Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 17, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-17T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Clean Wolverines regular meeting (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60117 60117-14840447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Want to help U-M go green? The Clean Wolverines are a group of independent, interdisciplinary students and faculty conducting research on the technological and financial feasibility for implementing renewable energy, green design, and sustainable practices on the University’s campus. Anyone is welcome to join!

Contact Susan Fancy of the Energy Institute or Adam Simon of Earth and Environmental Sciences to learn more. Other faculty contacts include Doug Kelbaugh, Larry Junck, Trish Koman, Joe Trumpey, and Steve Skerlos.

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Meeting Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:35:53 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 1100 North University Building University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Clean Wolverines
The Complex Environmental Web of Northern Lower Michigan: Climate, Soils, Forests (February 18, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58242 58242-14444082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Randy Schaetzl, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Geology, discusses the process of soil formation in conjunction with climate and plant communities in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Presented by Michigan Botanical Club.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:09:07 -0500 2019-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
19th Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series - Animal Pharm: The Ecology and Evolution of Medication Behaviors in Animals (February 19, 2019 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60224 60224-14849126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University and Development Events

Lecture abstract
Plants vary substantially in their quality as food for herbivores. The availability of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates differ markedly from one plant species to the next. Moreover, plants contain a dazzling array of “secondary metabolites” that are often toxic to consumers. However, in low doses, plant toxins can also serve as medicines, protecting herbivores from agents of disease. Like humans, many other animals exploit the natural pharmaceuticals in plants to mitigate the effects of parasite infection. This lecture will explore the ecology and evolution of medication behaviors in animals. As herbivores forage for food, they must manage the competing demands of gaining adequate nutrition, avoiding their predators, and choosing appropriate medicines from the Great Green Pharmacy. Medication behaviors can be therapeutic, in which medicines are consumed only after infection, or prophylactic, in which medicines are consumed prior to infection. Medication behaviors can also serve to protect the individual actor (self-medication) or their relatives (kin or social medication). Examples will show how different ecological conditions favor the evolution of different medication behaviors. Concentrations of toxins in plants also vary substantially based on environmental conditions, including soil quality, air quality, and biotic interactions. Therefore, the forces of global environmental change threaten the pharmaceutical use of plants by animals. Conservation of the Great Green Pharmacy is vitally important to the biological diversity of life on Earth.

About the professor
Mark Hunter is the Earl E. Werner Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford in England. After serving as a NATO International Fellow and an NSERC International Fellow, he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he served as Professor in the Institute of Ecology and as founding Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes. He joined the University of Michigan in January 2006. His research interests include plant-animal interactions, ecosystem ecology, biodiversity, and population dynamics. Professor Hunter has published over 150 research articles and written or edited six books. He is the recipient of both a CAREER Award and an OPUS award from the National Science Foundation, and in 2014 was elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:42:52 -0500 2019-02-19T04:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T06:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Mark Hunter
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
The 2nd Annual Data for Public Good Symposium (February 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60915 60915-14988672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Do you have experience in working alongside community partners in data analysis or program evaluation? Do you want to connect with others who are using their skills for public good? National efforts from organizations such as DataKind, Data Science for Social Good, and Statistics without Borders have been expanding in recent years as more individuals recognize their potential to impact social change. Great things can happen when individuals are empowered to dedicate time, resources, and knowledge to the pursuit of public good. Whether we work in the foreground or the background, we can all contribute to improving the lives of those around us.

Statistics in the Community (STATCOM), in collaboration with the Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER) and the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC), invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Data for Public Good Symposium hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). The symposium showcase the many research efforts and community-based partnerships at U-M that focus on improving humanity by using data for public good. If you are interested in attending, please register in the link below.

Presenters:
- Partners for Preschool: The Added Value of Learning Activities at Home During the Preschool Year, Amanda Ketner, School of Education
- University-Community Partnership to Support Ambitious STEM Teaching: Leveraging University of Michigan expertise in education, research, and evaluation to support innovative, interactive teaching across the S.E. Michigan region and beyond, C. S. Hearn, Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER)
- Open Data Flint, Stage II, Kaneesha Wallace, MICHR
- Research-Practice Partnerships at the Youth Policy Lab, A Foster, ISR Youth Policy Lab and School of Education
- The LOOP Estimator: Adjusting for Covariates in Randomized Experiments, Edward Wu, Statistics
- Barrier Busters: Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Strategy to Promote Economic Self-Sufficiency, Elise Gahan, School of Public Health
- Implementing Trauma-Informed Care at University Libraries, Monte-Angel Richardson, School of Social Work
- Why did the global crude oil price start to rise again after 2016?, Shin Heuk Kang, Economics
Poverty and economic hardship in Michigan communities: Data from the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), Natalie Fitzpatrick, Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy
Understanding Networks of Influence on U.S. Congressional Members’ Public Personae on Twitter, Angela Schopke, Chris Bredernitz, Caroline Hodge, School of Information

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:52:27 -0500 2019-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium 2nd Annual Data for
Litigating Trump's Environmental Deregulation (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60985 60985-15000012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the ELPP Lecture Series, featuring Sean Donahue of the law firm Donahue, Goldberg & Weaver, LLP.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sean Donahue, of Donahue, Goldberg & Weaver, LLP, a small DC-based firm whose practice focuses on representing environmental organizations in Clean Air Act and federal climate litigation, as well as cases involving state climate and clean energy initiatives. Donahue will discuss some of the major Trump Administration deregulatory actions in which he and his colleagues are involved: proposed repeal of Clean Power Plan and revision of carbon dioxide standards for new power plants; rollbacks of greenhouse gas emissions standards and fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and withdrawal of California’s authority to adopt and enforce separate greenhouse gas standards, and EPA’s proposed finding that Clean Air Act that regulation of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from power plants is not appropriate or necessary. Donahue will address recurring legal issues and practical challenges involved in litigating such cases, some cross-cutting features of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory efforts in the environmental area, and what to look for as the Administration’s major initiatives move from agency rulemaking to the courts. While dealing with complex administrative law questions and daunting health and environmental hazards, the talk may be punctuated by moments of uplifting humor and cautious optimism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:05:22 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Animals and Capture" (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58926 58926-14578312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Animals and Capture." U-M faculty explore the concept of capture in relation to animals: how do we represent animals and animality, and what meanings do captures of animals—in images, in texts, in concepts—convey?

With:

Antoine Traisnel (comparative literature, English)
Bénédicte Boisseron (Afroamerican and African studies)
Joseph Trumpey (art & design)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:28:29 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Thomas Eakins, "Horse (Chalk Grid Drawn on Body)" (ca. 1895), Platinum Print on Cream Wove Paper.
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (February 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (February 19, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 20, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Building a Movement: Climate Action on Campus (February 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60720 60720-14948315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: ClimateBlue

The University of Michigan and the City of Ann Arbor must work together in the pursuit of a clean energy future. This is where we start. Come join the conversation about the future of University of Michigan climate action!

This event is intended to yield specific and direct climate actions items that individuals, groups, and the whole community can take together. This event is taking the place of back-room event planning and allows the entire community to have a voice in dictating the future of climate action on campus and in the city!

The first half an hour of the consists of an expert panel consisting of 3 panelists talking about Ann Arbor Climate Policy, UM Climate Policy, and Environmental Justice. These speakers will talk about their opinions on the direction of climate action and climate policy on the UM campus and in the city of Ann Arbor.

Next, there will be a small group breakout session to allow for individual and small group brainstorming on the direction for AA/UM climate action.

Finally, there will be a whole group/community-wide brain storming session to map everyone's suggestions on the direction of future climate action. This should culminate in specific action items we would all like to get behind and take together as the next step in building the campus climate movement!

Join Us!! Food provided!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1196147480543811/?active_tab=about

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Meeting Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:35:05 -0500 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) ClimateBlue Meeting
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 21, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Third Annual MUSE Conference (February 21, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58934 58934-14580465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

Keynote speakers include Perrin Selcer (History), Barry Rabe (Public Policy), and Melissa Stults (Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor). The concluding panel will also feature a roundtable with Dean Jonathan Overpeck (SEAS), Dean DuBois Bowman (Public Health), and Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute.

For more information, including the link to register for the conference and RSVP for the public reception, please visit http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/

Please send all inquiries to MUSE-inquiries@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:35:02 -0500 2019-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Lyon District Library (February 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60511 60511-14901388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 2: Life Without Light
Discover animal adaptations needed for life in caves and in the dark depths of the ocean.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:58:49 -0500 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents (February 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59532 59532-14748091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation practice Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 people who will change the world’. He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, and as special advisor on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:04:26 -0500 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Better Futures Carlo Ratti
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Michigan Symposium on Media and Politics (February 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61110 61110-15036259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Communication and Media

The Michigan Symposium on Media & Politics is an annual conference bringing together leading scholars and journalists focused on current issues in journalism, politics, mass media, and communication technologies.

It includes presentations from leaders within the field:
Max Boycoff, University of Colorado - Boulder
Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Sharon Dunwoody, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Sol Hart, University of Michigan
Jim Malewitz, Bridge Magazine
Matthew Nisbet, Northeastern University
David Poulson, Michigan State University

This symposium is made possible through the generosity of the Morgan O'Leary Symposium Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:17:33 -0500 2019-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 Michigan League Communication and Media Conference / Symposium Oleary
Third Annual MUSE Conference (February 22, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58934 58934-14580466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 9:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

Keynote speakers include Perrin Selcer (History), Barry Rabe (Public Policy), and Melissa Stults (Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor). The concluding panel will also feature a roundtable with Dean Jonathan Overpeck (SEAS), Dean DuBois Bowman (Public Health), and Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute.

For more information, including the link to register for the conference and RSVP for the public reception, please visit http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/

Please send all inquiries to MUSE-inquiries@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:35:02 -0500 2019-02-22T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
In Conversation: Artist David Opdyke with writer Lawrence Weschler (February 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59598 59598-14754551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

2019 Efroymson Emerging Artist David Opdyke and writer Lawrence Weschler discuss Opdyke's current exhibition, Paved with Good Intentions, and the relationship between culture, politics, the environment and art in a contemporary landscape fraught with disorder and turmoil.

WIN ONE OF DAVID OPDYKE'S MICHIGAN POSTCARDS! Come to the event and you'll automatically be entered to win one of 10 vintage Michigan postcards painted on/modified by David Opdyke. Must be present to win.

About David Opdyke:
David Opdyke is a draughtsman, sculptor, and animator known for his trenchant political send-ups of American culture. Born in Schenectady, NY in 1969, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting and sculpture. His work is informed by the massive industrial and corporate restructuring he witnessed growing up, namely the abandonment of the city center by manufacturing giants General Electric and ALCO. As GE shifted resources to neighboring Niskayuna, the disparities became hard for Opdyke to ignore. Massive, decaying factories, an empty interstate loop, and unemployment were downtown; new streets, expensive homes, sushi and shopping malls were in the suburbs.

For twenty years Opdyke worked as a scenic painter and architectural model-maker. Ranging from intricate miniature constructions to room-sized installations, his artwork explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment.

About Lawrence Weschler:
Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at "The New Yorker," where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he was director from 2001-2013. His nearly twenty books of political and cultural reportage include "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" (on Robert Irwin); "Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder" (on the Museum of Jurassic Technology); "Vermeer in Bosnia"; "Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences"; "Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez"; and forthcoming this summer, "And How Are You, Doctor Sacks," a biographical memoir of his friendship with the late neurologist Oliver Sacks. For more: www.lawrenceweschler.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:34:36 -0500 2019-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Paved with Good Intentions
Third Annual MUSE Conference (February 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58934 58934-14580467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

Keynote speakers include Perrin Selcer (History), Barry Rabe (Public Policy), and Melissa Stults (Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor). The concluding panel will also feature a roundtable with Dean Jonathan Overpeck (SEAS), Dean DuBois Bowman (Public Health), and Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute.

For more information, including the link to register for the conference and RSVP for the public reception, please visit http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/

Please send all inquiries to MUSE-inquiries@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:35:02 -0500 2019-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-23T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Detroit Public Library (February 23, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60512 60512-14901390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 2: Life Without Light
Discover animal adaptations needed for life in caves and in the dark depths of the ocean.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:02:47 -0500 2019-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-24T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Beyond Crisis: Science and Technology Studies in the Age of Emergency (February 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61066 61066-15027193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:22:13 -0500 2019-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Science, Technology & Society Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
Book Talk and Signing - Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... And What We Can Do About It (February 25, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61074 61074-15027213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD) presents a book talk by Dr. Leo Trasande who will be speaking about his recent publication Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... and What We Can Do About It in conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of the 2018 book What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:32:02 -0500 2019-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 Public Health II Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Book Talk Flyer
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Forum on Climate Change & Health -- What the Science Says & What We Can Do (February 26, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59580 59580-14754546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:29:18 -0500 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Climate Change & Health
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (February 26, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (February 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-26T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
Collegiate Professorship Lecture and Ceremony - Prof. Chris Ruf (February 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60141 60141-14840455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

On Wednesday, February 27, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm, the College of Engineering and the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department will honor Professor Christopher S. Ruf for his appointment to a collegiate professorship.

Professor Ruf will be installed as the Frederick Bartman Collegiate Professor of Climate and Space Science and will present a lecture titled "Serendipitous Science, Technology, and Rock ‘n’ Roll."

Please join Professor Ruf; Dean Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering; Dr. Darren McKague, Associate Research Scientist, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department; and Dr. Tuija Pulkkinen, Chair, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department for a lecture and ceremony in the Climate & Space Auditorium, 2246 Climate and Space Research Building, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI.

A reception will follow in the second-floor lounge of the Climate and Space Research Building.

