Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Meleko Mokgosi: Pan-African Pulp (September 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65254 65254-16559484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Saturday, September 21, 7:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

For his UMMA commission, Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi explores the history of Pan-Africanism, the global movement to unite ethnic groups of sub-Saharan African descent. Titled Pan-African Pulp, the exhibition features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, posters from Pan-African movements founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s, and stories from Setswana literature. Mokgosi is an artist and an associate professor in painting and printmaking at the Yale School of Art. By working across history painting, cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory, Mokgosi creates large-scale project-based installations that interrogate narrative tropes and the fundamental models for the inscription and transmission of history. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Botswana National Gallery, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery, Williams College Museum of Art, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Lead support for this commission is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center.

Image: Meleko Mokgosi, Acts of Resistance, 2018, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Meleko Mokgosi.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:24 -0400 2019-09-21T19:30:00-04:00 2019-09-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/mokgosi.jpg
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Islamic Law in Movement – Saints, Merchants, and Technocrats: The Diffusion of Malikism in the Islamic West (September 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64511 64511-16380888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

Why and how did Islamic law spread to areas so far and wide even after the initial centuries of military conquest and success in empire building? What is charismatic about something like law and how does it spread if not through coercion? What kind of culture was at its frontier as it spread in the past. This talk looks at the diffusion of one of the four schools of Islamic Law and how it developed in the Islamic West (Spain, the Maghrib, and West Africa) by focusing on a few illustrative episodes in its diffusion.

About the Speaker:

Camilo Gómez-Rivas is Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he teaches in the Literature Department and in the Legal Studies Program. His first book described the development of legal institutions in the first Berber-Islamic empire of Medieval Morocco. His current work is on displacement to the medieval and the early modern Maghrib.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. Contact: Jessica H. Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:09:25 -0400 2019-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
OLLI Dialog on Freedom & Diversity with Dilip Das (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64680 64680-16426886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Freedom is a core value, a proud symbol of what it means to be American. The meaning of freedom has evolved over the 243 years since our country’s founding. For many, freedoms were denied or constrained by laws, policies, and dominant culture. Today, in 2019, more individuals and groups feel a sense of freedom than ever before, but many, still, are marginalized. We will talk, as an OLLI group, about freedom and how an understanding of diversity and inclusion is deeply embedded into the meaning of freedom.

Dilip Das is Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a liaison for 12 UM units on campus implementing their five-year Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Strategic Plans. He is the Accreditation Liaison Officer at UM for the Higher Learning Commission’s 2020 UM Reaccreditation. Dilip also leads and helps manage statewide college access grant programs and mentors both graduate and undergraduate students. Dilip holds a doctorate in higher education administration, a master’s in science education, and a bachelor’s degree
in biology.

A first in a series of conversations with retiring academic and community leaders who will share their stories and unique perspectives as they look to their second acts.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:17:38 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
AIM Spotlight (September 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67287 67287-16831263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, September 24 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Great Lakes Central Room (4th Floor) of Palmer Commons our first AIM Spotlight as we welcome in Simon Nelson, FutureLearn CEO, and Matt Walton, FutureLearn Chief Product Officer, who will share insights into how the design of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform impacts the learning experience. Lunch is provided.

AIM Spotlight is an all new speaker series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation. This series will feature speakers external to the University of Michigan, focused on topics center around innovation in higher education and is tailored to a broad audience. Topics may include but are not limited to online learning, residential learning, research, technology, extended reality (XR), and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:15:06 -0400 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Spotlight
CANCELLED --- GISC Event. Hollywood Horror in Iran (September 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64720 64720-16434927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Edited 9/24/19:

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are sad to announce that our event "Hollywood Horror in Iran" has been CANCELLED. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, and we will be aiming to reschedule this event as soon as we can.

If you were planning to attend the event and want to stay updated on the possible rescheduling, you can join our newsletter here: https://ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies/about-us/subscribe.html, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter: @umichgisc

We are incredibly sorry for the inconvenience, but we hope to still see you all on Oct 1st for our first screening from our #Halaloween Muslim Horror Film Fest in the Michigan Theater.

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Alireza Doostdar is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion at the Divinity School and the College, University of Chicago. His first book, The Iranian Metaphysicals, was published by Princeton University Press in 2018.

Join us on September 24th, in 555 Weiser Hall at 4PM for a discussion on the reception of Hollywood horror in Iran and its differential uptake in discussions of filmic spirituality, on one side, and paranoia about satanism, on the other.

This event is free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at islamicstudies@umich.edu, we'd be happy to help. As you may know, some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange, so please let us know as soon as you can.

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Presentation Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:53:12 -0400 2019-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Presentation event_cancelled
DCMB Seminar, "Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery" (September 25, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66407 66407-16734206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
She’ll be describing the technologies and datasets her team uses to study human disease and develop new and improved treatments for their clients. She’ll cover the applications of traditional transcriptional profiling and sequence analysis as well as datasets and tools developed specifically for therapeutics development including CMap, Project Achilles, PRISM, functional CRISPR screening and others. She’ll also touch on topics like biomarker development, patient selection/stratification and gene therapy development. Along the way, she’ll describe what it’s like to work as a consultant, and how it differs from academic work or direct employment in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:01:32 -0400 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T15:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
ASC Lecture. Finding the South in the Global South (September 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65086 65086-16515413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

Is there such a thing as ‘world literature from the global south’? Perhaps the strongest conjunction between the theories of the global south and world literature is the interest in the political scope of literature. How can we imagine a literary canon that consolidates or prompts modes of political action, thereby bringing the political imperatives of the south or of regionalism to bear on the global scope of world literature? It sounds like a great deal of detective work. As such, this talk will present the case of uncanny affiliation between detective fiction north and south of the Mediterranean, starting from Sicily and Alexandria going via Paris, Liège and mediaeval Arabia. Whodunit? Everybody. That is what world literature means. But why? That is the imperative of the global south.

This event is made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation though the grant Global Humanities in Egypt and the Global South

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:15:06 -0400 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion hawas_event
Author's Forum Presents: "Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins" (September 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65991 65991-16678394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artemis Leontis (modern Greek and comparative literature) and Yopie Prins (English and comparative literature) discuss Leontis's new book "Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins." Q & A follows the conversation.

About the book:
This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer’s most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.

Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.

Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as “the only ancient Greek I ever knew.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:06:11 -0400 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion eva
Ibrahim Mahama: Failures Promises (September 26, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65255 65255-16559485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian artist who considers the ways in which capital and labor are expressed in common materials through large-scale installations. In Occupation Series, Mahama focused on the jute sacks that are synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works. Fabricated in Southeast Asia, the sacks are imported by the Ghana Cocoa Boards to transport cocoa beans and eventually end up as multi-functional objects, used for the transportation of food, charcoal, and other commodities. Often exploring the potentialities and failures of modernity, Mahama’s work uses materials and forms that present us with alternative perspectives through which to view the conditions of contemporary society, labor, and the “politics of the hand.” His most recent work, A Straight Line Through the Carcass of History, has also dealt with forms related to the second world war and bacteria life. Mahama obtained an MFA in painting and sculpture in 2013 and a BFA in painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. His work has been included in the 56th and 57th Venice Biennale, and has been exhibited internationally. He was an artist-in-residence with the Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2018.

Co-presented with the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:34 -0400 2019-09-26T17:10:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/mahama.jpg
The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Common (September 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66391 66391-16734115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Powerful Forces for Positive Change
How can business be a positive force for the common good? By what means can we foster constructive dialogue and enable progress on the defining issues of our time? Join us Thursday, September 26 for a conversation with award-winning artist, actor, best-selling author, and activist Common, on how we can create a better world through collective action.

Sept 26, 6:30 pm, Hill Auditorium
Open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 09:34:24 -0400 2019-09-26T18:30:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Handleman_Common_UMDigital
AE285 Undergrad Seminar: Building an Aircraft Portfolio: Were They All Worth It? (September 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67659 67659-16915709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Mike Stengel
Senior Associate, AeroDynamic Advisory

The commercial aerospace industry today is part of the backbone of the global economy due to the number of programs in production and under development, as well as record high production rates. However, aircraft programs are expensive and risky, sometimes putting the entire company on the line. While the financial consequences can be high for a program that does not sell well, there are also “home runs” that have provided streams of profits for OEMs. In this seminar, Mike Stengel of AeroDynamic Advisory will examine some of the key aircraft platforms that have defined the Airbus & Boeing portfolios, including the challenges faced during the development, successes & failures in marketing the aircraft to customers, and the financial and strategic outcomes for the companies.

Mike Stengel is a Senior Associate at AeroDynamic Advisory, where he is responsible for project management and research of aerospace markets. His particular area of focus is in the air transport manufacturing and Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) sectors. Mike's projects have spanned the aerospace industry, and include topics such as aftermarket strategy, transaction/M&A advisory, customer satisfaction, strategic technology assessments, and economic development for airlines, OEMs, industry associations, and investors.

Previously, Mike was an Associate at ICF International's Aerospace and MRO consulting practice. Prior to that, he interned at United Airlines in their San Francisco, CA engine and APU maintenance facility, as well as at AeroStrategy in 2011.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Michigan, where he has also been an invited guest speaker, and is an FAA-licensed commercial pilot with an instrument rating.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Sep 2019 08:55:52 -0400 2019-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Airbus-Family-formation-flight
Life In Graduate School | Computational Resources at Michigan (September 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67234 67234-16828994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life in Graduate School Seminars

Computational Resources at Michigan

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:21:06 -0400 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Life in Graduate School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
AE285 Undergrad Seminar: Building an Aircraft Portfolio: Were They All Worth It? (September 27, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67659 67659-16909331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Mike Stengel
Senior Associate, AeroDynamic Advisory

The commercial aerospace industry today is part of the backbone of the global economy due to the number of programs in production and under development, as well as record high production rates. However, aircraft programs are expensive and risky, sometimes putting the entire company on the line. While the financial consequences can be high for a program that does not sell well, there are also “home runs” that have provided streams of profits for OEMs. In this seminar, Mike Stengel of AeroDynamic Advisory will examine some of the key aircraft platforms that have defined the Airbus & Boeing portfolios, including the challenges faced during the development, successes & failures in marketing the aircraft to customers, and the financial and strategic outcomes for the companies.

Mike Stengel is a Senior Associate at AeroDynamic Advisory, where he is responsible for project management and research of aerospace markets. His particular area of focus is in the air transport manufacturing and Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) sectors. Mike's projects have spanned the aerospace industry, and include topics such as aftermarket strategy, transaction/M&A advisory, customer satisfaction, strategic technology assessments, and economic development for airlines, OEMs, industry associations, and investors.

Previously, Mike was an Associate at ICF International's Aerospace and MRO consulting practice. Prior to that, he interned at United Airlines in their San Francisco, CA engine and APU maintenance facility, as well as at AeroStrategy in 2011.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Michigan, where he has also been an invited guest speaker, and is an FAA-licensed commercial pilot with an instrument rating.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Sep 2019 08:55:52 -0400 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Airbus-Family-formation-flight
Xu Zhimo’s Surprising Journey: An Exploration of My Grandfather’s Life (September 27, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67479 67479-16864378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Biography
Tony S. Hsu is the grandson of Xu Zhimo. He was born in Shanghai shortly after the end of World War II. As a toddler, Hsu and his sisters were raised by his grandmother, Zhang Youyi, while his parents pursued their studies in America.

In the late 1940s, Zhang and her young charges left China amidst national political turmoil and settled in Hong Kong. At age six, Hsu and his sisters emigrated to New York to join their parents and begin a new life in America. Hsu ultimately received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and doctorate in applied physics from Yale University. He has been an executive for several technology companies. Hsu lives with his fashion designer wife, Lily Pao Hsu, and his filmmaker daughter, Alexandra, in Southern California. Chasing the Modern is his first book.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:07:25 -0400 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T14:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Tony Hsu
Smith Lecture: The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and Lab Earthquake Prediction (September 27, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63117 63117-15576725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Earthquake science is in the midst of a revolution. Our understanding of tectonic faulting has been shaken to the core by discoveries of seismic tremor, low frequency earthquakes, slow slip events, and other modes of fault slip. These phenomena represent modes of failure that were thought to be non-existent and theoretically impossible not long ago. Despite the growing number of observations of slow earthquakes and the fact that they can trigger catastrophic large earthquakes their origin remains unresolved. Basic questions remain regarding how slow ruptures can propagate quasi-dynamically, at speeds far below the Rayleigh wave speed, and how tectonic faults can host both slow slip and dynamic earthquake rupture. Our lab work now includes the ability to reproduce the full spectrum of failure modes from stable creep to elastodynamic rupture. Remarkably, this range of events can be predicted using machine learning (ML) techniques to analyze acoustic emissions emanating from the fault. The labquakes are preceded by a cascade of micro-failure events that radiate elastic energy in a manner that foretells catastrophic failure. The ML methods predict the time of failure, the slip duration, and for some events the magnitude of slip. These predictions demonstrate a mapping between fault strength and statistical attributes of the fault zone elastic radiation that it is valid throughout the duration of the lab seismic cycle. They also correctly describe both dynamic rupture and slow slip events. Here, I summarize laboratory results on the mechanics of slow earthquakes and our work on lab earthquake prediction.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:10:53 -0400 2019-09-27T15:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Governor Transition Leaders Panel (September 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67557 67557-16892244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Want to learn more about how a successful campaign becomes a gubernatorial administration following an election? How Michigan government has evolved over a generation of leadership?

Join Domestic Policy Corps (DPC) and the Center for Local, State and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) for a panel discussion with a generation of Michigan governor transition leaders from 1991 to today. They'll come together to discuss transition process, Lansing's history, and the future of Michigan executive leadership.

The panel includes:

Mark Bernstein (Whitmer transition and UMich Regent)
John Burchett (Granholm transition)
Awenate Cobbina (Whitmer transition)
Rich Baird (Snyder transition)
Anne Mervenne (Snyder and Engler transitions)
Richard McLellan (Engler transition)

Food will be provided. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:45:57 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Governor Transition Leaders
"RNA Therapeutics: The Future of Human Medicine" (September 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65135 65135-16539446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Please join us immediately after Anastasia's talk for a welcome reception in Palmer Commons Atrium (4th floor).


ABSTRACT: With the first drugs approved, oligonucleotides are rising to become a new, major class of therapeutic modalities on par with small molecules and biologics.
RNAi enables simple and specific modulation of gene expression when the chemical architecture supporting efficient delivery in vivo is defined. Currently, in liver, a single subcutaneous administration supports a year of clinical efficacy, changing our vision of how medicine will be practiced in the future.
The unprecedented duration of effect relies on oligonucleotide endocytosis and entrapment within endosomal/lysosomal compartments. These naturally formed, intracellular deposits provide a continuous release of compounds for RISC loading and productive silencing, supporting multi-month efficacy. Of course, this approach is dependent on extensive and complex chemical stabilization that ensures the survival of the oligonucleotides in highly aggressive biological environments.
In the context of fully stabilized compounds, we have used diverse chemical engineering to define the rules driving oligonucleotide distribution, efficacy, and toxicity. At this point, efficient modulation of gene expression in multiple extrahepatic tissues is possible (muscle, heart, fat, placenta, etc). One of our engineering efforts resulted in the identification of a di-branched chemical scaffold that enables potent and durable gene silencing in the brain and spinal cord. Using huntingtin – the causative gene in Huntington disease – as a model, we demonstrate that CNS-active RNAi induces potent protein silencing (~ 90%) in all brain regions tested in both rodents and non-human primates. Silencing persists for at least six months, with the degree of gene modulation correlating to the level of the guide strand tissue accumulation.
Demonstration of extrahepatic activity, in particular the development of a CNS-active RNAi scaffold, is opening other tissues and the brain for RNAi-based modulation of gene expression and establishing a path toward the development of new cures for genetically-defined neurodegenerative disorders.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:47:57 -0400 2019-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion speaker photo
US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum (October 1, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66266 66266-16725777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The world today is facing unprecedented, interconnected environmental and sustainability challenges. Achieving sustainable development requires global efforts that are ambitious, action-oriented and collaborative.

The US and China are the leaders of the global economy. At the same time, they also contribute significantly to many sustainability challenges worldwide. Both countries play particularly important roles for global sustainability.

By bring together experts from both the US and China on environment and sustainability, the US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum at the University of Michigan (UCESF@UM) aims to:

Take stock of achievements in addressing environmental and sustainability challenges in both countries, and
Identify critical areas that the two countries should work together and help the global transition towards more sustainable development.
UCESF@UM will produce a whitepaper summarizing opinions and conclusions.

To promote an intimate experience for easy engagement in conversation, attendance is capped at 120 participants including invited panelists and reserved seats for University of Michigan participants.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:44:29 -0400 2019-10-01T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion SEAS
Physics & Astronomy Special Joint Colloquium | Sexual Harassment in STEM: A View from the National Academies (October 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66763 66763-16776776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Persistent sexual harassment of women in science has remained a challenge for decades. It jeopardizes progress in closing the gender gap, damages research integrity, and results in a costly loss of talent. In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a committee to conduct a study on this problem. The committee published a comprehensive report in 2018 titled, "Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine." The report identifies key findings on the causes and consequences of sexual harassment, and lays out recommendations for institutional policies, strategies, and practices to address and prevent it. U-M Professors Lilia Cortina and Anna Kirkland were two members of that committee. In this talk they will review key findings from the report and discuss implications at the department level.

Please note: Should you require any accommodations to ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Stacy Tiburzi at 734-764-3440 or stibu@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:07:37 -0400 2019-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Taking Airbus into the Future–Flight Physics Outlook (October 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67658 67658-16909329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Marc Fischer
Head of Flight Physics
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Airbus Group

The talk provides a general overview of Airbus Group and Flight Physics, the global challenges of the aeronautical industry, and shows how Model Based Systems Engineering can contribute to meet these challenges.

Airbus Group is an aircraft manufacturer with three divisions for commercial aircraft, helicopters, and defense and space. We are a truly global player, who for more than 50 years has been pioneering innovation, setting the highest standards in terms of product developments, technology and environmental performance. The digital revolution offers unique opportunities to strive for even more ambitious solutions to serve the industry and our customers. Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a key enabler in order to seek genuine multi-disciplinary optimization and processes, enabling a real step change in terms of aircraft design, manufacturing, and services, while continuously improving our environmental performance. The Michigan Centre for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft is a strategic partner to support Airbus’ ambition in this respect, and highlights of this partnership will be elaborated as part of this talk.

About the speaker...

Marc Fischer is a Senior Vice President within the Airbus Group, and has been leading the Airbus Flight Physics Center of Competence (EG) since November 2014.

The Center provides flight physics solutions to all Airbus products and is part of the overall aircraft design community and the Engineering function. Flight Physics employs 830 engineers across 6 sites and consists of seven domains, covering: Aerodynamics, Loads & Aeroelastics, Aircraft Performance, Mass Properties, Flight Dynamics Simulation, Policy, Development & Integration, and Business Transformation & Strategy.

Prior to his current role, Marc held various positions within the Loads & Aeroelastics Domain, including the posts of Head of Domain (2012-2014), and Head of Component Loads & Systems Support (2010-2012).

Originally, Marc joined Airbus as a structural engineer within the Structural Analysis department (2003-2005), which was followed by the positions of Executive Technical Assistant to the EVP Engineering (2006-2008) and A380 Assistant Chief Engineer (2008-2009).

Marc holds a Master of Engineering (MEng (Hons)) degree and PhD from Cardiff University, United Kingdom, as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the College des Ingénieurs (CDI), Paris, France.

Having grown up at the border between Germany and France, Marc has developed a strong interest in foreign languages, and speaks German, French, English and Spanish. He is 44 years old and currently lives near Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France.

Marc.Fisher@airbus.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:09:19 -0400 2019-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Airbus 50-year anniversary flight formation
The Clean Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here, Dan Kammen (October 1, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65484 65484-16898627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group where he serves as Chair, the Goldman School of Public Policy where he directs the Center for Environmental Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL; http://rael.berkeley.edu), and was director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center from 2007 – 2015.

He was appointed by then Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in April 2010 as the first energy fellow of the Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) initiative. He began service as the Science Envoy for U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016, but resigned over President Trump’s policies in August, 2017. He has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities, including time at the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Energy, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:30:24 -0400 2019-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Dan Kammen
US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum (October 2, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66266 66266-16725778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The world today is facing unprecedented, interconnected environmental and sustainability challenges. Achieving sustainable development requires global efforts that are ambitious, action-oriented and collaborative.

The US and China are the leaders of the global economy. At the same time, they also contribute significantly to many sustainability challenges worldwide. Both countries play particularly important roles for global sustainability.

By bring together experts from both the US and China on environment and sustainability, the US-China Environment and Sustainability Forum at the University of Michigan (UCESF@UM) aims to:

Take stock of achievements in addressing environmental and sustainability challenges in both countries, and
Identify critical areas that the two countries should work together and help the global transition towards more sustainable development.
UCESF@UM will produce a whitepaper summarizing opinions and conclusions.

To promote an intimate experience for easy engagement in conversation, attendance is capped at 120 participants including invited panelists and reserved seats for University of Michigan participants.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:44:29 -0400 2019-10-02T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion SEAS
Health, Nature & Our Built Environment: Change through Radical Collaborations (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67640 67640-16909312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) presents an Environmental Research Seminar featuring John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, and Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Spengler has conducted research on personal monitoring, air pollution health effects, indoor air pollution, and a variety of environmental sustainability issues. Several of his investigations have focused on housing design and its effects on ventilation rates, building materials’ selection, energy consumption, and total environmental quality in homes.

Spengler chaired the committee on Harvard Sustainability Principles; and served on Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Taskforce to develop the University’s carbon reduction goals and strategies, as well as Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee. He serves on the National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division “Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine”. Previously he chaired the National Academies’ NRC “Green Schools: Attributes for Health and Learning” committee and the IOM “Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health” committee; and he has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure and air pollution epidemiology. He now serves on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Chemistry of Indoor Environments advisory committee.

In 2003, Spengler received a Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2007, the Air & Waste Management Association Lyman Ripperton Environmental Educator Award; in 2008, the Max von Pettenkofer Award for distinguished contributions in indoor air science from the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate’s Academy of Fellows; and in 2015, the ASHRAE Environmental Health Award.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:47:35 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jack Spengler
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Massive Gravitons in Curved Spacetimes (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67618 67618-16907162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

This talk will cover various interesting topics that occur in massive spin-2 on various spacetimes including de Sitter, anti-de Sitter, and flat space. In de Sitter, we examine what happens to massive gravity as its mass approaches the partially massless value. In this limit, if the interactions are chosen to be precisely those of the 'candidate' non-linear partially massless theory, the strong coupling scale is raised, giving the theory a wider range of applicability. In anti-de Sitter and flat spacetime, we show how shift symmetries acting on the vector modes emerge from massive spin-2 theories fixing the non-linear structure and discuss whether these theories have amplitudes that can be constructed via soft substracted recursion.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:57:15 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
MIPSE Seminar | Plasma Diagnostics Package for Studying High-Power Hall Thrusters in Flight (October 2, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65965 65965-16676357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA is preparing to demonstrate high-power electric propulsion on the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), the first element of a human-operated Gateway station that will orbit the Moon. The Hall thrusters (HTs) being flown on the PPE will operate at three times the power of current state-of-the-art HTs and utilize magnetic shielding, which greatly increase the wear life of the thrusters. Associated with these advances in technical capability are uncertainties regarding the plasma properties of the exhaust plume, particularly the low density plume exiting sideways from the thrusters. To better predict the erosive power of the plasma plume and how the plume might interact with the PPE and future spacecraft, NASA is flying the Plasma Diagnostics Package (PDP). The PDP data will refine plasma models for predicting the behavior of high-power HT systems on future missions. This presentation will describe a brief history of the PDP project, basic Hall thruster plume physics, the plasma physics behind the PDP sensor design, and current status of the PDP project.

