Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium | The (Mis)Education of Us (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71521 71521-17836335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The University of Michigan will host the 34th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on Monday, January 20, 2020 beginning at 10 a.m. at Hill Auditorium.

This year’s theme, “The (Mis)Education of US,” will feature keynote speaker Angela Davis, educator, political activist, and author. Dr. Davis is known for her work surrounding social, economic, racial, and gender justice.

Since 1986, the University of Michigan has hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Symposium, one of the largest celebrations by colleges and universities in the nation.

The theme is composed by faculty, staff and students across campus based on its relevance to current social justice issues and the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.

This year’s theme, “The (Mis)Education of US,” acknowledges that although we live in a diverse society, we have not been adequately educated on who we are and how we can best learn, live and prosper together.

The Keynote lecture is coordinated by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives
under the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and co-sponsored by the Stephen M. Ross School of Business with support from the William K. McInally Memorial Lecture Fund, and Michigan Athletics.

The U-M MLK symposium is open to the University community and the general public. For those who are unable to attend in person, they are encouraged to watch the event online or as part of a group watch party by visiting mlksymposium.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:42:09 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T11:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion angela-davis
Susan Rice on Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For (January 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69774 69774-17417492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 am: Please RSVP. Dessert reception to follow.

This event will be livestreamed. Please check fordschool.umich.edu just before the event for viewing details.

Join us for an arm-chair conversation between Ambassador Susan Rice and Michael Barr, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, as they discuss Ambassador Rice's distinguished career and her book, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy—as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—Ambassador Rice's memoir delivers an inspiring account of a life in service to family and country.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:59:42 -0500 2020-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T13:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Susan Rice
MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research: Perspectives from New Scholars (January 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70636 70636-17611219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Program for Research on Black Americans present:

MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research:
Perspectives from New Scholars

Jan 20 || 2:30 pm
ISR 1430 Thompson
Reception immediately following panel discussion

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Lloyd M. Talley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work

Taylor W. Hargrove, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DeAnnah R. Byrd, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

MODERATED BY:
David C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Delaware

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:03:54 -0500 2020-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CMENAS Event. International Liberation and Nonviolent Noncooperation: Martin Luther King and Afro-Asia (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70041 70041-17499535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The nonviolent activism of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is associated in the minds of many primarily with the Civil Rights Movement against institutionalized racism in Jim Crow America. King was, however, a keen observer of decolonization and the awakening of colonized peoples in Afro-Asia to aspirations for self-determination. This anti-colonial perspective led to his opposition to the Vietnam War. Although King was little involved in the Middle East per se, having been more focused on African countries such as Ghana, his vision and his methods have gone on to inspire many civil rights activists in Egypt, Palestine, and elsewhere in the region.

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of *Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires* (Bold Type, 2018), *The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East* (Simon & Schuster, 2014), and *Engaging the Muslim World *(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), among many other works. He also writes on current affairs for *The Nation and Truthdig*, and maintains the *Informed Comment *news and analysis site. He has appeared widely on radio and television as a commentator on the Middle East, including on Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes' *All In,* CNN, ABC's *Nightline*, NBC's *Today Show*, *Democracy Now! *and many others.

This lecture is cosponsored by the U-M African Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:03:27 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion cole-image
Science Café (January 22, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69882 69882-17482937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

If you stretched the DNA in one human cell all the way out, it would be about two meters long. How does all that DNA fit into one tiny cell? How does the way it is packaged matter for human health? Join Gyorgyi Csankovszki of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology for a discussion of current research into basic cellular biology and the implications this research may have on human health. This Science Café is part of a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:41:12 -0500 2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion
State of Social 2020 (January 23, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70933 70933-17757982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 8:30am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Office of the Vice President for Communications

After over a decade of content proliferation, endless algorithms, and a plethora of platform changes, the pursuit of user engagement has become a moving target. This year, UMSocial will host some of the industry’s brightest minds as we evaluate the State of Social in 2020. Attendees can expect to learn the latest trends in social strategy, hear discussions on pressing industry issues, and build a network of resources and best practices.

8:30–9:00 a.m.
Registration & Refreshments

9:00–9:45 a.m.
Much Ado About Digital: Global Observations on Social Media
Eric Stoller, VP of Digital Strategy at Gecko Engage

9:45–10:30 a.m.
For the Culture
Marcus Collins, Chief Consumer Connections Officer at Doner Advertising and Marketing Professor, U-M Ross School of Business

10:30–10:45 a.m. BREAK

10:45–11:30 a.m.
SHIFT Happens
Eric Hultgren, Director of Social Media and Content Marketing at MLive

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:13:43 -0500 2020-01-23T08:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Office of the Vice President for Communications Conference / Symposium State of Social 2020
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (January 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17905475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:00pm
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Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (January 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17905476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
Cullen Washington Jr.: Abstract Meditations on the Grid and Humanity (January 23, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70387 70387-17594434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Cullen Washington Jr.’s work offers meditations on human interconnectivity and “the universal framework that undergirds all things.” Fusing seemingly disparate concepts via the connective tissues of mixed media, Washington uses nonrepresentational abstraction to understand order, chaos, social relationships, and other natural phenomena. The work takes audiences on a vibrant journey through and with materiality — a concerted and haptic interplay between gestures of painting and drawing and the modes of reproduction. In the exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square,his most recent series, Agoras, explores the “agora” — the ancient Greek public space — as a central “gathering place” for activated assembly that functions as the heart of the commercial, spiritual, and political life in the city, where the displaced can find a place. Washington’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and has been exhibited at the Queens Museum in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Yaddo artists’ community in New York, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.

Presented in partnership with UMMA as part of the 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square will be on view at UMMA January 25–May 17, 2020.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington Jr.: The Public Square is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Department of the History of Art.

Image: Cullen Washington, Jr., “Agora 1,” 2017, mixed media collage on canvas. Courtesy the artist. © Cullen Washington, Jr. Photography: Andrea Feldman

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:44 -0500 2020-01-23T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Washington2.jpg
CogSci Community: Evolving the Human Mind: What Our Primate Cousins Reveal about Human Cognition (January 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71733 71733-17877247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Professor Alexandra Rosati will be giving a talk on "Evolving the Human Mind: What Our Primate Cousins Reveal about Human Cognition."

Why do humans exhibit flexible, intelligent behavior? Comparative studies of primates, our closest relatives, can help us understand the evolutionary origins of complex human cognition. I will present research examining how other primates like chimpanzees think about the world to address three main questions: how do other animals solve ecological problems like finding food, how do they solve social problems like finding friends, and how do their abilities change and develop over their lifetime? By integrating cognitive science with evolutionary theory, we can understand humans in the context of the natural world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:26:43 -0500 2020-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
Echoes of the Exodus in Dr. King’s Work (January 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70882 70882-17732901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

A discussion of Dr. King’s work from the perspective of Judaic understanding of the Biblical Exodus and an examination of the pastoral and social implications of Dr. King’s use of Exodus imagery in his work. Following presentations and audience questions, the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies will host a light refreshments reception in the Kalamazoo Room of the Michigan League.

With Dr. Aaron Chapman, Professor in Homiletics at Ashland Seminary and Dr. Brian Roby, Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies/Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 08:41:44 -0500 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T23:59:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture of Dr. Martin Luther King with event details
Psychology Methods Hour: Analysis of Sex Differences in Pre-Clinical and Clinical Data (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69618 69618-17368333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

With the inclusion of sex as a biological variable in research, it has become increasingly important to consider how data are analyzed so that the presence or absence of sex differences can be assessed. Dr. Becker will discuss the analysis of sex differences data sets obtained from research with both animal and human subjects. The group will then discuss provocative questions in this area, including whether females are more variable than males, what constitutes a sex difference in any given trait, the point at which sex differences should be considered, potential times in which sex differences should not be considered, and the role of the estrous cycle/ menstrual cycle.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:49:47 -0500 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Becker
Writing Displacement-Exile-Incarceration (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68937 68937-17197038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:34:59 -0400 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Omid Tofighian, American University in Cairo
From Africa to Patagonia: Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71197 71197-17785627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Humanities Collaboratory

We offer an overview of our collaborative project entitled “From Africa to Patagonia: Voices of displacement” (http://umich.edu/~aacollab/). Since 2017, we have been funded through the Humanities Collaboratory, a cutting-edge research initiative established at the University of Michigan. Our interdisciplinary team includes eight faculty, eight graduate students, and 32 undergraduate students. Our mission is to analyze how language is entangled with cultural identity through the Patagonian Boers, a community that traces its roots to the South-African Boers who settled in Argentina after the Anglo-Boer War of 1902. We have disseminated our findings through six research articles, five public essays, and a digital archive. Our public essays, published in outlets such as Babel, The Conversation, Clarín (Argentina), Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed epitomize our goal of engagement beyond the academic sphere. In this talk, we will explain how our collaboration emerged, how we refined our collaborative process, and how we fostered undergraduate involvement in our research. Altogether, we demonstrate that altering the traditional educational structure while encouraging agency and creativity yields new forms of learning for all involved.

Please join us for this talk by Ana Silva Campo, with Nick Henriksen, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Ryan Szpiech, and Matthew Neubacher.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:21:15 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Humanities Collaboratory Lecture / Discussion From Africa to Patagonia: Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Boeing in Space (January 24, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71820 71820-17888061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Raenaurd Turpin
Chief Engineer and CTO,
Boeing Commercial Satellites

This new age of space exploration will require a robust, interconnected ecosystem of low-earth-orbit, cislunar, and deep-space platforms and operations. Even today, we can see how interconnected systems work in space….and the role that a strong space infrastructure – stretching from LEO to deep space – plays in successful missions. Along with aerospace engineering technologies, innovations from other industries are being applied to space: additive manufacturing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems…just to name a few. We are standing at another crossroads in human history as we venture deeper into space. At Boeing, we are building the future. Follow our journey – and maybe even join us – as we connect, protect, explore and inspire the world.

About the speaker...

Raenaurd Turpin is the Chief Engineer of Boeing Commercial Satellite Systems and Common Products (CSCP). He also leads advanced satellite architecture development and technology insertion as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Commercial Satellite Business Development. In 2018, Raenaurd was recognized as Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS) Engineer of the Year, in addition to BEYA Black Engineer of the Year. As Chief Architect and System Engineering Lead for the O3b mPOWER campaign, he led the team through a significant evolution of the design. Their efforts yielded increased efficiency (mass, power, operational complexity) and lower design complexity and risk, all while aligning to the customer’s affordability target. As a result, Boeing was awarded contracts to build seven satellites using this advanced digital payload design. Today, the O3b mPower constellation is in production

Turpin has also performed as a Major Supplier Program Manager for National Security Programs. In addition to this program management role, Raenaurd has also lead teams to develop the Next Generation of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) Satellites and implement Ground-Based Anti-Jam Enhancements for the existing WGS constellation.

Turpin has previously held roles in business capture as well as systems architecture & design, and began his career at Boeing as a phased array antenna analyst and digital signal processing (DSP) subsystem engineer, holding a patent for phased array calibration methodology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in 1997, played in the Rose Bowl as member of the PAC-10 Championship Football team, and completed credentials towards MS in Electrical Engineering in 1999.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:09:31 -0500 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 BBB Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Boeing Spacecraft
Van der Voo Lecture: Paleo/Geomagnetism and Geobiology: Case Studies from the Ediacaran and Jurassic (January 24, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63132 63132-15578782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Paleomagnetic research relies on two fundamental assumptions. The first is that rocks can faithfully document the structure of the Earth’s magnetic field in recent and deep time. The second assumption is that the field recorded in rocks closely approximates a Geocentric Axial Dipole (GAD) field. If we are correct, then the paleomagnetic record provides important information regarding the past geometry of continental distributions and possible connections to biological evolution. Furthermore, the magnetic field shields the planet (and living organisms) from incoming solar and inter-galactic radiation. In this talk, I will present two case studies that outline how paleomagnetic studies were used to evaluate important evolutionary changes. The first case study is from the Ediacaran where the Earth’s magnetic field appears to have undergone a lengthy interval of hyperactive reversals in the Ediacaran. Hyperactivity results in a decrease in the overall strength of the dipole field and a concomitant collapse of the ‘shield’ that protects the planet from incoming radiation. We suggest that prolonged interval with a weakened dipole caused the collapse of the Ediacaran habitat and set the stage for the Cambrian radiation. The second case study examines rapid changes in paleolatitude of the North China Block during the Late Jurassic. New paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks indicate that East Asia moved from intermediate to lower latitudes during the Late Jurassic. That movement coincided with the aridification of East Asia and the demise of the Yanliao biota. The Yanlioa biota contain the first feathered dinosaurs, eutherian mammals and a diverse entomofauna.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:15:07 -0400 2020-01-24T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020 (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72053 72053-17922808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

2019 was a year of global mass protest in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, France, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Haiti and many other countries. Millions of people filled the streets against social inequality.

This global wave of social struggle swept through the United States, where 50,000 autoworkers engaged in the largest auto strike in more than forty years.

The word “socialism” is gaining popularity, especially among young people and workers. Billions are opposed to unending war, unprecedented levels of social inequality, the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, environmental degradation and all the consequences of capitalism.

But does socialism mean working within the same capitalist political parties who are responsible for inequality and war, as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claim? No. Genuine socialism means mobilizing the strength of billions of workers, dismantling the militaries, seizing control of the corporations and reorganizing the world economy to meet social need, not private profit.

This meeting will review the state of world politics and outline a program and perspective for the working class to fight back.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:09:46 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020. 7 PM Monday, January 27. University of Michigan. Michigan League, Vandenberg Room.
Privacy@Michigan 2020 (January 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71094 71094-17777056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register to attend the Privacy@Michigan Symposium and Research Showcase Tuesday, January 28, 1 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre (4th floor) and celebrate the 2020 International Data Privacy Day. Attendance is free and open to the public but space is limited. Please RSVP.

For a schedule of events and to register visit: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan/2020

Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of The New York Times Privacy Project, will give the keynote address. Multi-disciplinary experts will participate in panel discussions on a range of privacy-related topics. A privacy fair including a privacy clinic, where students help with general privacy questions, and posters showcasing privacy research at the University of Michigan will be available throughout the afternoon.

This event organized by the University of Michigan School of Information, University of Michigan Information Assurance, and the Dissonance Event Series.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:49:19 -0500 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium Privacy@Michigan Symposium - Keynote Speaker: Kathleen Kingsbury
Wallace House Presents “The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy of Slavery and the Building of a Nation” (January 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70101 70101-17530518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Journalism is often called the first draft of history. But journalism can also be used as a powerful tool for examining history.

Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia, establishing the system of slavery on which the United States was built.

With The 1619 Project, The New York Times is prompting conversation and debate about the legacy of slavery and its influence over American society and culture. From mass incarceration to traffic jams, the project seeks to reframe our understanding of American history and the fight to live up to our nation’s central promise.

Wallace House Presents the project’s creator, New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, in conversation with Rochelle Riley, longtime journalist and columnist.

About the Speaker:
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine focusing on racial injustice. She has written on federal failures to enforce the Fair Housing Act, the resegregation of American schools and policing in America. Her extensive reporting in both print and radio on the ways segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy has earned the National Magazine Award, a Peabody and a Polk Award. Her work designing “The 1619 Project” has been met with universal acclaim. The project was released in August 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of American slavery and re-examines the role it plays in the history of the United States.

Hannah-Jones earned her bachelor’s in history and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About the Moderator:
Rochelle Riley was a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Fellow and is the Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. For nineteen years she was a columnist at the Detroit Free Press. Riley is author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery” and the upcoming “That They Lived: Twenty African Americans Who Changed The World.” She has won numerous national, state and local honors, including the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve and the 2018 Detroit SPJ Lifetime Achievement Award alongside her longtime friend, Walter Middlebrook. She was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

This is a 2020 Annual U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:04:06 -0500 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Nikole Hannah-Jones
DCMB Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71998 71998-17911963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Experimental and computational strategies to aid compound identification and quantitation in metabolomics

Abstract: Over the past two decades, metabolomics as a technique has moved from the primary domain of analytical chemists to more widespread acceptance by biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians alike. Metabolomics offers systems-level insights into the critical roles small molecules play in routine cellular processes and myriad disease states. However, certain unique analytical challenges remain prominent in metabolomics as compared to the other ‘omics sciences. These include the difficulty of identifying unknown features in untargeted metabolomics data, and challenges maintaining reliable quantitation within lengthy studies that may span multiple laboratories. Unlike genomics and transcriptomics data in which nearly every quantifiable feature is confidently identified as a matter of course, in typical untargeted metabolomics studies over 80% of features are frequently not mapped to a specific chemical compound. Further, although many metabolomics studies have begun to stretch over a timeframe of years, data quantitation and normalization strategies have not always kept up with the requirements for such large studies. Fortunately, both experimental and computational strategies are emerging to tackle these long-standing challenges. We will report on several techniques in development in our laboratory, ranging from chromatographic fractionation and high-sensitivity data acquisition, to computational strategies to aid in tandem mass spectrometric spectral interpretation. These developments serve to facilitate analysis for both experts and novice users, which should ultimately help improve the biological insight and impact gained from metabolomics data.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:07:13 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
The 2020 Democratic Nomination: Who Gets to Choose, the Parties or the Voters? (January 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64665 64665-16410963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Democrats have begun winnowing their original field of 20+ candidates down to the one who will eventually be their nominee for the 2020 presidential election.

Jeffrey Bernstein will evaluate the candidates and assess their standings as we enter the 2020 election cycle. He’ll review the evolution of the nomination process and examine the transfer of power from the parties to the voters over the last half century. As he discusses our evolving system, he’ll focus on one big question: has the shift to a voter-centric process been a good thing for American politics? This lecture will coincide with the general time-frame of the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses.

Jeffrey Bernstein is an award-winning Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University. His areas of interest are U.S. political parties, campaigns, and elections, voting behavior and public opinion, as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Please note the new start time for this event.

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:22:30 -0500 2020-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T19:30:00-05:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Evening with OLLI
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70163 70163-17540919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Professor Lisa Heinzerling from Georgetown Law will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Meditation on Juliana v. United States."

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her specialties include administrative law, environmental law, food law, and torts. She has published several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:30:24 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
FAST Lecture | Assessing Mechanisms of Mobility and Exchange in the Prehistoric Cyclades (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71613 71613-17844816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Recent research in the Bronze Age Cycladic archipelago has documented the widespread evidence for the distribution of imported products — especially ceramics — throughout the region. In addition, consensus has grown that human mobility was a key feature in driving technical and stylistic changes in Cycladic assemblages. Indeed, the operation of different sorts of mobility seems to be a key feature underlying major patterns of material culture change in the islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. In this era, Cycladic islanders adopted and adapted material culture and practice from the palatial Minoan society of Crete. This presentation discusses human and object mobility in the context of changing patterns of consumption and production in the islands in order to provide new perspectives on the so-called Minoanization phenomenon.

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 Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:35:12 -0500 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion detail of the Miniature Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri, Crete
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72117 72117-17939981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in US history, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 American citizens and residents on the basis of being ethnically Japanese. Fred T. Korematsu was one of many who refused to be incarcerated, and was arrested. A national civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu appealed his case to the Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1944, in 1983 his conviction was overturned in a coram nobis proceeding where Fred Korematsu addressed the court, saying, “I would like to see the government admit they were wrong, and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

In 2014 and again in 2019, the US government attempted to reopen the Fort Sill camp to incarcerate migrant children from Latin America; Fort Sill was previously used as a concentration camp where Native Americans and Japanese Americans were detained. In June 2017, ICE agents raided and arrested Iraqi families in the Detroit area, leading to the ACLU’s lawsuit, Hamama v. Adducci. Raids on Iraqi families have continued into 2019.

On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong.

This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg. Free and open to the public. Food from Curry On will be provided with RSVP: bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:49:48 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Day Poster
Smith Lecture: Theoretical and Computational Contributions to the Modeling of Global Tsunamis (January 31, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63133 63133-15578784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The distribution of tsunami amplitudes in the open ocean is controlled by source mechanism as well as bathymetry geometry and resolution, with the latter controlling far-field tsunami features. However, large detailed bathymetry grids result in long computer simulation times for tsunamis. It is therefore of interest to investigate the amount of physical detail in bathymetric grids that control the most important features in tsunami amplitudes, to assess what constitutes sufficient level for grids in numerical simulations. By decomposing the Pacific bathymetry using a spherical harmonics approach one can create “smoothed” versions of the original field. Using these simplified bathymetries to simulate tsunamis from potential ruptures around the Pacific, we can see that for large megathrust events (M0=1029 dyn-cm), only a resolution of ~1000 km (equivalent to l=40), or ~1% surface smoothness of the Pacific is needed in order to reproduce the main components of the true distribution of tsunami amplitudes. This would result in simpler simulations, and faster computations in the context of tsunami warning algorithms.

