Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. First Step Sessions (December 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47537 47537-10942726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

In order to participate in a CGIS program, you must attend a session where you will learn about programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, courses in your major, and credit transfer. Additional sessions will be held the first two weeks of school from 12-12:30pm in Suite 255, Weiser Hall.

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Meeting Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:49:11 -0500 2017-12-14T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting FirstStep
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (December 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (December 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-12-22T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-22T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-05T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Bioethics Discussion: Abortion (January 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43722 43722-9832710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion "going there" respectfully.

Essays to consider:
"Abortion and health care ethics"
"Abortion and infanticide"
"A defense of abortion"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:22:57 -0500 2018-01-09T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Abortion
Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory | General Interest Meeting (January 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48341 48341-11222710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory warmly welcomes all to attend a general interest meeting this upcoming Thursday, January 11 in 2024 Tisch Hall at 6pm.

This semester we will be exploring the concepts of tragedy and melancholia in both literature and contemporary critical theory. During Thursday's meeting we will overview the theme, readings, and schedule for the upcoming Winter 2018 term in greater depth as well as take suggestions from the group regarding further texts to be read and invited speakers.

Please feel free to circulate this notice to any and all who may be interested. And let either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu) know if you've any questions in the interim. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:42:38 -0500 2018-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T19:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Excuses and Justifications in Epistemology (January 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47012 47012-10725027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Epistemology concerns what we should believe. Ethics concerns what we should do. Much recent work in the two fields emphasizes their similarities—their shared concern with oughts, normativity, and how things should be in some broad sense—over their differences. An increasingly influential argumentative strategy in the spirit of this broader trend is to argue that the distinction between justifications and excuses—familiar in ethics and the philosophy of law—can be exported to epistemology, where it can do substantial philosophical work. Timothy Williamson, Clayton Littlejohn, Amia Srinivasan, John Hawthorne, Jason Stanley, and others have all argued, in one form or another, that many mistakes in epistemology are the consequence of conflating the distinction between justified belief on the one hand, and merely excusable or blameless belief on the other.

Ultimately, I suspect that this move is too quick—the justification/excuse distinction cannot be straightforwardly or uncritically adopted by epistemologists. But vindicating this suspicion is a major task. My argumentative strategy will involve paying close attention to the roles the excuse/justification distinction plays in the law, and arguing that there aren’t analogous roles to be played by a similar distinction in epistemology. Stepping back, my broader hope is to sound a cautionary note about drawing parallels between practical and epistemic normativity. Concepts and distinctions that have application in the former domain don't 'automatically' have application in the latter, and when they do, it takes theoretical work to show this.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:16:01 -0500 2018-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Excuses and Justifications in Epistemology
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Unforgiving Him: On Himpathy and History (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48656 48656-11265182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Presented by:
Race, Gender & Feminist Philosophy
Minorities and Philosophy

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:03:50 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Unforgiving Him Poster
CSAAW MEETING WITH PATRICK GRIM (January 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48996 48996-11342283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The goal of CSAAW is to support graduate students interested in complex systems research. Through our regular meetings, students discuss their own work and receive feedback from other students, faculty, and researchers. For some meetings, students present "tutorials" on various complex systems related topics or methodology. Other meetings consist of talks by and discussions with invited speakers who are active in complex systems research.

Professor Patrick Grim has taught for Complex Systems for several years, and organizes many research groups with students - a great mentor to our Complex Systems flock. Professor Grim is a retired Emeritus Philosophy Professor from SUNY at Stoneybrook.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:22:05 -0500 2018-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Patrick Grim headshot
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (January 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49166 49166-11386606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Light snacks will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:33:22 -0500 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Assisted Reproduction (January 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43723 43723-9832711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion for the bravest in the new world.

A few essays to consider:
"The ethics of uterus transplantation"
"Assisted reproduction in same sex couples"
"Multiple gestation and damaged babies"

For more information and to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:23:41 -0500 2018-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Assisted reproduction
For the Heart, Life is Simple (January 24, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49027 49027-11364395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

A lecture on the means, methods, and consequences of measuring cardiovascular dynamics via pressures, flows, and volumes.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:55:09 -0500 2018-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2018-01-24T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion For the heart, life is simple
Quantifying the Self: Three Lectures on Human Instruments (January 24, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49030 49030-11364401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A series of three lectures on the methods and consequences of measuring our biomedical conditions.

Topics include:
Jan 24 – "For the heart, life is simple" – Cardiovascular dynamics as measured by pressures, volumes, and flows

Feb 7 – "I sing the body electric" – Electrophysiology of the brain, the heart, the muscles, the eyes, and the gut

Mar 14 – "Health lies in action" – Next generation physiological monitoring: wearables, therables, and capturing physiology when and where it happens.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:16:20 -0500 2018-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2018-01-24T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Quantifying the Self
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (January 26, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
On Miracles and Spacetime (February 1, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48780 48780-11306110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Abstract: I argue for the existence of two coincidences—or ‘miracles’—in the foundations of general relativity, which do not admit of explanation from within that theory. I suggest that these ‘miracles’ may be accounted for naturally in one particular successor theory to general relativity, namely perturbative string theory. I close by reflecting on the nature of spacetime in general relativity versus string theory.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:50:42 -0500 2018-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (February 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Gershom Scholem's Negative Aesthetics: Mathematics and the Origins of Critical Theory (February 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49280 49280-11406224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Friday February 2, 2018
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Room 3308 Modern Languages Building
812 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, 48109-1275

This presentation is part of the Winter Colloquium of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
A pre-circulated paper in English is available upon request.


Matthew Handelman will share new work on Gershom Scholem, preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism with widespread impact on twentieth-century Zionism, culture, and thought. Handelman will highlight the importance of mathematical concepts for understanding Scholem's ideas of aesthetics and negativity and their relationship to critical theorists such as Franz Rosenzweig and Siegfried Kracauer.

Matthew Handelman is an Assistant Professor of German and a member of the Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. His research interests include German-Jewish literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century, the intersections of science, mathematics and culture in German-speaking countries, as well as the digital humanities and the history of technology. Matthew has published on these topics in international journals such as The Germanic Review, Scientia Poetica and The Leo Baeck Yearbook. He is currently finishing a manuscript called Negative Mathematics: German Jewish Intellectuals and the Origins of Critical Theory. It explores the underdeveloped possibilities of mathematics in critical theory, focusing on Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer. A second book project, which explores the relationship between necessity and narration in scientific and aesthetic thought after 1800, is also in the works.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event,
please contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:35:46 -0500 2018-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Winter Colloquium
Refutation (February 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47013 47013-10725028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The practice of refutation has been a central preoccupation of philosophers since Socrates. But what is a refutation? And why do philosophers feel impelled to produce them? With reference to the first question, I produce a definition of refutation: a refutation disproves one proposition in order to discredit another. With reference to the second question, I argue that the refuter’s activity to undermine her interlocutor's account solves a problem facing the project of knowledge-acquisition. This problem was articulated by William James: the project of coming to believe truths is in tension with the project of avoiding belief in falsehoods. The first motivates one to embrace dogmatism, the second to retreat to skepticism. The practice of refutation solves James’ problem by way of a division of labor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:32:01 -0500 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Refutation
Science for the People: Then and Now (February 2, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49507 49507-11465095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Science for the People

Organizers from the original and current Science for the People will discuss the history of the radical science movement, the consequences of apolitical science, and the challenges the revitalized Science for the People faces. The event consists of three 30-minute presentations by the speakers, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Speaker Bios:

Ben Allen is a biologist and activist in east Tennessee. He is an organizer for the revitalized Science for the People and was a member of the Science for the People Research Collective. He works as a contractor on computational biology projects related to energy and environment.

Dr. Sigrid Schmalzer is a professor in the History Department and an officer in the faculty union at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her publications include two books, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (2008) and Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (2016). She was also the lead organizer for the 2014 conference "Science for the People: The 1970s and Today,” and she is co-editor, with Alyssa Botelho and Daniel S. Chard, of the new primary source volume Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (2017).

Dr. John Vandermeer is the Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in LSA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has been involved in research and teaching in food and agriculture related topics for the past 40 years. His research has concentrated on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem in Mexico, elaborating the complex ecological structures involved in complicated dynamics of the pest control system there. He has authored 15 books, mainly concerned with agroecosystems and more than 200 publications in theoretical ecology, tropical ecology and agroecology. He is a founding member of the New World Agriculture and Ecology Group. He is currently a professor of ecology at the University of Michigan. ​

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This event kicks off Science for the People's weekend-long convention. During the convention, we will be making collective decisions about our organizational structure, ratifying our foundational principles and bylaws, and developing national projects, we plan to include time to get to know one another, to learn from each other, and to further our political self-education. The original Science for the People arose in 1969 out of the anti-war movement and lasted until 1989. With radical analysis and non-hierarchical governing structure, Science for the People tackled the militarization of scientific research, the corporate control of research agendas, the political implications of sociobiology and other scientific theories, the environmental consequences of energy policy, inequalities in health care, and many other issues.

Its members opposed racism, sexism, and classism in science and above all sought to mobilize people working in scientific fields to become active in agitating for science, technology, and medicine that would serve social needs rather than military and corporate interests. They organized in universities and communities, published a magazine offering sharp political analysis, and sought meaningful scientific exchange internationally in Vietnam, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries.