About the Speaker:
Wensheng Huang received a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2011 and BS degrees in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. His dissertation was on the use of optical diagnostics to study Hall thruster erosion under the tutelage of Prof. Alec D. Gallimore. Wensheng is currently a researcher in the Electric Propulsion Systems branch at the NASA Glenn Research Center. He is the Principle Investigator for the Plasma Diagnostics Package (PDP) that will be flying on the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), the first element of NASA's Moon-orbiting Gateway. He is also the diagnostics lead for the Solar Electric Propulsion Hall thruster project, which will also be flying on the PPE.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=mb945413a4f95eb01ac7ca576b226e306
Meeting number: 295 354 766
Password: MIPSE19

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:47:37 -0400 2019-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Wensheng Huang
CANCELLED - Situating Vernacular Turkish Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia (14th & 15th Centuries) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66517 66517-16744952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

In this talk, I explore the attitudes of three prominent Turkish-speaking saintly figures of the 14th and 15th centuries towards Muslim religious scholars and other members of the learned elite, including “respectable” Sufis, who often owed their elite status to their proficiency in Arabic and/or Persian. The Turkish language works of Yunus Emre, Kaygusuz Abdal and the hagiography of Otman Baba allows us to situate saintly figures who functioned in the Turkish vernacular into the larger historical context of Islamic cultural history of Anatolia. In the process, I identify and describe in broad strokes the fault lines that ran between saintly figures/Sufis who expressed themselves primarily, even exclusively, in the Turkish vernacular and other Sufi and non-Sufi Muslim learned elites who foregrounded their expertise in Arabic and Persian instead, even when they composed their works in Turkish.

Ahmet T. Karamustafa is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His expertise is in the social and intellectual history of Sufism in particular and Islamic piety in general from the tenth through the fifteenth century. His publications include God’s Unruly Friends(University of Utah Press, 1994) and Sufism: The Formative Period (Edinburgh University Press & University of California Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book project titled Vernacular Islam: Everyday Muslim Religious Life in Medieval Anatolia (co-authored with Cemal Kafadar) as well as a monograph on the history of early medieval Sufism titled The Flowering of Sufism.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Department of Middle East Studies at mlbthayerevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4465.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:23:17 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Situating Vernacular Turkish Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia (14th & 15th Centuries)
Positive Links Speaker Series (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65987 65987-16678390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Labor of Love: Lessons in Keeping Creativity Alive
Teresa M. Amabile

Wednesday, October 2, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/Boomq

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

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

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

About the talk:
Creativity is responsible for all human progress. Unfortunately, powerful forces in most classroom, workplace, and home environments can kill the motivation for creativity. In this interactive session, Harvard Professor Teresa Amabile will describe the science underlying these discoveries, as well as the science behind keeping creativity alive. The audience will leave with tips and tools for nurturing their own creativity and facilitating creative growth in their children, students, and work colleagues.

About Amabile:
Teresa Amabile has researched and written about creativity for over 40 years. Beginning with a series of papers in the 1970s and 1980s, she was instrumental in establishing the social psychology of creativity – the study of how the social environment can influence creative behavior, primarily by influencing motivational state.

Amabile’s research has examined individual creativity and productivity, team creativity, and organizational innovation. This program of research has yielded a comprehensive theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating both individual creativity and organizational innovation.

Her more recent research investigated how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance by affecting inner work life, the confluence of motivation, emotion, and perceptions. She is currently studying retirement and post-employment life, including the impact of creative activities on attitudes toward aging and experiences in later life.

Amabile’s scholarly work has appeared in a variety of psychology and organizational behavior journals, as well as her 2011 book (with Steven Kramer), The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. She has presented her work to audiences in a variety of settings, including Pixar, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, Apple, and The World Economic Forum in Davos.

In 2018, Amabile received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2011 and 2013, she was named to the global Thinkers50 list.

Amabile holds a BS in Chemistry from Canisius College and a PhD in psychology from Stanford University.

Host:
Julia Lee, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:34:05 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Teresa M. Amabile
Special Joint Lecture (MICHR and DCMB) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67257 67257-16829032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Dr. Haendel’s vision is to weave together healthcare systems, basic science research, and patient generated data through development of data integration technologies and innovative data capture strategies. The Monarch Initiative is an international consortium dedicated to integrating human and organismal genotype-phenotype data and the development of deep phenotyping techniques. This talk will focus on the use of ontologies to support knowledge and data integration across disciplinary boundaries. Strategies for how to reconcile different terminologies and examples of harmonized semantic structures for anatomy, phenotype, and disease will be discussed. Finally, we will discuss the use of these ontological resources to populate graph structures and their use to aid mechanism discovery and rare disease diagnosis.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:53:44 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Ypsilanti – 1800 to the Present – A Rich & Unique History (October 2, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64663 64663-16410961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Begin the evening with a guided tour of the Ypsilanti Historical Society Museum and Archives to learn about the complex history of Ypsilanti, first founded as a trading post.

Then we’ll take a short walk to the Ypsilanti Ladies Literary Club 218 N. Washington St., Ypsilanti, MI (event ends here) to hear former City Councilman and Ypsilanti historian Bill Nickels tell the story of the unique university and manufacturing town.

Finally, Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert will describe Ypsilanti today – its growing economy and downtown, new industries with a focus on tech and the arts, changes on the Huron River, and a future built on a rich and unique history.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is not required to attend this event.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:11:58 -0400 2019-10-02T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
LACS Event. A History of Coffee in Three Cups (October 2, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67270 67270-16831228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Do you know where you coffee came from? If you're at Zingerman's Coffee Company, probably yes. More and more, roasters and coffee shops emphasize how and where they source their beans. But how did coffee get to those places - Costa Rica, Brazil, and Ethiopia - in the first place? And what happened when it got there?

Join us for a conversation with Casey Lurtz, author of the recent book From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. We'll talk about how coffee spread outward from Eastern Africa and how its introduction reshaped local societies and economies. Looking at the multiplicity of ways in which coffee has been grown, we'll think beyond roasting and brewing to understand how the histories of where coffee is cultivated flavor our morning cup.

This talk will be paired with sample tastings of three distinctive coffees brewed at Zingerman's Coffee Company.

***Please note this event takes place at Zingerman's Coffee Company at 3723 Plaza Dr. #5, Ann Arbor (near Costco). This is not the same as the Zingerman's Next Door Cafe or Deli in Kerrytown.

Cosponsors: African Studies Center and Zingerman's Coffee Company

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:52:01 -0400 2019-10-02T19:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion lurtz_event_image
LACS Central American Contexts Series. A Fixed but Porous Border: Nineteenth Century Negotiations over the Mexico-Guatemala Frontier (October 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66682 66682-16770197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

News coverage and political discourse around the ongoing immigration debate and the situation on the US-Mexico border rarely includes the historical and geographic contexts of migration in Central America, where many current migrants begin their journeys. Throughout the fall semester, the LACS Central American Contexts Series will sponsor speakers and events at U-M in an effort to more deeply contextualize the lived experience of diverse Central Americans and the geographic, social, and political relationship between Central America and southern Mexico.

In the first event of this fall speaker series, Dr. Casey Lurtz, assistant professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will speak about the history of Mexico's other border, the southern border with Guatemala. This lecture will expand on the research for her recent book, “From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico” (Stanford University Press, 2019), as well as her recent piece on the Stanford University Press blog (available at https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2019/07/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-borders.html).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:13:44 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Guatemala_image
A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-) Justice: Realistic in the Right Way (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67600 67600-16900790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join the Michigan Law & Ethics Program for our 2019-2020 lecture, "A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-) Justice: Realistic in the Right Way," which will be delivered by Professor Rainer Forst on October 3 at 4:00 PM in Jeffries Hall room 1020.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Rainer Forst of Goethe University in Frankfurt will present his work, which develops a critical theory of transnational justice. A German philosopher and political
theorist, Forst was named the “most important political philosopher of his generation” in 2012, when he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:38:13 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Stephen Jones: Hatology (October 3, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65256 65256-16559486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Born in Cheshire, England, and schooled in Liverpool, milliner Stephen Jones is a fashion icon. Coming of age during London’s street fashion boom in the late 1970s, Jones first made a name for himself as an uncompromising style-blazer at the legendary Blitz nightclub, where he was perpetually crowned with a striking hat of his own idiosyncratic design. By 1980, Jones had opened his first millinery salon in the heart of London’s Covent Garden. Those premises soon became a place of pilgrimage and patronage, as everyone from rock stars to royalty, from Boy George to Diana, Princess of Wales, identified Jones as the milliner who would help them make arresting headlines. Nearly forty years later, Jones’s era-defining edge continues to attract a celebrity clientele which includes Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Mick Jagger, and the Royal Family. Now, as ever, at the forefront of fashion, his beguiling hats routinely grace the most celebrated magazine covers and enliven window displays of the world’s most stylish stores. From runways to racecourses, from pop-promos to royal garden parties, millinery by Stephen Jones adds the exclamation mark to every fashion statement.

Supported by Linda Dresner and Design Core Detroit.

Left photo courtesy of @dafyddjonesphotographer

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:47:47 -0400 2019-10-03T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-03T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/jones.jpg
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Culture & Career Panel Discussion (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65007 65007-16501305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

New AE Professor of Practice, George Halow, will moderate a variety of industry panel speakers consisting of AE alumni: Debra Facktor (Industry), Trudy Kortes (Government/NASA) Kevin Michaels (Consulting/commercial, and start-up), Tia Sutton (Career outside of the Aerospace field) Tony Waas (Academia). Please be sure to join us and bring questions for the panel!

About the distinguished panelists:

Dr. Tony Waas, Richard A. Auhll Department Chair, Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Anthony M. Waas is the Richard A. Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he holds the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair since September 1, 2018. Prior to that he was the Boeing Egtvedt Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Professor Waas’s research interests are: computational modeling of lightweight composite structures, robotically manufactured aerospace structures, 3D printing in aerospace, damage tolerance of composites, mechanics of textile composites and data science applications in aerospace engineering. Professor Waas was the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director, Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan, from 1988 to 2014, prior to joining UW in January 2015. Professor Waas is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), and the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM). He is a recipient of several best paper awards, the 2016 AIAA/ASME SDM award, the AAM Jr. Research Award, the ASC Outstanding Researcher Award, and several distinguished awards from the University of Michigan. He received the AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes, jr. Award, 2017, for seminal contributions to composite structures and materials and for mentoring students and other young professionals. In 2017, Professor Waas was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and in 2018 to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Professor Waas obtained his B.Sc in Aeronautics with First Class Honors from Imperial College, London, 1982, the ACGI in 1982, the MS and Ph.D in Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics (minor) from Caltech, 1983 and 1988, respectively.


Debra Facktor, Vice President and General Manager, Strategic Operations, Ball Aerospace

Debra D. Facktor is the vice president and general manager of Strategic Operations for Ball Aerospace, where she is responsible for increasing Ball Aerospace's profile in the market and facilitating collaboration across the company. Facktor is the company's senior executive in the Washington, DC area and leads Washington Operations, Marketing & Communications, and Strategic Development.

The guiding principle of Debra's 30-year career is doing what has never been done before. As an engineer, entrepreneur and executive in the early space startup community, she helped pioneer the commercial space industry we know today. Earlier in her career, she set up joint partnerships with Russia and contributed to the U.S. policy to bring the country into the International Space Station.

Among other distinctions, Facktor was honored with the University of Michigan 2014 Alumni Merit Award for Aerospace Engineering and as the Women in Aerospace (WIA) 'Most Outstanding Member' for 2012. She is the former chair of the board of WIA and founding president of the WIA Foundation. Facktor serves on the board of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), the Future Space Leaders Foundation, and the industry advisory boards of the University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering Department and the Johns Hopkins University Space Systems Engineering program. She is also an appointed member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a fellow of the AAS and an Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). She holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and is an alumna of the International Space University summer session program in space policy and law.


Trudy Kortes, Human Exploration & Space Operations Division, NASA Glenn Research Center

Trudy Kortes has spent 30 years at NASA laughing her way through career challenges. She is eager to share her secrets to maintaining her humor through bad bosses, intense roles, and difficult decisions. Trudy's sense of self in her life and career has only been gained by some tough lessons and challenging situations, and she can help you maneuver them in a way that helps you maintain your authenticity.

Kortes holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Michigan in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Houston. She resides in Westlake, Ohio with her husband and three children.


Dr. Kevin Michaels, Managing Director, Aerodynanic Advisory

Kevin Michaels is Managing Director of AeroDynamic Advisory, a specialty consulting firm focused on the global aerospace and aviation industries. He has 33 years of experience, including hundreds of consulting engagements for leading aviation and aerospace companies across the globe.

Kevin is a globally recognized expert in the aerospace manufacturing and MRO sectors, and has significant functional expertise in business-to-business marketing, customer satisfaction, M&A advisory, technology assessment, cluster development, and strategic planning. His experience spans the air transport, business & general aviation, and military sectors.

He is a contributing columnist to Aviation Week & Space Technology and Forbes. He also chairs the Industry Advisory Board of the University of Michigan's Aerospace Engineering Department, and is on the Board of Directors of Proponent, a leading aerospace distributor.

Dr. Michaels holds BS - Aerospace Engineering and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan, and MSc and PhD degrees in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

In 2018, Kevin authored AeroDynamic: Inside the High-Stakes Global Jetliner Ecosystem.


Tia Sutton, Engineer, Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association

Tia Sutton has had a career dedicated to improving and protecting our environment. After graduation, she had an eighteen-year career at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Regulatory Engineer. In the last four years at the EPA, she worked as a Regulatory and Congressional Coordinator with the Office of Transportation and Air Quality. She now lives in the Greater Chicagoland Area, working as an engineer at the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association.

Sutton carried on her dedication to public service beyond the University of Michigan. In 2012, she served as Congressional Environment and Energy Fellow for the Office of Michigan Senator Carl Levin. In that role, she expanded Congress’s knowledge and awareness of key issues facing the environment in the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:32:22 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Smith Lecture: Mineral Hydration and Microbial Activity Within Subsurface Ultramafic Rocks (October 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63118 63118-15576726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ultramafic rocks are highly unstable in the presence of fluids, giving rise to mineral hydration and carbonation reactions that strongly shape rock properties, the chemical evolution of waters, and the availability of chemical energy required to sustain microbial metabolism. Several new conceptual models exist for peridotite-hosted life on Earth and other rocky bodies in our solar system, such as Europa, Enceladus and Mars. However, there are many questions regarding how, when and where organisms can harness the energy derived from peridotite/water interactions, and what products of biological activity might be produced, in terms of new minerals, organic compounds and gases. In this talk, I will present multidisciplinary efforts designed to assess the key (bio)geochemical processes occurring during modern water/rock interaction in the Samail ophiolite, Oman, and the strategies being used to determine controls on the distribution, composition and function of the subsurface peridotite-hosted biosphere. In particular, I will focus on the mineral transformations that give rise to hydrogen production at low-temperatures, followed by the evidence for biological methane production, even under extreme conditions of carbon and energy limitation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:29:34 -0400 2019-10-04T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Ambient Thickness: Atmospheres of the Climate Emergency (October 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66296 66296-16725813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In this presentation, Prof. Gordillo argues that the concept of “ambient thickness” can help us analyze the atmospheric intensities that in the form of heatwaves, droughts, dust storms, forest fires, or toxic smells are defining contemporary experiences of global warming and environmental ruination. Engaging with literatures on materiality, the nonhuman, affect, weather/climate, and atmospheres, Gordillo's argument builds from campesino experiences of deforestation, wind, fumigation, and heatwaves in northern Argentina and from a comparative phenomenology of atmospheric disruptions elsewhere in the world. Gordillo shows that the atmosphere can “thicken” in very different ways and that this density is experienced unevenly depending on class, racial, gender, and cultural backgrounds.Gordillo also highlight that the unsettling thickening of the air created by events such as heatwaves or forest fires brings to light the nonhuman materiality of the planet’s terrain and the urgency of radical change to confront the climate emergency.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:16:20 -0400 2019-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Ambient Thickness: Atmospheres of the Climate Emergency
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Libraries and Mobilities (October 7, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65705 65705-16629968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

We make many assumptions about libraries such as they are fixed spaces, fairly secure and often large buildings. There are private libraries that are smaller and could simply occupy a single floor or room. But a definite space comes to mind, not immediately mobility of the books between at least two places. However we think of these spaces we seldom figure mobility or movement into our thinking about libraries, archives or collections. Perhaps with the recent rise of online book shopping we might begin to rethink things and reflect on how books travel (from depository to buyer, at least). But books have always travelled. All forms of “shipping” have been used to carry them long before the modern courier companies. Yet the circulation of the material book is not a subject of much thinking or research it would seem. And with the transport books, they also disappear, parts or volumes go missing, they find new homes, and they might reappear in surprising places. Sometimes the transfer is simply an act of theft or a by-product of conquest. In this talk I look at episodes in the book history of Northwest Africa that points to a long tradition of book buying and selling and lending over vast spaces. Nomadism is part of the fabric of this region and this included scholars and books.

Shamil Jeppie is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project and was previously director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma) both at the University of Cape Town. He has published on various aspects of the history of Timbuktu, and on South African history.

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. Contact: -- Jessica H. Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:57:32 -0400 2019-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
RNA Innovation Seminar, Keith Slotkin, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, University of Missouri Columbia (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65136 65136-16539447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Keith Slotkin, Member and PI, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center,  Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia

Abstract: The field of epigenetic silencing is replete with labs studying how transcriptional silencing is epigenetically maintained, or in some cases re-targeted, across cell divisions and generations. On the other hand, the initiation of that silencing in the first place, especially for DNA that is “new” to the genome, is not well understood. Although the propagation of epigenetic silencing is based on the chromatin level, our data in the powerful model plant Arabidopsis demonstrates that de novo initiation of transposable element and transgene silencing is based on RNA, and utilizes a host of small RNA classes that function specifically in the initiation of silencing to guide the first round of DNA methylation. I plan to present my ongoing work on the molecular mechanisms of silencing initiation, focusing on the key RNA-dependent processes necessary to initiate epigenetic silencing.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:57:47 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Wallace House Presents “Held Hostage: Ensuring the Safe Return of Americans Held Captive Abroad” (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66390 66390-16734116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Each year, it’s estimated that hundreds of American journalists, humanitarian aid workers, business people and tourists are taken captive by foreign governments, terrorist groups and criminal organizations. How can we better understand U.S. hostage policy and the risks and challenges of bringing our fellow Americans home? Join us for a discussion on negotiating with hostile actors, growing threats to journalists and aid workers both at home and abroad, and the safety measures they should undertake.

Panelists:

Diane Foley is the mother of five children, including American freelance conflict journalist James W. Foley. She founded the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation in September 2014, less than a month after his public execution. Diane is currently serving as the President and Executive Director of JWFLF. Since 2014, she has led JWFLF efforts to fund the start of Hostage US and the international Alliance for a Culture of Safety. In 2015, she actively participated in the National Counterterrorism Center hostage review which culminated in the Presidential Policy Directive-30. This directive re-organized U.S. efforts on behalf of Americans taken hostage abroad into an interagency Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs and a White House Hostage Response Group. Previously, Diane worked first as a community health nurse and then as a family nurse practitioner for 18 years. She received both her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom,” was published in November 2014.

Moderator:

Margaux Ewen is the executive director of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization founded after the brutal 2014 murder of James Foley, an American freelance journalist, while he was held captive by ISIS in Syria. The foundation’s mission is to advocate for the freedom of all Americans held hostage or unjustly detained abroad and promote the safety of journalists worldwide. Prior to joining the Foley Foundation, Margaux was North America director for Reporters Without Borders. She has a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry and advocating for media rights and has two law degrees from the Sorbonne in France and from The George Washington University in the U.S.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:19:40 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Wallace House Presents “Held Hostage: Ensuring the Safe Return of Americans Held Captive Abroad”
Ford Motor Company Tech Talk - Engineering Perspectives on Additive Manufacturing (October 7, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67637 67637-16909313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Wilson Student Team Project Center

Join engineers from the Ford Motor Company Research Additive Team for a discussion of their "Far/Near" perspective on Additive Manufacturing (AM, or 3D printing). What does the future look like for AM processes and materials?

The Advanced Manufacturing Additive Team will then discuss the “Now” perspective including current technologies, materials, design for AM, etc.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:49:31 -0400 2019-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T19:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Wilson Student Team Project Center Lecture / Discussion Ford Focus HVAC lever arm
Great Lakes Seminar - Dr. Joannes Westerink - Tuesday, October 8, 10:30-11:30 am (October 8, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67919 67919-16966899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Please join us for a Great Lakes Seminar!
Tuesday, October 8, 10:30-11:30 am

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
4840 S State Rd, Ann Arbor

Remote participation via webinar is available: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5551628124438203405

Presenter: Joannes Westerink, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Title: Towards Heterogeneous Process, Scale, and Model Coupling in Simulating the Hydrodynamics of the Coastal Ocean

About the speaker:
Joannes Westerink is the Joseph and Nona Ahearn Professor of Computational Science and Engineering and the Henry J. Massman Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his B.S. (1979) and M.S. (1981) degrees in Civil Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Ph.D. (1984) degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Westerink develops high resolution heterogeneous unstructured mesh, multi-physics, multi-scale hydrodynamic codes and models for the hydrodynamics of the coastal ocean and has successfully transitioned these to practitioners for a wide range of applications including the analysis and design of major flood control projects and coastal ocean water level forecasting systems. Westerink has pioneered the successful use of global to channel scale highly heterogeneous unstructured mesh coastal ocean models with mesh resolution varying by up to four orders of magnitude. This encompasses the optimization of algorithms; development of high performance codes in vector and parallel computing environments; the linkages of circulation models to weather and short wind wave models; model verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification; and the application of codes to oceans, continental shelf regions, estuaries, rivers, and coastal flood plains. Westerink is the co-developer, with Rick Luettich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Clint Dawson of the University of Texas at Austin, of the widely used ADCIRC finite element based shallow water equation code. ADCIRC has evolved into a community based coastal hydrodynamics code with wide ranging applications within academia, government, and the private sector worldwide. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration all use ADCIRC in support of coastal water level and flooding analyses and forecasts.

Westerink was a team co-lead in the U.S. Army’s Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) investigation of the Hurricane Katrina (2005) flooding failures in Louisiana. He led ADCIRC storm surge model development for the USACE’s New Orleans and vicinity Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System. He also led the ADCIRC model development for the FEMA Flood Insurance Studies in coastal Louisiana and Texas. He served as a commissioner on the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority and has served as an advisor for the UNESCO Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology on Enhancing Forecasting Capabilities for North Indian Ocean Storm Surges. He currently serves as an International Advisory Board Member of CIGIDEN, Chile’s National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management.