In a separate context, an overview of tsunami studies and a report on a study of a meteotsunami are presented. These scenarios are evidence for the fact that tsunami studies are interdisciplinary fields of research that require coordinated efforts by investigators from various backgrounds.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:57:05 -0500 2020-01-31T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquium: Medical Imaging Advances: Do All Bell-and-Whistle Options Impact Patient Care? (January 31, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70139 70139-17540914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Learn about the development of Computed Tomography from its inception in the early 1970s to the present; the medical applications of CT (e.g., diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, and interventional CBCT); and the current state of how CT improvements are driven. The theme of the discussion will be to highlight the key technological advances that increased the value of CT in medicine. Examples of advancements with unquestionable benefit to patient care and other “advancements” with motivation rooted in unwarranted fear over radiation dose will be covered. This discussion will be presented in a manner suitable for the non-medical imaging expert to convey the larger themes related to technology advancement in the space of medical imaging.


Speaker: Timothy Szczykutowicz, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medical Physics

Dr. Szczykutowicz is an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Departments of Radiology, Medical Physics, and Biomedical Engineering. He received his Bachelors of Science in Physics from the SUNY University at Buffalo in 2008. He was active in medical physics at Buffalo in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Rudin with the Toshiba Stroke Research Center, working on vessel sizing and detector performance characterization. After his undergraduate studies, Dr. Szczykutowicz came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he earned his Masters and PhD in Medical Physics, receiving mentorship from Doctors Charles 'Chuck' Mistretta and Guang-Hong Chen. His dissertation was on fluence field modulated CT, a promising x-ray imaging technique that allows for imaging dose to be tailored to individuals. After his dissertation work, Dr. Szczykutowicz spent a year as a doctrinal fellow and imaging physics resident with the Department of Medical Physics at the UW before being appointed as a clinical health sciences Assistant Professor. The clinical and research activities of Dr. Szczykutowicz include: optimizing CT scan protocols, monitoring patient dose, developing new metrics to define image quality in the clinical setting, developing protocol management methodologies, fluence field modulated CT, dual energy CT, and assisting in various projects related to cone beam CT.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:45:32 -0500 2020-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Speaker: Timothy Szczykutowicz
Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70522 70522-17602806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

18th Annual Dimitris and Irmgard Pallas Modern Greek Lecture

Summary:
Since 2016, I have been carrying out an archaeological ethnography project on contemporary migration, focusing on the border island of Lesvos. In this talk, I will report on some of the findings of this project, showing how a sustained and detailed attention to the materiality and temporality of the phenomenon, to the sensorial, affective, and temporal properties of things, can offer insights that elude other kinds of research. Objects, spaces, buildings and landscapes are essential components in the formation of border assemblages, together with border crossers, volunteers, as well as border guards and security apparatuses. I will explore how the attention to such assemblages can not only help us understand what some scholars have described as the new Global Apartheid, but more positively, allow us to imagine a decolonial present and future.

Biography:
Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He worked previously at the Universities of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the University of Southampton (2000-2016), and he has held research fellowships at Princeton University, Getty Research Institute, Cincinnati University, The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the Remarque Institute at NYU. His research interests include Aegean prehistory, the socio-politics of the past, the bodily senses, archaeology and photography, contemporary archaeology, and the materiality of contemporary migration. His books include, The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (OUP, 2007, Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2009), and Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (CUP, 2013). His most recent book is the edited volume, The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. (Equinox, 2018). He co-directs the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project, and in 2020 he will be curating an exhibition at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, entitled, Transient Matter: Border Assemblages in the Mediterranean.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:17:10 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion Pallas 2020
POSTPONED: Media, big tech, and democracy: What happened? (February 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71118 71118-17777084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
Visit fordschool.umich.edu in the fall for details.




Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
This event will be livestreamed. Check the event webpage for viewing details.

From the speaker's bio:

From 2001-11, Michael Copps served as a member of the Federal Communications Commission, where his tenure was marked by a consistent embrace of the public interest. As a strong voice in opposition to consolidation in the media, he dissented in the FCC vote on the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. He has been a consistent proponent of localism in programming and diversity in media ownership. Though retired from the Commission, he has maintained a commitment to an inclusive, informative media landscape. In addition to his work at Common Causes, Michael sits on the boards of Free Press and Public Knowledge.

Before joining the FCC, Michael served as assistant secretary of commerce for trade development at the Department of Commerce and chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) from the early 1970s to 1983. He has a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:52:25 -0500 2020-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Michael Copps
Featured Speaker: Dr. Brett Kruzsch (February 5, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71939 71939-17903276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Dr. Brett Krutzsch presents "Queer Martyrdom: The Religious and Sexual Politics of LGBTQ Inclusion." Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

This talk will compare the LGBTQ murder that generated the most media attention in the country’s history—the killing of white, gay, college student Matthew Shepard in 1998—with a similar LGBTQ murder that received considerably less attention—the killing of Native American, two-spirit, high school student F.C. Martinez in 2001. We will explore how activists used both deaths for political purposes and why Shepard became a more popular political emblem. We will also consider how religion shaped the activism surrounding their deaths and how LGBTQ activists used religion to promote greater acceptance of queer Americans.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

About the speaker:
Dr. Brett Krutzsch is a scholar in the Center for Religion and Media at NYU. He is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States. He is the author of the 2019 book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in several scholarly journals as well as The Washington Post, Newsday, The Advocate, and he has been featured on NPR.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:36:01 -0500 2020-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Brett Krutzsch, a white man with brown hair, next to a shortened version of his bio.
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara: Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, A Performance Piece and Lecture (February 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71938 71938-17903273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer and songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles.

“It is as if Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superhero, rose with the first East Los Angeles Aztlȧn sun that gave creative light to the barrio.” – Louie Pérez, musician, songwriter with Los Lobos

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:03:57 -0500 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara 2.6.20
CSEAS Lecture Series. Decomposing a National Language: Pluralism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Language (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71496 71496-17834208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

By the 1930s, the Vietnamese vernacular language had unquestionably come to be viewed as the national language of Vietnam, and the primary medium of anticolonial intellectuality. Nationalist thought, which fueled the anticolonial movement, quickly settled on a narrative—patterned after French nationalism—enshrining the Vietnamese language as a kind of ancient vessel of Vietnamese identity, a thread that bound contemporary Vietnamese all the back to an imagined pre-Sinitic past. However, a closer look at both the social and linguistic history of Vietnam reveals an intensely alloyed and mosaic formation of the Vietnamese language—one intimately bound up with a form of Chinese that was also native to the region. In this talk we will explore the linguistic origins of the Vietnamese language, and discuss how these origins challenge and complicate modern nationalist conceptualizations of language and culture in Vietnam.

John Phan completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in East Asian Literature and Linguistics. After graduating at the end of 2012, he spent two years as a JSPS post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Linguistics at the National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Upon returning to the States, Dr. Phan taught for three years at Rutgers University, before accepting a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University. He is currently completing his first book focusing on the history of Sino-Vietic linguistic contact, and is cocurrently working on the emergence of vernacular literary practice in medieval Vietnam. In addition to the nature of linguistic contact and broad issues in linguistic change and historical phonology, he is keenly interested in the cultural and intellectual ramifications of multiple languages coexisting in single East Asian societies, of linguistic pluralism in general, and of the transformation of oral languages into written literary mediums in historically diglossic cultures of East and Southeast Asia. His current work focuses largely on the rise of the vernacular Vietnamese script known as Chữ Nôm, and its development alongside a sustained and flourishing tradition of Literary Chinese composition.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:43:57 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Smith Lecture: Tectonics, Climate, and Topography: A View from the Greater Caucasus (February 7, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63135 63135-15578785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The potential for interactions and feedbacks between climatically mediated surface processes and active tectonics has been a motivating question within large swaths of the Earth Sciences for years. Conflicting results have been presented at both local and global scales arguing for either clear coupling between climate and tectonics or a complete dominance of tectonics. Ultimately, careful analysis of the details of the nebulously defined ‘climate’, structural geometries, and topography (as this serves as the interface between tectonic and surface processes) are required to resolve these issues. Here I present a case study of an active collisional orogen, the Greater Caucasus, where gradients in both climate and tectonics do not appear to be reflected in the topography, suggesting that this area may have a lot to teach us about the more general question. In detail, the Greater Caucasus mountains are a young (~5 Ma), active orogenic system that is the current locus of NE-SW convergence within the central Arabia-Eurasia collision zone. Importantly, the orogen is characterized by a variety of NW-SE, along-strike gradients including an order of magnitude eastward decrease in mean annual precipitation from ~2 to ~0.5 m/yr and an order of magnitude eastward increase in geodetic shortening velocity from ~2 to ~12 mm/yr. Despite these gradients, the topography of the range is surprisingly similar along-strike which suggests: (1) broadly similar rates of rock uplift, and (2) very limited influence of precipitation on the topography of the range. However, this hypothesis is predicated on the existence of a single relationship between topography and uplift/erosion rate. Here we test this assumption with a new suite of erosion rates estimated from catchment averaged 10Be inventories along the southern range front of the GC. Erosion rates range from 30-5600 m/Myr with the majority of rates being below 2000 m/Myr. Our results are consistent with a single relationship between erosion rate and topography as quantified by normalized channel steepness (ksn). These data also indicate a strongly non-linear relationship between ksn and erosion rate such that topography seem insensitive to increases in erosion rate beyond ~500 m/Myr. There is limited evidence of any influence of mean precipitation on either the topography or the erosion rates of the GC. We hypothesize that this lack of sensitivity to mean precipitation and the related non-linearity in the ksn - erosion rate relationship may be linked to the extremely low variability in runoff observed in gauged basins throughout the region, a hypothesis consistent with theoretical expectations of a stochastic threshold incision model. Spatial patterns in 10Be erosion rates largely mirror those observed in a suite of available bedrock low-temperature thermochronologic cooling ages and new detrital zircon (U-Th)/He ages, i.e. areas with high erosion rates generally have young cooling ages and total amounts of exhumation seem largely constant along-strike within the range, suggesting that this pattern is long-lived. More broadly, the results from the Caucasus reflect that local nuances in both the climate and tectonics are essential for understanding the potential for (or lack of) coupling between surface processes and tectonics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:00:55 -0500 2020-02-07T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice (February 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71882 71882-17896714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 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 focus on jobs in new media industries as well as the use of digital platforms for reaching different political constituencies. The participants are Phil Ranta, Head of Gaming Creators, North America at Facebook, and Tara McPherson, Professor and Chair of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and author of two award-winning books, FEMINIST IN A SOFTWARE LAB (Harvard University Press 2018) and RECONSTRUCTING DIXIE (Duke 2003).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:59:42 -0500 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Poster with event details
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
Department Colloquium (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72447 72447-18007181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Edward Stabler, Professor of Linguistics, UC Los Angeles, will give a talk titled "Head movement after syntax."

ABSTRACT
Much work in Chomskian syntax defends the view that syntactic structures are unordered, with the computation of prosodic form imposing the linear, temporal order of language productions. Treating head movement as part of this post-syntactic process allows us to explain why some basic properties of head movement differ so significantly from phrasal movement. This talk reviews some versions of this idea and formulates an explicit computational model, extending the framework of Yu and Stabler's (2017) treatment of Samoan syntax/prosody. This perspective preserves a rigorous connection to parsing models, but leaves many puzzles, some of which are briefly surveyed here.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:45:09 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71155 71155-17783465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the decades before the Revolution, British soldiers were a common sight in America. They lived in private houses in Trenton, marched up Broadway in New York, and came to blows with colonists in Boston. What was it like to live in this world?

Drawing on his new book "Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution" (which he largely researched at the Clements Library), John McCurdy explains how the colonists made room for redcoats by reimagining places like home, city, and empire. They insisted on a right to privacy in their houses and civilian control of troops stationed in their cities, both of which they achieved through the Quartering Act. McCurdy also explores how protests by the Sons of Liberty and events like the Boston Massacre caused the civilian-martial comity to unravel such that Americans ultimately declared the “quartering of large bodies of armed troops among us” to be a reason for independence.

This lecture is presented in collaboration with the U-M Eisenberg Institute, which supported McCurdy's work on this book through a Residency Research Grant. John G. McCurdy is Professor of History and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:47:28 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Boston Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere, 1770
BME Ph.D Defense: Xiaotian Tan (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72235 72235-17963874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Biosensors are devices or systems that can be used to detect, quantify, and analyze targets with biological activities and functions. As one of the largest subsets of biosensors, biomolecular sensors are specifically developed and programmed to detect, quantify and analyze biomolecules in liquid samples.

Wide-ranging applications have made immunoassays increasingly popular for biomolecular detection and quantification. Among these, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are of particular interest due to high specificity and reproducibility. To some extent, ELISA has been regarded as a “gold standard” for quantifying analytes (especially protein analytes) in both clinical diagnostics and fundamental biological research. However, traditional (96-well plate-based) ELISA still suffers from several notable drawbacks, such as long assay time (4–6 hours), lengthy procedures, and large sample/reagent consumption (∼100 μL). These inherent disadvantages still significantly limit traditional ELISA's applicability to areas such as rapid clinical diagnosis of acute diseases (e.g., viral pneumonia, acute organ rejection), and biological research that requires accurate measurements with precious or low abundance samples (e.g., tail vein serum from a mouse). Thus, a bimolecular sensing technology that has high sensitivity, short assay time, and small sample/reagent consumption is still strongly desired.

In this dissertation, we introduce the development of a multifunctional and automated optofluidic biosensing platform that can resolve the aforementioned problems. In contrast to conventional plate-based ELISA, our optofluidic ELISA platform utilizes mass-producible polystyrene microfluidic channels with a high surface-to-volume ratio as the immunoassay reactors, which greatly shortens the total assay time. We also developed a low-noise signal amplification protocol and an optical signal quantification system that was optimized for the optofluidic ELISA platform.

Our optofluidic ELISA platform provides several attractive features such as small sample/reagent consumption (<8 µL), short total assay time (30-45 min), high sensitivity (~1 pg/mL for most markers), and a broad dynamic range (3-4 orders of magnitude). Using these features, we successfully quantified mouse FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) concentration with a single drop of tail vein serum. We also successfully monitored bladder cancer progression in orthotopic xenografted mice with only <50 µL of mouse urine. More excitingly, we achieved highly-sensitive exosome quantification and multiplexed immuno-profiling with <40 ng/mL of total input protein (per assay). These remarkable milestones could not be achieved with conventional plate-based ELISA but were enabled by our unique optofluidic ELISA.

As an emerging member of the bimolecular sensor family, our optofluidic ELISA platform provides a high-performance and cost-effective tool for a plethora of applications, including endocrinal, cancer animal model, cellular biology, and even forensic science research. In the future, this technology platform can also be renovated for clinical applications such as personalized cancer diagnosis/prognosis and rapid point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:28:04 -0500 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Xiaotian Tan
2020 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | Tracking the Motion Inside Molecules with X-Ray Lasers (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70890 70890-17732907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The last decade marked the development of a new kind of powerful research laser that can deliver a trillion 1-Angstrom x-rays in a femtosecond or even less. This x-ray free-electron laser is revolutionizing the way scientists observe dynamics on the quantum scale in the laboratory. We are beginning to learn how to track the relative motion of atoms inside molecules. Professor Bucksbaum will discuss the current efforts and future opportunities to employ these sources for molecular movies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:51:38 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar electrons streaming
Arabic Lecture Series - Jewish Representations in Contemporary Arabic Literature (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72738 72738-18070543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Although the overwhelming majority of Egyptian Jewry left the country in waves from 1948 to 1967, their presence continues to be noticeable in Egyptian culture. During the second half of the twentieth century, unfavorable portrayals of Jews appeared in a period of time marked by turmoil and conflict between Egypt and the nascent state of Israel. Representations of Jews in contemporary Egyptian literary works, however, mark a shift from portrayals influenced by the Arab-Israeli conflict which internalized negative Jewish stereotypes. Twenty-first century novelistic productions, however, invoked Jewish portrayals to shape Egypt as a multiethnic and multicultural society of which Jews were an integral part.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:37:31 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Lecture Series Poster
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCMB) Weekly Seminar (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72535 72535-18015945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Normal mechanical function of the heart requires that ATP be continuously synthesized at a hydrolysis potential of roughly -60 kJ mol-1. Yet in both the aging and diseased heart the relationships between cardiac work rate and concentrations of ATP, ADP, and inorganic phosphate are altered. Important outstanding questions are: To what extent do changes in metabolite concentrations that occur in aging and heart disease affect metabolic/molecular processes in the myocardium? How are systolic and diastolic functions affected by changes in metabolite concentrations? Does metabolic energy supply represent a limiting factor in determining physiological maximal cardiac power output and exercise capacity? Does the derangement of cardiac energetics that occurs with heart failure cause exercise intolerance?

To answer these questions, we have developed a multi-physics multi-scale model of cardiac energy metabolism and cardiac mechanics that simulates the dependence of myocardial ATP demand on muscle dynamics and the dependence of muscle dynamics on cardiac energetics. Model simulations predict that the maximal rate at which ATP can be synthesized at free energies necessary to drive physiological mechanical function determine maximal heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac power output in exercise. Furthermore, we find that reductions in cytoplasmic adenine nucleotide, creatine, and phosphate pools that occur with aging impair the myocardial capacity to synthesize ATP at physiological free energy levels, and that the resulting changes to myocardial energetic status play a causal role in contributing to reductions in maximal cardiac power output with aging. Finally, model predictions reveal that reductions in cytoplasmic metabolite pools contribute to energetic dysfunction in heart failure, which in turn contributes to causing systolic dysfunction in heart failure.

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

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments served in Forum Hall Atrium
4:00 p.m. - Lecture in Forum Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:41:29 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Respite: 12 Anthropocene Fragments (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70058 70058-17505681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This talk draws on work in the environmental humanities to rewrite the Anthropocene as autotheory. Written in a poetic-philosophical mode, “Respite” brings together 12 fragments as autotheoretical forms—autocollage, autothermograph, nested equation, and 9 others—for a self confronted with the unthinkable extinction of all life on earth. Grounded in human and natural archives, “Respite” is framed by Sylvia Wynter’s and Michel Foucault’s theoretical critiques of anthropos (Man). In casting self-writing as an experiment, “Respite” offers a new ethical model for being present to life in its ending.

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of *Foucault’s Strange Eros* (forthcoming 2020); *Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex* (2013); *Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory* (2010); *Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference* (1998); and *Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing* (1992). She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and opinion pieces in mass media venues. With Chicago artist Jennifer Yorke she also created Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/h/Lynne-Huffer-Jennifer-Yorke.html.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:03 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Lynne Huffer
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17851291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension of critical undoing and living and making otherwise. In particular, it draws from her in-progress book At the Sea’s Edge that considers the oceanic not only as an archive of coloniality, and a receptacle and spectacle of planetary ruins, but as a dynamic life force and historical shaper in relation to the forces of racial and extractive capitalism. Thinking with submerged perspectives primarily in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic, Gómez-Barris expands upon Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidealectics as key to understanding how to move within and beyond the colonial anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:21:50 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for lecture
CANCELED: Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez: Liminal Practice(s) (February 13, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58872 58872-14569980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez presentation scheduled for Thursday, February 13, 2020 has been canceled due to flight delays.

A visual artist who trained as an architect, Amanda Williams’ practice blurs disciplinary distinctions. She employs color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place, and value in cities and raises questions about the state of urban space in America. She has exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. In collaboration with Andres L. Hernandez, an artist-designer-educator based in Chicago, and artist Shani Crowe, Williams installed Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line) at the U.S. Pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Andres L. Hernandez re-imagines the environments we inhabit, and explores the potential of spaces for public dialogue and social action. Hernandez is co-founder of the Revival Arts Collective, and founder and director of the Urban Vacancy Research Initiative. With Williams, he is a member of the design team for the Museum of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Co-presented with the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:16:04 -0500 2020-02-13T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Williams-Hernandez.jpg
The Politics of Carbon (February 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70740 70740-17627839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Carbon pricing in the form of carbon taxes or cap-and-trade has been broadly embraced by economists for decades as the best policy option for mitigating the threat of climate change. But carbon pricing has struggled politically in the United States and abroad. It remains among the least likely climate policies to be adopted and among the most likely to be reversed if approved.

This lecture by Professor Barry Rabe will examine political challenges across each stage of the policy life-cycle, considering not only the impediments to carbon pricing, but also key design elements of the more successful and durable policies to date.

Professor Barry Rabe, J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, is a political scientist trained at the University of Chicago. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also the author of five books, including “Can We Price Carbon?” (MIT Press, 2018) and is the recipient of four research awards from the American Political Science Association.

This is lecture #2 in five-part series "Facing the Future: The Challenge of Climate Change" which explores how climate change is impacting every corner of our earth, and every aspect of our lives.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:35:46 -0500 2020-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Friday Lectures
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 14, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17948636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension of critical undoing and living and making otherwise. In particular, it draws from her in-progress book At the Sea’s Edge that considers the oceanic not only as an archive of coloniality, and a receptacle and spectacle of planetary ruins, but as a dynamic life force and historical shaper in relation to the forces of racial and extractive capitalism. Thinking with submerged perspectives primarily in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic, Gómez-Barris expands upon Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidealectics as key to understanding how to move within and beyond the colonial anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:21:50 -0500 2020-02-14T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for lecture
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Senator Chang (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72334 72334-17974685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

For this TDLS event, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan, Senator Chang. Senator Stephanie Chang was the first Asian American woman to be elected to the Michigan Legislature and worked as a community organizer in Detroit for nearly a decade before serving two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives. The event will be moderated by, Niala Boodhoo, is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was the Founding Host/Executive Producer for the awarding-winning statewide public radio show “The 21st”.