Some of the issues we face today have changed in important ways, but fundamental questions of power, ideology, and democracy in science remain.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:06:22 -0500 2018-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 2018-02-02T20:30:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Science for the People Lecture / Discussion A flyer with the same text as the event details.
A Bioethical Lunch on Life-Preserving Technologies (February 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49416 49416-11453756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Please stop by for free food, open discussion, and profound thoughts on the methods and consequences of life-preserving technologies. We will be joined by emergency medicine physician Scott VanEpps M.D., Ph.D who will help lead us in this discussion.

Though not required, please RSVP here so that we order enough food: https://umich.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c64208f3635399f1f8fa6df2c&id=3aeb74e9f7&e=1a21bb9afa

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:20:47 -0500 2018-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Life-preserving technologies
Life-Preserving Technologies (February 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49031 49031-11364404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion with Scott VanEpps, M.D., Ph.D., on the ethical implications of our ever greater capacity to preserve life. Sponsored by the Biointerfaces Research Group (BIRG).

Come for free food, profound thoughts, open discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:25:27 -0500 2018-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Life-Preserving Technologies
The Principles and Practices of Mindfulness (February 6, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47681 47681-10973758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

An introduction to the theory and practice of mindfulness meditation. It offers participants 50 and over instruction in the fundamentals of mindfulness meditation; study of the psychological principles underpinning the practice; exploration of the contemplative spiritual traditions in which meditation practices originated; support for developing a personal meditation practice; and guidance for applying meditative wisdom in daily life.

Instructor Bernadette Beach is an RN, who teaches in the area of health
promotion and was trained at the Omega Institute in mindfulness meditation.

This course will meet for 90 minutes on Tuesdays from February 6 through March 27, with no class on February 13 or March 13..

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Class / Instruction Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:10:49 -0500 2018-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 6, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49174 49174-11386608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Light snacks will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:52:05 -0500 2018-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Prenatal Screening (February 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43724 43724-9832712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on early looks and tough decisions.

A few essays to consider:
"Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion"
"Genetics and reproductive risk"
"Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis"

For more information and to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:24:20 -0500 2018-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Prenatal screening
I Sing the Body Electric (February 7, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49028 49028-11364400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

A lecture on our potential, charged with current understandings of our electrophysiology.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:59:16 -0500 2018-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2018-02-07T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion I sing the body electric
Quantifying the Self: Three Lectures on Human Instruments (February 7, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49030 49030-11364402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A series of three lectures on the methods and consequences of measuring our biomedical conditions.

Topics include:
Jan 24 – "For the heart, life is simple" – Cardiovascular dynamics as measured by pressures, volumes, and flows

Feb 7 – "I sing the body electric" – Electrophysiology of the brain, the heart, the muscles, the eyes, and the gut

Mar 14 – "Health lies in action" – Next generation physiological monitoring: wearables, therables, and capturing physiology when and where it happens.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:16:20 -0500 2018-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2018-02-07T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Quantifying the Self
Supersymmetry and the Philosophy of Space and Time (February 8, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48908 48908-11328385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Abstract: Some areas of physics are heavily discussed by philosophers; others are engaged with more sparsely. Despite its being a central component of many attempts to go beyond the standard model of particle physics, supersymmetry (SUSY) is an example of the latter. This talk is part of an ongoing project to establish a discussion in the philosophy of SUSY.

SUSY is a proposed dynamical symmetry between bosons (broadly speaking, force carriers) and fermions (matter). As a result of being a transformation between particles of different spin, the algebra of its generators has an interesting feature---it appears to allow for an interpretation as a (generalisation of a) spacetime symmetry. Construing SUSY as such, it is possible to re-express the theory in a new setting---superspace, in which ordinary Minkowski spacetime is augmented with a number of anticommuting ‘dimensions’. These are dimensions along which, counter-intuitively, coordinate values are sensitive to the order in which they are multiplied---they cannot, therefore, be visualised in the way that ordinary spatial or temporal dimensions are, as lines extending in some direction. Even though superspace is not a geometry in the familiar point-set sense, it manifests geometric structure in a more general, algebraic way: objects with the algebraic properties of vectors, tensors, derivative operators and so on are well-defined. Thus metrical and inertial structures exist in superspace, but algebraically. In this talk, I address the question of what difference this generalisation makes to our understanding of the roles of the metric and inertial structure in constituting spacetime.

(No prior familiarity with supersymmetry or quantum field theory will be assumed)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:37:38 -0500 2018-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (February 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Science, Values, and the Public (February 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41546 41546-9334661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

**February 9, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

2:00 -2:30pm Coffee and Opening Remarks

2:30-4:30pm Heather Douglas - "Scientific Experts and the Public: How to Build Trust in a Complex World"

4:30-5:00pm Coffee

5:00-7:00pm Dan M. Kahan - "Science Comprehension Without Curiosity is No Virtue, and Curiosity Without Comprehension is No Vice"

**February 10, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

10:00am-12:00pm Elisabeth Lloyd - "Climate Change Attribution: When is it Appropriate to Accept New Methods?"

12:00-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-3:30pm Quayshawn Spencer - "A Race Theory for Medical Genetics"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:38:25 -0500 2018-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium SC Poster
Science, Values, and the Public (February 10, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41546 41546-9334662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

**February 9, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

2:00 -2:30pm Coffee and Opening Remarks

2:30-4:30pm Heather Douglas - "Scientific Experts and the Public: How to Build Trust in a Complex World"

4:30-5:00pm Coffee

5:00-7:00pm Dan M. Kahan - "Science Comprehension Without Curiosity is No Virtue, and Curiosity Without Comprehension is No Vice"

**February 10, 2018 (3222 Angell Hall)**

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

10:00am-12:00pm Elisabeth Lloyd - "Climate Change Attribution: When is it Appropriate to Accept New Methods?"

12:00-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-3:30pm Quayshawn Spencer - "A Race Theory for Medical Genetics"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:38:25 -0500 2018-02-10T09:30:00-05:00 2018-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Conference / Symposium SC Poster
Suspicious Minds and Anti-Poverty Policies (February 12, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49335 49335-11420286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Suppose that a democratic society has an associative duty to assist a specific group of individuals, the Usual Suspects group. Members of this group frequently do not go to their jobs. They are seen mostly in streets, smoking, drinking and having fun. They are defaulting debtors. They often cheat on the welfare system, claiming to be unable to work. Since they run quickly out of money, they often shoplift in small quantities and evade taxes. They are more prolific than their fellow citizens. Their children, for some combination of a culture of poverty, low opportunities and bad parenting, usually miss classes, medical appointments and reproduce the eternal cycle of poverty and dependence.

A democratic society could assume this duty for several reasons: they are citizens, they are humans or for their children extreme vulnerability. However, this obligation can be fulfilled in multiple ways. Society can assist them conditionally or unconditionally; can offer them lucrative jobs or can force them to work in exchange of meager assistance; can give them cash or untradeable vouchers; can demand sterilization from mothers or can improve public services; can create special houses for their children. These choices depend heavily in the accuracy of Usual Suspects diagnose.

In this communication, I challenge this Usual Suspects narrative in social protection, which has been active since English Poor Laws to the expansion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin-America. First, I will claim that there are no empirical nor normative arguments for taking suspicion as a default attitude to poor. Second, I argue that there are relational reasons for reducing suspicion in social protection policies: it will not only improve the probability of the least advantaged of escaping poverty but it will also improve the most advantaged members capacities for moral reasoning.

(Link to paper for pre-read is available below.)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:40:30 -0500 2018-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America (February 16, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48424 48424-11233230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 9:30am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Presented by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, "A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America" is a symposium happening on February 16 and 17 at the University of Michigan Law School.

Over two days, we will examine five archetypal spaces in America: homes and neighborhoods, schools, courthouses, prisons, and borders. The symposium endeavors to consider the ways in which these spaces have become increasingly racialized, diagnose how that racialization impedes their basic functioning, and reimagine these spaces at their best, and our world as a more human dwelling place. James Baldwin gave us this name, embedded in his imperative “to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

The symposium will bring together individuals working to better these spaces, hailing from many disciplines, including law, history, sociology, journalism, literature, architecture, urban planning, and visual art. Together, we hope to conceptualize forgotten or not yet dreamed of alternatives. Through discussions of projects already realized and ideas not yet concrete, we will collectively inch toward the world we wish to inhabit.

The symposium is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Please register to attend at https://madeleine-jennings.squarespace.com/register/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:43:28 -0500 2018-02-16T09:30:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium Hutchins Hall
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (February 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America (February 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48424 48424-11233231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Presented by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, "A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America" is a symposium happening on February 16 and 17 at the University of Michigan Law School.

Over two days, we will examine five archetypal spaces in America: homes and neighborhoods, schools, courthouses, prisons, and borders. The symposium endeavors to consider the ways in which these spaces have become increasingly racialized, diagnose how that racialization impedes their basic functioning, and reimagine these spaces at their best, and our world as a more human dwelling place. James Baldwin gave us this name, embedded in his imperative “to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

The symposium will bring together individuals working to better these spaces, hailing from many disciplines, including law, history, sociology, journalism, literature, architecture, urban planning, and visual art. Together, we hope to conceptualize forgotten or not yet dreamed of alternatives. Through discussions of projects already realized and ideas not yet concrete, we will collectively inch toward the world we wish to inhabit.