Westerink’s current research includes: the development of high order h-p adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin based coastal circulation codes; incorporating phase resolving wave processes including run-up directly into circulation codes; understanding resonant basin and shelf modes and shelf dissipation processes; incorporating local rainfall and small scale channel routing capabilities into shallow water based codes; sea ice interaction with wind waves and circulation; and downscaling global ocean models into global high resolution coastal models to account for baroclinicity and sea level fluctuations. Current applications regions include developing the next generation of ESTOFS water level forecast models for NOAA focusing on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, and Alaska.

About the presentation:
Hurricane wind wave, storm surge, and current environments in the coastal ocean and adjacent coastal floodplain are characterized by their high energy and by their spatial variability. These processes impact offshore energy assets, navigation, ports and harbors, deltas, wetlands, and coastal communities. The potential for an enormous catastrophic impact in terms of loss of life and economic losses is substantial.

Computational models for wind waves and storm driven currents and surge must provide a high level of grid resolution, fully couple the wind wave and long wave processes, and perform quickly for risk assessment, flood mitigation system design, and forecasting purposes. In order to accomplish this, high performance scalable codes are essential. To this end, we have developed an MPI based domain decomposed unstructured grid framework that minimizes global communications, efficiently handles localized sub-domain to sub-domain communication, applies a local inter-model paradigm with all model to model communications being kept on identical cores for sub-domains, and carefully manages output by assigning specialized cores for this purpose. Continuous Galerkin (CG) and Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) implementations are examined. Performance of explicit and implicit implementations of the wave-current coupled system on up to 32,000 cores for various platforms is evaluated.

The system has been extensively validated with an ever increasing amount of wave, water level and current data that has being collected for recent storms including Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Rita (2005), Gustav (2008), Ike (2008), and Sandy (2012). The modeling system helps understand the physics of hurricane storm surges including processes such as geostrophically driven forerunner, shelf waves that propagate far away from the storm, wind wave – surge interaction, surge capture and propagation by protruding deltaic river systems, the influence of storm size and forward speed, and frictionally controlled inland penetration.

These models are being applied by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the development of the recently completed hurricane risk reduction system in Southern Louisiana as well as for the development of FEMA Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMS) for Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other Gulf and Atlantic coast states. NOAA applies the models in extra-tropical and tropical storm surge forecasting.

Current development is focused on incorporating a wider range of physics affecting coastal and inland water levels as well as forces on infrastructure including large scale baroclinically driven processes, rainfall runoff in upland areas and on the coastal floodplain, and wave run-up. This is accomplished with an interleafing framework in which heterogeneous models focused on a select range of processes are coupled over the same domain and/or specific targeted equations that are dynamically assigned to changing portions of the domain as appropriate to the prevailing flow conditions. This is all done in a dynamically load balanced framework. Algorithmic development is focused on DG solvers, ideally suited for the associated strongly advective flows, allow super-parametric elements for p=1 and p=2 and iso-parametric elements for p=3 in order to achieve improved convergence rates and overall runtime efficiency, and allow for the selection of localized physics on the elemental level.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:43:17 -0400 2019-10-08T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
“Every Sector is Public Health Sector": Building Capacity to Address Environmental Health Inequities (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68017 68017-16983971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Sampson will discuss three examples of capacity-building to build and translate evidence, including:
1) a youth environmental health academy in Dearborn, MI;
2) a health impact assessment for the Gordie Howe International Bridge at the Detroit-Windsor border;
3) her work with APHA to convene environmental health and justice leaders—all to advance evidence-based policies that address environmental health inequities.

Natalie Sampson is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UM-Dearborn, where she teaches courses in environmental health, health promotion, and community organizing. Grounded primarily in Southeast Michigan, she studies transportation and land use planning, green stormwater infrastructure, vacant land reuse, and climate change planning efforts, particularly their implications for health. She applies participatory research approaches with diverse partners using a broad methodological toolkit, including photovoice, concept mapping, and health impact assessment. In 2017, Sampson received the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s Rebecca Head Award, which recognizes “an outstanding emerging leader from the environmental field working at the nexus of science, policy, and environmental justice.”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Oct 8 Natalie Sampson Seminar
Stamps Gallery + Penny Stamps Series Present: Lucy Lippard & Faith Wilding: Then & Now (October 8, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65257 65257-16559487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Award-winning author, curator, feminist, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of the world’s leading voices on contemporary art. Hailed for “the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place” (The New York Times), Lippard began her career as an art critic in 1962, when she began contributing to publications such as Art International and, later, Artforum. In the late 1970s, she became a founding member of the feminist journal Heresies. As a curator, she gave audience to minimal and conceptual artworks including texts, books, and posters. Lippard also sought to improve the lives of artists through the founding of the Art Workers’ Coalition, an advocacy group for artists’ rights. In this conversation with Faith Wilding — multidisciplinary artist; recognized authority on feminist art theory and cyber feminism; and founding member of the Feminist Art Program at CalArts — Lippard discusses her work and the current creative-political climate in the US.

This event is part of the Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series organized by Stamps Gallery and co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women (CEW+): Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund with support from the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the U-M Library. Feminist Futures: Art, Design and Activism is an ongoing event series exploring the role of feminism in art, design, scholarship, and politics. The series brings together multigenerational artists and thinkers in contemporary art, design, art history, and related fields who have shaped, and are shaping, current discourses on gender and the fight for equality.

Co-presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and Stamps Gallery, with support from American Culture, History of Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/then-now-a-conversation-with-lucy-lippard-faith-wilding-tickets-70984425327

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:15:49 -0400 2019-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/wildling.jpg
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68092 68092-17009821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "Controlling dynamic ensembles: From cells to societies"

Abstract: Natural and engineered systems that consist of populations of isolated or interacting dynamical components exhibit levels of complexity that are beyond human comprehension. These complex systems often require an appropriate excitation, an optimal hierarchical organization, or a periodic dynamical structure, such as synchrony, to function as desired or operate optimally. In many application domains, e.g., neurostimulation in brain medicine and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging in quantum control, control and observation can only be implemented at the population level, through broadcasting a single input signal to all the systems in the population and through collecting aggregated system-level measurements of the population, respectively. These limitations give rise to challenging problems and new control paradigms involving underactuated manipulation of dynamic ensembles. This talk will address theoretical and computational challenges for targeted coordination of both isolated and networked ensemble systems arising in diverse areas at different scales. Both model-based and data-driven approaches for learning, decoding, control, and computation of dynamic structures and patterns in ensemble systems will be presented. Practical control designs, including synchronization waveforms for pattern formation in complex networks and optimal pulses in quantum control, will be illustrated along with their experimental realizations. Lastly, future directions and opportunities in Systems and Controls will be discussed.

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments Served
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:26:01 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65608 65608-16621811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

At Qubbet el-Hawa, the elite necropolis associated with the trading town of Elephantine (near Aswan), a series of inscribed tombs were dug during the reign of Pepi II for the officials who led Egyptian expeditions far to the south and the west into present-day Sudan. Among these inscribed tombs, three were extensively inscribed on their facade: Harkhuf, Pepinakht-Heqaib I, and Sabni son of Mekhu (c.2250-2200 BCE). From Qubbet el-Hawa, the place farthest away from the capital Memphis, these inscribed facades project multiples lines of connectivity with the Memphite center, and thus the king. The facades address the passerby, not only through the hieroglyphically inscribed words (which would have been legible only by the very few), but also through their overall visual and monumental quality, as well as through elements in their inscriptional layout. In this presentation, Prof. Stauder-Porchet will be focusing on Harkhuf’s facade in particular, discussing its poetic form (including in visual terms), its verbal and visual rhetoric, and how it makes for visual encounters with the beholder.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:03:40 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt
Latinx & Muslim in America (October 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67741 67741-16926552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

In honor of Latinx Heritage History Month, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program has invited Dr. Harold D. Morales to give a lecture based on his book, Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority, which is the first complete academic study on Latinx Muslims in the United States.

Dinner will be served!

Dr. Harold D. Morales is an Associate Professor in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University where he teaches courses in religious studies and philosophy of religion. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California Riverside and his B.A. in Philosophy from California State University Fullerton. His research focuses on the intersections between race and religion and between lived and mediated religion. He uses these critical lenses to engage Latinx religions in general and Latino Muslim groups in particular. He is the author of Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority (2018). His work with Latino Muslim communities spans ten years of media analysis and ethnographic research in California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York and New Jersey.

"Latino and Muslim in America examines how so called "minority groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition in the U.S.A. The U.S. is currently poised to become the first nation whose collective minorities will outnumber the dominant population, and Latinos play no small role inthis world changing demographic shift. Even as many people view Latinos and Muslims as growing threats, Latino Muslims celebrate their intersecting identities both in their daily lives and in their mediated representations online.In this book, Harold Morales follows the lives of several Latino Muslim leaders from the 1970's to the present, and their efforts to organize and unify nationally in order to solidify the new identity group's place within the public sphere. Based on four years of ethnography, media analysis andhistorical research, Morales demonstrates how the phenomenon of Latinos converting to Islam emerges from distinctive immigration patterns and laws, urban spaces, and new media technologies that have increasingly brought Latinos and Muslims in to contact with one another. He explains this growingcommunity as part of the mass exodus out of the Catholic Church, the digitization of religion, and the growth of Islam. Latino and Muslim in America explores the racialization of religion, the framing of religious conversion experiences, the dissemination of post-colonial histories, and thedevelopment of Latino Muslim networks, to show that the categories of race, religion, and media are becoming inextricably entwined."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:22:55 -0400 2019-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Flyer
The American University of Beirut: Lifting the Quality of Health Across the Middle East and North Africa Region (October 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65891 65891-16668204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies

Thursday, October 10, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am

Kahn Auditorium - Biomedical Science Research Building

Seminar is followed by an Open Panel Discussion
10:45 am - 11:30 am

Panelists from American University of Beirut include:
Dr. Mohamed Sayegh - Executive Vice President & Dean of Medicine
Dr. Alan Shihadeh - Dean of Engineering & Architecture
Dr. Iman Nuwayhid - Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Drs. Sami Azar & Assad Eid - Directors of the Diabetes Program

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:48:19 -0400 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T11:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Lecture / Discussion A Special Lecture by Dr. Fadlo R. Khuri, President of the American University of Beruit
Mari Katayama: My Body as Material (October 10, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65258 65258-16559488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Japanese artist Mari Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Born with a developmental condition, she has only two fingers on one hand and had both her legs amputated at the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. Katayama treats her entire body, body parts, and prosthetics as “materials” to be arranged in photographs, read as soft sculptures, and decorated with lace, shells, and shiny objects. Katayama’s work exposes anxieties that haunt many of us — disabled or nondisabled — living in an age obsessed with body image. One of the most exciting new artists emerging from contemporary Japan, Katayama’s work is featured in this year’s Venice Biennale in Italy. Her exhibition at UMMA, Mari Katayama (on view October 12, 2019 – January 26, 2020), will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the US. The talk will be moderated by Natsu Oyobe, curator of Asian art at UMMA and the exhibition curator.

Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Mari Katayama is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, and the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund and the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

Image: Mari Katayama, on the way home #001, 2016, chromogenic print. © Mari Katayama. Courtesy of rin art association.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:15:53 -0400 2019-10-10T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-10T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/katayama2.jpg
CONFIDENT PLURALISM (October 10, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68166 68166-17020449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Asian InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Join us for a conversation at the Power Center on Thursday, October 10 at 8 PM with John Inazu and Kelly Dunlop. They'll discuss the themes of John's recent book, Confident Pluralism: Survivng and Thriving through Deep Difference. Is there a way past our seemingly irresolvable differences of beliefs, values, and identities toward a healthier future of tolerance, patience, and empathy. John is associate professor of law and religion at Washington University in St. Louis. Kelly is the Associate Director of the Center for Campus Initiative at the University of Michigan. This dialogue is co-sponsored by the Veritas Forum and the Association of Religious Counselors.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:49:28 -0400 2019-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T22:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Asian InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Lecture / Discussion Crop of the Event Poster
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: "Engineering Agility: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" (October 11, 2019 1:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68224 68224-17028940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:30am
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Donna Mirabella - Director, Engineering Process, Metrics and Configuration Management, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

The ability to be agile plays a role in our lives, in many ways. Today we will review how this core competency for General Atomics has enabled them to thrive despite the heavy industry competition. You will see actual footage of unique capability as well as the vision and enthusiasm that has driven the organization to the top of their game. You will take away the understanding that given passion, synergy, and collaboration, combined with agility, dreams do come true. Participate in this forum with the intent to realize your vision for the future, knowing full well it may easily change. Be bold, be brave, be agile!

About the Speaker...

Donna Mirabella started her career 17 years ago equipped with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management from the University of Michigan. She entered the workforce as a Chrysler Institute of Engineering Management Trainee, working through their Rotational Program for two years. Since then she has worked in a variety of disciplines and positions in the automotive and aerospace industries with Chrysler and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). Recognized for the results she produced in creating effective and cost-saving technical solutions, maximizing efficiency of development and product selection processes, and organizing innovative, collaborative working groups, Ms. Mirabella was welcomed into management positions, first at the team lead and supervisor level, moving quickly into a management role for GA-ASI’s Mechanical Engineering Department. Now managing several engineering disciplines including technical intellectual property protection, proposal cost estimating, configuration management, and development of engineering tools, process, and metrics, she has become a valued and seasoned mentor for emerging leaders. When away from the office, you are likely to find Donna on a soccer or football field with any one of her four children.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:20:29 -0400 2019-10-11T01:30:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Donna Mirabella
U-M Structure Seminar: Kazuhiro Yamada, Ph.D. (October 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65696 65696-16629900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Kazuhiro Yamada, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist Associate, Markos Koutmos Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:34:31 -0400 2019-10-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty (October 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66028 66028-16684536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Efosa Ojomo, senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, will give a talk titled "The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:02:42 -0400 2019-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Efosa Ojomo
Smith Lecture: USGS Products to Inform Earthquake Respons (October 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63119 63119-15576727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) monitors and reports on earthquakes  with the overall mission to provide information to reduce risk and loss. Soon after an earthquake occurs anywhere on the globe, the USGS produces a suite of products that characterize the shaking and the potential impacts to people and the built environment providing situational awareness to decision makers, emergency management, the media and the public. Much of this information is delivered through the EHP website that receives millions of visits in the hours after an earthquake making it one of the most heavily trafficked websites in the Federal Government. The USGS has also begun issuing warnings for the imminent arrival of strong ground shaking from earthquakes along the west coast of the US. The ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system promises to provide a tens of seconds for people and machines to take protective actions in order to reduce losses. The recent Ridgecrest, California earthquake sequence  provided a key test of USGS systems and the ability to deliver information in today's technological and media environment.

Dr. Jonathan Godt is the Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards and leads a federal effort dedicated to science and information delivery to reduce the risk from earthquakes and other geologic hazards. Dr. Godt joined the USGS as a student in the mid-1990s and in his career has been both a research scientist and a manager.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:02:11 -0400 2019-10-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | What's So Super About Supercomputing? (October 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66273 66273-16725785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Supercomputers have been around for decades, but now they impact every aspect of our lives even if we aren't aware of it. Supercomputing isn't just about hardware and software, it is about what supercomputers can be used for, and even more importantly, it is about the human capabilities and efforts that go into using them.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:51:22 -0400 2019-10-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-12T23:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar A Supercomputer, Credit Dan Meisler
RNA Innovation Seminar, Ailong Ke, Cornell University (October 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65137 65137-16539448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Ailong Ke PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University

Abstract: CRISPR-Cas serves as an RNA-based adaptive immunity system in prokaryotes. The diverse CRISPR systems can be categorized into two major classes and multiple types therein. Type I CRISPR-Cas (or CRISPR-Cas3) belongs to Class 1 and is the most prevalent CRISPR system found in nature. It features a sequential target-searching and degradation process. First, the target-searching complex Cascade (CRISPR associated complex for antiviral defense) uses its guide RNA to find the complementary dsDNA target, and opens a special structure called R-loop at the target site. Its helicase-nuclease fusion enzyme Cas3 is then specifically recruited to the Cascade/R-loop site to processively degrade long-stretches of double-stranded DNA nearby. I will give a comprehensive explanation of CRISPR-Cas3 based interference mechanism, based on the high-resolution biochemistry and structural biology work from my lab. I will further explain CRISPR-Cas3 based genome editing applications, and give perspectives on its therapeutic potential.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:55:45 -0400 2019-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
The Public Health Crisis of American Gun Violence (October 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64615 64615-16396981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence (PPGV) is a Michigan based organization that educates physicians on the prevention of gun violence. Approximately 100 Americans are shot to death each day and over twice as many are physically wounded.

PPGV has been educating health professions to talk to patients about access to guns, safe storage, and helping them make decisions that facilitate optimal health and safety. Recognizing that the majority of gun deaths are due to suicide, PPGV emphasizes the need to keep guns out of the hands of people with emotional, substance related, or mental health crises. PPGV also advocates for the passage of sensible gun reform legislation.

In this presentation for those 50 and over we will examine gun violence, focusing on how particular populations such as women, children, communities of color, and individuals struggling with mental health challenges are uniquely affected. We will examine the epidemiology of gun violence and outline some of the ways in which politics have become entangled with the pursuit of life saving interventions. We will describe how non-medical community members can have a major impact in raising awareness by inquiring about safe storage of firearms. We will also discuss selected state and federal gun violence related legislation and encourage attendees to contact elected leaders to advocate for bills to prevent gun violence. Finally, we will open the conversation to course attendees as we examine the historical challenges faced in addressing gun violence and discuss opportunities to effect meaningful change.

This presentation by Sonya Lewis, MD, MPH will last two hours.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:10:39 -0400 2019-10-14T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-14T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Meditation and Spiritual Life (October 14, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68342 68342-17054451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 6:15pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan

Swami Yogatmananda of Vedanta Society of Providence, RI would be giving a talk on 'Meditation and Spiritual Life'. All are welcome. This event is free of charge and RSVPs are not required.

About the speaker: Born in 1953 in Karnataka state (India), Swami Yogatmananda joined Ramakrishna Order in 1976. He received his monastic vows in 1986. After serving at Ramakrishna Math at Nagpur (Maharashtra state, India) for 20 years, he was posted as the Head of Ramakrishna Mission, Shillong, (Meghalaya state, India). He came to United States in the summer of 2001 as the Minister of the Vedanta Society of Providence.

Swami Yogatmananda’s present responsibilities include conducting Sunday service, weekly study classes and organizing spiritual retreats. He is invited to preach Vedanta at different places in the United States. He also serves as the Hindu Religious Affiliate at the Brown University, Providence, RI and the Hindu Chaplain at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:02:46 -0400 2019-10-14T18:15:00-04:00 2019-10-14T19:30:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Swami Yogatmananda_Flier
Vedanta Discourse (October 14, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68069 68069-16994910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 6:15pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

We welcome you to attend Vedanta Discourse by Swami Yogatmananda, Minister in Charge, Vedanta Society of Providence, RI.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:50:45 -0400 2019-10-14T18:15:00-04:00 2019-10-14T19:45:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Vedanta Study Circle Lecture / Discussion October 14, 2019 talk by Swami Yogatmananda
13th Annual Prechter Lecture featuring Pete Earley (October 15, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64741 64741-16442904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

› Keynote speaker Pete Earley, author of CRAZY
› Panel discussion about:
*mental health care in the justice system
*the present & future of research in bipolar disorder
› Reception -- Book signing during the reception with books available for purchase.

› This is a FREE event, but we ask that you pre-register via this link: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/prechter-program/events/201910/13th-annual-prechter-lecture-featuring-pete-earley


Praise for Pete Earley's book:

“Parents of the mentally ill should find solace and food for thought in [this book’s] pages.”
- Publishers Weekly

“Explores the mind-boggling mess that America’s mental health system has become and champions the case for reform.”
- Rocky Mountain News

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:55:05 -0400 2019-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T21:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion author Pete Earley
MIPSE Seminar | Hydroxyl Radicals in Gas-Liquid Water Plasma Reactors (October 16, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65966 65966-16678369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Electrical discharge plasmas formed in and in contact with liquid water are of interest for applications in chemical, biomedical, agricultural, electrical, and materials engineering. Analysis of plasmas interacting with liquids is challenging due to the complex relations among the important chemical and physical processes. In addition to the various ways (e.g., AC, DC, pulsed, RF, MW) and geometries to generate a plasma contacting a liquid, the formation of plasma at a gas-liquid interface also depends on the gas composition, liquid properties (e.g., conductivity), and the nature of the molecular transport processes (e.g., hydrodynamics of two-phase flow, energy transport, and mass transfer) at the interface. To address these challenges and focus on the specific case of filamentary plasma channels propagating along a gas-liquid water interface, we have constructed a gas-liquid plasma reactor that enables control of many of these variables. The plasma-liquid interactions have been characterized for chemical reactions including hydrogen peroxide formation, oxidation of hydrocarbons, combined plasma degradation of organic contaminants, nitrogen oxide formation, and hydroxyl radical generation. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the key findings. Comparison will be made of OH generation by gas-water plasma reactors with competing methods such as UV, radiation chemistry, ultrasound, and chemical oxidation methods.

About the Speaker: Dr. Bruce R. Locke earned his B.E. in Chemical Engr. and Environmental & Water Resources from Vanderbilt U. in 1980, MS. from the U. of Houston in 1982, and PhD in Chemical Engr. from North Carolina State U. in 1989. During 1982-86 he was at the Research Triangle Institute working on analysis of submicron aerosol particles in microelectronics manufacturing. He has been a professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomedical Engr. at Florida State University (FSU) since 1989 where he was department chair during 2005-12. He was an Associate Provost at FSU during 2012-18 responsible for international programs, and was interim dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2015-16. He was named FSU Distinguished University Research Professor in 2010. Dr. Locke has published 137 journal papers, 8 book chapters and holds 6 patents. He has been visiting professor in Japan, France, and China, and was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2017-18. He is Fellow of the American Inst. of Chemical Engineers and is co-Editor-in-Chief of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. His research interests include plasma reaction engineering for chemical synthesis and environmental pollution control, emphasizing gas-liquid plasma reactor development.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m85f0e1b661dbc2c8253eddda8b069848
Meeting number: 627 088 372
Password: MIPSE

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:32:37 -0400 2019-10-16T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-16T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Bruce Locke
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68138 68138-17011980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "3D genome structure as a tool to understand the impact of somatic and germline sequence variants"

Abstract: The 3-dimensional organization of DNA inside of the nucleus impacts a variety of cellular processes, including gene regulation. Furthermore, it is apparent that somatic structural variants that affect how chromatin is organized in 3D can have a major impact on gene regulation and human disease. However, such structural variants in the context of cancer genomes are abundant, and predicting the consequence of any individual somatic mutation on 3D genome structure and gene expression is challenging. In addition, we are severely limited with regard to tools that can be used to study 3D folding of the genome in vivo in actual human tumor or tissue samples. Our lab has developed several approaches to address these challenges. We have taken a pan-cancer approach to identify loci in the genome that are affected by structural variants that alter 3D genome structure, and we have identified numerous loci with recurrent 3D genome altering mutations. We have also used genome engineering to create novel structural variants to better understand what types of mutations are actually capable of altering 3D genome structure and gene regulation. Finally, we have also developed novel tools to study 3D genome structure in vivo in complex tissue samples. We believe that these approaches will be critical for improving our understanding of how non-coding sequence variants can affect 3D genome structure and gene regulation, with the ultimate goal of understanding how these events affect human physiology.

3:45 pm - Light Refreshments Served
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:39:45 -0400 2019-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Science Café (October 16, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66191 66191-16719565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Hidden in the feathers of museum specimens of birds is information on the air quality of past decades - very detailed information. These specimens also contain evidence of the impacts of recent climate change on birds. What do these birds have to say? Join Shane DuBay and Ben Winger of the U-M Museum of Zoology to discuss what bird specimens can tell us about air quality, climate change impacts, and what we can all do to help rapidly declining bird populations now.

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.


Sponsored by Andrea and Dave Scott

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:18:49 -0400 2019-10-16T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-16T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Photocredit-Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay
The 2019 Walter J. Weber, Jr. 
Distinguished Lecture in Environmental and Energy Sustainability (October 17, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68208 68208-17026816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 1:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Abhaya Datye
Distinguished Regents' Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of New Mexico


>This Seminar will be held in the North Campus Research Complex, Building 32, Auditorium

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:37:12 -0400 2019-10-17T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Abhaya Datye
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar: "Future Directions for the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics" (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63902 63902-15985744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Daniel Hastings
Department Head, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

The MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been undertaking a strategic assessment of its directions. This is motivated by three forcing functions. First the creation of the College of Computing at MIT and the vision that computing broadly defined now infuses all of modern engineering. Second, the aerospace enterprise is thriving and has been undergoing a burst of entrepreneurial activity in the past few years. This is driving the democratization of air and space at scales and applications that universities can approach. Third, as the undergraduate population in the nation has become more diverse, aerospace writ large has dramatically lagged behind.

The talk will explore changes in directions to address these forcing functions and position the Department for the future.

About the speaker...
Prof. Daniel Hastings is the Department Head of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Previously he was the CEO and Director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

Professor Hastings earned a PhD and an SM, from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1980 and 1978 respectively, and received a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University in England in 1976. He joined the MIT faculty in 1985. With almost 30 years of experience in academia, Professor Hastings was MIT’s Dean of Undergraduate Education from 2006 to 2013, head of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division.

Professor Hastings was US Air Force Chief Scientist From 1997-1999 and chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2002-2005. He currently serves on the Board of the Aerospace Corporation, the Board of the Draper Corporation and the Advisory Board of MIT Lincoln Lab. He has served on several US National Research Council committees including the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and the Government University Industry Interactions Roundtable.

Professor Hastings is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He served on the NASA Advisory Council, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Defense Science Board, the National Science Board and several ad-hoc committees on space technology as well as on Science and Technology management and processes. He has published over 120 papers, written a book on spacecraft environment interactions and won 5 best papers awards. His recent research is focused on Complex Space System Design. His previous work was on spacecraft environment interactions and space propulsion.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:38:10 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:15:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Hastings picture
Against Hungry Listening (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67620 67620-16907165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

What are the ways in which settler colonial and Indigenous ontologies structure perception, and listening in particular? This presentation provides an overview of forms of extractive or “hungry” perception, and alternatives to these that emerge from Indigenous sensory engagement. The range of such listening practices are necessarily multiple and dependent upon the specificities of Indigenous and settler epistemes at play, it is nonetheless possible to discern historical patterns of “civilizing” the attention of Indigenous people, and ongoing settler listening practices oriented toward the instrumentalization Indigenous knowledge. In contrast, forms of Indigenous listening resurgence refuse the anthropocentrism of listening, and instead proceed from intersubjective experience between listeners and song-life.

Dylan Robinson is a xwélméxw artist and writer (Stó:lō Nation, Sqwa), and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His current work focuses on the re-connection of Indigenous songs with communities who were prohibited by law to sing them as part of Canada’s Indian Act from 1882-1951. Robinson’s previous publications include the edited volumes Music and Modernity Among Indigenous Peoples of North America (2018); Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2016); and Opera Indigene (2011). His monograph, Hungry Listening, is forthcoming with Minnesota University Press in early 2020. Additionally, Robinson is curator of the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts in Kingston, and along with Candice Hopkins, is curator of the internationally touring exhibition Soundings featuring “scores for decolonial action” by Indigenous artists.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:49:53 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo
Lauren Bon: Life is Abundant (October 17, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65259 65259-16559489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for one agricultural cycle; 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 240-mile performative action that aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water for the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Her studio’s current work, Bending the River Back into the City, aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA. This model can be replicated to regenerate the 52-mile LA River, reconnect it to its floodplain and form a citizens’ utility.

Co-presented with the Community of Food, Society and Justice Conference, October 17-18. This conference will engage students, faculty, staff, farmers, and the community in rigorous dialogue around the challenges of meeting the nutritional needs of our communities, while also protecting the planet, promoting healthy lives, and ensuring food justice. The conference is free and open to the public, thanks to its co-sponsors: the U-M Residential College, East Quad Garden, Michigan Dining, U-M Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, U-M Sustainable Food Program, U-M Campus Farm, Knight Wallace House, U-M Program in the Environment, Michigan Law Environmental Law and Policy Program, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series.

Image: One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 2013. Photo by Joshua White.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-10-17T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-17T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/bon.jpg
U-M Structure Seminar: Debashish Sahu, Ph.D. (October 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65698 65698-16629904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

BioNMR Director
University of Michigan
https://bionmrcore.umich.edu/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:54:45 -0400 2019-10-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Health and Poverty: The Toll of Living with Less (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66030 66030-16684566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Bridgette Brawner, associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk titled "Health and Poverty: The Toll of Living with Less" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:07:33 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Bridgette Brawner
Psychology Methods Hour: Integrating the Reference Point Effect into Normative Decision Theory: Purpose-Based Utility Functions (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67773 67773-16949868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

His presentation will introduce the Prescriptive Utility Reference POint (PURPOse) as a reference point which induces risk-aversion when the individual's true utility function is concave and risk-seeking when the utility is convex. When the individual utility function has multiple inflection points, this leads to a form of hedonic adaptation. When an individual has sufficiently exceeded their purpose, they adopt a new more demanding purpose and focus on achieving that purpose. But when an individual has sufficiently fallen short of that purpose, they switch to a less aggressive purpose. As a result, the utility function implicitly specifies a series of purposes which serve as milestones as the individual's maximizes their utility function. So, by integrating elements of prospect theory into utility theory, Dr. Bordley will demonstrate how utility theory can provide its own normative alternative to using goals to guide decision making.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:46:43 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operation History (October 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68420 68420-17080053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Author William H. Garzke Jr. will be present to discuss his newest work, Battleship Bismark: A Design and Operation History, a marine forensics analysis and engineering study of the design, operations, and loss of Germany's greatest battleship.

Biography: Garzke is a 1960 UM NAME graduate who was cited by SNAME as one of the 100 notable naval architects of the twentieth century in 1993. He has written five definitive works on battleships from WWII as well as Titanic Ship, Titanic Disasters, a forensic analysis of what really caused the demise of the Titanic, Britannic and Lusitania.

The department has a copy of the book in room 222 for students to check out if interested.

As always, lunch will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:02:03 -0400 2019-10-18T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Battleship Bismark
2019 Borer Lecture: Laurie Goodyear, PhD (October 18, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65756 65756-16654032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Brehm Tower
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

This year's Katarina T. Borer Lectureship in Exercise Endocrinology and Metabolism guest speaker is Laurie Goodyear, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Section Head, Joslin Diabetes Center, at Harvard Medical School. She will present "Why Moms and Dads Should Exercise: Molecular Discoveries of the Beneficial Effects of Parental Exercise on Offspring Health."

Friday, October 18, at 2:30pm
Brehm Tower, Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium (1st floor)
1000 Wall St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Reception to follow

RSVP at http://myumi.ch/errk2!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:54:36 -0400 2019-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Brehm Tower School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion Borer Lectureship: Laurie Goodyear, PhD
Smith Lecture: The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): How lakebeds are reshaping our understanding of the environmental context of human origins (October 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63120 63120-15576728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

For over 100 years scientists have debated the possible role environmental history may have played in shaping the evolution, dispersal and extinction of our species and our close relatives (Hominins). Records of this history can be derived from the fluvial, cave and paleosol deposits in which the fossils and stone tools are typically found, from deep sea offshore marine drill cores, or from drill cores collected from the deposits of ancient lakes that span the African rift valley. In this talk I will describe recent findings from HSPDP, a large international consortium focused on the latter approach, as well as finding from other lake drilling projects of relevance to hominin history. Lake beds drilled by HSPDP have provided highly resolved records of environmental and climatic change. We have targeted sites in close proximity to important fossil hominin and archaeological sites, which span critical intervals in hominin evolutionary history, and which are providing a regional scale view of the ecological and climatic conditions experienced by our species and close relatives over the last ~3.5 Ma. I will also discuss future plans for extending lacustrine drill core records back through the entire span on hominin history, since the Late Miocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:17:04 -0400 2019-10-18T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | The Astronet: A Human-Centric Network of Free-Flying Space Co-Robots (October 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66276 66276-16725786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Panagou will describe her work for the NASA Early Career Faculty Award on the "Astronet": a human-centric robotic network of future space free-fliers (Astrobees) that will assist the astronauts in EVAs and IVAs on the ISS, and for space exploration. She will describe her team's algorithmic developments on the intelligence and autonomy of the Astronet, and on how it can interact and assist astronauts in multi-tasking procedures in unstructured environments. She will show simulations results on an ISS simulator, as well as preliminary experimental results with small quadrotors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:01:32 -0400 2019-10-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-19T23:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Astronet
OLLI Reads "What the Eyes Don't See" (October 21, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64678 64678-16426885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk.

And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice.

OLLI Reads invites OLLI members and others to read together and discuss two books a year. This fall we are collaborating with Great Michigan Read, and other community partners, to enjoy participating in a wider project. Michigan Humanities’ Great Michigan Read creates a statewide discussion each year on the humanities themes of a selected book.

Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, is the founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative. Currently an associate professor of pediatrics and human development at the MSU College of Human Medicine, she has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for her role in uncovering the Flint water crisis and leading recovery efforts.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is not required to attend this event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:19:40 -0400 2019-10-21T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-17128444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

This working symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Reshaping of Persian after the Seventh-Century Arabian Conquest and Colonization (October 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64320 64320-16316265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

This presentation discusses the reshaping of the Persian language in the seventh and eighth centuries, conditioned by the settlement patterns of the coalition of conquering Colonists (muhājirūn) from Arabia. Breakthroughs in contact linguistics combined with traditional historical linguistics and philology provide new insights into the demographic history of premodern populations and shed light on how the Persian language still used today first emerged. In this analysis, modern narratives of Persian ethnic or national continuity with the ancient past give way to a history of discontinuity and colonial rupture.

About the Speaker:
Kevin van Bladel is Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Yale University. He is the author of The Arabic Hermes (2009) and From Sasanian Mandaeans to Sabians of the Marshes (2017), as well as numerous articles on the languages and learned traditions of the classical Near East.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. Contact: jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:54:26 -0400 2019-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
RNA Innovation Seminar, Ruslan Afasizhev, Boston University Medical Campus (October 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65138 65138-16539449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Ruslan Afasizhev, PhD, Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology, Boston University Medical Campus

Abstract: Parasitic protist Trypanosoma brucei causes African human and animal trypanosomiasis, a spectrum of diseases affecting the population and economy in sub-Saharan Africa. These digenetic hemoflagellates belong to Kinetoplastea, a taxonomic class distinguished by possession of a kinetoplast. This nucleoprotein body contains mitochondrial DNA of two kinds: ~25 maxicircles (each ~23kb) encoding ribosomal RNAs, two guide RNA (gRNAs), ribosomal proteins and subunits of respiratory complexes, and approximately 5000 of ~1kb minicircles bearing the majority of gRNA genes. Relaxed maxicircles and minicircles are interlinked and packed into a dense disc-shaped network by association with histone-like proteins. Both maxicircle and minicircle genomes are transcribed by a phage-like RNA polymerase from multiple promoters into 3′-extended precursors which undergo 3′-5′ exonucleolytic trimming. To function in mitochondrial translation, pre-mRNAs must further proceed through 3′ adenylation, and often gRNA-directed uridine insertion/deletion editing, and 3′ A/U-tailing. Ribosomal and guide RNAs are typically 3′ uridylated. Historically, the fascinating phenomenon of RNA editing has attracted major research efforts, but more recent developments provided insights into pre- and post-edited processing events and identified key players in transforming primary precursors into functional RNAs and regulating their turnover. I will present a forward-looking model that integrates known modalities of mitochondrial RNA metabolism.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:59:39 -0400 2019-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
DELAYED - The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women (October 21, 2019 4:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66604 66604-16767944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:45pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This talk explores the world of names, naming, and namelessness in troubadour songs and in the manuscripts that transmit them. I show how the manuscript lyric anthologies known as *chansonniers *participate in the name games that are an integral part of troubadour lyric poetics. While names in manuscripts can be important evidence, they do not correspond neatly to modern notions of the author as an individual with a fixed historical identity. By shifting the focus of inquiry to manuscript attributions, and particularly to female author attributions, I demonstrate the complexity of medieval understandings of lyric authorship. I challenge especially certain modern (and often gendered) assumptions about the authorship of troubadour songs, and critique those book historical methods that can reinforce such assumptions. My conclusions are grounded in a new approach to troubadour manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries, but the central issues of textual stability and authorial identity that I address are significant more broadly to both medievalists and modernists. My approach, elaborated in my larger book project, makes possible new ways of understanding the authorship of troubadour song.

Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Forum on Research in Medieval Studies, Department of Musicology, and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:45:52 -0400 2019-10-21T16:45:00-04:00 2019-10-21T18:15:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women
Prediction Error & Model Evaluation for Space-Time Downscaling: case studies in air pollution during wildfires (October 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68191 68191-17026797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ABSTRACT:
Public Health Scientists use prediction models to downscale (i.e., interpolate) air pollution exposure where monitoring data is insufficient. This exercise aims to obtain estimates at fine resolutions, so that exposure data may reliably be related to health outcomes. In this setting, substantial research efforts have been dedicated to the development of statistical models capable of integrating heterogenous information to obtain accurate prediction: statistical downscaling models, land use regression, as well as machine learning strategies. However, when presented with the tasks of choosing between models, or averaging models, we find that our understanding of model performance in the absence of independent statistical replications remains insufficient. This lecture is motivated by several studies of air pollution (PM 2.5 and ground-level ozone) during wildfires. We review the basis for cross validation as a strategy for the estimation of the expected prediction error. As these performance measure play a crucial role in model selection and averaging we present a formal characterization of the estimands targeted by different data subsetting strategies, and explore their performance in engineered data settings. A final analysis and a warning about preference inversion is presented in relation to the a 2008 wildfire event in Northern California.

BIO:
Dr. Telesca is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington and spent two years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include Bayesian methods in multivariate statistics, functional data analysis, statistical methods in bio- and nano-informatics. Dr. Telesca is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal data scientist at Lucid Circuit Inc.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:51:07 -0400 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Donatello Telesca Environmental Statistics Day Lecture
CSE Distinguished Lecture (October 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68104 68104-17011785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

Abstract: After more than 30 years in academia researching in the area of AI, as a student and as a faculty, I joined JPMorgan to create and head an AI research group. In this talk, I will present several concrete examples of the projects we are pursuing in engagement with the lines of business. I will focus on areas related to data, learning from experience, explainability, and ethics. I will conclude with a discussion of my current understanding of the transformational impact that AI can have in the future of financial services.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:01:43 -0400 2019-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Manuela Veloso
“The Unvarnished Truth” (October 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67563 67563-16892252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This presentation will explore the American story through the lens of the African American experience as displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — a museum regarded as exhibiting one of the most authoritative and trustworthy representations of this experience and a site of racial healing.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:30:37 -0400 2019-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation William S. Pretzer, Senior Curator of History, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America (October 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68547 68547-17096952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Speaker: Thomas Mackaman
Assistant Professor of History, Kings College; and writer for the World Socialist Web Site

Co-author of the recent pamphlet "The New York Times' 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of US and world history" published on the World Socialist Web Site

Author of the book New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924



The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the US and its youth and student movement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), is holding a three-part series of meetings on “Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America.”

This series is the socialist answer to the New York Times “1619 Project,” which has been accompanied by an unprecedented publicity blitz, including at schools and campuses throughout the country. The occasion they cite for the publication of this project is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 African slaves at Port Comfort, Virginia.

The Times project raises the question: Is race the driving force of history, as the Times insists? Or, as Karl Marx analyzed, is it class? Is “anti-black racism … in the very DNA of this country” as the Times writes? Or is the history of the United States fundamentally the history of class struggle? As social inequality reaches record levels, is America heading toward race war or socialist revolution?

The promotion of the 1619 Project takes place under conditions of expanding class struggle internationally and a growing interest in socialism among workers and youth in the United States. Its aim is to block the development of a united movement of workers across all races by cultivating racial divisions.

These meetings will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the 1619 Project, explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:17:33 -0400 2019-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion Thomas Hovenden's "The Last Moments of John Brown"
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68168 68168-17020453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "Chromatin accessibility signatures of immune system aging"

Abstract: Aging is linked to deficiencies in immune responses and increased systemic inflammation. To unravel regulatory programs behind these changes, we profiled peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from young and old individuals (n=77) using ATAC-seq and RNA-seq technologies and analyzed these data via systems immunology tools. First, we described an epigenomic signature of immune system aging, with simultaneous systematic chromatin closing at promoters and enhancers associated with T cell signaling. This signature was primarily borne by memory CD8+ T cells, which exhibited an aging-related loss in IL7R activity and IL7 responsiveness. More recently to uncover the impact of sex on immune system aging, we studied PBMCs from 194 healthy adults (100 women, 94 men) ranging from 22-93 years old using ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, and flow cytometry technologies. These data revealed a shared epigenomic signature of aging between sexes composed of declines in naïve T cell functions and increases in monocyte and cytotoxic cell functions. Despite similarities, these changes were greater in magnitude in men. Additionally, we uncovered male-specific decreases in expression/accessibility of B-cell associated loci. Trajectory analyses revealed that age-related epigenomic changes were more abrupt at two timepoints in the human lifespan. The first timepoint was similar between sexes in terms of timing (early forties) and magnitude. In contrast, the latter timepoint was earlier (~5 years) and more pronounced in men (mid-sixties versus late-sixties). Unexpectedly, differences between men and women PBMCs increased with aging, with men having higher monocyte and pro-inflammatory activity and lower B/T cell activity compared to women after 65 years of age. Our study uncovered which immune cell functions and molecules are differentially affected with age between sexes, including the differences in timing and magnitude of changes, which is an important step towards precision medicine in older adults.

3:45 pm - Light refreshments served
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:12:18 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors (October 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65326 65326-16571519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This presentation will address the surge of urban social actors who have changed the traditional criollo city of La Paz into a newly-born cholo/mestizo city shaped after the influence of new socio-economic sectors of mainly Aymara ethnic origins.

It is during the second half of the past century that the long underprivileged and belittled Quechua/Aymara merchants of the city of La Paz opened the doors to smuggling and to the informal economy that has neither been taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Quechua/Aymara merchants, often stigmatized as troublesome and unmanageable, expanded rapidly to challenge the formal economy ran by merchants of diverse European as well as Middle-Eastern origins (mainly Croatian, Lebanese, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and German).

Gastón Gallardo’s presentation will explore the spatial consequences that rose from the “physical” creation of a Quechua/Aymara black market that commercialized with clothing and other imported goods. This black market created a vast ambulant commerce of informal nature that dramatically changed La Paz, the site of Bolivia’s government. What did this mean symbolically? How should we conceptualize the enormous changes the city is encountering today between the rationalized European spatial models of the past and the new mestizo baroque architectural forms of the present? What are the connections between commerce and the vibrant mestizo festivities that have conquered artistically the traditional criollo city of the past?

Gastón Gallardo is a well-known Bolivian architect and urban planner. Professor Emeritus of the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, the most important public university in Bolivia, Gallardo has also been its Dean of the School of Architecture, Arts, Design and Urbanism, from 2015 until 2018. He is also a founder member of the School of Architecture at Universidad Católica Boliviana, and has taught at the postgraduate level at several other universities. He holds degrees from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Collegio d’Ingenierie della Toscana, Firenze, Italy, and has done postgraduate work in territorial and urban planning, in Italy and Argentina. Gallardo in widely published in Bolivia and Latin America, and is currently Vice President of the Bolivian Association of History.

Gallardo’s presentation will be in Spanish.

This event is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:36:20 -0400 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors
Torn Asunder: Faith, Higher Education, Politics and the Davidson family during the Civil War (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65587 65587-16619785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Davidson family of Indianapolis is a near perfect microcosm of the United States during Civil War. With roots in the South, but living in the North the family's ties to religious, education, and political leaders and institutions cast new light on the loyalties Americans felt towards their region, nation and the institution of slavery.

Central to the story is Preston Davidson, a Hoosier by birth, who fought for the Confederacy alongside his Virginian cousins. On the other side, stands his brother Dorman, who fought to preserve the Union. How these two ended up on opposing sides of the greatest conflict in American history is the story of how familial expectations, faith, higher educational opportunities, and political loyalties all played into the struggle over if the nation would be divided or united and whether or not slavery would flourish or be abolished.

A native Hoosier, Jason S. Lantzer holds a BA, MA, and PhD all from Indiana University. His research and writing interests center on the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American History. His book, "Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War" was published in 2017. Dr. Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Dr. Jason S. Lantzer
Black Women's Gaming Practices as Intersectional Counterpublics (October 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64249 64249-16266503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

"I am unable to detangle, in any analytic or actual way, my gender, race, or sexuality from the vitriol and symbolic violence levied upon me after the discovery of my physical identities in digital spaces." Misogynoir, a core facet of Black feminist discourse and an integral part of intersectionality, acknowledges that Black women’s experiences inside the matrix of domination is echoed by the many ways that Black women are dehumanized in popular culture. Misogynoir also expands the scope of examination and provides an inclusive focus on not just anti-Blackness and White supremacy, but also intraracially, in exploring how Black masculinity and Black patriarchy contribute to the objectification of Black women. To gain a sense of the interracial and intraracial experiences of Black women in gaming, this talk will interrogate ethnographic observations and interviews with Black women and other women of color in online gaming communities. While these examples highlight the continued devaluation of women in public spaces, my observational narratives weave together a simultaneous engagement with being a Black woman while online, while gaming, and while consuming mediated content about Black women in “the real world.” This transmediated engagement illustrates intersectional tech,
exploring the entanglements of visual, textual, and oral engagements of the Black body in both the digital and physical realms.


Kishonna Gray is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Previously, she served as an MLK Scholar and Assistant Professor at MIT in the Women & Gender Studies Program as well as a Faculty Visitor at the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research (Cambridge).

Her work broadly intersects identity and digital media with a particular focus on video games and gaming culture. By examining game context and culture in her most recent book, Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live, examines the reality of women and people of color in one of the largest gaming communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:37:59 -0400 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion kishonna
Marilyn Minter: In Person (October 24, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65260 65260-16559490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Appropriating the aesthetics of fashion editorials and advertising, New York-based Marilyn Minter’s photorealist paintings examine banal realities, such as frozen peas or kitchen floors, often relegated to a hyper-feminized realm in popular culture and marketing, as well as contemporary notions of beauty and sensuality. Adding sweat, spit, hair, and dirt to the high-gloss veneer of advertising campaigns, Minter juxtaposes in-your-face beauty with the down-and-dirty reality of being human. Minter first gained popularity in the early 1990s, and has been featured in major solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain, and the Deichtorhallen in Germany. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA, and was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard and in Times Square. Most recently, her retrospective Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; the Orange County Museum of Art; and the Brooklyn Museum.

Supported by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:50:51 -0400 2019-10-24T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/minter.jpg
CSEAS Lecture Series. Last Flight to Bangkok: Reflections on 60 Years in Southeast Asia (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65089 65089-16515513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In this lecture, Professor Gayl Ness will reflect on his sixty year career in Southeast Asian Studies, which has focused on development, environment-social organization, and human ecology. Specifically, he will discuss how rice production generates large empires with state-like political administration, and how the river systems in Vietnam encouraged strong political centralization in the North and political decentralization in the South. Further, Prof. Ness will detail how Southeast Asian geography relates to the high degree of independence of women throughout the region.

Gayl Ness is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Michigan. His work focuses on how geography or land forms affect social organization. He retired in 1997, but continues to teach a first year seminar on Population, Development, and Environment.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:46:41 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
The Road to Hell: Why Serving the Poor Does Not Eliminate Poverty (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66033 66033-16684581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

The Rev. Faith Fowler, executive director of Cass Community Social Services, will give a talk titled "The Road to Hell: Why Serving the Poor Does Not Eliminate Poverty" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:12:22 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Faith Fowler
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Accelerating Teams to High Performance (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68784 68784-17147190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Mary R. Anderson
Executive Director, Human Resources - Global Markets and Mobility
Ford Motor Company

Mary Anderson has 30 years of experience in the field of Human Resources and Organization Development. She has had the distinguished opportunity to work in three of the top companies in the world including General Electric, General Motors and Ford Motor Company. Mary has a B.A. in business and an M.A. in Human Resources & Labor Relations from Michigan State University.

She began her career at General Electric during the Jack Welch era, and over a ten year period worked for GE Medical, Aircraft Engines and Plastics. In addition to managing and executing the traditional HR functions such as recruitment, compensation planning, succession planning, employee development, labor relations and performance management, she also became certified in GE benchmark processes such as Workout, Change Acceleration (CAP), Six Sigma, Strategic Planning and Team Development.

Mary calls the Metro Detroit area home, and to broaden her sphere of experience and influence in the community, she transitioned to the Truck division of General Motors.

While at GM, Mary ran the $11 million GM Truck training organization and streamlined operations, cutting costs by $1.5 million. She launched the performance management process for GM Truck, which won the Chairman’s award and became a company best practice translated across all divisions globally.

After a successful stint with GM, Mary accepted an exciting offer to work at Ford Motor Company to lead the strategic planning process and performance management for the newly formed North American Operations. She has since held several HR positions including the lead negotiator with the UAW at the local and national levels, as well as assignments with Ford Credit and Product Development including HR oversight for more than 50k engineers, supply chain management leaders, and 9 VPs worldwide.

Mary’s current role as top HR leader for Global Markets and Mobility has provided her the opportunity to help shift Ford’s 115 year business model from traditional OEM to transportation juggernaut including setting up Argo AI – the Autonomous Vehicle subsidiary with a market cap of $4B, the formation of a new Human Centered Design organization, China Business Unit, International Markets organization, and the lead architect for running vehicle products and services as end-to-end businesses.

Mary has left a legacy at Ford by developing the first Global Organization Development practice and creating tools to improve individual, team, and organization effectiveness. She has mentored and taught countless HR professionals and business leaders how to accelerate teams to high performance, lead high-impact change efforts, create enduring strategic plans and deploy them across the business, and how to design elegant and efficient organizations to deliver results.

Mary also gives back to the community through her role on the Advisory board at MSU’s HR & Labor Relations master’s program as well as volunteering as a tutor for students at the Detroit Public Schools and Detroit Boxing Gym.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:20:13 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Sustainable Systems Forum (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68204 68204-17026815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

A panel of alumnae share insights from their careers in the energy space. Participants include: 

Allison Clements, Energy Foundation, Program Director-Clean Energy Markets

Kerry Duggan, RIDGE-LANE LP, Partner in Sustainability Practice; Office of Vice President Joe Biden, Former Deputy Director for Policy

Kate Elliott, Tesla, Regional Manager of Charging

Shoshannah Lenski, DTE Energy, Director of Productivity & Work Standards

Trisha Miller, Gates Ventures, Senior Director of Advocacy & Government Relations

Moderated by Shelie Miller, U-M Program in the Environment (PitE), Director

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:41:00 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion Women in Energy panel of alumnae
Special Lecture: What Really Happened in the Continental Realm During the First of Three Great Global Extinctions?: The Chronostratigraphy of Beaufort Group Strata Deposited Across the Permian/Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa? (October 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63121 63121-15576729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The commonly held, decades old model for the terrestrial response to the end-Permian extinction crisis is based on a turnover in the vertebrate-fossil record first documented in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, and since extrapolated globally. This model requires that the systematic loss exhibited by an abrupt turnover from the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (DAZ) to the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (LAZ) is coincident with the timing of mass extinctions in the oceanic realm. Understanding the timing of these inferred environmental changes in the Karoo Basin, from Late Permian to possibly Early Triassic (?) time, as recorded in Beaufort Group strata, requires robust chronostratigraphic information, including high quality unequivocal magnetic polarity stratigraphy for sections previously interpreted to encompass end-Permian extinction events. The preservation of an early-acquired remanence in Beaufort strata is required for a valid magnetostratigraphy, yet is difficult to prove due to thermochemical effects related to the Early Jurassic (ca. 183 Ma) Karoo Large Igneous Province (LIP) and the NE to SW increase in burial diagenesis attending Cape Fold Belt tectonism. My very fond wonderings in parts of the Karoo Basin, along with several tremendous colleagues, have allowed me to collect well over 2500 independently oriented samples from several key inferred PTB sections, involving at least 240 distinct sites. At the well-studied Bethulie section, Free State Province, over 120 sites have been established in both Beaufort strata and several <2 m wide Karoo LIP dikes. Strata well-removed from dikes yield both normal and reverse polarity ChRM. The first-removed RM in sedimentary rocks is always a NNW seeking, moderate to steep negative inclination ChRM (normal polarity); NRM intensities are typically ~1 to 5 mA/m. A stratigraphic interval involving over ten sites in discrete beds, the top of which is located some 4 m below the often-cited “event bed” Permian/Triassic boundary interval is dominated by a well-defined reverse RM with a normal overprint RM unblocked below 400oC, implying elevated temperatures (i.e., ~ 100 to 250oC+) for ca. 1 Ma (+/-). The lower part of the section, extending close to the Caledon River, is exclusively of normal polarity. Contact tests are positive but complicated. Documentation of a primary RM in these strata, which appears in some areas to be preserved, requires careful laboratory- and field-based assessment. At Farm Nooitgedacht (“Neverland”), where previous workers have identified the position of the DAZ to LAZ boundary, we have, for the first time in upper Beaufort Group strata, a thin, pristine ash fall deposit. The high precision U-Pb zircon age data from this ash, in combination with magnetostratigraphic, palynostratigraphic, and geochemical observations are in a manuscript that has passed the first of two hurdles in Nature Communications. The new results have profound implications for previous interpretations of any turnover in vertebrates that may have occurred in relation to the end-Permian extinction event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:53:20 -0400 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics (October 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66278 66278-16725792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The birth of the field of nonlinear optics occurred in Randall Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1961 when Franken, Hill, Peters, and Weinreich observed for the first time the generation of optical harmonics. This discovery was rapidly followed by the observation of numerous other nonlinear effects such as optical rectification, frequency mixing, self-focusing, and parametric oscillation. In this talk we review the physics, birth, growth, and modern day applications of nonlinear optics.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:04:49 -0400 2019-10-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar HERCULES LASER Credit Joseph Xu
RNA Innovation Seminar, Luis Batista, Washington University in St. Louis (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65140 65140-16539450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Luis Batista, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Developmental Biology, Washington University in St. Louis

Abstract: The overarching goal of the Batista lab is to understand the regulation and function of telomerase in tissue fitness, disease, and cancer. The Batista laboratory uses genome-wide methods to uncover alterations that drive cellular failure upon critical telomerase dysfunction, using the targeted differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to tissues of clinical relevance as a primary model. We combine in vitro biochemical and mechanistic studies with our ability to generate and differentiate pluripotent cells towards different fates to better understand the importance of correct ribonucleoprotein assembly and function in tissue fitness and to determine the events that lead from impaired RNA-protein assembly to disease in humans.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:00:45 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Vampire Trouble is More Serious Than the Mighty Plague: A Comparative Look at the History of Evil and Mischief, Inspired by Evliya Çelebi (1611 - ca. 1684) (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68122 68122-17011964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

A Curious and Most Wonderous Account of the Blood-Sucking Dead, or A Contribution to the History and Folklore of the Belief in Vampires in Light of the Metaphysics of Evil and Beliefs in Satan, with Particular Attention to the History of Fear and Terror in Ottoman Turkish Geography and to the Reception and Development of the Myth of Vampires in Western European Lands, from the Early Modern to Neo-Liberalism, as Drawn from Authentic Reports and Accompanied by Philosophical Reflections.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:42:07 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
General Motors Tech Talk - Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Truck Bed (October 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67633 67633-16909299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Wilson Student Team Project Center

Come meet the engineering team and hear about General Motors industry leading application of carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics in the GMC Sierra CarbonPro pickup truck box.

The GM team will also be available to discuss internship and full time engineering opportunities.

Food and beverage will be provided!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:21:56 -0400 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Wilson Student Team Project Center Lecture / Discussion 2019-GMC-Sierra-1500-Denali-CarbonPro
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (October 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66035 66035-16684583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Author Stephanie Land will give a talk on her book, titled "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:17:16 -0400 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Stephanie Land
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-16890095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

This working symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
How To Create High-Performing Teams (October 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68028 68028-16986095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Shared Services Center

U-M Professor and Researcher Dr. Scott E. Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose guidance and consultation are sought after around the country, makes an evidence-based, compelling case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. His research findings presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions―all of which lead to better performance and results.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, Dr. Page will speak to the U-M Community about how we can change the way we think about diversity in the workplace, and tap its power to create excellence.

Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4794

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48:49 -0400 2019-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Shared Services Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of Dr. Scott Page
Special event with authors Stephanie Land and Joy DeGruy (October 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66036 66036-16684584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Authors Stephanie Land and Joy DeGruy will discuss their work at this special event held as part of the annual Advocacy Symposium, hosted by the Center for the Education of Women+. The theme of this year's symposium is "rethinking leadership."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:24:33 -0400 2019-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T09:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Joy DeGruy
How To Create High-Performing Teams (October 29, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68028 68028-16986103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Shared Services Center

U-M Professor and Researcher Dr. Scott E. Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose guidance and consultation are sought after around the country, makes an evidence-based, compelling case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. His research findings presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions―all of which lead to better performance and results.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, Dr. Page will speak to the U-M Community about how we can change the way we think about diversity in the workplace, and tap its power to create excellence.

Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4794

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48:49 -0400 2019-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Shared Services Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of Dr. Scott Page
9th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter M.D. Lecture in Medical Genetics (October 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65874 65874-16662158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

Helen H. Hobbs, M.D., is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Among Dr. Hobbs’ honors was her election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004 and National Academy of Sciences in 2007. She received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and Passano Award (with Jonathan Cohen) in 2016 and the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine in 2018. Dr. Hobbs is recognized for her contributions to the development of new lipid-lowering strategies by identifying genetic variants of large effect in humans. Importantly, her work created a new strategy using human genetics to identify new therapeutic targets for the treatment of complex cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.

This lecture honors Thomas D. Gelehrter, M.D., active emeritus professor and former Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:59:30 -0400 2019-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Helen H. Hobbs
MedChem Seminar (October 29, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68813 68813-17155482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Pharmacy College
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Understanding—and Overcoming—Therapy Resistance in Breast and Prostate Cancers

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:58:51 -0400 2019-10-29T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Pharmacy College Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Pharmacy College
Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. (October 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68125 68125-17011965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us in a dialogue with the mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo. She will talk about indigeneity, feminism and mapuche poetry in the social and political context of Chile and Argentina. Her work combines mapuche traditions, politics and knowledge with contemporary discourses of radical feminism and poetic and artistic experimentation practices. The talk will be in Spanish and English. Translations will be provided.

Daniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018), El territorio del viaje (2017), and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work, La Guerra Florida, were recently translated into English.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:21:39 -0400 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo.
13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67523 67523-16890090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR)

Registration is now open for the 13th annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center.

This year, CHEAR welcomes Robert Gordon, JD, the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Director Gordon will speak on the topic of food insecurity and child health.

An open reception and poster session will follow the lecture from 5:30-6:30pm.
This lecture is free and open to all members of the University of Michigan community and the general public, but registration is required.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:39:16 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T18:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR) Lecture / Discussion 13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64676 64676-16426883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter. We developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions, led to the development of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.

You may find more details: lsa.umich.edu/physics/special-lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:38:46 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Donna Strickland, Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo and 2018 Nobel Laureate
29th Annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63302 63302-15634620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

“Do Adjuncts Have Academic Freedom?, or Why Tenure Matters”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:46:19 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Henry F Reichman
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: "Smart Additive Manufacturing" (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68882 68882-17188742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Abstract
There is a lot of excitement about the potential of smart manufacturing (aka Industry 4.0), with its associated technologies like cloud computing, big data analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT, to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. An excellent application for such “smart” technologies is the additive manufacturing, another area of Manufacturing that is gaining a lot of traction. In this talk, I will share some of my early work on smart additive manufacturing using a few case studies. I will also share an initiative I am leading on establishing a smart additive manufacturing education program at U-M. My goal is to excite you with our vision, get your feedback, and maybe bring some of you along on the journey.

About the Speaker...

Chinedum Okwudire received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2009 and joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to joining Michigan, he was the mechatronic systems optimization team leader at DMG Mori USA, based in Davis, CA. His research is focused on exploiting knowledge at the intersection of machine design, control and, more-recently, computer science, to boost the performance of manufacturing automation systems at low cost. Chinedum has received a number of awards including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation; the Young Investigator Award from the International Symposium on Flexible Automation; the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from SAE International; and the Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professorship from UC Berkeley. He has co-authored a number best paper award winning papers including the 2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division’s Best Paper in Mechatronics Award. His recent work on boosting the speed of 3D printers at low cost through feedforward vibration compensation has been featured internationally in popular news media, including NASA Tech Briefs and Discovery Channel Canada.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:47:40 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Examples of Smart Additive Manufacturing
MedChem Seminar (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68814 68814-17155483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Pharmacy College
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Visualizing Microbial and Cellular Chemistry in Situ

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:01:37 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Pharmacy College Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Pharmacy College
Joe Caslin: Is Street art Capable of Advancing a Society? (October 31, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65261 65261-16559491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Designboom Magazine has Described the work of Joe Caslin as “towering works of art [that] appear like massive sketch books across the architecture of Ireland’s cities.” Caslin is the recipient of the 2013 Association of Illustrators award for New Talent in Public Realm Illustration. He creates highly accessible work that engages directly with the social issues of modern Ireland. Caslin confronts the subjects of suicide, drug addiction, economic marginalization, marriage equality, stigma in mental health, the Irish asylum system, institutional power, and most recently, sexual consent. The monochrome drawings Caslin creates live with us and against many of us for some time before washing away. They hold a mirror up to the kind of society that we are, while asking us individually what kind of society we want to be a part of. In 2018, Caslin worked with the National Gallery of Ireland to create Finding Power, a huge mural of the writer and activist Stephen Moloney installed in the gallery’s courtyard. His current project, Our Nation’s Sons, aims to persuade entire communities to address the very real problem of young male’s apathy and their mental well-being.

Supported by the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:51:11 -0400 2019-10-31T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/caslin.jpg
HistLing Discussion Group (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68670 68670-17136729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Guest speaker Martin Kohlberger will speak on "The importance of variation in understanding language change: lessons from Shiwiar (Chicham, Ecuador)."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:01:00 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
U-M Structure Seminar: LRRK2, Rab GTPases, and Parkinson’s disease (November 1, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65766 65766-16654001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Trinity College, The University of Dublin

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:46:03 -0400 2019-11-01T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66037 66037-16684585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Dorian Warren, president of the Center for Community Change Action, will give a talk about his book, titled "The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy," as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:30:30 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dorian Warren
The Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68886 68886-17188747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Gérard Mourou is Professor Haut-Collège at the École polytechnique. He is also the A.D. Moore Distinguished University Emeritus Professor of the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Grenoble (1967) and his Ph.D. from University Paris VI in 1973. He has made numerous contributions to the field of ultrafast lasers, high-speed electronics, and medicine. But, his most important invention, demonstrated with his student Donna Strickland while at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), is the laser amplification technique known as Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), universally used today. CPA revolutionized the field of optics, opening new branches like attosecond pulse generation, Nonlinear QED, compact particle accelerators. It extended the field of optics to nuclear and particle physics. In 2005, Prof. Mourou proposed a new infrastructure; the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), which is distributed over three pillars located in Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary. Prof. Mourou also pioneered the field of femtosecond ophthalmology that relies on a CPA femtosecond laser for precise myopia corrections and corneal transplants. Over a million such procedures are now performed annually. Prof. Mourou is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the Russian Science Academy, the Austrian Sciences Academy, and the Lombardy Academy for Sciences and Letters. He is Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur and was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Donna Strickland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:47:36 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Alan Hunt Lecture
Smith Lecture: The Chinese Cave Record: 640,000 years of Climate History (November 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63122 63122-15576730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

I will present a 640,000-year oxygen isotope record of the Asian Monsoon, spliced together from analyses of stalagmites from Hulu, Dongge, and Sanbao Caves, all situated in that portion of China currently affected by summer monsoon rainfall. I will discuss how these records were constructed, including the dating of the records, the basic characteristics of the records, and interpretation of the variability observed in the records. I will then discuss how the monsoon records correlate with ice core and marine records and the resulting implications for understanding ice-age terminations (the ends of ice-age cycles) and abrupt climate change. I will also discuss how analysis of Hulu Cave stalagmites has led to the completion (at fairly high precision) of the calibration of the radiocarbon timescale, with the Hulu analyses covering the older half of the timescale.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:09:03 -0400 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
John Cameron Mitchell: In Conversation (November 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65262 65262-16559492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Friday, November 1, 7:00pm / Bethlehem United Church, 423 S. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Best known for his double Tony Award-winning rock opera and 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mitchell is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. Off the stage, Mitchell works in the realm of feature film, documentaries, and advertising for Dior and Agent Provocateur. He has appeared in numerous acting roles in film and television, including a recurring character on the HBO series Girls, as Andy Warhol in the 2016 season of HBO’s Vinyl, and recently as a series cast member in Hulu’s Shrill. At a special UMS performance on Saturday, November 2 at Hill Auditorium, Mitchell will revisit songs from Hedwig and preview songs from his upcoming musical podcast Anthem presented by the Luminary podcast network and starring himself, Glenn Close, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Erivo, Denis O’Hare, Laurie Anderson, and Marion Cotillard. Mitchell’s creative work proudly focuses on explorations of sexuality and gender, celebrating nuance and individuality in all of its many forms.

Keep the Halloween spirit alive and arrive in costume to this special speaker series event. As part of the evening’s programming, John Cameron Mitchell will decide on the best costumes of the evening and two lucky winners will receive a pair of complimentary tickets each to “The Origin of Love Tour” on Saturday November 2 at Hill Auditorium.

Co-presented with University Musical Society (UMS).

Photo by Michael Muser.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:15:42 -0400 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/cameron-mitchell.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | Who Ordered That? The Marvelous, Mysterious Muon (November 2, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66294 66294-16725811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The muon is a heavier version of the electron and was first discovered in cosmic rays but is now studied extensively in accelerator experiments. Many properties of the muon have been measured with exquisite precision and are essential to our understanding of the interactions of elementary particles, but mysteries remain. This talk will be all about the muon and what we expect to learn by studying this marvelous, mysterious particle.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:16:44 -0500 2019-11-02T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Fermilab
CMENAS Colloquium Series. South-South Relations in the Era of Far-Right Populism: The Syrian Refugee Crisis on Brazilian Television (November 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64317 64317-16314277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

Brazil’s Arab and Arab-descended community, numbering an estimated 7-10 million, or 3.5-5% of the population, has been quite visible in national life, especially when compared to its counterpart in the United States, which numbers 2.5-3.5 million, or a mere 1% of the population. Since the early twentieth century, the turco stereotype has been widespread in Brazilian literature and popular culture, but in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, television melodrama O Clone (The Clone) captured the nation’s attention with its depiction of Islam and Muslim immigrants in Brazil. Less than two decades later, in April 2019, and a few months after the election of a populist, far-right president, a new Brazilian telenovela focusing on Arabs debuted. Orfãos da terra (Orphans of the Earth) depicts the plight of mostly Syrian, but also African and Haitian, refugees fleeing civil wars and natural disasters to Brazil. This presentation will analyze the representation of the latest wave of Arab arrivals and compare it to earlier representations in the context of current cultural politics in Brazil.

About the Speaker:
Waïl S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the President of the American Comparative Literature Association. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (2011). He has translated Abdelfattah Kilito’s Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language from Arabic into English (2008) and Alberto Mussa’s Lughz al-qāf from Portuguese into Arabic (2015); co-edited Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz (2012); and edited The Oxford Handbook of the Arab Novelistic Traditions (2017). He is currently working on two books, one on the institution of Arabic literature in the U.S., and another on Arab literary and cultural relations with Brazil.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:52:03 -0400 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T15:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
The Annual Bernard W. Agranoff Lectureship in Neuroscience (November 4, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68666 68666-17136728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 3:15pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

This annual lectureship features a pre-eminent neuroscientist and honors Bernard W. Agranoff, a leader in biochemistry and an internationally recognized expert in the neurosciences. Dr. Agranoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan who returned as a faculty member in 1960. He served as the Director of Mental Health Research Institute (now known as the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute) from 1985 to 1995 and was the Neuroscience Laboratory Building Director from 1983-2002. His scientific career helped establish that long-term memory formation requires de novo protein synthesis and also enhanced our understanding of the processes involved in nerve regeneration. The Lectureship builds upon a career dedicated to promoting excellence in research, education, and mental health care and is an enduring legacy to those seeking to improve our understanding of the brain and apply that knowledge to help those with brain disorders.

Dr. Richard Huganir is the 2019 Agranoff Lecturer. Dr. Huganir is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His career has focused on synapses in the brain. His research has shown that the regulation of receptor function is a major mechanism for the regulation of neuronal excitability and connectivity in the brain and is critical for many higher brain processes, including learning and memory, and is a major determinant of behavior. Moreover, dysregulation of these mechanisms underlies many neurological and psychiatric diseases including Alzheimer’s, ALS, schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability, PTSD as well as in chronic pain and drug addiction. Dr. Huganir is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:19 -0400 2019-11-04T15:15:00-05:00 2019-11-04T16:30:00-05:00 University Hospitals Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion Dr. Richard Huganir
The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66516 66516-16744951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

As leading Christians sought to define the New Testament in the fourth and later centuries, they fashioned Christians as people, not of a book, the Bible, but of multiple books. The purportedly closed list of New Testament books generated new categories of Christian literature, such as “apocrypha” and “ecclesiastical writers,” which still shape how we understand the literary legacy of pre-modern Christians.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Department of Middle East Studies at mlbthayerevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4465.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:31:51 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity
The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution (November 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69096 69096-17244687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

LECTURE 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES

The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution – Speaker: Eric London
• The origins of the Civil War
• The role of white workers in the abolition of slavery
• How did Marx view the Civil War?
• Reconstruction, the emergence of the working class, and the origins of Jim Crow


Eric London is a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party and writer for the World Socialist Web Site with a focus on US politics, immigration, US history, Latin America, workers struggles and democratic rights. He is also the author of the recently released book Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the US and its youth and student movement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), is holding a series of meetings on “Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America.”

This series is the socialist answer to the New York Times “1619 Project,” which has been accompanied by an unprecedented publicity blitz, including at schools and campuses throughout the country. The occasion they cite for the publication of this project is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 African slaves at Port Comfort, Virginia.

The Times project raises the question: Is race the driving force of history, as the Times insists? Or, as Karl Marx analyzed, is it class? Is “anti-black racism … in the very DNA of this country” as the Times writes? Or is the history of the United States fundamentally the history of class struggle? As social inequality reaches record levels, is America heading toward race war or socialist revolution?

The promotion of the 1619 Project takes place under conditions of expanding class struggle internationally and a growing interest in socialism among workers and youth in the United States. Its aim is to block the development of a united movement of workers across all races by cultivating racial divisions.

These meetings will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the 1619 Project, explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:59:04 -0500 2019-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion "Effect of the Proclamation, Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at New Bern, North Carolina" (Harper's Weekly, 1863)
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68926 68926-17197024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Although central architectures drive robust oscillations, biological clock networks containing the same core vary drastically in their potential to oscillate. What peripheral structures contribute to the variation of oscillation behaviors remains elusive. We computationally generated an atlas of oscillators and found that, while certain core topologies are essential for robust oscillations, local structures substantially modulate the degree of robustness. Strikingly, two key local structures, incoherent inputs and coherent inputs, can modify a core topology to promote and attenuate its robustness, additively. These findings underscore the importance of local modifications besides robust cores, which explain why auxiliary structures not required for oscillation are evolutionarily conserved. We further apply this computational framework to search for structures underlying tunability, another crucial property shared by many biological timing systems to adapt their frequencies to environmental changes.

Experimentally, we developed an artificial cell system to reconstitute mitotic oscillatory processes in water-in-oil microemulsions. With a multi-inlet pressure-driven microfluidic setup, these artificial cells are flexibly adjustable in sizes, periods, various molecular and drug concentrations, energy, and subcellular compartments. Using long-term time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, this system enables high-throughput, single-cell analysis of clock dynamics, functions, and stochasticity, key to elucidating the topology-function relation of biological clocks.

We also investigate how multiple clocks coordinate via biochemical and mechanical signals in the essential developmental processes of early zebrafish embryos (e.g., mitotic wave propagation, synchronous embryo cleavages, and somitogenesis). To pin down the physical mechanisms that give rise to these complex collective phenomena, we integrate mathematical modeling, live embryo and explant imaging, nanofabrication, micro-contact printing, and systems and synthetic biology approaches.

BlueJeans livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc
Qiong Yang: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/dcmb/qiong-yang-phd

3:45 pm to 4:00 pm - Light refreshments
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:42 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68795 68795-17153398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The Philippines is an underrepresented area in the study of Global Hispanism. Despite the awareness about the links between this Southeast Asian archipelago and regions readily identified as Hispanic, attempts to ‘world’ Filipino Hispanism are sparse, if not invisible. What happens instead is a reiteration of a historical narrative that presents Spain as a backward imperial power in opposition to the liberating colonial project of the US, which ruled the archipelago from 1898. This plays out in Hispanofilipino literature. This presentation will reflect on the question of worlding in Hispanofilipino literature and will examine translation as an alternative tool for engaging with the allures and discontents of a literature produced under the colonial condition and circulated in an intensely multilingual space.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:21:13 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature
Winter Course Fair (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68923 68923-17197023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of History

It's time to learn about the 70+ courses offered this Winter term by the U-M History Department! Come to the course fair to:

* Meet professors
* Learn about majors and minors
* Chat with other U-M History students

Located by the Haven Hall Posting Wall.
Wednesday, November 6 from 4-5:30 pm.

There will be free donuts and apple cider!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:41:37 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of History Fair / Festival Course Fair
Traveling the Silk Road through the Heart of Central Asia (November 6, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64664 64664-16410962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

For almost 1,000 years the routes through central Asia linked East and Southeast Asia with West Asia, Southern Europe, and East Africa. Travelers shared silk and other trade goods, religions, sciences –and the plague.

Join Bill Roberts and Van Harrison as they share highlights from their June 2019 trip to the heart of the Silk Road.

Among the sites in Uzbekistan are Khiva, the fortress city and capitol of the Khanate of Kiva, Bukhara, capitol of the Emirate of Bukhara, and Samarkand, the capitol of Tamerlane’s 15th century empire with some of the world’s most beautiful Islamic architecture.

Next is travel through the mountainous country of Kyrgyzstan, known as “the Switzerland of Central Asia.” Just outside their yurts are views of spectacular mountains, glacier-fed rivers, and the world’s second largest mountain lake.

Finally, in southeastern Kazakhstan visit the Valley of Castles in Charyn National Park and Almaty, the country’s largest city and its commercial and cultural center. The trip includes six UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Please not the different start time for this event.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is not required to attend this event.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:18:17 -0400 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
Marina Willer: Design Why? (November 7, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65263 65263-16559493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Marina Willer is a graphic designer and filmmaker responsible for ground-breaking brand identities such as Tate, Serpentine, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and Battersea. Before joining the design studio Pentagram as a partner, she was head creative director for Wolff Olins in London. Willer has constantly expanded her approach to graphic design to include moving image, exhibition, and experiential design. She released her first feature film Red Trees at Cannes in 2017. The film is a personal story of her family’s survival and escape to Brazil during the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Willer is responsible for the design of the Design Museum’s 2018 exhibition, Ferrari: Under the Skin and the museum’s 2019 offering, Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition. Willer is the first female partner at Pentagram in London and she won the Hall of Fame award by Design Week in 2018. 

Supported by AIGA Detroit, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES), and Design Core Detroit.

There will be a screening of Red Trees at 7:30 pm, following the talk at the Michigan Theater. Use promo code "WILLER" to purchase tickets online for $6 with no online service fee; this offer is only available online, and not at the door. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:15:10 -0400 2019-11-07T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/willer.jpg
Cognitive Science Community (November 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69078 69078-17242639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join the Cognitive Science Community on Thursday, November 7, at 5:30 p.m. Guest speaker Dr. Mara Bollard will give a talk titled "Is there such a thing as genuinely moral disgust?" The talk will be followed by a Q&A and discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:32 -0500 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CogSci Community graphic
U-M Structure Seminar: Ben McIlwain, Ph.D. (November 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66202 66202-16719581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Postdoctoral Associate, Stockbridge Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:43:54 -0400 2019-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66038 66038-16684586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Greg Landsman, a Cincinnati city council member, will give a talk titled "Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:35:08 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Greg Landsman
CSEAS Lecture Series. ‘Why should I keep loving you when I know that you're not true?’ A Cinema of Hiraeth (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68695 68695-17138818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In filmmaker Tan Pin Pin’s fixation with the geographical phenomenology of Singapore, one discerns ideas about local relations to space. Tan’s essayistic reflections on landscape are captivated by the unseen effects of rapid urban development, radical transformations necessitated by growth. Sifting through the affective and psychic experiences of accelerated change by way of a postcolonial economic miracle, she tries to find identity through evocative onscreen encounters with visual media, local soundscapes, architecture, and cartography. The films tend to refuse the more common artistic recourse to nostalgia, and defy a critical tendency to circumscribe the island’s national cinema in direct relation to social and political specificity in a traditional sense. Her most recent work casts aside the pretense of national essentialism, to dwell instead on the timeless qualities of non-places. Within these anonymous and alienating “any-space-whatevers,” we come upon the most lucid understanding of what it means to be from somewhere that perhaps, ironically, never was.

Gerald Sim is an associate professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University, the author of The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema (2014), and Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia. His essay on Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad, “Postcolonial Cacophonies,” was recently published in positions: asia critique.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. Contact: jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:43:29 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion event_SIM
Psychology Methods Hours: Methods and Applications of Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67382 67382-16846418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

During this talk, Dr. Martz will provide an overview of real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) and its clinical and research applications. She will also discuss her recently funded K01 grant that will examine developmental and sex differences in volitional control over reward responding using rtfMRI-nf. As a group, discussion will focus on better understanding the methodology of rtfMRI-nf and its potential as a tool to study neural correlates of self-regulation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:26:06 -0500 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
EVENT CANCELLED [CMENAS Colloquium Series. Trafficking Cuneiform: Valuing the Past over the Present?] (November 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67742 67742-16926553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER-RELATED CIRCUMSTANCES


The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is “Migration in the Islamicate World.”
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Since the 1991 Gulf War, artifacts looted from archaeological sites and museums in Iraq have been sold openly on the international market. Most in-demand have been cuneiform-inscribed objects – the material texts of Iraqi prehistory. Many thousands of these cuneiform objects have entered private collections in North America, Europe and beyond, where their texts are being studied and published by university-based scholars. These scholars have identified texts from what were previously unknown and presently unlocated sites – from intact archives now broken up and dispersed on the market. Ethical challenges to the scholarly reception of trafficked cuneiform objects are deflected with what can be construed as orientalist arguments of rescue, preservation, and scholarship. While ‘western’ scholarship has certainly benefited from this unexpected windfall of ‘recently appeared’ texts, the damage suffered by Iraqi archaeological heritage and the associated loss to Iraqi intellectual and cultural life remain to be assessed. This talk will offer an up-to-date assessment of the situation and engage with the cultural, legal and ethical issues raised by this large-scale movement of cuneiform objects out of Iraq.

Neil Brodie is Senior Research Fellow on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology. He has published widely on issues concerning the market in trafficked cultural objects, with more than fifty papers and book chapters devoted to the subject. Most recently he has co-authored Trafficking Culture: New Directions in Researching the Global Market in Illicit Antiquities (2019, Routledge). Since 2017, he has been working with the Lebanese NGO Biladi and officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture towards recovering looted and trafficked objects.

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Contact: cmenas@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:18:22 -0500 2019-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T15:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
RNA Innovation Seminar, Bruce Sullenger, Duke School of Medicine (November 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65141 65141-16539451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Bruce A. Sullenger, Ph.D.
Joseph and Dorothy Beard Professor
Department of Surgery
Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:30:39 -0400 2019-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Outdoor Sculpture on U of M Campus (November 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68073 68073-17001286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The University of Michigan has a distinguished collection of outdoor sculpture consisting of over 50 major pieces. The collection began in the earliest days of the campus, but the majority of the works were acquired since the late 1960’s.

During his 37-year tenure as University Planner, Fred Mayer worked directly with many of the artists on the development and siting of their works. In this presentation Mr. Mayer will trace the history of the collection and share anecdotes and personal experiences working with the artists. He will also discuss the relationship between the individual pieces and the broader area of campus planning.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:53:10 -0400 2019-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
MIPSE Seminar | Substorms, Dipolarization, and Particle Acceleration in the Magnetosphere (November 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65976 65976-16678379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Magnetosphere plasma dynamics continue to challenge our understanding of energy release in the near-earth environment. Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), particle-in-Cell (PIC), and test particle simulations are used to describe the dynamic evolution of the magnetotail, associated with substorms (energy releases from the magnetotail) and other dipolarization events. Simulations show the formation of thin current sheets embedded in the wider plasma sheet due to solar wind interactions. PIC then demonstrates the onset of tearing instabilities and magnetic reconnection, causing fast plasma flows and dipolarization. These phenomena are then followed by MHD simulations which form the basis of test particle simulations, which pro-vide details on acceleration mechanisms, and phase space distributions. Results compare favorably with THEMIS and MMS observations.

About the Speaker:
Joachim Birn received his PhD. in 1973 at the Technical Univ. Berlin studying the Stability of the Planetary System. From 1973-82 he was at Ruhr-University Bochum working on equilibrium modeling and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the Earth’s magnetotail. In 1980 he was a visitor at Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), where he extended his 2D MHD code to 3D, simulating substorm dynamics of the magnetotail. From 1982 to 2012 he was at LANL continuing his simulation work, working on satellite data interpretation and studying acceleration of ions and electrons in magnetospheric substorms. Since 2012 he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder. Birn’s research experience includes 3D equilibrium theory, development of 3D MHD codes with applications to magnetotail and solar corona dynamics; and MHD stability theory on which he has published 260 refereed papers. Birn is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and LANL Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:35:07 -0400 2019-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Joachim Birn
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68641 68641-17128443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Reproducibility with high-dimensional data

Abstract: With the expanding generation of large-scale biological datasets, there has been an ever-greater concern in understanding the reproducibility of discoveries and findings in a statistically reliable manner. We review several concepts in reproducibility and describe how one can adopt a multiple testing perspective on the problem. This leads to an intuitive procedure for assessing reproducibility. We demonstrate application of the methodology using RNA-sequencing data as well as metabolomics datasets. We will also outline some further problems in the field.

This is joint work with Daisy Philtron, Yafei Lyu and Qunhua Li (Penn State) and Tusharkanti Ghosh, Weiming Zhang and Katerina Kechris (University of Colorado).

DCMB Faculty Host: Alla Karnovsky, PhD

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

BlueJeans Live Streaming: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:05:22 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Medical Ethics on the Border: A Look at Immigration Detention (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68151 68151-17018323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

The community is invited to join the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry for the 24th Annual Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine. The title of this year’s talk is “Medical Ethics on the Border: A Look at Immigration Detention.” The talk will be presented by Pamela K. McPherson, M.D., FAPAon Wednesday, November 13 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in Ford Auditorium at University Hospital.

Pamela K. McPherson, M.D., FAPA is a medical doctor triple-boarded in general, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatry. She is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Shreveport Behavioral Health Clinic, a gratis assistant professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, and a mental health subject matter expert for the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. McPherson focuses her research on the mental health of justice-involved youth as well as conditions of juvenile confinement, and consults for the U.S. government and non-profits on mental health services for justice-involved youth.

In 2018, she and colleague Dr. Scott A. Allen exposed the serious health risks to children who are separated from their parents and detained as part of the U.S. administration’s zero tolerance policy at the southern border. Learn more about their work from this CNN article published in May: These doctors risked their careers to expose the dangers children face in immigrant family detention.

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. McPherson to our campus in November for this esteemed lectureship,” said Debra A. Pinals, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Program in Psychiatry, Law and Ethics at U-M and chair of the Waggoner Lectureship Committee. “Dr. McPherson has incredible insight into the conditions of immigrants entering the United States. She could not be better suited to address our campus for this lecture devoted to medical ethics and values in medicine.”

The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry established the Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine in 1996. This lectureship was created in honor of the late Dr. Waggoner, emeritus professor and past chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, who throughout his career and to all who knew him, exemplified the highest standards of integrity and ethics.

The lectureship is an annual event to recognize Dr. Waggoner’s enormous contributions to the Michigan Medicine medical center and to the profession, and to promulgate his interest in medical ethics.

For more information, please contact:

Debra A. Pinals, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

dpinals@med.umich.edu

or

Sandra Bigler

Administrative Assistant Senior to Debra A. Pinals, M.D.

sabigler@med.umich.edu

734-647-8762

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:52:52 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion 2019 Waggoner Lecture
What if we aren't alone? Human reactions to the possibility of extraterrestrial life (November 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69014 69014-17213806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

"What if we aren't alone? Human reactions to the possibility of extraterrestrial life"

Following this talk, Dr. Michael Meyer (U-M Astronomy) will lead an interdisciplinary conversation on the topic of life in the Universe with Dr. Varnum, Dr. David Baker (U-M Philosophy) and Dr. Edwin Bergin (U-M Astronomy).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:21:54 -0500 2019-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T20:30:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion What if we aren't alone?
Being a Solo Person in an Organization – Coalition Building for Creating Change (November 14, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68153 68153-17018326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

The workshop is from 2-3:30, followed by a networking reception until 4:00.

There are several psychological and professional considerations that solo persons can use to survive in organizations and create change. The objectives of this workshop are (a) to focus on one professional consideration, namely, coalition building across social identity lines, and (b) to reflect on how three psychological considerations based on the social psychologist Serge Moscovici’s work can be utilized to create change. Part 1 will be to create a better understanding of the differences, but also the similarities we have with others and how our own social identity and cultural background could potentially limit us in building successful coalitions. Part 2 will introduce Moscovici’s work concerning how solo persons need to be persistent and consistent and have the self-confidence to bring about change. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss how these principles can be applied to their own situation and share strategies that might result in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in their own organizational environment

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:02:45 -0400 2019-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Marita R. Inglehart
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: "Characterization of Previously Inaccessible Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows" (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69308 69308-17301829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Asst. Professor Nick Parziale, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Reacting/high-speed flow investigation with non-intrusive optical techniques permits researchers to probe fluid flows in harsh or otherwise previously inaccessible environments. New insight into the flow physics of the wicked problems in supersonic and hypersonic flows can be had with the clever application of recent advances in laser, camera, and electronics technologies. In this talk, two examples of such efforts will be discussed. The first example is the previously unexplored boundary-layer instability on a slender cone in hypersonic, reacting flow which was characterized by the implementation of focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI). The second example is a laser-based technique that measures velocity in a high-speed gas which utilizes trace amounts of krypton for the purposes of flow tagging called Krypton Tagging Velocimetry (KTV). Example results are given for a study of supersonic shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction and characterization of Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 at Mach 10 and Mach 14.

About the Speaker...
Nick’s current research interests include high-speed and reacting flows, chemical-thermodynamics, and heat transfer with applications in the fields of defense and energy/sustainability. Current projects include novel methods of high-speed flow velocimetry, hypersonic boundary-layer instability, shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction, biomass to bio-oil conversion, and nitrogen-based fuels research.

Nick received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Binghamton in 2008, then received his MS and PhD degrees in 2009 and 2013 from the Caltech Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT). In 2013, he was a PostDoc at Caltech and then a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stevens. Currently, Nick is currently an Assistant Professor (2014-present) in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Nick spent four summers, from 2014-2017, as an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow at AEDC White Oak in Silver Spring, MD.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:46:59 -0500 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Nick Praziale
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68097 68097-17009828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Established in Fall 2017, the Department of Film, Television, and Media’s speaker series creates a space for film and media scholars and artists/practitioners to engage in dialogues about past and contemporary topics that influence media industries, audiences, and society at large. This particular conversation will center on documentary filmmaking practices in domestic and international settings and the association of documentary with political and social causes. The participants are documentary director Rayka Zehtabchi (winner of the 2018 Oscar for Best Documentary Short--PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE) and Assistant Professor Joshua Glick, who writes about documentary (and who, in 2018, published LOS ANGELES DOCUMENTARY AND THE PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC HISTORY, 1958-1977).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:55:09 -0400 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Poster
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (November 14, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65265 65265-16559495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of socially engaged and public art. Her work incorporates the visions and voices of scores of people, in a practice that recognizes the essential collaborations involved in creativity. Her installations, videos, and performances have dealt with issues of sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, gender identity, labor, and aging. Working collaboratively within traditions of fine art performance and community organizing, Lacy has realized large-scale projects in London, Brooklyn, Medellin, Los Angeles, Quito, Northwest England, Madrid, and, most recently, along the Irish border exploring local reactions to Brexit. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Bilbao Museum in Spain, and most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in a two-museum career retrospective.

Supported by the Institute for Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Image: Across and In-Between, 2018. Photo by Helen Sloan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:54:48 -0400 2019-11-14T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:40:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/lacy.jpg
U-M Structure Seminar: Haley Brown, Ph.D. (November 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65702 65702-16629963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Postdoctoral Associate, Koropatkin Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:05:54 -0400 2019-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
CSEAS Lecture Series. Crafting Theravada Buddhism: Touch and Material in the lives of Thai Buddhists (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67467 67467-16857942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Forming, touching, and repairing Buddhist objects and architecture are central to the religious lives of Thai Buddhists, be they monks, craftspeople, or laypeople. Thai historical chronicles, local legends, and everyday discourse position the intentional physical contact with Buddhist material (through ritual and everyday labor) as generating spiritual benefit and constructing ethical values. Drawing on historical analysis and ethnographic work, this talk presents a number of cases that show how Thai Buddhists hold hand-based religious touch to be spiritually powerful and socially efficacious.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:54:52 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
From the Segway to Medical Devices: Inventing People-Centered Solutions (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66039 66039-16684587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Engineer and inventor Dean Kamen, who is known for inventing the Segway and other types of appropriate technology, will give a talk titled "From the Segway to Medical Devices: Inventing People-Centered Solutions" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:40:55 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dean Kamen
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: "Space is Open for Business" (November 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64938 64938-16491256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Tess Hatch, Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners

Entrepreneurs are flocking to the final frontier, where Moore’s Law has unleashed massive, enduring opportunities. This is how humanity will colonize cis-lunar, the moon, asteroids, Mars and beyond — through the emergence of a distributed, commercial ecosystem infinitely more powerful than any single company or government.

About the Speaker...

Tess is an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners primarily focused on frontier tech, specifically commercial space, drones, and autonomous vehicles. She currently serves as a board director for Phantom Auto and a board observer for Impossible Aerospace, Iris Automation, Rocket Lab, Spire, Velo3D, Forever Oceans, and Smule. Previously, she was a mission manager at SpaceX where she worked with the government on integrating its payloads with the Falcon 9 rocket. Tess earned a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from Stanford. She is passionate about space exploration and imagines a future where we all travel to space. She hopes to make the trip herself soon.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:40:33 -0400 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Space Infographic
Medieval Pilgrim Libraries: Crowdsourcing Sanctification (November 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69016 69016-17213809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Lecture by Professor George Greenia
3:00PM - 4:30PM

Hors d'oeuvres and break
4:30PM - 5:00PM

Reflection on the retirement of Professor Steven Dworkin
(Professor Emeritus, Romance Languages and Literatures, Linguistics)
5:00PM - 6:00PM


The history of written culture involves social practices intertwined with material history. During medieval pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Rome or Santiago, readers and writers suffered from specific constraints occasioned by the rigors of their laborious journeys which were frankly nasty, brutish and long. An international team is tackling the oxymoron of “pilgrim libraries” attempting to catalog the challenges faced by pre-modern people on the move against their tools of literacy. Packing lists for Palestine survive, but fall silent about supplies for readers or writers. What readings prompted medieval folk to undertake sacred travel and what textual trail did they leave in their wake?

If you have any questions, please contact Nicholas Henriksen at nhenriks@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:04:26 -0500 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Medieval Pilgrim Libraries: Crowdsourcing Sanctification
Smith Lecture: Unraveling the Signature of Metasomatized Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in the Basaltic Magmatism of the Payenia Volcanic Province, Argentina (November 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63124 63124-15576732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The intra-back arc region of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone (34-38ºS) is characterized by more than 800 monogenetic cones erupting alkalic basalts ranging in composition from volcanic-front to ocean-island type basalts. The origin of this latter group is debated. We suggest the isotopic and trace element variations reflect the contribution of the metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) in the Payenia source. We present a simple forward model of cumulate formation and metasomatism and subsequent melting within the SCLM that predicts the observed Payenia lava compositions.  Variations in 143Nd/144Nd and 176Hf/177Hf suggest that the age of the SCLM cumulates is 100-150 Ma, which coincides with the development of the proto-Pacific Andean arc and the breakup of Gondwana. Variations in δ18Ooli­ values from modeled cumulate-derived melts indicate that differentiation and melting within the SCLM represents a process that can fractionate oxygen isotopes even when the melt forming the cumulate has MORB-like δ18O values, explaining the observations of low-δ18O signatures of Payenia.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:59:06 -0400 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | Supermassive Black Holes and You (November 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66283 66283-16725803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

A supermassive black hole may have played a more important role in your existence than you might have thought. You might want to sit down for this.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:23:35 -0400 2019-11-16T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-16T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Hubble Space Telescope photos of two very active central galaxies in two different clusters of galaxies
Exit Interview with Laurita Thomas (November 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64682 64682-16426888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Laurita Thomas, in conversation with OLLI member Marcy Waldinger, will share her stories and insights about the evolution of the workplace during her 45-year career in human resources. She will delve into some of the biggest challenges she faced in human resources as UM has grown and become more complex. She will reflect on the changes in the field of human resources, from one of enforcing rules to encouraging effective performance. Ms. Thomas will also share reflections on her own personal story.

Ms. Thomas retired this fall from her role as UM Associate Vice President for Human Resources. She was responsible for human resource policy for all UM campuses and a full range of comprehensive integrated human resource services, products, and operations. She was responsible for 350 staff, a budget of $38 million, and a benefit plan of $1 billion.

Her professional human resources career spans roles in the financial industry, higher education and healthcare. She is a graduate of the UM in political science and economics. Her graduate work is in guidance and counseling and business administration. She has published many articles.

Ms. Thomas has served as a leader in many professional and community organizations. She is the incoming President of the ARU Human Resource Institute and previously was a past Charter Member and Treasurer.

Marcy Waldinger is an OLLI member who retired in 2015 following a 35-year career at the University of Michigan Health System, of which 23 years were spent as Chief Administrative Officer of the UM Rogel Comprehensive Cancer Center. She received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the UM. Ms. Waldinger is a nationally recognized expert in cancer center administration.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:40:03 -0400 2019-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
"Communities of Interest" and Michigan's New Approach to Redistricting through an Independent Citizens Commission (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64955 64955-16493258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
4:00pm-5:30pm

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Panelists:
-Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State.
-Connie Malloy, Chair, 2010 California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
-Chris Lamar, Legal Counsel for Redistricting with the Campaign Legal Center.
-Christopher Thomas, former Director of Elections for the State of Michigan.
-Nancy Wang, Voters Not Politicians, Executive Director - will moderate the discussion.

In November, 2018, the citizens of Michigan passed Proposal 2, which amended the Michigan Constitution to place legislative and congressional redistricting in the hands of a 13-member Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. The amendment requires the Commission to draw Michigan's election district maps in a fair and transparent way using public input. Commission-drawn maps must meet strict, prioritized criteria listed in the amendment. "Communities of Interest" (COIs) are high on the list of priorities in drawing new districts, after equal population, compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and contiguity. However, COIs are a new concept for Michigan redistricting and are defined broadly in the amendment.

A panel of experts will share how COIs factor into the redistricting process, and how citizens can be involved in helping the Commission incorporate COIs in Michigan's next set of election district maps.

Panelists will discuss:
-- what are communities of interest (COIs)
-- how are they defined (some examples from Michigan and other states)
-- where do they factor into the redistricting process
-- why is it important for district maps to respect community boundaries
-- what is the actual process for drawing lines around communities, and
-- what to do with overlapping communities of interest

This panel discussion is part of a larger CLOSUP research and service project being conducted on behalf of the Michigan Department of State to advise the Department and the Commission on best practices for the implementation of the COI criteria.
Sponsored by: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Co-sponsors: Voters Not Politicians, Ginsberg Center, Domestic Policy Corps, Detroit Public Television, Program in Practical Policy Engagement (P3E)

For more information contact closup@umich.edu or call 734-647-4091.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:16:55 -0500 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion poster
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65989 65989-16678391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Are Diversity Initiatives Effective?
Lisa M. Leslie

Monday, November 18, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/QAA1W

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

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

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

About the talk:
Diversity initiatives are prevalent, but not necessarily effective. These initiatives at times not only fail to result in the intended consequence of increased diversity and inclusion, but also produce unintended consequences that undermine their effectiveness. In this presentation, Leslie will describe the unintended consequences diversity initiatives can produce and provide examples of how even well-intentioned efforts to foster diversity and inclusion can go astray. She will also discuss strategies for making diversity initiatives more effective and thus better leveraging the positive consequences of diversity for individuals, organizations, and societies.

About Leslie:
Lisa M. Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She received her AB in Social Psychology from Princeton University and her MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Stern in 2013, she spent six years as an Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Leslie’s research focuses on diversity in organizations, and specifically understanding why organizational diversity initiatives often produce unintended consequences and what can be done to make them more effective. She also has secondary research interests in cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management. Leslie has received many awards for her research, which has appeared in journals spanning a number of different disciplines, and has served as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.

Host:
Lindred Greer, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:58 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Lisa M. Leslie
Trans Awareness Week Keynote (November 18, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68558 68558-17096956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join this year's Transgender Awareness Week Keynote speaker, Kavi Ade, on Monday, November 18th, 6:30-7:30 pm at the School of Social Work, Room ECC (located on the first floor). To learn more about the event details, including directions to the event, please visit http://bit.ly/TAWkeynote19.

Kavi Ade is a Black Trans Queer speaker, arts educator and nationally recognized poet of Afro & Indigenous Caribbean descent. Speaking on race, gender, sexuality, mental health, domestic violence, and sexual assault Kavi’s work grapples with being set at the throne of violence, and exploring the ways a body can learn to survive. Using art as resistance they create transformative dialogue that aims to combat supremacist powers and heal communities that have been harmed. Kavi has given poetry readings and keynote speeches, led workshops and spoken on panels in numerous cities and communities, including over 100 colleges and universities domestically and internationally. Kavi received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award that honors “women and trans* artists and cultural producers who create art for social change, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work." More about Kavi can be found at kaviadepoetry.com.

If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:55:44 -0400 2019-11-18T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Spectrum Center's Transgender Awareness Week Keynote speaker is Kavi Ade. The image includes date, time, and location, the logos of our co-sponsors, and a description of the artist, as well as a picture of Kavi Ade. Kavi has dark brown skin, a thin line of facial hair, and hair bunched up behind Kavi's head. Kavi is wearing large goggle-like sunglasses, a multicolored jacket, black shirt and pants, and is holding a black tote bag that says "Artist. Creator. Threat."
Guest Lecture: Jugo Kapetanovic, Filmmaker (November 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68845 68845-17163796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Jugo Kapetanovic will speak about Zlata’s Diary (a non-fiction book by Zlata Filipović, who was a young girl living in Sarajevo while it was under siege, sometimes referred to as “the Bosnian Anne Frank”), the Balkan flooding of 2014, and the relief concerts he organized with Luke Winslow King to raise money for the victims of this climate change disaster.

He will also be speaking about the power of the 4-minute trailer Blues for the Balkans (LINK to YOUTUBE below) to focus attention on current events.

Jugo is currently partnering with Luke Winslow King to raise money for children at the border.

This is a guest lecture in Elizabeth Goodenough's Arts and Ideas in the Humanities course RCHUMS 337 - Children Under Fire: Narratives of Sustainability.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:45:48 -0500 2019-11-19T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Why President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel prejudiced its character and status (November 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69261 69261-17275358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy to the city has been universally condemned, as it is contrary to a well-established rule of international law stipulating that states must not recognize the fruits of conquest. While the United States chose to exercise its right of veto in the UN Security Council to block a resolution criticizing the presidential decision, the remaining members of the council, including close U.S. allies, criticized it. Similarly, the UN General Assembly, the European Union, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation have all passed strongly worded resolutions saying that they would not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including in and around Jerusalem. This talk examines the legal standing of the U.S. decision in light of previous positions that the United States has historically adopted or endorsed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:03:51 -0500 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Invitation to Kabuki: Lecture and Performance by Actor Kyozo Nakamura (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65027 65027-16503318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kabuki, a 400-year old Japanese form of theater, is known for its fantastically colorful stage, dramatic stories, and utterly beautiful men and women played by an all male cast. Still popular in modern day Japan, kabuki performers are specially trained from a young age to faithfully copy their predecessors’ forms and styles until they have the skills to develop their own styles. Join us for a dynamic lecture and demonstration with veteran onnagata (actor specializing in female roles), Kyozo ​Nakamura. Mr. Nakamura​ will introduce the basics of male and female acting in kabuki and talk about his own path to become an accomplished actor. The audience will also begin their kabuki performance training, copying Nakamura's movements in an interactive call and response.

This program is presented in conjunction with Copies and Invention in East Asia, an exhibition which highlights the creative possibilities of copying as an artistic practice. Following the performance, the gallery will be open to enjoy.

This program is co-presented by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Center for Japanese Studies, with support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

 


Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Performance Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:17:01 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Neuroscience Speaker Event (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69290 69290-17299775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Huntington's Disease Awareness Association

A talk about Huntington's disease genetics, clinical signs and symptoms, limitations of current therapeutics, and exciting new developments in disease modification with ASOs and CRISPR technologies.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:48:32 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Huntington's Disease Awareness Association Presentation HDAA at UMich
DCMB Weekly Seminar (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68972 68972-17205312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: GWAS of neuropsychiatric diseases have identified many loci, however, causal variants often remain unknown. We performed ATAC-seq in human iPSC-derived neurons, and identified thousands of variants affecting chromatin accessibility. Such variants are highly enriched with risk variants of a range of brain disorders. We computationally fine-mapped causal variants and experimentally tested their activities using CRISPRi followed by single cell RNA-seq. Our work provides a framework for prioritizing noncoding disease variants.

The second part of my talk will be focused on genetics of N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a common form of mRNA modification. m6A plays an important role in regulating various aspects of mRNA metabolism in eukaryotes. However, little is known about how DNA sequence variations may affect the m6A modification and the role of m6A in common diseases. We mapped genetic variants associated with m6A levels in 60 Yoruba lymphoblast cell lines. By leveraging these variants, our analysis provides novel insights of mechanisms regulating m6A installation, and downstream effects of m6A on other molecular traits such as translation rate. Integrated analysis with GWAS data reveals m6A variation as an important mechanism linking genetic variations to complex diseases.

BlueJeans livestreaming link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:51:34 -0400 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? Space, Time, and Unusual Human Bodies in Buddhism (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68535 68535-17096927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

First Annual Luis Gómez Memorial Lecture

Taking the ordinary human body as a baseline, Buddhist authors sometimes chose to imagine the human body in an exaggerated way, on a scale utterly beyond the realm of human experience. Human bodies that extend through space until they reach the ends of the universe; human bodies that contain everything in the universe; human bodies whose individual body-parts are multiplied until they reach almost-infinite numbers; human bodies whose lifespans stretch throughout eons of time to approach eternity—all of these constitute Buddhist examples of using the human body as a “corporeal code” by means of which human beings give voice to that which is immaterial, unimaginable, and otherwise unfathomable. This talk will examine the Buddhist use of human bodies on a non-human scale to give voice to immaterial and otherwise hard-to-conceptualize entities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:01:33 -0500 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? Space, Time, and Unusual Human Bodies in Buddhism
Science Café (November 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67840 67840-16958339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Microbes in the water take carbon from the atmosphere, break down plastics, and even cause and prevent toxic algae blooms. Join Melissa Duhaime of the U-M's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and members of her lab team to discuss the ecology of aquatic microbes, and how what we learn about them now could have huge impacts on our future.

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, 19 Nov 2019 11:04:03 -0500 2019-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Photocredit-Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay
Climate Change in the Great Lakes (November 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69525 69525-17337527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Join Climate Reality Leader Kris Olsson for a presentation on the impacts of climate change in the Great Lakes, climate change solutions, and what you can do to drive action.

Presented as part of 24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action, a global conversation on the truth of the climate crisis and how we solve it. For one full 24-hour period, from 11/20 - 11/21, Climate Reality Leader volunteers will hold public presentations and conversations on our changing climate in schools, community centers, workplaces and more across al 50 U.S. states and countries worldwide

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:22:00 -0500 2019-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Lecture / Discussion climate reality logo
U.S. Energy Transitions in the Trump Administration (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69079 69079-17242640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment in the ELPP Lecture Series. Professor Alexandra Klass from the University of Minnesota Law School will discuss recent developments in U.S. energy law, policy, economics, and technology. Although President Trump and his cabinet Secretaries, particularly at the Interior Department, Energy Department, and Environmental Protection Agency, have announced dramatic policy shifts away from those pursued during the Obama Administration, the new administration’s ability to accomplish its goals is in some instances helped and in other instances hindered by existing federal and state laws as well as private sector technology and economic trends. Topics will include the shift away from the use of coal and toward natural gas and renewable energy in the electricity sector; the use of federal public lands to develop oil, natural gas, coal, wind, and solar energy; developments in technology and law associated with hydraulic facturing ("fracking"); and controversies over new oil and gas pipelines such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Alexandra B. Klass teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric grid, transportation electrification, oil and gas transportation infrastructure, and the use of eminent domain for electric transmission lines and pipelines. She is a co-author of Energy Law: Concepts and Insights Series (Foundation Press 2017), Energy Law and Policy (West Academic Publishing 2d ed. 2018), Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed., 2018), and The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2017). Professor Klass was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010, and she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010-2012. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2015. She is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and in prior years was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and the Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow.

Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law, natural resources, and land use matters. During her years in private practice from 1993-2004, she handled cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts involving contaminated property, wetlands, environmental review, mining, environmental rights, zoning, eminent domain, and environmental torts. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1992-1993.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:42:30 -0500 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808 (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67229 67229-16828980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In 1770, Charles III of Spain issued a royal decree to overhaul the university system throughout his kingdom. As part of this overhaul, a range of reforms were instituted to modernize anatomical and medical studies thereby placing Spanish science on a more secure footing with the rest of Europe. During this period of transformation, the study of life and death and the emergence of new developments in the practice of resuscitation opened promising avenues of research for exploring the wonders of the human body. Yet, as Fernández-Medina will argue through the work of some of Spain’s foremost physicians and thinkers, it also sparked one of the fiercest debates in the Spanish Enlightenment on the expansion of scientific knowledge and its role in modern society.

Professor Fernández-Medina specializes in late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century Spanish literature, philosophy, and intellectual history, including Enlightenment thought, philosophy of science and the body, social history of ideas in medicine, modernist aesthetics, and the avant-garde.

He is the author of Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018), Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy (co-edited with Maria Truglio, New York: Routledge, 2016), and The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’ (U of Wales P, 2011). His current book, Raising the Dead: The Science and Literature of Resuscitation in Spain explores Spanish modernity’s unending fascination with the life/death divide and analyzes the numerous social narratives of existence and mortality that have shaped Spain’s cultural imaginary.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:00:22 -0500 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808
Edel Rodriguez: On Freedom and Risk (November 21, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65266 65266-16559496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who is inspired by personal history, religious rituals, politics, memory, and nostalgia, his bold, figurative works are an examination of identity, mortality, and cultural displacement. Socialist propaganda and western advertising, island culture and contemporary city life are all aspects of his life that continue to inform his work. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Op Ed page and The New Yorker. He has created over a hundred newspaper and magazine covers for clients such as TIME, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Nation, Businessweek, The New Republic, and The Village Voice. He has created dozens of book covers for clients such as Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House. Rodriguez has also created several stamps for the US Postal Service and has illustrated poster and advertising campaigns for many operas, films, and Broadway shows. Rodriguez’s artwork has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of a variety of institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., as well as in numerous private collections. His work has received numerous awards from the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators in New York City.

Supported by AIGA Detroit and the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:05:52 -0400 2019-11-21T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/rodriguez.jpg
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Cultivating Islamic Humanities in the 16th century Ottoman Context: An Integrative Approach to the Shaykh al-Islâm Ibn Kamâl's Corpus (November 21, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69300 69300-17301821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This presentation is based on Ekiz's tentative dissertation project, which looks into the Islamicate humanities through one of the most distinguished members of early 16th century Ottoman scholarly class, the chief jurisconsult and scholar-littérateur Sh̲ams al-dīn Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. Kamāl Pas̲h̲a, known as Kemalpaşazade or Ibn Kamal. Having vastly produced in various branches of knowledge, he is known for his encyclopedic, multilingual, cosmopolitan erudition. Taking up an integrative approach which attempts at dealing with his scholarship without compartmentalizing it according to disparate sciences, I aim at understanding the methods that bring seemingly contradictory epistemologies together, namely Akbarian monism, Avicennan philosophy and the late Ashari speculative theology. Could we talk about a synthesizing, universalist project that Kemalpaşazade deliberately employs to create an Ottoman orthodoxy? I argue that orthodoxy, Sunnitization or confessionalization do not do full justice to the agenda pursued by cosmopolitan Ottoman scholars by overlooking humanistic aspect of Ottoman “scholasticism”. Therefore, my presentation is going to focus on how the study of humanities, of literary and linguistic sciences came to be the primary pursuit of a certain class of Ottoman scholars. My project also tries to contribute to the long- neglected field of Islamicate paideia and understudied post-classical Islamic thought.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:12:15 -0500 2019-11-21T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T19:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
Climate Change: The Facts, The Fiction, The Solutions (November 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69277 69277-17279445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Join us for a non-partisan presentation and Q & A to learn:
> Why and how our climate is changing
> How climate change will affect Michigan, U.S. and the world
> The actions we can take, personally and collectively, to mitigate and reverse climate change

Presenters:
Heather Harrold - Climate Reality Project
Richard Barron - Citizens' Climate Lobby

Location: Ann Arbor District Library, Traverwood Branch (3333 Traverwood Dr.)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:13:01 -0500 2019-11-21T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Lecture / Discussion climate reality logo
MAS Lecture | Prehistoric Archaeology at 120: Exploring Lake Huron’s Alpena-Amberley Ridge (November 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68930 68930-17197032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Alpena-Amberley Ridge (AAR) is a unique geological feature that bisects the modern Lake Huron basin. During the Lake Stanley low water phase (10,000–7500 cal BP), the AAR formed a dry land corridor linking northeastern lower Michigan with south-central Ontario. Archaeological explorations of the AAR have demonstrated that it was a focus of early human activity during Lake Stanley times. Stone hunting structures preserved on the AAR are among the oldest dated examples on the planet and the lithic industry is unlike anything known in the Great Lakes region. The range of hunting and fishing activities is likewise novel and unlike contemporary sites on land.

This talk describes both the techniques of underwater research that the University of Michigan team has developed for investigating these submerged sites and summarizes some of the most recent findings surfacing from the research.

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:07 -0400 2019-11-21T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Underwater archaeology at the Alpena-Amberley Ridge
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: “Sibling rivalry or family ties that bind?: NASA’s Return to the Moon” (November 22, 2019 1:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64941 64941-16491258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 1:30am
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Trudy Kortes

“NASA is called to land American astronauts, including the first woman and the next man, on the Moon by 2024. We’re committed to achieving this bold goal. Through the Artemis program, we will go to the Moon in a way we have never gone before – with innovative new partnerships, technologies and systems to explore the entire lunar surface. Then we will use what we learn on the Moon to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.”
- NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine


Think you have issues with sibling rivalry? Or do you get along with your favorite brother or sister? NASA has named its new program to return to the Earth’s moon “Artemis”, the twin sister of Apollo and Greek mythological goddess of the Moon. With plans to land the first woman and next man on the Lunar South Pole by 2024, U.S. space policy provides the direction for NASA to more effectively organize government, commercial and international efforts to develop a sustainable presence on the Moon and beyond. Come hear one of NASA’s senior managers talk about NASA’s exploration campaign which cuts across three strategic areas: low-Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars & deeper into space and how American leadership will drive an open, sustainable and agile architecture, with international and commercial partners, to get astronauts back on the lunar surface as quickly as possible via the Artemis Program.

About the Speaker

Throughout her successful 30 year NASA career, Trudy Kortes has developed a unique speaking style and brand of leadership, championing compelling tools that elevate leaders and their ability to connect. Her strong reputation for maneuvering technically challenging and complex workplace dynamics to meet objectives and empower leaders and teams is indisputable. And as the winner of the 2017 NASA Headquarters talent show for stand-up comedy, it is her authentic, relatable presence that is perhaps most powerful.

Trudy offers speaking, panel moderation, career mentoring, and consulting services on a variety of leadership and workplace topics. Her focus is on helping women in STEM fields excel and raising across-the-board awareness of the challenges faced along the way as a means to help shift the collective mindset towards one of a healthy, holistic work environment that can meet the demands of a changing world.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:28:34 -0400 2019-11-22T01:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T15:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Moon
#TransMatters in Law (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69080 69080-17242641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join us in listening to UM OutLaws and OUTreach, two organizations working with local law policies, to talk about current status of name changes, gender markers, and current law related to transgender rights.

Boxed lunches will be served, with gluten-free and vegetarian options.