The event will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the Trotter Multicultural Center on Friday, Feb 14th.

Registration link: https://myumi.ch/qg0Q0

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:22:06 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72536 72536-18015946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:53:58 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Smith Lecture: Weathering and Soil Development in the Earliest Land Plant Biospheres (February 14, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63136 63136-15578786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Colonization of the land by primitive plants during the Early Palaeozoic had a profound effect on biologically mediated soil development, the stabilisation of land surfaces, the architecture of fluvial sedimentary systems, and global biogeochemical cycles (carbon, phosphorous, oxygen). Modern analogues of terrestrial habitats from ~450 million years ago include cryptogamic ground covers (CGCs), which contain a mix of primitive biotas such as the non-vascular bryophyte plants (mosses, liverworts, hornworts), lichens, fungi, algae, and bacteria. Some modern liverworts and hornworts form symbiotic associations with mycorrhizal fungi and cyanobacteria, a mutualistic relationship regarded as a primitive method of nutrient acquirement from mineral substrates which was likely occurring deep in the geologic past to create some of the earliest ‘bio-soils’. In this talk I will present interdisciplinary efforts to better understand the chemical, physical and mechanical processes of plant-symbiont-soil interactions and nutrient acquirement in modern analogues of early terrestrial biospheres. In particular, I will focus on cutting edge multi-dimensional (2D – 3D) and multi-scale (cm – nm) correlative imaging methods with a view to applying this to methods of weathering, nutrient extraction and biological interactions in the geologic past.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:33:34 -0400 2020-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Saturday Morning Physics | Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science (February 15, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71160 71160-17783477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Arbic will describe how ocean circulation models work and how they predict physical motions in the ocean, including currents, eddies, and tides. He will discuss the many applications of ocean models, including short-term ocean forecasting, national security applications, longer-term global change predictions, and preparing for satellite ocean monitoring missions. The talk will focus on the work done in our group here at University of Michigan, with a focus on oceanic eddies and tides.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:29:14 -0500 2020-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Pleiades Supercomputer which some of the models Professor Arbic uses runs on. (NASA)
MCIRCC Re-Imagining Critical Care Seminar Series (February 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71948 71948-17903306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC)

“Innovation Fundamentals & Opportunities in Critical Care Biomarker Discovery”

Frederick Korley MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Korley's research activities involve translation of novel diagnostics to inform clinically rational, timely, and cost-effective diagnosis of cardiac and brain injury in the emergency department. The goal of his traumatic brain injury work is to improve the acute care diagnosis, risk-stratification and treatment of TBI by identifying distinct molecular subtypes of TBI that will allow for targeted treatment and improved outcomes.

DETAILS & REGISTRATION:
http://bit.ly/FrederickKorley

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:02:33 -0500 2020-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC) Workshop / Seminar MCIRCC Re-Imagining Critical Care Seminar Series with Dr. Frederick K. Korley Flyer
Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70391 70391-17594438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Monday, February 17, 5:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina, and the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches into fields such as law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication.

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

Presented in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), presenting Witness Lab, a project by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15 through May 17, 2020. Lead support for Witness Lab is provided by the University of Michigan Law School and the Office of the Provost.

Image credit: Double Jeopardy, GIF, 2019

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:15:46 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/McClellan.jpg
Genetics Training Program / CMB Short Course (630) (February 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72320 72320-17974673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

Welcome to the Exciting World of Tandem and Interspersed DNA Repeat Elements
Presented By Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology University of Michigan Medical School
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
3:00 p.m.
West Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:25:19 -0500 2020-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion Nandakumar GTP / CMB Short Course Flyer
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70344 70344-17586171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
How to Create Positive Team and Organizational Hierarchies
Lindy Greer

Tuesday, February 18, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

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:
Hierarchy is the most ubiquitous way in which human beings organize social interactions. However, hierarchy comes with substantial downsides in terms of inequities and conflicts. As a result, organizations have explored flatter modes of organizing, such as holacracy, which unfortunately have yet to yield much success. In this presentation, Greer will explore the possibility that hierarchy may still be the most effective form of organization but needs to be used wisely. She will discuss data-driven strategies which can allow hierarchy to be a useful and positive organizational tool, including helping leaders learn how to ‘flex’ the hierarchy for bursts of flatness, to humanize the hierarchy through sharing emotions at work, and to reduce competitions around hierarchy by creating areas of individual ownership and autonomy.

About Greer:
Lindy Greer is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Michigan Ross and the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to lead effective organizational teams with specific interests in leadership skills in conflict management, diversity and inclusion, vision crafting, and the communication of emotions.

Lindy has published in top management and psychology research outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Her work has also been covered in well-known media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, and Fast Company. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management and American Psychological Association, and she was recently named one of the Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors by Poets and Quants.

Lindy is currently an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, on the boards of seven of the top management and psychology journals, and has served on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Lindy received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in social and organizational psychology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She joined the team at Ross in 2019.

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.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:07:29 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Lindy Greer
Eye on Detroit presents (February 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72385 72385-17998201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

In the ten years since the Citizens United ruling, more "dark money" has leaked into political campaigns. As the corporate dollar has started impacting elections, and super PACs are changing the field - how will things continue to evolve? Are we looking at the end of truly fair elections? Join us as we discuss this and more at the upcoming Eye on Detroit discussion: Voting by the Dollar.

Moderator: Dr. Jenna Bednar
Panelists: Sheila Cockrel, Eric Foster, Tony Manning, Sam Riddle, Eric Welsby

Program:

6:00 - 6:30 pm
Check-in and hors d'oeuvres

6:30 - 8:00 pm
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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:06:33 -0500 2020-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Eye on Detroit presents Voting by the Dollar
Professional Autobiography (February 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72925 72925-18094771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: HSSP

Have you ever wondered how health care professionals end up in their careers? Professional Autobiographies are excellent opportunities for students to hear directly from health care professionals in an informal setting. During these talks, students will learn about speakers' motivations for their career choices, how their interests and experiences influenced their career trajectories, and how they’ve worked to align their passion(s) with their work. These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to connect with professionals who may be able to provide valuable advice during your Michigan career.

All HSSP-sponsored Professional Autobiographies are open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:41:54 -0500 2020-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion Leon Golson
Settler Colonial Choreography and the Divided Body: Performing Masculinities Through the Switch Dance at a Native American Prison Powwow (February 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71853 71853-17894529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies Program welcomes Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa, a rising scholar whose innovative work combines Native American Studies and Dance Studies. Wakpa is a scholar and practitioner of Indigenous contemporary dance, North American Hand Talk (Indigenous sign language), martial arts, and yoga. Her research combines community-based, Indigenous and feminist methodologies with critical race theories to examine the politics and practices of dance and embodiment historically and contemporarily in educational and carceral institutions for Indigenous peoples. Her work has been published in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Dance Research Journal. Dr. Wakpa is also the co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal Race & Yoga and a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. We invite you to partner with us in supporting this rising scholar and connecting students and the university publics to learn about her current work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:56:43 -0500 2020-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tria Blu Wakpa Poster
Science Café: Something Fishy in Lake Michigan (February 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70934 70934-17757984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Great Lakes fisheries are managed intensively to reduce nutrients from fertilizer runoff and to increase game fish populations such as trout and salmon. When you add invasive species such as non-native mussels and the possibility of carp, we have a very fragile system. Join us to discuss the past, present, and possible futures of Lake Michigan fisheries with Bo Bunnell of the U.S.G.S. Great Lakes Science Center and U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Yu-Chun Kao of MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and Ed Rutherford of the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab.

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 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:50:30 -0500 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Fish in Lake Michigan
U.S. 2020 Census: Count Every Person. Once. In the Right Place (February 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70585 70585-17609084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The 2020 Census is closer than you think. The U.S. population census is one of the most significant processes sustaining our American democracy. Learn what it is all about, find out about the history of the census, how it’s run, the many important ways census data is used in Michigan, and the rigorous process to protect the privacy of your information.

Speaker Margaret Leary, from the League of Women Voters, will unfold the Census and explain why it’s essential that everyone is counted. There will be pertinent handouts and perhaps some interesting stories about attempts to influence some prior census results.

Please note the new start time for this event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:27:27 -0500 2020-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Evening with OLLI
Under the Gun: Why is gun violence a public health issue? (February 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72742 72742-18070546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

Why is gun violence a public health issue?

Learn about gun violence through public health and medical lenses. Hear from prominent researchers and physicians Dr. Rama Salhi and Dr. Patrick Carter about this fascinating topic while enjoying delicious food and inspiring conversation! Get a chance to network with other graduate and professional students from diverse fields in this intro session to a semester-long series on gun violence.

Food will be provided, so please RSVP!
-https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/22810

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:44:35 -0500 2020-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences Munger Graduate Residences Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer with date, time and location
BME 500: Ruixuan Gao (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70421 70421-17594473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Investigation of the molecular basis of a complex biological system, such as the brain, can lead to fundamental understanding of its composition and function, and to a new strategy to repair it. Such investigation, however, requires a tool that can capture biological structures and their molecular constituents across multiple orders of magnitude—from nanometers to centimeters—in length. Electron microscopy offers nanoscopic resolution but lacks molecular information to differentiate endogenous biomolecules as well as imaging speed to cover millimeter-scale specimens. Light microscopy provides molecular contrast but is limited by optical diffraction and the tradeoff between imaging speed and photobleaching.

In this talk, I will first introduce an optical imaging pipeline named expansion lattice light-sheet microscopy (ExLLSM) and its application to multiplexed, volumetric imaging of molecular constituents in cells and intact tissues. Using ExLLSM, our study has revealed molecular-specific structures of organelles, synapses, myelin sheaths, and neurites in rodent and insect brains at ∼60 by 60 by 90 nm effective resolution across dimensions that span millimeters. Next, I will present two recently developed methods that further extend the resolution and throughput of ExLLSM: (1) a non-radical hydrogel chemistry that forms a homogenous polymer network and physically separates biomolecules or fluorescent labels up to 40-fold linearly, and (2) a multi-modal optical microscopy that enables rapid, high-resolution imaging of both expanded and live tissues. Lastly, I will discuss the significance of these imaging methods in the context of microanatomy and functional omics.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:34:18 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
FAST Lecture | The Olynthos Project: Dirt on an Ancient Greek City (February 20, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72846 72846-18085918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Since 2014 a group of faculty, staff, and students from U-M has worked as part of an international team at the site of the Archaic and Classical city of Olynthos in northern Greece. Our goal has been to create a detailed and comprehensive picture of the settlement, its neighborhoods, and its households. In this lecture, we present a series of examples of the many different questions, methods, and data sets encompassed by the project.

*The Olynthos Project is a collaboration between the Greek Archaeological Service and British School at Athens, by permission of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.*

Reception at 4:30 PM, lecture to follow at 5:00 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 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, 18 Feb 2020 11:02:55 -0500 2020-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion excavation at Olynthos
David Lang: Music and Bad Manners (February 20, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70392 70392-17594439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Note: This presentation will take place at Rackham Auditorium, 915 Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI.

As one of America’s most performed composers, David Lang has “solidified his standing as an American master,” as The New Yorker puts it. His catalog of work is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and emotionally direct. In 2008, the New York-based composer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a score for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen. Additionally, Lang’s score for Paolo Sorrentino’s film Youth received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, among others. Other recent work includes man made, a concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony; the loser, an opera based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard, which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and prisoner of the state, an opera co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen concert hall in the Netherlands, the Barbican Centre in London, l’Auditori concert hall in Barcelona, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Concertgebouw in Belgium, and Malmö Opera in Sweden. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization dedicated to the support of experimental music.

David Lang’s appearance is courtesy of the William Bolcom Guest Residency at the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:49:49 -0500 2020-02-20T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Lang.jpg
MAS Lecture | Bill Monaghan's Squash Seed (February 20, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72661 72661-18035613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This talk focuses on a single domesticated squash seed recovered from a deep trench dug during work in Windmill Park, south of Detroit. Dr. Lovis discusses how this millennium-old seed has shed light on the mode of distribution of some cucurbit plants utilized by prehistoric people in southeast Michigan.

William Monaghan was a respected geologist who died in the fall of 2018. He had worked closely with Dr. Lovis on a number of projects, providing expertise in sediment formation processes. His knowledge contributed to an understanding of how the lifeways of prehistoric peoples changed the landscape as reflected in archaeological sites and surrounding remnants of their activities.

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

MAS 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 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 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:16:56 -0500 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion squash
“Downstream from Here” by Charles Eisendrath (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70597 70597-17609141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Tom Brokaw calls Eisendrath “a reporter’s reporter” and the book, “lyrical.” Jeff Daniels adds “prepare to be inspired.” Ellen Goodman says, “Too often we are told we have to choose between living wide or living deep, between traveling across the surface of the earth, or coming to truly know and love one place. But Charles Eisendrath has done both in his rich life. This is the memoir of a foreign correspondent and journalism mentor and yet a man who is spiritually rooted at his beloved Overlook Farm. The essays he has written about this life are a joy!”

Charles R. Eisendrath grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, in a family that had vacationed in Charlevoix County since the 1890’s. One of the loves of his life is Overlook Farm near East Jordan, Michigan, which produces timber, maple syrup, and tart cherries. He is a passionate sportsman and canoeist. Many of those subjects are the focus of “Downstream from Here: A Big Life in a Small Place”. It is a collection of essays originally intended as a personal history to be shared with friends and family. It is a meditation on a life well lived, a deep love of family, and the love of a very specific place in the world.

Eisendrath was the first Director of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships at the University of Michigan. He is a Yale graduate, a former Time magazine correspondent, and founder of the Livingston Awards, known as the Pulitzer Prize for journalists under 35 and known for providing early recognition for major talents.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:40 -0500 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
U-M Structure Seminar: Hannah Foley (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65710 65710-16629971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Graduate Student, Keane Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:47:12 -0400 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
U-M Structure Seminar: Simone Brixius-Anderko, Ph.D. (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65711 65711-16629972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Research Fellow, Emily Scott Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:51:35 -0400 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Getting to Net-Zero: Climate Challenges and Solutions (February 21, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72597 72597-18024700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:30am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

GLOBAL CO2 INITIATIVE
CENTER FOR LOCAL, STATE, AND URBAN POLICY (CLOSUP)
presents

Getting to Net-Zero: Climate Challenges and Solutions

Karl Hausker Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate Program, World Resources Institute

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
11:45am-12:50pm (Pizza lunch available at 11:30am, talk begins at 11:45am)

Free and open to the public.
Pizza Lunch served at 11:30am.
Talk starts at 11:45am.

Description: Climate change is back on the national agenda with hearings, bills introduced, candidates’ plans, and discussion of a Green New Deal. Many policymakers are embracing the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Vigorous debates are occurring over questions including:
• Can renewables supply 100% of US electricity? 100% of all energy?
• What role should existing nuclear plants play in a clean energy economy? New nuclear plants?
• What role should carbon capture and storage play?
• How fast should the US aim to transition to 100% clean energy? What are the key policy levers that could achieve this?
• What roles should states, cities, and companies play in the clean energy transition?

Analysis and modeling of clean energy pathways can throw light on these questions. Everyone in the climate/energy policy community should understand how assumptions regarding the availability, performance, and integration of various technologies drive the energy, environmental and economic implications of pathways to deep reductions in emissions. Implications for energy policy and R&D portfolios are also critical.


Dr. Karl Hausker leads analysis and modeling of climate mitigation, electricity market design, and the social cost of carbon. He led the Risky Business study of clean energy scenarios for the U.S., and lectures widely on deep decarbonization. He has led climate policy analysis and modeling projects for USAID, USEPA, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Western Climate Initiative, and the California Air Resources Board. Much of his work has focused on the energy and transportation sectors, and on low carbon, climate resilient development strategies. From 2007-2013, Karl was a Vice President at ICF International. His experience also includes: serving President Clinton as Deputy Assistant Administrator in EPA’s Policy Office where he represented EPA in interagency climate policy development and at COP-1; and serving as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he worked on a diverse set of issues including electricity restructuring, CAFE standards, alternative fuels, western water policy, nuclear power, and energy security. Karl holds an M.P.P and Ph.D. in Public Policy from University of California, Berkeley, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University.

Sponsored by: The University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and Global CO2 Initiative

Co-sponsors: University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), Graham Sustainability Institute, and Center for Sustainable Systems

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:05:21 -0500 2020-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T12:50:00-05:00 Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s Growing Brand in Global Health (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70968 70968-17760241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In areas ranging from universal healthcare to HIV prevention and access to medicine to health technology assessment and tobacco control, Thailand’s public health programs have come to be regarded as a model for the industrializing world. How is it that a resource-constrained nation on the global periphery has produced model policies that are critical to public health and human life so consistently amid such political turmoil? What has led these policies to travel abroad? And more generally, how has a small nation in Southeast Asia exercised such outsized influence in international affairs? Drawing on Fulbright-funded research with policymakers in Thailand and Geneva, this project examines the roots of Thailand’s surprising success.

Dr. Joseph Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University and conducts comparative and historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, public policy, and global health. He is the author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017). Dr. Harris has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, most recently as Specialist on the Political Economy of Healthcare Reform for the Japan-World Bank Project on Universal Coverage. He is a past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Henry Luce Scholarship and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy Studies before joining the faculty at BU. In 2017, Dr. Harris received the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching and a Fulbright Scholarship for a project that explores the diffusion of Thailand’s model public health policies abroad. He serves as Associate Editor at Social Science and Medicine.

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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 Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:17:36 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Life In Graduate School Seminar | How to Find a Postdoc Position (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72814 72814-18079325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life in Graduate School Seminars

Three people with postdoc hunting experience in high energy experiment, computational condensed matter and experimental condensed matter will be invited and present their experience and lessons in finding postdoc positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:31:43 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Life in Graduate School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Smith Lecture: The Earth’s Hidden Ocean (February 21, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63137 63137-15578788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Water, incorporated into minerals and melts at the high pressure and temperature conditions found in Earth’s deep mantle may constitute the planet’s largest geochemical reservoir of H2O, especially in the mantle transition zone at 410-660 km depth. At the atomic scale, hydration modifies the structure and physical properties of minerals through associated defects. At mesoscopic scales water influences diffusion, rheology and lattice preferred orientation. At geophysical scales, water cycling through the solid mantle plays a critical role in melt generation, plate tectonics, and may have acted to buffer the volume of Earth’s oceans over geologic time. I will focus on recent laboratory experiments, inclusions in diamond, and seismological observations that reveal clues about the distribution and origin of water in our habitable planet.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:07:31 -0400 2020-02-21T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Representative Sarah Anthony (February 21, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72592 72592-18024695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

For this TDLS event, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan State Representative Sarah Anthony. State Representative Sarah Anthony is serving her first full term representing the 68th House District, parts of the city of Lansing and Lansing Township, as the youngest African American women to serve in this capacity in the United States. Throughout her time as commissioner, Anthony served in many leadership positions, including chating the Democtratic Caucus, FInance Committee, and Vice Chair of the board. Her fearless leadership to advocate for healthcare access, social justice, working families, and senior citizens, has made her a role model to many.

Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to hear from and meet Representative Sarah Anthony!

RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/51O1V

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:06:31 -0500 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire? (February 21, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72732 72732-18068367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan China Forum

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Esports”? A billion-dollar empire being built? Causes of addiction and violence? Having come a long way from video gaming, Esports has evolved into a global phenomenon even though controversies persist.

Research shows that 65% of 8-12 years old teenagers play video games for more than 2 hours per day. About 41% of boys think they have spent too much time on video games. Being addicted to video games is only one of many reasons that people are against Esports. From many adults’ perspective, violent, bloody elements in video games are likely to negatively affect teenagers. Hence, Esports is an industry bearing prejudice and stereotypes.

However, as a burgeoning industry, Esports is gaining massive popularity across the globe in recent years. According to Newzoo, revenues of the global Esports industry exceeded $1.1 billion in 2019, which is an increase of 26.7% over the previous year. Asia-Pacific sees the highest proportion of Esports viewership (57%) and the major growth is being witnessed in China. North America is once again the largest Esports market where the major share is contributed by the United States. With more investors, favorable policies, and the potential access to the Olympics, Esports, a new era “gold rush” is redefining the world of games.

From game development, to corporate social responsibility, to higher education, how should Esports navigate the controversies? What factors have contributed to the rise of Esports? What is the future of this industry? Come join us at the Esports panel discussion with Professor Katherine Babiak, Professor Austin Yarger, Ph.D. student Luis Velazquez, Arbor eSports’ president Alexander Ball, and UM Esports program manager Cybbi Barton.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:27:09 -0500 2020-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan China Forum Lecture / Discussion Present by Michigan China Forum: How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire?
Saturday Morning Physics | The Truth About Entropy (February 22, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71162 71162-17783480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Crystalline forms of matter, from ice to diamond, are highly ordered with atoms lined up neatly in rows. Do these crystals have low or high entropy? We are taught that entropy implies disorder, so crystals must have low entropy...or do they? In this talk, find out how some ordered crystal phases of matter can have more entropy than their disordered phases, and why this matters.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:54:49 -0500 2020-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Crystalline structures pc: NASA David Weitz
Creation Sunday (February 23, 2020 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72979 72979-18120900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 9:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Collegians for Christ

Collegians for Christ is excited to partner with Ann Arbor Baptist Church to present a series of thought provoking lectures on the fundamental question: where did everything come from? Come hear the various theories about the origins of the universe. The speaker is Orlando Buria, Ph.D., a sought after scientist and instructor on the topics of universe origins, natural history, and biology. Dr. Buria is a published researcher who will present engaging and thought provoking lectures.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:56:24 -0500 2020-02-23T09:45:00-05:00 2020-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Collegians for Christ Lecture / Discussion Creation Sunday Graphics
Town Hall Meeting: Socialism and the 2020 elections (February 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73071 73071-18138331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

One word is dominating the 2020 election cycle: socialism.

Donald Trump and his fascist allies declare the US “will never be a socialist country.” Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg proclaim their desire to save the Democratic Party from socialists, while Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claim socialism means working within the Democratic Party for mild reforms. The ruling class, presiding over a society dominated by inequality, war and state repression, increasingly views socialism as an immediate threat.

The Socialist Equality Party is running in the 2020 elections to explain what socialism really means. Join the SEP’s candidates—Joseph Kishore for President and Norissa Santa Cruz for Vice President—in the historic struggle to unite all workers internationally, independent of the political parties of the ruling class. The working class is the social force that can replace capitalism with international socialism.

This town hall meeting with Joseph Kishore is part of a national series of meetings being held across the United States, hosted by the IYSSE and the SEP.

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Meeting Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:41:37 -0500 2020-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting Joseph Kishore (President) and Norissa Santa Cruz (Vice President), Socialist Equality Party
“Working to Understand White Fragility”: In Preparation for and Reflection on Robin DiAngelo (February 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70596 70596-17609124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This two-session course is designed as an accompaniment to the March 13th campus visit by Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility”. Maren Oberman, who will offer a pre- and post- session course to prepare for and reflect on DiAngelo’s talk is a clinical assistant professor at the UM School of Education whose work focuses on anti-racist educational leadership and policy.

The pre-session on February 25 will focus primarily on DiAngelo’s conceptualization of racism, with the aim being to reconsider our existing ideas and definitions. The dialogue will draw mainly from chapters 1 and 5 of “White Fragility”.

In the post-session on March 17, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on DiAngelo’s talk, to pose further questions, and to articulate their own individual commitments to anti-racism.

Participants are encouraged to read Peggy McIntosh’s seminal anti-racist article, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” prior to the first session. Both sessions will function as interactive dialogues with opportunities for participants to reflect individually, talk in small groups, and engage in large group discussion.

Maren Oberman is clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Education. Oberman’s areas of expertise include: anti-oppressive pedagogy; anti-racism in education; cross-racial communication; understanding identity; leadership growth and development, teaching and teacher policy issues; and coaching, mentoring, and instructional leadership. Her goal is to increase the quality and effectiveness of the U.S. K-12 educator force through the development of anti-racist educational practice, self-awareness and reflection, inquiry-based improvement strategies, and strategic collaboration. Maren earned her doctorate in educational leadership (EdLD) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, including a residency at the central office in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has served as a K-12 teacher and instructional coach in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Maren holds a BA in African-American Studies from Yale University and a master’s in Library Science from Simmons College.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:31:18 -0500 2020-02-25T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
LHS Collaboratory (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72208 72208-18035597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems"
Erik Gordon, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 12 pm–1:30 pm
Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons (Lunch is included)

Professor Gordon's areas of interest are entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, the biomedical industry (pharmaceuticals, devices, healthcare big data, and biotechnology), IoT, FinTech, and digital and mobile marketing. He also served on the faculty of University of Michigan Law School. He has served on the faculty and as Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate Division of Business & Management (Carey Business School) at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught in the business and medical schools and at the University of Florida, where he also served as director of the Center for Technology & Science Commercialization Studies and as Director of MBA Programs. He has served as an adviser or co-founder to numerous companies. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and other outlets, is a regular contributor to Marketplace Morning Report (in NPR's Morning Edition), Bloomberg Radio, and appears on PBS's Nightly Business Report. His degrees are in economics and law.
Please register in advance, dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.
Email: LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:07:52 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72567 72567-18018160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Luciane Ramos Silva and Nabor Jr, editors of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2Ato, will discuss historical and current relations between Brazilian and American black presses. By discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, Luciane and Nabor will propose the black arts as a fundamental channel of critical engagement in contexts of social and political cleavage.

Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:18:37 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70972 70972-17760245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism
Wednesday, February 26
10am - 6pm
ISR-Thompson 1430

Morning Session
10am - 12:00pm
Creating Diverse, Joyful, and Productive Working Groups

Working Group Lunches
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon Session
2pm - 4:30pm
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Racism

Poster Session
4:30pm - 6pm

RacismLab invites you to join in celebrating its five-year anniversary, in conjunction with University-wide MLK 2020 programming, for the 2020 RacismLab Symposium and concurrent Poster Session on Wednesday, February 26.

NETWORKING LUNCH FOR POST-DOCS and FACULTY:
Early-career scholars (i.e., postdocs and assistant professors) are invited to sign up for the networking lunch during the symposium. The networking lunch, led by Dr. Debbie Rivas-Drake, will explore strategies for creating diverse, joyful, and productive research groups. For more information and to sign up for a working lunch roundtable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIZfoohv6CHmg99EFgXlSEvfSQYmAJ4cvUUaVsy80hBCp7g/viewform

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:38:30 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium event flyer
New frontiers: Labor, immigration, and foreign policy (February 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72000 72000-17914109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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

Please join us for a talk with Denis McDonough, former White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama in conversation with Associate Professor John Ciorciari, director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center and International Policy Center. McDonough will speak about transforming labor markets and the new economy, as well as leading interagency coordination and crisis responses in the White House.

About the speaker:
Denis McDonough served as White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama from February 2013 until January 20, 2017. He managed the White House staff, as well as Cabinet Secretaries and agency leaders. He also advised the President on domestic policy and national security challenges facing the country, management issues facing the federal government, and devised and enforced plans and accountability for performance and goals, maintaining the Obama Administration’s reputation for effective, ethical operation. In the first term of the Obama Administration, he served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. Throughout the 2008 Presidential campaign, McDonough served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor for Obama for America. Prior to his eight-year tenure in the White House, McDonough served in senior leadership and policy-making positions in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
McDonough is currently an Executive Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, teaching a global policy seminar for graduate and undergraduate students. He also serves as Senior Advisor for Technology and Global Policy for Macro Advisory Partners, as well as Senior Advisor at the Markle Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:36:58 -0500 2020-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Denis McDonough
Mohler Prize Lecture (February 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70223 70223-17549993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope: What Happens after the Hubble Space Telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered beautiful images and great results for far more years than originally planned. NASA is working on a successor, JWST, which will be launched in 2021. Many technical challenges have had to be overcome to make this telescope a reality. Many of these challenges stem from the large size of JWST and its unique architecture. The science that it promises to deliver ranges from characterizing the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars to finding the most distant galaxies.

Lecture: Michigan League - Michigan Room (2nd Floor)
Reception Following: Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room (2nd Floor)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:40:29 -0500 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion Dr. Marcia Rieke
95th Henry Russel Lecture & Reception (February 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73173 73173-18149244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Office of University Development

This annual event celebrates recipients of the Henry Russel Award, among the highest honor U-M bestows on faculty.

U-M physics professor Stephen Forrest delivers this year's lecture, entitled "Carbon vs Carbon Dioxide: Using Carbon-Based Organic Electronics for a More Sustainable Planet".

Additional honorees: Carrie R. Ferrario (Medical School), Xianzhe Jia (Engineering), Corinna S. Schindler (Literature, Science, and the Arts), Megan E. Tompkins-Stange (Public Policy).

Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor. Reception immediately following. Free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Office of University and Development Events at 734-647-7900.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:07:13 -0500 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Office of University Development Lecture / Discussion 2020 Henry Russel Lecturer Stephen R. Forrest
Henry Russel Lecture 2020 | Carbon vs. Carbon Diaoxide: Using Carbon-Based (Organic) Electronics for a More Sustainable Planet (February 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73069 73069-18138327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Professor Forrest is also the
Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Professor of Material Science and Engineering.

Please see more information here: https://record.umich.edu/articles/russel-lecture-fighting-climate-change-with-organic-electronics/

Reception immediately following the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:59:15 -0500 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Image of Stephen Forrest
Lake Sturgeon: Past, present, and future of an ancient fish (February 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71565 71565-17842669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

6:00 p.m. - Hors d’oeuvres reception and gallery visit to Survivor: The long journey of lake sturgeon temporary exhibition with live music performed by an ensemble from the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance. Museum of Natural History Lower Level
7:00 p.m. - Panel discussion, Room 1060 Biological Sciences Building

Sturgeon are ancient fishes, tracing their lineage back more than 100 million years. In the Great Lakes system, lake sturgeon are not only the largest indigenous freshwater fishes, they are also important players in complex aquatic food webs. Their remarkable past has given way to a tenuous future as overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution threaten their survival. Today, there is hope in efforts to restore lake sturgeon populations and spawning grounds, as well as in public awareness initiatives that share the cultural and ecological significance of this species. Thanks to the leadership of Michigan Native American Tribes and other organizations, lake sturgeon are beginning to make a comeback. Join a panel of experts as we explore the past, present, and future of this extraordinary endemic fish:

Matt Friedman, Director, U-M Museum of Paleontology and Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Karen Alofs, Assistant Professor, U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
Doug Craven, Director, Natural Resources Department, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

This program and the temporary exhibition, Survivor: The long journey of lake sturgeon, are offered as part of the LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, https://lsa.umich.edu/greatlakes.

This event honors the memory of Dr. William R. Farrand, who served as director of the U-M Exhibit Museum of Natural History for seven years (July 1993-June 2000), and who enjoyed a long career as a professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Geological Sciences. Numerous friends, colleagues, and family members contributed to an endowment fund to ensure that this annual honorary lecture will be offered in perpetuity.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:49:40 -0500 2020-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Sturgeon
Control of electromagnetic fields for energy applications (February 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72340 72340-17974691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Electromagnetic fields represent a fundamental aspect of nature, and serve as the primary carrier of energy. New abilities to control electromagnetic fields, as enabled for example by the developments of metamaterials and nanophotonic structures, can therefore have profound implications for energy technology. In this talk we will discuss some of our recent efforts in applying the concepts of electromagnetics towards developing new energy technologies, with examples including radiative cooling, and robust dynamic wireless power transfer.

Bio

Shanhui Fan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Professor of Applied Physics (by courtesy), a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and the Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, at the Stanford University. He received his Ph. D in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in fundamental studies of solid state and photonic structures and devices, especially photonic crystals, plasmonics, and meta-materials, and applications of these structures in energy and information technology applications. He has published over 500 refereed journal articles, has given over 350 plenary/keynote/invited talks, and was granted 62 US patents. Prof. Fan received a National Science Foundation Career Award (2002), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2003), the National Academy of Sciences W. O. Baker Award for Initiative in Research (2007), the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America (2007), and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the U. S. Department of Defense (2017). He is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Physics since 2015, a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the SPIE.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:47:26 -0500 2020-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Psychology Methods Hour: Outliers Among Us: How to Identify and Deal with Extreme Data Points (February 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69619 69619-17368334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:59:40 -0500 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Grant
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72537 72537-18015947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:55:29 -0500 2020-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Stories Behind the Images (March 2, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71947 71947-17903305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 2, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Office of the Vice President for Communications

Photographer, cinematographer Corey Rich will speak about his new book, “Stories Behind the Images, Lessons from a Life in Adventure Photography,” during a free lecture on March 2 at 7 p.m. in Robertson Auditorium. Corey will talk about his early days working out of his college dorm room to becoming a Nikon Ambassador and capturing iconic photos of adventure superstars for more than two decades. Corey will also take time to autograph copies of his book. The lecture is sponsored by Nikon and the Office of the Vice President for Communications.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:38:21 -0500 2020-03-02T19:00:00-05:00 2020-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Office of the Vice President for Communications Lecture / Discussion Corey Rich: Stories Behind the Images
Great Lakes Seminar Series (March 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73185 73185-18155745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Please join us for a Great Lakes Seminar Series presentation!
Date: Tuesday, March 3
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm EDT
Attend In-Person: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Lake Superior Hall* (Directions)
Attend Remotely: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4302585117583410187

Presenter: Maureen Coleman, University of Chicago
Title: Linking microbial communities and biogeochemistry across the Laurentian Great Lakes

About the presentation: The Laurentian Great Lakes hold 20% of Earth’s surface freshwater and provide essential ecosystem services. Moreover, as an interconnected waterway that spans strong environmental gradients, the Great Lakes represent a unique natural laboratory for understanding how physical, chemical, and biological forces interact to shape microbial communities and biogeochemistry. Here we explore the drivers of microbial diversity and activity across the Great Lakes, using samples collected as part of an ongoing multi-year time series. First we characterized community composition across lakes, depths, seasons, and years. We found that depth and light are strong drivers of community structure in stratified water columns. Across surface waters, we found distinct microbial signatures in each of the Great Lakes, reflecting their biogeochemical variability. To explore metabolic functions, we reconstructed hundreds of microbial genomes and created a microbial tree of life for the Laurentian Great Lakes. We mapped ecological distribution patterns for these genomes and found distinct distributions for taxa and metabolisms across lakes and depths. We focus here on two important groups for ecology and biogeochemistry, the cyanobacteria and nitrifying Bacteria and Archaea. Our work represents the first picture of microbial diversity across the entire Laurentian Great Lakes and is an essential baseline from which to monitor future ecosystem change.

About the speaker: Dr. Coleman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is a microbial ecologist who studies the causes and consequences of microbial diversity in aquatic systems. Currently her lab is busy characterizing microbial communities, genomic diversity, and biogeochemistry across the Laurentian Great Lakes. She is also cultivating new microbial lineages and developing genetic tools to study their biology. She holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT. She was a postdoc at MIT & Caltech before joining the University of Chicago in 2012.

**Registration is not required to attend in-person, however please note important visitor information below**

Important Visitor Information
All in-person seminar attendees are required to receive a visitor badge from the front desk at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory facility. Seminar attendees need to present a valid U.S. photo ID or green card. If you are a Foreign National, advance notification of at least 48 hours is needed so that security guidelines are followed. You will need to present your passport (a copy will NOT work). For questions regarding building access, or assistance in obtaining Foreign National clearance, please call 734-741-2394. Email contact: Scott.Purdy@noaa.gov
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Questions? Contact Mary Ogdahl: ogdahlm@umich.edu
Visit ciglr.seas.umich.edu for more information.

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Presentation Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:13:30 -0500 2020-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Presentation Great Lakes Seminar Series Flyer
Women on a Mission 2.0: Leadership, Citizenship & Advocacy (March 6, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73597 73597-18267644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

The free morning keynote will be a conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, & presenter, and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, economist, author, social and political commentator, & businesswoman. They will discuss inclusive citizenship and the role of women as transformative change agents for voting rights, economic policy, prison reform, and access to education.

Please note that the keynote lecture (8:30-10:30am at Hill Auditorium) is open to the general public and no registration is required. However, pre-registration is required to attend the full-day WCTF Career Conference workshops and luncheon.

Click here to view the live stream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/cew/cew030620.html

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:18 -0500 2020-03-06T08:30:00-05:00 2020-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Talk: Meditation and Spiritual Life (March 8, 2020 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73450 73450-18236950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 6:15pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan

Swami Yogatmananda of Vedanta Society of Providence would be coming to Ann Arbor on March 8 to deliver a talk on 'Meditation & Spiritual Life'. Key details are below.

Topic: Meditation & Spiritual Life

Speaker: Swami Yogatmananda (President of Vedanta Society of Providence, Hindi Religious Affiliate/Chaplain at Brown University and University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)

About the speaker: Swami Yogatmananda is the current minister-in-charge of Vedanta Society of Providence. The swami was born in India and joined the Ramakrishna Order of monks in 1976 and received his monastic vows in 1986. He came to the US in the summer of 2001. Swami Yogatmananda’s present responsibilities include conducting Sunday services, weekly study classes and organizing spiritual retreats. He is invited to preach Vedanta at various places in the US. He also serves as the Hindu Religious Affiliate at Brown University, Providence and the Hindu Chaplain at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Date: March 08, 2020 (Sunday)

Time: 6:15 PM

Venue: Henderson Room,3rd Floor,Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Contact: vedanta.a2@gmail.com

All are welcome. No RSVP necessary. Do not miss this opportunity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:31:19 -0500 2020-03-08T18:15:00-04:00 2020-03-08T19:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Event Flier
Chair's Distinguished Seminar: "Dynamical Systems Approaches to Space Traffic Management and Situational Awareness" (March 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73747 73747-18311331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Aaron Rosengren
Earth satellite orbits can possess an extraordinarily rich spectrum of dynamical behaviors, from stable resonant configurations to significant chaotic drifts in circumterrestrial phase space throughout their orbital lifetimes. This talk will review these intriguing phenomena and highlight their deeper connections with current aspects of space sustainability, space traffic management, and space situational awareness. One particularly compelling ideology is based on the judicious use of the resulting instabilities to prescribe natural Earth re-entry itineraries to remedy the space debris problem or to navigate the phase space. In this seminar, I will review recent theoretical and numerical investigations on the orbital dynamics of resident space objects, and show how resonances can profoundly affect the behavior of these bodies, in both dissipative and Hamiltonian settings.
This work ties together observation, theory, and simulation, and fosters connections between fields apparently quite different in character and emphasis. I will specifically note its cross-cutting nature and relevance to planetary science, applied dynamical systems theory, planned and proposed spacecraft missions, and satellite constellation design and control.

About the Speaker...
Aaron J. Rosengren is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona and Affiliate Member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, specializing in astrodynamics-based space situational awareness. Prior to joining UA and the SSA-Arizona Initiative in 2017, he spent one year at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece working in the Department of Physics, as part of the European Union H2020 Project ReDSHIFT. He has also served as a member of the EU Asteroid and Space Debris Network, Stardust, working for two years at the Institute of Applied Physics Nello Carrara of the Italian National Research Council. He has authored or co-authored around 20 peer-reviewed journal publications and 60 conference papers and abstracts, reporting research in space situational awareness, orbital debris, celestial mechanics, and planetary science.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:54:51 -0400 2020-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T16:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Areas in Space Traffic Management
People Returning from Prison in Washtenaw County (March 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70822 70822-17654653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Allan Newman is chair of the non-profit, A Brighter Way. Its mission is to help people rebuild their lives after being released from prison in Washtenaw County. He is also Co-Chair of the Michigan Department of Corrections Region 9 Offender Success Program. He will explain the status of reentry in Washtenaw County, what is needed, what is available, and what is missing.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:06:51 -0500 2020-03-11T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series (March 11, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73698 73698-18296111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series

"Civil Rights 3.0. -- What the MLK vision means in the 21st Century, and the central role of engineers and scientists in determining where we go from here."

featuring David Tarver

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/wo1x7sQ1tBF1Nga77

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd Floor)
The University of Michigan, North Campus

David Tarver currently serves as a lecturer in the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor. He is also founder and board president of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative. David is a highly successful technology business executive with an incredible entrepreneurial journey and amazing success in corporate R&D, technology business startup, and social impact entrepreneurship.


Free lunch provided by Jerusalem Gardens
Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi
and the
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:30:09 -0400 2020-03-11T11:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar Lecture. Yasmine Diaz: One Way or Another (March 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73294 73294-18190706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

In this talk, Los Angeles based artist Yasmine Diaz will speak about her experiences making work as an agnostic feminist of Muslim heritage in a post 9/11 era of xenophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Her talk will center on a her 2017 piece, One Way or Another (college and hand-cut watercolor paper, 18 x 24)

Yasmine navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity using personal archives, found imagery and various media on paper as well as installation. Born and raised in Chicago to parents who immigrated from the highlands of southern Yemen, her mixed media work often reflects personal histories of the opposing cultures she was raised within. She has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Torrance Art Museum, Charlie James Gallery, and Station Beirut. Diaz is a 2019 California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellow with works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and The Poetry Project Space in Berlin. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:51:51 -0500 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion diaz-yasmine
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70792 70792-17644317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Since the 1970s, the semiconductor industry has fabricated electronic circuits using a plasma based pattern-transfer ap-proach that is remarkably reminiscent of the etching artform used centuries ago. Only now, the patterns are a million times smaller and driven by the wafer fab equipment industry. The most advanced plasma etching technique in production today is called atomic layer etching (ALE) in which a single layer is removed in a cyclic manner. This talk will review the ALE ap-proach in comparison to conventional plasma etching tech-niques, such as Reactive Ion Etching (RIE). As RIE reaches its fifth decade, its drawbacks have become apparent. ALE offers better control by isolating steps in time and switching between the steps in a repeatable cycle. To the extent that an ALE pro-cess behaves ideally – with high ALE synergy and self-limiting behavior – the primary benefit is improved uniformity across all length scales: at the surface, between different aspect rati-os, and across the full wafer. Another benefit that will be high-lighted is the atomic-scale smoothness in topography of the surface left behind after etching. The underlying mechanism and benefits of plasma ALE will be described, providing insight into the plasma science behind the ancient art of etching. Overall, ALE is simpler to understand than conventional plasma etch processing, and is proving to be important as we apply the art of etch at the atomic scale.