The symposium is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Please register to attend at https://madeleine-jennings.squarespace.com/register/.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:43:28 -0500 2018-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium Hutchins Hall
DISC Lecture. The Lost Gender Egalitarian Voice of the Qur’an (February 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47392 47392-10891048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

How can a book that--allegedly--openly advises husbands by saying, “Strike them” in cases of marital conflict have any possible gender-egalitarian interpretation? Does the Qur’an really reflect a misogynist ideology? What can the analytic, linguistic, and critical approach to the Qur’anic text reveal when it comes to women’s issues? Could the hermeneutical investigation of the Qur’an end by the reconquest of a lost humanitarian and gender egalitarian richness of a text that has gone poorly and loosely handled for centuries? What does the Qur’an relay say about gender equality, polygamy, minor marriage, women’s right to education and work, women’s right to public authority positions, and women’s right to Prophethood?

Abla Hasan is assistant professor of practice of Arabic language and culture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She earned her MA in philosophy as a Fulbright grantee and PhD in philosophy of language from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and holds a BA and Diploma of High Studies from Damascus University. At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, she is Women’s & Gender Studies program faculty, Arabic Studies faculty and undergraduate adviser, and E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues program committee member. Hasan is a native speaker of Arabic. Her current teaching and research interests include Islamic feminism, Islamic studies, and Quranic studies.

This lecture will be live-streamed from Rutgers University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:04:15 -0500 2018-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
STS Speaker. Indigenous Climate Change Studies and Justice: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene (February 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43477 43477-9771968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Indigenous peoples are creating an STS-related field to support their own capacities to address anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. Indigenous studies often reflect the memories and realms of knowledge that arise from Indigenous peoples’ living heritages as societies with stories, lessons, and long histories of having to be well-organized to adapt to seasonal and inter-annual environmental changes. At the same time, our societies have been heavily disrupted by colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization. Through discussing the themes unique to Indigenous climate change studies, I will claim that Indigenous studies offer critical decolonizing approaches by which to address climate change and achieve climate justice. These approaches arise from how our ways of imagining the future guide our present actions. The presentation will cover and integrate a range of topics, from the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Indigenous science movement to Indigenous science fiction imagination.

Kyle Whyte (Potawatomi) holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability, a faculty member of the Environmental Philosophy & Ethics graduate concentration, and a faculty affiliate of the American Indian Studies and Environmental Science & Policy programs. His primary research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and climate science organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:40:17 -0500 2018-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Kyle Whyte 2017
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 20, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49264 49264-11397847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

- Emily Atkinson, Language Learning Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics
- David Brang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Guillermo Del Pinal, Post-doctoral Fellow, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science & Department of Philosophy
- Taraz Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Kristan Marchak, Post-doctoral Fellow, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science & Department of Psychology.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:38:36 -0500 2018-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Genetic Manipulation (February 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43725 43725-9832713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our changing codes.

A few essays to consider:
"Questions about some uses of genetic engineering"
"The moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics"
"Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:24:52 -0500 2018-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Genetic manipulation
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (February 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
First Person Plural: Global echoes of rape and resistance (February 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47014 47014-10725029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Survivors of rape, sexual assault and sexual violence are speaking around the world, instigating a social movement. However, their speech enters mainstream media and legal institutions that edit, interpret, and spin their stories. States and institutions in general are responding in ways that sideline the movement toward agendas that have little to do with addressing the epidemic of sexual violence. What can we learn from this moment and how can we make resistance more effective?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:12:16 -0500 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (March 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-03-02T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-02T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 6, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49186 49186-11386619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Snacks will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:57:07 -0500 2018-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: LGBTQ Health (March 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43726 43726-9832714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion including inclusion and finding ourselves.

A few essays to consider:
"Growing pains: problems with puberty suppression in treating gender dysphoria"
"The duty to warn and clinical ethics: legal and ethical aspect of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS"
"Obergefell v. Hodges Decision"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:25:36 -0500 2018-03-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion LGBTQ health
Challenges Facing the Labor Movement - An Organizer's Perspective (March 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47516 47516-10940126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

2018 Ferrando Family Lecture

An account of the challenges facing today’s labor movement as seen through the experiences of a long time labor activist. Discussion of dilemmas such as:
- Do strategies for short term survival conflict with long term social change?
- What is the role of leadership in a democratic membership based organization? Of paid staff?
- How should workers confront the need for industries to change?
- Is there a conflict between treating workers fairly and providing quality services?
- How do changes in the organization of work impact organizing?

Starting as an aide in a public mental health facility, Jon Grossman became a labor activist and eventually a full-time union organizer. He has held various elected and staff positions in AFSCME and SEIU locals in Massachusetts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:36:23 -0500 2018-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Ferrando Lecture Poster
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (March 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-03-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
The Standard Model after the Discovery of the Higgs Boson (March 11, 2018 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47011 47011-10725018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:40am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The Standard Model after the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
Sunday, March 11, 9:40AM–5:40PM
Assembly Hall, Rackham building (Fourth Floor)

"I would like to know..."
Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
10 – 11:30

"Two Notions of Naturalness"
Porter Williams (HPS, U. of Pittsburgh)
11:30 – 1:00

"Is the discovered Higgs Boson really the one the Standard Model predicted?"
Bing Zhou (Physics, UMich)
2:30 – 4:00

"Ontological Foundations of the Englert–Brout–Higgs Mechanism: How to proceed?"
Tian Cao (Philosophy, Boston University)
4:10 – 5:40

Please register at the link below if you are interested in attending

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:39:20 -0500 2018-03-11T09:40:00-04:00 2018-03-11T17:40:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar FOMP Poster
VegWeek 2018 at the University of Michigan (March 12, 2018 6:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50525 50525-11791013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 6:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

VegWeek is a week dedicated to animals, the environment, and health. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, and Planet Blue Student Leaders, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Monday-Friday (Mar 12-16): MDining will be showcasing veg offerings throughout dining halls!

Tuesday (Mar 13 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): Dr. Joel Kahn - America's Healthy Heart Doc - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples.

Wednesday (Mar 14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a catered dinner from Jerusalem Garden and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.

Thursday (Mar 15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): MARS will be hosting a panel of UM professors that have adopted a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. They will be presenting on topics of public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The lineup of professors includes Debra Levantrosser (Engineering), Dr. James Gramprie (Medicine), Dr. Mark Hunter (Ecology), Luis Sfeir-Younis (Sociology), and Fern Macdougal (Sustainable Food Systems). The talks will be accompanied by free chili and cookies from Debra Levantrosser's vegan food truck, Shimmy Shack!

Friday: (Mar 16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by MDining, Planet Blue Student Leaders, UMSFP, FCF, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem of food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Well-being Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:03:40 -0400 2018-03-12T06:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Well-being VegWeek 2018
Clinical Trials (March 12, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50800 50800-11870497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion with Professors Cynthia Chestek and James Weiland, on the ethical implications of experimental medical trials, on the responsibilities of the caregivers to their patients (current and future), and how we actually know what we're doing is both true and useful. Sponsored by the Biointerfaces Research Group (BIRG).

Come for free food, profound thoughts, open discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:48:58 -0500 2018-03-12T12:30:00-04:00 2018-03-12T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Clinical trials
ADG/EDGe Event (March 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47717 47717-11002095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:54:20 -0500 2018-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Working Through the Past: What Americans Can Learn from the Germans (March 13, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48044 48044-11170222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

As America is struggling with its own racist past, and present, it makes sense to examine what the Germans have done with their own. For the past 70 years, many Germans have been engaged in what they call Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung - working-off the past. Though the process has been slow, fitful, and often problematic, Americans can learn from the ways in which Germany has - partially - confronted its racist past, as we begin to examine our own.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:55:22 -0500 2018-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
VegWeek 2018 at the University of Michigan (March 13, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50525 50525-11791010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

VegWeek is a week dedicated to animals, the environment, and health. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, and Planet Blue Student Leaders, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Monday-Friday (Mar 12-16): MDining will be showcasing veg offerings throughout dining halls!

Tuesday (Mar 13 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): Dr. Joel Kahn - America's Healthy Heart Doc - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples.

Wednesday (Mar 14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a catered dinner from Jerusalem Garden and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.

Thursday (Mar 15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): MARS will be hosting a panel of UM professors that have adopted a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. They will be presenting on topics of public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The lineup of professors includes Debra Levantrosser (Engineering), Dr. James Gramprie (Medicine), Dr. Mark Hunter (Ecology), Luis Sfeir-Younis (Sociology), and Fern Macdougal (Sustainable Food Systems). The talks will be accompanied by free chili and cookies from Debra Levantrosser's vegan food truck, Shimmy Shack!

Friday: (Mar 16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by MDining, Planet Blue Student Leaders, UMSFP, FCF, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem of food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Well-being Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:03:40 -0400 2018-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Well-being VegWeek 2018
Health Lies in Action (March 14, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49029 49029-11364398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

A lecture on the next generation of physiological monitoring as embodied by wearable, therables, and the quantified self.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:03:24 -0500 2018-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 2018-03-14T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Health lies in action
Quantifying the Self: Three Lectures on Human Instruments (March 14, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49030 49030-11364403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A series of three lectures on the methods and consequences of measuring our biomedical conditions.

