limiting ourselves.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings to consider:
––Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence
––Contraception and its ethical considerations
––Must Growth Doom the Planet?
––The Population Control Holocaust

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/054-population-control/.

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The masses will not be controlled at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:14 -0500 2021-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Population Control
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (January 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80722 80722-20777538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Massively parallel single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (sc/snRNA-seq) has opened the way to systematic tissue atlases in health and disease, but as the scale of data generation is growing, so is the need for computational pipelines for scaled analysis. We developed Cumulus, the first comprehensive cloud-based framework, to address the big data challenge arising from sc/snRNA-seq analysis. Cumulus combines the power of cloud computing with improvements in algorithm and implementation to achieve high scalability, low cost, user-friendliness and integrated support for a comprehensive set of features. We benchmark Cumulus on the Human Cell Atlas Census of Immune Cells dataset of bone marrow cells and show that it substantially improves efficiency over conventional frameworks, while maintaining or improving the quality of results, enabling large-scale studies.

In recent years, biologists have found that sc/snRNA-seq alone is not enough to reveal the full picture of how cells function and coordinate with each other in a complex tissue. They begin to couple sc/snRNA-seq with other common data modalities, such as single-cell ATAC-seq (scATAC-seq), single-cell Immune Repertoire sequencing (scIR-seq), spatial transcriptomics and mass cytometry. This data coupling is called single-cell multimodal omics. As it is becoming a new common practice, new analysis needs emerge along with two major computational challenges: big data challenge and integration challenge. The big data challenge requires us to develop scalable computational infrastructure and algorithms to deal with the ever-growing large datasets produced from the community. The integration challenge requires us to design new algorithms to enable holistic integration of heterogeneous data from different modalities. In the last part of my talk, I will discuss my team’s efforts and plans to develop Cumulus as an integrated data analysis framework for scaled single-cell multimodal omics.

Single-cell multimodal omics has the potential to provide a more comprehensive characterization of complex multicellular systems than the sum of its parts. As the datasets produced from the community keep growing substantially, the enhanced Cumulus will continue playing an important role in the effort to build atlases of complex tissues and organs at higher cellular resolution, and in leveraging them to understand the human body in health and disease.

Short bio: Dr. Bo Li is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the director of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Center for Immunology Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on large-scale single-cell and single-nucleus genomics data analysis. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from UW-Madison and completed two postdoctoral trainings with Dr. Lior Pachter at UC Berkeley and Dr. Aviv Regev at Broad Institute. He is best known for developing RSEM, an impactful RNA-seq transcript quantification software. RSEM is cited 9,384 times (Google Scholar) and adopted by several big consortia such as TCGA, ENCODE, GTEx and TOPMed.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:32:34 -0500 2021-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual Bo Li, PhD (Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA)
SLE Community Nights (January 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
IISS Lecture. An[other] Ottoman Geographer at Work: Abu Bakr al-Dimashqî (d.1691) and His Translation of Atlas Maior (January 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80822 80822-20793352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free to the public; please register at https://myumi.ch/zx790

In this lecture, Kaan Üçsu (Istanbul University) deals with Abu Bakr al-Dimashqî’s geography through his translation of Joan Blaeu’s (d. 1673) Atlas Maior. The book was presented to Mehmed IV as a gift by the Dutch ambassador to Istanbul in 1668. Following it, Abu Bakr al-Dimashqî (d. 1691), a university professor and geographer, embarked on its translation, which would take roughly 10 years and result in a ten-volume translation and a summary translation of two volumes.

This lecture will locate the translation into a larger geographical literature within the Ottoman Empire and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:47:54 -0500 2021-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion An[other] Ottoman Geographer at Work: Abu Bakr al-Dimashqî (d.1691) and His Translation of Atlas Maior
Aphasia Social Hour (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80755 80755-20783466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP)

Aphasia, a speech-language disorder that can affect all aspects of communication — speaking, reading, writing, comprehension, etc. — is more common than previously understood. Acquired when the brain experiences trauma like that of a stroke or head injury, more than 2 million people in the U.S. are thought to have the disorder; yet, it's not something most people are aware of. It can be incredibly isolating, which is why staying social and connected is especially important.

The University of Michigan Aphasia Program (UMAP) at the University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL), hosts a free, virtual aphasia social hour each week to help facilitate social connecting while practicing communication skills.

All aphasia social hours in January are scheduled for 4 - 5 p.m. Thursdays (Eastern) and will take on the following topics:

*Jan. 14 - Resolve to participate in this session all about — you guessed it — resolutions. Love them? Hate them? Have a funny story about past resolutions? Bring it on.

*Jan. 21 - Hometown Proud! Share about where you’re from or where you now live! Bring maps, photos, and brag (or complain!) about that place where you were brought up.

*Jan. 28 - For us in Michigan, wintertime can mean hunker-time, as in hunker down until spring. But it doesn't have to. As the Nordic people say, "there is no such thing as bad weather, only poor preparation." We're not sure about all that, but come ready to share how you stay active in the winter months, either outdoors or indoors.

Registration is required in order to get the link to join. See: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlc-qhpjoqGNRqaI3Fepl8dswAWsS6SwuV

When you click the link to register, you can select which weeks you want to participate — all in one place. Sign up for them all to make sure you don't miss out on connecting with others in the aphasia community. Building confidence and staying social are some of the best things you can do for yourself and loved ones when aphasia is a part of your life.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:53:28 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Aphasia Program (UMAP) Social / Informal Gathering Aphasia social hours - Jan 2021
Global Connections: You Have To Give Something To Get Something! (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81217 81217-20873991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Blurb: Collaborators for nearly 20 years--Professor Michael Gould discusses the art of collaboration with Nadja Raszewski (Choreographer-Berlin, Germany) and Anders Åstrand (Musician/Composer-Stockholm, Sweden). How they built their working relationships and the resulting projects that have led them to creating art around the world.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80751 80751-20783452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Documentary, 1985. The movie follows the struggle of the Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo, a group of mothers who challenged authorities during the repressive regime in Argentina (1976-1983), trying to discover the whereabouts of their missing sons and daughters, taken by the regime.
During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. A discussion period will follow the movie. The faculty discussant will be Susan Waltz, Professor Emerita of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy, and moderated by Sioban Harlow, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Other dates include Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, and March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcu-srj4jHtZpCETVEs-3WM5xygNoTF4m

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:00:02 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Disappeared Film Series: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo