Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Behind the Scenes Tour! American the Rare: The William L. Clements Library (February 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/36142 36142-6629280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Where can you see an ostrich egg collected in the 1800s, a 1787 map of the Western Hemisphere engraved and printed by Armenian monks, and a miniature photo album from 1870?

The Clements Library, of course! The Library has been in collecting mode for Americana almost non-stop since it opened in 1923, and many unusual or extraordinary objects have found a home within its walls.

Register for a Behind the Scenes tour to learn about this selection of interesting, remarkable, and peculiar items by emailing clementsevents@umich.edu or by phone at 734-764-5864.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:12:26 -0500 2017-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2017-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Reception / Open House Clements Library Aerial
Windows PC Maintenance and Internet Security Tips (February 28, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37074 37074-6128275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course will focus on how to protect your data and stay safe on the Internet.

Topics include: keeping your Windows PC safe (firewalls, antivirus, etc); email and Web Security Threats and Tips (ransomware, phishing, etc.); backup alternatives; password best practices; wireless security best practices; latest Internet and phone scams; Facebook security tips and identity theft basics.

There will be ample time for questions and discussion during this two hour session.

Instructor Harvey Juster is a semi-retired IT Consultant who holds an engineering degree from UM and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:58:36 -0500 2017-02-28T09:30:00-05:00 2017-02-28T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
Race, Gender & Identity in the Workplace featuring Jane Elliott and Roland S. Martin (March 3, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38113 38113-6891407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2017 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:11:45 -0500 2017-03-03T08:30:00-05:00 2017-03-03T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Headshots of Roland S. Martin & Jane Elliott
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Irreversible Remodeling of Tissue by Cells: Implications for the Spread of Cancer (March 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38460 38460-7191696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Quantitative Biology Seminars

Cells move in tissue in several situations such as the spread of cancer. It is known that cell motility leads to deformation of the tissue. We argue here that the deformations are generically plastic and irreversible. We study an experimental model system of breast cancer cells in collagen-I. We observe large, irreversible deformations, namely dense collagen bundles between cells which do not decay when the cells stop contracting. We give a numerical model that shows how sliding of cross-links in the collagen can give the observed results. The same model reproduces bulk rheology observations of plasticity. We also observe the micro-rheology of the collagen bundles.

We discuss the implications of our results for cell motility via durotaxis and contact guidance. We propose that cell motility, even at low densities, is a collective effect due to mechanical communication between cells.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:43:28 -0500 2017-03-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Quantitative Biology Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
“An Unprecedented Obligation and Opportunity for the South”: World War II and the Death of the Southern Renaissance (March 6, 2017 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38642 38642-7320021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 3:10pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:13:20 -0500 2017-03-06T15:10:00-05:00 2017-03-06T16:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion East Quadrangle
Animal Studies 2016-2017 Speaker Series (March 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31070 31070-4032875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

As part of the Animal Studies 2016-2017 Speaker Series, Harriet Ritvo (Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT) will speak about her current research, which concerns historical notions of wildness and domestication. Professor Ritvo is the author of numerous books and articles on British cultural history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:18:13 -0400 2017-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
HEP-Astro Seminar | Probing QCD Matter at Extremely High Temperatures in ATLAS: Jet Measurements in p+p, p+Pb and Pb+Pb Collisions at 5 TeV (March 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38470 38470-7191704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

Collisions between two lead nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider produce extremely high temperature QCD matter which is best described as consisting of deconfined quarks and gluons. A powerful tool to understand this matter is to use the high momentum quarks and gluons generated in hard scattering processes in the earliest stages of the nuclear collision as probes of the matter at later times. These measurements use modifications to the jet rates and properties induced by the scattering of the probes off the constituents of the matter to infer the nature of the interactions and constrain the properties of the matter. This talk will describe the new measurements at 5 TeV collision energy of jets and their properties in the ATLAS detector in lead-lead collisions as well proton-proton and proton-lead collisions which provide a baseline for the lead-lead measurements.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:26:45 -0500 2017-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Environmental Research Seminar - Air Pollution and Autism: Causal or Confounded? (March 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39147 39147-7712207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Dr. Weisskopf is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.
Abstract: In the last decade, several studies have examined the association between perinatal exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Associations have been seen with different aspects of air pollution, including hazardous air toxics, ozone, particulate and traffic-related pollution. As with any epidemiological study, confounding can be a concern; in the case of air pollution, socioeconomic status and place of residence are of particular concern as these can be related to ASD case ascertain- ment and other potential causal risk factors for ASD. I will discuss our work within the Nurses’ Health Study II cohort in this context. We find an increased risk of ASD with increasing maternal exposure to particulate matter air pollution ≤2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) during pregnancy, and specifically the 3rd trimester. I will discuss the implications of time window specific associations for confounding and the epidemiological methods concept of negative controls as well as other methodological concepts related to this work. Sponsored by the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:21:22 -0500 2017-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion Marc Weisskopf Mar 7 at SPH
2016 Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science (Reception at 3pm, Lecture at 3:40pm) (March 7, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35621 35621-5280553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

Title: From Disks to Planets Through the Astrochemical Lens

Abstract: During the first few Myr of a young, Sun-like star's life, it is encircled by a disk made up of molecular gas, dust, and ice. These materials form the building blocks for future planetary systems. Improvements in observational spatial resolution and sensitivity have allowed us to characterize the protoplanetary disk environment in great detail. Recent interferometric observations with both the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have shed light on disks' chemical composition and the structure of their rocky/solid and gaseous components, which together feed young terrestrial and gas giant planets. I will discuss recent results and new puzzles regarding our understanding of protoplanetary disk chemical and structural evolution, along with future avenues to detect individual young planets forming in situ.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:00:39 -0500 2017-03-07T15:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T16:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion West Hall
CM-AMO Seminar | Adding Trapped Molecules to the Quantum Toolkit (March 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38359 38359-7140403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: CM-AMO Seminars

Development of laser-based techniques to cool and manipulate trapped atoms led to a quantum revolution, with applications ranging from creation of novel phases of matter to realization of new tools for navigation and timekeeping. Because of their comparatively richer internal structure, molecules offer additional potential for quantum-controlled chemistry, quantum information processing, and precision spectroscopy. However, obtaining control over the rotational quantum state of trapped molecules, a prerequisite for most applications, has presented a significant challenge because of the large number of internal states. I will discuss techniques we have developed to optically cool rotations of trapped molecular ions, using a single spectrally shaped broadband laser. I will also discuss our progress toward using this quantum control for molecular coherent manipulation, single-molecule fluorescence imaging, and single-molecule spectroscopy.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:09:14 -0500 2017-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall CM-AMO Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
From Frederick Douglass to Leo Tolstoy: Race and the Thought Pictures of the Caucasus (March 7, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36481 36481-5620077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In her forthcoming book Black Sea, Black Atlantic: Frederick Douglass, the Circassian Beauties, and American Racial Formation in the Wake of the Civil War (Harvard University Press), Sarah Lewis explores the Caucasus mountain range in Russia and how the emerging technology of photography was used to develop myths of Caucasian racial identity (and by extension racial purity) in the nineteenth century. The project works at a unique intersection of African American Studies, Art History, and Slavic Studies to explore the enduring power of these Black Sea-related photographs of Circassia. These “thought pictures” about race as Frederick Douglass might have called them underscore the tenuousness, a nervousness even at the heart of the racial project throughout the twentieth century.

Sarah Lewis received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, an M. Phil from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from Yale University. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London. She has served on President Obama’s Arts Policy Committee and currently serves on the advisory council of the International Review of African-American Art and the board of the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts, Creative Time, and The CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Master, a widely acclaimed exploration of human creative experience.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please email slavic@umich.edu or call 734-764-5355 by 3/1/2017. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:52:42 -0500 2017-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Sarah Lewis lecture infographic
Food Literacy for All: Linda Jo Doctor (March 7, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39309 39309-7944130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All (NRE.639.038 and ENVIRON305.003) will be structured as an evening lecture series, featuring different guest speakers each week to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both domestic and global food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:40:32 -0500 2017-03-07T18:30:00-05:00 2017-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion poster
25th Wallenberg Lecture: Bryan Stevenson (March 7, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37513 37513-6610215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallenberg Lecture

Stevenson is a fierce advocate for social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. As a civil rights lawyer, he litigates on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. He, like Raoul Wallenberg, show that one person can make a difference.

Join us for his Wallenberg Lecture.
March 7, 2017
7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Wallenberg.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:08:54 -0500 2017-03-07T19:30:00-05:00 2017-03-07T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallenberg Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bryan Stevenson
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Bootstrapping Gross-Neveu Models (March 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38478 38478-7191717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of fermions in parity-preserving 3D CFTs, where fermions transforms as a vector under an O(N) global symmetry. We compute bounds on scaling dimensions and central charges, finding features in our bounds that appear to coincide with the O(N) symmetric Gross-Neveu-Yukawa fixed points. Our computations are in perfect agreement with the 1/N expansion at large N and allow us to make nontrivial predictions at small N.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:51:04 -0500 2017-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Physics
Spectacular, Spectacular: Large-Scale Performance in Contemporary China (March 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38973 38973-7532142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

From massive song-and-dance epics celebrating national holidays to the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, contemporary Chinese culture has become known for large-scale performances and their spectacular displays of high-tech special effects. For the Opening Ceremony, for instance, dazzling graphics flashed across an enormous LED scroll and aerospace control systems were employed to monitor thousands upon thousands of performers. Likewise, numerous site-specific “real-scenery performances” (shijing yanchu 實景演出) at tourist destinations like West Lake in Hangzhou and Wutai Mountain in Shanxi project swirling patterns and candy-colored lights onto the environments in which they are situated. These theatrical productions become performances of technology, setting digital effects and computerized equipment on par with human actors and complicating concepts of live performance, natural landscape, and national culture.

The role of mechanical and digital technologies in live theater has been extensively discussed and theorized in relation to Euro-American theater. Yet, few scholars to date have considered the unique politics, economics, and aesthetics of parallel trends in East Asia. Tracing the rise to prominence of such phenomena in the PRC, this presentation will demonstrate that showcasing Chinese innovation has become a central concern of state-sponsored and commercial theatrical productions over the last fifteen years. In successfully doing so, large-scale performance has also established an aesthetic of technological excess as one of the key artistic modes of contemporary Chinese theater—one that dominates China’s main stages and incites critical responses from more avant-garde corners of the performing arts world.

Tarryn Li-Min Chun is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2016. She also holds an M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard and an B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Her research focuses on theater and performance in 20th-21st century China and Taiwan, and he current book project, “Staging Revolution and Resistance: Theater, Technology, and Media in Modern China,” explores the relationship between technological modernization and artistic innovation in Chinese theater and performance from the 1930s to the present.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:32:06 -0500 2017-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Tarryn Photo
Department Colloquium | Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From Clocks to Computers (March 8, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38472 38472-7191710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the heart of modern quantum science and necessary for technological advances. However, the complexity of their interactions generally prevents us from coming up with an exact mathematical description of their behavior. Precisely engineered ultracold gases are emerging as a powerful tool for unraveling these challenging physical problems. In this talk, I will present recent developments at JILA on using alkaline-earth atoms (AEAs) --currently the basis of the most precise atomic clock in the world-- for the investigation of complex many-body phenomena and magnetism. I will discuss ideas to use AEAs to engineer synthetic materials with no yet known counterpart in nature. I will also discuss how to use laser fields to make neutral AEAs behave as charged electrons in ultra-strong magnetic fields.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:12:30 -0500 2017-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar Physics
Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Lecture in Islamic Studies (March 8, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37377 37377-6508707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Patriarchs and prophets are mentioned in the Qur’an and appear in all Islamic literary genres and literature from early Islam to contemporary Muslim societies. Continuity and change, exegetical concerns and narratives stances appear throughout the ages in relation to this literature on the prophets, reflecting the changing concerns of Muslim societies and cultures. At the beginning the Qur’anic lives and stories from Adam to Jesus are given as an example for Muhammad and the believers and constitute the main reference to the past history of humankind. In Medieval ages further stories and narratives were produced. These stories were collected in a specific literary genre (Qisas al-anbiya’) and spread in the Muslim world through elaborations and versions in Persian, Turkish and all the other languages. Following a continuous activity of transmission, collection and innovation, the traditions and stories about the prophets of Islam crossed late Medieval and modern times and came to contemporary literary re-workings. But new theological approaches and a substantial rejection of some of the Medieval traditions labeled as isra’iliyyat mark this new literature on the prophets.


Roberto Tottoli (PhD 1996 Naples - Orientale) is Professor of Islamic studies at the University of Naples L'Orientale and during the year Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has published studies on the Biblical tradition in the Qur’an and Islam (Biblical prophets in the Qur’an and Muslim literature, Richmond, 2002; The stories of the prophets of Ibn Mutarrif al-Tarafi, Berlin, 2003) and the medieval Islamic literature. His most recent publications include Ludovico Marracci at work: The Evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts (co-authored with Reinhold F. Glei), Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2016; and Books and Written Culture of Islamic World. Studies Presented to Claude Gilliot on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday (edited with Andrew Rippin), Leiden – Boston, 2015.

The Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Lecure in Islamic Studies is made possible by the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh endowment.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:16:18 -0500 2017-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 2017-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Sheikh Poster
CM Theory Seminars | Hunds Interaction, Spin-Orbit Coupling and the Mechanism of Superconductivity in Heavily Hole-Doped Iron Pnictides (March 9, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37140 37140-6173170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 2:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminars

Argument will be made for a novel unconventional mechanism for s-wave (A1g) Cooper pairing in heavily hole doped iron pnictides. This mechanism avoids large on-site intra-orbital repulsion, and is favored when the renormalized Hunds interaction exceeds the renormalized onsite inter-orbital Couplomb repulsion. In the absence of spin-orbit interaction, the Cooper pairing has A2g spin triplet character, but with spin-orbit included, the gap transforms as A1g. This is not just a change in bookkeeping. Rather, it results in a qualitative difference in the nature of the pairing instability, and in the temperature dependence of the Knight shift. The resulting gap has most of the features of the structure and gap anisotropy observed in laser angle resolved photoemission, including thepossibility of accidental nodes. It explains why, when such nodes are observed, they appear only on the outer (Eg) Fermi surface, as well as why the overall gap magnitude is smaller there than on the inner (Eg) Fermi surface.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:45:17 -0500 2017-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 West Hall Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Ghostly Labor in the Levantine Prism of Jacqueline Kahanoff (March 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39497 39497-8093890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

Living in colonial Egypt, Jacqueline Kahanoff had a unique experience shared by the members of her class and generation. Kahanoff was a Jewish Francophone and Anglophone writer from Egypt born to Tunisian grandparents who owned a famous department store. Taking the store as a model for citizenship, she suggests an alternative notion of Mediterranean culture and Egyptian identity, which sought to decentralize European hegemony, a notion which she later dubs “Levantinism.” Amr Kamal analyzes her 1951 novel, Jacob’s Ladder, to examine the process through which Levantine culture developed amid several competing imperial and nationalist projects. In particular, he shows how the novel’s depiction of Levantine spaces documents the marginalized role of the working class in the education of elite Levantine society and its acquisition of cultural capital. His analysis also explores how the construction and sustenance of a celebrated image of the Levantine past depended on the racialization of labor, or what he calls “ethnic classism.” Through this latter process, a labor force made up of other Levantines was Orientalized and relegated to the background where it served to highlight a European-like Levantine cosmopolitanism.

Amr Kamal is Assistant Professor of French, Arabic, and Comparative Literature, at The City College of New York, CUNY. In 2013, he received his PhD in Comparative Literature, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently working on his book, Empires and Emporia: Fictions of the Department Store in the Modern Mediterranean.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:34:49 -0400 2017-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Mary A. Rackham Institute Lecture / Discussion Amr Kamal poster
Sensing Place: Habit Change in the Connected Present (March 9, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39241 39241-7866651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Digital Studies

Professor Heidi Rae Cooley (University of South Carolina) writes about the inter-relations among technology, sociality, and living bodies. Her talk will expand on these issues and include a demo of the most recent version of Ward One App, a mobile app for iPhone that presents the unacknowledged history of urban renewal that made possible the expansion of the University of South Carolina at the expense of a predominately African American community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:33:15 -0500 2017-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Digital Studies Lecture / Discussion Heidi
Art+Science Preview Lecture/Reception (March 9, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38658 38658-7326429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek at the ongoing dialogue between noted contemporary artist Scott Hocking and Charles Burant, MD, PhD, Taubman Institute Scholar and leading expert in obesity and metabolic disorders.

The duo have been paired as part of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute’s 4th Annual Evening of Art+Science project, which encourages visits and conversations between talented geniuses in the studio and the laboratory. Inspired by the scientists, the artists produce works that are auctioned at an April 20 gala at MOCAD, with proceeds funding more cutting-edge medical research at U-M.

On March 9, Hocking and Burant will share insights gleaned through their collaboration and share updates about their work.

Light refreshments will be served.

All welcome, no registration required. Free. For more information, visit www.TaubmanArtAndScience.org

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Reception / Open House Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:05:13 -0500 2017-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Reception / Open House Art and Science logo
Free International Business Panel and Webinar (March 9, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39283 39283-7911605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Alumni Center
Organized By: Alumni Association

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:52:46 -0500 2017-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Alumni Center Alumni Association Lecture / Discussion REGISTER TO CONNECT WITH INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI IN BUSINESS
Detroiters Speak: The Crisis in Public Education in Detroit Since the 1990s (March 9, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38404 38404-7165985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

Speaker Bios:

HELEN MOORE

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

BERNA RAVITZ

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

RUSS BELLANT

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:26:41 -0500 2017-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 2017-03-09T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
"Mental Health in the Age of Trump" (March 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38634 38634-7320004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Keynote titled ‘Mental Health in the Age of Trump’ by Prof. Mimi Khúc & Community Convening for Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:05:22 -0500 2017-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion North Quad
HET Seminar | Hawking Radiation in a Condensate of Rubidium Atoms (March 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38484 38484-7191723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

A sonic analogy for Hawking radiation was introduced nearly 40 years ago, motivated in part by the “trans-Planckian puzzle”. This has shed light on the puzzle (which, however, remains enigmatic), and it suggested that analog Hawking radiation could one day be observed in a laboratory. That day has come. In two recent papers, observations of Hawking radiation in rubidium condensates have been reported. The first attributed the observed features to the "black hole laser" effect, while the second reported measurements of the quantum entanglement of Hawking phonons with their partners. I'll explain this circle of ideas, describe the experiments, and report on theoretical analyses showing that, in fact, the laser effect was most likely not behind the observations, and that more work is needed to determine whether the measurements actually demonstrated entanglement.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:53:34 -0500 2017-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country (March 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31314 31314-4189937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

This series of four lectures presents different parts of a book-length analysis of the politics, history and culture of the West African territory that came to be known as the Republic of Guinea. The book grew out of the question many Guineans and West African neighbors of Guinea have asked about why all six of Guinea's neighbors have experienced civil conflict while Guinea has not. This, despite the fact that many people feel that Guinea had more reasons than its neighbors why it "should have" experienced war or separatist insurgency. Guinea's 26-year experience of socialist rule may provide part of the answer. While the socialist government was intrusive and highly coercive, it also forged a sense of national identity and unity qualitatively different from anything existing in neighboring non-socialist countries. The study thus attempts to unravel the paradox of a peace that issues from a state's violence against its own citizens; a socialist habitus that provides the antidote to political schisms the state itself exacerbated.

3. Nuvanuita: Ethnic Cleansing Planned Then Averted

Revisiting the problem of socialist peace through ethnographic argumentation, this lecture focuses on one instance where war intruded into Guinea from across the Liberian border. In this case, actors in the area where I conduct fieldwork had the opportunity to act on longstanding resentments and even plans for ethnic cleansing, but decided not to do so. I analyze the ways that forms of socialist solidarity were revived and invoked during this dangerous period, and the dynamics that played out across the country. This context shows that the ethnographic example presented here was representative of national dynamics, and that they were different in kind from the national modes of understanding and dealing with the emergence of civil war in neighboring countries.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:09:40 -0500 2017-03-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
RC Talks: "Early Female Gamelan Buskers: Social Persona and Musical Style" (March 10, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38453 38453-7191690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

For centuries, professional female entertainers, taledhek, have been Java’s premier buskers, singing and dancing in the streets, in erotic dance parties and fertility rites accompanied by the gamelan. By presenting short life histories of a few of these women, Dr. Walton shows how their musical style and persona eschew middle class Javanese gender norms. Drawing on recordings from the 1920s and 1930s, ethnographic fieldwork with aging male gamelan musicians and taledhek, and information from literary sources, Dr. Walton will analyze the musical characteristics of the early taledhek’s style and how those musical elements shifted when some taledhek started to perform in the courts in the early 20th century.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:08:02 -0500 2017-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2017-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Djumira Taledhek
Smith Lecture: Observing the Generation, Propagation and Dissipation of Internal Waves in the Ocean (March 10, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33857 33857-4813759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Recent work has shown that turbulence in the ocean due to breaking internal gravity is one of the largest uncertainties in climate models. Knowledge of the horizontal and vertical distribution of the turbulence is crucial, which is challenging because internal waves can travel far from their sources and can break via a variety of mechanisms. In this talk I will first introduce internal waves for non-specialists, then walk through an example in the South China Sea where waves can be tracked from their source to their breaking locations, and a rough energy budget determined. Then I’ll discuss recent progress in tracking internal wave energy from generation to cross-basin propagation to dissipation on the globe, focusing on recent efforts to constrain 1) q, the fraction of locally dissipated energy and 2) the reflection coefficient which determines the partition of energy breaking over continental margins versus in the deep basins. A key thread of these analyses is the constant interplay between observations and high-resolution models.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:23:23 -0500 2017-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2017-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Quantitative Biology Seminar | The Impact of Collecting Data at Varying Temporal Resolution on Parameter Inference for Biological Transport Models (March 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39615 39615-8210441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Quantitative Biology Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:24:47 -0400 2017-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Quantitative Biology Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
HEP-Astro Seminar | Nucleosynthesis and Neutrinos Near Newly Formed Compact Objects (March 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37482 37482-6603844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

The origin of the r-process elements remains the biggest unsolved question in our understanding of chemical evolution in the Milky Way. The most likely astrophysical sites for the formation of these nuclei involve dynamical events in the lives of neutron stars: the inner most regions of massive stars during core collapse supernovae and the merger of a neutron star and another compact object. In both of these environments, nuclear physics plays a paramount role in determining both the evolution of the dense object itself, the properties of neutrinos that are emitted, and what nuclei are synthesized in material that is ejected from the system. In this talk, I will discuss neutrino emission and nucleosynthesis in core collapse supernovae and in neutron star mergers, and some of the theoretical uncertainties that exist in these scenarios.. Astrophysical observables that may give us a direct window into the formation of the r-process elements and the properties of dense matter will also be examined.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:40:04 -0500 2017-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
AIA Lecture | Big Amphoras, Little Loom Weights: Archaeological Approaches to Economic Change (March 13, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39279 39279-7898767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholars have long debated the degree of economic growth and development in the Graeco-Roman world. Much of the debate in recent years has focused on counting things (e.g., oil presses in north Africa) or measuring things (e.g., tonnages of shipwrecks). But economic change is not just about doing more; it is also about behaving differently.

Studying changes in behavior can still involve counting and measuring, but it also involves close study of the artifacts themselves. Agriculture was a major component of ancient economies, and the artifact most closely associated with agricultural production and trade was the plain clay transport amphora. From the Archaic through Hellenistic periods (roughly the 7th through 1st centuries BC), some of these jars became much more precisely standardized, some were carefully marked with their date of manufacture. Some types were closely identifiable with particular cities, others were only generically associated with broad regions. Such characteristics of these jars would have influenced how merchants and consumers behaved.

Ancient economies also depended on household production, of which the product most often mentioned is cloth. Greek vase painting and poetry is replete with images of women at the loom. This aspect of ancient economic life, however, has played little role in studies of ancient economic development. And yet, as with amphoras, we can see indications of changing behavior from a close study of loom weights, the small plain clay weights used to maintain tension on the threads of a Greek loom.

Archaeological Institute of America Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology.
This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:24:56 -0500 2017-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion AIA lecture
CM-AMO Seminar | Erbium Doped Materials for Optical Quantum Memories (March 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38360 38360-7140404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: CM-AMO Seminars

Rare-earth doped solids are known for their luminescence properties. Among them erbium takes a special place because the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier has revolutionized the telecommunications by giving access to long distance communication. The transposition of this scheme to quantum cryptography is appealing. The core element of the so-called quantum repeater is an optical memory [1] for which direct operation at 1.5mm is desirable. We use an erbium doped crystal in the C-band of telecom. I’ll essentially focus on the material properties: how they impact the memory performances and how they can be controlled in this prospect.

I’ll first introduce the general properties of rare-earth ions inserted in optical crystals. The goal of theses opening remarks is essentially pedagogical. To pay honour to whom honour is due, I’ll give also points of comparison with other atomic systems as atomic vapours (hot or cold), trapped ions or coloured centres in diamond.

I’ll briefly review the recent work that we did on an erbium doped yttrium orthosilicate sample (Er3+:Y2SiO5) by applying an original protocol named Revival of Silenced Echo (ROSE) [2]. These later is quite efficient in Er3+:Y2SiO5 [2] as compared to other protocols. I’ll finally show that these performances are limited by the erbium-erbium electron spin interaction [3].

Although we work on the optical transition, the spin properties are absolutely critical for the coherence time governing the memory storage time. As an illustration, I’ll present a recent study of an Er3+:Y2SiO5 crystal in which we added a controlled level of disorder with scandium as co-dopant [4]. This perturbation can surprisingly increase the coherence time at low magnetic field. This counter intuitive result is due to the reduction of Er-Er spin flip-flop rate because the disorder effectively slows down the flip-flop mechanism by making the magnetic interaction non resonant.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 09:56:04 -0500 2017-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall CM-AMO Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Book Panel: Feminist Object / Object Oriented Feminism (March 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39353 39353-8001512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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

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



 

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:21:11 -0500 2017-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion Green and blue background with text reading: "CASC Talks - Opening Minds and Borders: Perspectives on Islamophobia and Refugee Assistance" with additional description of the date and time of event, along with the CASC and Near Eastern Studies Logo.
Department Colloquium | Neutrinos from Nuclear Reactors: Searches and Surprises (March 15, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38473 38473-7191711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Nuclear reactors are very bright sources of neutrinos. The radioactive fission products are neutron rich, and beta decay back to the valley of stability while emitting (electron anti-)neutrinos along the way. This was how the neutrino was discovered, and how we verified that neutrino oscillations explained the Solar Neutrino Problem. More recently, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment discovered a new mode of neutrino oscillation, and the PROSPECT experiment is being planned to search for “sterile” neutrinos.

This talk will first review the basics of neutrinos, their detection, neutrino oscillations, and nuclear reactors as neutrino sources. We’ll then take a tour of recent results and next steps, including some surprises in what we’ve learned about the reactor neutrino source itself.

Bio: Jim Napolitano is Professor of Physics and Department Chair at Temple University, arriving in January 2014 after 20 years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His field is experimental nuclear and particle physics with an emphasis on fundamental problems in physics and astrophysics. An enthusiastic educator, he has developed several courses and has authored or co-authored revisions of three physics textbooks.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:57:03 -0500 2017-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar Physics
Soundings: A Cartographic Celebration of Marie Tharp (March 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38824 38824-7429147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:39:30 -0400 2017-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion event poster
Young & Elected (March 16, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39459 39459-8069324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Join us for an exciting evening with State Representatives Darrin Camilleri, Abdullah Hammoud and Jewell Jones, Ypsilanti Mayor Pro-Tem Nicole Brown and Michigan GOP Co-Chair Amanda Van Essen Wirth.

Panelists will be asked to share their journeys to public office and the issues their communities are grappling with. Audience members will be invited to ask questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:53:04 -0500 2017-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Ginsberg Center Lecture / Discussion Young and Elected Image
27th David W. Belin Lecture: "The Shrinking Jewish Middle, and Its Implications for Jewish Communal Policy" (March 16, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35661 35661-5291728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Professor Cohen will argue that the number of middle-aged non-Orthodox Jews who are engaged in Jewish life is poised to drop sharply in the next 20-40 years. And, absent significant policy changes, their numbers will continue to drop for years to come.

He will argue that low rates of marriage and births, along with high rates of intermarriage among American Jews are generating a shrinkage of what may be termed the “Jewish Middle.” The "Jewish Middle" encompasses Jews located in the central region of the Jewish identity spectrum, approximately those identifying as Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist.

Effective policies need to achieve the following outcomes:
* Bring down the average age at marriage.
* Increase the rate of inmarriage.
* Raise the fertility rate of non-Orthodox Jews.
* Encourage more non-Jewish spouses of Jews to see themselves as Jews.


Steven M. Cohen is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR, and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University. In 1992 he made aliyah, and taught at The Hebrew University, having previously taught at Queens College, Yale, and JTS.

Among his books are The Jew Within (with Arnold Eisen), Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experience (with Charles Liebman), and Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary (with Isa Aron, Lawrence Hoffman and Ari Kelman, Isa Aron, Lawrence A. Hoffman. He was the lead researcher on the Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011, and consultant to the Pew studies of American Jews and Israeli society.

Prof. Cohen received an honorary doctorate from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, the Marshall Sklare Award, and a National Jewish Book Award. He serves as president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:01:06 -0500 2017-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Steven Cohen
Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | From Orphan to Citizen: The Debate over Education at the City of Orphans. Alexandropol/Leninakan, 1919-1929 (March 16, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36437 36437-5613614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

As Russian Armenia became host to thousands of orphans who crossed the border from Western Armenia, the Near East Relief (NER) offered to take on the responsibility for their needs, and by 1921, soon after Armenia had been Sovietized, it had collected most of the children in Alexandropol. There, 20,000 to 25,000 children resided in former Russian barracks that had once housed the Tsar’s Cossack, Dragoon and Artillery Regiments.

The City of Orphans, as the barracks were known in the West, was dubbed The Largest Orphanage in the World, whose orphan population constituted more than 50% of the total number of Armenian orphans NER cared for in the region. In sheer numbers, they represented a significant percentage of the future citizens of Soviet Armenia, which they were to rebuild once they left the orphanage, armed with the education and skills learned under NER’s tutelage.

Yet while NER and Soviet authorities extended courtesies to each other, especially in the first half of the 1920s, they disagreed increasingly and more sharply after Lenin’s death on the type of citizen that should emerge from the doors of the City of Orphans and on the agency that would control their rite of passage from orphan to citizen. Would, or could, NER educate them as the bearers of an Armenian legacy redefined through Bolshevism, proudly marching toward a socialist state, or, were they to be educated as the loyal harbingers of American values capable of leading Armenia toward a progressive American way of life?

Nora Nercessian is Retired Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University; Assistant Dean and Associate Dean of Administration, Harvard Medical School; Advisor to the Board, The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF). She is the author of Worthy of the Honor (1995) and Against All Odds (2004)

See the lecture website here: http://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/haidostian-annual-lectures/2017-haidostian-annual-distinguished-lecture.html

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:41:25 -0500 2017-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo credit: Rockefeller Archive Center, The Near East Foundation Collection, Photos, Box 138
MAS Lecture | "Let It Be Well Done:" A Curduroy Remnant of Hull's Trace in Brownstown, Michigan (March 16, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36734 36734-5794264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Michigan Archaeological Society invites you to a free lecture at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Hull's Trace: In the desperate summer of 1812, General William Hull, at the head of over two thousand troops, blazed a 200-mile supply road from Urbana, Ohio to Detroit, Michigan. The route, known as “Hull’s Trace,” crossed the Huron River near the Wyandot village of Brownstown.

While much of the route is still in use, time and human progress have all but eradicated the “traces of the Trace.” Daniel Harrison, a historical archaeologist, tells the story of the only known surviving remnant of the original roadway. As an archaeological site, it sheds historical light on this little-known but crucial episode in the struggle for control of the Old Northwest.

To learn more about the Michigan Archaeological Society, visit: http://www.miarch.org/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:54:06 -0500 2017-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion MAS lecture
Life After Grad School Seminar | How to take Money Away from Goldman Sachs FX Trading Against Their Will (March 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39617 39617-8210442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life After Grad School Seminars

What do physics skills have to do with this?

Watch the video.
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1217166/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:09:50 -0400 2017-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Life After Grad School Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
On Dwelling in the Linguacene: Monolingualism, Optimization, and the Deportation of Meanging (March 17, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38156 38156-6967884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Part of the German Studies Colloquium Series.

Free and open to the public - visit our website at www.lsa.umich.edu/german/events for updates and details.

For further information, also contact Julia Hell at hell@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:15:26 -0500 2017-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
HET Seminar | Heavy Flavor Baryon Oscillations and Baryogenesis (March 17, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38485 38485-7191725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

I discuss CP violating oscillations of neutral baryons into anti-baryons, and propose an experimentally allowed and conceivably testable scenario where some heavy flavored baryons oscillate at rates which are within a few orders of magnitude of their lifetimes, while the flavor structure of the baryon violation suppresses neutron oscillations and baryon violating nuclear decays. I describe a scenario for producing such baryons in the early universe via the out of equilibrium decays of a neutral particle, after the hadronization temperature but before nucleosynthesis, and the prospects for baryogenesis.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 10:01:04 -0500 2017-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Dorr Lecture: Erosion Rates and Climate from the Cosmogenic Nuclide Perspective (March 17, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33859 33859-4813761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The importance of climate in regulating erosion and weathering rates remains surprisingly controversial.  While there is little doubt that extreme climates matter--erosion is slow in hyperarid deserts and rapid in glaciated terrain--the variability of erosion in more temperate climate regimes remains difficult to constrain.  Over the past 15 years cosmogenic nuclides have been used to measure erosion rates in a variety of settings around the globe, leading to the broad conclusion that climate is far less important than previously assumed.  More recently, however, time series of paleo-erosion rates measured with cosmogenic nuclides have shown significant changes in erosion rate across glacial-interglacial transitions at mid-latitudes.  These newer studies point to changes in physical erosion processes that enhance erosion in cold climates beyond the ice margin.  I will present a synthesis of paleo-erosion rates measured at sites from a variety of climate regimes, showing that climatic effects are important at mid-latitudes but subtle in other parts of the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:41:26 -0500 2017-03-17T15:30:00-04:00 2017-03-17T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Movement in the Margins: Mapping Relations in Radical Publishing in Latin America (March 17, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37750 37750-6687057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: International Institute

Talk by Magalí Rabasa.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:36:35 -0400 2017-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building International Institute Lecture / Discussion Mural La Paz
Saturday Morning Physics | Isotopic Fingerprinting of Toxic Metals (March 18, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37114 37114-6153932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Humans are exposed to toxic metals from many sources and following many exposure pathways. In this talk, Dr. Blum will explain how small variations in the isotopic composition of lead and mercury can be used to unravel the mysteries of how people become exposed to these metals.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:08:35 -0500 2017-03-18T10:30:00-04:00 2017-03-18T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Physics
Gender in Information Careers: Getting your worth in the tech industry (March 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39700 39700-8241191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

A key focus of the presentation and moderated questions will focus on negotiating worth in the workplace—with a special focus on gender and diversity. While the series focuses on career paths and success strategies for women, this event is open to all.

Speaker bio:
Linglong He is the chief information officer of Quicken Loans Inc. With more than 20 years of experience within technology, she is responsible for the overall vision and leadership for technology initiatives across the organization. Since joining the company in 1996, Linglong has served in several roles in technology and leadership, including director of database and systems engineering, software engineer, DBA and as a UNIX system administrator, etc.

Linglong is the chair for the “Experience IT” program, which was founded alongside other Detroit technology leaders in 2012. The program aims to provide continued education, work experience and job opportunities for IT professionals and college students as they advance their technology careers. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors for APACC (Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce) and MISMO (Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization). She has a strong passion for developing leaders and is actively involved with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT) and the We Build Character organizations.

Sponsored by the UMSI Career Development Office and the UMSI Diversity Committee.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:14:18 -0400 2017-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Linglong He
Cool Town: Athens, Georgia and the Promise of Alternative Culture in Reagan's America (March 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39761 39761-8290324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:20:17 -0400 2017-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Cool Town
HEP-Astro Seminar | Shining Light on the Hidden Pathways of Galaxy Transformation (March 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37483 37483-6603845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

The morphological and color bimodalities displayed by modern-day galaxies suggest that a galaxy must have rapidly transformed from one class to the other. In the modern universe, this transition is one-way, which makes it essential to gain a census of initial conditions capable of catalyzing this metamorphosis. Classical searches that capture transitioning galaxies via signatures of intermediate-aged stars and lack of nebular ionized gas emission exclude the very gas physics that are often fundamental to understanding the galaxy’s transition. I will present the Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey (SPOGS), a novel method for finding previously-missed transitioning galaxies using their ionized gas line ratios. I will discuss early results suggesting my SPOGS criterion pinpoints objects at an earlier phase of transformation, when more signs of transition triggers still exist. Our exquisite case study, NGC1266, demonstrates the success of this method. These new observations shed light on the fundamental role gas plays in the ultimate quenching and transformation of a galaxy.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:25:41 -0400 2017-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Penny Stamps Speaker Series presents: (March 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39127 39127-7712183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling’s work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling had exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; the Stenersen Museet, Oslo, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal. She also received a 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.

A Penny Stamps Speaker Series presentation in partnership with the Institute for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:57:41 -0500 2017-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Helmut Stern Auditorium
Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Michael Murphy (March 20, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39713 39713-8259571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Michael Murphy is the executive director and co-founder of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collaborative with offices in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda. As a designer, writer, and teacher his work investigates the social and political consequences of the built world. Murphy focuses on how environments shape behavior, and his research and writing advocate for a new empowerment in architecture that calls on architects to consider the ethical nature of their design decisions while simultaneously searching for beauty and meaning. 
Murphy has taught at Columbia's Graduate school of Preservation and Planning, Wentworth Institute of Technology, The Boston Architectural College, and the Harvard Graduate school of Design. His theoretical and historical essays on architecture have been widely published and MASS's work has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Wired, Mark Magazine, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Detail, and many others. MASS was the recipient of the Zumbtobel Group Prize, shortlisted for the Aga Khan award for Architecture, and a finalist for the TED Prize and the Buckminster Fuller Prize.  Murphy recently gave a TED talk at the 2016 Annual TED Conference. 
Michael is from Poughkeepsie, NY and earned a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Chicago.
The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:18:23 -0400 2017-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Michael Murphy
REBUILD Seminar | Exploring Student Reasoning to Support Better Teaching (March 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38313 38313-7070217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: REBUILD Seminars

Register here for this Brown Bag Seminar: http://crlt.umich.edu/node/94759

The focal point of Dr. Talanquer’s work is the study, reflection, and improvement of chemistry education and science teacher preparation. His research characterizes the conceptual frameworks and patterns of reasoning used by chemistry students to answer questions and solve problems that require qualitative reasoning (e.g., classification, prediction, inference, comparison). He is exploring how students' ideas and reasoning strategies evolve as they develop more expertise in the discipline (trajectories of expertise). These studies are of central importance not only to design learning progressions that foster meaningful learning but also to improve the preparation of future chemistry teachers through the development of their assessment thinking (to learn more see The University of Arizona Chemistry and Biochemistry Department).

REBUILD and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching are talking to administrators, faculty, staff and students across the University about foundational courses. Our goal is to generate a shared vision and agenda for a program of collaborative course design to advance teaching and learning in foundational courses at the University of Michigan.

The Foundational Course Initiative Seminar Series features high-profile speakers who have extensive experience leading the transformation of foundational courses to incorporate innovative technologies, research-based pedagogies, systematic assessment strategies, and novel approaches to supporting the success of diverse students at scale.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:59:55 -0500 2017-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall REBUILD Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
CM-AMO Seminar | Meta and Useful: Dynamic Kirigami Solar Cells and Vapor Printed Nanolobes (March 21, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38362 38362-7140405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: CM-AMO Seminars

Abstract: Part I – A simple 2-dimensional cut pattern undergoes a surprisingly intricate transformation into a 3-dimensional shape upon stretching. The resulting mechanical metamaterial has several interesting properties and applications, with further modifications enabling conformal electronics and transformative improvements in the economics of solar energy harvesting. Part II – A simple thin-film printing technique is used to generate 2-dimensional patterns micrometers across that also contain complex nano-crystalline structures within the patterned deposits. These nanocrystalline structures exhibit interesting dissolution behavior that unlocks new frontiers for pharmaceutical discovery, formulation, and production. In each case, the nominally 2-dimensional patterning technologies are used to generate structure that circumvents long-standing technological and application trade-offs – an approach applicable to other areas of innovation.

References:
1. Dynamic kirigami structures for integrated solar tracking. Nature Comm. 6, 8092 (2015)
2. Growth and modelling of spherical crystalline morphologies of molecular materials. Nature Comm. 5, 5204 (2014)

Bio: Prof. Shtein earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley (1998) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, while co-advised by Prof. Benziger in ChE and Prof. Forrest in EE at Princeton (Summer 2004), where he developed key aspects of Organic Vapor Phase Deposition and invented Organic Vapor Jet Printing. He joined the Materials Science and Engineering de-partment at the Univ. of Michigan in Fall 2004, where he now serves as Associate Professor, with appointments in Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics, Macromolecular Science and En-gineering, Art & Design, and as faculty co-director for the Undergraduate Program in Entre-preneurship in the College of Engineering. His work has been recognized through several awards: the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the MSE Department Achievement Award, College of Engineering-wide Vulcans Prize for Excellence in Education, the Newport Award for Excellence and Leadership in Photonics and Optoelectronics, the Materials Research Society (MRS) graduate student Gold Medal Award, and others. He co-founded Arborlight, LLC (www.arborlight.com – a multiple award-winning lighting technology company), and co-authored the book Scalable Innovation: A Guide for Inventors, Entrepre-neurs, and IP Professionals. (Taylor & Francis, ISBN-10: 1466590971)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:10:17 -0400 2017-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall CM-AMO Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Art for Sale? Public Trust, Public Debt: The Detroit Institute of Arts and the City of Detroit Bankruptcy (March 21, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38936 38936-7500042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Graham Beal, Director Emeritus of the Detroit Institute of Arts, will dispel misunderstandings regarding the City of Detroit’s bankruptcy and the DIA’s art collection.

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Presentation Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:43:22 -0500 2017-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-21T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Graham Beal at Detroit Institute of Arts
2017 David Noel Freedman Lecture (March 21, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/30853 30853-3843090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The lecture deals with the political theology of the 1 Book of Maccabees. The book, composed in the middle of the second century BCE, reflects a unique and revolutionary stream of thought in ancient Judaism that would have an impact on later generations. Namely, God in the biblical books of Joshua 2 Kings is presented as reluctant to appoint a king (1 Samuel 8) and later when kings become active in the history of Israel, He blatantly intervenes in their rule one by one and most of the time. In contradistinction, the Maccabean family created a dynasty and ruled with hardly any intervention of God who remains passive throughout their rule. This was made possible since they perceived their regime as being a 'time of exception', mentioned in the 1 Book of Maccabees by the expression "until a true prophet should arise". Their liberation from a "competitive" God, a higher interventative authority, may be interpreted as a major achievements during their fight for freedom from Seleucid rule. The lecture will also deal with a significant streak of criticism on behalf of the author towards the too independent decision making procedures of the first Hasmoneans.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:38:55 -0500 2017-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Freedman Poster
Professional Autobiography (March 21, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38243 38243-7019072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: HSSP

Co-founder, ChillPill

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:52 -0500 2017-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion event poster
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy (March 22, 2017 9:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39676 39676-8235033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:20am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: U-M Department of Family Medicine

Dr. page joins the Department of Family Medicine for this talk during their Grand Rounds.

All are welcome to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:50:30 -0400 2017-03-22T09:20:00-04:00 2017-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals U-M Department of Family Medicine Lecture / Discussion Scott E. Page Headshot
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Linearized Gravity as a Gauge-Invariant Wave Equation on Kinematic Space (March 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38479 38479-7191718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Kinematic space was originally defined in AdS3 as the space of geodesics. In this talk, I will generalize the concept of kinematic space to higher dimensions. Fields can be defined on this kinematic space, and these fields can be identified with "OPE blocks," contributions to the OPE from a single conformal family. In holographic theories, the OPE blocks are dual at leading order in 1/N to integrals of effective bulk fields along geodesics or homogeneous minimal surfaces in anti-de Sitter space. Thus, these operators pave the way for generalizing the Ryu-Takayanagi relation to other bulk fields. The dynamics of bulk fields are related to the dynamics of kinematic space fields via the intertwining property of integral transformations. In particular, the linearized gravitational equations are shown to be equivalent to a gauge-invariant wave equation on kinematic space.

References:
1) Equivalent Equations of Motion for Gravity and Entropy.
By Bartlomiej Czech, Lampros Lamprou, Samuel McCandlish, Benjamin Mosk, James Sully.
[arXiv:1608.06282 [hep-th]].
10.1007/JHEP02(2017)004.
JHEP 1702 (2017) 004.

2) Holographic equivalence between the first law of entanglement entropy and the linearized gravitational equations.
By Benjamin Mosk.
[arXiv:1608.06292 [hep-th]].
10.1103/PhysRevD.94.126001.
Phys.Rev. D94 (2016) no.12, 126001.

3) A Stereoscopic Look into the Bulk.
By Bartlomiej Czech, Lampros Lamprou, Samuel McCandlish, Benjamin Mosk, James Sully.
[arXiv:1604.03110 [hep-th]].
10.1007/JHEP07(2016)129.
JHEP 1607 (2016) 129.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:32:51 -0400 2017-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Physics
Ties of Milk: Negotiating Maternity in the Narrative Cycle of the French Seven Sages of Rome (March 22, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37751 37751-6687058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Talk by Yasmina Foehr-Janssens.

Image courtesy of Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:35:08 -0400 2017-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Ms. Paris BnF Français 22550, fol. 50. Roman de Kanor. The lion brings Cassidorus’ children to Dieudonné
Visualizing the Occult: Spirit Photography in the Philippines and the World (March 22, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38842 38842-7429374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us for a fascinating exploration of spiritism and spirit photographs. U-M Professor Deirdre de la Cruz speaks about her research regarding early twentieth-century spirit photographs in the Philippines and elsewhere, and her use of Clark Library resources.

Dr. de la Cruz will explore the tension between Spiritism as a philosophy and practice that traveled via historically specific colonial routes and were localized to particular political and cultural contexts, and Spiritism as a global occult movement founded precisely on the promise of transcending metaphysical and spatial boundaries. For her study, Professor de la Cruz used the resources of the Clark Library and will detail their role in her research and teaching.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:08:57 -0400 2017-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Visualizing the Occult poster
Hot Topics with Sex & Relationship Expert Megan Stubbs (March 22, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39432 39432-8063166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 09:06:28 -0500 2017-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion megan stubbs
March Science Café: Can Nutrition, Stress, and Environmental Exposures Change Your DNA? (March 22, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38622 38622-7319945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Epigenetics is the science of gene expression, and research suggests that while our experiences may not change our DNA sequence, experience and environment can and do change the shape and chemistry of our DNA. These changes can affect whether or how much a gene is expressed. Stress and trauma can also change other aspects of our biology. Join three researchers as we discuss the biological effects of past nutrition, stress, and toxicant exposures on our health and well-being. Are these changes heritable? Can diet and exercise protect our DNA?

Speakers include Kelly Bakulski and Dana Dolinoy of the U-M School of Public Health, and Srijan Sen of the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine.

This cafe is sponsored by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

Science Cafés provide an opportunity for audiences to discuss current research topics with experts in an informal setting. Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.; program 6:00-7:30 p.m. Seating is limited - come early.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:19:26 -0500 2017-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion
Special Lecture: Unveiling the Mysteries of Past Climate, Oceans, and Life Using Novel Isotopic Techniques (March 23, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39585 39585-8143019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 1:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Stable isotopes of carbonate have long been used to reconstruct past climate and environmental conditions. The recent development of the clumped isotope paleothermometer has expanded the range of possible applications of these isotopic techniques to cover more environments and time periods. My research uses these isotopic tools to reconstruct past climate and ocean conditions during times of dynamic climate change. The end of the Cretaceous period was marked by turmoil with the massive Deccan Traps volcanic event and the Chicxulub meteorite impact combining to create the most famous of the “Big Five” mass extinctions. I will show new climate records from multiple localities spanning these final few tumultuous million years, present evidence of volcanism-induced climate change, and link these climate changes to extinction patterns. I will put these impressive climate shifts in the context of background climate conditions at the time through a global temperature dataset. Finally, I will present an investigation of intriguing isotopic results from one site that reveal information about the life cycle of an extinct bivalve species and demonstrate the breadth of possible applications of these isotopic techniques.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:05:43 -0400 2017-03-23T13:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T14:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CM Theory Seminars | Superconductivity Mediated by Quantum Critical Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations: The Rise and Fall of Hot Spots (March 23, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37141 37141-6173171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 2:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminars

The maximum transition temperature Tc observed in the phase diagrams of several unconventional superconductors takes place in the vicinity of a putative antiferromagnetic quantum critical point. This observation motivated the theoretical proposal that superconductivity in these systems may be driven by quantum critical fluctuations, which in turn can also promote non-Fermi liquid behavior. In this talk, we present a combined analytical and sign-problem-free Quantum Monte Carlo investigation of the spin-fermion model – a widely studied low-energy model for the interplay between superconductivity and magnetic fluctuations. By engineering a series of band dispersions that interpolate between near-nested and open Fermi surfaces, and by also varying the strength of the spin-fermion interaction, we find that the hot spots of the Fermi surface provide the dominant contribution to the pairing instability in this model. We show that the analytical expressions for Tc and for the pairing susceptibility, obtained within a large-N Eliashberg approximation to the spin-fermion model, agree well with the Quantum Monte Carlo data, even in the regime of interactions comparable to the electronic bandwidth.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:49:52 -0400 2017-03-23T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 West Hall Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Conference: Standing with Spain: Anti-Fascist Student Activism and the Spanish Civil War (March 23, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38166 38166-6967946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

From 1936 to 1939, large numbers of U-M students mobilized to support the Spanish Republic as it fought a military uprising backed by Hitler and Mussolini. They joined an international movement that sought to make Spain the “tomb of fascism.” In the Michigan Daily, news of the Spanish war unfolded on the front pages, and debates erupted in the op-ed section. The Student Senate passed a resolution urging the U.S. government to lift the embargo on selling arms to Spain. Students formed an aid committee, held rallies, and raised funds to send an ambulance to Spain. Three students volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in Spain, one of whom would never return. In this conference students will present their original research on anti-fascist student activism at U-M.

All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 23

4:00pm – Lecture and piano recital by María Isabel Pérez Dobarro: “Music of the Republic and Spanish Civil War” (Michigan League, Koessler Room)
5:20pm – Reception
6:30pm – Screening of film: Invisible Heroes: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War, followed by a discussion with the co-director Alfonso Domingo (Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-purpose Room)

Friday, March 24 (Michigan League, Concourse and Vandenberg Room)

11:00am – Coffee and snacks
11:30am - 12:30pm – Panel I: Catholicism and Anti-Clericalism and the Spanish Civil War
12:30 - 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30 - 3:30pm – Panel II: Michigan Volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address I by Peter N. Carroll: “Facing Fascism: Americans and the Spanish Civil War"
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

Saturday, March 25 (Michigan League, Henderson and Koessler Rooms)

9:30am – Continental breakfast
10:30am - 12:00pm – Panel III: Activism on campus: The American Student Union and the Progressive Club
2:00 - 3:30pm – Round table discussion: Student Activism Past and Present
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address II by Robert Cohen: “Where Have You Gone Arthur Miller? America’s Forgotten Student Movement and the Spanish Civil War”
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:54:48 -0400 2017-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium Standing with Spain poster
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture: Human Rights without Human Supremacism (March 23, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37818 37818-6706249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 4:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Several recent theories of human rights have appealed to the idea that human rights can be grounded on some account of human dignity. Critics of these `dignitarian’ accounts argue that the idea of human dignity is vague to the point of emptiness, and lacks any determinate content. In fact, however, recent discussions of human dignity all make one very specific claim: namely, that humans must not be treated in the same way we treat animals. Whatever else human dignity requires, it requires that we give humans a much higher status than we give animals. In this respect, dignitarian defenses of human rights follow in a long line of other supremacist accounts of human rights, all of which are as concerned to argue that animals do not deserve rights as they are to argue that humans do deserve rights. I will suggest that the human rights project will be much stronger, both philosophically and politically, if it jettisons such supremacist defenses. There is growing evidence that the more people draw a sharp species hierarchy between humans and animals, the more they draw hierarchies amongst humans, weakening the rights of subaltern groups. Defending human rights on the backs of animals is not only philosophically suspect, but politically self-defeating.

Speaker Bio:
Will Kymlicka received his B.A. in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002),Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Assocation, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (2001), Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award, and Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011), co-authored with Sue Donaldson, which was awarded the 2013 Biennial Book Prize from the Canadian Philosophical Association.

He has also edited or co-edited more than a dozen books on human rights, minority rights, multiculturalism, political philosophy, and other topics.

He is currently the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. His works have been translated into 32 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. From 2004-6, he was the President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:55:07 -0500 2017-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion speaker
FAST Lecture | The Roman Middle Republic at Sant'Omobono: Drawing Conclusions, Drafting New Questions (March 23, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39463 39463-8069337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Since their inadvertent discovery in 1937, the twin temples of the Roman goddesses Fortuna and Mater Matuta have been the subject of intermittent archaeological investigation. Scholarly attention has been focused on the Archaic phases and, more recently, on the medieval church, largely to the exclusion of what lies between. After six and a half years of work with the Sant’Omobono Project, I am beginning to understand some aspects of this “intermediary” material, despite the challenges of working on a site at which most of the preserved architecture is Republican in date, yet, paradoxically, the majority of the excavated contexts pre- or postdate that period. I will sketch the architectural and cultic development of the temples during the Roman Middle Republic (ca. 4th–3rd c. BCE), underline currently known unknowns, and map out possible next steps.

Reception 5:30 PM, Lecture 6:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:21:26 -0500 2017-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion FAST lecture
Conference: Standing with Spain: Anti-Fascist Student Activism and the Spanish Civil War (March 23, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38166 38166-6967947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

From 1936 to 1939, large numbers of U-M students mobilized to support the Spanish Republic as it fought a military uprising backed by Hitler and Mussolini. They joined an international movement that sought to make Spain the “tomb of fascism.” In the Michigan Daily, news of the Spanish war unfolded on the front pages, and debates erupted in the op-ed section. The Student Senate passed a resolution urging the U.S. government to lift the embargo on selling arms to Spain. Students formed an aid committee, held rallies, and raised funds to send an ambulance to Spain. Three students volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in Spain, one of whom would never return. In this conference students will present their original research on anti-fascist student activism at U-M.

All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 23

4:00pm – Lecture and piano recital by María Isabel Pérez Dobarro: “Music of the Republic and Spanish Civil War” (Michigan League, Koessler Room)
5:20pm – Reception
6:30pm – Screening of film: Invisible Heroes: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War, followed by a discussion with the co-director Alfonso Domingo (Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-purpose Room)

Friday, March 24 (Michigan League, Concourse and Vandenberg Room)

11:00am – Coffee and snacks
11:30am - 12:30pm – Panel I: Catholicism and Anti-Clericalism and the Spanish Civil War
12:30 - 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30 - 3:30pm – Panel II: Michigan Volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address I by Peter N. Carroll: “Facing Fascism: Americans and the Spanish Civil War"
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

Saturday, March 25 (Michigan League, Henderson and Koessler Rooms)

9:30am – Continental breakfast
10:30am - 12:00pm – Panel III: Activism on campus: The American Student Union and the Progressive Club
2:00 - 3:30pm – Round table discussion: Student Activism Past and Present
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address II by Robert Cohen: “Where Have You Gone Arthur Miller? America’s Forgotten Student Movement and the Spanish Civil War”
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:54:48 -0400 2017-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium Standing with Spain poster
Detroiters Speak: Examining University Engagement with Detroit (March 23, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37967 37967-6814969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Speakers will include:

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

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

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

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

---Jamila Martin, Operations Director, 482Forward

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:22:20 -0400 2017-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Conference: Standing with Spain: Anti-Fascist Student Activism and the Spanish Civil War (March 24, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38166 38166-6967948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

From 1936 to 1939, large numbers of U-M students mobilized to support the Spanish Republic as it fought a military uprising backed by Hitler and Mussolini. They joined an international movement that sought to make Spain the “tomb of fascism.” In the Michigan Daily, news of the Spanish war unfolded on the front pages, and debates erupted in the op-ed section. The Student Senate passed a resolution urging the U.S. government to lift the embargo on selling arms to Spain. Students formed an aid committee, held rallies, and raised funds to send an ambulance to Spain. Three students volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in Spain, one of whom would never return. In this conference students will present their original research on anti-fascist student activism at U-M.

All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 23

4:00pm – Lecture and piano recital by María Isabel Pérez Dobarro: “Music of the Republic and Spanish Civil War” (Michigan League, Koessler Room)
5:20pm – Reception
6:30pm – Screening of film: Invisible Heroes: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War, followed by a discussion with the co-director Alfonso Domingo (Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-purpose Room)

Friday, March 24 (Michigan League, Concourse and Vandenberg Room)

11:00am – Coffee and snacks
11:30am - 12:30pm – Panel I: Catholicism and Anti-Clericalism and the Spanish Civil War
12:30 - 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30 - 3:30pm – Panel II: Michigan Volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address I by Peter N. Carroll: “Facing Fascism: Americans and the Spanish Civil War"
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

Saturday, March 25 (Michigan League, Henderson and Koessler Rooms)

9:30am – Continental breakfast
10:30am - 12:00pm – Panel III: Activism on campus: The American Student Union and the Progressive Club
2:00 - 3:30pm – Round table discussion: Student Activism Past and Present
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address II by Robert Cohen: “Where Have You Gone Arthur Miller? America’s Forgotten Student Movement and the Spanish Civil War”
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:54:48 -0400 2017-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium Standing with Spain poster
SEGREGATED SPACES (March 24, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39863 39863-8394892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:30:58 -0400 2017-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 2017-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Segregated Spaces at Taubman College
GDS Colloquium Series: Winckelmann and the Roman Art Market (March 24, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39864 39864-8394893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

All too often the career of J. J. Winckelmann has been isolated from the wider context which made his career possible: the libertine culture of aristocratic neo-classicism which spread from Italy to France, England, and the Germanies in the eighteenth century and, more importantly, the booming Roman art market which served the Grand Tour. Winckelmann, who had seen almost nothing but Baroque (and medieval) art before arriving in Rome, spent most of his first years in Rome among artists and restorers, who taught him a great deal about the technicalities of classical art. Winckelmann befriended many restorers—including Rome’s most successful, Bartholomeo Cavaceppi—as well as art dealers, men for whom the discernment of styles, authenticity, and iconography were professional and vital requirements. We may not ever know just how much Winckelmann learned from the Roman makers and collectors of casts, copies, and forgeries, or from the dealers, but it was certainly a significant amount. Finally, we need to see Winckelmann’s work too in the context of mercantile attempts to make ‘national’ luxury goods salable on wider European and world markets; the porcelain industry, with its emphasis on ‘whiteness,’ is especially relevant to the making of neoclassical taste.

For a copy of the paper, please contact Julia Hell at hell@umich.edu.

Free and open to the Public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:56:06 -0400 2017-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Winkelmann
The Death of Romanticism, and its Historical and Philological Consequences (March 24, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38157 38157-6967885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Part of the German Studies Colloquium Series.
Respondent: Andreas Gailus (German Studies)

Free and open to the public - visit our website at www.lsa.umich.edu/german/events for updates and details.

For further information, also contact Julia Hell at hell@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:16:13 -0500 2017-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
Smith Lecture: Reconstruction of Topography and Lithosphere Dynamics Within the Basin and Range of Western North America Since 36 Ma (March 24, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33861 33861-4813762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The complex deformation history of the western U.S. since 36 Ma involved a dramatic transition from a subduction-dominated to a transform-dominated margin, with widespread extension within the interior Basin and Range region. This deformation history altered the topography and drainage patterns and basins throughout the southwest. We perform a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of the plate boundary zone in the western U.S. since 36 Ma, focusing on the U.S. Basin and Range region, with the goal of understanding the link between mantle dynamics, crustal deformation history, and topography evolution. Using position estimates from McQuarrie and Wernicke [2005], we determine lithospheric strain rates through time and integrate these to determine estimates of crustal thickness evolution. Final estimates of crustal thickness and topography show prominent ‘Nevadaplano’ and Mogollon highland regions that would have resulted from Sevier through Laramide aged shortening. The locations of Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes lie within these zones of reconstructed thick crustal welts, in agreement with Coney and Harms [1984]. Using reconstructions of topography and crustal thickness we investigate solutions to vertically integrated force-balance equations for the lithosphere through time. Results show that deviatoric stresses associated with gravitational collapse of topography are consistent with early crustal stretch directions along the belt of metamorphic core complexes within the southwestern Cordillera. We also solve for stress field boundary conditions through time, such that the contributions from crustal body forces, together with boundary condition effects, can provide a total stress field that is consistent with the orientations of crustal strain through time. The boundary conditions suggest the need for additional extension imposed, first, on the Great Basin (between 36 – 20 Ma) and then on the southern Basin and Range (25 – 15 Ma). These calculations are consistent with the proposed slab rollback history of the Farallon slab [Dickinson, 2002]. Between 15 Ma and 5 Ma the boundary conditions are dominated by stresses associated with the development of the strike-slip plate boundary zone in California. Our calculations for the dynamics over time within the southwestern Cordillera suggest that following Sevier and Laramide shortening events, the lithosphere must have undergone dramatic weakening. This weakening, together with the changing boundary conditions, led to a dramatic collapse of a mountain belt that rivaled the present-day Andes in elevation. The most likely weakening mechanism is associated with the introduction of heat, fluids and volcanism, which can be linked to the slab rollback history of the Farallon plate.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:58:32 -0400 2017-03-24T15:30:00-04:00 2017-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
LECTURE: KRISTIN BAJA (M.U.P 2011) (March 24, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39714 39714-8259572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Please join us  for a reception before the lecture at the Michigan League, Michigan Room, 4:30pm.

Kristin Baja (MUP ‘11) returns to Ann Arbor to share the significant impacts a career in planning, sustainability, and the environmental sciences can have on U.S. cities. Baja is the City of Baltimore’s Climate and Resilience Planner, handling the proactive planning and implementation efforts related to climate and more effective response and recovery to natural disasters. She manages Baltimore’s #EveryStoryCounts community communications campaign, that highlights residents personal stories that are making Baltimore a more sustainable and resilient city. Baja is responsible for development of Baltimore’s Disaster Preparedness Project and Plan (DP3), and leads initiatives focused on reducing vulnerability and enhancing adaptive capacity for underserved populations and ensuring they have an ongoing role in planning and implementation efforts.

Baja was recognized by President Obama as a “White House 2016 Champion of Change” for her work on climate equity and resilience. She completed a dual master’s degree from U-M’s Urban and Regional Planning Program and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment in 2011.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:43:23 -0400 2017-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Kristin Baja
Conference: Standing with Spain: Anti-Fascist Student Activism and the Spanish Civil War (March 25, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38166 38166-6993515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 9:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

From 1936 to 1939, large numbers of U-M students mobilized to support the Spanish Republic as it fought a military uprising backed by Hitler and Mussolini. They joined an international movement that sought to make Spain the “tomb of fascism.” In the Michigan Daily, news of the Spanish war unfolded on the front pages, and debates erupted in the op-ed section. The Student Senate passed a resolution urging the U.S. government to lift the embargo on selling arms to Spain. Students formed an aid committee, held rallies, and raised funds to send an ambulance to Spain. Three students volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in Spain, one of whom would never return. In this conference students will present their original research on anti-fascist student activism at U-M.

All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 23

4:00pm – Lecture and piano recital by María Isabel Pérez Dobarro: “Music of the Republic and Spanish Civil War” (Michigan League, Koessler Room)
5:20pm – Reception
6:30pm – Screening of film: Invisible Heroes: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War, followed by a discussion with the co-director Alfonso Domingo (Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-purpose Room)

Friday, March 24 (Michigan League, Concourse and Vandenberg Room)

11:00am – Coffee and snacks
11:30am - 12:30pm – Panel I: Catholicism and Anti-Clericalism and the Spanish Civil War
12:30 - 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30 - 3:30pm – Panel II: Michigan Volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address I by Peter N. Carroll: “Facing Fascism: Americans and the Spanish Civil War"
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

Saturday, March 25 (Michigan League, Henderson and Koessler Rooms)

9:30am – Continental breakfast
10:30am - 12:00pm – Panel III: Activism on campus: The American Student Union and the Progressive Club
2:00 - 3:30pm – Round table discussion: Student Activism Past and Present
3:30pm – Coffee break
4:00 - 5:20pm – Keynote address II by Robert Cohen: “Where Have You Gone Arthur Miller? America’s Forgotten Student Movement and the Spanish Civil War”
5:20 - 6:00pm – Reception

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:54:48 -0400 2017-03-25T09:30:00-04:00 2017-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium Standing with Spain poster
Saturday Morning Physics | Particles, Planets, and Crystals: Ph.D. Research Pushing the Boundaries of Physics (March 25, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37115 37115-6153933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Tomoya Asaba -- Symmetry Breaking in Unconventional Materials

Sebastian Ellis -- Going Beyond the Standard Model

Stephanie Hamilton -- From Dwarf to Super-Earth: How the Solar System's Smallest Members Point the Way to Planet 9

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:09:04 -0500 2017-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 2017-03-25T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Physics
Slavery and Children’s Stories: Implications for Schooling and Society Primary tabs (March 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39767 39767-8290331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, is conducting empirical, digital, and archival research for a pedagogical monograph about traumatic historical events such as slavery and the teaching of literature to children. Her talk focuses on her research process for this work, which is ongoing, and is an extension of her National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral research project.

While atrocity in general will be considered, her work deals with the specific context of US enslavement, how it is represented in children’s stories, and what the resultant implications are for schooling and society.

Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:17:45 -0400 2017-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research image
CSEAS Lecture. Communal Violence in Myanmar: Roundtable Discussion (March 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39698 39698-8241180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Since 2012, Myanmar has experienced recurrent, sporadic, collective acts of lethal violence, realized through repeated public expressions that Muslims constitute an existential threat to Buddhists. Much of this has been directed at those who identify as Rohingya, but it has not been limited to this category. The panelists discuss the narratives, genealogies and typologies of this violence, drawing on scholarship from South and Southeast Asia.

Panelist:
Nick Cheesman, Fellow, Department of Political & Social Change Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, 2016-17 Member of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study

Mike McGovern Associate Professor, Anthropology & Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Michigan

Matt Schissler Doctoral Student in Anthropology, University of Michigan

Moderated by Allen Hicken, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Co-sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the Conflict
and Peace Initiative

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:13:06 -0400 2017-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Myanmar-flier
Talk: Marta de Menezes (March 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39525 39525-8118440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Marta de Menezes - Identity: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Monday March 27, 2017, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
East Room Pierpont Commons, North Campus

This talk explores contemporary practice, research and collaboration of artistic approaches in fields of Art and Biology. Marta de Menezes will discuss her methodology and meaning to generation to making artworks, a critical making through critical thinking. To situate the inquiry, she will draw upon her work, “Nature?”, “Proteic Portrait”, “Immortality for Two” and hint at current research projects featured in future workshops including “The Origin of Species” and “Truly Natural”. She will question our biological commonalities and challenge our conception of identity individually, as a species and as organisms while asking how the artistic manipulation of life shifts our sense of identity to give rise to new forms of (un)indentities.

Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium. In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait, 2002-2007), DNA (Innercloud, 2003; The Family, 2004) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge, 2005) or bacteria (Decon, 2007). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures. She is currently the artistic director of Ectopia, an experimental art laboratory in Lisbon, and Director of Cultivamos Cultura in the South of Portugal.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:16:03 -0500 2017-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/IMGP2832.JPG
Social Justice: Equity in Education (March 27, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39768 39768-8290332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us for a conversation about how to address the disparities in the quality of education in different communities. This "fishbowl" event brings participants closer to presenters, encouraging close observation, active listening, and broad participation.

Presenters include:
* Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
* Cheyenne Turner, community support specialist in the Children's Services Department at the Washtenaw Youth Detention Center
* Benjamin Edmondson, superintendent at Ypsilanti Community Schools
* Shari Saunders, professor and associate dean at the U-M School of Education

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:19:17 -0400 2017-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T14:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Social Justice image
HEP-Astro Seminar | Probing Cosmological Reionization with the Lyman-alpha Forest (March 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37484 37484-6603846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

When the first galaxies emerged, ~100 - 500 million years after the Big Bang, their starlight likely reionized and heated the intergalactic hydrogen that had existed since cosmological recombination. Much is currently unknown about this process, including what spatial structure it had, when it started and completed, and even which sources drove it. I will discuss what recent Lyman-alpha forest measurements tell us about the reionization process and about structure formation in the first billion years.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:29:04 -0400 2017-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
One Soviet Nation? Capturing Ethnic Diversity in Photography of the 1920s and 1930s (March 27, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38797 38797-7403502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Monday, March 27, 5:30-7 pm, MLB 3308

Anja Burghardt, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

"One Soviet Nation? Capturing Ethnic Diversity in Photography of the 1920s and 1930s"

In the early Soviet Union photography played a prominent role in shaping the new society. In the 1920s this new medium was supposed to allow everyone who was part of the Socialist project to participate in photographic expression, either as a photographer or as a subject. Photography captured daily life experience of different people was and made it known to people in distant regions. But how much room was there for self-portrayal of those who were not in the (European) centres of the USSR? By examining photographs of non-Russian ethnic groups, mainly in Central Asia, this presentation discusses choices of motifs and artistic devices, value attributions and ideological implications in shaping the Soviet Nation in photography.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Carolyn Dymond (dymond@umich.edu or 734.764.5355) at least 4 days in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:47:20 -0500 2017-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2017-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion infographic with event title days and time
CM-AMO Seminar | Antihydrogen: Trapped and Measured (March 28, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38364 38364-7140407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: CM-AMO Seminars

Atoms made of a particle and an antiparticle are unstable, usually surviving less than a microsecond. Antihydrogen, the bound state of an antiproton and a positron, is made entirely of antiparticles and is believed to be stable. It is this longevity that holds the promise of precision studies of matter-antimatter symmetry. Low energy (Kelvin scale) antihydrogen has been produced at CERN since 2002. I will give an overview of the experiment (ALPHA) which has recently succeeded in trapping antihydrogen in a cryogenic Penning trap for times up to approximately 15 minutes. We have also been able to flip the spin inside of the atom using microwaves, performing the first measurement of resonant transitions within an antimatter atom. Most recently, we have measured the 1s-2s frequency to one part in 5 billion. I will conclude with prospects for laser cooling antihydrogen and future precision measurements.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2017 09:57:01 -0500 2017-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall CM-AMO Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
"Leibele’s Sermon: The Jewish Colonization Association and the Politics of Jewish Philanthropy" (March 28, 2017 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35662 35662-5291729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:10pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In the 1890s, the Jewish banker, railroad entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Baron Maurice de Hirsch, embarked on a grand project to relocate large numbers of Russian Jews in agricultural colonies in Argentina. When Theodor Herzl wrote in 1896, the year of Hirsch’s death, that he envisioned the establishment of a Jewish national home in either Argentina or Palestine, many of his contemporaries would likely have considered the South American country to be the more plausible option. Much has changed, however, since one of Hirsch’s early colonists, a Russian Jew by the name of Leibele, celebrated Argentina as the new Zion in a sermon full of messianic imagery. Today Herzl is hailed as the visionary whose ideas laid the foundations of a Jewish nation state established in Palestine, whereas Hirsch’s legacy is largely forgotten. How do we assess the impact of Baron Hirsch and his philanthropic oeuvre? How do we account for its eventual failure? And what does the history of this failure tell us about the Jewish world of the late nineteenth century, and about the importance of studying failure in understanding the modern quest to solve the Jewish predicament?


Matthias Lehmann is Professor of History and the Teller Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Irvine. After studies in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Madrid, he earned his Ph.D. in 2002. He is the author, most recently, of Emissaries from the Holy Land (Stanford, 2014), as well as Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (Bloomington, 2005) and co-author, with John Efron and Steven Weitzman, of the widely used textbook The Jews: A History (second edition, 2014).

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:36:57 -0400 2017-03-28T16:10:00-04:00 2017-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Lehmann
A Conversation with Economist Dean Baker (March 28, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39955 39955-8414298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in an informative discussion of his latest book: "Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer."

Progressives at the University of Michigan, a registered student organization, is partnering with the community organization Democratic Socialists of America to host this event.

For more information, visit tiny.cc/DeanBakerA2.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:06:08 -0400 2017-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 2017-03-28T21:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Default Hatcher Event graphic
Windows PC Maintenance and Internet Security Tips (March 29, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37074 37074-6128276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course will focus on how to protect your data and stay safe on the Internet.

Topics include: keeping your Windows PC safe (firewalls, antivirus, etc); email and Web Security Threats and Tips (ransomware, phishing, etc.); backup alternatives; password best practices; wireless security best practices; latest Internet and phone scams; Facebook security tips and identity theft basics.

There will be ample time for questions and discussion during this two hour session.

Instructor Harvey Juster is a semi-retired IT Consultant who holds an engineering degree from UM and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:58:36 -0500 2017-03-29T09:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
HET Brown Bag Seminar | You Can Hide but You Have to Run: New Theory Tools to Unveil the Mystery of Dark Matter (March 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38480 38480-7191719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The origin and composition of 85% of the matter in the universe is completely unknown. Among several viable options, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are motivated dark matter candidates that can be tested by different and complementary search strategies. Crucially, different searches probe WIMP couplings at different energy scales, and such a separation of scales has striking consequences in connecting different experimental probes. This motivates the development of theoretical tools to properly connect the different energy scales involved in constraining WIMP models. I will introduce these tools and I will illustrate with several examples how crucial the inclusion of these effects in WIMP searches is.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:38:49 -0400 2017-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Physics
Journeys between the Chinese Traditional and Contemporary Arts (March 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38974 38974-7532144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:48:08 -0500 2017-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion danny yung photo
Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the 21st Century (March 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38042 38042-6859812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception and book signing to follow.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

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

About the book:

Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers, particularly African Americans, and analyzes how economic and residential segregation keep them from achieving the American Dream of upward mobility.


About the author:

Kristin S. Seefeldt's primary research interests lie in exploring how low-income individuals understand their situations, particularly around issues related to work and economic well-being. She is the author of Working After Welfare (W.E. Upjohn Institute Press), which discusses employment advancement and work-family balance challenges as experienced by former welfare recipients. Currently, she is conducting research on families' financial coping strategies during an economic downturn and is a Principal Investigator of a survey examining the effects of the recession and recovery policies on individuals' well-being. Previously, Seefeldt was an Assistant Research Scientist at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Assistant Director of the National Poverty Center, both at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public and Environment Affairs, Indiana University. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in Sociology and Public Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:50:30 -0500 2017-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Abandoned Families
Department Colloquium | Two-Dimensional Melting (& The Physics of Polygons) (March 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39790 39790-8314871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The melting transition of two-dimensional (2D) systems is a fundamental problem in condensed matter and statistical physics that has advanced significantly through the application of computational resources and algorithms. 2D systems present the opportunity for novel phases and phase transition scenarios not observed in 3D systems, but these phases depend sensitively on the system and thus predicting how any given 2D system will behave remains a challenge. Recently we carried out a comprehensive simulation study of the phase behavior near the melting transition of all hard regular polygons with 3 ≤ n ≤ 14 vertices using massively parallel Monte Carlo simulations of up to one million particles. By investigating this family of shapes, we can show that the melting transition depends upon both particle shape and symmetry considerations, which together can predict which of three different melting scenarios will occur for a given n.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:33:59 -0400 2017-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar Physics
Gendering Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan Today (March 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39915 39915-8412091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

Modes of embodiment of artificial intelligence, including humanoid robots, call attention to the artifice and mutability of gendered identities. Yet, cutting-edge technologies are deployed (in Japan and elsewhere) to recuperate the binary construction of the sex-gender system and to reinforce heteronormative conventions of being in the world.

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has a non-budgeted appointment in the Department of Women's Studies and in the School of Art and Design. She is also a faculty associate in the Anthropology/History Program. Robertson is a former director and member of the Center for Japanese Studies, a faculty member of the Robotics Institute, and a faculty associate in the Science, Society and Technology Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:22:00 -0400 2017-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion HRP-4C
Commemorating the anniversary of In re Gault (March 29, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39544 39544-8118461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

On the 50th anniversary of In re Gault, join distinguished speakers Barry Feld and Sandra Simpkins to examine the past, present and future of due process and other constitutional protections for juveniles. Barry Feld is the Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and author of numerous book on juvenile justice including, most recently, The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics and the Criminalization of Juvenile Justice. Sandra Simpkins is a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School and, among other professional activities, is the Due Process Monitor for the settlement agreement between the Department of Justice and the Juvenile court of Shelby County, Tennessee. Sponsored by the Juvenile Justice Clinic.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:23:23 -0500 2017-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
2017 Evening of Art + Science Preview Lecture/Reception (March 29, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38713 38713-7352055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek at the ongoing dialogue between noted contemporary artist Alison Wong and Rajesh Rao, MD, Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar and ophthalmologist who is developing a novel approach to a common cancer of the eye.

The duo have been paired as part of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute’s 4th Annual Evening of Art+Science project, which encourages visits and conversations between talented geniuses in the studio and the laboratory. Inspired by the scientists, the artists produce works that are auctioned at an April 20 gala at MOCAD, with proceeds funding more cutting-edge medical research at U-M.

On March 29, Wong and Rao will share insights gleaned through their collaboration and share updates about their work.

Light refreshments will be served.

All welcome, no registration required. For more information, visit www.TaubmanArtAndScience.org

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Reception / Open House Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:24:09 -0500 2017-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 2017-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Reception / Open House Art and Science Logo
MLift Presents Janae Marie Kroc (March 29, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39872 39872-8397030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: MLift

Janae Marie Kroc, world champion powerlifter, bodybuilder and transgender woman, shares her journey as an athlete. Get an inside look into the motivation and training regimen of a champion, while gaining an understanding of what it takes to accomplish your goals within the current fitness industry.

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:02:24 -0400 2017-03-29T18:30:00-04:00 2017-03-29T20:30:00-04:00 Mason Hall MLift Exercise / Fitness MLift logo
Islamic Traditions of Papermaking in India (March 30, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38695 38695-7345642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Papermaker and letterpress printer Radha Pandey gives a lecture focused on the history and contemporary legacy of papermaking in India followed by a papermaking demonstration featuring traditional Islamic methods she has studied.

Pandey earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has studied Western and Asian Papermaking techniques with Timothy Barrett and teaches book arts classes in India and the US.

Presented by the University of Michigan Library (Special Collections Library and Department of Preservation & Conservation) and the University of Michigan History of Art Department with additional support from the Center for South Asian Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:26:36 -0500 2017-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Radha Pandey in the studio (Photo by Aimee Lee)
Radical Modifications of the Stage Design Archetype in the First Century B.C.E. Roman Theater in Volterra (March 30, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40105 40105-8468264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Lecture by Wladek Fuchs, Ph.D.
Director, International Programs
Associate Professor, University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture
President, Volterra-Detroit Foundation

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:19:47 -0400 2017-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 2017-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Object Lessons (March 30, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36400 36400-5607164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture

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

A dessert reception will follow the talk.

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

Details to follow

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:11:10 -0500 2017-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 2017-03-30T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
World Peace Conference 2017 (March 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38922 38922-7480746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rotaract Club at the University of Michigan

Please join us for this exciting opportunity on the University of Michigan campus at The Michigan League, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, on March 31-April 1, 2017!

The WORLD PEACE CONFERENCE 2017 will focus on how to empower community leaders, Rotarians, youth, and others to promote and actively practice peace and social justice in their own communities.

Diverse perspectives from international speakers and attendees will challenge our thinking. Leading experts, authors, and scholars specializing in peace and conflict resolution will share ideas and discuss solutions.  It is a unique opportunity to consider these complex issues with professionals from government, business, healthcare, media, and faith-based organizations. 

This two-day event is hosted by the Michigan, northern Indiana, northwest Ohio, and southern Ontario based Rotary clubs representing over 15,000 Rotarians.

Student registration is just $35 and includes all activities and lunch each day! Register here: http://2017peaceconference.org/register/

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:20:10 -0500 2017-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Rotaract Club at the University of Michigan Conference / Symposium Peace Conference brochure
Lean In Leadership Summit: Conversations to Empower Future Leaders (March 31, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39542 39542-8118460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Lean In at University of Michigan

Lean In at the University of Michigan presents our first annual Leadership Summit: Conversations to Empower Future Leaders. This gender-focused summit aims to inspire, empower, and encourage young leaders at the University of Michigan through the stories and mentorship of successful women speakers. Gender disparities still remain as obstacles for many, and our goal is to help bring these issues to the forefront and foster confidence and creative action among our attendees, our future leaders.

To provide you with transferable leadership skills and tactics, the event will include keynote speakers, an interactive panel, and discussion and networking opportunities through small group breakout sessions. Stay tuned for a line-up of our speakers and panelists!

Keynote Speaker: Congresswoman Debbie Dingell

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:47:54 -0500 2017-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Lean In at University of Michigan Conference / Symposium Event Poster
HET Seminar | Fuzzy Dark Matter from IR Confinement (March 31, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38486 38486-7191726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

An ultra light axion dark matter (DM) may avoid certain problems of the cold DM paradigm with observations at galactic scales. Such an axion, often referred to as "Fuzzy DM (FDM)," may get its tiny mass from large masses suppressed by non-perturbative stringy effects. We examine an alternative possibility that the mass of FDM is generated by infrared confining dynamics, in analogy with the QCD axion. We find that cosmological constraints are suggestive of a period of mild of inflation that reheats the Standard Model (SM) sector only. A typical prediction of the scenario, broadly speaking, is a larger effective number of neutrinos compared to the SM value Neff≈3, as inferred from precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background. Some of the new degrees of freedom may be identified as "sterile neutrinos," which may be required to explain certain neutrino oscillation anomalies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:42:39 -0400 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country (March 31, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/31315 31315-4189939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

This series of four lectures presents different parts of a book-length analysis of the politics, history and culture of the West African territory that came to be known as the Republic of Guinea. The book grew out of the question many Guineans and West African neighbors of Guinea have asked about why all six of Guinea's neighbors have experienced civil conflict while Guinea has not. This, despite the fact that many people feel that Guinea had more reasons than its neighbors why it "should have" experienced war or separatist insurgency. Guinea's 26-year experience of socialist rule may provide part of the answer. While the socialist government was intrusive and highly coercive, it also forged a sense of national identity and unity qualitatively different from anything existing in neighboring non-socialist countries. The study thus attempts to unravel the paradox of a peace that issues from a state's violence against its own citizens; a socialist habitus that provides the antidote to political schisms the state itself exacerbated.

4. The Afterlife of a Socialist Habitus

If it is true that a lengthy period of socialist nation-building can inoculate a country against the demonstrated social, economic, and political risks that have led elsewhere to civil war, we should still want to know how long such an effect might last. Does the socialist peace evaporate at the same time that the socialist government disappears? Does it last indefinitely? If the answer is somewhere between these two extremes, what factors affect the rate at which such an effect dissipates? This lecture explores three moments in the career of Guinea's socialist peace to show how people simultaneously argued with and against the divisive legacy of socialism. It ends with a discussion of nostalgia, socialist and otherwise, and the extent to which the Guinean experience might be indicative of dynamics that exist elsewhere.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:10:37 -0500 2017-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2017-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Union
Smith Lecture: Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: The Meaning of the C and O Isotopic Record in Carbonates (March 31, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33862 33862-4813766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The stable C and O isotopic record has been used as a palaeoenvironmental tool since the 1950s. While the recognition of post depositional alteration (diagenesis) upon the signal was recognized almost immediately, the importance of such alteration has been increasingly ignored, to the point where signals which are suspiciously diagenetic are being interpreted as reflecting changes in the global carbon budget. So that we do not through the ‘..baby out with the bathwater ..’ in this presentation I will critically examine some of the criteria used to establish the integrity of carbonate as paleoenvironmental tools, and present new interpretations of C , O, B, and S isotopic patterns in carbonates.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:47:31 -0500 2017-03-31T15:30:00-04:00 2017-03-31T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
World Peace Conference 2017 (April 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38922 38922-7480747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rotaract Club at the University of Michigan

Please join us for this exciting opportunity on the University of Michigan campus at The Michigan League, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, on March 31-April 1, 2017!

The WORLD PEACE CONFERENCE 2017 will focus on how to empower community leaders, Rotarians, youth, and others to promote and actively practice peace and social justice in their own communities.

Diverse perspectives from international speakers and attendees will challenge our thinking. Leading experts, authors, and scholars specializing in peace and conflict resolution will share ideas and discuss solutions.  It is a unique opportunity to consider these complex issues with professionals from government, business, healthcare, media, and faith-based organizations. 

This two-day event is hosted by the Michigan, northern Indiana, northwest Ohio, and southern Ontario based Rotary clubs representing over 15,000 Rotarians.

Student registration is just $35 and includes all activities and lunch each day! Register here: http://2017peaceconference.org/register/

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:20:10 -0500 2017-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Rotaract Club at the University of Michigan Conference / Symposium Peace Conference brochure
Saturday Morning Physics | Thermoelectricity: Environmentally Friendly Power Generation (April 1, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37116 37116-6153934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

On average, industrial processes waste some 60% of energy as heat. Thermoelectric generators can harvest this waste heat and convert it to the most portable form of energy-electricity. Making the conversion economically viable demands the development of novel, efficient thermoelectric materials.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:10:09 -0500 2017-04-01T10:30:00-04:00 2017-04-01T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Physics
Change Our World with Nyle DiMarco (April 2, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40087 40087-8466108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:15:08 -0400 2017-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2017-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Change Our World
Agrupación Xango (April 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40059 40059-8463913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors

Two-day Workshop Series on Afro-Argentinean Society, Culture, and Policy

On Monday, April 3rd and Tuesday, April 4th, The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) will host a two-day workshop series on issues and trends that affect Argentina’s black (Afro-descendant) population. The main speaker, Carlos Alvarez Nazareno, an prominent black and LGBTQ rights activist and founder/president of one of Argentina’s largest black advocacy organization Agrupación Xango, will be leading the workshop. He, along with a group of Afro-Argentinean students, will teach us about the policy issues, international phenomenon, and cultural diversity that impact the black community in Argentina, and in South America as a whole.

Below are some of the various topics to be covered during the series:
● Afro-Argentinean culture and dance the includes a FREE performance and OPTIONAL audience participation
● Racial inclusion in the public schools in Argentina
● Professional development workshop-learning business Spanish for aspiring bilingual professionals
● Afro-Argentinean feminist movement and resistance to “Machismo” and patriarchy
● LGBTQ black Argentines in a sea of a white majority country
● African and Afro-Latino immigration and political trends in Argentina.
● And more!

All workshops are free and some will have LUNCH PROVIDED.

If you’re interested in South America…
If you have a burning passion for international advocacy and globalization...
If you want to learn about Argentina’s black community…

...Then come to our workshop series!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:18 -0400 2017-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors Workshop / Seminar Carlos Alvarez
Agrupación Xango (April 3, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40059 40059-8463914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors

Two-day Workshop Series on Afro-Argentinean Society, Culture, and Policy

On Monday, April 3rd and Tuesday, April 4th, The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) will host a two-day workshop series on issues and trends that affect Argentina’s black (Afro-descendant) population. The main speaker, Carlos Alvarez Nazareno, an prominent black and LGBTQ rights activist and founder/president of one of Argentina’s largest black advocacy organization Agrupación Xango, will be leading the workshop. He, along with a group of Afro-Argentinean students, will teach us about the policy issues, international phenomenon, and cultural diversity that impact the black community in Argentina, and in South America as a whole.

Below are some of the various topics to be covered during the series:
● Afro-Argentinean culture and dance the includes a FREE performance and OPTIONAL audience participation
● Racial inclusion in the public schools in Argentina
● Professional development workshop-learning business Spanish for aspiring bilingual professionals
● Afro-Argentinean feminist movement and resistance to “Machismo” and patriarchy
● LGBTQ black Argentines in a sea of a white majority country
● African and Afro-Latino immigration and political trends in Argentina.
● And more!

All workshops are free and some will have LUNCH PROVIDED.

If you’re interested in South America…
If you have a burning passion for international advocacy and globalization...
If you want to learn about Argentina’s black community…

...Then come to our workshop series!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:18 -0400 2017-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors Workshop / Seminar Carlos Alvarez
HEP-Astro Seminar | Neutrino Mass from Cosmology (April 3, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37485 37485-6603847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

Neutrinos are the only standard model particles of unknown mass. Thus, measuring their mass is one of the leading goals in fundamental physics. Cosmology currently provides the tightest bounds on the sum of the neutrino masses and the possibility that next generation experiments can provide a detection looks promising. Then, further questions would have to be addressed, such as those related to the neutrino hierarchy and the neutrino nature.

In this talk, I will discuss the treasure trove of information about massive neutrinos that we can collect from different cosmological probes. In particular, I will show that the combination of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large Scale Structure (LSS) measurements provides a tight and robust bound on the neutrino mass scale and I will introduce a novel method to assess the sensitivity of cosmological data to the neutrino hierarchy. Finally, I will choose a different angle and show how massive neutrino unknowns can affect the constraints on inflationary models. Important findings in the neutrino sector are just around the corner and cosmology, in combination with laboratory avenues, will unveil neutrino secrets in the coming years.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:42:58 -0400 2017-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Agrupación Xango (April 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40059 40059-8463915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors

Two-day Workshop Series on Afro-Argentinean Society, Culture, and Policy

On Monday, April 3rd and Tuesday, April 4th, The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) will host a two-day workshop series on issues and trends that affect Argentina’s black (Afro-descendant) population. The main speaker, Carlos Alvarez Nazareno, an prominent black and LGBTQ rights activist and founder/president of one of Argentina’s largest black advocacy organization Agrupación Xango, will be leading the workshop. He, along with a group of Afro-Argentinean students, will teach us about the policy issues, international phenomenon, and cultural diversity that impact the black community in Argentina, and in South America as a whole.

Below are some of the various topics to be covered during the series:
● Afro-Argentinean culture and dance the includes a FREE performance and OPTIONAL audience participation
● Racial inclusion in the public schools in Argentina
● Professional development workshop-learning business Spanish for aspiring bilingual professionals
● Afro-Argentinean feminist movement and resistance to “Machismo” and patriarchy
● LGBTQ black Argentines in a sea of a white majority country
● African and Afro-Latino immigration and political trends in Argentina.
● And more!

All workshops are free and some will have LUNCH PROVIDED.

If you’re interested in South America…
If you have a burning passion for international advocacy and globalization...
If you want to learn about Argentina’s black community…

...Then come to our workshop series!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:18 -0400 2017-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors Workshop / Seminar Carlos Alvarez
The 27th Golden Apple Award: The Unexpected Benefits of Pain, Passion, and Pets (April 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39792 39792-8314873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Golden Apple Award

The Golden Apple Award is the only university-wide award given to one professor every year based solely upon student nominations which recognizes and honors outstanding teaching and student engagement at the University of Michigan. Each year, the winning professor hosts an "ideal last lecture", in which they construct a lecture on a topic of their choice as if it was to be the last one they will ever give.

We welcome you to join us in honoring this year's winner, Professor Edward Cho from the Department of Economics, and to be a part of his ideal last lecture, which he has titled "The Unexpected Benefits of Pain, Passion, and Pets". Given Professor Cho's popularity, this surely is a lecture that you will not want to miss! Admission is free for all attendees and a reception with refreshment will follow.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at goldenapple2017@umich.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:53:35 -0400 2017-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Golden Apple Award Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the event
Agrupación Xango (April 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40059 40059-8463916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors

Two-day Workshop Series on Afro-Argentinean Society, Culture, and Policy

On Monday, April 3rd and Tuesday, April 4th, The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) will host a two-day workshop series on issues and trends that affect Argentina’s black (Afro-descendant) population. The main speaker, Carlos Alvarez Nazareno, an prominent black and LGBTQ rights activist and founder/president of one of Argentina’s largest black advocacy organization Agrupación Xango, will be leading the workshop. He, along with a group of Afro-Argentinean students, will teach us about the policy issues, international phenomenon, and cultural diversity that impact the black community in Argentina, and in South America as a whole.

Below are some of the various topics to be covered during the series:
● Afro-Argentinean culture and dance the includes a FREE performance and OPTIONAL audience participation
● Racial inclusion in the public schools in Argentina
● Professional development workshop-learning business Spanish for aspiring bilingual professionals
● Afro-Argentinean feminist movement and resistance to “Machismo” and patriarchy
● LGBTQ black Argentines in a sea of a white majority country
● African and Afro-Latino immigration and political trends in Argentina.
● And more!

All workshops are free and some will have LUNCH PROVIDED.

If you’re interested in South America…
If you have a burning passion for international advocacy and globalization...
If you want to learn about Argentina’s black community…

...Then come to our workshop series!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:18 -0400 2017-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors Workshop / Seminar Carlos Alvarez
Grasping a Post-Socialist Agenda for Architecture: Design as Political Yeast (April 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40117 40117-8474695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In conjunction with the International Institute at the University of Michigan, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is a proud co-sponsor of two lectures on Russian Architecture, Design, and Urbanism. Co-organized by Stamps School Associate Professor Irina Aristarkhova, the lectures will take place on Tuesday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 5 in the Art & Architecture Auditorium.

Grasping a Post-Socialist Agenda for Architecture: Design as Political Yeast
Speaker:  Sergei Sitar
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 12-1:30 pm
Art & Architecture Auditorium
Room 2104, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd

The recollection of Sergei Sitar’s personal and professional experience, from his studying in LA’s SCI-Arc in 1991-92, and up to participating in establishing a new architectural school MARCH in Moscow, is meant to serve as a starting point for a broader discussion on the political influence of art, architecture and design; the specificity of Russia’s (postsocialist) urban and cultural landscape – in comparison with that of the US and Western Europe; the changing role of urban planning, architectural media and professional associations.

Sergey Sitar is an architect, urbanist, critic and editor of the Theory Section of Project International magazine and leader of the History and Theory module at MARCH School of Architecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:16:00 -0400 2017-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/russian-lectures-wide.jpg
REBUILD Seminar | Lessons Learned from the Dynamic Genome Program (April 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38314 38314-7070218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: REBUILD Seminars

Register here for this Brown Bag Seminar: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/events/FCI

Dr. Sue Wessler is the Neil A and Rochelle A Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovations in Science Education and Distinguished Professor of Genetics at University of California Riverside; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor; Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences.
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) is one of the most diverse research universities in the country. More than half of the 5000 students in our College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) are supported by Pell grants, are members of underrepresented groups, and are first generation college students. To improve student persistence in STEM, CNAS has focused on two experiential interventions for first year students: (1) Learning Communities - designed to engage groups of 24 students with faculty, academic advisors and near-peer mentors, and (2) the Dynamic Genome course - an authentic research experience where UCR research faculty take ownership of a section and bring the excitement of their research labs to the classroom. The Dynamic Genome (DG) course is an alternative to the traditional Intro Bio Lab where learning communities are randomly assigned to one lab experience or the other.

Now in its sixth year at UC Riverside, DG is a hands-on bioinformatics/wet lab course that is taught in the state of the art Neil A Campbell Science Learning Laboratory. First articulated in my HHMI Professor Program in 2006, the DG course was initially proposed as an undergraduate laboratory that replicated my research lab where students learned to navigate cutting-edge methodologies applied to transposable elements in eukaryotic genomes. UC Riverside has proven to be fertile ground for the rapid expansion of the DG course model to a projected 24 sections with a total of 600 first year students by 2018. With the tools and knowledge gained from the Learning Community and Dynamic Genome experiences, an increasing number of students are entering faculty laboratories as first or second year students.

For more information about the Foundational Course Initiative, please see https://rebuild.lsa.umich.edu/ or contact Tim McKay (tamckay@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:54:15 -0400 2017-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall REBUILD Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
At the Cutting Edge: Michigan in 1817 (April 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37974 37974-6814976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

When the University of Michigan was founded in 1817 it was located in the capitol of a raw frontier territory that was yet twenty years away from achieving statehood. Much of the Michigan Territory was still in the hands of several Native American nations. Euro-American settlement was found only in the Southeast and at the Straits of Mackinac. The proper surveying of Michigan would not begin for another year. And, only five years earlier, Detroit and Mackinac had been captured and occupied by the British during the War of 1812. Establishing an institution of higher learning in this rough territory was a gamble indeed.

Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Curator of Maps at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library, will present a talk describing what Michigan was like when the U-M first opened its doors to scholars. Using images of original maps, art, architecture, and letters from the amazing collections of the Clements Library, he will transport you back to the Michigan of 200 years ago.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:02:38 -0500 2017-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion clements
CM-AMO Seminar | Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications (April 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38365 38365-7140408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: CM-AMO Seminars

Defects can provide highly homogeneous potentials for quantum particles (electrons and holes) in crystals, enabling atomic-like physics in a solid-state environment. The availability of high-purity crystals, in which either single defects can be resolved or ensembles of non-interacting identical defects can exist, has spurred significant interest in utilizing defects for quantum-enabled applications (e.g. information processing and sensing). In this talk I will first present the potential of combining solid-state defects and integrated photonics to realize quantum information processors, focusing on my own group’s research on the nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond. In the second half, I present our work researching the fundamental properties of effective mass carriers and excitons bound to defects (0D, 1D, and 2D) in direct bandgap materials which may be promising alternatives to diamond-based platforms.

Bio: Kai-Mei Fu received her A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 2000 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She worked as a research associate at HP Labs, Palo Alto from 2007-2011 before joining the faculty at the University of Washington with a joint position in Physics and Electrical Engineering. Her research focuses on understanding and engineering the quantum properties of point defects in crystals for quantum information and sensing applications. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Cottrell Scholar Award, and the UW College of Engineering Junior Faculty Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:45:28 -0400 2017-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall CM-AMO Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Agrupación Xango (April 4, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40059 40059-8463917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors

Two-day Workshop Series on Afro-Argentinean Society, Culture, and Policy

On Monday, April 3rd and Tuesday, April 4th, The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) will host a two-day workshop series on issues and trends that affect Argentina’s black (Afro-descendant) population. The main speaker, Carlos Alvarez Nazareno, an prominent black and LGBTQ rights activist and founder/president of one of Argentina’s largest black advocacy organization Agrupación Xango, will be leading the workshop. He, along with a group of Afro-Argentinean students, will teach us about the policy issues, international phenomenon, and cultural diversity that impact the black community in Argentina, and in South America as a whole.

Below are some of the various topics to be covered during the series:
● Afro-Argentinean culture and dance the includes a FREE performance and OPTIONAL audience participation
● Racial inclusion in the public schools in Argentina
● Professional development workshop-learning business Spanish for aspiring bilingual professionals
● Afro-Argentinean feminist movement and resistance to “Machismo” and patriarchy
● LGBTQ black Argentines in a sea of a white majority country
● African and Afro-Latino immigration and political trends in Argentina.
● And more!

All workshops are free and some will have LUNCH PROVIDED.

If you’re interested in South America…
If you have a burning passion for international advocacy and globalization...
If you want to learn about Argentina’s black community…

...Then come to our workshop series!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:18 -0400 2017-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) Ambassadors Workshop / Seminar Carlos Alvarez
Michigan Notable Books Talk: "Know The Mother" with Desiree Cooper (April 4, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39951 39951-8414294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Please join us for a conversation with Michigan Notable Books author Desiree Cooper about her award-winning book “Know the Mother.”

Cooper, a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, is a former attorney, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and Detroit community activist whose fiction dives into the intersection of racism and sexism. Using the medium of flash fiction, she explores intimate spaces to reveal what it means to be human. Cooper was a founding board member of Cave Canem, a national residency for emerging black poets. She is currently a Kimbilio Fellow, part of a national residency for African American fiction writers. A native of Detroit, she holds Bachelor of Science degrees in journalism and economics from the University of Maryland and a law degree from the University of Virginia.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:05:04 -0400 2017-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion book cover
Buromoscow: Scales of Operation (April 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40007 40007-8448865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In conjunction with the International Institute at the University of Michigan, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is a proud co-sponsor of two lectures on Russian Architecture, Design, and Urbanism. Co-organized by Stamps School Associate Professor Irina Aristarkhova, the lectures will take place on Tuesday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 5 in the Art & Architecture Auditorium.

Buromoscow: Scales of Operation
Speakers: Olga Aleksakova & Julia Burdova
Wednesday, April 5, 6-8 pm
Art & Architecture Auditorium
Room 2104, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd

Russian architecture and planning reality is undergoing meaningful changes that are rarely noticed and discussed within the common architectural agenda. In the 25 years of market economy, a new generation of architects and planners emerged in Russia. The rigid soviet planning system is slowly giving way to participatory models. Public space became a topic of heated public discussion and generous cityinvestment sector. Millions of square meters of housing have been built, testing to the limit the soviet traditional prefabrication model. The microrayon heritage has been explored and re-evaluated. Julia Burdova and Olga Aleksakova, partners at Buromoscow, will talk about changes happening in Russia with the examples of their work.

Olga Aleksakova, Dipl ing, CMA, SBR. Graduated from TU Delft in 1998. From 1998 till 2004 she worked in OMA Rottedam. Founded Buromoscow in 2004. Julia Burdova, Arch, CMA. Graduated from MARCHI faculty of Urban Planning in 1997. Founded Buromoscow in 2004.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:16:01 -0400 2017-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/russian-lectures-wide.jpg
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Linearity of Holographic Entanglement Entropy (April 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38481 38481-7191721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

We consider the question of whether the leading contribution to the entanglement entropy in holographic CFTs is truly given by the expectation value of a linear operator as is suggested by the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. We investigate this property by computing the entanglement entropy, via the replica trick, in states dual to superpositions of macroscopically distinct geometries and find it consistent with evaluating the expectation value of the area operator within such states. However, we find that this fails once the number of semi-classical states in the superposition grows exponentially in the central charge of the CFT. Moreover, in certain such scenarios we find that the choice of surface on which to evaluate the area operator depends on the density matrix of the entire CFT. This nonlinearity is enforced in the bulk via the homology prescription of Ryu-Takayanagi. We thus conclude that the homology constraint is not a linear property in the CFT.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:50:02 -0400 2017-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Physics
How Librarians Can Fight for Digital Privacy (April 5, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39837 39837-8388493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Alison Macrina talks about how the Library Freedom Project is fighting surveillance and making digital privacy tools mainstream and ubiquitous through the trusted space of the library, followed by a Q/A session. Macrina is a librarian, internet activist, the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, and a core contributor to The Tor Project.

How can librarians protect our fundamental values of intellectual freedom and privacy in an era when political dissidents, religious minorities, immigrants and other marginalized people's rights are seriously threatened? How can we do this given the monumental powers of state surveillance and Big Data? Library Freedom Project brings together the expertise of librarians, hackers, attorneys and activists to create practical privacy trainings for people at any level of technical ability.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:41:40 -0400 2017-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T14:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Photo of Alison Macrina
Department Colloquium | Digging Into the Large Scale Structure: From the Galaxies to the Cosmic Web (April 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38475 38475-7191713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Galaxy spectroscopic surveys provide the means to map out this cosmic large-scale structure in three dimensions, furnishing a cornerstone of observational cosmology. The information is given in the form of galaxy locations, and is typically condensed into a single function of scale, such as the galaxy correlation function or power-spectrum. However, galaxy correlation functions are not the only information those surveys provide. One of the most striking features of N-body simulations is the network of filaments into which dark matter particles arrange themselves. We however traditionally only use the information contained in the positions of the galaxies, and in some occasions, we look at other cosmic structures of the Universe such as voids. In this colloquium, I explore the information beyond the galaxy positions in large sky surveys combining novel ideas with recent techniques in statistical methods and machine learning algorithms. In particular, we will investigate the following two topics: the "cosmic web" that are mostly ignored in any large scale structure analyses in the Universe and how it affects the surrounding galaxies; and "likelihood free analysis" with machine learning.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:47:53 -0400 2017-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar Physics
Policing Black Citizenship: From the Founding to Ferguson (April 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38991 38991-7551384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School will deliver the bi-annual Brian Simpson Lecture. This year's lecture is entitled "Policing Black Citizenship: From the Founding to Ferguson."

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and formerly the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Queen's College, University of Oxford (2014-2015). She won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2009), a subject she had previously written about in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (University Press of Virginia, 1997). She is also the author of Andrew Johnson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010). Her most recently published book (with Peter S. Onuf) is “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her honors include a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, and the Woman of Power & Influence Award from the National Organization for Women in New York City. Gordon-Reed was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and is a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:00:09 -0500 2017-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
Relief after Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days (April 6, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39183 39183-7763690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix, author of the Thousand and One Days (Les Mille et un Jours; 1710–12), presented his work as a translation from a Persian manuscript titled Hezār va yek ruz (A Thousand and One Days). Research has meanwhile proved beyond reasonable doubt that s allegation constitutes a wilful mystification. The direct source Pétis de la Croix exploited for the majority of tales was not Persian but rather an anonymous Ottoman Turkish manuscript titled Ferec baʿd eş-şidde (Relief after Hardship). The work, first mentioned in Antoine Galland’s Istanbul diaries, has been compiled before the end of the fourteenth century and undoubtedly constitutes a translation of one or several Persian works. Scholars of Persian and Ottoman studies, such as Fritz Meier and Andreas Tietze, have proposed a detailed discussion of the sources of Ferec baʿd eş-şidde since long, but the detailed commentary Tietze intended to prepare on the work was never published.
My presentation will discuss the complicated relation between the early eighteenth-century French Mille et un Jours, the fourteenth-century Ottoman Ferec baʿd eş-şidde, and a genre of Persian literature that is known as Jāmeʿ al-ḥekāyāt (Compilation of Tales). Until recently, the oldest representatives of the latter genre were known from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The recent discovery of a Jāmeʿ al-ḥekāyāt dating to the twelfth century opens up new perspectives on the relation of Pétis de la Croix’s text to the Ottoman Turkish and Persian texts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:05:15 -0500 2017-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 2017-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Marzolph Lecture
In Search of Wang Wei (April 6, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38315 38315-7070219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

"The Art Historical Art of Song China Workshop" will kick off with Professor Richard Barnhart's lecture at the Michigan Union Pendleton Room. This international workshop is hosted by the Department of the History of Art in cooperation with the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the University of Michigan Confucius Institute. Click on the link here to see the full workshop schedule: http://china-art-song.hart.lsa.umich.edu/

Abstract:

Wang Wei (701-761), one of China’s greatest poets, left a legacy of ineffable poetry that is still read and admired around the world. He is also remembered as a great painter despite the fact that not a single painting by him is known to have survived and the reasons for his stature have not been identified. Seeking to recover what remains of Wang’s lost art, and to separate it from the debased replicas of his Wangchuan compositions said to have been copied by Guo Zhongshu (and many others), and the archaic snowy landscape handscrolls supposedly copied by Yan Wengui and Xu Daoning, we find it inextricably imbedded in the very origins and identity of Song landscape painting itself. The painter Wang Wei who emerges from this examination was the peer of Dong Yuan and Fan Kuan, and as important as Li Cheng and Guan Tong in establishing the character of Song landscape painting.

About the speaker:

Richard M. Barnhart studied art history at Princeton University with Wen Fong and Shujiro Shimada, and at Harvard University with Max Loehr. He spent most of his career teaching at Yale University and writing books and articles on Chinese art history. Since his retirement in 2000 he has lived with his wife Catherine on San Juan Island, off the northwest coast, and continues a lifelong dedication to the study of Song painting.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:35:20 -0500 2017-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 2017-04-06T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Richard Barnhart Image
Detroiters Speak: Teaching & Learning in Detroit Schools Today (April 6, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37970 37970-6814972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:11:31 -0500 2017-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 2017-04-06T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Detroiters Speak Flyer
Error Correction in Foreign Language Classrooms: Journey to Ithaca (April 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39693 39693-8241175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Language Resource Center

Correcting grammar errors in speaking or writing is thought to be part of every language teacher’s job, a professional duty that many teachers excel in and that most language students expect. There are however many complexities that teachers wonder about, encompassing affective concerns (will it demotivate some of my students?), time management (how can it become less time consuming?), doubts about effectiveness (how do I know that it is making a difference in my students’ accuracy?), proficiency differences (should I correct errors in the same ways regardless of my students’ language level?), and educational goals and philosophies of teaching (how should I reconcile correcting for accuracy with teaching for communication? how do I manage language accuracy efforts like error correction in the context of teaching other important dimensions of a foreign language, like culture, literature, or writing?). Professor Ortega will examine these complexities and propose tentative best practices regarding why, whether, how, when, and what to correct in foreign language students’ errors. Her goal is to do so through insights gleaned from a balanced examination of research findings and the realities of foreign language education in practice. In the end, she will argue that much is to be gained if language teachers rethink their error correction as the kind of journey to Ithaca Greek-Alexandrian poet Kavafis proposed: An opportunity for lasting engagement in professional self-discovery, rather than a point of final destination.

Lourdes Ortega is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her main area of research is in second language acquisition, particularly sociocognitive and educational dimensions in adult classroom settings. Before moving to the USA in 1993, she was a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language at the Cervantes Institute in Athens and she has also taught English as a second language in Hawaii and Georgia. Lourdes was co-recipient of the Pimsleur and the TESOL Research awards (2001) and has been a doctoral Mellon fellow (1999), a postdoctoral Spencer/National Academy of Education fellow (2003), and a senior research fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2010). She was Journal Editor of Language Learning (2010-2015) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Michigan’s Language Learning Research Club (2016-2020). She has published widely in journals such as Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Learning, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and System. Her books include Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, translated into Mandarin in 2016), and co-edited collections on Technology-mediated TBLT (with Marta González-Lloret, John Benjamins, 2014) and The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism (with Ande Tyler and colleagues, Georgetown University Press, 2016). She is currently busy co-editing (with Annick De Houwer) The Handbook of Bilingualism for Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:22:51 -0400 2017-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Language Resource Center Lecture / Discussion Lourdes Ortega poster
Life After Grad School Seminar | My AAAS S&T Policy Fellowship: Transitioning into Science and Technology Policy - The Role of Evidence-Based Decision Making for Better Governance (April 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40147 40147-8483293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life After Grad School Seminars

In my talk I will share, first my experience as a Higher Energy Particle Physicist, highlighting some aspects of my 4-year postdoctoral career and what got me thinking more seriously about science for policies and policies for science. I will then give an overview of my STEM education initiatives in South America, in particular, my work with a Peruvian no for profit organization whose mission is to implement fully inclusive innovative education STEM projects for students in Peru. I will then talk about my transition into science policy as a first year AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. I will highlight my work investigating institutional efforts to transform teaching and learning in STEM fields into environments that support and scale-up evidence-based teaching and learning practices across all STEM departments. I will also talk about some of my own projects, ranging from science diplomacy to regional food systems for sustainable food production and consumption. I will finish talking about all that there is to learn and explore in the nation’s capital and my "vision" for "my future."

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:00:09 -0400 2017-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Life After Grad School Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
SAC Speaker Series Presents NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis Andrew Ross (April 7, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39890 39890-8403431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Recent writing about “creative labor” has helped us to understand how “working for exposure” has become a central economic principle of the media and knowledge industries. But this focus on the attention economy has neglected how the “groundstaff” are employed to construct and maintain our brand-name institutions. How can arts and media activists turn such institutions into communities of conscience where the rights of all workers are upheld?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:45:00 -0400 2017-04-07T13:30:00-04:00 2017-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Flier
Ta Da Moon, Alice!!! (April 7, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37055 37055-6128231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

How did we do it? How on earth did we get to the moon? This group looks at the people who conceived and achieved one of mankind’s greatest adventures.

We will also consider the unique set of historical, political, social, artistic and economic circumstances that favored such a bold step into the unknown.

This class for those 50 and over will be led by instructor Michael Kapetan, a semi-retired artist living in Ann Arbor. It will meet for two hours on Fridays from April 7 through April 28.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 28 Jan 2017 08:26:48 -0500 2017-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
HET Seminar | Dark Matter and Light Forces: Precisely Predicting Indirect Signals (April 7, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38487 38487-7191727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Heavy dark matter coupled to much lighter force carriers exhibits a range of interesting behaviors that are not well-characterized by the usual perturbative Feynman diagram expansion, including long-range interactions, annihilation rates modified by both large velocity-dependent enhancements and large logarithms, and the presence of bound states. There has been great interest in recent years in dark sectors containing both dark matter and much lighter particles; as the LHC continues to constrain low-scale supersymmetry, even classic weakly interacting dark matter candidates may need to be heavy relative to the weak gauge bosons. I will describe recent work to characterize the novel properties of heavy dark matter coupled to light force carriers, in two principal directions: (1) the precision calculation of heavy wino dark matter annihilation to line photons using effective field theory, now to NLL’ order, and (2) the properties of dark-sector bound states where multiple force carriers and several states in a dark matter multiplet may be involved, using the wino as an example. I will discuss the importance of these results for indirect detection experiments searching for the products of dark matter annihilation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:52:21 -0400 2017-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Mannerist Palinode: Art, Empire, and Dispossession in Early Modern Iberia (April 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38067 38067-6866268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: History of Art

Talk by Professor Vincent Barletta. Vincent Barletta is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:38:35 -0400 2017-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building History of Art Lecture / Discussion Painting: Martírio de São Sebastião
Success in Multilingual Learning: Continued, Probabilistic, and Beyond Language (April 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39694 39694-8241176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Language Resource Center

How successful are adults in their learning of new languages? Traditionally, the field of second language acquisition has answered this question rather pessimistically, comparing multilingual success directly to monolingual success. Professor Ortega leverages research insights from developmental bilingualism and the study of critical applied linguistics and language ideologies and proposes that multilinguals’ success must be thought of as a probabilistic continuum along both early and late bilingualism that goes beyond strictly linguistic notions of competence.

Lourdes Ortega is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her main area of research is in second language acquisition, particularly sociocognitive and educational dimensions in adult classroom settings. Before moving to the USA in 1993, she was a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language at the Cervantes Institute in Athens and she has also taught English as a second language in Hawaii and Georgia. Lourdes was co-recipient of the Pimsleur and the TESOL Research awards (2001) and has been a doctoral Mellon fellow (1999), a postdoctoral Spencer/National Academy of Education fellow (2003), and a senior research fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2010). She was Journal Editor of Language Learning (2010-2015) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Michigan’s Language Learning Research Club (2016-2020). She has published widely in journals such as Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Learning, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and System. Her books include Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, translated into Mandarin in 2016), and co-edited collections on Technology-mediated TBLT (with Marta González-Lloret, John Benjamins, 2014) and The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism (with Ande Tyler and colleagues, Georgetown University Press, 2016). She is currently busy co-editing (with Annick De Houwer) The Handbook of Bilingualism for Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:23:44 -0400 2017-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Language Resource Center Lecture / Discussion Lourdes Ortega poster
Saturday Morning Physics | Hunting for Evidence of Galactic Cannibalism (April 8, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/37117 37117-6153935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 8, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Our home, the Milky Way, is surrounded by a host of small dwarf galaxies. Currently one of these galaxies, Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal, is being striped apart - cannibalized - by the Milky Way. Theory suggests that this violent act is not unique, and that the diffuse stellar halo that surrounds the Milky Way is in fact a tidal graveyard of destroyed dwarf galaxies. Dr. Loebman will discuss how astronomers study the stellar halo and hunt for evidence of our cannibalistic past. She will also highlight tantalizing clues of a cataclysmic epoch in the Milky Way's history and how new observations from Gaia may cause us to rethink our distant past.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:10:35 -0500 2017-04-08T10:30:00-04:00 2017-04-08T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Physics
Quantitative Biology Seminar | How the Physics of Enhancers Shapes Development (April 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36418 36418-5607182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Quantitative Biology Seminars

Enhancers are small regulatory pieces of DNA that control the activity of genes, which eventually determine cellular fates during the development of multicellular organisms. They need to measure the concentrations of various input effector molecules, called transcription factors, and then act over often very long distances along the DNA in order to activate a distantly located gene. In this talk I will present my laboratory’s progress on two fundamental physical properties of these enhancers: 1. How do enhancers operate at long distances to instruct gene activity? 2. How do enhancers decode the information of the input transcription factors and then transduce it into a precise output? We use a combination of genome editing, live imaging and statistical mechanics techniques to address these questions in the developing fly embryo.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:23:36 -0400 2017-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Quantitative Biology Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Tony Lewis, author of "Slugg", speaks in the RC (April 10, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38990 38990-8216633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2017 4:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

"Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration" is a blueprint for survival and a demonstration of the power of love, sacrifice, and service. The son of a Kingpin and the prince of a close-knit crime family, Tony Lewis Jr.'s life took a dramatic turn after his father's arrest in 1989. Washington D.C. stood as the murder capital of the country and Lewis was cast into the heart of the struggle, from a life of stability and riches to one of chaos and poverty. How does one make it in America, battling the breakdown of families, the plague of premature death and the hopelessness of being reviled, isolated, and forgotten? Tony Lewis' astonishing journey answers these questions and offers, for the first time, a close look at the familial residue of America's historic program of mass incarceration.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:23:29 -0400 2017-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 2017-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion East Quadrangle
CM-AMO Seminar | Symmetry, Topology, and Classifying Quantum "Stuff" (April 11, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38366 38366-7140409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: CM-AMO Seminars

Over the past several decades, topology has emerged as an important part of how we understand materials in the quantum regime, allowing us to identify a new type of phase of matter known as a topologically ordered phase. More recently we have understood that symmetry can act in topologically ordered systems in a way that is quite different from its effect in conventional systems. I will review how topology entered our understanding of quantum matter, and how symmetry acts differently in some of these systems. This will allow us to explore new possibilities for quantum materials with strong inter-particle interactions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:11:15 -0400 2017-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall CM-AMO Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Award Winning Author Dr. Ibram Kendi (April 11, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39709 39709-8259566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:41:08 -0400 2017-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 2017-04-11T19:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Munger Graduate Residences Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ibram Kendi
Emerging research on fracking and water policy: a panel discussion (April 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/39452 39452-8069316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091

11:30am-1:00pm (pizza lunch available to first 100 attendees)

Free and open to the public

About the lecture:
While much attention has been focused on the threats that hydraulic fracturing poses to water systems—whether by its consumptive use of freshwater or the risk of contaminating ground- and surface waters—the financial wealth that oil and gas development brings to state and local governments may provide opportunities to protect water resources. This diverse group of scholars will discuss their research at the intersection of fracking and water policy, and as a panel explore whether there are particular policies or practices that might be scaled-up or replicated outside their geographical area of study to create more sustainable energy-water systems.

Panelists
Jenna Bednar, Department of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan

Margaret Cook, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Barry Rabe, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Moderator
Sarah B. Mills, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Sponsored by:
University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Co-Sponsored by:
University of Michigan Program in the Environment (PitE)
University of Michigan Energy Institute
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091. Follow on Twitter @closup

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:07:26 -0500 2017-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion
The Romance Creoles are Not Bastard Tongues; they are Legitimate Offspring of their Lexifiers! (April 12, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39695 39695-8241177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

Focusing on French creoles, Professor Mufwene shows that the Romance creoles are new Romance vernaculars that diverge from their lexifiers in ways similar to the divergence of the latter from Vulgar Latin. In some ways, the creoles are less divergent from their nonstandard lexifiers than the traditional Romance languages are from theirs, prompting us to factor in the significance of layers of language contact (during their longer history) in shaping the structures of neo-Latin vernaculars in Europe. Their non-rectilinear and non-unilineal evolutions also remind us of the competition that obtained among the numerous neo-Latin vernaculars within their national borders and the particular role of academies in aspiring at linguistic unity and artificially influencing their evolution.

Salikoko Mufwene is the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:14:48 -0400 2017-04-12T16:30:00-04:00 2017-04-12T18:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Mary A. Rackham Institute Lecture / Discussion Salikoko Mufwene poster
Science Cafe: Safeguarding Science: Expanding Access to Public Data (April 12, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39341 39341-7970390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Publicly funded research data are vital for scientists of all kinds. Whether government research is on climate change, housing, or animal welfare, access to the data is crucial to free inquiry and can bear directly on public policy. Meet University of Michigan faculty and librarians participating in the national DataRefuge project, which looks to preserve, organize, and increase access to publicly funded research data. What are the issues in making data accessible for the long term? What can you do to help?

Speakers include:
Jake Carlson, Research Data Services Manager, University of Michigan Library
Paul Edwards, Professor of Information, School of Information and Professor of History, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Catherine Morse, Government Information, Law and Political Science Librarian
Justin Schell, Director, Shapiro Design Lab, University of Michigan Library


Science Cafés provide an opportunity for audiences to discuss current research topics with experts in an informal setting. Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.; program 6:00-7:30 p.m. Seating is limited—come early.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:32:47 -0400 2017-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2017-04-12T19:30:00-04:00 Ruthven Museums Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Ruthven Museums Building
Conflict & Cyberspace: Emerging Challenges & Norms (April 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40225 40225-8525059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:12:34 -0400 2017-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-13T11:15:00-04:00 Michigan Union Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Conflict & Cyberspace: Emerging Challenges & Norms
EEB Special Seminar: Coping with environmental change: integrating behavior and mechanism (April 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39818 39818-8382343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

If organisms are to persist in the face of climate change, they must be able to deal not only with increasing temperatures, but also with greater climatic variation. I will discuss how living in social groups allows animals to cope with environmental uncertainty. Using comparative data across all birds, as well as empirical data from one species of cooperative breeder, I will demonstrate the many ways that environmental variation influences social living as well as the fitness benefits of being social. I will then highlight the physiological, epigenetic, and genetic responses that animals use to cope with naturally variable environments. Specifically, I will show how different components of the vertebrate stress response are shaped by different timescales of environmental variation, how environmental conditions during development influence DNA methylation of the stress hormone receptor, and how environmental change more broadly influences the evolution of that receptor. Together, these studies will illustrate the many ways that animals respond to and cope with environmental change.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/eqgU4K3jh-g

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:17:31 -0400 2017-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion blue bird
Repossessing the Valley of the Fallen: the case of Alex de la Iglesia's Balada triste de trompeta (April 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37753 37753-6687059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Talk by Alejandro Yarza.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:01:38 -0400 2017-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-13T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Alejandro Yarza graphic
Roland Barthes: The Image and the Imaginary (April 13, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40165 40165-8506737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2017 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:54:08 -0400 2017-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 2017-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion sergey zenkin 4/13/17 event infografic
Toward a History of Waiting, 1200-1800 (April 14, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38163 38163-6967942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Part of the German Studies Colloquium Series.

Free and open to the public - visit our website at
www.lsa.umich.edu/german/events for updates and details.

For further information, also contact: Julia Hell at hell@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:19:03 -0500 2017-04-14T14:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
HET Seminar | Dualities in Quantum Hall Physics (April 14, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38489 38489-7191729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dualities are a powerful concept in quantum field theory, helping us to identify to correct low energy degrees of freedom. In this talk several old and many new dualities in 2+1 dimensions will be shown to all follow from one conjectural base pair, with potential applications to the physics of the quantum Hall effect.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:18:54 -0400 2017-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Smith Lecture: Exploring Climate Change Projections from the Ground Up: How Plants Shape Weather in a High CO2 World (April 14, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/33863 33863-4813767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Plants serve as a key link in the global carbon and hydrologic cycles, regulating earth’s temperature, humidity, and atmospheric composition. In the presence of elevated CO2 concentrations, plants are expected to respond through increased photosynthesis and reduced stomatal conductance. However, the impacts of these vegetation changes on regional and global climate are largely unknown. In this talk, I’ll use a suite of earth system model experiments to understand and estimate the contribution of CO2-induced vegetation changes to projections of future anthropogenic climate change. I’ll show that a reduction in stomatal conductance is the primary means by which elevated CO2 impacts vegetation’s role as a climate change agent. As stomatal conductance goes down, vegetation pumps less subsurface water to the boundary layer, altering energy and moisture fluxes throughout forested regions of the tropics and mid to high latitudes. These flux changes have a substantial impact on the spatial pattern and intensity of rainfall, as well as the frequency and duration of extreme temperature events. Though there remains considerable uncertainty in the representation of vegetation physiology in climate models, the results suggest that the response of vegetation to elevated CO2 may be as important as the radiative impact of CO2 in shaping climate change in some forested regions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:13:21 -0400 2017-04-14T15:30:00-04:00 2017-04-14T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Postcivil and Hypersocial: Digital Media after the Rise of Social Networking Platforms (April 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/34936 34936-8405605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist, whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age. She teaches digital media cultures and politics in university contexts (the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples 'L'Orientale’) and is also a member of the free university network Euronomade and of the Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative. Terranova's work has argued that the free labor of users is the source of economic value in the digital economy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:08:12 -0400 2017-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
FAST Lecture | Co-sponsored by CAW (The Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup) (April 14, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40370 40370-8529418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Jordan Dalton, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology:
The Tricky Thing About Tapia: Understanding Changes to the Settlement Pattern of the Chincha Valley During the Late Horizon (AD 1470-1532)

This talk will discuss possible changes made to the settlement pattern and urban centers of the Chincha Valley during the Late Horizon (AD1470-1532). The Late Horizon is defined by the presence of the expansionist Inca Empire in the Chincha Valley. From ethnohistoric sources and archaeological research we know that the Inca installed joint rule alongside the local Chincha elites. Under joint rule the Inca carefully developed and established their authority alongside that of the local Chincha. In order to understand the implications of this joint rule for the entire Chincha Valley I will look at settlement patterns for the lower valley and excavation data from the large urban agricultural center Las Huacas. The settlement pattern data for the Chincha Valley while rich, is restricted by the limited ability of researchers to differentiate between Late Intermediate Period (AD1100-1470) and Late Horizon occupations from the surface. This is a crucial distinction for understanding which changes in settlement pattern occurred during the Late Horizon under Inca occupation and which are the product of local socio-politcal development. I will conclude with a discussion of the organization of Chincha urbanism and highlight future lines of research for understanding how it may or may not have changed under joint rule.

Martin Menz, Doctoral Student in Anthropology:
Domestic Craft Production and Exchange in the Woodland Period Deep South

Archaeological considerations of craft production and specialization in the American Southeast have often focused on elaborate prestige goods crafted from exotic materials. Less frequently studied is the potential for specialized production of mundane household goods. Here I review the evidence for craft production and exchange from Kolomoki, a large Middle-to-Late Woodland period (A.D. 300-850) village and mound complex in southwestern Georgia, and attempt to situate it within a series of exchange networks predicated upon periodic ritual gatherings and regional interaction. I argue that periodic convergence at Kolomoki and other mound centers temporarily brought together individuals from various ecological and geological zones, providing an outlet for craft producers and visitors to exchange raw materials and finished goods.

Reception 5:30 PM, Lecture 6:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:42:42 -0400 2017-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2017-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion FAST lecture
SIMTalks: Debriefing Strategies to Achieve Learning Outcomes (April 18, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40386 40386-8542096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Nursing

Join U-M School of Nursing's Michelle Aebersold, Director of Simulation and Educational Innovation, for the inaugural SIMTalk (Simulation, Innovation, Michigan). This presentation is entitled "Debriefing Strategies to Achieve Learning Outcomes."

Guests are welcome to livestream the talk via BlueJeans at bluejeans.com/828096972/

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Presentation Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:14:40 -0400 2017-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Nursing Presentation SIMTalks digital sign
From Samuel de Champlain to Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin: Mapping the Great Lakes in the 17th Century (April 18, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37975 37975-6814977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join Jean-François Palomino as he discusses early French mapping of the Great Lakes region and two noted cartographers who played seminal roles in introducing the Great Lakes to Europeans.

A Michigan Map Society Lecture. This event is free and open to the public. For any questions, please email Anne Bennington-Helber at abhelber@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:01:22 -0400 2017-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 2017-04-18T19:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Champlain
Teaching English Abroad Workshop (April 19, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40555 40555-8603169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are You Teaching English Abroad This Summer?

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:20:57 -0400 2017-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2017-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
“Play” Matters (April 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37191 37191-6406941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

During the last 20 years, the ability to play has been added as a harbinger of good mental health along with the ability to work and love.

This course, for those 50 and over will focus on some of the ingredients of play. What is meaningful play? How does playfulness grow, change or decline over the decades? How does play carry over from childhood to our later decades? What happens when play is impeded? Hopefully our discussions will help us appreciate the potential player within us.

Instructor Morton Chethik is an Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry at UM, and has written about the role of play in our development. The course will meet for 90 minutes on Wednesdays from April 19 through May 17.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:53:03 -0500 2017-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Crucial Effects of Saxion Cosmology on Dark Matter (April 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39251 39251-7866656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In supersymmetry, the lightest supersymmetric particles (LSP) are well-motivated candidatesfor dark matter. When the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry is evoked to solve the strong CP problem, the axion becomes another viable candidate. The axion's scalar superpartner, the saxion, however significantly changes the conventional picture. During inflation, a potential for saxions is induced and displaces the saxion field value away from the vev today. This results in a large saxion condensate that dominates the energy density of the Universe. The saxion subsequently decays to the particles in the thermal bath, generating a large amount of entropy and diluting the dark matter abundance. We focus on the cases where dark matter is the axion from the misalignment mechanism, or the axino/gravitino LSP that arises from the thermal scattering and Freeze-In processes. The former case allows the PQ symmetry and grand unification to be of the same origin, whereas the latter case allows a high reheat temperature after inflation, solving the axino/graviton problems. We will also discuss interesting phenomenology for this class of theories, e.g. dark radiation and displaced vertices at colliders.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:32:35 -0400 2017-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Physics
Town Hall Celebrity Lecture/Luncheon Series (April 20, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34132 34132-4856589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2017 11:30am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Waterman Alumnae Group

Jean Kilbourne is recognized around the world for her pioneering work on the image of women in advertising. In the late 1960s, she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and public health issues. She created the renowned film series Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women and authored the award winning book Can't buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. Jean received her BA in English from Wellesley College and a doctorate in education from Boston University. She has received numerous honorary degrees and national awards. Jean is known for her ability to present provocative topics in a way that encourages dialogue and empowers action.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:17:21 -0400 2017-04-20T11:30:00-04:00 2017-04-20T13:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Waterman Alumnae Group Lecture / Discussion Jean Kilbourne - Advertising
Capturing and Manipulating Functionally Specific Neural Circuits (April 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40493 40493-8578222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:22:43 -0400 2017-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Fan Wang, Ph.D.
Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America (April 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37976 37976-6814978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the 17th and 19th centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples. Author David Silverman will discuss this profound "cultural earthquake" and its impact with special focus on Pontiac's War.

David J. Silverman (Ph.D. Princeton, 2000) specializes in Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history. His most recent book is Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America (Cambridge, MA., 2016). He is also the author of Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America (Ithaca, 2010), and Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1600-1871 (New York, 2005), and co-author of Ninigret, the Niantic and Narragansett Sachem: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country (Ithaca, 2014). His essays have won major awards from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the New York Association of History. He is currently writing a Wampanoag-centered history of Plymouth Colony and the Thanksgiving holiday for Bloomsbury Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:08:39 -0500 2017-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-20T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
MAS Lecture | The Archaeological Implications of Modern Saltmaking at Nexquipayac, Mexico (April 20, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39458 39458-8069323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Salt was an important commodity in many ancient societies throughout the world. This was certainly true in pre-Columbian Mexico where archaeologists have long been interested in how salt was produced, distributed, and consumed. Despite this interest, Mesoamerican archaeologists have often had difficulty recognizing the material correlates of these salt-associated activities. This has certainly been the case for my own research in the Valley of Mexico. My presentation highlights the results of an ethnographic study of traditional saltmaking I undertook at Nexquipayac, Mexico in 1988. I discuss how this study of the rapidly disappearing craft informs the efforts of archaeologists to better understand ancient saltmaking in pre-Columbian central Mexico.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:36:42 -0400 2017-04-20T19:30:00-04:00 2017-04-20T20:30:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion MAS lecture
Emergent Research: Investing in Healthy Minds (April 24, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40490 40490-8578219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2017 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Daniel Eisenberg, professor at the U-M School of Public Health, provides an overview of research in the Healthy Minds Network, a growing national initiative to collect and disseminate data and evidence related to college student mental health. He will address questions such as: Are mental health concerns increasing in college populations? What are the greatest needs in this area? What are the best opportunities to improve student mental health?

Eisenberg is a health economist and professor at U-M. His goal is to improve understanding of how to invest effectively in the mental health of young people, particularly college age populations. He directs the Healthy Minds Network, which conducts a national survey of student mental health and develops digital media interventions.

Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:18:32 -0400 2017-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2017-04-24T11:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research image
HEP-Astro Seminar | Higgs Boson Property Measurements with ATLAS at the LHC (April 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39363 39363-8038545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

After the discovery of Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a new era of studying the properties of this new particle has begun. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of Higgs boson property measurements using LHC Run 1 data, and then focus on the measurements of Higgs boson production in the four-lepton decay channel using data collected in 2015 and 2016 at center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC by the ATLAS detector.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:42:28 -0400 2017-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar Physics
Positive Links Speaker Series (April 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/36743 36743-5800713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:34:37 -0500 2017-04-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-04-24T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
What’s Going on in Housing? (April 25, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37184 37184-6406934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This three-session course will help home and property owners, investors and intellectually active seniors understand the latest developments in the local housing market and how it affects them, their friends and families.

Topics include: current housing market trends, factors that influence future market prices, preparing your home to sell, how property taxes are calculated, normal vs. distressed sales, foreclosures, short sales, the rental market and other topics proposed by the participants.

Instructor Wayne Esch, a long-time Ann Arbor realtor, will lead this study group for those 50 and over for two hours on Tuesdays from April 25 through May 9.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:24:01 -0500 2017-04-25T14:30:00-04:00 2017-04-25T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Study Group
Energy and Environmental Policy Research: a student symposium (April 26, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40604 40604-8642225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Wednesday April 26, 2017

10:30am-12:30pm (refreshments served)

The symposium begins promptly at 10:30am –not “Michigan Time

Free and open to the public

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Max and Marjorie Fisher Classroom (1220)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091

About the symposium:
Student panels will discuss the implications of their independent research projects on state and local environmental policy on issues ranging from recycling and food policy to water and energy.

Panels will be moderated by Christopher Borick, Professor and Director, Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion

Sponsored by:
University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091. Follow on Twitter @closup

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:30:53 -0400 2017-04-26T10:30:00-04:00 2017-04-26T12:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion poster graphic
Drug Discovery Seminar - "Next-Generation Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Neglected Parasitic Infections" (April 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40175 40175-8509059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for the Discovery of New Medicines - CDNM

Neglected parasitic infections represent a sub-class of infectious diseases with significant morbidity and mortality, but remarkably little progress over the past 50 years in development of drugs to treat such conditions. Because these diseases are found primarily in poor and developing countries, traditional incentives have been insufficient to encourage pharmaceutical development of new and innovative drug therapies. Although generally rare in the United States, globalization has increased the impact these diseases have on the health of Americans and the FDA has more recently introduced legislation to stimulate the development of new treatments. Turing Pharmaceuticals has applied modern drug discovery approaches to clinically validated therapeutic paradigms in efforts to identify next-generation therapies for neglected parasitic infections. One such paradigm, dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibition, has proven highly efficacious against multiple parasitic disease models. However, achieving a high degree of selectivity for parasite DHFR over its human ortholog has proven difficult, hindering development due to concerns regarding host toxicity. Using structure-based drug design and proprietary in silico screening methodology, Turing has identified some of the most potent and selective parasite DHFR inhibitors known to date and demonstrated their activity in relevant pharmacology models. These small molecules collectively represent a promising platform advancing toward clinical development for the treatment of neglected parasitic infections.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:11:10 -0400 2017-04-28T09:00:00-04:00 2017-04-28T10:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for the Discovery of New Medicines - CDNM Lecture / Discussion
SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR | Can Secret Sterile Neutrino Interactions Reconcile Cosmology and Short-Baseline Anomalies? (May 2, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40749 40749-8739778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 May 2017 10:03:19 -0400 2017-05-02T15:00:00-04:00 2017-05-02T16:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Special Lecture: What Can We Learn from Corals About the Past, Present, and Future? (May 3, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40739 40739-8717416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Massive coral skeletons preserve a rich history of the multivariate ways in which their environment, the tropical ocean, has changed over their lifetime. In this talk I’ll highlight what we have learned from corals about past climate variability and recent trends. My lab’s work on paleorecords from tropical Pacific corals has extended our knowledge of influential climate phenomena, including El Niño, recent warming, and multidecadal variability that is poorly captured in the limited instrumental record. We are also examining how the Pacific influences extratropical climate on these scales, including drought. Coral reefs are experiencing major declines worldwide, and paleoclimate records can help us understand the history – and document the unprecedented nature – of these stresses. To address solutions to this ecological crisis, and expand public understanding of the ocean and coral reefs, I am working to revitalize the ocean at the Biosphere 2 to create an experimental reef where solutions to the coral reef crisis can be developed and tested.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:49:37 -0400 2017-05-03T15:30:00-04:00 2017-05-03T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
U-M Office of Research, Distinguished University Innovator Award Lecture and Reception (May 15, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40742 40742-8717419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 15, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: U-M Office of Research

S. Jack Hu
Vice President for Research
Cordially invites you to attend the University of Michigan
2017 Distinguished University Innovator Award Lecture and Reception in honor of

Sridhar Kota, Ph.D.
Herrick Professor of Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Title of talk: The Long Road to Technology Commercialization:
Getting There is Half the Fun

Monday, May 15 at 4:00 PM
Stamps Auditorium at the Walgreen Drama Center
1226 Murfin Ave.

Reception Follows

Sponsored by the U-M Office of Research

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Reception / Open House Tue, 02 May 2017 10:31:54 -0400 2017-05-15T16:00:00-04:00 2017-05-15T17:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center U-M Office of Research Reception / Open House Walgreen Drama Center
Town Hall Celebrity Lecture/Luncheon Series (May 16, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/34133 34133-4856590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 11:30am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Waterman Alumnae Group

Victoria Lautman is a freelance cultural journalist, writer, and lecturer. Her focus is on all forms of art and culture, from architecture and design to history and literature. She has a BA in anthropology and art history from the University of New Mexico and an MA in art history from George Washington University. She began her multifaceted career as an art historian at the Smithsonian Institution's renowned Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden. Victoria has written for dozens of international publications on architecture, design, art, and culture. For 30 years, Victoria has visited many of India's lesser-known, yet most compelling sights. It is this insider's view of the subcontinent that she passionately shares with others.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:22:49 -0400 2017-05-16T11:30:00-04:00 2017-05-16T13:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Waterman Alumnae Group Lecture / Discussion Victoria Lautman - Travel
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (May 16, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40785 40785-8750087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Perspectives presents H. Luke Shaefer – award-winning author, poverty and social welfare policy scholar, associate professor, and the head of U-M’s new poverty initiative – as the next speaker in the ‘Getting to Know ISR’ series.

Shaefer will discuss the research behind his and Kathryn Edin’s landmark 2016 book $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.

Shaefer has presented his extraordinary work on innovative strategies to alleviate poverty at the White House, before the Senate Finance Committee, to social service providers, and to federal agencies.

In $2 a Day Shaefer and Edin examine the rise of deep poverty in the U.S., describe how impoverished families survive day to day, and provide new evidence and ideas “that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States” (New York Times Book Review).

$2 a Day won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and was a NYT Notable Book of the Year.

H. Luke Shaefer is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and the Ford School of Public Policy, a Faculty Associate at PSC and SRC, and Director of U-M’s Poverty Solutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 May 2017 11:52:23 -0400 2017-05-16T15:00:00-04:00 2017-05-16T16:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Shaefer Poster
Literati Bookstore Presents Roxane Gay (June 16, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40586 40586-8634065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 16, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Literati Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Roxane Gay to Hill Auditorium on Friday, June 16th, 2017 for a reading and signing in support of her latest book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Tickets are $30, reserved seating, and include a hardcover copy of the book, to be picked up at the venue. Signing information will be announced at the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:45:06 -0400 2017-06-16T19:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Lecture / Discussion Hill Auditorium
Joyce Jenje Makwenda: Motown in Zimbabwe (June 22, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41137 41137-8983775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Thursday, June 22, 6 pm at Cultivate (307 N. River St., Ypsilanti)

Joyce Jenje Makwenda is an archivist, historian, ethnomusicologist, and writer who was born in Zimbabwe in 1958. She lives and works in Harare where she founded and runs the Joyce Jenje Makwenda Collection Archive. It is one of the largest privately-owned archives in Zimbabwe, housing documented interviews, newspaper, vinyl records, photography, musical instruments, and other objects and materials. For the past thirty years her work has been focused on early urban culture, music, politics, education, religion, media, fashion, sexuality, cultural issues, and women’s histories in Zimbabwe. Some of her notable publications include Zimbabwe Township Music (2005), Divorce Taken (2009), and Women Musicians of Zimbabwe (2013).

Joyce Jenje Makwenda is the recipient of the 2017 ZCCD (Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit) Research Resident in partnership with the Penny Stamp Distinguished Speaker Series (University of Michigan) and Njelele Art Station in Harare, Zimbabwe. Her month-long residency will research cultural connections between Detroit and cities in Zimbabwe, focusing on the role of Motown music in early urban culture. This ZCCD Research Residence was made possible through funding from the Knights Foundation, Resonant Detroit Grant, and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan through the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

Joyce Jenje Makwenda will be conversing with Dr. Melvin Peters, who taught in the Department of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan. Dr. Peters is an archivist, historian, and writer specializing in the cultural history and cultural continuity of the expanse of the African Diaspora as expressed in literature, music, and film — and the relationship of cultural expression to social movements.

Presented in partnership with the Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit (ZCCD).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 May 2017 12:15:23 -0400 2017-06-22T18:00:00-04:00 2017-06-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/zimbabwe.jpg
Restoring the Maple River: Lake Kathleen Dam Removal Project - 2017 Summer Lecture Series (June 27, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41182 41182-8991892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

The Conservation Resource Alliance will lead a discussion panel of experts to explain the upcoming Maple River restoration project near the U-M Biological Station: removing the Lake Kathleen Dam. Learn what it takes to remove a dam and why it's important from experts in the field. Held in the Gates Lecture Hall.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:39:18 -0400 2017-06-27T19:30:00-04:00 2017-06-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion The Lake Kathleen dam near UMBS.
LACS Teacher Training Workshop (June 29, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40938 40938-8853104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 29, 2017 8:30am
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Zika outbreak in Latin America, Indigenous healing practices in Mexico, public health in Cuba, and more.

This workshop will introduce teachers to the diverse communities of Latin America and some of their strategies and traditions for promoting health and wellbeing. We will explore the concepts of population, demography, public health, colonialism, worldview, Indigenous medicine, and biomedicine.

The second half of the workshop will focus on strategies for teaching and reinforcing these concepts using visual art. All participants will be eligible to receive/ apply for:

• 6 State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs)

• A curriculum development grant of up to $200 for books and materials. Applications for these grants will be made available to participants after the workshop.

This program is designed for middle and high school social studies, art, and health teachers, but all are welcome!

To register online: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ii-signup/

For questions, contact Laura M. Herbert at lmhmich@umich.edu

This event is funded in part by a Title VI Federal Grant from the US Department of Education. Cosponsored by the International Institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 May 2017 15:21:45 -0400 2017-06-29T08:30:00-04:00 2017-06-29T16:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop / Seminar LACS workshop flier
Pollinator Conservation: Are Current Efforts Enough? - 2017 Summer Lecture Series All Camp Lecture (July 5, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41183 41183-8991893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is the Bennett endowed lecturer at UMBS this summer. She is a pollination ecologist with broad interests in understanding the patterns and processes that govern plant-pollinator interactions for conservation.

As an Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she and her students focus on identifying and understanding patterns in natural environments to help conserve and restore pollinator diversity. With a particular focus on bees, she investigates how plant diversity, fire, grazing and fragmentation, affect bee diversity in local communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:25:43 -0400 2017-07-05T19:30:00-04:00 2017-07-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is shown; she has dark skin, short hair, and is wearing a white top and large statement necklace with turquoise beads.
Investigating Plant-pollinator Interactions for Conservation - 2017 Summer Lecture Series Bennet Research Seminar (July 6, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41184 41184-8991894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 6, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is the Bennett endowed lecturer at UMBS this summer. She is a pollination ecologist with broad interests in understanding the patterns and processes that govern plant-pollinator interactions for conservation.

As an Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she and her students focus on identifying and understanding patterns in natural environments to help conserve and restore pollinator diversity. With a particular focus on bees, she investigates how plant diversity, fire, grazing and fragmentation, affect bee diversity in local communities.