Topics include:
Jan 24 – "For the heart, life is simple" – Cardiovascular dynamics as measured by pressures, volumes, and flows

Feb 7 – "I sing the body electric" – Electrophysiology of the brain, the heart, the muscles, the eyes, and the gut

Mar 14 – "Health lies in action" – Next generation physiological monitoring: wearables, therables, and capturing physiology when and where it happens.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:16:20 -0500 2018-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 2018-03-14T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Quantifying the Self
Author’s Forum Presents: "Early Modern Cartesianisms" (March 14, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49547 49547-11476256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Tad Schmaltz (philosophy) and George Hoffmann (French) discuss Schmaltz's new book "Early Modern Cartesianisms."

About the book:

"There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of French historians of Cartesian philosophy, however, there has been no fully contextualized comparative examination of the various receptions of Descartes in different portions of early modern Europe.

"This study addresses the need for a more current understanding of these receptions by considering the different constructions of Descartes's thought that emerged in the Calvinist United Provinces (Netherlands) and Catholic France, the two main centers for early modern Cartesianism, during the period dating from the last decades of his life to the century or so following his death in 1650. It turns out that we must speak not of a single early modern Cartesianism rigidly defined in terms of Descartes's own authorial intentions, but rather of a loose collection of early modern Cartesianisms that involve a range of different positions on various sets of issues.

"Though more or less rooted in Descartes's somewhat open-ended views, these Cartesianisms evolved in different ways over time in response to different intellectual and social pressures. Chapters of this study are devoted to: the early modern Catholic and Calvinist condemnations of Descartes and the incompatible Cartesian responses to these; conflicting attitudes among early modern Cartesians toward ancient thought and modernity; competing early modern attempts to combine Descartes's views with those of Augustine; the different occasionalist accounts of causation within early modern Cartesianism; and the impact of various forms of early modern Cartesianism on both Dutch medicine and French physics."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:02:49 -0500 2018-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2018-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Early Modern Cartesianisms
VegWeek 2018 at the University of Michigan (March 14, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50525 50525-11791012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

VegWeek is a week dedicated to animals, the environment, and health. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, and Planet Blue Student Leaders, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Monday-Friday (Mar 12-16): MDining will be showcasing veg offerings throughout dining halls!

Tuesday (Mar 13 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): Dr. Joel Kahn - America's Healthy Heart Doc - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples.

Wednesday (Mar 14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a catered dinner from Jerusalem Garden and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.

Thursday (Mar 15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): MARS will be hosting a panel of UM professors that have adopted a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. They will be presenting on topics of public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The lineup of professors includes Debra Levantrosser (Engineering), Dr. James Gramprie (Medicine), Dr. Mark Hunter (Ecology), Luis Sfeir-Younis (Sociology), and Fern Macdougal (Sustainable Food Systems). The talks will be accompanied by free chili and cookies from Debra Levantrosser's vegan food truck, Shimmy Shack!

Friday: (Mar 16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by MDining, Planet Blue Student Leaders, UMSFP, FCF, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem of food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Well-being Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:03:40 -0400 2018-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Dana Building University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Well-being VegWeek 2018
A Philosophical Movie Night: Synecdoche, New York (March 15, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50904 50904-11899299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A film on the human condition. Who are we as we change over time? How revealing/intimate must art be to express deeper/more existential truths? Will there be food?

At least to the last question, yes. Please come and enjoy.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:03:41 -0500 2018-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building The Bioethics Discussion Group Film Screening Synecdoche, New York
Movie Night on North (March 15, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50903 50903-11899298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The Engineering Student Government has asked our very own Barry Belmont to host a discussion for its "Movie Night on North" series. The film he has chosen is Synecdoche, New York, a postmodern-meta-take on our human condition in general and aspects of our biomedical condition more specifically.

There will be food and merriment. Stop by if you're free.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:58:36 -0500 2018-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Film Screening Synecdoche
VegWeek 2018 at the University of Michigan (March 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50525 50525-11791014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

VegWeek is a week dedicated to animals, the environment, and health. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, and Planet Blue Student Leaders, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Monday-Friday (Mar 12-16): MDining will be showcasing veg offerings throughout dining halls!

Tuesday (Mar 13 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): Dr. Joel Kahn - America's Healthy Heart Doc - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples.

Wednesday (Mar 14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a catered dinner from Jerusalem Garden and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.

Thursday (Mar 15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): MARS will be hosting a panel of UM professors that have adopted a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. They will be presenting on topics of public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The lineup of professors includes Debra Levantrosser (Engineering), Dr. James Gramprie (Medicine), Dr. Mark Hunter (Ecology), Luis Sfeir-Younis (Sociology), and Fern Macdougal (Sustainable Food Systems). The talks will be accompanied by free chili and cookies from Debra Levantrosser's vegan food truck, Shimmy Shack!

Friday: (Mar 16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by MDining, Planet Blue Student Leaders, UMSFP, FCF, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem of food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Well-being Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:03:40 -0400 2018-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T20:30:00-04:00 Dana Building University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Well-being VegWeek 2018
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
International Territorial Rights: An Institutional Account (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47015 47015-10725031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

A state’s bundle of territorial rights includes an "international" territorial right. This is the presumptive right of a state to a defined territorial space that other states (and international actors) have a duty to respect. This international dimension of territorial rights is distinct from and prior to the more local aspects of territorial rights. For instance, a justification of a state’s jurisdictional authority over persons within its dominion does not by itself say why the state (or the political society it represents) has any international claim to the territory within which it exercises this authority. Recent arguments for territorial rights invoke, variously, the right of individuals to a location in which to maintain conditions of justice, the right of acquisition, and the right of self-determination. Contra these arguments and others, I propose instead that a state’s international territorial right is ultimately an institutional right, a right that is defined and sanctioned by the rules, norms and practices of the global order. This institutional account of international territorial rights has significant implications for our understanding of global justice.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:00:07 -0500 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
VegWeek (Mar 16): Eating for World Peace + Free Sustainable Dinner (Dr. Will Tuttle) (March 16, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50566 50566-11802358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

This is the Finale of VegWeek at the University of Michigan! VegWeek is a series of talks on the health, environmental, and ethical benefit of a plant-based diet.

Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Dan McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will be speaking about the environmental and ethical implications of diet.

There will also be a buffet dinner to those who attend that is being put together by Michigan Dining, Planet Blue, Friends of the Campus Farm, the UM Sustainable Food Program, and the Michigan Animal Respect Society. Chefs at the University will be preparing a feast with a portion of the produce sourced from the Campus Farm and "food waste" to highlight different components of sustainable eating.

Admission is FREE so come and enjoy two incredible talks and one incredible dinner! Dinner will be available on a first come first serve basis!

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Well-being Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:02:55 -0500 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Building University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Well-being VegWeek 2018
VegWeek 2018 at the University of Michigan (March 16, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50525 50525-11791015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

VegWeek is a week dedicated to animals, the environment, and health. From March 12-16, the Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS), in partnership with Michigan Dining, the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP), the Campus Farm at the University of Michigan, and Planet Blue Student Leaders, will be hosting a 5-day series of events surrounding the ethical, environmental, and health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Monday-Friday (Mar 12-16): MDining will be showcasing veg offerings throughout dining halls!

Tuesday (Mar 13 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): Dr. Joel Kahn - America's Healthy Heart Doc - an MD alum from the U of M and cardiologist, will be lecturing on the health benefits of plant-based diets. The talk will be accompanied by delicious, heart-healthy samples.

Wednesday (Mar 14 - 7-9pm Dana 1040): MARS will be co-hosting a screening of the documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES with UMSFP. The film will be accompanied by a catered dinner from Jerusalem Garden and a Q&A with Marc Ramirez, a former UM Football Player whose life was drastically changed after watching the film.

Thursday (Mar 15 - 7-8:30pm Dana 1040): MARS will be hosting a panel of UM professors that have adopted a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. They will be presenting on topics of public health, environmental sustainability, and ethics. The lineup of professors includes Debra Levantrosser (Engineering), Dr. James Gramprie (Medicine), Dr. Mark Hunter (Ecology), Luis Sfeir-Younis (Sociology), and Fern Macdougal (Sustainable Food Systems). The talks will be accompanied by free chili and cookies from Debra Levantrosser's vegan food truck, Shimmy Shack!

Friday: (Mar 16 - 5-7:30pm Dana 1040): Eating for World Peace: VegWeek Finale at the U of M: The final day of VegWeek will showcase a buffet put on by MDining, Planet Blue Student Leaders, UMSFP, FCF, and MARS. In order to highlight sustainable eating, the menu will be entirely plant-based, incorporate Campus Farm produce, and some dishes will highlight the problem of food waste. Before the dinner, Dr. Will Tuttle (author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet) and Daniel McKernan (Founder & Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary) will discuss the environmental and ethical benefits of a plant-centric diet.

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Well-being Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:03:40 -0400 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Building University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Well-being VegWeek 2018
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 20, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49188 49188-11386620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Snacks will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:55:47 -0500 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Vaccination (March 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43727 43727-9832715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on public health and individual choice.