Event navigation details: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav
More Trans Awareness Week events: http://bit.ly/TransAwareness19

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:38:46 -0500 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion TransMatters in Law event taking place on Friday, Nov. 22nd, 12:00-1:00 pm in Trotter Multicultural Center, Large Meeting Room. Food will be served with gluten-free and vegetarian options. Event sponsored by UM OutLaws and OUTreach.
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals? (November 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66289 66289-16725807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Scholars need to communicate their research in order to advance science and to promote the understanding of the human experience. The future of scientific publishing may very well rest on our ability to flip the current model that serves the interests of a few for-profit publishers to a model that has incentives to serve the interests of humanity. This talk will introduce a number of strategies that might be employed to create a more just and sustaining scientific publishing system.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:26:46 -0400 2019-11-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar UMich Law Library
RNA Innovation Seminar, Kristian Baker, Case Western (November 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65142 65142-16541442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Kristian E. Baker, Ph.D. (Principle Investigator), Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University

Abstract: The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway in eukaryotes serves as an RNA quality control system to protect cells from persistent expression of C-terminally truncated polypeptides as a consequence of premature translation termination at nonsense codons. How the cell defines a translation termination event as premature and, subsequently, how this information is communicated to the decay machinery so as to accelerate the degradation of the mRNA remain unclear. We have previously shown that mutations within UPF1 - a member of the SF1 helicase superfamily and a core component of the NMD machinery - which inactivate its ATPase activity give rise to RNA decay intermediates that accumulate due to stalling of ribosomes at or near the premature termination codon. These findings revealed a key functional interaction between the translation apparatus and NMD machinery, and signify that ATP hydrolysis by UPF1 targets the ribosome to facilitate peptide hydrolysis and/or ribosome recycling during translation termination.
My lab’s ongoing efforts directed at dissecting the how UPF1 impacts premature translation termination will be presented.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:52:12 -0400 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
The Privatization of Religion and the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism: Trends and Fluctuations in Israeli Jewish Identity (November 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68145 68145-17018309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Over the last thirty years major changes have transformed Israeli Jewish Identity. Secular Zionism, which held undisputed hegemony, has receded through a crisis of identity and split into two major camps. Religious Zionism, at first evincing a triumphant Settler movement, has lost its ideological center, and now holds power without a vision, and the Ultra-Orthodox are going through a process of Israelization, making them more integrated and also more nationalistic. We shall analyze and understand the many and varied Jewish voices emerging today in Israel.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:47:02 -0500 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
RNA Innovation Seminar, Auinash Kalsotra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (December 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65143 65143-16541443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Auinash Kalsotra, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Affiliate, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract: For many genes, steady-state messenger (m)RNA levels provide an inaccurate reflection of the extent to which they are translated into proteins. This seminar will focus on post-transcriptional mechanisms that affect the “quality” and “quantity” of RNAs produced in a cell-type- and context-dependent manner. First, I will describe the identification of a conserved developmentally regulated alternative splicing program that supports terminal differentiation, functional competence, and postnatal maturation of hepatocytes. Second, I will show evidence that following liver injury, this developmental splicing program is transiently re-activated to rewire a critical signaling pathway that enables proper liver regeneration. Third, I will demonstrate that in severe alcoholic hepatitis, the sustained re-activation of this developmental program causes hepatocytes to shed adult functions and become more regenerative but threatens overall survival by populating the liver with functionally-immature cells.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:55:20 -0400 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Brazil Initiative at LACS Event. Women, Defiance, and Brazilian History (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69872 69872-17480872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Brazil’s most famous historical icons—from the maroon warrior Dandara to President Dilma Rousseff—defied social expectations based on their gender, race, class, sexuality, and/or region. The constantly changing ways in which artists, screenwriters, journalists, and intellectuals present Brazil’s most famous historical women reflect both tensions over the rights of women in contemporary society and the struggle to unite multiple narratives of Brazilian national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this talk, Dr. Campbell outlines the structure of this project and show how some key historical women have been represented and re-invented in art, literature, film, and TV series. This exploratory paper asks the questions of how and why this group—in most cases the majority of the nation—is tied to the idea of nationhood and how their representation within media affects understandings of Brazilian history.

Dr. Courtney J. Campbell is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Latin American History at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her book, *Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World* (1924-1968) is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:42:39 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion BI-dec4-image
MIPSE Seminar | The Schwinger Plasma: An Experimental Program to Study the Plasmas That Exist Inside the Vacuum (December 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65977 65977-16678380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The most fundamental plasma is the quantum vacuum, but it remains largely inaccessible to experiments because of the energy scales involved. The minimum temperature required to “ionize” the vacuum is equivalent to the mass of an electron-positron pair, 1 MeV, or about 10^10K. One way to imagine creating an e^+e^- plasma out of “nothing” is through tunnel ionization of the vacuum by a laser; but simple scaling shows that the in-tensity required to reach the tunneling threshold must be more than 10^29 W/cm^2, which has been called the “Schwinger threshold”. This talk will introduce the experimental methods we will use to reach this regime, and what we might expect to find.

About the Speaker:
Phil Bucksbaum is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor at Stanford University, with appointments in Physics, Applied Physics, and in Photon Science at SLAC. He also founded and directed the Stanford PULSE Institute (ultrafast.stanford.edu). He studies the interaction of intense coherent radiation with atoms and molecules, with emphasis on interactions induced by attosecond pulsed radiation and ultrashort x-ray lasers. Prior to Stanford, Bucksbaum was on the faculty at U. of Michigan, and on the research staff at Bell Laboratories. He received MA and PhD degrees in Physics from U. of California at Berkeley, and his AB degree in Physics, magna cum laude from Harvard College. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America and elected to the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was president of OSA in 2014 and is president-elect APS, where he will serve as president in 2020.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=mcece347060ae30ec7ab06503f5aa8baf
Meeting number: 623 577 400
Password: mipse19

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:06:42 -0500 2019-12-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Philip Bucksbaum
Public Conversation: Monuments & Public Art (December 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69573 69573-17366253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Thursday, December 5
7:00pm-8:30pm
Hatcher Library Gallery | 913 S. University Avenue
Free & Open to the public

In celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project, CWPS presents project co-founder and book co-editor Dr. Paul M. Farber to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today.

Paul M. Farber is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia (Temple University Press, 2019), a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments.

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book, Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington, DC and beyond. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Christina Olsen is the Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives, including Shine a Light, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland, Oregon; Object Stories, an installation, audience, participation, and outreach initiative in 2010; WALLS, a student art loan program at Williams College, and Accession Number, an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; curator of Art Access, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Srimoyee Mitra is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation, migration, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as Time Out Mumbai and Art India Magazine. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto, where her curatorial projects included Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. In 2011, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program.

This is event is co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, Stamps Gallery at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and University of Michigan Museum of Art.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. 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 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:11:42 -0500 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Monument Lab Poster
Smith Lecture: Origin of the Mesoproterozoic Igneous Rocks in the St. Francois Mountains, Missouri, USA (December 6, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63126 63126-15576734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Mesoproterozoic St. Francois Mountains (SFM) terrane of southeast Missouri is part of a large felsic igneous province that developed along the margin of the Laurentian craton. New geochemical, geochronological, and geophysical data are used to develop an improved model for the origin of the terrane. The terrane formed during two major episodes of igneous activity: (1) an older episode (ca. 1.48–1.44 Ga) of granodiorite to granite intrusive activity accompanied by felsic and subordinate basaltic to andesitic volcanism and associated subvolcanic intrusive activity and (2) a younger episode (ca. 1.33–1.30 Ga) consisting of bimodal granite and gabbro intrusion. The older rocks are predominantly ferroan, subalkaline with tholeiitic affinity and are enriched in Rb, Ba, Th, K, Pb, and light-REEs and depleted in Ta and Nb relative to primitive mantle. Trace element contents are similar to both within-plate, A-type and volcanic arc, I- and S-type granite compositions; however, the Nb and Ta depletions are characteristic of arc magmatism. Nd isotopic data suggest derivation from a mantle source or a mantle-derived juvenile (< 50 m.y.) crust. The younger granitic rocks are highly evolved with trace element abundances similar to within-plate granite.

We suggest that the SFM terrane involved melting of newly formed crust along the margin of the Laurentia as a result of mantle upwelling and underplating of tholeiitic basaltic magma at or near the base of the crust, possibly due to far field subduction processes or extension along the margin of the craton. The mantle-derived magmas generated partial melting and assimilation of the crust that subsequently fractionated in magma chambers at mid-crustal levels. Evidence of the underplating and incursion of the mantle-derived mafic magmas is seen in the regional gravity and aeromagnetic data, with the SFM underlain by dense, highly magnetic units at mid-crustal levels believed to be the mafic precursor magmas and(or) restite. Three-dimensional modeling of magnetic and gravity data coupled with results from a new magnetotelluric survey are yielding new insights into the crustal architecture of the terrane. Deep-seated magmatic systems can be resolved that we believe are the feeders for the near surface volcanic and shallow plutonic rocks and the coeval mineralizing systems. As well, a new high-resolution aeromagnetic survey acquired in August 2019 is yielding new insights as to the subtle complexities of the intrusions throughout the terrane.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:17:29 -0500 2019-12-06T15:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts, Myths and Mysteries (December 7, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66291 66291-16725808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first stellar mass black hole in our Galaxy, all the way to the four- million-solar-mass black hole that is hiding at its center.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:31:07 -0400 2019-12-07T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Black Hole from Event Horizon Telescope
IN WHICH LOVE HAS MANY A TALE (December 9, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69623 69623-17368339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Cross's paper is the prologue of his book project (title still to be determined), which consists of a close reading of the medieval Persian romance Vis & Rāmin in dialogue with a network of generic interlocutors, spanning across what he calls the Helleno-Abrahamic cultural complex of western Eurasia. With few exceptions, the study of V&R (and the Persian romance tradition more generally) has been guided by the frame of national literary history — Browne’s Literary History of Persia being the keystone work in this method — and within this frame, V&R comes across as something of an outsider, an anomaly, and certainly a work of limited historical impact. In this introduction, Cross outlines why and how he proposes to read the poem not as an early specimen of a national literary tradition still in its infancy, but as a response to a mature tradition of narratives about lovers, developed in many languages over the course of the previous millennium. From that perspective, this text stands to tell us much about the spread, diffusion, and purpose of that literary habit we call romance, and the concept of romantic love that is its subject, from the critical but largely unexplored vantage-point of medieval Persia. Cross contends that we cannot fully understand Vis & Rāmin without reading it through that multi-lingual tradition of longue durée; nor can we fully understand that tradition without Vis & Rāmin.

Please email Shahla Farghadani (sfarghad@umich.edu) to receive a copy of Cross's paper in advance.

For further information, please visit our website:https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/psw

We look forward to seeing you there!

Light refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:40:43 -0500 2019-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T19:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
BME Seminar: Alexandra Rutz (December 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69696 69696-17382664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Remarkable advances in medicine and biology have been made possible with bioelectronics – devices that bridge and connect the worlds of living systems and electronics. Bioelectronics include wearable sensors for health monitoring, in vitro diagnostics, therapeutic implantable devices, and electrical stimulation for tissue engineering and regeneration. Despite their influence, bioelectronic devices are still limited by the fact that they are disparate and distinct from biology. The quality of the device-tissue interface is poor and diminishes with time; this is thought to be due to many factors including significant surgical trauma, an aggressive foreign body response, poor material compatibility with the biological milieu, as well as imprecise and distant connections between electronics and surrounding cells or tissues. Towards addressing these challenges, I will first present the use of slippery surfaces for mitigating the consequences of implanting bioelectronics into delicate tissues. I will demonstrate how liquid-infused elastomers reduce tissue deformation and tearing associated with the insertion of intracortical probes in rats. I will then present how, unlike typical electronic fabrication processes, additive manufacturing is compatible with biomaterials and cells. I will demonstrate that when “inks”, processing methods, and scaffold structure are engineered appropriately, extrusion-based 3D printing affords patterned, viable, and functional cell networks, and I will discuss how this can be exploited in future bioelectronic devices. To conclude, I will briefly present my vision to continue tackling the pressing challenges of biointegration that bioelectronics face in expanding their clinical and scientific impacts. The Rutz Lab will engineer “electronic tissues” that merge electronics and biology using additive manufacturing and biomaterials approaches.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:42:20 -0500 2019-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Positive Links Speaker Series (December 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65990 65990-16678392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Authenticity on One’s Own Terms
Patricia Faison Hewlin

Thursday, December 12, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/yKKPW

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

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

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

About the talk:
The exhortation to be true to oneself is often intended to empower, but it can actually promote apprehension because instructions are rarely provided. Thus, many shy away from what is true to self, take on inauthentic behaviors to fit into their work environments, or at worst, turn to harsh transparency, alienating those around them. In this session, Hewlin will share how people can be authentic “on their own terms” by identifying their thresholds of authenticity as well as personal values that can be integrated into the workplace to: increase work engagement, foster positive relationships, and enhance overall personal well-being.

About Hewlin:
Patricia Faison Hewlin is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. She is also a visiting professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China. Prior to joining academia, she was a Vice President for Citi, where she managed financial centers in New York City.

Hewlin conducts research on how organization members and leaders engage in authentic expression, as well as factors that impede authenticity in the workplace. Her research has primarily centered on employee silence, and the degree to which members suppress personal values and pretend to embrace organizational values, a behavior she terms as “creating facades of conformity.” Her most recent research explores authenticity from a cross-cultural perspective, and how organizations, particularly leaders can leverage diverse and divergent authentic self-expressions among followers, while promoting positive work interactions and productivity.

Hewlin is published in several academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Chinese Management. She has also contributed to the Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Getting Smart, and Harvard Business Review.

On a personal note, Hewlin enjoys traveling, solving puzzles, and quiet moments with her family.

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

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:43 -0400 2019-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Patricia Faison Hewlin
FAST Lecture | Reconsidering the Role of Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean (December 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69677 69677-17376531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, the end of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BC) is a time often defined by violence, upheavals, the loss of complexity, the collapse of empires and palatial structures, the disappearance of writing, and the movement of displaced populations. Great destruction events ravaged the Eastern Mediterranean at this time, including the destruction of the palaces at Mycenae, Midea, Tiryns, and Pylos, the desolation of Enkomi on Cyprus, the burning of Ras Shamra in Syria, and the sacking of Hattusa in Anatolia.

The question that must be asked is, how many of these sites were actually destroyed? And for those that were, was the destruction caused by man in the form of revolutions, intersite conflict, and foreign invaders? Or by nature in the form of devastating earthquakes? The goal of this talk is to demonstrate just how much was destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and what this indicates for the multiple theories that utilize destruction as a prime mover in the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations.

Reception at the Kelsey Museum at 5:30 PM, lecture to follow at 6:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:35:05 -0500 2019-12-12T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-12T19:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Aeneas Fleeing from Burning Troy, painting by Daniel van Heil
U-M Structure Seminar: Jianxin Liu (December 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65704 65704-16629965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Graduate Student, Bridwell-Rabb Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:17:56 -0400 2019-12-13T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Saturday Morning Physics | Climate Change Opportunities and Challenges for Michigan (December 14, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66293 66293-16725810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Climate change is already impacting the planet in dramatic ways, including in the U.S. and in the Great Lakes region. The impacts in Michigan, although not negligible, are modest compared to much of the country, and thus our state could become a go-to destination for many businesses and people fleeing more severe climate change impacts in other parts of the country. However, if climate change is not curbed, Michigan also runs the risk of becoming a sacrifice zone; thus quick action on climate change could be a win-win for our state.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:38:06 -0400 2019-12-14T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-14T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Flooding in Dearborn Spring 2019
Two stories: Insights into regulation of chromatin architecture by cryo-EM and cryo-ET (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69860 69860-17474745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Two stories: Insights into regulation of chromatin architecture by cryo-EM and cryo-ET

Vignesh Kasinath, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Berkeley

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:22:24 -0500 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
RNA Innovation Seminar, Silvie Rouskin, Whitehead/MIT (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65144 65144-16541444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Silvie Rouskin, Ph.D., Andria and Paul Heafy Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead/MIT

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:08:39 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
U-M Structure Seminar: Raymond Trievel, Ph.D. (December 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65707 65707-16629967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:21:34 -0400 2019-12-20T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-20T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Cryo-EM/ET, a Tool to Dissect Structural Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases (January 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69862 69862-17474746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-EM/ET, a Tool to Dissect Structural Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Qiang Guo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:24:40 -0500 2020-01-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture: What Can Little Faults Tell Us About Big Earthquakes? (January 10, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63129 63129-15578780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The physics of fault growth governs the evolution of faults within the Earth’s crust and ultimately, the behavior of devastating earthquakes. With carefully scaled physical experiments that use analogs for crustal materials, we can speed up and scale down crustal processes so that they occur within hours on a table-top rather than millennia within the Earth’s crust.  This experimental study examines the evolution of fault systems with particular attention to temporal variations in fault slip rate associated with interaction and reorganization of faults. If faults slip at the same rate throughout time, then we could use the record of past earthquakes to guide earthquake forecasts. However, with recent improvements to the fidelity of slip rate records, we see increasing geologic evidence for non-constant fault slip rates in regions of multiple active faults. The experiments show that with deformation, the faults can interact and evolve so that their slip rates may vary by ~30% through time even when the loading rate is constant. The observed variations in slip rate under constant loading rate in our experiments imply that earthquake forecasts along complex fault networks, such as southern California or the Marlborough area of New Zealand might not be able to rely on past records of slip.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 08:17:47 -0500 2020-01-10T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Cryo-ET Seminar: Architecture of the human nuclear pore complex (January 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69863 69863-17474748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-ET Seminar: Architecture of the human nuclear pore complex

Shyamal Mosalganti, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:26:30 -0500 2020-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 11:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
RNA Innovation Seminar, David Mathews, University of Rochester (January 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65145 65145-16541445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

David Mathews , MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:03:20 -0500 2020-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
Cryo-electron tomography visualizes the ciliary complexes in action (January 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69864 69864-17474749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-electron tomography visualizes the ciliary complexes in action

Jianfeng Lin, Ph.D.
Field Applications Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:28:18 -0500 2020-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
MIPSE Seminar | Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty (January 15, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70791 70791-17644316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Solar electric propulsion (EP) is a key technology for human and robotic space missions, and is part of NASA’s vision for expanding human presence beyond low earth orbit. The high specific impulse of EP enables reductions in propellant mass, but at the price of long burn times. Deep space missions re-quire operating times of many 104 hours. Demonstrating that the thruster meets this requirement is a challenge. Multiple life tests of the full mission duration are not practical. The life capability must be demonstrated by combining physics-based modeling and short duration testing.
JPL developed the CEX2D and CEX3D codes to model erosion of ion accelerator systems in ion engines, a dominant failure mechanism. The codes model a primary ion beamlet and charge exchange (CEX) ions from the beamlet. Impingement of main, beamlet, and CEX ions on the grids then determine erosion rates. The models predict time-to-failure, but key questions include: What is the uncertainty in those estimates? How much margin is needed to account for the uncertainties? Estimating uncertainty in experiments is routine, but the modeling community is still developing techniques for estimating errors. In this talk we discuss the physical processes of ion engine grid erosion, how they are modeled, and methods for quantifying model uncertainty and required life margins.

About the speaker:
Dr. Polk is a Principal Engineer in the Propulsion, Materials, and Thermal Engineering Section at the Jet Propulsion Lab, and a lecturer in Aerospace Engr. at Caltech. He received a BS in Aero. Engr. at Georgia Tech and a PhD in Mech. & Aero. Engr. from Princeton. Dr. Polk is an expert in high-current cathode physics, EP wear processes, high power EP, and probabilistic methods to analyze engine life. He was the task manager for an 8200 hour wear test of a 2.3 kW ion engine as used on the Deep Space 1 mission, was a co-investigator in the Next Generation Ion Propulsion Program and principal investigator of the Nuclear Electric Xenon Ion System program. From 1997 to 2001 he was supervisor of the Advanced Propulsion Group at JPL. He now manages JPL’s high power EP tasks and is the Deputy Ion Propulsion System Lead for the Advanced EP System for the Lunar Gateway. He has authored over 100 papers and has received 7 best paper awards at the Intl. EP Conference and the Joint Propulsion Conference.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=mbd38de4eb55d697d214347b83b23fbd7
Meeting number: 621 559 684
Password: MIPSE20

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:20:47 -0500 2020-01-15T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-15T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Jay Polk
DCMB Weekly Seminar (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70964 70964-17760238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

BlueJeans Livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:39:08 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70342 70342-17584117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Social Excellence: Detect it, Learn from It, Create It
Robert E. Quinn

Thursday, January 16, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

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

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

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

About the talk:
The field of Positive Organizational Scholarship asks what people, groups, and organizations are like when at their very best. Researchers in the field scientifically examine the best of the human condition. This means researchers use science to learn from excellence. For 18 years, Quinn has been teaching executives how to understand and apply these accumulating scientific findings. In the process, he has become increasingly aware that in the world of practice, like the world of science, most people do not attend to or learn from excellence. They learn from failure while seeking to reproduce order. In this participative session, Quinn will explore three questions:
1. What does it mean to learn from excellence?
2. How does learning from excellence alter leadership and culture?
3. What can we do to learn from and create social excellence?

About Quinn:
Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research and writing focus on purpose, leadership, culture, and change. He is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations.

In terms of research, he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He has published 18 books. As a teacher, Quinn is the recipient of multiple awards. In a recent global survey, he was named one of the top speakers in the world on the topic of organizational culture and related issues. Last year, his talk on personal purpose went viral on Facebook and has been viewed over 16 million times.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:58:34 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Robert E. Quinn
Oskar Eustis: Theater and Democracy (January 16, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70386 70386-17594433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Oskar Eustis has served as artistic director of The Public Theater in New York City since 2005. In the past four years, Eustis has produced two Tony Award-winning productions in the category of best musical (Fun Home and Hamilton), as well as two productions that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton and Sweat). Prior to his role at The Public, Eustis enjoyed a storied career that began at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco (1986–1989), where he commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. At The Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff’s Compulsion and The Ruby Sunrise; Larry Wright’s The Human Scale; Julius Caesar; Public Works Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park; and Suzan-Lori Parks’ White Noise. Additionally, he has founded numerous groundbreaking programs at The Public, including Public Works, Public Forum, the Emerging Writers Group, and the Mobile Unit. Over the course of his career, Eustis has directed the world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado, among many others.

Co-presented with University Musical Society (UMS).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:43:30 -0500 2020-01-16T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Eustis.jpg
MAS Lecture | Rotted Meat, Scurvy, and Neanderthal Foodways (January 16, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71449 71449-17827803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In this lecture, I discuss the importance of rotted (putrid) meat in the diet of modern hunter-gatherers throughout the northern latitudes. Putrefaction "pre-digests" meat without the need for cooking. Anaerobic bacteria rapidly colonize decomposing meat, inhibiting the germination of pathogens such as *Clostridium botulinum* (botulism). Bacterial fermentation also prevents fats from becoming rancid and preserves vitamin C, eliminating the threat of scurvy. Psychological studies indicate that the revulsion shown by Euro-Americans toward putrid meat is learned, not hard-wired, and emerges surprisingly late in children.

Abundant ethnohistoric evidence shows that rotted meat was not a starvation food but a prized and nutritionally vital component of forager diets in northern environments. I suggest that eating rotted meat would have been of similar importance to Eurasian Neanderthals and modern humans occupying broadly similar environments and subsisting on heavily meat-based diets. I then briefly explore the implications of these ideas for understanding the later Pleistocene archaeological and isotopic record in northern Eurasia.

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit miarch.org.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:21:29 -0500 2020-01-16T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-16T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Northern tundra
Planet in Peril (January 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70739 70739-17627838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Climate change is becoming THE challenge of the 21st century, and is likely to impact most of the human enterprise, as well as planetary life support systems, in increasingly unprecedented ways.

Professor Jonathan T. Overpeck will discuss global implications, including the imperative to act quickly on climate change, or risk major Earth system tipping points. He’ll then drill down to the scale of the U.S. and Great Lakes region to provide a more relatable sense of what is at stake.

Professor Overpeck, William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education and the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, is an interdisciplinary climate scientist and has written over 210 published works on climate and the environmental sciences. He served as a Working Group 1 Coordinating Lead Author for the Nobel Prize winning IPCC 4th Assessment (2007). He is a Fellow of AGU and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and tweets about climate-related issues @GreatLakesPeck.

This is lecture #1 in the "Facing the Future: The Challenge of Climate Change" Friday themed lecture series which will explore how climate change is impacting every corner of our earth, and every aspect of our lives.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:20:46 -0500 2020-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Friday Lectures