About the Speaker:
Richard A. Gottscho is Executive VP, Chief Technology Officer at Lam Research since May 2017. He previously was Executive VP, Global Products Group beginning August 2010; and group VP and general manager, Etch Businesses beginning March 2007. He joined Lam in January 1996 and has held various director and VP roles spanning deposition, etch, and clean products. Prior to joining Lam, he was at Bell Laboratories for 15 years, where he headed research departments in electronics materials, electronics packaging, and flat panel displays. In 2016, Dr. Gottscho was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has received several awards, including the AVS Peter Mark Me-morial Award, AVS Plasma Science and Technology Division Prize, the Dry Process Symposium Nishiza-wa Award, and the Tegal Thinker Award. He is a fellow of the APS and AVS. He has authored numerous papers, patents, and lectures, and has served on journal editorial boards and program committees for major conferences in plasma science and engineering. He served as vice-chair of a National Research Council study on plasma science. Dr. Gottscho earned Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University, respectively.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m470378ee7563bc37fae0bcbb395a7d98
Meeting number: 624 374 412
Password: MIPSE2019

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Mar 2020 09:20:03 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Rick Gottscho
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73002 73002-18123077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

In this talk, some major challenges are reviewed of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the needs of medicine and healthcare. These challenges include technical issues such as data-related and/or algorithmic challenges that the use of AI for medicine would present. The speaker then presents some potential solutions in form of novel algorithmic approaches that may at least partially address some of these challenges.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:49:28 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70345 70345-17586172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Is it Really Better to Give than Receive?
Wayne Baker

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
This event will only be live web streamed.

Follow the stream here: http://myumi.ch/518e2

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.

About the talk:
The greatest barrier to generosity isn't that people are unwilling or unable to help, but that people don't ask for what they need. Requests drive the giving-receiving cycle. Drawing on his new book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, Baker describes the four asking-giving styles, how to assess your style, how to overcome the obstacles to asking, how to make effective requests, and how to figure out who to ask. He will present several tools that individuals, teams, and organizations use to create a robust culture of workplace generosity. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to use the tools in real time.

About Baker:
Wayne Baker is Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research. He currently serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations.

His teaching and research focus on social capital, social networks, generosity, positive organizational scholarship, and values. His management and leadership articles appear in venues such as Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive Magazine, and Sloan Management Review. His latest book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, will be published in January 2020.

He puts his knowledge into practice as a frequent guest speaker, management consultant, and as an advisor and board member of Give and Take Inc., developers of the Givitas collaborative technology platform.

Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago business school. He earned his PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University.

Host:
Dave Mayer, Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor

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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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:22:08 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Wayne Baker
VIRTUAL Fifth Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture. American Muslims in the Era of Islamophobia (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72092 72092-17937820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Distinguished Lecture will be offered in a virtual format only. Please tune in to the live video feed at:

https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/mpmwp8vk/player.html

The Trump movement has not only brought Islamophobia out into the open, it has brought it into the White House and other centers of American power. In a talk that will draw from his recent book, *Out Of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise*, Eboo Patel will highlight the various ways that American culture and American Muslims are responding to this bigotry. While recognizing the clear challenges of our times, Eboo will draw on Islamic theology, American history and contemporary movements to illuminate a hopeful path forward.

Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a non-profit organization that is working to make interfaith cooperation a social norm in America. He is the author of four books and dozens of articles, has spoken on more than 150 campuses, and served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council.

A key figure on issues of religious diversity and democracy, Eboo was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. He is the author of *Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation*; *Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America*; I*nterfaith Leadership: A Primer*; and *Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise*. He also publishes a regular blog for *Inside Higher Ed*, called ‘Conversations on Diversity’.

Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He has been awarded the Louisville Grawemeyer Prize in Religion, the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, the El Hibri Peace Education Prize, the Council of Independent Colleges Academic Leadership Award, along with honorary degrees from 15 colleges.

Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and two young sons. He is a die-hard fan of Notre Dame Football, Wilco, and really good coffee.

Co-sponsors: International Institute, Global Islamic Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Center for Arab American Studies, Michigan State University Muslim Studies Program

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Each year, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) hosts a Distinguished Lecture featuring a prominent scholar or public figure speaking about issues related to Islamic studies. These events are presented by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Michigan, and the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC), a member of the International Institute.

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: digital.islam@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:18:18 -0400 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Eboo_event
Ken Fischer, Reflections on a Remarkable Career and Visionary Leadership, (March 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70586 70586-17609085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Known in every corner of Ann Arbor for bringing arts into the community, Ken Fischer has made an indelible impact in his 30 years as President of University Musical Society from 1987-2017.

In addition to numerous professional highlights, partnerships, and awards, Ken Fischer has also served the community outside UMS. He has served on many boards of directors, locally, nationally, and internationally. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to improving the quality of life in our city and region. In 2014 Fischer and UMS were presented the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the U.S. government. It was presented at a ceremony at the White House by President Barack Obama.

But this is just the beginning. Please join us for a conversation with Ken Fischer and Bev Geltner, as we explore his nurturing spirit, passion, and connection to the arts and learn more about the remarkable visionary leadership of Ken Fischer.

Please note the new start time for this event,

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:33:49 -0500 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Evening with OLLI
CANCELLED: Our Constitution and Our Children in the Era of Climate Crisis: Juliana v. United States (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73028 73028-18129604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

This lecture has been CANCELLED.

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children's Trust, will speak about Juliana v. United States.

This event is free and open to the public.

Julia Olson graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, with a J.D. in 1997. For the first part of her 22-year career, Julia represented grassroots conservation groups working to protect the environment, organic agriculture, and human health. After becoming a mother, and realizing the greatest threat to her children and children everywhere was climate change, she focused her work on representing young people and elevating their voices on the issue that will most determine the quality of their lives and the well-being of all future generations. Julia founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010 to lead this strategic legal campaign on behalf of the world’s youth against governments everywhere. Julia leads Juliana v. the United States, the constitutional climate change case brought by 21 youth against the U.S. government for violating their Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources. Julia and OCT are recipients of the Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism. She received the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism in 2017 and is a member of Rachel's Network Circle of Advisors. To rejuvenate, Julia loves being high up in the mountains with her family and her dog or playing tunes on her ukulele with friends.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:11:27 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: "Dynamic wall-models for large-eddy simulation: towards parameter-free high-fidelity simulation of real-world engineering applications" (March 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73748 73748-18311332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. H. Jane Bae
The currently available computational power limits the utilization of direct numerical simulation (DNS) in practical engineering flow applications. In recent years, large-eddy simulation (LES) has emerged as a viable high-fidelity tool for such flow problems; however, it suffers from the same computational limitations in the near-wall region. In this talk, I will introduce a new way of modeling the wall in LES to overcome the limitation of the near-wall region. First, the use of the slip boundary condition with transpiration for wall-modeled LES is motivated by theoretic assessment and a priori testing using DNS data. Secondly, a dynamic slip wall model consistent with the constant stress layer in the near-wall region is presented. The dynamic slip wall model is free of any a priori specified coefficients, unlike traditional wall models which are based on RANS models. The results show that the predictions of the mean velocity profile and turbulence intensities from the dynamic slip wall model are in good agreement with DNS and experimental data for a wide range of Reynolds numbers and grid resolutions for canonical turbulent boundary layers.

About the Speaker...
H. Jane Bae is a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech. She received her Ph.D. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University in 2018. Her main research focuses on computational fluid mechanics, in particular on modeling and control of wall-bounded turbulence using reduced-order modeling and design and implementation of efficient solution methods.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:00:26 -0400 2020-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dr. H. Jane Bae
Local Businesses, Global Entrepreneurship: A Journey to Build Impact (March 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72926 72926-18094770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Juan Carlos Thomas, Director of Entrepreneurship at TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization focused on harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty, will be the next WDI Global Impact Speaker.


Thomas’s talk, “Local Businesses, Global Entrepreneurship: A Journey to Build Impact,” will explore effective ways to support entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses around the world. It is scheduled for 5-6 p.m., March 12 in Room B1560 (Blau Building) at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Thomas leads the development and deployment of best practices in the support of entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses in the organization’s projects. Before assuming his current role, he served as TechnoServe’s Chile Country Director. Among his accomplishments in that role, he led the first inclusive business development program in Chile; the first small business accelerator program in Patagonia; several economic development programs in communities surrounding energy and mining projects; and the design of business development methodologies now being used in Latin America and Africa.

Before opening the TechnoServe office in Chile in 2008, Juan Carlos worked in the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets division at Bank Boston Chile. He has lectured on finance, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship at various universities. Thomas holds an MBA from INSEAD and a bachelor’s degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:35:59 -0500 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion A restaurant in Colina, Chile. Image courtesy of TechnoServe.
Live Event Canceled - Dr. Alex Dehgan: Hacking in the Sixth Extinction (March 12, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70393 70393-17594440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Dr. Alex Dehgan’s contributions to the fight against climate change are prolific, solutions-oriented, and built to a global scale. As CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology start-up focused on conservation, Dehgan and his team apply science, technology, open innovation, design, and engineering to try to end human-induced extinction and address the planet’s biggest environmental challenges. Dehgan holds a PhD and master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings. He was chosen as an “Icon of Science” by Seed magazine in 2005, received the World Technology Award for Policy in 2011, and has been recognized through multiple awards from the US Departments of State and Defense, and USAID. In 2013, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected Dehgan as one of its 40@40 fellows out of 2,600 AAAS Science Policy Fellows as an individual who has shown “exemplary dedication to applying science to serve society, was a creative, innovative, and collaborative problem solver in addressing global challenges, and was an uncommon ambassador for the role of science and technology.” He is the author of The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (PublicAffairs, 2019).

This event is supported by the U-M Museum of Natural History and is part of the University of Michigan’s Earth Day at 50 celebration. Learn more: earthday.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-12T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Deghan.jpg
[CANCELLED]. Neglected Histories, New Odysseys, and the Cultural Work of Fantasy (March 12, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73194 73194-18157922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Saladin Ahmed and Ausma Zehanat Khan, award-winning authors of fantasy, comics, science fiction, and crime fiction

A joint collaboration between U-M's Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies and EMU's Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT). Authors Ahmed and Khan will engage in a conversation with one another, the academic community, and the general public about the role of their craft and art in excavating histories and forging new odysseys.

Cosponsor: Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT), Department of English at Eastern Michigan University

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:09:01 -0400 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion event_poster
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18261079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
U-M Structure Seminar: Ali Kermani, Ph.D. (March 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65712 65712-16629973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stockbridge Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:57:06 -0400 2020-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
[CANCELLED]. CSEAS Lecture Series. Regime Change and Continuity in Malaysia (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70970 70970-17760243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Lily Rahim, Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia and Associate Teaching Professor, Georgetown University

Since its historic May 2018 breakthrough election, Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government has experienced some erosion of public support. The presentation will analyse PH's weakening popularity within the context of its 'catch-22' policy and political conundrum. Simply put, the promised implementation of substantive policy reform, with respect to 'Malay rights', threaten to weaken PH's tenuous relations with the predominantly conservative majority Malay community - susceptible to the fear and racial displacement rhetoric of opposition politicians. At the same time, PH's reluctance to implement substantive institutional and policy reforms have generated disillusionment within its urban, cosmopolitan and middle-class electoral base - key to its electoral breakthrough in 2018 but increasingly wary of the governing coalition's leadership tensions.

Lily Zubaidah Rahim is Associate Teaching Professor and Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. She was previously a professor of government and international relations at the University of Sydney, specializing in authoritarian governance, democratization, Southeast Asian Politics, political Islam, and ethic politics. Her books include The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community (Oxford University Press 1998/2001; translated to Malay by the Malaysian National Institute for Translation), Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges (Routledge, 2009), Muslim Secular Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Politics of Islamism: Diverging Visions and Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her current comparative politics book project focuses on regime change and policy reform in Malaysia, Indonesia and Tunisia.

Lily has published in international journals such as Democratization, Contemporary Politics, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Comparative and Comparative Politics, Critical Asian Studies and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Her sole-authored journal article ‘Governing Muslims in Singapore’s Secular Authoritarian State’ was short-listed for the Boyer Prize by the Australian Journal of International Affairs (AJIA). Lily is Vice-President of the Australian Association for Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) and Co-Convener of the Social Inclusion Network (SIN) at the University of Sydney. She was Convener of the multi-disciplinary ‘Religion, State and Society’ (RSS) Network and President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA).

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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 Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:32:07 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - LACS Event. Utopian Imaginaries: Engaging with the *Fernando Coronil Reader* (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71607 71607-17844812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

In *The Fernando Coronil Reader *(Duke University Press 2019) Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep concern with the Global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire, and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach. Presenting a cross section of Coronil's oeuvre, this volume cements his legacy as one of the most innovative critical social thinkers of his generation.

Fernando Coronil served as faculty in history and anthropology at the University of Michigan from 1988 to 2008. During his time at the University of Michigan, Professor Coronil served terms as director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Histoy, and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

This event brings together editors of *The Fernando Coronil Reader* as well as scholars from the University of Michigan whose work has engaged deeply with Coronil’s work. A panel discussion about the development of the reader and its influence on past, present, and future scholarship will be followed by an open Q&A session with the audience. Refreshments will be served.

Invited panelists:
Julie Skurski, CUNY Graduate Center
Edward Murphy, Michigan State University
Javier Sanjinés, University of Michigan
Gavin Arnall, University of Michigan
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Peggy Somers, University of Michigan

Co-sponsors:
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
History Department
Department of Anthropology
Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:16:37 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event-image
Cancelled: Dorr Lecture (March 13, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63138 63138-15578789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The annual Dorr Lecture is Co-sponsored by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology. The topic of the talk is in the field of Sedimentology and/or Paleontology. The event is funded by the John A. Dorr Jr. Memorial Scholarship fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:33:37 -0400 2020-03-13T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18085916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73569 73569-18261081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.

CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict,civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:23:26 -0400 2020-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 14, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73569 73569-18261082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 7:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.

CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict,civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:23:26 -0400 2020-03-14T19:30:00-04:00 2020-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELLED - Brazil Initiative Lecture. Fake News Brazil: How a misinformation Campaign Has Aroused Hatred of Minorities and Negatively Impacted Democracy in Brazil (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73642 73642-18276411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

Jean Wyllys was the first LGBTQ activist to serve in Brazil’s federal congress. His platform focused on human rights, the rights of minorities, and positive policies for social and political inclusion of marginalized communities. A vocal opponent of current President Jair Bolsonaro, since 2018, Wyllys has been in exile and is currently a Visiting Researcher at Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He is continuing his work as a journalist, writer, and human rights advocate, with a focus on LGBTQ+ rights. Previous publications include five books and innumerable articles in a variety of academic and non-academic venues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:15:55 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_flier-Wyllys_lecture
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter (March 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70794 70794-17644319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The experimental and computational investigation of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium strongly coupled systems with partially or fully degenerate electrons is an intellectu-ally stimulating and scientifically challenging problem. Warm dense matter (WDM) is of particular interest since it “exists in the lower-temperature portion of the high energy density (HED) regime, under conditions where the assumptions of both condensed-matter theory and ideal-plasma theory break down, and where quantum mechanics, particle correlations, and electric forces are all important.” [FESAC 2009]. Interiors of giant planets, brown dwarfs, and neutron star envelopes are all examples of WDM. A wide variety of theoretical methods have been developed and are in routine use for studying warm dense matter. This includes density functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, and quantum kinetic theory. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using a “simpler” approach to investigating WDM based on quantum hydrodynamics. Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) has a long and interesting history, dating back to the first developments by Madelung and Bohm. In this talk, we discuss the historical and recent developments in QHD as applied to quantum many-body systems relevant to HED regimes. Recent work involving adding a QHD capability to the radiation hydrodynamics code MIRANDA will be discussed with applications to the electron gas.

About the speaker:
Frank Graziani received a BS in physics from Santa Clara U., and a PhD in physics from UCLA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at U. Colorado and U. Minnesota working in cosmology and particle physics; and worked with NASA on exoplanet dynamics and star formation. Dr. Graziani joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab. in 1989 where he works in radiation transport and plasma physics. He has held many leadership positions at LLNL, including code project lead, group leader, V&V Leader, PI for LDRD-Strategic Initiatives, lead for the National Boost Initiative and Assoc. Division Leader for computational physics. He now directs the High Energy Density Sciences Center. He has won four DOE Defense Program Awards of Excellence, the LLNL Director’s S&T Award and is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. His research interests include the micro-physics of dense plasmas and HED education. Dr. Graziani is editor of two books on computational methods and a book on WDM physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:11:38 -0400 2020-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Frank Graziani
CANCELED Wallace House Presents Recode’s Kara Swisher interviews former Facebook executive Alex Stamos (March 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70104 70104-17530521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. A handful of tech companies have changed the way we live and built unprecedented industrial bases in the process. Their reach extends far beyond our pocketbooks into privacy, individual liberties, and the fabric of our democracy.

In August 2018, Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos announced he would leave the company following reports of disagreements with other executives over how to address the Russian government’s use of Facebook to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Since his departure he’s advocated for the breakup of the tech giant and co-authored the white paper “Securing American Elections: Prescriptions for Enhancing the Integrity and Independence of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and Beyond.”

Do we really understand what we are giving away in exchange for speed and convenience? Do the tech giants understand, or care about, their responsibility in this digital age that they created?

Alex Stamos is the former chief security officer at Facebook and is now director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory at Stanford University.

Kara Swisher is the co-founder and executive editor of Recode and host of the weekly interview podcast “Recode Decode.” She is also the co-executive editor of Code Conferences, which feature prominent speakers from the digital industry. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and a Livingston Awards national judge.

This event is co-sponsored by Computer Science and Engineering, the College of Engineering, the Center for Social Media Responsibility, ITS and Dissonance at the University of Michigan and Duo Security.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:05 -0400 2020-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Kara Swisher and Alex Stamos
Live Event Canceled - Shaka Senghor: Writing My Wrongs (March 19, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70394 70394-17594441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Shaka Senghor is a leading voice in criminal justice reform. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison, was released in March 2016 and debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list as well as The Washington Post Best Seller list. Writing My Wrongs chronicles Senghor’s personal experience with the criminal justice system after being sent to prison at age 19 on second-degree murder charges. An unforgettable tale of forgiveness and second chances, Senghor’s book reminds us that our worst deeds don’t define who we are or what we can contribute to the world. Senghor’s story has inspired thousands and serves as a compelling testament to the power of hope, compassion, and unconditional love.

Senghor is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 EBONY Power 100 list and the 2016 NAACP Great Expectations Award. Senghor was also a 2014 TED Prize finalist for The Atonement Project (a program that aims to promote healing and understanding between victims of violence and violent offenders), is a former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, and is a current fellow in the inaugural class of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network. He shares his story of redemption around the world through his company, Shaka Senghor Inc., dedicated to shifting societal narratives through storytelling with deep social impact.

Supported by the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan, presenting the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, on view at the Duderstadt Center Gallery March 18–April 1, 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0400 2020-03-19T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Senghor.jpg
Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73236 73236-18181848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Early Roman comedy, dating to around 200 BC, was written and performed by slaves and poor men for an audience that included slaves and poor people. These writers and actors took the old comic character of the slave cook and did something new, in line with these plays’ general resistance to authority. This talk is illustrated by rarely-seen images of cartoon cooks contemporary with the plays, juxtaposed with modern parallels from cookie jars to South Park’s Chef to Betye Saar’s “Liberation of Aunt Jemima".

Content warning: this talk will include discussion and display of images related to modern slavery and anti-black racism.

Location: Rackham Amphitheater (4th floor)
NB: There are two spots for wheelchair users in the middle of the Amphitheater, using the North Entrance.

March 19th, 5:30pm
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:08:32 -0500 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen
CANCELED! From Laboratory to Population: Molecular Epidemiology in Action (March 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71052 71052-17768679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: MAC-EPID

"Antibiotic use during pregnancy: Too much of a good thing?"
Lixin Zhang, PhD (Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University)

"Group B streptococcal epidemiology and pathogenesis: A tribute to Carl Marrs’ mentorship"
Shannon Manning, PhD (MSU Foundation Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University)

"Integrating Operational Research to Combat Epidemics: Investigating Ebola Infection among Health Workers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2014"
Mikiko Senga, PhD (Disease Outbreak Team Lead, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Yemen)

Epidemiology Alumni Reception directly following talks.

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

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:26:18 -0400 2020-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) MAC-EPID Conference / Symposium CANCELED Flyer
Climate Law and Policy - From the UN to City Hall (March 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70741 70741-17627840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Drawing upon her decades working in government and NGOs on global and U.S. climate policy, Professor Jennifer Haverkamp will discuss the state of international climate treaty negotiations and implementation, the effects of U.S. federal regulatory rollbacks and a withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and how state and local governments are moving forward with their own laws and policies.

Professor Haverkamp, Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School; Graham Family Director, University of Michigan Graham Sustainability Institute, was the U.S. State Department’s Ambassador and Special Representative for Environment and Water Resources, directed EDF’s International Climate Program, and served as an Assistant U.S. Trade Representative. She earned a JD from Yale Law School, an MA from Oxford University, and a BA from The College of Wooster.