During the research seminar, she will explain her work investigating pollinators and how it is pertinent to conservation efforts.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:30:16 -0400 2017-07-06T19:30:00-04:00 2017-07-06T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is shown; she has dark skin, short hair, and is wearing a white top and large statement necklace with turquoise beads.
Legal Protection of Pollinators: Efforts in the Courts and Legislatures to Defend and Restore These Critically Threatened Insects – 2017 Summer Lecture Series All Camp Lecture (July 11, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41190 41190-8991900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

This lecture will summarize legal protections for pollinators, and will discuss efforts in the courts and in state and federal legislatures to defend and restore pollinator health.

Aaron Colangelo is the Litigation Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He served as lead counsel in several dozen cases for NRDC, including lawsuits related to coastal water quality, migrant farmworker health, drinking water contamination, food safety, hazardous waste cleanup, and pollinator protections.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:51:43 -0400 2017-07-11T19:30:00-04:00 2017-07-11T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Aaron Colangelo of the NRDC is pictured wearing a crisp, light-blue dress shirt.
Copyright Keynote: The "Happy Birthday" Dispute (July 14, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41201 41201-9000137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 14, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Mark Rifkin, the head of the legal team in the class action suit challenging Warner/Chappell's enforcement of copyright to the song "Happy Birthday to You," speaks with Susan M. Kornfield, an intellectual property attorney who teaches at the U-M School of Law.

You're invited to stay after the discussion for a 3-4 pm reception.

See the full Copyright Camp schedule with bios of the speakers here: https://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright/copyright-camp-2017

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:37:17 -0400 2017-07-14T13:30:00-04:00 2017-07-14T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Copyright Camp logo
Watershed Protection Efforts That Work! – 2017 Summer Lecture Series All-Camp Lecture (July 18, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41191 41191-8991901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

This All-Camp Lecture will draw comparisons between rural and metropolitan watershed protection efforts, using two vastly different communities as case studies. Gail Gruenwald of the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council and Jim Foster of the Anacostia River Watershed Society will discuss what similar challenges and issues they face, as well as discussing how management in the two areas (Northern Michigan and Washington DC) differ. The discussion will be moderated by UMBS Interim Director Linda Greer.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:29:45 -0400 2017-07-18T19:30:00-04:00 2017-07-18T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion The pink and blue sky of the setting sun is reflected in the rippled surface of a woodland lake.
The Surprising Evolution of Bird Nests – 2017 Summer Lecture Series Hann All-Camp Lecture (August 1, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41192 41192-8991902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Nest evolution is generally assumed to have progressed from simple cups to more elaborate forms, but is that the case? 
In his talk, Jordan Price will describe the evolutionary history of passerine nests, focusing on early Australian lineages but also including species found here in Michigan. In the process, he'll explain what nest-building behavior can tell us about the evolution of behavior in general.

Jordan Price is the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His research integrates techniques from behavioral ecology and molecular phylogenetics to investigate the evolutionary histories of animal traits, especially the behaviors, sounds, and color patterns of birds. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and B.Sc.H. from Queen’s University in Canada.

Dr. Price is the University of Michigan Biological Station’s Hann Endowed lecturer for 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:05:58 -0400 2017-08-01T19:30:00-04:00 2017-08-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Four small, cream-colored bird's eggs covered in brown speckles are shown nestled in a simple, cup-shaped nest made of plant material.
Female Songbirds Aren't So Dull Afterall – 2017 Summer Lecture Series Hann Research Seminar (August 2, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41193 41193-8991903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Researchers have long focused on why male songbirds have such colorful plumage and sing such elaborate songs, while females are relatively dull and quiet. Indeed, this sexual difference was fundamental to the formulation of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. However, recent studies show that sexual differences in songbirds are often due to females losing these conspicuous traits rather than males gaining them. Furthermore, although male traits appear more divergent across species today, females have undergone more frequent and rapid changes in the evolutionary past. How are these new findings causing us to rethink some of Darwin's theories regarding differences between the sexes? Have we been asking the right questions?

Dr. Jordan Price is the University of Michigan Biological Station’s Hann Endowed lecturer for 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:11:24 -0400 2017-08-02T19:30:00-04:00 2017-08-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Jordan Price is pictured in a garden wearing a blue shirt.
From Coral Reefs in Fiji to Coastlines in New England: Rescuing Estuaries Around the World by Reducing Nitrogen Pollution – 2017 Summer Lecture Series Pettingill All-Camp Lecture (August 8, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41194 41194-8991904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Art Gold will draw on his research and international experiences to illustrate how recent advances in geospatial data, watershed science, and appropriate technologies can be combined to tailor tractable solutions to restore coastal waters.

Dr. Gold is the University of Michigan Biological Station’s Pentingill Endowed Lecturer this year. He is a Professor of Watershed Hydrology, the Natural Resource Program Leader, and Director of URI Water Quality Cooperative Extension Program at the University of Rhode Island. He is an alum of UMBS and part of the CLEAR research group.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:31:01 -0400 2017-08-08T19:30:00-04:00 2017-08-08T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Divers are shown next to a coral reef in shades of blue and green.
Aquatic Ecosystems as Nitrogen Sinks in Coastal Watersheds – 2017 Summer Lecture Series Petingill Endowed Research Seminar (August 9, 2017 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41195 41195-8991905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Arthur Gold is the University of Michigan Biological Station’s Pentingill Endowed Lecturer this year. He is a Professor of Watershed Hydrology, the Natural Resource Program Leader, and Director of URI Water Quality Cooperative Extension Program at the University of Rhode Island. He is an alum of UMBS and part of the CLEAR research group.

During his seminar, Dr. Gold will share some of his research that addresses the effects of land use and natural features on water quality, with particular focus on sources and sinks of nitrogen in mixed-use watersheds. He has published more than 80 refereed journal articles and attracted more than $17 million in external funding.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:36:06 -0400 2017-08-09T19:30:00-04:00 2017-08-09T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion An aerial view of marsh is shown, with blue waters and green marshlands.
In Conversation: Mobilizing Memory at Willow Run (August 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41656 41656-9417975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

After a 2013 visit to the once-famed industrial complex Willow Run in Washtenaw County, Michigan, Ernestine Ruben photographed the now-dormant facility, which was designed during World War II by her grandfather, Detroit architect Albert Khan. Join Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer Friess, for a conversation about the roles memory and history play in Ruben's photographs and a special screening of the new film Willow Run, which weaves together Ruben's photographs and an original score by composer Stephen Hartke.

Lead support for Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:29:25 -0400 2017-08-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Blurred Lights, Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run
Guided Tour (August 27, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41655 41655-9417974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 27, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni on the global art world. This exhibition features works collected by a diverse group of alumni and the artworks themselves span 3,500 years of art making. Victors for Art offers visitors an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not together. Presented in two parts—Figuration (February 18-June 11, 2017) and Abstraction (July 1-October 29, 2017), this second part, Abstraction, invites visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and
genres. UMMA docents will explore the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, Kenojuak Ashevak, and Do Ho Su, as well as other treasures such as a fifth-century Korean roof end tile, and an Amish quilt.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

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Presentation Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:25:53 -0400 2017-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2017-08-27T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
Introduction to Mapping in the Enlightenment (August 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41526 41526-9326537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join Mary Pedley, Clements Adjunct Map Curator, as she discusses the current exhibit, Mapping in the Enlightenment. After the lecture there will be time to view the exhibit at the Clements. Guests will have an opportunity to see one of only seven known copies of Cassini's Planisphere Terrestre (circular world map).

This exhibit aims to show the connections between the Enlightenment's search for answers to scientific questions, innovative mapping practices, and the interest and participation of the general public in the discussion and debate that these topics and maps elicited.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:44:43 -0400 2017-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-08-29T17:45:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Planisphere terrestre, ou son marquées longitudes de divers lieux de la terre, trouvées par les observations des eclipses des satellites de Iupiter / dressé et presenté a Sa Majesté par Mr. de Cassini, directeur a l'Observatoire Royal.
Campus of the Future (September 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43052 43052-9705045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Professor Mika LaVaque-Manty will describe recent trends and some of the exciting developments in higher education in general and at public research universities in particular.

U-M is among the leaders of academic innovations that combine the university’s 200-year commitment on accessible, public, and democratic education with new pedagogical and technological approaches. Instead of four intense years for late teens and young adults, the “college experience” of the future may begin as early as middle school and involve periods of residential activity in classrooms and labs and continue throughout the rest of one's life.

Originally from Finland, our keynote speaker for this Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (age 50+) Kickoff Event, Dr. LaVaque-Manty received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. He is currently the Director of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Michigan as well as a Professor of Political Science since 2001.

This event is free and open to the public of all ages.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:58:29 -0400 2017-09-07T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Kickoff
AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Metastructures for Vibration Suppression (September 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42813 42813-9661758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Daniel J. Inman, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson Professor
Aerospace Engineering Professor and Department Chair
University of Michigan

Metastructures, as used here, refers to a metamaterial inspired concept, and are structures with distributed vibration absorbers arranged in a repeated lattice type arrangement. In aerospace applications, it is critical to have low levels of vibrations while also using lightweight materials and metastructure approach provides the potential for adding damping and absorption to structural systems without adding a lot of added mass. Several issues will be discussed. First is the issue of weight. The second issue is the classic issue resolving the difference between damping and absorption. This issue arises because many of the metastructures reported in the literature are 3D printed with polymers, which of can be heavily damped. Thus it is not clear in some reported results whether the energy is dissipating through damping or is the result of vibration absorption. The last issue considered is one of adding feedback control to a metastructure design by using the piezoelectric effect. Once control is added to the structure a totally temperature independent highly, damped structure can be designed which is both lightweight and has excellent vibration suppression properties across a wide range of temperatures.

About the speaker...
Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, as well as the C. L. “Kelly” Johnson Collegiate Professor. Since 1980, he has published eight books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 350 journal papers and 600 proceedings papers, given 62 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 62 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees. He works in the area of applying smart structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft. He is a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IIAV, SEM and AAM.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:30:06 -0400 2017-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Inman photo
EIHS Lecture: Writing a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age (September 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40910 40910-8828522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In his forthcoming book, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof tells the stories of a group of working class, Afro-descended, exiles from Cuba and Puerto Rico. At the end of the nineteenth century, they helped create a multi-racial movement to throw off Spanish colonialism in Cuba, predicated on the promise that in a free Cuba there would be no blacks or whites, only Cubans. Hoffnung Garskof traces the evolution of this political coalition and its promise of a nation "for all" from the perspective of the black and brown migrants who took part in it, arguing that their experiences of mobility, and especially their experiences as settlers in New York City, were fundamental to the evolution of racial politics in Cuba and Puerto Rico. In this talk, he will discuss the digital research methods he employed in the book, taking one episode from Racial Migrations as a case study for thinking through the “entanglement” of the transnational turn and the digital turn in the contemporary practice of history.

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is associate professor of history, American culture, and Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan, where he teaches courses on the history of Latinas/os in the United States, Latin American popular music, and immigration. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton, 2008) and Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850-1910 (Under review, Princeton University Press).

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:04:30 -0400 2017-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Smith Lecture: Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange and Nitrogen Fate in Tidal Rivers (September 8, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41527 41527-9326538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Tides in coastal rivers can propagate tens to hundreds of kilometers inland and drive pulses in water and nutrient exchange between rivers and their surrounding aquifers. Our group is using field observations and numerical models to understand enhanced surface water-groundwater exchange and nitrogen transformations in the riparian zones of tidal rivers. At our field site in White Clay Creek (Delaware, USA), we observe that tidal water table fluctuations aerate shallow groundwater in the banks, which allows high nitrate concentrations to develop. Continuous depth-resolved measurements of redox potential suggest that the zone of elevated nitrate is relatively stable over tidal timescales but moves up or down in response to storms. Much of the nitrate is removed by denitrification along oscillating flow paths towards the channel. However, denitrification is limited within centimeters of the sediment-water interface by the mixing of groundwater with oxygen-rich river water. Our models predict that the benthic zones of tidal rivers play an important role in removing new nitrate inputs from discharging groundwater but may be less effective at removing nitrate from river water. Nitrate removal and production rates are expected to vary significantly along tidal rivers as permeability, organic matter content, tidal range vary. It is imperative that we understand nitrogen dynamics along tidal rivers and their role in nitrogen export to the coast.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:36:39 -0400 2017-09-08T15:30:00-04:00 2017-09-08T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Fall 2017 Kickoff Lecture: Dean Jonathan Massey, "Building Tomorrow" (September 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43616 43616-9821487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Dean Jonathan Massey kicks off the Taubman College 2017 Fall Lecture Series, welcoming back the Taubman College community and introducing a vision for the college in its next era: Building Tomorrow. 
Architect and historian Jonathan Massey is dean and professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In his previous position as dean of architecture at California College of Arts, his primary responsibility was for the vision, leadership, and administration of the CCA Architecture Division, which includes three accredited programs in architecture and interior design. At Syracuse University, he was the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, where he chaired the Bachelor of Architecture program and the University Senate.
Massey holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Princeton University as well as a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. His professional training includes practice experience at Dagmar Richter Studio, Brantner Design Associates, and Gehry Partners along with teaching experience at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Woodbury University. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Transdisciplinary Media Studio and the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, which focus on the ways that history and practice of architecture and urbanism are understood and taught. His ongoing research explores how architecture mediates power by forming civil society, shaping social relationships, and regulating consumption. In Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) he reconstructed the techniques through which American modernist architects engaged new media, audiences and problems of mass society. His work on topics ranging from ornament and organicism to risk management and sustainable design has appeared in many journals and essay collections, including Aggregate's essay collection Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the 20th Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:18:12 -0400 2017-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lecture Poster
Robocalypse Now?: Technology and the Future of Work (September 11, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41582 41582-9367005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Talk summary: The process of technological displacement of workers began in the automobile industry in the 1960’s, and with the rise of connectivity and AI it is accelerating rapidly. For example, it may be no surprise, given what’s happened in the automobile industry, that the world’s first farm that is completely run by robots has just opened in Japan; or that a new robot is available for the construction industry that can lay bricks three times faster than a human. This kind of displacement of manual labor happened in previous industrial revolutions as well. More surprising, however, is the breadth of jobs that can be replaced by intelligent automation; it isn’t just manual labor that’s being replaced: even writers, for instance, are being displaced by computer software. In January, 2016, “the Associated Press (AP) revealed that [a software program called] Wordsmith has been rolling out content since July 2014 without any human intervention.” This Wordsmith software has been generating 1000 stories per month, which is “14 times more than the previous manual output of AP's reporters and editors.” In terms of sheer productivity, human writers cannot keep up with computers and robots. So what can we do as a society to compensate for technological unemployment, and to prevent the poverty, dislocation, and even violence that might follow, as it has in past industrial revolutions? My talk will present both the problems and possible short and longterm solutions to them.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur is Professor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), specializing in technology and culture. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, an international think tank, and a co-founder of the NY Posthuman Research Group and of the Visual Pathways Technology Consortium (for researching tech apps for the blind). Dr. LaGrandeur has written many articles and conference presentations on digital culture; on Artificial Intelligence and ethics; and on literature and science. His publications have appeared in journals such as Computers & Texts, Computers and the Humanities, and Science Fiction Studies; in books such as Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media and Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide, which contains his essay, ‘Emotion, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics.’ He has also published on Artificial Intelligence, society, and ethics in popular publications such as USA Today and United Press International (UPI). His book Artificial Slaves (Routledge, 2013), about the premodern cultural history of Artificial Intelligence and its foreshadowing of today’s technology, was Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize. In April, 2017, his latest book, co-edited with James Hughes, was published. About the future of AI’s displacement of human workers and how to meet this challenge, it is titled Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work.

This event is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Ford School of Public Policy, School of Information (UMSI), and Michigan Robotics

Questions? email Caroline Walsh (walshce@umich.edu)

http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/robocalypse-now-technology-and-future-work

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:03:08 -0400 2017-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Lecture / Discussion headshot
National Issues (September 12, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42220 42220-9584907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This study group for those 50 and above will focus on domestic public issues of great importance. Topics will be selected by the class members, and teams of class members will facilitate group discussion using materials gleaned from the internet, recent readings, life experiences, and other similar sources.

Instructors Barbara Comai and Leo Shedden will lead these two hour discussions on Tuesdays September 12, October 3, 17 and 31, November 7and 21, and December 5 and 19.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:43:47 -0400 2017-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Cognition and Emotion in Aging (September 12, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42415 42415-9601962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A series of TED-style talks (followed by Q&A/discussion) with researchers at UM not just about their own studies but the “bigger picture” related to their research on aging. Most focus on attention, memory, and emotion. No materials to purchase; occasional advance or follow-up readings may be distributed by email.

This course for those 50 and above will feature several researchers at the University of Michigan who use a variety of behavioral and neuroscience techniques to explore the basic principles of attention, memory, and emotion, and how those functions may change as we get older.

The study group will meet for two hours on Tuesdays from September 12 - November 7(except on October 17).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:10:09 -0400 2017-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
GRE Prep Information Session (September 12, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44168 44168-9889213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Join us as we discuss the CSP Kaplan GRE Program in detail regarding the program structure, Kaplan data from previous academic terms, application requirements, and review specific application components. This event is for interested CSP junior and senior students only.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:18:28 -0400 2017-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar 20140828-Canon40D-00838.jpg
Environmental Law & Policy Program: EPA General Counsels (September 13, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43678 43678-9829823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:45am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

The Environmental Law and Policy Program will begin its 2017-18 Lecture Series with a first-ever event: a panel discussion featuring the EPA General Counsels from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. Please join us as we welcome Jonathan Cannon (Clinton), Roger Martella (Bush), and Avi Garbow (Obama) to talk about their tenures as the top attorney at EPA and to address the major environmental challenges of the last 25 years and the fate of environmental protection efforts in the Trump administration. Moderated by Professor David M. Uhlmann.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:25:55 -0400 2017-09-13T11:45:00-04:00 2017-09-13T13:10:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion South Hall
HET Brown Bag | Respect the ELDER: New Thermal Target for Dark Matter Direct Detections and Going Beyond with Astrophysical Signatures (September 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43407 43407-9759938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

A less explored procedure for a thermal relic to reach its current abundance is that it first elastically (thermally) decouples from the relativistic species before it freezes out from the number-changing processes. Here we present a novel dark matter (DM) candidate, an Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER), which is a thermal relic whose present-day abundance is determined by the cross-section of its elastic scattering on Standard Model particles, based on the aforementioned procedure.

Assuming that this scattering is mediated by a kinetically mixed dark photon, the ELDER scenario makes robust predictions for electron-recoil direct-detection experiments, as well as for dark photon searches. These predictions are independent of the details of interactions within the dark sector. The ELDER predictions provide a target region that will be almost entirely accessible to the next generation of searches for sub-GeV dark matter and dark photons.

If time permits, I will talk briefly about optical, gravitational, and radio signatures of DM-induced neutron star (NS) Implosions. The Astrophysical signatures (NS-NS mergers included!) are ways to go orders beyond the DM direct-detection limits.

This talk is based on Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221302 (arXiv:1512.04545), JHEP, 08:078, 2017 (arXiv:1706.05381), and arXiv:1706.00001

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:36:21 -0400 2017-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Getting from Raw Video Footage to Educational Website: Nagasaki Atomic History and the Present (September 13, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42380 42380-9599791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Nuclear weapons are an undeniable reality of our times. Nagasaki Atomic History and the Present (NAHP) is an educational website that seeks to have American students be able to imagine and realize what the effects of a nuclear weapon are/were/would be on people. NAHP is the result of over six years of small-group collaborations between students, atomic bombing survivors, citizens, NGOs, librarians, audio-visual technicians, professors, and universities around the world.

In this talk, Aleksandr Sklyar highlights the post-production work that followed the original filming of the video interviews with atomic bombing survivors in Nagasaki in summer 2010. This talk will be of interest to students and faculty conceiving public digital scholarship projects. It will give you a chance to reflect and prepare for the steps involved in preparing a final product after you have completed the collection of raw audiovisual material.

Aleksandr Sklyar is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Alex is also one of the creators of NAHP. Alex’s doctoral work looks at family decisions following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. He writes about food, home, material and social pollution, everyday nuclear worlds, and the permeation of the abnormal into the everyday.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:22:27 -0400 2017-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T15:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research
2017 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (September 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40819 40819-8774608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

There are two forms of waves that can propagate across the universe: Electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves. Galileo initiated electromagnetic astronomy 400 years ago by pointing a telescope at the sky and discovering the moons of Jupiter. LIGO recently initiated gravitational astronomy by observing gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Dr. Thorne will describe this discovery, the 50 year effort that led to it, and the rich explorations that lie ahead.

The University of Michigan's Department of Physics hosts the annual Ta-You Wu Lecture, which is one of the most prestigious lecture events in our Department. The Lectureship was endowed in 1991 through generous gifts from the University of Michigan Alumni Association in Taiwan. It is named in honor of Michigan Physics alumnus and honorary Doctor of Science, Ta-You Wu, one of the central figures of the 20th century in the Chinese and Taiwanese physics communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:31:06 -0400 2017-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Kip S. Thorne, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus (Caltech)