A few essays to consider:
"Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children"
"The moral case for the routine vaccination of children in develop and developing countries"
"Ethics and infectious disease"

For more information and/or to receive copies of the essay, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:26:12 -0500 2018-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Vaccination
What is Socialism? – The Materialist Conception of History (March 21, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51196 51196-12018595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

This lecture is part of a three-part educational series entitled 'What is Socialism?', hosted by the International Youth And Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at UM.

The first lecture, titled “The Materialist Conception of History”, will review the development of historical materialism with an emphasis on its contemporary relevance.

Topics covered in this lecture:

• What is historical materialism
• Materialism vs. Idealism
• From Kant to Hegel to Marx
• The post-modernist attack on materialism


What is Socialism? – IYSSE 2018 Lecture Series:

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the originator of the materialist conception of history, the author of Das Kapital and, with Friedrich Engels, the founder of the modern revolutionary socialist movement.

Two hundred years after Marx’s birth, there is growing interest in socialism all over the world. Workers and young people confront unprecedented levels of social inequality, unending war and the threat of dictatorship. Millions are looking for an alternative and are asking the question: What is socialism?

This series of lectures will review the theory of Karl Marx and its enduring contemporary relevance.

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Meeting Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:39:34 -0400 2018-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting 200 Years Since The Birth of Karl Marx
Is the cosmos intelligent? (March 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50792 50792-11870490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Sponsored by Philosophy & Classical Studies

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:46:02 -0500 2018-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar Salles Poster
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (March 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
A classic problem in the Stoic theory of time (March 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50092 50092-11633667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Sponsored by Philosophy & Classical Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:42:10 -0500 2018-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Salles Poster
Colloquium on Cognitive Science (March 24, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51120 51120-11976186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

With the support of the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science, the Cognitive Science Community is pleased to announce the second annual Colloquium on Cognitive Science, to be held on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at the University of Michigan League, on Central Campus. This colloquium will be devoted to the promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration and curiosity amongst undergraduate students interested in the cognitive sciences, and to learn about opportunities for research and career pathways from established cognitive scientists. The event will consist of invited speaker presentations, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn about ideas in cognitive science from some of the leading academic figures in the field, an undergraduate research showcase, and a panel session with graduate students and cognitive scientists from different backgrounds and industries. More information about speakers, undergraduate presentations, and panelists can be found at our website.

For more information: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/csccolloquium/home
to RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3gJyvDOsBuIWaVTOp_mQWokCj_1AvfTd92Nd2WJ436qHJKw/viewform

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:45:49 -0400 2018-03-24T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC Colloquium
Science, Values, and the Public: Pre-read discussion (March 26, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50359 50359-11721664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:10:40 -0500 2018-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Backpacking Party (March 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51318 51318-12052570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

​​Meet with Lucius Anthony, Weinberg Institute Academic Program Specialist, to discuss Fall 2018 course registration. Get advice on courses, and receive the inside scoop on courses from Weinberg Institute staff while enjoying free pizza!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:24:52 -0400 2018-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar pizza party flyer
UNshaken: Subnational Actors Step Up at the Global Climate Talks (March 29, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50867 50867-11887880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: ClimateBlue

Join us for a discussion of the recent international climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany! Hear perspectives from University of Michigan student delegates who were there as observers. Stay to learn some takeaways from a panel of experts and policymakers on what’s next for climate policy, globally and locally now that the U.S. has submitted intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and subnational action is building momentum. After the delegate talks and the expert panel we invite you to speak to student and community groups at our organization fair & reception. Additionally, the call for the COP24 U-M delegation will be announced at this event, opening the spring application period!

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unshaken-subnational-actors-step-up-at-the-global-climate-talks-tickets-44007843645

NOTE: Cooley room capacity is capped at 80 attendees and food provided will match the attendance cap of 80 people, so first come first served at the reception (with ticket)! Attendees without rsvp tickets will still be let in to talk with organization representatives.

Schedule:
Opening Remarks: 4:30 pm Beth Gibbons, Executive Director of American Society of Adaptation Professionals (Cooley Building G906)

Introduction to UNFCCC: 4:45 pm Dr. Avik Basu, SEAS Lecturer, Co-creator of the interdisciplinary UNFCCC course at UM (Cooley Building G906)

Delegate Talks: 5 pm - 6 pm (Cooley Building G906)

Expert Panel: 6:10 pm - 6:50 pm (Cooley Building G906)

Organization Fair & Reception: 7 pm - 8:00 pm (Pierpont, East Room), Refreshments will be served

This event is co-sponsored by the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, the School for Sustainability and Environment and the University of Michigan Energy Institute.



Expert panel:

Moderator:
Michael Lerner, Political Science PhD student, COP 23 Delegate, MUSE leadership

Panelists:
Alicia Douglas, Cities Rising, CEO of Water Rising Institute

J.C. Kibbey, Midwest Outreach and Policy Advocate, Union for Concerned Scientists

Nathan Geisler, Energy Analyst, City of Ann Arbor

Noah Deich, Director and Co-Founder of the Center for the Carbon Removal

Dr. Trish Koman, Environmental epidemiologist (UM), Climate Reality leader (Washtenaw County Chapter)



Organizations:

Climate Blue
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department (CLaSP)
Climate Reality
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL)
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center (GLISA)
People of the Global Majority in the Environment
Sierra Club Beyond Coal
Students Sustainability Initiative (SSI)
Sustainability Without Borders (SWB)
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:28:39 -0400 2018-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building ClimateBlue Conference / Symposium UNshaken word graphic.
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (March 30, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Science, Values, and the Public: Pre-read discussion (April 2, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50265 50265-11698721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

This event will be a pre-read discussion of selections from Shobitha Parthasarathy's recent book: Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe.

Details on selections TBA

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:52:56 -0500 2018-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2018-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50519 50519-11791000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Light snack provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:08:33 -0500 2018-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Regulation (April 3, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43728 43728-9832716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion about the maze and the pathway.

A few essays to consider:
"Thalidomide retrospective: what did we learn?"
"Improving medical device regulation: the United States and Europe in perspective"
"Ethics, regulation, and comparative effectiveness research"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/014-regulation/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:33:28 -0400 2018-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Regulation
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship (April 3, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51542 51542-12147099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

The United States government, in collaboration with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other information technology corporations, is implementing massive restrictions on Internet access to socialist, antiwar and progressive websites. Capitalist governments in Europe and throughout the world are enacting similar repressive policies.

The ruling class launched this desperate campaign in a desperate response to growing mass opposition to social inequality and war. Workers and young people around the world are using the Internet to coordinate struggles and share information outside of the control of the corporate media.

The World Socialist Web Site, which has been a principal target of the censorship campaign, is leading a fight against the greatest attack on free speech since the Second World War. In January, it called for an International Coalition of Socialist, Antiwar and Progressive Websites Against Internet Censorship to expose what is taking place and coordinate opposition.

This meeting will explore the political context of efforts to censor the Internet, examine the pretexts used to justify the suppression of free speech (e.g., “fake news”), and discuss a political strategy to mobilize the working class in defense of democratic rights.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:18:53 -0400 2018-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion
Live. Laugh. Ruthlessly Critique All that Exists. (April 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51450 51450-12112483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Join us for a cultured exercise in critical futility with Eric Jarosinski, editor of @NeinQuarterly,
the Internet’s leading compendium of utopian negation.

thursday april 5 2018
4:00 pm
osterman common room
202 south thayer, university of michigan

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:17:18 -0400 2018-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Nein.
9th annual Marshall M. Weinberg Symposium (April 6, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47898 47898-11043658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The 2018 Weinberg Symposium will explore recent dramatic advances in AI and their implications for our developing understanding and investigation of mind and brain. Of special interest are deep learning and reinforcement learning, and the resurgence of explorations of computational architectures intended to support general intelligence. An aim of the symposium is to clarify and advance the reciprocal flow of theoretical ideas across AI and cognitive science, broadly understood to include neuroscience and psychology. This includes identifying specific computational problems shared by both artificial and human brains, and leading ideas for solutions to those problems; identifying areas of both theoretical convergence and divergence; rethinking core concepts in cognitive science such as planning, motivation, attention, and abstraction; and putting into sharp focus fundamental gaps in our present scientific understanding and engineering capacities that might be promising areas for new cross-disciplinary work.