This is lecture #3 in the five-part series "Facing the Future: The Challenge of Climate Change" which explores how climate change is impacting every corner of our earth, and every aspect of our lives.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:37:50 -0500 2020-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Friday Lectures
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (March 20, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63139 63139-15578790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:37:35 -0400 2020-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CANCELLED - Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Reinterpreting Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Comparative Perspective (March 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71497 71497-17834210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally eventful. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, lived through two dictatorships, a republic, and a civil war, and died in a democracy. In this lecture, Professor Casanova will reflect on the main historiographical currents that have guided his research in the last three decades: social history and change, with special emphasis on civil wars and revolutions; comparative historical sociology; and collective violence in the 20th century.

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University. He has authored and co-authored important books on the history of Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s Spain which were published, in English, by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and I.B. Tauris. He is currently completing a new book about collective violence in twentieth-century Europe, to be published in April 2020. In addition to his scholarship, Casanova is a frequent contributor to the Spanish "El País," and serves as a historical consultant in the television and film industry, both in documentaries and TV series and films.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cesmichigan@umich.edu 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:31:18 -0400 2020-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion cassanova_image
CANCELLED - ASC Event. Pan-African Pulp in Five Parts: A Panel Discussion (March 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73202 73202-18157929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: African Studies Center

Meleko Mokgosi's monumental installation Pan-African Pulp presents a complex and multi-layered reflection on histories of Pan-Africanism, Black Consciousness, and Southern African resistance movements. Made up of five parts, it engages with its audience in various ways, encouraging visitors to access this rich history through the medium of history painting, through popular posters, through comic books, academic literature or stories written in Mokgosi's mother tongue - Setswana. Multiple interpretations and readings are not only possible but are explicitly encouraged by the artist, whose work is saturated with archival research, theory and deep thinking about the history of artmaking and the powerful role artworks have (and continue to have) as sites of resistance and activism.

Taking Pan-African Pulp as their starting point, five different speakers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University will bring their unique points of view to the table, offering up new and perhaps unexpected interpretations, exploring how one artwork may act as a prism for diverse readings.

The program will take place in the Mokgosi installation on the first floor between the UMMA Shop and Cafe.
Speakers include:

Bénédicte Boisseron, from the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), will respond to the mural examining the complexity of blackness;

Julian Chambliss, Val Berryman Curator of History, MSU Museum, on the historical posters from internationalist and Pan-African movements from around the world;​

Anita Gonzalez, from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the stories from Setswana oral tradition.

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, from the U-M Department for Romance Languages and Literatures, the 1969 Algiers Pan-African manifesto annotated by the artist;

Randall Scott, from the MSU Comic Art Collection, the large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s.

The discussion will be moderated by Laura De Becker, UMMA’s Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art.

This program is organized in partnership with the U-M African Studies Center.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:41:58 -0400 2020-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
LHS Collaboratory Webinar "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge at Michigan Medicine" (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72652 72652-18035599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1:
"Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Integration for Learning Health Systems"

Michael Lanham, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Fertility and Reproductive Health
University of Michigan

Presentation 2:
“Machine Learning Infrastructure in a Learning Health System”

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan


Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory. *
Email: *LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:04:19 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71643 71643-17851292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for future updates.

Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and has won a number of prestigious honors that range from the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies to serving as an American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellow in Washington, D.C. Cooper Owens earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in History and wrote an award-winning dissertation while there. A popular public speaker, she has published articles, essays, book chapters, and think pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences and reproductive justice. Recently, Cooper Owens finished working with Teaching Tolerance and the Southern Poverty Law Center on a podcast series about how to teach U.S. slavery and Time Magazine listed her as an “acclaimed expert” on U.S. history in its annual “The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now.” Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history.

Professor Cooper Owens is also the Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest cultural institution founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. She is working on a second book project that examines mental illness during the era of United States slavery and is writing a popular biography of Harriet Tubman that examines her through the lens of disability.

This talk is presented by IRWG's program on Black Feminist Health Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:54:45 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Deirdre Cooper-Owens
CANCELED “Online Harassment and the Threat to Democracy” (March 24, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70106 70106-17532705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Online trolls are targeting journalists with such frequency and intensity that 90 percent of reporters say online harassment has become their biggest safety concern, according to a study by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The perpetrators range from lone-wolf digital stalkers to synchronized armies of online mercenaries set in motion by political actors. They have turned social media platforms into battlefields filled with verbal weaponry meant to intimidate and silence journalists. The threats toward female journalists are particularly vicious and dangerous. A recent study by the International Women Media Foundation found that online harassment has prompted many women journalists to consider leaving the profession.

What can be done to track and counter the hate?

Wallace House Presents a conversation with Rana Ayyub, award-winning investigative journalist based in Mumbai, Elodie Vialle, a Knight-Wallace Fellow and authority on internet harassment and attacks against female journalists and Jason Reich, Vice President of Corporate Security for The New York Times Company. Roya Ensafi, founder of Censored Planet and assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, will serve as moderator.

About the Speakers
Rana Ayyub is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Mumbai. A political writer and an important voice from South Asia, she is a Global Opinions contributor to the Washington Post. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, Guardian and Foreign Policy among other publications. She has reported on religious violence, insurgency and extrajudicial killings by the state. She is author of the “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up,” an undercover investigation which exposes the complicity of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in state-sponsored killings. Time magazine this year listed her among ten global journalists facing the most urgent threats to their work, freedom and safety.

Elodie Vialle is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is studying methods and best practices for countering online attacks of female journalists. She was previously the Head of the Technology desk at Reporters without Borders. Her work focused on topics such as online censorship, surveillance, disinformation and the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of information and internet governance. She has worked as an advisor for media outlets around the world, helping them to improve news coverage through the use of new technologies.

Jason Reich is Vice President of Corporate Security for The New York Times Company. He is responsible for the development and enforcement of all safety and security plans for employees and facilities while serving as the company’s internal expert on all security matters. He joined The Times from BuzzFeed, Inc. where he served as Director of Global Security since 2015. Prior to BuzzFeed, Jason was the founder and managing director of Collective Security Project, a team of crisis response experts, based in the United Kingdom, Turkey and the U.S., who were contracted to protect journalists, aid workers and N.G.O’s in challenging environments. Jason is a founding board member at the ACOS Alliance, and is a passionate advocate for freelance journalist safety worldwide.

Moderator: Roya Ensafi is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on security and privacy, with an emphasis on designing techniques and systems to protect users from adversarial networks. She founded and directs Censored Planet research lab at the University of Michigan that investigates different types of privacy and security violations on the internet.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:04:45 -0400 2020-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Eisendrath Symposium
[POSTPONED] "How the War of 1812 Changed American Cartography" (March 24, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72731 72731-18068368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

*** Update 3/10/20: This lecture has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date. ***

Taking its cue from John Melish’s polemical 1814 title, The Sine Qua Non: a Map of the United States—which ambitiously claimed his map to be indispensable to the point that without it “there is nothing”—this lecture explores the way in which two national crises—the War of 1812 and the Panic of 1819—changed the map industry in the United States and the very design of American maps. Using the career of John Melish as its narrative thread, the talk delves into the politics, economics, and optics of American cartography between 1810 and 1820. Tapping source materials that range from newspapers and account books, to showrooms and eye-popping map designs, it examines the roots of nineteenth-century American map production.

What started out as local rivalries between mapmakers during the War of 1812, quickly made headlines in the news (and in the courts) when cartographers not only challenged existing business models and the way in which maps were consumed, but the very look of maps. The fallout was profound: as established mapmakers, like Samuel Lewis or Abraham Bradley, were quickly eclipsed by a new cohort of ambitious cartographers, it was upstarts like Melish—a total novice in all things cartographic—who not only managed to launch a national brand, but generated maps that would influence the nation’s education and public sphere in new and spectacular ways.

Martin Brückner serves as the Interim Director of the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, as the Co-Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS), and as professor in the English department at UD. He earned his M.A. from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in American Studies and Cultural Geography in his native Germany, and his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in the United States.

A Michigan Map Society sponsored lecture presented in collaboration with the Stephen S. Clark Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:09:43 -0400 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Map of the seat of war in North America / J. Melish, del.
OS Guest Speaker - VIRTUAL (March 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73393 73393-18214937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Jonathan is an entrepreneur, UM alum, and favorite guest speaker in prior terms of OS 201. He will both be sharing his leadership journey as well as have time set aside to answer your questions.

Take a look at his bio for some background on him to help you think about what questions you might want to ask him. BlueJeans connection info is below that.

Jonathan Carson bio: https://www.stretto.com/our-experts/jonathan-carson/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:26:58 -0400 2020-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T11:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Studies Program (OS) Lecture / Discussion Jonathan Carson Bio pic
Zhen Xu, PhD: Histotripsy Webinar (March 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73931 73931-18426654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This will be held online. Click the link below to register.

https://fusfoundation.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hj_R2DMOT8SlOAp0WRLV3A

Oftentimes when we think of focused ultrasound, we imagine using it to heat and kill tissue. Unlike thermal ablation, histotripsy uses focused ultrasound to mechanically disrupt the target tissue without heating. Histotripsy turns the tissue into liquid-appearing acellular debris – which is absorbed by the body over one to two months – resulting in effective tissue removal.

Histotripsy has been shown to stimulate a powerful immune response in cancer treatment studies. In the treatment of neurological diseases, transcranial histotripsy can produce well-confined focal treatment in a wide range of locations and volumes in the brain, offering the potential to increase the treatment envelope while decreasing treatment time.

Please register to join us at 10:00 AM Eastern on Wednesday, March 25, when Zhen Xu, PhD, will discuss the basic mechanism, instrumentation, bioeffects, and applications of histotripsy. She will also cover the latest preclinical and clinical trial results of developing histotripsy for the treatment of cancer and neurological diseases.

About the Speaker

Zhen Xu, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan and a primary inventor and pioneer in histotripsy.

She has received many notable awards, including:
IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Outstanding Paper Award (2006)
American Heart Association Outstanding Research in Pediatric Cardiology (2010)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) New Investigator Award at the First National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Symposium (2011)
The Federic Lizzi Early Career Award from The International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) (2015)
Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2019)
Dr. Xu is currently an associate editor for three notable journals: IEEE Transactions on Ultrasound, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC); Frontiers in Bioengineering; and BME Frontiers. She is an elected board member of ISTU, a charter member of the US NIH study section, and a principal investigator of grants funded by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, NIH, American Cancer Association, Office of Naval Research, The Hartwell Foundation, and The Coulter Foundation.

She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2005.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:42:17 -0400 2020-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Livestream / Virtual BME Logo
Come for the Food, Stay for the People: Using Culinary Tours to Promote Cross-Cultural Communication & Sustainable Tourism (March 25, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73068 73068-18138326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Culinary travel has been a steadily growing tourism sector over the last decade. Tourists are increasingly traveling for food, letting where they eat determine how and where they travel. As a result, for cities and countries looking to promote themselves, culinary tourism has become an essential and powerful branding element. But can this kind of travel be about more than simply food?

This session will explore how Culinary Backstreets, a leading provider of food tours that operates in a dozen different cities around the world, uses food-oriented travel to promote cross-cultural communication and sustainable tourism – and, ultimately, more impactful experiences.

Yigal Schleifer is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Culinary Backstreets. Created in 2012, Culinary Backstreets covers the local and traditional food scene and offers immersive small group culinary walks in a dozen cities around the world. Between 2002 and 2010, Yigal was based in Istanbul, where he worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the German Press Agency (dpa). While in Istanbul he also co-founded Istanbul Eats (istanbuleats.com), an award-winning blog about Istanbul’s local food scene, and co-wrote a guidebook of the same name. He also launched "Istanbul Calling," a blog about Turkish foreign and domestic affairs.

Yigal’s work has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Ha’aretz, the Times (London) and several other publications.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:59:06 -0500 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Yigal Schleifer
Livestream: Workshop on Variational Bayes Presented by Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73937 73937-18432935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract:

Bayesian methods exhibit a number of desirable properties for modern data analysis---including (1) coherent quantification of uncertainty, (2) a modular modeling framework able to capture complex phenomena, (3) the ability to incorporate prior information from an expert source, and (4) interpretability. In practice, though, Bayesian inference necessitates approximation of a high-dimensional integral, and some traditional algorithms for this purpose can be slow---notably at data scales of current interest. The tutorial will cover the foundations of some modern tools for fast, approximate Bayesian inference at scale. One increasingly popular framework is provided by "variational Bayes" (VB), which formulates Bayesian inference as an optimization problem. We will examine key benefits and pitfalls of using VB in practice, with a focus on the widespread "mean-field variational Bayes" (MFVB) subtype. We will highlight properties that anyone working with VB, from the data analyst to the theoretician, should be aware of. And we will discuss a number of open challenges.

This workshop is open to all and will be livestreamed at
https://umich.zoom.us/j/610377170
Problems? Email stat-phd-council-seminar+streaming@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:47:41 -0400 2020-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Lecture / Discussion Workshop Flyer
Live Event Canceled - Martha Colburn: Rip it Up (March 26, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70395 70395-17594442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Filmmaker, artist, and animator Martha Colburn’s films examine the complex dynamics of contemporary life, politics, and society. Colburn works for years on a single project, and her films result from intensive research and meticulously rendered stop-motion animations. Through photography, collage, painting, and puppetry, Colburn uses handmade aesthetics to create touching, personal, and unforgettable narratives. Her film Metamorfoza was included in the 2017 B3 Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany. Colburn is a Creative Capital grant recipient for Western Wild…or how I found Wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand, a densely textured documentary about the making of a film about the famed German author Karl May. She is a frequent featured artist at the Sundance Film Festival, where she initiated the “New Frontiers” film and video installation program in 2007 with her film Meet Me in Wichita. Colburn was also a featured artist at the opening of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, with a live performance of films and music. Her work is in the collections at MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her film Triumph of the Wild is permanently on show at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany.

Co-presented with the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0400 2020-03-26T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Colburn.jpg
CANCELLED Psychology Methods Hour: Methods for Studying Social Media in the Psychological Sciences (March 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69621 69621-17368336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:35:40 -0400 2020-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Chandhok
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72538 72538-18015948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:58:20 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (March 27, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63140 63140-15578791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:23:09 -0400 2020-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CANCELLED - Abdul El-Sayed Lecture & Book Signing (March 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73277 73277-18188505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The campus and Ann Arbor communities are invited to join us for a public lecture and book signing! Public health doctor and activist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is returning to his alma mater for a special event with the LSA Honors Program, where Dr. El-Sayed will serve as the Fall 2020 DeRoy Professor. El-Sayed who began his undergraduate career with the LSA Honors Program, was the 2008 U-M Commencement student speaker and a 2009 Rhodes Scholar, among other notable achievements.

His forthcoming book, "Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into Heart of our Political Epidemic," diagnoses our country’s “epidemic of insecurity” and the empathy policy we’ll need to treat it.

“Healing Politics is a token of appreciation for this state and its people, who taught me so much over the past several years. I hope it captures the challenges we face—and the hope I’ve seen in the least likely places,” said El-Sayed. “These are the insights I hope to bring to the classroom as the DeRoy Professor at the LSA Honors Program next fall. I’m excited to be back on campus, where, in many ways, the intellectual roots of this book took shape when I was a student.”

The LSA Honors DeRoy Visiting Professorship was endowed by the Helen L. DeRoy Foundation in 1981 to make it possible for students to study with distinguished persons in business, government, labor, law, and various scholarly disciplines. Former DeRoy Professors include poet and critic Carmen Bugan and French economist Jacques Mistral.

This event is hosted in partnership with U-M LSA Honors Program; Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships; The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Michigan Chapter; School for Environment and Sustainability; Ford School of Public Policy; School of Public Health; School of Social Work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:09:17 -0400 2020-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Lecture / Discussion Event poster
The Beattie Family Seminar Series in Combat Casualty Care (March 30, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71949 71949-17903307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 3:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC)

Carol Ann Fausone graduated from the University of Michigan School of Nursing in 1975. General Fausone served her country for 36 years retiring in 2011. From 2003-2011 she served as the Assistant Adjutant General of Veterans Affairs, for the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, State of Michigan advocating for Veterans. From 2001-2005, General Fausone served as the Assistant for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs working directly with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Force Health Protection and Readiness. Serving in this capacity, she assisted in developing and implementing programs, policy, and operations for Reserve Affairs.

Carol Ann continues serving by “Taking Care of Our American Heroes and their Families” to obtain the benefits they deserve at Legal Help for Veterans.

DETAILS & REGISTRATION:
http://bit.ly/CarolAnnFausone

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:01:20 -0500 2020-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC) Workshop / Seminar The Beattie Family Seminar Series in Combat Casualty Care with Brigadier General Carol Ann Fausone (ret) Flyer
The Use of Medieval Mythology in Current Political Culture and Propaganda with Martin Shichtman (March 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70338 70338-17584113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Professor Shichtman studies the ways by which medieval symbols have been embraced by political movements to represent uncorrupted purity. What’s different about recent evocations of knightly signage is their visibility on the Internet where they have become weaponized to attract members and demean enemies.

The goal of the lecture is first to discuss symbols in the medieval period. The professor will then discuss how such symbols have resurfaced in the Nazi era and in the contemporary environment to serve the political and propaganda goals of various movements.

Dr. Martin B. Shichtman is Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Institute for Israel Studies. Dr. Shichtman has co-authored two books, co-edited two collections, and published more than forty scholarly articles. He has presented more than 100 papers at international, national, and regional conferences. He is the recipient of EMU’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching and the Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:36:13 -0500 2020-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Event
CANCELLED - Calderón y el deporte sacramental: *la Loa del juego de la pelota* (March 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73590 73590-18267637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Spanish playwright Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) used the *juego de la pelota (Jeu de paume)* as a very effective strategy to explain the doctrinal essence of his auto sacramental *La cura y la enfermedad.* His aim was to capture the audience's attention and to persuade the less pious spectators with a brief introductory piece on a very appealing pastime. The lecture examines the social, doctrinal and courtly values of this little-known *Loa.*

Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:16:01 -0400 2020-03-31T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Calderón y el deporte sacramental
The Kit House in Ann Arbor (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72947 72947-18096976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

In conjunction with the Buying Home / Selling America exhibit in the Clark Library, Andrew and Wendy Mutch will speak about kit houses in Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:35:45 -0500 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 1, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17644320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
Live Event Canceled - Abigail DeVille: Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See the Stars (April 1, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70396 70396-17594443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

New York-based artist Abigail DeVille creates immersive works and installations designed to bring attention to forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site of a former African American burial ground in Harlem. With family roots reaching back at least two generations, DeVille’s work about New York City is both personal and political. Acting as an archaeologist, DeVille collects and reallocates found materials to give physical presence to unspoken stories and forgotten pasts. Her work often focuses around themes of displacement, migration, marginalization, and cultural invisibility. As an extension of her installation practice, DeVille also designs sets for theatrical productions, including the Stratford Festival in Canada and Harlem Stage. Her work is part of some of the most prestigious collections in the world and has been exhibited internationally, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Pinchuk Art Centre in Ukraine; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. An honors fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, a Creative Capital grantee, and an OBIE Award for Design recipient, DeVille is currently in residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Co-presented with the U-M Institute for Humanities, presenting No Space Hidden (Under Heaven), an exhibition of work by Abigail DeVille, on view at the IH Gallery April 1–May 7, 2020. There will be an exhibition reception at the IH Gallery following this event. Additional support for this speaker series event from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

 

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Auditions Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:45 -0400 2020-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Deville.jpg
[POSTPONED] Deep Regionalism: Discovering Great Lakes Literature (April 1, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73425 73425-18217169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

*** Update 3/11/20: This event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date. ***

The French, English, and American literatures of the Great Lakes begin in the sixteenth century. The American continues into the present. Native literatures, in several languages from three major language families, are far older and continue as well. These are true maritime literatures that are too frequently described as Midwestern, but have nothing to do with farming and little to do with cities except as ports.

Lakes literatures are international, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual because the lakes have always been a commercial highway, used for resource extraction and commodity handling by several Native nations and three countries. They were the site of the first métis culture in North America. Their ease of access allowed earlier women writers to experience the frontier without the difficulties and dangers inherent in a trip to the far west, while 19th and 20th century commercial traffic provided work for women in lighthouses and on ships. Their shared border with Canada allowed them to be a vital link in the Underground Railroad, and their maritime traditions of craft skill provided jobs for people of color when remunerative work on shore was closed to them. Lakes literature is a record of lives on the lakes over centuries, tracing war, industrialization, environmental degradation, and recovery.

This lecture is part of the Clements Library's Randolph G. Adams Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Great Lakes Theme Semester. Victoria Brehm, PhD, is an author and researcher of Great Lakes literary and cultural history. She recently was awarded the Patrick Labadie Award for Historic Preservation from the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History in recognition of her many years of making neglected and unknown texts about the lakes available to readers.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:18:09 -0400 2020-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Map Detail of the Great Lakes (1755) - William L. Clements Library
[CANCELLED]. CSEAS Lecture Series. Islamizing a Sacred Hindu-Javanese Text: The Story of Jimat Kalimasada in Javanese Wayang Puppet Play (April 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70971 70971-17760244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

Before the arrival of Islam, Javanese people had lived in Hindu–Javanese hybrid culture. The Islamization of Java has given rise to not only the expansion of different groups of people with diverse syncretistic religion and culture, but also rich variations in the content and context of Java-Islamic cultural performance genres and ideologies. Believing in the performing arts as one of the major venues for the blending of beliefs and practices, my presentation discusses a particular wayang story, Jimat Kalimasada, to show the complex processes of religious and cultural transformation from Hindu-Javanese to Islam-Javanese world of view.