Please RSVP by February 13, 2019 at: http://myumi.ch/L4AMM

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:24:32 -0500 2019-02-27T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Chris Ruf
Cities + Mobility Built Environment Lightning Talks (February 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60347 60347-14866440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

You're Invited to the SEAS City + Mobility Built Environment Theme Lightning Talks

Hosted by:
Josh Newell, Associate Professor (SEAS)
Robert Goodspeed, Assistant Professor (TCAUP)

Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 1028 Dana


Subtopics:

"Built Environment-Human Interactions: From Understanding to Design"


Veronica Berrocal, Associate Professor (SPH)

Natalie Colabianchi, Associate Professor (Kinesiology)

Inés Ibáñez, Associate Professor (SEAS)

MaryCarol Hunter, Associate Professor (SEAS)

Mark Lindquist, Assistant Professor (SEAS)

Robert Goodspeed, Assistant Professor (TCAUP)

Joan Nassauer, Professor (SEAS)


"Toward Sustainable Urban Systems"


Seth Guikema, Associate Professor (IOE)

Johanna Mathieu, Assistant Professor (EECS)

Nancy Love, Collegiate Professor (CEE)


"Urban Sustainability: Where Next?"


Scott Campbell, Associate Professor (TCAUP)

Josh Newell, Associate Professor (SEAS)




A reception will follow in the Ford Commons in the Dana Building.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:49:00 -0500 2019-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-27T19:30:00-05:00 Dana Building School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world (February 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57458 57458-14193651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

By the end of the century oceans are predicted to rise between .3 and 2.5 meters, which will result in major flooding in coastal cities around the world. The Sinking Cities Project aims to document this inundation through the stories of residents and the changing landscape of their cities.

This photo and video exhibit was produced by Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, Michigan Engineering alumnus.

Join us for an exhibit opening event on November 16th, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Clark Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:38:53 -0500 2019-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T23:45:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Exhibit poster
CLaSP Seminar Series - Prof. Elizabeth Barnes (February 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60142 60142-14840456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Prof. Elizabeth Barnes of Colorado State University.



Title: "Advancing Forecasts of Weather Extremes into Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Timescales"

Abstract: The intrinsic chaos of the atmosphere makes the prediction of extreme weather at subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) timescales (~2 to 5 weeks) an inherently difficult task. We demonstrate here that the potential exists to advance forecast lead times of extreme weather events into S2S timescales through knowledge of two of the atmosphere’s most prominent oscillations; the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) and the Quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). We present evidence of a dynamical relationship linking atmospheric rivers (narrow plumes of intense atmospheric moisture that lead to floods and droughts over the west coast) to the MJO and the QBO through modulation of North Pacific blocking using reanalyses and retrospective forecasts of S2S forecast systems, and demonstrate differences in predictability across MJO phases. We conclude by presenting an empirical prediction scheme for anomalous atmospheric river activity based solely on the MJO and QBO and demonstrate skillful subseasonal “forecasts of opportunity” 4+ weeks ahead. This methodology is also shown to produce skillful forecasts of hail and tornado activity over the Plains and Southeast U.S.. With the wide-ranging impacts associated with extreme weather events, even modest gains in the subseasonal prediction of anomalous activity may support early action decision making and benefit numerous sectors of society.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:52:09 -0500 2019-02-28T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion clasp logo
MUSE Workshop: Climate Assessments: What are the metrics for success? (February 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60216 60216-14849117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The MUSE workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together sustainability researchers from across the university to discuss ideas and promote interdisciplinary connections and collaborations.
The workshops are informal gatherings with a facilitator who leads an often wide-ranging discussion.
Workshops occur at least biweekly (with special workshops arising for hot topics). Check out the line up of further speakers

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:12:45 -0500 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T19:00:00-05:00 Dana Building Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Workshop / Seminar MUSE workshop
Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future (February 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61111 61111-15036260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

“If you think our country is on the wrong course environmentally, then this talk and book are for you.”

Our society should be able to rally to face urgent challenges like global warming, but we are not. In his new book Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future (Wiley 2018) Doug Farr argues persuasively that we have been going about it all wrong, proposes a reset, and a clear path forward. This inspirational and sobering talk will forever change your understanding of the challenges we face, the urgency with which we need to face them, and your leading role in our generation’s call to act.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:54:04 -0500 2019-02-28T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T19:30:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Program in the Environment (PitE) Lecture / Discussion Chemistry Dow Lab
Clean Wolverines regular meeting (March 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60117 60117-14840448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Want to help U-M go green? The Clean Wolverines are a group of independent, interdisciplinary students and faculty conducting research on the technological and financial feasibility for implementing renewable energy, green design, and sustainable practices on the University’s campus. Anyone is welcome to join!

Contact Susan Fancy of the Energy Institute or Adam Simon of Earth and Environmental Sciences to learn more. Other faculty contacts include Doug Kelbaugh, Larry Junck, Trish Koman, Joe Trumpey, and Steve Skerlos.

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Meeting Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:35:53 -0500 2019-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 1100 North University Building University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Clean Wolverines
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (March 5, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-03-05T18:00:00-05:00 2019-03-05T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Ypsilanti District Library - Whittaker branch (March 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60808 60808-14970663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 3: The Next Frontier
Life has found ways of thriving even in the most unusual of places. From big cities to outer space find out how life adapts to these new environments.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:10:03 -0500 2019-03-10T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
Paris to Pittsburgh (March 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61281 61281-15065613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

From coastal cities to America’s heartland, Paris to Pittsburgh celebrates how Americans are demanding and developing real solutions in the face of climate change. And as the weather grows more deadly and destructive, they aren’t waiting on Washington to act.

Please join us for this documentary highlighting grassroots efforts to solve climate change, in the wake of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. We will follow the film with a discussion on carbon pricing and other climate solutions.

Refreshments served! Free!

Hosted by Washtenaw Climate Reality and Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby

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Film Screening Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:18:25 -0500 2019-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Film Screening Event flyer
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Detroit Public Library - Wilder branch (March 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60809 60809-14970664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 3: The Next Frontier
Life has found ways of thriving even in the most unusual of places. From big cities to outer space find out how life adapts to these new environments.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.

Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ypsilanti District Library - Whittaker branch
Monday, March 11, 2019 @ 5-6 PM -Detroit Public Library - Wilder branch
Saturday, March 16, 2019 @ 3-4 PM - Saline District Library
Thursday March 21, 2019 @ 6-7 PM - Lyon District Library
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown Branch

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:08:12 -0500 2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
Webinar: How to Update Reserve Visitor Centers and Create Workforce Ready Students at the Same Time (March 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61344 61344-15090328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Technology has become an integral part of environmental education, however purchasing or producing technology can be very cost prohibitive. As part of a NERRS Science Collaborative Science Transfer grant, the Delaware, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, and Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserves (the clients) partnered with the University of Delaware Introduction to Software Engineering course (the consultants). As part of their coursework, students produced educational computer games that promote interactive, free-choice learning opportunities. Learn more about the process that led to the final educational games that are being installed in the three centers, including the ups and downs of working with students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:11:44 -0500 2019-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (March 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (March 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
The Environment, Human Rights and Immunity at the World Bank (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60981 60981-15000008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the ELPP Lecture Series, presented by Professor David Hunter from the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Hunter will discuss the global campaign to hold international financial Institutions like the World Bank accountable for the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by their projects. This will include the implications of Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a case pending before the US Supreme Court that challenges the World Bank’s claim of immunity. The case was brought by local fishermen in coastal India harmed by a coal-fired power plant. The case reflects one of several strategies for applying minimum environmental and human rights standards to the activities of international organizations.

This event is free and open to the public.

David Hunter is Professor of international and comparative environmental law at American University's Washington College of Law. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Accountability Counsel, the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-US, and the Project on Government Oversight. He is a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform and a member of the Organization of American States’ Expert Group on Environmental Law, the InterAmerican Network for Environmental Law’s Advisory Board, and the Strategic Advisors Group for the International Finance Corporation’s Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman. He is co-author of International Environmental Law & Policy (5th ed.) and Climate Change Law (2nd ed.). His research interests include human rights and the environment, environmental standards and accountability mechanisms in international finance, and climate change litigation, law and policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:08:49 -0500 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
CLaSP Seminar Series - Dr. Xi Chen (March 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61260 61260-15061104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for the March 14th CLaSP Seminar Series will be Dr. Xi Chen of Princeton University.

Title: From the numerics to applications - a brief introduction to FV3 and beyond

Abstract: Simulating flows on the earth is hard. Various external forces, challenging geometry, the broad range of scales of motions make simulating the Earth flows extremely difficult. Although geophysical flows are only a subset of the broad CFD topics, traditional CFD approaches are far from adequate. CFD targets on generic, "one-size-fits-all" solutions, which might not be accurate or efficient in the geophysical environment. The Geo-CFD and CFD fields have a similar length of history, but there is scarce communication between these two. Therefore, many fundamentally solved topics in CFD are still highly debated in Geo-CFD community.

As a dynamical core, FV3 created many innovative numerical creations that respect the nature of the atmosphere but rarely follow the "traditional" thinking. After successfully powering many prominent GCMs for decades in the climate research, FV3 is replacing the US operational weather forecast this year. A unified modeling approach (UFS) is also being implemented in every aspect of NOAA's research applications (Chaired by Prof. Rood). This presentation will very briefly introduce the core algorithms of the FV3 and try to address some controversial numerical topics in the Geo-CFD community. The main focus of this work is to present research results varying from the largest climate scales to the smallest CRM/LES scales. I will also discuss the future pathways of the FV3 development from the developer's perspective. Most work in this presentation is accomplished by the FV3 team led by Dr. SJ Lin (a.k.a. the Weather Master).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:11:19 -0500 2019-03-14T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
No Victory Without Optimism: Advancing Climate Action in 2019 and Beyond (March 14, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59074 59074-14677950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Architect of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement
Former Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Convenor of Mission 2020

Join Christiana Figueres as she shares the inside story behind the Paris Climate Agreement, discusses strategies for accelerating climate solutions, and makes the case for “radical collaboration” between businesses, NGOs, universities, governments, and communities to achieve a carbon-neutral future.

Reserve your seats for this free event:
http://myumi.ch/aVA2Q

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:32:16 -0500 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Christiana Figueres
"Blind House" Opening Reception & Artist Conversation (March 14, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58929 58929-14578365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us to hear Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz in conversation with curator Amanda Krugliak, followed by Q & A and Opening Reception.

"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency," by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.

The exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication, luxury, and modernism.

In a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet, for Martin and Muñoz, "Blind House" serves as "a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:47:28 -0500 2019-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Blind House composite
The Living Earth Show: Tremble Staves Workshop Performance (March 14, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61418 61418-15099330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

In March 2019, composer and visual artist Raven Chacon and The Living Earth Show will travel to University of Michigan to workshop their new piece Tremble Staves: a wordless water opera synthesizing mixed media installation, manipulation of natural and artificial light and sound, and theatrical performance depicting the urgent but approaching crisis of water shortage burdening the region from California to the Navajo deserts. The full piece will be premiered in June 2019 in the flooded ruins of Sutro Baths, an early 20th century outdoor pool complex whose concrete remains are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This "workshop performance" in Ann Arbor, taking place in the lush setting of hte Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory, will feature one movement of Tremble Staves and will feature members of the U-M Percussion Ensemble.

Chacon’s opera connects narratives of the San Francisco Bay Area’s relationship with water to overlapping Navajo creation stories in which water figures prominently. The work will be performed, from memory, by the virtuosic musicians of The Living Earth Show, utilizing amplified antlers, tape reels, effected guitars, and water as a dynamic percussion instrument. With this palette, Chacon combines electro-acoustic noises, traditional Navajo music, field recordings, and extended techniques rooted in the musical lineage of classical chamber music to craft a vital sonic and visual landscape.

The opera presents the sacred element of water as a struck, manipulated, and amplified instrument–in reverence while simultaneously creating a sonic violence representative of continuing scarcity of this natural resource. The audience joins the performers in the environment, turning a public space into a sonic ecosystem in which all participants are surrounded by the element discussed and interrogated by the music. The intention is immersion; the opera immerses a congregation of audience members anchored in a pond of resonance; communally engaging in the work yet aware of their own complicity in the draining of the water.

Each unique iteration of the piece will last approximately 15 minutes, starting at 6:00pm, 6:30pm and 7:30pm, with an Artist Q&A from 7:00-7:30pm. Attendees are invited to explore the conservatory during and between performances.

There will be limited seating available on a first come, first serve basis. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Reservations are encouraged: https://bit.ly/2NeMrLs

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Performance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:15:50 -0500 2019-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Center for World Performance Studies Performance LES Poster
Friends of the Campus Farm Workday (March 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53580 53580-13410078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Once a month the Sustainable Living Experience coordinates with the Friends of the Campus Farm to participate in their weekly volunteer days at the Campus Farm. Check for the online sign up in the Friends of the Campus Farm and SLE newsletters and be sure to let them know you plan on coming by Wednesday of that week.

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Community Service Thu, 09 Aug 2018 15:42:43 -0400 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Sustainable Living Experience Community Service
RMC Prairie Pre-Restoration Site Cleanup (Updated Time!) (March 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59858 59858-14795169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Come join us at the Research Museum Complex (RMC) Saturday, March 23rd, from 12pm-4pm, and help us cleanup and prepare the RMC Prairie restoration site for planting.

The RMC is in the process of restoring the front lawn into native prairie grounds. This process includes site cleanup and preparation (March 2019), planting a cover crop (May 2019), and then finally, planting the native pollinator friendly prairie (November 2019)! But first – site cleanup!

Plan on wearing clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring a rake and gloves if you have them. If you have extra rakes or gloves to share, please bring those as well. Come for part or all of the day. We need as much help as we can get!

Please RSVP if you can make it and whether you can bring a rake or gloves. Send RSVP and any questions to: Sasha Bishop sashagdb@umich.edu

The event is located at the RMC, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI. Rain dates scheduled for: Sunday, March 17th and/or 24th

Throughout the restoration process scientists will be conducting research to examine the impact of restoring native habitat areas and prairie succession on the flora and fauna of associated with this site. Come learn about the restoration project and be part of a community wide restoration effort!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:39:24 -0400 2019-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar prairie restoration2
Storytime at the Museum: Inuit Art (March 16, 2019 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59512 59512-14748071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for children ages three to six and their families. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it.  In March, we will be visiting the UMMA exhibition The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq​ (which means "sensing the invisible just beyond it" or unexpected) and reading Nessa’s Fish, a story about a young girl and the animals she encounters in the Arctic environment. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Store.

Storytime is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

This event is in conjunction with the Power Family Program in Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:22 -0500 2019-03-16T11:15:00-04:00 2019-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Saline District Library (March 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60810 60810-14970665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 3: The Next Frontier
Life has found ways of thriving even in the most unusual of places. From big cities to outer space find out how life adapts to these new environments.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.
Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ypsilanti District Library - Whittaker branch
Monday, March 11, 2019 @ 5-6 PM -Detroit Public Library - Wilder branch
Saturday, March 16, 2019 @ 3-4 PM - Saline District Library
Thursday March 21, 2019 @ 6-7 PM - Lyon District Library
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown Branch

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:14:16 -0500 2019-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
2019 Doris Sloan Memorial Program: The Power of Inuit Art (March 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59515 59515-14748074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Collector Philip Power will join Inuit art experts Marion (Mame) Jackson and Patricia Feheley in a conversation moderated by Vera Grant about the story of the Inuit collections gifted by Philip and Kathy Power. All three speakers were introduced to Inuit art as young people and have had a lifetime connection with Inuit art. This conversation will share how two generations of the Power family connected Ann Arbor with the Arctic, and the relationship of both traditional and innovative ways of making art with the lifeways and environment of the Inuit peoples. Marion (Mame) Jackson is an art historian and professor emerita, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan. Patricia Feheley is the owner and director of Feheley Fine Arts gallery, an internationally-renowned gallery specializing in early and contemporary Inuit art. Jackson and Feheley have worked closely with UMMA to develop the first exhibition of this stellar collection of nearly 250 objects from a formative period in Inuit art-making. Vera Grant is UMMA's Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.  

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

Established through the generosity of Dr. Herbert Sloan, the annual Doris Sloan Memorial Program honors one of the Museum’s most ardent friends and supporters, Doris Sloan, a long-time UMMA docent.

This event is offered in conjunction with the Power Family Program in Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-15335278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Clean Wolverines regular meeting (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60117 60117-14840449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Want to help U-M go green? The Clean Wolverines are a group of independent, interdisciplinary students and faculty conducting research on the technological and financial feasibility for implementing renewable energy, green design, and sustainable practices on the University’s campus. Anyone is welcome to join!

Contact Susan Fancy of the Energy Institute or Adam Simon of Earth and Environmental Sciences to learn more. Other faculty contacts include Doug Kelbaugh, Larry Junck, Trish Koman, Joe Trumpey, and Steve Skerlos.

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Meeting Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:35:53 -0500 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Clean Wolverines
Designing for Impact: A Conversation with Cynthia Koenig (March 18, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61443 61443-15106029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Join the Impact Studio at Ross for a discussion on leveraging design for impact with social innovator and MBA/MS ‘11 alum Cynthia Koenig. Cynthia is a Product Management Principal at Amazon, focused on designing impactful new digital products, and is the Founder of Wello, an award-winning social venture that designs disruptive and affordable innovations to provide better, more reliable access to safe water. 

As part of the school's Business+Impact initiative, the newly launched Impact Studio brings together students from Ross and other disciplines in applying design principles to translate insights from faculty research into practical solutions to societal challenges. Studio faculty Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Jerry Davis will engage Cynthia in a lively discussion about her work in the design and impact space, the design-based skills needed for disruptive change, and the skills companies and organizations are increasingly seeking in the workforce.

Please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-for-impact-a-conversation-with-cynthia-koenig-tickets-57020879987

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:15:23 -0500 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Cynthia Koenig
Creating Near Native Habitats in Built Environments (March 18, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58245 58245-14444189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matt Demmon, director of native landscapes division at Plantwise, discusses ways of thinking about creating plant communities and how planting design and new models of landscape maintenance can help us create resilient, beautiful plantings that have the best chance of fulfilling the stormwater and ecosystem functions we are trying to create. Presented by Michigan Botanical Club.

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Presentation Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:31:08 -0500 2019-03-18T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-18T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Criminal Justice and the Built Environment" (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58927 58927-14578313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Criminal Justice and the Built Environment" with:

Claire Zimmerman (architecture, history of art)
Heather Thompson (history, Residential College)
David Thacher (architecture, public policy)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:41:09 -0400 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Pacific Ocean Platform Prison Competition Entry
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (March 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (March 19, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
The Wood Frogs of Saginaw Forest (March 19, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58246 58246-14444190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Keith Berven, professor at Oakland University, has been monitoring variations in numbers of wood frogs for the past 32 years in an attempt to understand the factors that lead to year-to-year fluctuation in their numbers. He will discuss the relative importance of density-dependent factors, and parasites on the frogs. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:34:25 -0500 2019-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-14441913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Discover Series: Bird's-Eye Views of America (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61721 61721-15176768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Between 1850 and 1900 panoramic depictions of towns and cities were very popular in America. Director of the Clements Library Kevin Graffagnino will discuss the significance of these unique nineteenth-century depictions of communities throughout the United States. U-M School of Information student Corey Schmidt will describe his project to catalog and digitize these bird’s-eye views and also to create an online interactive map. Participants will also have an opportunity to view several original bird’s-eye views from the Clements Library collection.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:31:22 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Ann Arbor 1880
Climate & Energy Lightning Talks (March 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60354 60354-14866448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Co-Hosted By: Greg Keoleian (SEAS) and Anna Stefanopoulou (Energy Institute),

This event will feature short talks from faculty from across campus, including:

Don Siegel (Engineering)
Jeff Sakamoto (Engineering)
Pam Jagger (SEAS)
Catherine Hausman (Public Policy)
Sam Stolper (SEAS)
Jonathan Levine (Taubman)
Rohini Bala Chandran (Engineering)
Geoffrey Thun (Taubman)
Johanna Mathieu (Engeneering)
Talks will be followed by a networking reception and light refreshments. The Sustainability Theme Lightning Talk Series is designed to spark new interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement collaborations that address global challenges at the nexus of environment and society.

Reception will follow in the Ford Commons in the Dana Building

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:05:54 -0400 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Lyon District Library (March 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60811 60811-14970666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 3: The Next Frontier
Life has found ways of thriving even in the most unusual of places. From big cities to outer space find out how life adapts to these new environments.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.
Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ypsilanti District Library - Whittaker branch
Monday, March 11, 2019 @ 5-6 PM -Detroit Public Library - Wilder branch
Saturday, March 16, 2019 @ 3-4 PM - Saline District Library
Thursday March 21, 2019 @ 6-7 PM - Lyon District Library
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown Branch

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:45:45 -0500 2019-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
Living a Digital Life winter symposium: Environments (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59519 59519-14748078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This event will be live streamed on the Facebook page of the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning: https://www.facebook.com/taubmancollege.

  Today, we live inside the digital. Increasingly, our public and private lives are conducted online and in digital space where our relationships are forged, nurtured, or deleted, where our bills are paid and finances tracked, and where our ideologies are fed and our politics balkanized by our respective media bubbles. And while the digital now constitutes more and more of our daily routines, it can also offer a distorting abstraction of “external life.” Swiping left is easier than breaking up, and even the most civil among us can become an entitled consumer on Yelp. At once, our digital environments offer new grounds for engagement and interaction, and immersive venues for escape from the exigencies of the outside world. This session will discuss this dialectic.   Panelists will include Aubrey Anable (Carleton University), Amy Kulper (Rhode Island School of Design), and Jose Sanchez (University of Southern California). Join us for presentations and a discussion about the digital as both a totalizing environment unto itself – a bubble apart from the external lifeworld – and a new venue for social organization and engagement.

 

2:00-2:15 Introduction 2:15-3:30 Presentations by panelists 3:30-4:10 Discussion 4:15-4:30 Intermission 4:30-5:15 Guided tour of Art In the Age of the Internet, 1990 to Today 5:15-6:00 Discussion & Closing  Aubrey Anable

Aubrey Anable is an Assistant Professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa. Aubrey’s research examines digital aesthetics, video games, and virtual reality in conversation with feminist and queer theory. Her book Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) provides an account of how video games compel us to play and why they constitute a contemporary structure of feeling emerging alongside the last sixty years of computerized living. She’s an advisory editor for the journal Camera Obscura and is currently co-editing The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Visual Culture.

Jose Sanchez

Jose Sanchez is an Architect / Programmer / Game Designer based in Los Angeles, California. He is the director of the Plethora Project, a research and learning project investing in the future of on-line open-source knowledge. He is also the creator of Block’hood, an award-winning city building video game exploring notions of crowdsourced urbanism. He has taught and guest lectured in several renowned institutions across the world, including the Architectural Association in London, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Today, he is an Assistant Professor at USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles. His research ‘Gamescapes’, explores generative interfaces in the form of video games, speculating in modes of intelligence augmentation, combinatorics and open systems as a design medium.

Amy Kulper

Amy Catania Kulper is an architectural educator whose teaching and research focus on the intersections of history, theory, and criticism with design. Throughout her career, Kulper has taught at Cambridge University, the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, SCI_Arc, the University of Michigan, and RISD where she is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture. In her time in Ann Arbor, she was a four-time recipient of the Donna M. Salzer Award for teaching excellence.

Kulper’s writings are published in Log, The Journal of Architecture, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Candide, The Journal of Architectural Education, and numerous edited volumes. Kulper has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education where she has acted as the Design Editor for six years. In March of 2017 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the ACSA for her work on the journal. Kulper holds master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from Cambridge University.

 

Organized by LSA Digital Studies, Rackham Graduate School, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and UMMA. This program is part of the 2019 Michigan Meeting: Living a Digital Life: Objects, Environment, Power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:16:33 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Michigan Meetings Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59772 59772-14786520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Digital Studies

Schedule of Events
2:00-2:15 Introduction
2:15-3:30 Presentations by panelists
3:30-4:10 Discussion
4:15-4:30 Intermission
4:30-5:15 Guided tour of Art In the Age of the Internet, 1990 to Today
5:15-6:00 Discussion
6:00 Closing

In 2012 the first 4K resolution screen became available on the commercial market at the common 30” desktop size, making it possible for a user with 20/20 vision seated 24” away from a computer screen to be confronted with the same amount of visual information as could be experienced in the surrounding environment. This development brought verisimilitude to another realm that has gradually emerged for decades, the constitution of the digital sphere as a kind of environment itself. Today, we live inside the digital. Increasingly, our public and private lives are conducted online and in digital space where our relationships are forged, nurtured, or deleted, where our bills are paid and finances tracked, and where our ideologies are fed and our politics balkanized by our respective media bubbles. And while the digital now constitutes more and more of our daily routines, it can also offer a distorting abstraction of “external life.” Swiping left is easier than breaking up, and even the most civil among us can become an entitled consumer on Yelp. At once, our digital environments offer new grounds for engagement and interaction, and immersive venues for escape from the exigencies of the outside world. This session will discuss this dialectic. Drawing contributors from across art, architecture, design, and media studies, we will examine the digital as both a totalizing environment unto itself – a bubble apart from the external lifeworld – and a new venue for social organization and engagement.

https://www.living-a-digital-life.com/



The 2019 Michigan Meeting is co-organized by:

Sarah Murray, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts associate professor of film, television, and media
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts associate professor of American Studies
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning associate professor of architecture
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts associate professor of communication
McLain Clutter, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning associate professor of architecture
Paul Conway, University of Michigan School of Information associate professor of information
Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning associate professor of architecture

*Please note: the Main Michigan Meetings Summit is Thursday and Friday, May 9 and 10, 2019, Rackham Building

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:47:43 -0500 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Digital Studies Conference / Symposium Poster
RMC Prairie Pre-Restoration Site Cleanup (Updated Time!) (March 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59858 59858-14795170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Come join us at the Research Museum Complex (RMC) Saturday, March 23rd, from 12pm-4pm, and help us cleanup and prepare the RMC Prairie restoration site for planting.

The RMC is in the process of restoring the front lawn into native prairie grounds. This process includes site cleanup and preparation (March 2019), planting a cover crop (May 2019), and then finally, planting the native pollinator friendly prairie (November 2019)! But first – site cleanup!

Plan on wearing clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring a rake and gloves if you have them. If you have extra rakes or gloves to share, please bring those as well. Come for part or all of the day. We need as much help as we can get!

Please RSVP if you can make it and whether you can bring a rake or gloves. Send RSVP and any questions to: Sasha Bishop sashagdb@umich.edu

The event is located at the RMC, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI. Rain dates scheduled for: Sunday, March 17th and/or 24th

Throughout the restoration process scientists will be conducting research to examine the impact of restoring native habitat areas and prairie succession on the flora and fauna of associated with this site. Come learn about the restoration project and be part of a community wide restoration effort!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:39:24 -0400 2019-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar prairie restoration2
Short films: "Chernobyl Heart" and "White Horse" (March 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62116 62116-15293429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a free double feature screening of "Chernobyl Heart" and "White Horse", followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Maryann De Leo and Residential College and Slavic Languages and Literatures professor Herb Eagle.

Maryann De Leo is an American director and producer. She has been working in documentary
filmmaking for over twenty years. Her work addresses timely issues under the umbrella of social justice, such as gender-based violence (Rape: Cries from the Heartland, 1991 and Terror at Home, 2005), mental illness (Bellevue: Inside Out, 2001), and urban blight (High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, 1995). De Leo has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Chernobyl Heart, 2003.

Chernobyl Heart (39 min.) is an Oscar-winning documentary about the effects of radiation on the children of Belarus, 16 years after the accident at the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. The film begins with the journey into the exclusion zone, driving to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and follows the invisible trail of radiation to the country's hospitals, cancer centers, orphanages, and mental asylums, where the children live, or are being treated for their disease.

White Horse (17 min.) is a short documentary by filmmakers Maryann De Leo and Christophe Bisson that features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to his Ukraine home for the first time in twenty years. Evacuated from the city of Pripyat, Ukraine in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster, he has not returned since then. White Horse was nominated for a Golden Bear in the 2008 Berlinale.

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Film Screening Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:02:36 -0400 2019-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-24T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Film Screening Chernobyl
Veg Week (March 25, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 10:30am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T14:30:00-04:00 Mason Hall Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Veg Week Presents: Lush Demo and Giveaway (March 25, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62389 62389-15361879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 10:30am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Stop by Mason Hall from 10:30-2:30pm for a FREE Lush demo and giveaway, our first event to kick off VegWeek! Lush products are cruelty free and made from sustainable materials!

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Well-being Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:17:53 -0400 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T14:30:00-04:00 Mason Hall Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Lush Demo
Veg Week (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Veg Week Presents: Adrienne Gillespie from Veg Michigan (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62391 62391-15361881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Adrienne Gillespie from Veg Michigan will be doing a presentation on the benefits of a plant-based diet for environmental, ethical, and health reasons! FREE snacks will be provided!

Admission is FREE and open to all!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:21:36 -0400 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Lecture / Discussion Event Image
Veg Week (March 26, 2019 5:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 5:30am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-26T05:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T18:15:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Lunch with Faculty Fellow Sara Soderstrom (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61878 61878-15223801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Come by the Signature Private Dining Room in South Quad between 12pm-12:50pm to chat and share a meal with Professor Sara Soderstrom, faculty in Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:39:15 -0500 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T12:50:00-04:00 South Quad Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering South Quad
Veg Week Presents: Bee Friedlander and Peaceable Kingdom Film (March 26, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62392 62392-15361882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Bee Friedlander from Attorneys for Animals and Animals & Society Institute will be talking about improving human-animal relationships and the ethics of veganism. A screening of "Peaceable Kingdom" brought to you by Veg Michigan and FREE vegan Silvio's pizza will follow. There will also be a virtual reality activity after the film.Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

All events are FREE and open to the community!

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Film Screening Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:24:53 -0400 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Film Screening Event Image
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (March 26, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Veg Week (March 26, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:15pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-26T18:15:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Food Literacy for All (March 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Veg Week (March 27, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Veg Week Presents: Alissa and Ben from Vegan Outreach (March 27, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62396 62396-15361887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Alissa and Ben from Vegan Outreach, an impactful nonprofit, joins us in the Diag for vegan tabling!

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Well-being Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:34:53 -0400 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Family Reading and Science: Extraordinary Places at Ann Arbor District Library (March 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60812 60812-14970667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey to some of the most extreme places on the planet. Discover what it takes to live in exotic locations and learn how important they are to our global ecology.

Museum staff visit area libraries with a series of hands-on activities based upon a theme to engage the whole family in science exploration. The three workshops are held monthly.

Workshop 3: The Next Frontier
Life has found ways of thriving even in the most unusual of places. From big cities to outer space find out how life adapts to these new environments.

Please contact these libraries for times and event details. Check ummnh.org for additional dates and libraries.
Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ypsilanti District Library - Whittaker branch
Monday, March 11, 2019 @ 5-6 PM -Detroit Public Library - Wilder branch
Saturday, March 16, 2019 @ 3-4 PM - Saline District Library
Thursday March 21, 2019 @ 6-7 PM - Lyon District Library
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 @ 2-3 PM - Ann Arbor District Library - Downtown Branch

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:44:44 -0500 2019-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Workshop / Seminar
Film Screening: REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet (March 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62057 62057-15282564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

On March 27 from 7 - 9 pm in Dana 1040, the Planet Blue Ambassador program will be hosting a screening of the film REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet. The film follows Reuse Pro Alex Eaves' cross-country adventure to the 48 contiguous U.S. states. On his journey, he finds endless reuse solutions for our waste problem that are not only sustainable, but also easy and fun! There will be a Q & A session with Alex Eaves’ following the hour-long film, and the Dana Compost Crew will be holding a clothing swap as part of the event as well!

Sponsors Include: Planet Blue, Planet Blue Ambassadors, the Office of Campus Sustainability, the Student Sustainability, Initiative, and the Dana Building Compost Crew.

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Film Screening Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:49:21 -0400 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Graham Sustainability Institute Film Screening Reuse! Film Screening Poster
Veg Week (March 28, 2019 6:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:00am
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-28T06:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Placental-Maternal-Fetal Communication Vesicles, and Pregnancy Health (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62129 62129-15299880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The trophoblast at the feto-maternal interface fulfills functions that are critical for embryonic development, including gas exchange, supply of nutrients, removal of waste products, endocrine regulation, and immunological defense. In his lab, Dr. Sadovsky utilizes molecular and cellular approaches to decipher mechanisms underlying placental development, differentiation, and response to injury. Using cultured primary human placental cells, genetically-altered mice, and placental samples from human pregnancies, his lab examines molecular mechanisms underlying trophoblast response to diverse stressors that adversely influence the homeostatic balance between cell injury and adaptation. Dr. Sadovsky’s research assesses how these stressors contribute to placental dysfunction and fetal growth restriction (FGR), which predispose to childhood neurodevelopmental dysfunction and adult metabolic syndrome.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:45:29 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Sadovsky Seminar
Veg Week Presents: Lisa A. Smith (March 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62394 62394-15361884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Don't miss Lisa A. Smith's talk about Intersectionality and Veganism! Smith is a nutritionist, entrepreneur, author of the guidebook series The Plant Based Foodie, and founder of The Black Health Academy and Professionally Fit. There will also be FREE Earthen Jar catering at this event!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:27:56 -0400 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Lecture / Discussion Event Image
Evolving Perspectives on Microbial Systems (March 29, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60504 60504-14901380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:30am
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: MAC-EPID

"Microbial dynamics in space and time: the motion picture"
Edward F. DeLong, PhD (Professor of Oceanography and Co-Director SCOPE. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa)

"Dynamic Viral Symbioses in Microbial Populations"
Rachel Whitaker, PhD ( Professor of Microbiology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois)

"Toward Designer Microbiomes"
Dr. Jo Handelsman (Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Please register for this free symposium since lunch will be provided. Thank you!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:18:33 -0500 2019-03-29T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) MAC-EPID Conference / Symposium Flyer
Veg Week (March 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Sustainable Systems Forum (March 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62013 62013-15273945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to measure the cradle-to-grave climate change impacts of sustainable energy systems that are planned to replace conventional fossil energy-based systems. The field of LCA is evolving to incorporate increased geographic specificity by utilizing GIS and satellite data and conducting site-specific analyses, which has led to important conclusions for bioenergy and renewable energy systems. Dr. Fortier will cover how geographic data has been integrated into LCAs of various energy systems through her research. Methods were developed to incorporate land use and albedo change impacts into a geographically specific LCA of green gasoline from wastewater microalgae. The results of this geographically specific algal biofuel LCA demonstrate the importance of direct land use and albedo change impacts to the sustainability of algal green gasoline and how these effects vary widely by ecoregion in the United States. Substantial differences in geographically specific climate change impacts can also be observed at smaller resolutions, as demonstrated through a willow biomass LCA performed by tax parcel and county in upstate New York. In this study, the soil carbon change impacts and transportation differences by site affect the life cycle climate change impacts of willow biomass delivered to a bioenergy power plant. Most recently, Dr. Fortier’s research group has completed the first study that shows how the carbon footprint of an ocean energy system changes based on the location installed. Although its importance has now been demonstrated for bioenergy LCAs, geographically specific methodology is novel to LCAs of mechanical energy systems like tidal turbines. The results of this geographic LCA indicate that even in some sites that were identified as “hotspots” for tidal energy deployment on US coasts, electricity from tidal turbines can have higher life cycle greenhouse gas emissions than electricity from natural gas (500 g CO2eq/kWh) and coal power plants (1000 g CO2eq/kWh) due to low electricity generation over the tidal turbine lifetime relative to the emissions arising from the production of the infrastructure and materials. As we improve the geographic specificity of LCA, our collective understanding of how the sustainability of bioenergy and renewable energy systems changes by location also improves and allows for the siting of new systems that optimize a reduction in life cycle climate change impacts.

BRIEF BIO:
Dr. Marie-Odile Fortier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Merced. From 2015 to 2018, she was an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in the Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, contributing to the Sustainable Energy Management program. She has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas (2015) and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Sciences from the University of Florida (2010). She was awarded the college-wide 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award at SUNY ESF. Dr. Fortier’s research focuses on the geographically specific life cycle environmental impacts of sustainable energy systems, including land use change and albedo change impacts. She uses life cycle assessment, GIS, and mathematical modeling to investigate whether the carbon footprint of different energy systems varies spatially and she develops new methodology to increase applications of life cycle assessment to sustainable energy planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:40:50 -0400 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion Geo-specific LCA of alternative energy
Goldring Family Distinguished Guest Speaker (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62335 62335-15353054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

To build a climate movement strong enough to stop irreversible climate disruption, a critical mass of Americans must believe in a healthy functioning civil society and an economically secure clean energy economy. The good news is we are already on the way: large majorities of Americans want us to move toward a clean energy economy and want climate action now; so how do we restore the metaphorical governing wetlands?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Program in the Environment (PitE) Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
17th Annual Road Rally (March 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62263 62263-15337503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: University of Michigan Industrial Hygiene Student Association (UMIHSA)

Each year, University of Michigan Industrial Hygiene Student Association (UMIHSA) hosts a school-wide event/scavenger hunt to raise money for a charity. On March 29th, 2019, we will be hosting our 17th Annual Road Rally event. All proceeds benefit Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB), a not-for-profit organization aims at addressing occupational health and safety issues around the world.  It is a charitable scavenger hunt where teams of four unravel clues and answer trivia questions that will lead them to various Ann Arbor destinations.

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Recreational / Games Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:06:25 -0400 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower University of Michigan Industrial Hygiene Student Association (UMIHSA) Recreational / Games Logo For 17th Road Rally
Veg Week (March 29, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Bursley Hall Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Veg Week Presents: Zero Waste Plant Based Dinner (March 29, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62395 62395-15361885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us at Bursley Hall for a delicious zero waste, plant based dinner with Dr. Kerrie Saunders! Saunders is a highly acclaimed speaker, nutrition expert, and author. This event is FREE and open to all!

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Well-being Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:31:08 -0400 2019-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Bursley Hall Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Veg Week (March 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62380 62380-15357481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Join us for an entire week of amazing vegan food and speakers! Every event is FREE, on campus, and open to all!

Enter to win 1 of 4 LUSH gift boxes by participating in our vegan challenge and eating vegan for the whole week of Veg Week OR by attending a Veg Week event each day.

Try amazing food, learn about ways to improve your health, help the planet, and save animals! Meet new friends, find out ways to get involved on campus or in your community, join a movement, and get inspired!

Thank you to our sponsors and partners, MDining, UMSFP, Veg Michigan, Graham Sustainability Institute, Munger Graduate Academic Initiatives, and The Humane League!

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Well-being Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:50:31 -0400 2019-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Bursley Hall Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Well-being Event Image
Michigan China Forum 2019 (March 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62272 62272-15339873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan China Forum

Founded in 2017, Michigan China forum takes connecting Michigan to China as its mission. By inviting key figures across different industries to discuss the latest and most controversial topics, the forum serves as a platform for students and young professionals across different cultures to gain insights, dispel biases and engage in inspiring dialogues.

The theme of Michigan China Forum 2019 is "Empower the Transformations". By connecting industry leaders with future victors,we will face the challenges, welcome the transformations, find the opportunities waiting ahead, and empower future young leaders. The forum this year consists of five panels (Sino-U.S. relations, sports, business, environment and education), fireside chat, China business challenge, and career fair.

Anyone is welcome and please RSVP for free at https://www.michiganchinaforum.org/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:00:01 -0400 2019-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T21:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan China Forum Conference / Symposium Poster of MCF 2019
Michigan China Forum -- Environment Panel (March 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62273 62273-15339875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan China Forum

China has experienced significant economic growth in the past few decades but with that has come a reputation for dangerous levels of pollution. Transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy has been the key to economic growth and energy security in China.

Despite nearly mature solar, wind and hydropower technologies, how to better put such technologies into the wider market is becoming a problem we need to solve in the future. Improving battery efficiency of electric vehicles, expanding charging infrastructure, and introducing supportive benefits and policies for electric vehicles will be the key to reducing air pollution and making transportation and cities cleaner. The cap-and-trade regime is featured with its market-based regulation and economic incentives, giving each regulated company a limited permission of GHG emission and allowing trade of permission between companies. However, a deeper and more comprehensive look into cap-and-trade system is needed to help mitigate climate change.

Several panelists from various backgrounds are invited to talk about renewable energy, electric vehicles and carbon trade system, both in China and across the world. Anyone is welcome to environment panel, Michigan China Forum 2019! Please RSVP for free at:
https://www.michiganchinaforum.org/
Go to the same site to register for any other events in Michigan China Forum 2019!

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:37:16 -0400 2019-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan China Forum Conference / Symposium environment panel poster
Michigan China Forum 2019 (March 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62272 62272-15339874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan China Forum

Founded in 2017, Michigan China forum takes connecting Michigan to China as its mission. By inviting key figures across different industries to discuss the latest and most controversial topics, the forum serves as a platform for students and young professionals across different cultures to gain insights, dispel biases and engage in inspiring dialogues.

The theme of Michigan China Forum 2019 is "Empower the Transformations". By connecting industry leaders with future victors,we will face the challenges, welcome the transformations, find the opportunities waiting ahead, and empower future young leaders. The forum this year consists of five panels (Sino-U.S. relations, sports, business, environment and education), fireside chat, China business challenge, and career fair.

Anyone is welcome and please RSVP for free at https://www.michiganchinaforum.org/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:00:01 -0400 2019-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan China Forum Conference / Symposium Poster of MCF 2019
Nichols Arboretum with Professor Sara Soderstrom (March 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61879 61879-15223803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Meet in Noble Lounge to take a casual trip to the Arb, just across the street from Oxford! Enjoy the coming spring weather and fresh air together with your friends and have the chance to speak casually with a faculty member.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:41:59 -0500 2019-03-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Clean Wolverines regular meeting (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60117 60117-14840450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Want to help U-M go green? The Clean Wolverines are a group of independent, interdisciplinary students and faculty conducting research on the technological and financial feasibility for implementing renewable energy, green design, and sustainable practices on the University’s campus. Anyone is welcome to join!

Contact Susan Fancy of the Energy Institute or Adam Simon of Earth and Environmental Sciences to learn more. Other faculty contacts include Doug Kelbaugh, Larry Junck, Trish Koman, Joe Trumpey, and Steve Skerlos.

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Meeting Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:35:53 -0500 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Clean Wolverines
Safe Medication Disposal Event (April 2, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60923 60923-14988680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:00am
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Dispose of your medication in a safe and environmentally friendly way!

Accepted Items
Prescription & OTC medications, medication samples, vitamins, ointments & lotions, inhalers, antibiotics, steroids, veterinary medicine, and controlled medications. NEW THIS YEAR: we now accept sharps and sharps containers.

Unaccepted Items
Sunscreen, insect repellent, cosmetics, hair care or personal hygiene products, hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol, aerosol cans, blood or infectious waste, and tobacco.

Locations: there will be two collection sites, on Central Campus and at Michigan Medicine.
Central Campus:
Ingalls Mall North (On Washington St. across from Rackham Auditorium)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Note: You can drive up and drop off your medications here

Michigan Medicine:
Triangle Connector Link
Towsley Center
Michigan Medicine Hospital

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:05:02 -0500 2019-04-02T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall U-M College of Pharmacy Other Students collecting medication
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (April 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (April 2, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62432 62432-15364114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Abstract: On the one hand, there's science: the clear-eyed, hard-nosed, the pragmatic empiricist. On the other hand, there's math: the poet, the dreamer, the hunter of wild abstractions. How do these two intellectual traditions regard one another? And why is it that the most useless-sounding math - from knot theory to meta-logic to non-Euclidean geometry - often turns out to be the most useful? Prerequisites: basic human curiosity; tolerance for bad drawings; the willingness to participate in a silly debate. In short: all are welcome!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:15:46 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Ben Orlin Public Lecture
Plant Propagation (April 3, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58263 58263-14450685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

North American Rock Garden Society Great Lakes Chapter Vice President Don LaFond gives a presentation on propagating plants by seed, cuttings, and dividing. Presented by Ann Arbor Garden Club.

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Presentation Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:27:11 -0500 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T20:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
G.R.E.A.T. Workshop (April 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60729 60729-14957193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 8:00am
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Students from all institutions are invited to apply to attend this one-day workshop at the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department. Participants will learn about the graduate school application process, the grad school experience, and how to translate that experience into opportunities.

Apply to Attend:
In order to apply you’ll need to know your current GPA, and have an unofficial transcript ready to upload. We also have Travel Awards available to help with travel and hotel costs. Follow this link to apply.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Workshop Highlights
How to pick the right graduate school and program for you. (Faculty led panel)
Putting together your application package. (Small group meetings with faculty)
Lunch and conversation with current graduate students
What do you actually do in graduate school?(both student and faculty perspectives)
What research opportunities are there here at Climate & Space?
Career panel about opportunities in academia, government and industry after grad school.

"Climate & Space is really a community...it’s inevitable that you’ll all end up doing your homework together and becoming friends. It’s also a really unique experience, especially at a school as large as Michigan.”

Agenda:
9:00-9:30 AM: Welcome! Introduction to the Department and Workshop goals
:: Theme 1: I knew I was forgetting something! What to do before you get to grad school.
9:30-10:00 AM: How to pick the right graduate school and program for you (Faculty-led panel).
10:00-11:00 AM: Applying to graduate school (Panel led by Admissions Chairs).
11:00-12:00 PM: Putting together your application package (Small group meetings with faculty.
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch with current graduate students
:: Theme 2: Now what? What happens once you are in grad school?
1:00-2:00 PM: What do you actually do in graduate school? (student perspective)
2:00-2:30 PM: What do you actually do in graduate school? (faculty perspective)
2:30:3:00 PM: What research opportunities are there here at Climate & Space?
3:00-3:30 PM: Coffee and individual meetings.
3:30-4:00 PM: Laboratory tour of facilities at Climate and Space Research Building
:: Theme 3: Well, that was fun. What do you now that you’ve finished grad school?
4:00-5:00 PM: We will conclude the day with a panel about career opportunities in academia, government and industry after grad school.

Workshop Faculty Contact​: Jeremy Bassis, Associate Professor jbassis@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:29:43 -0500 2019-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Workshop / Seminar CLaSP logo
Epsilon Eta Spring Interest Meeting (April 4, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62528 62528-15397105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Epsilon Eta

Epsilon Eta is Umich's only Pre-Profesional Environmental Co-Ed Fraternity. We seek to develop a more robust network of students, researchers, employers, and agencies to more effectively deal with the realities of our world’s changing climate and loss of biodiversity. By fostering a conscious awareness of the intrinsic relationship between people and their environment through academics, the community, and service, we seek to bridge the gap from the undergraduate atmosphere to professional environmental fields for students at Michigan.
Although we are inclusive of all majors, we require an interest in the environmental field. By pledging Epsilon Eta, you will become a member of an eclectic group of driven, intelligent, and innovative peers, as well as gain access to professional, social, and volunteering resources.
This meeting will give you a chance to get a better sense of our organization and a chance to ask questions. We will also explain what our Fall Rush process consists of.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:01:16 -0400 2019-04-04T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T20:30:00-04:00 Dana Building Epsilon Eta Rally / Mass Meeting logo
Sustainable Systems Forum (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62198 62198-15311073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

Participatory action research (PAR) is a powerful methodology for generating collective knowledge and change. We will describe PAR, its particular relevance to agroecology and food system work, and its application in our educator training program Laboratorios para la Vida (LabVida). LabVida has been working for eight years to train educators to use school gardens and food systems as venues for inquiry-based learning linking local and academic knowledge. We applied PAR to development and analysis of our training program, and invited participating educators to use PAR with their groups to explore and improve their food environments. PAR has proven to be an effective tool for generating small but significant changes in participants' narratives and practices.

Helda Morales is from Guatemala City and went to college there. She did graduate work in Costa Rica and then at U of M. Her research has documented the importance of traditional knowledge in constructing sustainable agriculture systems that avoid using harmful pesticides. Recently, she has focused on education and food systems, working with local urban and rural growers and farmers markets as well as international organizations. She is a founder and active member of AMA-AWA, the Alliance of Women in Agroecology.

Bruce Ferguson grew up in Kalamazoo, studied at Kalamazoo College. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan with John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto focusing on ecological succession and restoration. He currently does research and teaching in agroecology, food systems, and pedagogy. He is in Ann Arbor, spending part of his sabbatical year at U of M.

Their current research involves school gardens and food system education. They are both members of the Department of Agriculture, Society, and the Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where they are part of a group working on scaling out agroecology to achieve more just and sustainable food systems. Together, Bruce and Helda coordinate Laboratorios para la Vida, a program that trains teachers to use gardens and food systems as educational tools.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:41:51 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion lechugas loreto
SLE Retreat (April 6, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62568 62568-15405806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Take an overnight trip to the Edwin S. George Reserve in Pinckney, Michigan! Think bogs and bonfires. Camping is an option, but there are indoor beds and bathrooms available onsite.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:49:23 -0400 2019-04-06T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-06T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
SLE Retreat (April 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62568 62568-15405807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Take an overnight trip to the Edwin S. George Reserve in Pinckney, Michigan! Think bogs and bonfires. Camping is an option, but there are indoor beds and bathrooms available onsite.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:49:23 -0400 2019-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
No COP-Out: The Path HoMe from the U.N. Climate Talks (April 8, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62222 62222-15313292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: ClimateBlue

Join Climate Blue for its annual Spring Symposium in the Palmer Commons Forum Hall for a discussion of the recent international climate negotiations (COP24) in Katowice, Poland. Following the format of the Talanoa Dialogue, which was originally implemented at COP21 in Paris to facilitate empathy and open dialogue among countries, we will answer these guiding questions about the state of our climate conundrum:

Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
How do we get there?

Hear perspectives from University of Michigan student delegates who attended the climate negotiations as observers. Stay to learn some takeaways from a panel of experts and policymakers on what’s next for climate policy, globally and locally. In between sessions of our facilitated dialogue, we invite you to speak to student and community groups at our organization fair & reception (refreshments provided). Additionally, the call for the COP25 U-M delegation will be announced at this event, opening the spring application period!

5:00 pm:
Opening Remarks
Dr. Avik Basu, SEAS Lecturer, Co-creator of the interdisciplinary UNFCCC course at UM

5:30 - 6:15 pm: “Where are we?”
Delegate presentations, panel discussion, and audience Q&A

6:15 pm - 7:00 pm: “Where do we want to go?”
Delegate presentations, panel discussions, and audience Q&A

7:00 - 8:00 pm:
Organization Fair & Reception with MDining Catering

8:00 pm - 8:45 pm: “How do we get there?”
Delegate presentations, panel discussions, and audience Q&A:

[Panelists Forthcoming]

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/431262277620135/

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:59:32 -0400 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T21:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons ClimateBlue Conference / Symposium Event Flyer
Carbon Neutrality: Special Public Session with President Schlissel (April 9, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62437 62437-15364119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Planet Blue

The President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality hosts a "Special Public Session with President Schlissel." The event will be moderated by commission member and School for Environment and Sustainability Dean Jonathan Overpeck along with the commission's student members.

The U-M President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality brings together the U-M community and regional partners to explore how U-M can reduce its carbon emissions to levels that are environmentally sustainable. Informed by panels of advisors, the commission will develop recommendations to achieve this goal in a fiscally responsible manner and in the context of U-M's mission of education, research, service and patient care.
Join the discussion on April 9.

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Presentation Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:14:50 -0400 2019-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Planet Blue Presentation Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (April 9, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (April 9, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival (April 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62012 62012-15273943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Explore exotic locations, stand on the highest peaks and be part of the gripping tales that make the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Join Recreational Sports’ Adventure Leadership program as they host the Ann Arbor stop of this thrilling film fest at The Michigan Theater!

Doors open at 6:00pm

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:13:58 -0400 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Film Screening Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
"Celebrating the Poromboke Commons: Climate Change, Land-Use Change and Cultural Activism" (April 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59234 59234-14719613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Chennai, India-based environmental activist Nityanand Jayaraman investigates and reports on corporate abuses of environment and human rights. In this lecture, he discusses shared use and communally owned resources known as the poromoboke and the blatant encroachment on the poromboke for building construction and garbage dumping.

Poromboke is a Tamil word meaning shared-use and communally owned resources like bodies of water, seashores and grazing lands. Today, it has a negative connotation and is used to describe worthless people or places. This erosion in meaning is the result of a property-making agenda of the state that views open, unbuilt and unbuildable spaces as wasteland. But poromboke commons are layered with multiple land uses, cultures and economies. Far from being worthless, poromboke spaces are the backbone of any economy, and the basis for the planet's resilience. India is witnessing a wave of protests against land acquisition for infrastructure projects that prioritize built infrastructure over unbuilt and open spaces. Surviving climate change is a fight to prevent degrading land-use change, and the re-orienting of values. The task then is a cultural one—of revalorizing the poromboke and changing our notions of value and worth with respect to places, economies, cultures and peoples.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:00:55 -0400 2019-04-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Nityanand Jayaram
Webinar: New research to inform living shoreline design, placement and monitoring (April 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62319 62319-15346481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Living shoreline techniques can be effective tools for bolstering coastal habitats, controlling erosion, and protecting coastal areas from the impacts of storms, sea level rise and boat wakes. Under the right conditions, they can provide a variety of services while being cost-competitive with traditional approaches, such as bulkheads. Despite their potential, living shoreline designs are not applied as broadly or effectively as might be expected.

Members of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) and partners, in part supported by Science Collaborative resources, have been studying how different living shoreline designs perform in a variety of coastal locations from Mississippi to New York, and have been developing tools to enhance the use of these techniques.

This webinar will: a) facilitate a candid panel discussion of the lessons learned, management implications and next steps related to a series of applied research projects; and b) give audience members the opportunity to engage and ask questions about opportunities and challenges associated with living shorelines.

Panelists:
Christine Angelini, University of Florida
Stuart Findlay, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Denise Sanger, ACE Basin NERR
Eric Sparks, Mississippi State University
Jennifer Raulin, Chesapeake Bay- Maryland NERR

Moderator:
Jennifer Read, Science Collaborative Director

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:31:13 -0400 2019-04-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Planet in Peril: Averting Climate Catastrophe Through Law and Social Change (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62539 62539-15399283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

The seventh environmental conference presented by Michigan Law's Environmental Law and Policy Program kicks off on Thursday, April 11, with a talk by Jonathan Overpeck, Dean of the UM School for Environment and Sustainability. Dean Overpeck will set the stage for the conference by discussing how best to meet climate challenges.

The conference will continue on Friday, April 12. With climate change accelerating and the window for climate change mitigation and adaptation narrowing, this year we will devote our entire conference to how the legal system can promote meaningful action on climate change and broad-based environmental sustainability efforts. Panels and break out sessions will be held throughout the day on topics as wide-ranging as the Paris Accord, U.S. federal climate policy, and how law and business intersect to address climate change.