To register, please fill out the registration link: https://lsa.umich.edu/weinberginstitute/symposium/registration.html

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:09:58 -0500 2018-04-06T08:30:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Conference / Symposium Brain logo
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (April 6, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-04-06T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
MEMS Lecture Series. Portraits of Luther, from Lucas Cranach to Today (April 6, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49821 49821-11543720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

It is 500 years since Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in Wittenberg and the Reformation began. But without the artist Lucas Cranach, who lived around the corner, would Luther’s Reformation have been so successful? Images were central to the Reformation and the Cranach workshop produced an extraordinary series of portraits of Luther through each stage of his life. Finally, the Reformation anniversary has inspired some powerful new images of the reformer: What does Luther look like now?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:12:45 -0400 2018-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Poster for Roper
In Defense of Sanctuary Policies (April 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51700 51700-12202557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Over the past decade, the increased involvement of local police in facilitating the deportation of undocumented migrants has played a central role in creating a record-breaking volume of deportations from the United States. In response to the so-called deportation crisis, nearly 500 localities have declared themselves “sanctuary” jurisdictions. This term refers to the cities, counties, and states that limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration matters. Supporters typically argue that sanctuary jurisdictions are safer because sanctuary policies encourage good relationships between migrant communities and local law enforcement. Opponents insist that sanctuary policies defy federal law and harbor criminals, creating a dangerous environment for U.S. citizens. My talk will explore three moral justifications for sanctuary policies—the public safety, civil disobedience, and collective resistance arguments—and offer a preliminary defense of the latter of these justifications. Specifically, I will argue that although some sanctuary policies can be justified by appeals to public safety considerations, others are best understood as a form of legitimate collective resistance.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Apr 2018 08:13:04 -0400 2018-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (April 13, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
How Dehumanization Makes Monsters (April 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48845 48845-11308961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Nazis described Jews as vermin. White Americans described Black Americans as beasts. And today, the militant Buddhists of Myanmar characterize the Rohingya as subhuman animals. These are all examples of dehumanization, a phenomenon that often paves the way to mass atrocity. In my 2011 book Less Than Human I described dehumanization as the attitude of conceiving of others as less than human. However, some scholars have objected that this view is not consistent with the fact that dehumanizers often acknowledge the humanity of their victims, and have suggested that dehumanization, as I have described it, does not occur. In this talk I will explain why this concern should not lead one to reject the reality of dehumanization. Using two examples of spectacle lynchings—extremely gruesome lynchings of African Americans that were attended by hundreds or thousands of spectators—I will explain how this problem can be addressed in a way that leads to a deeper, more nuanced, and more disturbing account of what dehumanization is and how it works.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:12:22 -0500 2018-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Behind the Mask
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 17, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49640 49640-11487523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Light snack provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:58:17 -0500 2018-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Posthumanity (April 17, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43729 43729-9832717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our end.

A few essays to consider:
"In defense of posthuman dignity"
"Stem cells, biotechnology, and human rights: implications for a posthuman future"
"A cyborg manifesto"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the essays, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/015-posthumanity/.

Also, feel free to swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:34:57 -0400 2018-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Posthumanity
Kantian Ontological Pluralism without Transcendental Idealism (April 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51956 51956-12327240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Presented by PoSe.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:05:14 -0400 2018-04-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Law & Ethics Lecture: "Hard Choices" (April 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51826 51826-12260072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Please join the Law & Ethics Program as we welcome Professor Ruth Chang to give a talk on "Hard Choices." Professor Chang will discuss and criticize some common answers and then make a proposal of her own. Hard choices point the way to a different way of thinking about what it is to be rational and about how we should live.

This lecture is free and open to the public and will be immediately followed by a reception.

Ruth Chang is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and will be shortly taking up the Chair in Jurisprudence at Oxford University in Oxford, England where she hopes to create a multi-disciplinary research hub for decision-making and choice. She has a Ph.D. from Balliol College, Oxford and a J.D. from Harvard Law School and has held visiting fellowship positions at Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. Her expertise concerns philosophical questions relating to the nature of value, value conflict, decision-making, rationality, the exercise of agency, and choice. Her work has been the subject of interviews by various media outlets in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand, and Austria, and she has been a consultant or lecturer for institutions ranging from video gaming and pharmaceuticals to the CIA and World Bank.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:13:54 -0400 2018-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T17:30:00-04:00 South Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion South Hall
Taking Responsibility for Racial Violence (April 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48846 48846-11308962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Co-Sponsored by Race, Gender, & Feminist Philosophy and Minorities and Philosophy

Abstract: Patterns of racial violence have a systemic social dimension that requires going beyond the individual responsibilities of perpetrators of such violence and demanding accountability and responsiveness from the communities and institutions within which those patterns unfold. This talk will analyze different kinds of complicity with racial violence and will defend a view of shared responsibility that goes beyond the bystander model. Working toward community responses that are both reparative and preventive, I argue for a kind of political mobilization and resistance against racial violence that I term epistemic activism, which consists in contestatory practices that disrupt complicity with damaging social imaginaries and with the distortions in social perception that hide patterns of racial violence and perpetuate the vulnerabilities of racial minorities. Epistemic activism will be discussed by analyzing photo activism and the activist practices of organizations such as the NAACP and of social movements such as Black Lives Matter.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:13:07 -0400 2018-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2018-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (April 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-04-20T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
How to Have Reasons for Your Values (April 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50492 50492-11779671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

In philosophy, we provide arguments for our positions. So it seems that moral philosophers ought to be in the business of providing arguments for moral and ethical convictions. But I have elsewhere argued that we should not expect to be able to provide arguments of the kind that philosophers paradigmatically make for our most central, important or fundamental normative convictions. To put that another way, we cannot reason to our fundamental moral or ethical commitments. However, as I have also argued, this should not lead us to conclude that we could not have reasons for such commitments. In this paper I attempt to make some progress towards a positive characterization of what it means to have reasons for an attitude that we cannot reason to by considering how we ideally come to adopt or acquire our normative convictions. I will argue that, while we cannot be argued into fundamental normative commitments, we can be educated into them. Moreover, what distinguishes such an education from mere conditioning is sensitivity to the reasons or rational grounds for the commitments.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:58:50 -0400 2018-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (April 27, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-10273905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 27, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-04-27T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-27T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (May 4, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-11417457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-05-04T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
May Day International Online Rally – Listening Event with IYSSE (May 5, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52144 52144-12455269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) as we participate in an international online May Day rally!

What: Gathering hosted by the IYSSE to listen and contribute remarks to an online May Day rally organized by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) and the World Socialist Web Site
When: May 5 at 5pm
Where: Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Room 2124

May 5, 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the greatest philosopher of modern history and the founder of scientific socialism. Marx's call: “Workers of the world unite!” resonates today amid an eruption of the class struggle on every continent. In the first four months of 2018, tens of millions of people have participated in the largest demonstrations and strikes in decades.

The capitalist system, based on the exploitation of the working class, is wracked by crisis.

All over the world, the ruling elites seek to protect their wealth and save this bankrupt system by resorting to war and repression. The governments and corporations are censoring the Internet out of fear that this revolutionary source for information and communication can link workers across the world in a common struggle against inequality, dictatorship and war.

The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) and the World Socialist Web Site are commemorating Marx's birthday alongside May Day, the international day of working class solidarity, with an international online rally with participants from dozens of countries worldwide. Speakers will include leaders of the Fourth International from around the world.

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Meeting Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:19:41 -0400 2018-05-05T17:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting May Day 2018 – International Online Rally, 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (May 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-11417458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-05-11T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Dissertation Defense: Trying to Act Rightly (May 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51654 51654-12182159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Brian Weatherson (chair)
Sarah Buss
Allan Gibbard
Maria Lasonen-Aarnio
Scott Hershovitz

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Other Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:18:37 -0400 2018-05-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers (May 18, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 45741-11802353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 18, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.

It features books, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment and inspiration.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2018-05-18T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-18T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Pioneer Americanists
Moral Virtues and Moral Vices (May 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48240 48240-11191512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

What are the personal qualities needed to live a good life? Philosophers since Aristotle have discussed this question. The term “moral virtues” refers to the character traits that are helpful or even necessary for a well-lived life; moral vices are those character traits that are obstacles to living well. We will explore moral virtues such as compassion and forgiveness.
We will read what some philosophers have written, but we will especially discuss the virtues and vices that people in the group propose and wish to explore. Elias Baumgarten, Ph.D., has taught philosophy at UM-Dearborn for 46 years and has served on ethics committees at UM Hospital for 30 years.
This Study Group is for those over 50, and will meet on Wednesday May 23-June 13.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:41:00 -0400 2018-05-23T15:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Dissertation Defense: Rational Structures in Learning and Memory (May 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52377 52377-12652721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Peter Railton (ch)
Jim Joyce
Chandra Sripada
Richard Lewis
Timothy Williamson (Oxford)

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Other Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:17:42 -0400 2018-05-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-05-24T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
Dissertation Defense: What Makes an Emotion Moral? (July 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52461 52461-12786067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Daniel Jacobson (chair)
Sarah Buss
Peter Railton
Chandra Sripada

ABSTRACT:
From the standpoint of both philosophers and psychologists, the study of moral psychology has undergone an affective revolution over the last three decades. This revolution has generated substantial interest in the role of the emotions in moral talk, thought, and behavior. Further, it has been claimed that some emotions are distinctively moral in nature. However, what it means for an emotion to count as moral and which emotions count as the moral ones are issues in need of further elucidation. My dissertation addresses these questions in three connected chapters, with a particular focus on two emotions often but obscurely referred to as “moral”: disgust and anger.

In chapter one, “Is There Such a Thing as Genuinely Moral Disgust”, I defend a novel, skeptical view about moral disgust. In so doing, I reject a widely-held, albeit largely implicit, assumption in the moral disgust literature that there exists a distinctive psychological state of moral disgust. To give a positive answer to what I call the ontological question about moral disgust, thereby vindicating its existence, I propose that a given psychological state must be shown to bear sufficient resemblance to the familiar, generic version of disgust, yet be distinguishable from it in virtue of its distinctively moral nature. I argue that existing accounts of moral disgust fail to satisfy these conditions. Further, I contend that we should be skeptical about the general prospect of giving a positive answer to the ontological question, because the empirical evidence that can be invoked in favor of moral disgust’s existence is too equivocal to properly distinguish (putatively) moral disgust from other psychological states, particularly anger.