Sumarsam has played Javanese gamelan since childhood. He is also a keen amateur dhalang (puppeteer) of wayang puppet play. He holds a BA degree from Akademi Seni Karawitan Indonesia, MA from Wesleyan, and PhD from Cornell. Currently holding the status of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, he has taught at Wesleyan since 1972. His research on the history, theory, and performance practice of gamelan and wayang, and on Indonesia-Western encounter theme has resulted the publication of numerous articles and two books: Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (1995) and Javanese Gamelan and the West (2013).

Sumarsam's recent research focuses on the intersections between religion and performing arts, examining discourses of transculturalism, the performing arts, and Islam among the Javanese. He is the recipient of a number of fellowship grants and awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (2016-17), Indonesian Bintang Satyalencana Cultural Award (2017), the International Gamelan Festival Literacy Award (2018), and Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowship (2019-20). He was recently named the 2018 honorary membership of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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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 Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:00 -0400 2020-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (April 3, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63142 63142-15578793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:23:44 -0400 2020-04-03T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
School of Nursing Research Day (April 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71416 71416-17825626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Nursing

Contact: UMSNResearchDayInfo@umich.edu

The event includes poster sessions, a panel discussion, and the Suzanne H. Brouse Lecture featuring Victoria L. Champion, Ph.D., RN, FAAN (IUPUI School of Nursing). The Brouse Lecture is made possible through generous donation by Suzanne H. Brouse, Ph.D., RN, who received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Michigan in 1958.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:42:22 -0500 2020-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Nursing Conference / Symposium
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (April 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-18543390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (April 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-18543391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED--IISS Lecture. Museums, Cultural Heritage Preservation, and Neoliberalism in the Middle East (April 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73641 73641-18276410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Diana Abouali will be speaking about recent issues of cultural heritage the Middle East, especially as new museum institutions have begun to open their doors throughout the Arab world. In her talk, Abouali will speak to her experience working with the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit and the Petra National Trust in Jordan, as well as her other leading roles in cultural heritage in the region.

Diana Abouali, PhD, was named the Director of the Arab American National Museum in early 2019. She holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and was previously a faculty member at Duke University. Following her teaching career, she relocated to Birzeit to to work as head of research and collections at the newly-established Palestinian Museum (which opened to the public in 2016 in Birzeit). Relocating to Amman, Jordan, in 2014, she worked as director of education, outreach and awareness at the Petra National Trust and later as a senior consultant for Turquoise Mountain in Jordan. She was project manager at Tiraz: Widad Kawar Home for Arab Dress on an AHRC-ESRC Global Challenges Fund (UK) project, in cooperation with Plymouth University and the Information and Research Center-King Hussein Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:29:57 -0400 2020-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
Speaking Up & Speaking Out: Why the AAPI Community Must Be Politically Engaged (April 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73444 73444-18223778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 5:30pm
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Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us for Jenn's lecture on "Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Why the AAPI Community Must Be Politically Engaged." Jenn is a proud Asian American feminist, scientist and nerd who currently blogs at Reappropriate.co, one of the web’s oldest AAPI feminist and race activist blogs.

For more information and to RSVP, please click here: https://bit.ly/jennfang

Lecture Description:
Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are popularly typecast as apolitical and disengaged, but these stereotypes ignore over 150 years of AAPI movement history marked by intense grassroots political organizing around issues of social justice. In the face of profound, and often state-sanctioned, racial violence, AAPIs have repeatedly come together to demand justice and liberation, often in partnership with other oppressed peoples. The current political climate makes that history even more relevant as Islamophobia and the forcible detention of migrants along the US-Mexico border stir memories of Chinese Exclusion and Japanese American incarceration. In this lecture, Dr. Fang will draw from watershed moments throughout AAPI organizing history – including the landmark Justice for Vincent Chin case that took place in Detroit in the 1980’s – to contextualize contemporary racial politics, and will argue forcefully for why today’s generation of AAPIs must continue that tradition of political engagement in the ongoing fight for racial and social justice.

This event is a part of Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-March to mid-April at the University of Michigan. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:12:31 -0400 2020-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual A/PIA Heritage Month Calendar: Jenn Fang
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting State Repression: An Analysis of Spells (April 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71587 71587-17842694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war and social movements), measurement, racism and popular culture. He is the author of six books: "The Peace Continuum" with Erik Melander and Patrick Regan (2017, Oxford University Press); "How Social Movements Die" (2016, Cambridge University Press); "Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party" (2010, Cambridge University Press) – winner of Best Book in Racial Politics and Social Movements by the American Political Science Association; "State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace" (2007, Cambridge University Press); "Repression and Mobilization" with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston (University of Minnesota Press. 2004), and "Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

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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: weisercenter@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:45:59 -0400 2020-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (April 7, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17753824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
Live Event Canceled - Njideka Akunyili Crosby: In Person (April 9, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70398 70398-17594445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles. Crosby uses collage and photo transfer-based paintings to expose and explore moments of collision, moments of unity, and moments of hybridity found in cross-cultural relationships and in cultures of colonization. Crosby’s work is both personal and universal, as she draws upon her lived experience with interracial marriage, immigration, and dual ideas of home, and the deep traces of colonization in Nigeria. In 2019, Crosby was a participant in the Venice Biennale 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Recent solo exhibitions include Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Counterparts, which debuted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2017 before traveling to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. She received an honorary doctorate of art from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 2019 and was named among the Financial Times’ “Women of the Year” in 2016.

Supported by University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Image: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “The Beautyful Ones” Series #1c, 2014.  Acrylic, color pencil, and transfers on paper, 61 x 42 inches. Photo: Joshua White Photography

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:45 -0400 2020-04-09T17:10:00-04:00 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Crosby.jpg
CANCELLED Psychology Methods Hour: How Do We Align Theory and Data in Psychological Science? A Focus on Adolescent Brain and Behavior (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69622 69622-17368337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:36:27 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Michael
CANCELED: SoConDi Discussion Group (April 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72539 72539-18015949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:36:44 -0400 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (April 10, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63143 63143-15578797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:24:13 -0400 2020-04-10T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CANCELLED: Health Professions Education Day (April 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70516 70516-17602797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

HPE Day 2020 Cancelled
Based on the University’s guidelines to cancel gatherings of over 100 people until at least April 21 due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we regret to announce that Health Professions Education Day 2020 is cancelled. The event was scheduled to take place on April 14, 2020.

We plan to create an online space where accepted posters can be captured and asynchronous discussion can take place. The details and logistics of this will await resumption of normal business activities. For those of you with accepted poster abstracts, this will include a new deadline for poster PDFs.

Your understanding and flexibility is appreciated. The safety of our faculty, staff, and students is our top priority.


The 6th Annual Health Professions Education Day will be held on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 from 8am - 3pm at the Michigan League. The guest lecturer will be Elena Umland, PharmD.

Agenda
7:30-8:00am: Poster Set-up
8:00-8:30am: Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:45am: Welcome and Introduction
8:45-9:30am: Keynote Address from Elena Umland, PharmD
9:45-11:15am: Poster Sessions
11:15-11:45am: Awards and Closing Remarks
12:00-1:00pm: Table Topic Lunch
1:00-3:00pm: **Workshop**

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:17:13 -0400 2020-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Learning Health Sciences Conference / Symposium Elena Umland pic
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Populism, Nationalism, and the Rise of Radical Politics in Europe and the United States (April 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71589 71589-17842695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, Resident Faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where he co-directs the Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy and serves as Director of Undergraduate Programs. Using relational survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, his work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and the rise of radical-right parties. His publications have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and a number of other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

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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: weisercenter@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:37:31 -0400 2020-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion speaker-image
CANCELLED "The Many Lives of John Donne: Criticism as Creative History.." (April 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73182 73182-18155742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

contact Prof. Anne Gere argere@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:32:42 -0400 2020-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
CANCELLED: Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 14, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64841 64841-16460978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

Please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296 with any questions.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:59:38 -0400 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
CANCELLED - Arnold Sameroff Lecture Series in Developmental Theory: Early Deprivation and Development: Studies of Orphanage-Adopted Children (April 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73223 73223-18179629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note this event has been cancelled.

This talk will cover my work on children adopted internationally from institutions (e.g., orphanages) into families in the US. The goal of this work was to understand the impact of deprivation in the first years of life on physical and behavioral development. Despite moving into some of the most well-resourced families on the planet when they were between 1 and 3 years of age, on average, previously institutionalized (PI) youth show significant impacts, often dose-dependent, on neurobehavioral development, the functioning of their stress-regulatory systems, and cardiometabolic health. Not all children are similarly affected, and I will also cover our work on parenting post-adoption and its relations with children’s outcomes. Finally, we are beginning to explore the role that puberty may play in potential recalibration stress physiology and its implications (positive and negative) for the adolescent development of PI youth.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:56:19 -0400 2020-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Megan Gunnar
[CANCELED] MAS Lecture | The Wooster Site: Overview of Prehistoric and Historic Occupations and Discussion of Previous and Upcoming Excavations (April 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73738 73738-18337311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:00am
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Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Wooster Site is a large, multi-component prehistoric and historic Native American site located at a natural crossing point on the Portage River in northeastern Jackson County, Michigan. It has yielded several thousand artifacts ranging from Paleolithic spear points to historic musket flints.

Dan Wymer, who owns 23 of the 29 acres comprising the Wooster Site, has invited MAS members to join him in April for a day of excavation at the site. The exact date will be determined by how soon the frost leaves the ground and the soil dries out enough to be sifted. The focus of the excavation will be a previously cultivated area that yielded 10,000-year-old Agate Basin artifacts during controlled surface collecting. MAS members who would like to participate in the dig are asked to attend this presentation in order to become familiar with the site and the details of how the April dig will be conducted.

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

MAS Lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the Kelsey Museum education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. 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 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:04:36 -0400 2020-04-16T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Agate Basin artifacts from the Wooster Site
Business Strategy and Leadership (April 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70742 70742-17627841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Solutions to the climate change challenge must come from the market (as comprised of corporations, the government, non-governmental organizations, and others), the most powerful institution on earth, and from business, which is the most powerful entity within it. Though government is an important arbiter of the market, it is business that transcends national boundaries, possessing resources that exceed those of many nations.

Professor Andrew Hoffman will discuss the ways in which climate change is altering and will alter markets, and the kinds of resulting responses from the business sector.

Professor Hoffman, Holcim (U.S.) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan Ross School of Business and University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, performs research using organizational behavior models and theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. He has published over 100 articles/book chapters, as well as 16 books, which have been translated into six languages.

This is lecture #4 in the five-part series "Facing the Future: The Challenge of Climate Change" which explores how climate change is impacting every corner of our earth, and every aspect of our lives.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:39:29 -0500 2020-04-17T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Friday Lectures
[POSTPONED] The Women's Suffrage Movement in Photographs (April 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73666 73666-18278625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

*Update 3/12/20: This lecture has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.*

Since the nation’s founding, Americans have used images to define political power and gender roles. Popular pictures praised male political leaders, while cartoons mocked women who sought rights. In the mid-nineteenth century, women’s rights activists like Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony challenged these powerful norms by distributing engraved and photographic portraits that represented women as political leaders. Over time, suffragists developed a national visual campaign to win voting rights. Their photographs captured their public protests and demonstrated their dedication to their cause for mass audiences.

Allison K. Lange, PhD is an assistant professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, published essayist and public historian. In preparation for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, she is curating exhibitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society and Harvard’s Schlesinger Library. Lange’s talk is based on her forthcoming book, "Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement."

This lecture is a part of the Clements Library's Randolph G. Adams Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the Michigan Photographic Historical Society.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:24:28 -0400 2020-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T21:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "Bloomerism in Practice: the morning after the victory" (detail), 1851
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth (April 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72596 72596-18024699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
As a fundamental process for converting kinetic to thermal energy, collisionless shocks are ubiquitous throughout the heliosphere and astrophysical systems, from Earth’s magnetosphere to supernova remnants. While these shocks have been studied for decades by spacecraft, telescopes, and numerical simulations, there remain key open questions in shock physics, such as: How do shocks accelerate particles to extremely high energies? or How are particles heated across a shock? Laboratory experiments thus provide a significant opportunity to both complement spacecraft and remote sensing observations with well-controlled and well-diagnosed datasets, and to help benchmark numerical simulations that bridge laboratory and astrophysical systems.
In this talk, I will discuss recent results from experiments and simulations on the formation and evolution of collision-less shocks created through the interaction of a supersonic laser-driven magnetic piston and magnetized ambient plas-ma. Through advanced diagnostics a fast, high-Mach-number shock is observed. Direct probing of particle velocity distributions reveals the coupling between the piston and ambient plasmas that is a key step in forming magnetized collisionless shocks. Particle-in-cell simulations further detail the shock formation process, the role of collisionality, and the dynamics of multi-ion-species ambient plasmas. I will also discuss how this experimental platform complements spacecraft missions and can allow novel investigations of shock heating and particle acceleration.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Schaeffer is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astro-physical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his BA in Physics at Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from UCLA, and did his postdoctoral work at Princeton in high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics. Dr. Schaeffer has extensive experience in experiments involving mag-netized laser plasmas, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, and a keen interest in bridging laboratory and astronomical observations. He also has expertise in a wide range of di-agnostics, including Thomson scattering, refractive imaging, proton radiography, and x-ray im-aging. He has authored dozens of papers and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:24 -0400 2020-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-22T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Derek Schaeffer
Local Community Theaters (April 22, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70587 70587-17609086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

There is a wealth of excellent theatre in and around Ann Arbor, including a world behind the scenes that creates the costumes, sets, and lighting. Three local theatre companies will talk about who they are, the productions they present, and the unique qualities each theatre company has to offer.

The Dio - Dining & Entertainment is Livingston County’s only professional dinner theater, which includes 20 tables, seating 70 guests for each production. Their 7th season will feature three musical productions and two plays. An evening at The Dio includes dinner, dessert, beverages, and a memorable live performance.

Theatre NOVA is a professional theatre in Ann Arbor, producing exclusively new plays in a comfortable, intimate venue in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor. They present seven shows each season, including a holiday musical panto for families. Most of their plays are either world premieres or Michigan premieres.

The Encore Musical Theatre Company is a non-profit musical theatre company in Dexter. Its mission is to create quality original, as well as widely known, theatrical productions with an emphasis on Musical Theatre. They have used a mix of Broadway productions and local talent for twelve seasons.

Please note the new start time for this event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:38:14 -0500 2020-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T19:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Evening with OLLI
Brexit: Where Did It Come From and Where Is It Going? (April 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74377 74377-18680262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Jim Adams, UM Professor of Economics will provide this lecture which is free and open to the public.

The link to Professor Adams’ lecture is https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rvhxkrsx

If you only want to join it by phone:
Dial one of the following numbers, enter the participant PIN followed by # to confirm:
+1 (800) 520-9950 (US Toll Free)
+1 (415) 466-7000 (US)
PIN: 8022291 followed by # to confirm

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:25:10 -0400 2020-04-23T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
COVID-19 - A New Update (April 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74393 74393-18682278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Lona Mody, Amanda Sanford Hickey Professor Internal Medicine, Associate Division Chief of Geriatric and Palliative Care Medicine will give you the latest information on the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The link to Mody's lecture is:
https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/vxujjpgq

To call in, dial: 1 (800) 520-9950 and enter PIN 1214384 #

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:26:05 -0400 2020-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Mindfulness at the Time of Covid 19 (April 28, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74409 74409-18688304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A FREE special live-stream lecture offered by the Turner Senior Wellness Program!

Reflecting on the stress we are experiencing at the time of current pandemic, and learning on how mindfulness can help ease such stress and restore a sense of well-being.

Mariko Foulk, LMSW Clinical Social Worker, Michigan Medicine Geriatrics Center

The link Foulk lecture is https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93526204010?pwd=VE9PY3FRQ3ZmcEVVanY0QlF5UFBudz09

Dial one of the following numbers, enter the participant PIN followed by # to confirm:
+1 312 626 6799 (US)
Webinar ID: 935 2620 4010
Password: 967700

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:14:11 -0400 2020-04-28T13:30:00-04:00 2020-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
Vaping: A New Public Health Crisis or a Solution to the Disaster of Cigeratte Smoking? Or Neither? (Or Both?) (April 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74410 74410-18688305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Ken Warner, UM Professor Emeritus of Public Health

Please click the link below to join Dr. Warner’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91930175534

Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
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Webinar ID: 919 3017 5534

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:25:26 -0400 2020-04-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 29, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17957293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-29T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
China’s Global Ambitions and Its Domestic Challenges (April 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74389 74389-18682275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

This presentation will examine China’s global ambitions as related to trade and investment, Belt and Road, and national security in the context of broad domestic challenges, such as environmental degradation, slowing growth, and rising expectations from the burgeoning middle class.

The speaker, Professor Mary E. Gallagher, relates China’s global aspirations to the regime’s desire to manage these domestic problems.

Professor Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese
Studies.

Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. Her most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State (Cambridge University Press 2017). She is also the author or editor of several other books.

Please click the link below to join Prof. Gallagher’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93223323877

Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 312 626 6799
Webinar ID: 932 2332 3877

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:14:14 -0400 2020-04-30T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-30T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Diversity, Many Model Thinking about Pandemics and Their Consequences (May 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74412 74412-18688307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Scott Page, UM Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management
Please click the link below to join Prof. Page’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92597629286

Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923
Webinar ID: 925 9762 9286

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:41:34 -0400 2020-05-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
POSTPONED - Alden B. Dow and Mid-century Modern Architecture in Southeast Michigan (May 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70604 70604-17611199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Please check back for rescheduling information.

This presentation by Craig McDonald, Director of the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio and the Foundation Representative of the Alden and Vada Dow Family Foundations will focus on Dow’s architectural achievements in southeast Michigan, including Ann Arbor.

Dow was the architect of Ann Arbor’s City Hall, Downtown Public Library, and the UM Administration Building.

The event complements the forthcoming day trip to Midland, MI, on June 26, when we have an opportunity to view, first hand, Dow’s home, studio, gardens, and other architectural accomplishments in Midland.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:58:21 -0400 2020-05-06T19:00:00-04:00 2020-05-06T21:00:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Evening with OLLI
Interest Groups and American Trade Politics (May 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74390 74390-18682276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required. Access details will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

In this talk Professor Iain Osgood provides a model of contemporary American trade politics. He emphasizes the political advantages of pro-trade firms relative to anti-trade firms, and also examine the role of trade skeptics in the labor movement and among progressive groups. Dr. Osgood will show how this model can help explain
trade policy developments of the past thirty years, with particular focus on the recent debates over NAFTA and trade with China.

Speaker: Dr. Iain Osgood is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is currently working on projects examining special interest coalition-building around climate change; progressive opponents of trade in the United States; and identifying clusters of development strategies among countries engaging with global markets. His recent work appears in several respected political journals.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:39:43 -0400 2020-05-07T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-07T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
VIRTUAL EVENT: Confronting our Climate Grief in the time of COVID-19 (May 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68154 68154-17018328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

This workshop will be held via Zoom (link to follow via email prior to the event). For safety and privacy, you must be registered to receive the link.

In 2017, the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica published, “Mental Health and our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance.” In October 2018, the U.N. released a report warning that without “unprecedented” political actions, we will likely see catastrophic conditions by 2040. Globally, most communities are already experiencing effects of climate change, and the poorest members of society remain most vulnerable. In this uncertain context, climate grief is real, particularly as the crisis is largely beyond any individual’s ability to control. As a scholar studying climate change, Sampson has sought emerging evidence-based strategies in hopes of coping and building resiliency. In this workshop, together we will: 1) confront our sometimes silent, biggest fears related to climate change, 2) identify ways our community or current professional work may be climate-affected, and 3) create a personal climate resiliency plan that may include household or community action or policy advocacy strategies.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:22:57 -0400 2020-05-07T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-07T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Natalie Sampson
Local Leadership and Personal Action (May 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70743 70743-17627842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED AND IS NOW AVAILABLE FREE TO ALL. Please access the OLLI website for detailed information.

Our two speakers, Mike Shriberg (Great Lakes Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation) and Oday Salim (Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Staff Attorney of the National Wildlife Federation) will discuss what local governments and individuals can do to address climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Dr. Shriberg will describe what Ann Arbor has done and can do, as well as ways that he and others have addressed the issue at the scale of the family and individual.

Professor Salim will evaluate the opportunities and obstacles to addressing climate change that the law creates for local governments here and around the world.

Dr. Mike Shriberg has served as Education Director at the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute as well as Policy Director at Ecology Center, Director of Environment Michigan and Environmental Studies Director and Assistant Professor at Chatham University.