This event is free and open to the public. Please see a complete conference schedule at events.law.umich.edu/elpp

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:21:08 -0400 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
MUSE Workshop: Challenges in Developing Sustainable and Resilient Livestock Interventions to Reduce Childhood Undernutrition (April 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60221 60221-14849122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The MUSE workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together sustainability researchers from across the university to discuss ideas and promote interdisciplinary connections and collaborations.
The workshops are informal gatherings with a facilitator who leads an often wide-ranging discussion.
Workshops occur at least biweekly (with special workshops arising for hot topics). Check out the line up of further speakers

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:26:56 -0500 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Workshop / Seminar MUSE workshop
Science Advocacy in Action: Letter Writing (April 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62650 62650-15416718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Join the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy (ESPA) for a discussion and letter writing party on the critical role science plays in equitable federal protections.  

We’ll discuss the current state of science in policymaking, review some of the best ways to get attention for the issues, and then write letters that inform the public and your policymakers about those issues. 
 
When: Thursday, April 11, 5-6:30pm 
Where: Earl Lewis Room in the Rackham Graduate School (915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109) 
What to bring: a laptop and/or notebook and an appetite for science policy and snacks 
Food, drinks, resources and support to write your letters will be provided. 
 
From the proposed rollbacks to the Chemical Facility Safety and air quality rules to inaction on highly fluorinated chemicals (PFAS) at the Environmental Protection Agency, the effects of federal decisions have great bearing on the health and safety of the people of Michigan, particularly
on already overburdened populations. But proactive solutions do exist.  
 
Don’t have time to write a letter?  
Stop by and sign a postcard to your members of Congress and make sure they know their science-loving constituents are counting on them to lead on our health, safety, and environmental protections.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/LcJ3Ei3uCszkvDVR7

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:05:13 -0400 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Communicating Sustainability (April 11, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62835 62835-15477387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Learn from an interdisciplinary panel of professors how to:

create constructive conversation around the topics that matter most,
be an agent for change
Followed by an interactive pitch competition and prizes.

Featured faculty include Sara Soderstrom, Kaitlin Raimi, Jason Duvall, Sara Zimmerman, and Andy Hoffman.

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Other Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:26:04 -0400 2019-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Other Suscomm
Planet in Peril: Averting Climate Catastrophe Through Law and Social Change (April 12, 2019 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62539 62539-15399284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 8:45am
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

The seventh environmental conference presented by Michigan Law's Environmental Law and Policy Program kicks off on Thursday, April 11, with a talk by Jonathan Overpeck, Dean of the UM School for Environment and Sustainability. Dean Overpeck will set the stage for the conference by discussing how best to meet climate challenges.

The conference will continue on Friday, April 12. With climate change accelerating and the window for climate change mitigation and adaptation narrowing, this year we will devote our entire conference to how the legal system can promote meaningful action on climate change and broad-based environmental sustainability efforts. Panels and break out sessions will be held throughout the day on topics as wide-ranging as the Paris Accord, U.S. federal climate policy, and how law and business intersect to address climate change.

This event is free and open to the public. Please see a complete conference schedule at events.law.umich.edu/elpp

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:21:08 -0400 2019-04-12T08:45:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
TempoRealities (April 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58680 58680-14542716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:24:33 -0400 2019-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Science, Technology & Society Conference / Symposium
Green Movie Series (April 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62997 62997-15530607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Join the Engineering Student Government Sustainability Subcommittee for catered dinner and a movie!

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Film Screening Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:26:54 -0400 2019-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Student Government Film Screening Flyer attached
Clean Wolverines regular meeting (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60117 60117-14840451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Want to help U-M go green? The Clean Wolverines are a group of independent, interdisciplinary students and faculty conducting research on the technological and financial feasibility for implementing renewable energy, green design, and sustainable practices on the University’s campus. Anyone is welcome to join!

Contact Susan Fancy of the Energy Institute or Adam Simon of Earth and Environmental Sciences to learn more. Other faculty contacts include Doug Kelbaugh, Larry Junck, Trish Koman, Joe Trumpey, and Steve Skerlos.

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Meeting Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:35:53 -0500 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Clean Wolverines
Spring Ephemerals of the Great Lakes (April 15, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58266 58266-14450688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Presenter Bob Smith displays and discusses colorful photographs of spring ephemerals (perennial woodland wildflowers that bloom and set seed quickly), while Robert Ayotte highlights the systematics and site preferences for each species. Presented by Michigan Botanical Club Huron Valley.

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Presentation Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:58:32 -0500 2019-04-15T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
ELPP Lecture Series featuring Professor Richard Revesz from NYU Law School (April 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60983 60983-15000009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series, featuring Professor Richard Revesz from NYU Law.

This event is free and open to the public.

Richard Revesz is one of the nation’s leading voices in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. His work focuses on the use of cost-benefit analysis in administrative regulation, federalism and environmental regulation, design of liability regimes for environmental protection, and positive political economy analysis of environmental regulation. His book Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (with Michael Livermore ’06, 2008) contends that the economic analysis of law can be used to support a more protective approach to environmental and health policy. In 2008, Revesz co-founded the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law to advocate for regulatory reform before courts, legislatures, and agencies, and to contribute original scholarly research in the environmental and health-and-safety areas. Revesz received a BS summa cum laude from Princeton University, an MS in civil engineering from MIT, and a JD from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After judicial clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court, Revesz joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1985 and served as dean from 2002 to 2013. Revesz is the director of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:20:15 -0500 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Board Fellowship Info Session for Nonprofits (April 16, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61929 61929-15241334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Are you a nonprofit organization in Southeast Michigan that is curious about the Board Fellowship program? This session provides an overview for prospective organizations interested in participating during the 2018-19 academic year. Lunch is provided.

RSVP for Ann Arbor event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/board-fellowship-information-session-ann-arbor-tickets-58369402454

RSVP for Detroit event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/board-fellowship-information-session-detroit-tickets-58376640102

Business+Impact is all about building relationships. Using our rigorous matchmaking and vetting process, students with the unique skills to work in your organization on your issues will be assigned to your board as non-voting members. You will benefit from their expertise in project management, marketing, business systems, policy analysis, strategic planning, and more. As a result, your nonprofit will gain input on board decisions, business school knowledge and skills, and a new perspective on a project of your choosing.

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Other Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:24:34 -0400 2019-04-16T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Other Board Fellows
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (April 16, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (April 16, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-16T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
PFAS in Health and the Environment (April 16, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58267 58267-14450689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

PFAS, perfluorinated compounds, is an umbrella term for some 5,000 chemical compounds that have been manufactured and used in consumer products since 1960. Stephen Brown, Ph.D., chemist and co-chair of the Sierra Club Huron Valley conservation committee, provides a non-technical review of aspects of concern about PFAS. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:01:23 -0500 2019-04-16T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Washtenaw County Consensus Conference: Water Security (April 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63212 63212-15593437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Across Michigan and throughout Washtenaw County, issues related to water safety, access, and usage have become prominent topics of public discussion. Despite access to 4 out of 5 Great Lakes, the past few years have repeatedly demonstrated challenges in providing safe water to all current and future Michigan residents. These challenges have drawn the attention of policy makers and experts, but a critical component of the discussion on improving water security must be the values and perspectives of impacted community members.

Join us on April 20th for a discussion between community member panelists and experts in various topics of water security, as they discuss the challenges and opportunities that Washtenaw County faces in guaranteeing access to clean water for all of its residents and the steps policy makers should take to improve water security now and into the future.

Please register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/washtenaw-county-consensus-conference-tickets-59903418738

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:34:03 -0400 2019-04-17T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Winter 2020 Walk-in Advising! (April 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63011 63011-15534811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

Popcorn & punch will be provided!

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:24 -0400 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Sustainable Living Experience End of Year Celebration (April 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53179 53179-13272081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Mark the end of the year together with celebration! There will be food, fun and opportunities to reflect on our time together this past academic year.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:46:18 -0400 2019-04-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Reception / Open House Event flyer
U-M Biological Station: Student Orientation/Info Session (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61862 61862-15223786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Admitted students for spring/summer 2019: Come for important information, dates, requirements, packing lists, etc. Prospective students: Come see what you'll be missing if you don't register! It's not too late :-).

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:20:00 -0400 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building University of Michigan Biological Station Rally / Mass Meeting Peaceful sunrise on Douglas Lake.
RC Singers Present: "Let the River Run" (April 18, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62853 62853-15483799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 7:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The University of Michigan Residential College Singers is proud to present “Let the River Run," a benefit concert supporting We the People of Detroit, a non-profit fighting for access to clean water. Learn more about We People's activities and mission here: https://wethepeopleofdetroit.com/

The concert is FREE and no tickets are needed. The concert will also be STREAMED through this event page. If you are unable to attend in person, we hope you are able to check in via the stream.

The performance will include a wide range of music, readings, and community singing. Selections of music will include music of Alberto Grau, Chen Yi, Felix Mendelssohn, Frank Ticheli, James MacMillan, Shawn Kirchner, and more. Of special note, a composition by Henry Fellows Moss (a current member of RC Singers) will be performed.

The Residential College Singers is a non-auditioned non-music major choral ensemble based at the Residential College and open to all University of Michigan students.

Joseph Kemper, Conductor
Kelsey Murphy, Assistant Conductor
Minji Kim, Collaborative Pianist

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Performance Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:51:19 -0400 2019-04-18T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T20:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Let the River Run
Michigan Energy Club regular meeting (April 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60020 60020-14812583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The Michigan Energy Club (MEC) is a student-run group composed of undergraduate and graduate students interested in energy topics. MEC’s mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the topic of energy from scientific, political, and economic perspectives. We do this through member-led energy discussions, seminars, collaboration with other clubs, projects, and more. MEC is a great resource for students to learn more about the energy industry and to create connections. MEC is open to all students, and meetings for Winter/Spring 2019 are held on Tuesdays from 6 PM-7 PM in room 2000A at the MMPL (Energy Institute) at 2301 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Check out the club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umichMEC/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichEnergyClub
​…or email club officers at mecexecboard@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:37:12 -0500 2019-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Meeting Energy Institute exterior
Food Literacy for All (April 23, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-04-23T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Making Art Public: A conversation with Mark di Suvero and Christina Olsen (April 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63024 63024-15536918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Public art on a university campus plays a significant role in creating an environment that supports the development of the mind and spirit of students, faculty, and staff. The University of Michigan has an historic and longstanding commitment to public art. The campus is full of icons that evoke the Michigan spirit, but none capture the vital importance of public art on campus like Mark di Suvero’s Orion.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 24 for an opportunity to hear from one of the greatest living sculptors and creators of public art.

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1933, di Suvero immigrated to the United States in 1941 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally renowned sculptor and pioneer in the use of steel, he began showing his sculptures in the 1950s. Di Suvero is the sculptor of two iconic works on the U-M Ann Arbor campus: Shang, a kinetic sculpture that features a suspended platform that swings, and Orion, a brightly painted, orange-red sculpture made of hand-cut, painted steel. His architectural-scale sculptures have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. di Suvero is the first living artist to exhibit in the Jardin des Tuileries and the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris and at Millennium Park in Chicago. His work is featured in more than 100 museums and public collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. An activist for peace and social justice, di Suvero co-founded Park Place Gallery, an artists’ cooperative, in New York City in 1962. In 1977, he established the Athena Foundation to assist artists to fulfill their ambitions. He established Socrates Sculpture Park in 1986 at the site of a landfill in Queens, New York. Di Suvero has received several honors, including the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center and the National Medal of Arts.

Christina Olsen is the Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Chair of the University of Michigan President's Advisory Committee on Public Art. 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, currently on view 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 program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan President's Advisory Committee on Public Art.

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Presentation Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:15:39 -0400 2019-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
PitE Midnight Breakfast (April 24, 2019 11:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62667 62667-15423236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

PitE students can take a study break and enjoy a free hot, catered breakfast buffet!

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Other Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:21:39 -0400 2019-04-24T23:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T01:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Program in the Environment (PitE) Other Pancakes
MUSE Workshop: Discussion: ethics, big data, and our response to climate change (April 25, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60222 60222-14849124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The MUSE workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together sustainability researchers from across the university to discuss ideas and promote interdisciplinary connections and collaborations.
The workshops are informal gatherings with a facilitator who leads an often wide-ranging discussion.
Workshops occur at least biweekly (with special workshops arising for hot topics). Check out the line up of further speakers

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:31:20 -0500 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Workshop / Seminar MUSE workshop
Medication take back events (April 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63298 63298-15634615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Division of Pain Research - Anesthesiology

Dispose of your unused and expired medications!

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Other Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:54:36 -0400 2019-04-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Division of Pain Research - Anesthesiology Other
Webinar: Human and Environmental Well-being in Alaska's Kachemak Bay Watershed: An Ecosystem Services Assessment (April 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63452 63452-15704479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

The Kachemak Bay watershed, located on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, encompasses several terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems that provide a range of benefits and services that are not easily quantified. This webinar highlights methods and findings from a Master’s project - advised by Dr. Julia Wondolleck - that provides insights about current ecosystem services valued in Kachemak Bay using a socio-cultural, place-based, ecosystem services framework.

In addition to hearing from the students, their partners at Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve will share how they hope to apply their findings, and offer ideas for others interested in working with a student team in the future. Master's projects are interdisciplinary capstone experiences that enable University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability master's students to develop solutions to pressing problems faced by real-world clients. To learn more, read the team's recent report and review the process for proposing an idea for a future project.

About the Speakers:
Ellie Flaherty holds a Master of Science from the University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Conservation Ecology. Ellie has experience in environmental compliance support, as well as policy and program analysis, and currently works as a Research Associate for the NEERS Science Collaborative (NSC) program at the University of Michigan’s Water Center. Ellie’s particular interests lie in marine and coastal management and collaborative resource management processes.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick holds a Master of Science in Conservation Ecology and Environmental Policy within the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. She holds a particular interest in wetland restoration, fostered by various work experiences in ecological consulting, wetland banking, and independent research. Her master's project in evaluating human and environmental well-being in Alaskan watersheds helped develop an interest in environmental policy, leading to her current position as a student assistant in the Water Resources Division at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), formerly the MDEQ.