In chapter two, “What Makes an Emotion Moral?”, I develop a novel, empirically-informed answer to the general version of the ontological question that was raised in chapter 1 with respect to moral disgust: how can we vindicate the existence of a distinctively moral emotion? I examine two contemporary, representative accounts of the “moral” emotions, one that type-identifies the moral emotions based on their effects, and another that defines the moral emotions as those that are constituted by specifically moral judgments. I argue that the former defines the moral emotions too broadly, and thus fails to draw a substantive distinction between the moral emotions and the non-moral ones, whereas the latter defines the moral emotions too narrowly. Informed by the problems with these accounts, I introduce a motivational theory of moral emotion, which defines the moral emotions as those with distinctively moral action tendencies and goals.

Finally, in chapter three, “In Defense of Genuinely Moral Anger”, I defend the claim that there is a distinctively moral subtype of anger. I argue that moral anger is a genuine form of anger that is differentiable from generic anger primarily in virtue of its action tendencies, which are typically triggered by perceived injustice and aim to satisfy two moral goals: a communication goal, and a sanctioning goal. With this account, I offer an empirically-supported account that constitutes a positive answer to the ontological question about moral anger, thereby demonstrating that it is possible to vindicate the existence of a genuinely moral emotion while making sense of the idea that the moral emotions should be understood as a recognizable subset within the general class of the emotions.

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Other Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:57:01 -0400 2018-07-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-07-17T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
Dissertation Defense: Non-Ideal Epistemology in a Social World (July 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52488 52488-12814321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (co-chair)
Brian Weatherson (co-chair)
Jim Joyce
Eric Swanson
Ezra Keshet

ABSTRACT:
Idealization is a necessity. Stripping away levels of complexity makes questions tractable, focuses our attention, and lets us develop comprehensible, testable models. Applying such models, however, requires care and attention to how the idealizations incorporated into their development affect their predictions. In epistemology, we tend to focus on idealizations concerning individual agents' capacities, such as memory, mathematical ability, and so on, when addressing this concern. By contrast, this dissertation focuses on the effect of social idealizations, particularly those pertaining to salient social categories like race, sex, and gender.

In Chapter II, Privilege and Superiority, we begin with standpoint epistemology, one of the earliest efforts to grapple with the ways that social structures affect our epistemic lives. I argue that, if we interpret standpoint epistemologists' claims as hypotheses about the ways that our social positions affect access to evidence, we can fruitfully employ recent developments in evidence logic to study the consequences. I lay the groundwork for this project, developing a model based on neighborhood semantics for modal logic. Adapting this framework to standpoint epistemology helps to clarify the meaning of terms like "epistemic privilege" and "superior knowledge" and to elucidate the differences between various accounts. I also address a longstanding criticism of these views: Longino's (1990) bias paradox, which suggests that there is no objective position from which to judge the goodness of a particular standpoint.

Chapter III, Evidence in a Non-Ideal World, turns to the broader social context, looking at how ideology affects the availability of evidence. Throughout the chapter, I take the formation, justification, and maintenance of racist, sexist, and otherwise oppressive beliefs as a central case. I argue that these beliefs are, at least sometimes, formed as a result of evidential distortion, a structural feature of our epistemic contexts that skews readily available evidence in favor of dominant ideologies. Because they are formed this way, such beliefs will appear justified on prominent accounts of justification, both internalist and externalist. As a result, epistemic norms that fail to account for such non-ideal conditions will deliver verdicts that are not only counter-intuitive, but also morally unpalatable. This, I argue, reveals a kind of structural epistemic injustice, especially where oppressive ideology is involved and suggests the need for epistemic norms that are sensitive to agents' social contexts.

Much of the discussion in Chapters II and III depends on social categories like race and gender, arguing that they have a distinctive influence on our epistemic lives. In Chapter IV, I Know You Are, But What Am I?, my co-author, Robin Dembroff, and I focus on social categories themselves, distinguishing between self-identity, social identity, and social role. We self-identify as gay or straight, men or women, couch-potatoes or gym rats. Sometimes, these identities affect our social roles --- the way we are perceived and treated by others --- and sometimes they do not. This relationship between our internal identities and our preferred public perceptions begs for explanation. On our account, this relationship is captured by what we refer to as "social identity"--- roughly, internal identities made available to others. We argue that this account of social identity plays an illuminating role in structural explanation of discrimination and individual behavior, dissolves puzzles surrounding the phenomenon of `passing', and explains certain moral and political obligations toward individuals.

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Other Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:14:08 -0400 2018-07-20T10:00:00-04:00 2018-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
Dissertation Defense: Emotional Assessment and Emotion Regulation: A Philosophical Approach (August 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53098 53098-13228804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Daniel Jacobson (Chair)
Sarah Buss
Peter Railton
Chandra Sripada (Cognate: Psychiatry)

Suppose that you are anxious about some future threat, sad about some loss or setback, or angry about some perceived injustice. What should you do while in the grip of this emotion? Should you allow it to guide your thoughts and actions? Or should you regulate this emotion? But if you do choose to regulate, how should you do so? What sort of emotion regulation techniques should you rely upon? In order to properly answer such questions, one must address a number of philosophical issues concerning emotional assessment and emotion regulation. You might worry, for instance, about what you could lose in regulating your emotion: a fitting response, a response that might promote your evaluative understanding, a response that, although painful, may help you to feel the importance of some concern, or to express how much you care about it. You might also wonder whether there are certain forms of emotion regulation that are, in light of such worries, more epistemically or morally responsible. In my dissertation, I examine these issues in order to clarify the value and wisdom of emotion regulation, in its various forms.

In Chapter 1, I investigate the nature of fittingness. When we endorse an emotion as fitting, what is the nature of this endorsement? I argue against the standard view in the philosophy of emotion, according to which an emotion is fitting if and only if it correctly represents its target - call this the recognitional view of emotional fittingness. This view fits in nicely with a more general ambition to understand the fittingness of a response in terms of a correct mental representation. However, I consider two problem cases that lead me to reject this type of view. First, I argue that in order to be fitting, emotions must do more than correctly represent their target values. In order to be fitting, emotions must also correctly mobilize us to respond to these values. Second, I argue that, perhaps surprisingly, even action-responses can be assessed for fittingness. Just like emotions, beliefs, and desires, action-responses can be supported by the wrong kind of reason. But this suggests that the fittingness of a response is not essentially about the correctness of mental representations. Instead, fittingness is a distinctively narrow form of assessment that can be applied to any response. I suggest that we can understand fittingness either as a normative primitive, or in terms of reasons.

In Chapter 2, I investigate the relationship between emotions, emotion regulation, and evaluative understanding. Emotions can enhance our evaluative understanding by mobilizing directed reflection: by worrying about some threat, ruminating about some loss, or simmering about some injustice, we can enhance our understanding of the threat, loss, or injustice in question. But notoriously, emotional reflection can also lead us astray. If our goal is evaluative understanding, then, we must make room for emotion regulation. But which forms of emotion regulation should we rely upon, if our goal is evaluative understanding? In this chapter, I distinguish between engaged forms of emotion regulation, which keep us engaged with our emotional concern (e.g. certain forms of reappraisal), and disengaging forms of emotion regulation, which regulate emotional experience by leading us to direct attention away from the emotional concern in question (e.g. many forms of meditation). I argue that both forms of emotion regulation are vital for the enhancement of evaluative understanding, and I propose a practical model that can help us to decide when to rely on engaging forms of emotion regulation and when to rely on disengaging forms of emotion regulation, if our goal is evaluative understanding.

In Chapter 3, I investigate the final value of painful negative emotions. A number of philosophers argue that painful negative emotions, when fitting, possess a distinctive final value, for epistemic or moral reasons, that calmer mental states cannot possess. For example, it is argued that only by being angry at injustice, only by grieving over significant losses, and only by feeling appropriately guilty about personal wrongdoing can we fully appreciate the relevant concerns (injustice, loss, and personal wrongdoing), or fully demonstrate that we care about them. Call this the distinctive final value thesis (DFV). In this chapter, I argue that DFV is false, though I also explain why we might nevertheless find it difficult to resist. Now, I do not deny that painful negative emotions, when fitting, possess final value for epistemic or moral reasons. But I argue that this value is not distinctive; calmer mental states can possess the very same final value. The outcome of this debate has important practical implications for emotion regulation. If DFV is true, then we always have at least a pro tanto reason not to regulate our painful, yet fitting negative emotions. If such reasons are at all weighty, then it may be that we ought to regulate our emotions far less often than we might have thought. By contrast, if DFV is false, then an important normative obstacle for emotion regulation is removed, and the way we think about our emotions may have to change.

I conclude the dissertation by briefly discussing the implications these chapters have for when and how we should regulate our emotions. I then briefly describe the structure of a practical, normative model for emotion regulation that is informed by these considerations. This model will emphasize the importance of emotion regulation for 1) enhancing our evaluative understanding and 2) helping us to act in accordance with our understanding.