Oday Salim is an attorney at the National Wildlife Federation as well as director of the University of Michigan Law School’s Environmental Law & Sustainability Clinic. Issues on which he has worked include: storm water management, water quality permitting, water rights, environmental justice, land use and zoning, utility regulation, mineral rights, and renewable energy.

This is the final lecture in the five-part series "Facing the Future: The Challenge of Climate Change" which explores how climate change is impacting every corner of our earth, and every aspect of our lives.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:11:48 -0400 2020-05-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Climate Change Lectures
Virtual Climate Crisis Education Series (May 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74545 74545-18793318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

“COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our societies to global shocks, such as disease or the climate crisis. As we recover, we must build a better future for all. Together, we can protect our planet, improve health, reduce inequality & re-energize struggling economies.” ---UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

In the spirit of working together to solve these global crises, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Washtenaw Climate Reality invite you to join us for this series of presentations:

Sunday, May 10, 8pm: “COVID-19, Health & Climate Change,” Dr. Larry Junck, University of Michigan (Here is a link to the recording of "COVID-19, Health & Climate Change": http://tiny.cc/ClimateCrisisMay10)

Sunday, May 17, 8pm: “Climate Change in the Great Lakes- Challenges & Opportunities,” Kris Olsson, Washtenaw Climate Reality

Sunday, May 31, 8pm: “Climate Strategies- What Actions Will Keep Us at 1.5-2ºC?” Clark McCall & Kunal Joshi, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 7, 8pm: “Pollution Pricing as a Climate Justice Tool,” Ann Ellingson, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 14, 8pm: Climate Trivia Night-- Join us for a fun evening of climate trivia! Show off your climate knowledge! Organize a team of friends, or play on your own. Prizes! After you sign up for this, you will receive instructions for how to enter your team members.

The presentations will be held as Zoom webinars. Information for connecting to Zoom will be sent to registrants before each talk. Register for as many or as few talks in the series as you like.

Free and open to the public

Link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-crisis-education-series-tickets-104484473874

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 29 May 2020 14:52:44 -0400 2020-05-10T20:00:00-04:00 2020-05-10T21:00:00-04:00 Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual Photo of wildfire, hurricane and drought
Perspectives on the social dimensions of infectious crises (pandemics and epidemics), and the specific role of vaccines. (May 11, 2020 10:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74520 74520-18776714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 11, 2020 10:15am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Vaccines are the topic of the first Lecture Video Learning developed for OLLI members. Lecture Video Learning will include videos that give background perspective combined with live presentations that offer timely updates.

Online - Free! No registration needed.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759.

Presenter Dr. Alexandra Stern is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine and associate director of the Center for the History of Medicine. She is a medical historian with a research focus on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States. Her expertise supplies historical context in such areas as public health, children’s health, scapegoating, ethnic relations, political governance and social restrictions, and the complex interplay among these elements that define the human and community experience during an evolving public health emergency.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 May 2020 10:40:23 -0400 2020-05-11T10:15:00-04:00 2020-05-11T12:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Video Lecture
How Covid-19 Could Affect the United States’ Fall 2020 Elections (May 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74519 74519-18776713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Please click the link below to join Barbara McQuade’s webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99452419688
Phone: 1 312 626 6799 or 1 646 876 9923
Webinar ID: 99452419688

Barbara McQuade, Professor from Practice, UM Law School

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 May 2020 11:23:15 -0400 2020-05-12T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-12T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lecture
Making the Difficult Decisions in Dementia Care (May 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74556 74556-18801273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

UM Turner Senior Resource Center presents:
Making the Difficult Decisions in Dementia Care

Presented by Beth Spencer, MA, LMSW

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Please use the following to access this event.
https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/98039708591?pwd=QXFqclc0d0paRk9mVUpsWVNSZjFBZz09
Password: 057657
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +13126266799,,98039708591#,,1#,057657# or +16465588656,,98039708591#,,1#,057657#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782
Webinar ID: 980 3970 8591
Password: 057657

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Class / Instruction Fri, 08 May 2020 11:32:36 -0400 2020-05-13T13:30:00-04:00 2020-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lectures
A View of the Global Auto Industry from Michigan (May 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74392 74392-18682277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required. Access information will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

Michigan is the nation’s top producer of light vehicles and automotive parts and, if the state were an independent country, it would be the 10th largest vehicle producer in the world. Michigan is also the top state for both automotive and parts imports and exports—trade is critically important to the health of the industry and the state.

A lot has changed in the industry’s first hundred or so years, though trade remains critically important. Automotive competition is global—with long and complicated supply chains that stretch around the world in support of the automotive sector.

This presentation by Kristin Dziczek will provide an overview of Michigan's largest manufacturing sector in the context of current U.S. trade policies and negotiations.

Kristin Dziczek is Vice President - Research at the Center for Automotive Research. She is a globally recognized expert on automotive labor union issues and lectures regularly on the subject. She has also served in government and industry roles and has published articles in labor and management publications.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:57:15 -0400 2020-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-14T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
Virtual Climate Crisis Education Series (May 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74545 74545-18793319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

“COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our societies to global shocks, such as disease or the climate crisis. As we recover, we must build a better future for all. Together, we can protect our planet, improve health, reduce inequality & re-energize struggling economies.” ---UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

In the spirit of working together to solve these global crises, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Washtenaw Climate Reality invite you to join us for this series of presentations:

Sunday, May 10, 8pm: “COVID-19, Health & Climate Change,” Dr. Larry Junck, University of Michigan (Here is a link to the recording of "COVID-19, Health & Climate Change": http://tiny.cc/ClimateCrisisMay10)

Sunday, May 17, 8pm: “Climate Change in the Great Lakes- Challenges & Opportunities,” Kris Olsson, Washtenaw Climate Reality

Sunday, May 31, 8pm: “Climate Strategies- What Actions Will Keep Us at 1.5-2ºC?” Clark McCall & Kunal Joshi, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 7, 8pm: “Pollution Pricing as a Climate Justice Tool,” Ann Ellingson, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 14, 8pm: Climate Trivia Night-- Join us for a fun evening of climate trivia! Show off your climate knowledge! Organize a team of friends, or play on your own. Prizes! After you sign up for this, you will receive instructions for how to enter your team members.

The presentations will be held as Zoom webinars. Information for connecting to Zoom will be sent to registrants before each talk. Register for as many or as few talks in the series as you like.

Free and open to the public

Link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-crisis-education-series-tickets-104484473874

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 29 May 2020 14:52:44 -0400 2020-05-17T20:00:00-04:00 2020-05-17T21:00:00-04:00 Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual Photo of wildfire, hurricane and drought
Economy, Policy, and Political Approaches to Vaccines (May 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74522 74522-18776715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Vaccines are the topic of the first Lecture Video Learning developed for OLLI members. Lecture Video Learning will include videos that give background perspective combined with live presentations that offer timely updates.

Online - Free! No registration needed.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759

Topic 1 (2:00-3:00): Economic and policy approaches to vaccines: modeling of infectious diseases at the CDC and other organizations for guidance to policy makers and the public; leadership in political eras of low trust.

Dr. David Hutton is an expert in health policy modeling and medical decision making, and has had a nationally recognized influence on national and international hepatitis B policy. He is currently interested in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of: new public health policies, the use of new drugs and devices, chronic and infectious disease interventions, and interventions with uncertain or complex outcomes.

Topic 2 (3:00-4:00): The appropriate role of government in vaccines: power dynamics, priorities, jurisdictions; funding of critical health system infrastructure and preparedness.

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. In 2018, Abdul ran for Governor of Michigan on an unapologetically progressive platform. Prior, he served as Health Commissioner in the City of Detroit, appointed to rebuild the City’s health department after it was privatized during municipal bankruptcy. As a professor at Columbia University's Department of Epidemiology, Abdul became an internationally recognized expert in health policy and health inequalities.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 May 2020 11:01:19 -0400 2020-05-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Lecture Video Learning
“Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen” by Mary Norris (May 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70599 70599-17609142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Best-selling New York Times author and renowned New Yorker copy editor—the Comma Queen herself—Mary Norris is again delighting readers with her wit, knowledge, and exploration of language in “Greek to Me; Adventures of the Comma Queen” (W.W. Norton; April 2, 2019, hardcover). In this new memoir, Norris relates her life-long love of Greece, her quest to learn the language and master the mythology, and her travels through the Greek Isles in search of herself.

“Greek to Me” is a brilliant, witty, and moving memoir. Norris’s love of words inspires her treks through Greece—both the language and the country. Join her on her journey in “Greek to Me” as she navigates from Alpha to Omega.

Mary Norris worked for the New Yorker as a copy editor and query proofreader for more than thirty years. Her first book, “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, is a New York Times best-selling book about her years at the New Yorker. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Norris now lives in New York and Rockaway.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:47:14 -0500 2020-05-19T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19 (May 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74605 74605-18851154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
The Kids are Not All Right: Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19

Presenter: Pamela Davis-Kean, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at ISR

Wednesday, May 20
11am
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97584475822

With schools closed due to the COVID19 virus, the teaching and learning environments for children have now merged into one place--the home. With schools being the "great equalizer" for education opportunities, what does it mean for families to provide assistance and much of the teaching during the quarantine and what challenges will schools face if they are able to open in the fall? Dr. Davis-Kean will discuss her research on the inequalities in educational opportunities and what that means for families, schools, and children as this unprecedented crisis is potentially increasing achievement gaps across the country.

This webinar is the first in a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 May 2020 14:42:52 -0400 2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2020-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Shakespeare in the Arb: Twenty Years of Magic Making (May 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74613 74613-18857120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Afternoons with OLLI presents: Shakespeare in the Arb: Twenty Years of Magic Making

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Kate Mendeloff is a member of the Drama faculty in the UM Residential College and Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Arb. She will give background and perspective on this popular environmental theater event. She will show several short video clips that capture the process of rehearsal and performance. She also will reflect on the impact of the experience on students, community actors and the larger public. This summer would have been the 20th anniversary of the event, but it has been postponed until summer 2021.

Link to Kate Mendeloff’s talk:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95355476043
Phone: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923
Webinar ID: 95355476034

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Class / Instruction Fri, 15 May 2020 11:20:57 -0400 2020-05-20T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-20T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lectures
A2Zero: A Path Towards a Just Transition to Community-wide Carbon Neutrality in Ann Arbor (May 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74625 74625-18882945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Dr. Missy Stults is the Sustainability and Innovations Manager for the City of Ann Arbor. In this role, she works with all city operations, residents, businesses, the University of Michigan, nonprofits, and others to make Ann Arbor one of the most sustainable and equitable cities in America. Prior to joining the City, Missy worked with cities and tribal communities around the nation to advance their climate and sustainability goals, including during her time as the Climate Director at ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and as a consultant to philanthropic organizations.

Missy has a PhD in urban resilience from the University of Michigan, a Masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University, and undergraduate degrees in Marine Biology and Environmental Science from the University of New England.

Link to Dr. Stults’s talk: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98136605956
Phone: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923
Webinar ID: 98136605956

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Class / Instruction Mon, 18 May 2020 16:17:18 -0400 2020-05-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-21T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lectures
The Epidemiology of Pandemics and Vaccines (May 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74562 74562-18825097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

The epidemiology of pandemics and vaccines: the history and process of vaccine development in the US and globally; rapid response to produce a covid-19 vaccine, and near-term drug and antibody therapies

Speaker Dr. Emily Toth Martin is on the faculty of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on building a greater understanding of the epidemiology of viral respiratory diseases (including RSV, bocavirus, and influenza) through the use of molecular epidemiology. In particular, her work aims to identify strategies to reduce infections, particularly in individuals with chronic comorbidities and in hospital infectious environments (including MRSA / VRE coinfection).

Online - Free! No registration needed. Link to the 3 sessions: Please use the following link to access the event:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 May 2020 08:27:08 -0400 2020-05-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Special Online Lectures
OLLI Annual Town Hall with Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor (May 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74674 74674-18896898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

OLLI will host its annual Town Hall meeting with an update on OLLI’s plans, confirmation of the volunteer members serving on the Leadership Council for the upcoming year, and the opportunity for members to ask questions.

Christopher Taylor, Mayor of Ann Arbor, will be our guest speaker starting at 10:30 am. His talk, "Ann Arbor and COVID-19", will discuss how City Hall looks to improve basic services and enhance quality of life in Ann Arbor in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. He also looks forward to answering our many questions.

Taylor has served as Ann Arbor’s Mayor since 2014 after serving six years on the City Council. He is a four-time graduate of the University of Michigan and is also a practicing attorney.

Link to the OLLI Annual Town Hall: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98666563916
US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923
Webinar ID: 986 6656 3916

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Class / Instruction Wed, 20 May 2020 10:44:57 -0400 2020-05-28T10:00:00-04:00 2020-05-28T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lectures
'Over There' With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (May 29, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74675 74675-18896899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 29, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Over 2 million Americans served overseas during the First World War. In this presentation Clements Library employee Louis Miller examines the experiences of American soldiers in France during the "war to end all wars." Miller will discuss some of the exceptional and heartbreaking stories from that conflict using original documents and artifacts mostly pulled from Clements Library collections.

Our speaker is Louis Miller, Reading Room Supervisor, Clements Library. Mr. Miller graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2013 with a major in history and minor in religious studies. After working a year at the Bentley Historical Library, he entered the School of Information at the University of Michigan, graduating in 2016 with a Master's specializing in archives and records management. He has worked as a full-time employee at UM William L. Clements Library since January 2016. Miller’s research focuses on the experience of American soldiers during the First World War and the commemoration of that conflict. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Claire and their two cats.

Link to Louis Miller’s talk: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93368891769
US: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Webinar ID: 933 6889 1769

Recommended books:
Bodies of War; WI and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 by Lisa M. Budreau
Yanks, The Epic Story of the American Army in WWI by John S. D. Eisenhower
Torchbearers of Democracy; African American Soldiers in the WWI Era by Chad L. Williams

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Class / Instruction Wed, 20 May 2020 10:54:42 -0400 2020-05-29T13:30:00-04:00 2020-05-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lectures
Virtual Climate Crisis Education Series (May 31, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74545 74545-18793320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 31, 2020 8:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

“COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our societies to global shocks, such as disease or the climate crisis. As we recover, we must build a better future for all. Together, we can protect our planet, improve health, reduce inequality & re-energize struggling economies.” ---UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

In the spirit of working together to solve these global crises, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Washtenaw Climate Reality invite you to join us for this series of presentations:

Sunday, May 10, 8pm: “COVID-19, Health & Climate Change,” Dr. Larry Junck, University of Michigan (Here is a link to the recording of "COVID-19, Health & Climate Change": http://tiny.cc/ClimateCrisisMay10)

Sunday, May 17, 8pm: “Climate Change in the Great Lakes- Challenges & Opportunities,” Kris Olsson, Washtenaw Climate Reality

Sunday, May 31, 8pm: “Climate Strategies- What Actions Will Keep Us at 1.5-2ºC?” Clark McCall & Kunal Joshi, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 7, 8pm: “Pollution Pricing as a Climate Justice Tool,” Ann Ellingson, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 14, 8pm: Climate Trivia Night-- Join us for a fun evening of climate trivia! Show off your climate knowledge! Organize a team of friends, or play on your own. Prizes! After you sign up for this, you will receive instructions for how to enter your team members.

The presentations will be held as Zoom webinars. Information for connecting to Zoom will be sent to registrants before each talk. Register for as many or as few talks in the series as you like.

Free and open to the public

Link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-crisis-education-series-tickets-104484473874

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 29 May 2020 14:52:44 -0400 2020-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 2020-05-31T21:00:00-04:00 Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual Photo of wildfire, hurricane and drought
Virtual Seminar - "Metabolic engineering strategies: from static to dynamic rewiring of microbial metabolic networks” (June 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74728 74728-18952538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Filipa Pereira, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Link to attend: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93168574796

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 May 2020 10:54:07 -0400 2020-06-01T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
CCAT Research Review (June 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74696 74696-18912800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Research Review is a bimonthly event that takes a deep-dive on current transportation projects. This discussion is led by Dr. Shan Bao of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Dr. Bao will be discussing her project titled, "How Vehicle Connectivity based Eco-Routing Choices Will Impact Driver Decision Making" that proposes methods of assessing and modeling how these choices will impact drivers' decision making when provided with different sources of information. This free webinar will include a Q&A session.

Register for this free event at ccat.eventbrite.com

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 May 2020 10:00:36 -0400 2020-06-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Webinar: Learning Health Systems in the Time of COVID-19 (June 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74564 74564-18825099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This 90-minute webinar is designed to introduce individuals to the overall concept of learning health systems, focusing on core components of learning cycles and infrastructure. It is appropriate for anyone interested in how health systems function, and particularly for individuals working within health systems. We will use examples that span countries and clinical problems, with special emphasis on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 May 2020 11:05:21 -0400 2020-06-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-06-02T15:30:00-04:00 Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Corona virus and Collaboratory logo
Final Decisions (June 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74763 74763-18968466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Pre-registration required for access.

This one session online study group will cover a number of topics relating to end of life decisions. They include: Michigan’s laws relating to burial; honest talks with doctors, based in part on Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal; choosing time of death; interesting cross-cultural funeral rituals; and options outside of traditional burial such as cremation, green burial, donation to medical schools, reef burial, cryogenics, and bio-urn (ashes planted with a tree seed).

Study group leader Marion Holt has extensive knowledge of this subject and has developed two courses on aging.

Please register by e-mailing olli.info@umich.edu.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 29 May 2020 11:51:51 -0400 2020-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Groups
Motor City at a Standstill: Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Detroit (June 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74752 74752-18962487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
11:00am EST
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2Afy5YH

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit has emerged as an epicenter of the crisis. To date, more than 1300 Detroiters have died from a coronavirus infection and 43 percent of city residents have lost their jobs. In this ISR Insights talk, Jeffrey Morenoff (Professor, Sociology and Public Policy; Director, Population Studies Center) and Lydia Wileden (PhD Candidate, Sociology and Public Policy; Population Studies Center trainee) will discuss efforts by the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study -- a panel study of more than 1100 Detroiters -- to capture the real-time experiences of Detroiters and share insights from two survey waves on the dramatic financial precarity facing many Detroit households and the behavioral and economic changes residents are making to get by.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 May 2020 21:12:24 -0400 2020-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Suffrage at 100: Women’s Rights, Civil Rights, and Voting Rights from 1920 to COVID-19 (June 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74709 74709-18946562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

The links to access this event will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

The Nineteenth Amendment is popularly celebrated for enfranchising half of all Americans overnight. But who actually gained the ability to vote after the woman suffrage amendment was ratified? In “Suffrage at 100,” Liette Gidlow, Ph.D., explores the “long history” of the Nineteenth Amendment, connecting it to the voting rights struggles of the 1960s and today.

Liette Gidlow is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, where she is participating in the Long Nineteenth Amendment Project at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 26 May 2020 14:28:32 -0400 2020-06-04T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-04T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lecture
Virtual Climate Crisis Education Series (June 7, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74545 74545-18793321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 7, 2020 8:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

“COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our societies to global shocks, such as disease or the climate crisis. As we recover, we must build a better future for all. Together, we can protect our planet, improve health, reduce inequality & re-energize struggling economies.” ---UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

In the spirit of working together to solve these global crises, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Washtenaw Climate Reality invite you to join us for this series of presentations:

Sunday, May 10, 8pm: “COVID-19, Health & Climate Change,” Dr. Larry Junck, University of Michigan (Here is a link to the recording of "COVID-19, Health & Climate Change": http://tiny.cc/ClimateCrisisMay10)

Sunday, May 17, 8pm: “Climate Change in the Great Lakes- Challenges & Opportunities,” Kris Olsson, Washtenaw Climate Reality

Sunday, May 31, 8pm: “Climate Strategies- What Actions Will Keep Us at 1.5-2ºC?” Clark McCall & Kunal Joshi, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 7, 8pm: “Pollution Pricing as a Climate Justice Tool,” Ann Ellingson, Ann Arbor Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Sunday, June 14, 8pm: Climate Trivia Night-- Join us for a fun evening of climate trivia! Show off your climate knowledge! Organize a team of friends, or play on your own. Prizes! After you sign up for this, you will receive instructions for how to enter your team members.

The presentations will be held as Zoom webinars. Information for connecting to Zoom will be sent to registrants before each talk. Register for as many or as few talks in the series as you like.

Free and open to the public

Link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-crisis-education-series-tickets-104484473874

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 29 May 2020 14:52:44 -0400 2020-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 2020-06-07T21:00:00-04:00 Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual Photo of wildfire, hurricane and drought
Mentorship Today Impacts the Future (June 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74828 74828-19002291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Mentorship plays a valuable role in the development of others. The mentor has a unique perspective on individuals who aspire to develop as a professional and person. This presentation will discuss the importance of mentorship, some considerations on effectively mentoring others, and the value mentorship provides society in developing the next level of productive citizens and professionals.

Speaker Timothy Neal, Assistant Professor and Director of the Athletic Training Program, Concordia University, is a certified athletic trainer and National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Hall of Fame member. He spent 35 years as a clinical athletic trainer and Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University. He has mentored dozens of athletic training professionals, student-athletes and young coaches.

Link to Timothy Neal's lecture: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98378975260
US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592
Webinar ID: 983 7897 5260

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Class / Instruction Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:38:06 -0400 2020-06-09T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-09T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Distinguished Lecture Series