Trey Snow is a 2019 graduate from the School for Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan where he received a Master’s of Science in Environmental Policy and Planning. While at the University of Michigan, Trey was a teaching assistant for environmental policy and geospatial analysis courses. Following his bachelors in economics from Bucknell University in 2016, Trey spent time across the US from the Montana backcountry with the US Forest Service to an organic farm in New England. His work on this ecosystem service master's project highlights his interest in building connections between ecological monitoring and public policies and outreach.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:48:03 -0400 2019-04-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T19:00:00-04:00 Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Board Fellowship Info Session for Nonprofits (May 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61929 61929-15355270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Are you a nonprofit organization in Southeast Michigan that is curious about the Board Fellowship program? This session provides an overview for prospective organizations interested in participating during the 2018-19 academic year. Lunch is provided.

RSVP for Ann Arbor event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/board-fellowship-information-session-ann-arbor-tickets-58369402454

RSVP for Detroit event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/board-fellowship-information-session-detroit-tickets-58376640102

Business+Impact is all about building relationships. Using our rigorous matchmaking and vetting process, students with the unique skills to work in your organization on your issues will be assigned to your board as non-voting members. You will benefit from their expertise in project management, marketing, business systems, policy analysis, strategic planning, and more. As a result, your nonprofit will gain input on board decisions, business school knowledge and skills, and a new perspective on a project of your choosing.

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Other Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:24:34 -0400 2019-05-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Other Board Fellows
Program in the Environment (PitE) Graduation Reception (May 3, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61644 61644-15161286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

All graduating Program in the Environment (PitE) majors and minors, along with their friends and family, are invited to attend this event. Refreshments will be provided. There will be a short presentation and remarks given by PitE's director and a PitE alumnus, who will welcome the Class of 2019 to the PitE alumni community. No cap/gown required for this event.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:46:59 -0500 2019-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 2019-05-03T18:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Program in the Environment (PitE) Reception / Open House Pierpont Commons
In Conversation: The World to Come: Art in a Changing Climate (May 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61551 61551-15128237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

What role do artists play in visualizing the Anthropocene, our current epoch of rapid and often-destructive ecological change? Using photography, video, drawing, and sculpture, the forty-five international artists in The World to Come respond to the impact of climate change around the globe. Join UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography Jennifer Friess for a discussion about how the artists on view reimagine humanity’s relationships with each other and the environment in the world today and to come.  

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 May 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-05-05T15:00:00-04:00 2019-05-05T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Post45 Graduate Symposium (May 10, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59506 59506-14745958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 10, 2019 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Fourth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium
Co-hosted with Michigan State University

Discussion of graduate student works-in-progress related to post45 literature and culture. Please see link to the symposium schedule.

Keynotes by Professors Sara Blair and Justus Nieland
Additional Faculty Participation by Zarena Aslami, Sarah Ensor, Yomaira Figueroa, and Aida Levy-Hussen

Please contact Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) or Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) to receive a link to the pre-circulated papers.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 May 2019 08:43:09 -0400 2019-05-10T09:30:00-04:00 2019-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Post45 Graduate Symposium (May 11, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59506 59506-14745959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 11, 2019 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Fourth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium
Co-hosted with Michigan State University

Discussion of graduate student works-in-progress related to post45 literature and culture. Please see link to the symposium schedule.

Keynotes by Professors Sara Blair and Justus Nieland
Additional Faculty Participation by Zarena Aslami, Sarah Ensor, Yomaira Figueroa, and Aida Levy-Hussen

Please contact Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) or Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) to receive a link to the pre-circulated papers.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 May 2019 08:43:09 -0400 2019-05-11T09:30:00-04:00 2019-05-11T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
The Six Senses of Tea: Demonstration of Chanoyu (May 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61553 61553-15128239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition The Six Sense of Buddhism, please join us for a Japanese tea ceremony at UMMA. Tea was valued for its medicinal and stimulating qualities, and was used daily by Buddhist monks to aid in a lifestyle that combined physical activity, intellectual expansion, and contemplation. In 16th-century Japan, the use of tea was cultivated into a refined and spiritual practice in its own right. Chanoyu, or commonly known as the Japanese tea ceremony, requires paying meticulous attention to all aspects of a carefully orchestrated environment: the sight of flower arrangements and calligraphy; the sound of water boiling; the warmth of the tea bowl; the smell and taste of the tea. Join the sensual afternoon of Chanoyu demonstrated by local practitioners of the Urasenke Konnichian, one of the three main tea schools in the lineage of the famous master Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591).

Lead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Sat, 11 May 2019 18:15:26 -0400 2019-05-11T13:30:00-04:00 2019-05-11T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
The Climate is Changing: What’s a Planet to Do? OLLI Study Group (May 14, 2019 5:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58971 58971-14628136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 5:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Climate change is real, it’s serious, and it’s solvable! Through lecture and discussion, we’ll gain an understanding of where we are, how we got here, and what we can do about it. Various experts will take us on a journey exploring this multi-faceted issue. We’ll touch on science, alternative energies, human health, local impacts, national security, psychology, and justice issues. We’ll look at strategies for reducing emissions such as land use, transportation, and carbon pricing. Speakers will include volunteers with the non-partisan Citizens’ Climate Education and the Climate Reality Project.

Instructor Barbara Lucas is a journalist with a masters in Environmental Policy and will lead these sessions for those 50 and above. The Study Group will meet on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. from May 14 through May 21.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:05:46 -0500 2019-05-14T05:30:00-04:00 2019-05-14T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Symposium Workshop: Applying an Innovation Framework to Improve Health in Rural Populations (May 16, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63597 63597-15808595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 16, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

This 2-day state-of-the-science workshop is focused on identifying the most pressing gaps in the health of rural Michigan populations and generating novel solutions for improving those gaps.

Confirmed workshop attendees include federal and state officials, faculty from U-M nursing, pharmacy, medicine, and public health, as well as rural health experts.

This research is sponsored by the Biosciences Initiative exploratory funding support for "Applying an Innovation Framework to Improve Health in Rural Populations" project. Learn more about this research at: biosciences.umich.edu/scientific-initiatives/exploratory-funding-opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 May 2019 11:35:20 -0400 2019-05-16T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar U-M Biosciences Initiative Logo
Symposium Workshop: Applying an Innovation Framework to Improve Health in Rural Populations (May 17, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63597 63597-15808596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

This 2-day state-of-the-science workshop is focused on identifying the most pressing gaps in the health of rural Michigan populations and generating novel solutions for improving those gaps.

Confirmed workshop attendees include federal and state officials, faculty from U-M nursing, pharmacy, medicine, and public health, as well as rural health experts.

This research is sponsored by the Biosciences Initiative exploratory funding support for "Applying an Innovation Framework to Improve Health in Rural Populations" project. Learn more about this research at: biosciences.umich.edu/scientific-initiatives/exploratory-funding-opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 May 2019 11:35:20 -0400 2019-05-17T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar U-M Biosciences Initiative Logo
Film & Discussion: The Human Element (May 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63479 63479-15720822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

In an arresting new documentary from the producers of RACING EXTINCTION, THE COVE and CHASING ICE, environmental photographer James Balog captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change. With rare compassion and heart, THE HUMAN ELEMENT’s coast-to-coast series of captivating stories inspires us to reevaluate our relationship with the natural world. Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/k34FhplukXQ

Please join us for this free film screening! A discussion of comprehensive, bipartisan legislation in Congress to tackle climate change will follow the film.

#GrassrootsClimate #ClimateChangesHealth #ClimateAction #TheHumanElement

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 20:41:40 -0400 2019-05-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-05-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Film Screening Photo of mother and child in flood water
Webinar: Human and Environmental Well-being in Alaska's Kachemak Bay Watershed: An Ecosystem Services Assessment (May 23, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63452 63452-15702454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 23, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

The Kachemak Bay watershed, located on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, encompasses several terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems that provide a range of benefits and services that are not easily quantified. This webinar highlights methods and findings from a Master’s project - advised by Dr. Julia Wondolleck - that provides insights about current ecosystem services valued in Kachemak Bay using a socio-cultural, place-based, ecosystem services framework.

In addition to hearing from the students, their partners at Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve will share how they hope to apply their findings, and offer ideas for others interested in working with a student team in the future. Master's projects are interdisciplinary capstone experiences that enable University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability master's students to develop solutions to pressing problems faced by real-world clients. To learn more, read the team's recent report and review the process for proposing an idea for a future project.

About the Speakers:
Ellie Flaherty holds a Master of Science from the University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Conservation Ecology. Ellie has experience in environmental compliance support, as well as policy and program analysis, and currently works as a Research Associate for the NEERS Science Collaborative (NSC) program at the University of Michigan’s Water Center. Ellie’s particular interests lie in marine and coastal management and collaborative resource management processes.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick holds a Master of Science in Conservation Ecology and Environmental Policy within the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. She holds a particular interest in wetland restoration, fostered by various work experiences in ecological consulting, wetland banking, and independent research. Her master's project in evaluating human and environmental well-being in Alaskan watersheds helped develop an interest in environmental policy, leading to her current position as a student assistant in the Water Resources Division at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), formerly the MDEQ.

Trey Snow is a 2019 graduate from the School for Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan where he received a Master’s of Science in Environmental Policy and Planning. While at the University of Michigan, Trey was a teaching assistant for environmental policy and geospatial analysis courses. Following his bachelors in economics from Bucknell University in 2016, Trey spent time across the US from the Montana backcountry with the US Forest Service to an organic farm in New England. His work on this ecosystem service master's project highlights his interest in building connections between ecological monitoring and public policies and outreach.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:48:03 -0400 2019-05-23T15:00:00-04:00 2019-05-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VI | On Life (May 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63805 63805-15888321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Prof. Branka Arsic (Columbia University) will be giving a public lecture on Thursday May 30th, at 4 p.m. QA to follow.

Description: My talk starts out from remarks Melville left in his Encantadas concerning the Galapagos tortoises and goes on to examine the scientific and historical archives to which he had recourse, from Cuvier and Broderip to Porter and Delano. On that basis I seek to reconstruct exactly what, in the early 19th century, prompted scientists, doctors, and naturalists, as well as traders and ordinary seamen, to obsess about the tortoise as a life form, one that was brought to the brink of extinction by the middle of the century. I argue that the reason why both physiologists in Continental scientific laboratories, and whalers traversing Antillean waters in trade ships, chose this particular animal to answer the question of what life is, derived from their ideas about what constituted pain, suffering, and cruelty. By rehearsing such debates over the presumed expressions of suffering, apathy and indifference on the part of the tortoise, I work to suggest that what scientists understood as apathy towards pain licensed the production of a bizarre taxonomy of life forms based on a creaturely capacity to resist violence. I, therefore, pay significant attention to the differences that science advanced between biologically - as opposed to psychologically - rational and irrational life forms, which leads to my concluding analysis of why, as a consequence, the irrational was designated as available for experimentation and vivisection.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 May 2019 08:31:00 -0400 2019-05-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Dialogues in Contemporary Thought | On Life
The Eco Book Club and The World to Come (June 2, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63220 63220-15595495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​Literati’s Eco Book Club goes on the road. Join us at UMMA on the occasion of the Museum’s exhibition of The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene. This thought-provoking exhibition grapples with the negative impact of human activity on the planet through the art of more than thirty-five international artists such as Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth. Discussions will be led by Literati’s Eco Book Club facilitator Alison Swan.

Alison Swan’s poems and essays have appeared in many places, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, and the recent award-winning anthologies Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and Here: Women Writing on the Upper Peninsula. Her anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a Michigan Notable Book. A Mesa Refuge alum and a Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership co-winner, Swan teaches literature and writing in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University and lives in Ann Arbor.

Sunday, June 2, 3 p.m. Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore. Join UMMA’s award-winning docents for a tour of The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene at 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 28, 3 p.m. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Preceding the Book Club, join curator Jennifer Friess and Education Outreach Program Coordinator Grace VanderVliet at 2 p.m. for “Cross Pollination," a tour of the environmental themes in three exhibitions at UMMA: The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene; The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq​; and​ Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights.

Participants are welcome to join us for one or both of the Book Club meetings in the UMMA Living Rooms at the entry of the Apse. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.  

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Presentation Fri, 17 May 2019 18:15:28 -0400 2019-06-02T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Confronting our Emerging Global Climate Crisis in Northern Michigan (June 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63483 63483-15765642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Climate change is upon us and its impacts on our health, economic well-being, and security are rapidly accelerating, at both the global scale and within our Great Lakes region. It is also threatening the integrity of the ecological systems that purify our water, cleanse our atmosphere, and provide us with other environmental and economic benefits. This talk will describe the causes of and evidence for climate change, and will compare the predicted effects of alternative climate change mitigation actions on our region. It will conclude with recommendations for effective policies aimed at minimizing and eventually reducing the most severe consequences of our unfolding climate crisis.

Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 May 2019 14:53:56 -0400 2019-06-06T19:30:00-04:00 2019-06-06T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Nadelhoffer at the podium.
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 8, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 8, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 11, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-11T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-12T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 13, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 13, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 14, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 14, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-14T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 15, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 15, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Webinar: Exploring Applications of Ecosystem Service Conceptual Models for Coastal Habitats (June 26, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63722 63722-15833058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Estuarine systems are areas of immense ecological importance and provide numerous social, economic, and environmental benefits. These benefits, both direct and indirect, are referred to as ecosystem services. Ecosystem services considerations are of increasing importance to the NERRS and many of their partners, and this webinar describes a project aimed at finding streamlined ways to incorporate ecosystem services into NERR coastal decision-making. We use Ecosystem Service Conceptual Models (ESCMs) as a framework to think about ecosystem services and how they can be considered within the NERRS. We will describe our work with the North Carolina and Rookery Bay NERRs to develop oyster reef and mangrove ESCMs, our efforts to apply these models to specific restoration sites at these NERRs, and our use of the models as a way to think about standardized monitoring of ecosystem services outcomes across the NERR network.

About the Speakers:
Sara Mason joined the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions as a policy associate after graduating from Duke with a master’s degree in environmental management. Her work focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of biodiversity conservation and how that can be leveraged to engage the public and policy makers in conservation efforts. Prior to joining the Nicholas Institute, Sara worked in ecological field research and endangered animal rehabilitation.

Lydia Olander directs the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. She leads the National Ecosystem Services Partnership, supporting efforts to integrate ecosystem services into decision making, and studies environmental markets and mitigation, including forestry and agricultural based climate mitigation; wetland, stream and endangered species mitigation; and water quality trading. She also serves on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board and the secretariat of The Bridge Collaborative.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 May 2019 13:03:49 -0400 2019-06-26T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Long Table Discussion: Art / Environment / Sustainability (June 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61559 61559-15128245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival (A2SF) welcome artist Mary Mattingly to Ann Arbor for a three-day residency, June 27–30. Mattingly, whose photograph, Life of Objects, is featured in UMMA’s exhibition The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, is deeply concerned with our relationships to objects—where they come from, where they go, their implications for humans, and their impact on the environment. The centerpiece of the residency is a large-scale public art project titled Objects in the Round, in the Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall where festivalgoers will build a miniature landscape with Mattingly that explores relationships with objects, built landscapes, and habits of consumption.   To kick off her residency, Mattingly will be joined by thought leaders from U-M and beyond—A2SF's James Carter, UMMA curator Jennifer Friess, arts curator of the U-M Institute for the Humanities Amanda Krugliak, watershed planner of the Huron River Watershed Council Daniel Brown, Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist Sacramento Knoxx, independent film director and producer Diane Cheklich, and Christy Bieber, co-director of The Aadizookaan—for a discussion on the possibilities and challenges for artists and arts organizations creating and presenting artwork that explores sustainability and the environment. The Long Table format was born from director and scholar Lois Weaver’s exercise on participation and public engagement. Its aim is to foster civic-minded discussions on ideas and questions surrounding the city's creative culture. It’s a dinner table atmosphere encouraging participants to ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or openly sit, listen, and watch.

For more information about additional programs for Mattingly's residency and related to The World to Come exhibition, click here.

Mary Mattingly’s residency is presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Festival Footprint Initiative established with generous support from  Toyota.

 
 


The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 May 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-06-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-06-27T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Objects in the Round: Public Art Project with Mary Mattingly (June 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61619 61619-15154684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival welcome artist Mary Mattingly to Ann Arbor for a 3-day residency, June 27 - June 30. Mattingly, whose photograph Life of Objects is featured in UMMA’s exhibition The World to Come, is deeply concerned with our relationships to objects—where they come from, where they go, their implications for humans, and their impact on the environment.​

Mattingly will lead a large-scale collaborative public art project over three evenings. Come build a miniature landscape with Mattingly and other festival goers and explore your own relationship to objects, built landscapes, and habits of consumption. Bring a household item or object you are willing to part with to contribute to the project. Objects in the Round is an exclusive opportunity for every generation to engage with arts and ecology.

Objects in the Round schedule Thursday, June 27 - Opening 7-10 p.m. Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29 - Workshops and Construction 5-10 p.m. Sunday, June 30 - Deconstruction/Gathering 5-8 p.m.

Additional programs: Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m. Long Table Discussion: Art / Environment / Sustainability Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall at 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor

Sunday, June 30, 3-4:30 p.m. In Conversation: Life and Afterlife of Objects with Mary Mattingly and curators Jennifer M. Friess and Amanda Krugliak University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor Please register to attend.  

   

Mary Mattingly’s residency is presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Festival Footprint Initiative established with generous support from  Toyota.

 


The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:15:32 -0400 2019-06-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-06-27T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-28T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Objects in the Round: Public Art Project with Mary Mattingly (June 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61620 61620-15154685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival welcome artist Mary Mattingly to Ann Arbor for a 3-day residency, June 27 - June 30. Mattingly, whose photograph Life of Objects is featured in UMMA’s exhibition The World to Come, is deeply concerned with our relationships to objects—where they come from, where they go, their implications for humans, and their impact on the environment.​

Mattingly will lead a large-scale collaborative public art project over three evenings. Come build a miniature landscape with Mattingly and other festival goers and explore your own relationship to objects, built landscapes, and habits of consumption. Bring a household item or object you are willing to part with to contribute to the project. Objects in the Round is an exclusive opportunity for every generation to engage with arts and ecology.

Objects in the Round schedule Thursday, June 27 - Opening 7-10 p.m. Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29 - Workshops and Construction 5-10 p.m. Sunday, June 30 - Deconstruction/Gathering 5-8 p.m.

Additional programs: Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m. Long Table Discussion: Art / Environment / Sustainability Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall at 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor

Sunday, June 30, 3-4:30 p.m. In Conversation: Life and Afterlife of Objects with Mary Mattingly and curators Jennifer M. Friess and Amanda Krugliak University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor Please register to attend.

Mary Mattingly’s residency is presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Festival Footprint Initiative established with generous support from  Toyota.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:15:33 -0400 2019-06-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-06-28T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-29T11:00:00-04:00 2019-06-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Objects in the Round: Public Art Project with Mary Mattingly (June 29, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61621 61621-15154686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 29, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival welcome artist Mary Mattingly to Ann Arbor for a 3-day residency, June 27 - June 30. Mattingly, whose photograph Life of Objects is featured in UMMA’s exhibition The World to Come, is deeply concerned with our relationships to objects—where they come from, where they go, their implications for humans, and their impact on the environment.​

Mattingly will lead a large-scale collaborative public art project over three evenings. Come build a miniature landscape with Mattingly and other festival goers and explore your own relationship to objects, built landscapes, and habits of consumption. Bring a household item or object you are willing to part with to contribute to the project. Objects in the Round is an exclusive opportunity for every generation to engage with arts and ecology.

Objects in the Round schedule Thursday, June 27 - Opening 7-10 p.m. Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29 - Workshops and Construction 5-10 p.m. Sunday, June 30 - Deconstruction/Gathering 5-8 p.m.

Additional programs: Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m. Long Table Discussion: Art / Environment / Sustainability Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall at 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor

Sunday, June 30, 3-4:30 p.m. In Conversation: Life and Afterlife of Objects with Mary Mattingly and curators Jennifer M. Friess and Amanda Krugliak University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor Please register to attend.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

Mary Mattingly’s residency is presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Festival Footprint Initiative established with generous support from Toyota.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:15:33 -0400 2019-06-29T17:00:00-04:00 2019-06-29T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (June 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
In Conversation: Life and Afterlife of Objects with artist Mary Mattingly and curators Jennifer M. Friess and Amanda Krugliak (June 30, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61622 61622-15154687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 30, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Artist Mary Mattingly is deeply concerned with our relationships to objects—where they come from, where they go, their implications for humans, and their impact on the environment. Mattingly asks us to consider how consumerist societies enact histories of exploitation in the creation of objects by mapping complex supply chains from mineral mines to store shelves.

Returning to Michigan after a 2016 residency and exhibition at the U-M Institute for Humanities, during which she travelled to the Upper Peninsula’s cobalt mines, engaged U-M students (including UMMA’s Student Engagement Council) in tracing source materials, and surfaced stories to create a time capsule, Mattingly will share how Michigan continues to inform her work. Mattingly’s photograph, Life of Objects, is on view in UMMA’s presentation of the exhibition The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (April 27–July 28, 2019), which explores the impact of human activity on our planet through art. Join Mattingly, along with Jennifer M. Friess, UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography, and Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator at the U-M Institute for the Humanities for a look in the gallery, followed by a discussion of the complex terrain Mattingly’s artistic practice explores.

Immediately following this UMMA program, Mattingly and the public will disassemble the project from 5–8 p.m. Stop by the Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, to see the time capsule from Mattingly’s 2016 residency on your way to Top of the Park.

This program is part of a 3-day, June 27–30, residency with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA during which Mattingly will lead a large-scale public art project, titled Objects in the Round, in the Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall. Come build a miniature landscape with Mattingly and other festival goers and explore your own relationship to objects, built landscapes, and habits of consumption.

Objects in the Round schedule Thursday, June 27 - Opening 7-10 p.m. Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29 - Workshops and Construction 5-10 p.m. Sunday, June 30 - Deconstruction/Gathering 5-8 p.m.

Additional programs: Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m. Long Table Discussion: Art / Environment / Sustainability Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall at 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor

Mary Mattingly’s residency is presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Festival Footprint Initiative established with generous support from Toyota.

 


The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:15:33 -0400 2019-06-30T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-30T16:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Objects in the Round: Public Art Project with Mary Mattingly - Closing/Deconstruction/Gathering (June 30, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61623 61623-15154688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 30, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival welcome artist Mary Mattingly to Ann Arbor for a 3-day residency, June 27 - June 30. Mattingly, whose photograph Life of Objects is featured in UMMA’s exhibition The World to Come, is deeply concerned with our relationships to objects—where they come from, where they go, their implications for humans, and their impact on the environment.​

Mattingly will lead Objects in the Round, a large-scale collaborative public art project over three evenings in which Mattingly and other festival goers and build and explore together. On Sunday, June 30, participants are invited to deconstruct the installation. Following the deconstruction, join the artist in the Grove for a gathering. 

Objects in the Round schedule Thursday, June 27 - Opening 7-10 p.m. Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29 - Workshops and Construction 5-10 p.m. Sunday, June 30 - Deconstruction/Gathering 5-8 p.m.

Additional programs: Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m. Long Table Discussion: Art / Environment / Sustainability Annex tent at Top of the Park on Ingalls Mall at 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor

Sunday, June 30, 3-4:30 p.m. In Conversation: Life and Afterlife of Objects with Mary Mattingly and curators Jennifer M. Friess and Amanda Krugliak University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor Please register to attend.  

Mary Mattingly’s residency is presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s Festival Footprint Initiative established with generous support from Toyota.

 
 


The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:15:30 -0400 2019-06-30T17:00:00-04:00 2019-06-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Climate Change Negotiation and Policy at Home and Abroad (June 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64031 64031-16083343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Tim Arvan, one of the Climate Blue student delegates to the United Nations COP24 Climate Change Convention, is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan. Drawing on his experiences attending COP24, Tim will address political and economic barriers and opportunities in the current international climate policy landscape. Focusing on the role of carbon pricing in achieving emissions reduction goals, Tim will discuss various market-based policies and their prospects at local to global scales-- including current efforts at U of M.

After the talk, join us for food & further discussion at Seva.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:09:27 -0400 2019-06-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-06-30T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Lecture / Discussion Tim Arvan Talk
Two Possible Climate Futures for the Great Lakes Region (June 30, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64037 64037-16097256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 30, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Climate change is likely to be the most serious environmental challenge in history, with profound implications for species and ecosystems worldwide. This talk will address past and future climate change in in the Great Lakes Region, and predicted
effects on our aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, lakes, and streams. Impacts on human health and effective technologies and personal behaviors for minimizing the adverse effects of climate change in the Great Lakes Region
will also be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:07:53 -0400 2019-06-30T19:30:00-04:00 2019-06-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion A map of Michigan, an aerial forest shot, a woman holding a fish, and a loon
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 2, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-02T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-03T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-05T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-06T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-07T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 9, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-09T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Robots, Telemetry, & the Sex Lives of Wild Birds: Using technology to study courtship and conservation (July 9, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63534 63534-15782022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Gail Patricelli, professor in the department of Evolution & Ecology and chair of the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at UC Davis, is giving the Hann Endowed Lecture in Ornithology at the U-M Biological Station. The lecture is open to students, faculty, researchers, and the public.

Dr. Patricelli's research interests include behavioral ecology, bioacoustics, and conservation in birds, with a focus on understanding the diversity and complexity in animals signals. Current projects address breeding behaviors, sexual selection, acoustic communication, and the effects of noise pollution on sage-grouse and other wildlife.

Per her UC Davis lab website:

"The signals used by animals to communicate are among the most beautiful features of the natural world, including a dizzying array of sounds, smells, colors, dances, electrical fields and seismic vibrations. Research in the Patricelli Lab addresses the function of these signals and why they take on such diverse and complex forms. Our approach has been integrative, examining functional, environmental and mechanistic influences on signal content and design. One of the central goals of research in the lab is to understand how signals are influenced by the social and environmental contexts in which they are used. To accomplish this, we have pioneered new techniques and technologies for the detailed observation and experimental manipulation of both visual and acoustic signals in the field, including biomimetic robots and microphone arrays."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 May 2019 11:46:02 -0400 2019-07-09T19:30:00-04:00 2019-07-09T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Gail Patricelli
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 10, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-10T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 11, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-11T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg
Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights (July 13, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62085 62085-15286927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 13, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights presents an enigmatic world filled with unexpected and unsettling sensory temptations. In this immersive installation of photographs and wallpaper, Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte weaves together detailed images of fauna (birds, caterpillars, and moths) and flora (local plants and flowers). Each scene is set against ominous cloudy skies, which rain melted ice cream, whipped topping, candies, and glossy paint. Overburdened with decorations, the flowers and plants begin to decay, leaving the birds and insects unable to survive for long in this overly sweet environment. DeMarte’s illusionistic landscapes recall the long tradition of still life painting in Europe and America, and a rich history of fantasy environments represented in literature and film—from Alice’s Wonderland to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yet, his images decidedly foreground the complicated visual circumstances of our contemporary moment and provoke us to consider this imagined and oversaturated world as analogous to our own.

Support for Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit, Amelia and Eliot Relles, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
 

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Exhibition Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:15:31 -0400 2019-07-13T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/JD_Placid_Propigation_0.jpg