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Other Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:00:06 -0400 2018-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-06T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
Dissertation Defense: Epistemic Norms and the Normativity of Belief (August 10, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53097 53097-13228803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 10, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Chair)
Peter Railton
Brian Weatherson
Chandra Sripada
Rick Lewis (cognate: CogSci)

Epistemologists frequently claim that the question “What should I believe?” demarcates the field of epistemology. This question is then compared to the question asked in ethics: “What should I do?” The question and the ensuing comparison, it is thought, specify both the content and the normativity at stake in epistemology. I argue that both of the assumptions embedded in this demarcation are problematic. By thinking of epistemology’s focal question in this light, first, we risk importing our assumptions about the epistemic domain into our understanding of the nature and normativity of the belief state, and second, we come to have a false picture of the normativity that supposedly underlies the domain.

In Chapter 1, “The Doxastic Assumption about the Epistemic”, I explore a range of views that assume there to be an essential connection between belief and truth. I look at views that treat all beliefs as attempts to believe the truth, views that consider belief’s biological function to be accurate representation, and views that hold that the very concept of belief is a normative concept. I go on to explore instrumentalist conceptions of belief’s truth connection and conduct an inquiry into the value of true belief. I conclude that neither the value of true belief nor an essential connection between belief and truth can explain epistemic normativity.

In Chapter 2, “Evidential Exclusivity, Correctness, and the Nature of Belief” I note that epistemologists have recently argued that the best explanation for the apparent truth of a pair of claims - “Transparency” and “Exclusivity” – is that belief is subject to a standard of correctness such that a belief that p is correct if and only if p is true. I argue that the proposed explanation unduly privileges one part of belief’s full functional profile – its role in deliberation – and that a more complete consideration of belief’s role in cognition suggests an alternative explanation for Exclusivity and Transparency but denies belief’s standard of correctness.

In Chapter 3, “Tradeoffs and Epistemic Value”, I look at a debate about whether epistemic norms are teleological. Though it’s standard to assume in keeping with teleology that certain goals or values explain the content of our norms, a collection of recent papers have aimed to show that this assumption can’t be correct because teleological norms countenance tradeoffs but epistemic norms don’t countenance tradeoffs. I note that the kind of non-teleological view that countenances no tradeoffs whatsoever is actually quite extreme and virtually unheard of in ethics. I go on to make the case that norms that license no tradeoffs can’t reasonably be taken to be grounded in value at all, and thus can’t be understood to be genuinely normative. I conclude by suggesting that we broaden our conception of the epistemic domain to recognize teleological norms that provide recommendations for methods of inquiry or pursuit of significant truth or knowledge.

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Other Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:15:19 -0400 2018-08-10T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
Consciousness and Self in Vedanta (August 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53146 53146-13254677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

Dear All, we cordially invite you to the spiritual talk "Consciousness and Self in Vedanta", delivered by Rev. Swami Sarvapriyananda ji Mj, who is the present in-charge of the Vedanta Society of New York.

This discussion will delve into the ancient Hindu philosophy of Vedanta and it's differences from materialism to address the true meaning of Self. Complementary reasoning from contemporary research on consciousness and modern psychology as well as Buddhism will also be explored.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:53:22 -0400 2018-08-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-08-12T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Vedanta Study Circle Lecture / Discussion poster
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (August 17, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-08-17T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (August 24, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-08-24T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (August 31, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-08-31T10:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Dissertation Defense: An Account of Contributive Justice (August 31, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53565 53565-13407927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 31, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Liz Anderson (Co-chair)
Peter Railton (Co-chair)
Allan Gibbard
Ishani Maitra
Daniel Little (External member, UM-Dearborn)

ABSTRACT:
In The Myth of Ownership, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel argue that achieving fairness in taxation is principally a matter of distributive justice. (1) Distributive justice is understood to be concerned with what is owed to people as a matter of justice. For Nagel and Murphy, fairness in tax schemes is subsumed to the question of distributive justice: fairly allocated tax liabilities are just those that are compatible with the preferred theory of distributive justice. Subsuming assessments of tax fairness to distributive justice, however, overlooks the following possibility: that the question of how we ought to divvy up tax liabilities, and the burdens associated with running a society more generally, requires different, non-distributive considerations of justice. These are considerations of justice that aren’t essentially about distributive justice at all. I argue here that the division of burdens in a society is specifically a matter of contributive justice. Contributive justice is concerned with what people owe as a matter of justice, rather than what is owed to them. Even a comprehensive specification of distributive justice leaves indeterminate how the burdens of running a society should be divided up.

Each of the chapters in this dissertation develops one part of an account of contributive justice. In the first dissertation chapter, I make conceptual space for an account of contributive justice. I show that contributive justice is genuinely distinct from both efficiency and distributive justice. I also identify one respect in which principles of contributive justice ought to apply: that of determining the financing and delivery and civic cultural public goods. In the second dissertation chapter, I argue that a principle of contribution in accordance with ability (a principle of “ability-to-pay”, or “ability-to-contribute”, for short) stands out as a candidate principle of contributive justice. The version of ability-to-pay that I defend is, in particular, a deontic principle of ability-to-pay. I show that a deontic principle of ability-to-pay is more closely allied with a view of society as a cooperative enterprise. In the third dissertation chapter, contributive justice is used in service of developing an account of contributive legitimacy. Contributive legitimacy gives us a set of conditions under which the state’s use of coercive force to extract tax contributions is legitimate, and hence justified. Drawing on empirical evidence from the development and fiscal sociology literature, I show that contributive legitimacy in a state’s tax extraction practices is essential to rule of law, and the avoidance of kleptocratic authoritarianism. Contributive legitimacy supplements our understanding of conventional notions of political legitimacy and helps us identify possible failures of political legitimacy. These are failures that might be overlooked were we to focus solely on distribution.


(1) They’re arguably not alone in this conviction. A number of other legal and political theorists—Richard Epstein and Gerald Gaus among them—also believe that the fair allocation of individual tax liabilities is principally a matter of distributive justice. They, too, start from a distributive justice framework in order to figure out what a fair allocation of tax liabilities ought to look like.

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Other Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:12:12 -0400 2018-08-31T13:00:00-04:00 2018-08-31T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Other
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 7, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-07T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Bioethics Discussion: Neuroethics (September 11, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49420 49420-11453762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the origins of our moral situation.

Readings to consider:
"Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society"
"Neuroethics: the practical and the philosophical"
"Neuroethics for the new millennium"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:39:23 -0400 2018-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Neuroethics
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 14, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-14T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Vox Populi Vox Dei: Populism, Elitism and Private Reason (September 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52375 52375-12652719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Populists often claim that representatives represent the people by complying with their preferences and judgments. As Donald Trump argued in the National Republican Convention, he represents 'the voice of the people'. Elitists, by contrast, argue that representatives are bound to decide wisely or correctly rather than conform blindly to popular sentiments.

This Article argues that the populist and elitist view of representation are both false. It argues that representation indeed requires the representative to endorse the perspective and worldview of the represented. But often endorsing the perspective of the represented requires the representative to act against the actual convictions of the represented. More specifically, to look at the world 'from the perspective of the represented' the representative’s decisions ought to satisfy the condition of justifiability-to the represented, namely, they must rest on reasoning that is accessible to the represented.

This understanding of representation has broader implications for political theory. It implies that private reason has important role to play in democratic politics: the constituency’s basic convictions should be taken into account in the reasoning of the representatives. Yet the duty of representation, that requires that the representatives' reasons be accessible to the represented, is only a pro tanto duty that can be overridden by conflicting normative considerations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:07:46 -0400 2018-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Ross Leaders Academy (September 19, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54560 54560-13598659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

Make leadership development a primary focus during your final years at U-M!

You are invited to apply for the Ross Leaders Academy (RLA), powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, an exclusive group of students who want to develop the mindset and skills needed to be influential at U-M and beyond. As a participant, you will learn from a diverse set of peers, receive team executive coaching, and engage with 30+ years of powerful research and ideas advanced by Michigan Ross.

RLA graduates emerge more confident, more insightful, and with a vision to fuel their emerging careers.

Applications are now open for the 2018-19 academic year, which will kick off on October 26. Apply on our website.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Enhance your self-awareness
- Advance your self-development
- Work with diverse individuals
- Build strong networks

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS
- Juniors, seniors, and graduate students at any U­-M school
- Ability to attend all sessions (view schedule »)
- Deep interest in leadership development, personal growth, and lifelong learning

QUESTIONS?
Contact us at rossleaders@umich.edu or attend our Information Session on September 12 from 4-5 PM in the Blau Colloquium at Michigan Ross.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:22:41 -0400 2018-09-19T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sanger Leadership Center Careers / Jobs Ross Leaders Academy
A Bioethical Lunch in a "Moral Minute" (September 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54447 54447-13585498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion of the ethical implications of the (biomedical) work of current Ph.D students here at the University of Michigan.

Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeShJcc1nm5X6gCZMTZZdMDe7KBUKtcpEHBDdVTVoSa7NVH9A/viewform

For more information about the group in general, please check out our website: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:15:04 -0400 2018-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion A moral minute
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Bioethics Discussion: Drugs (September 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49421 49421-11453763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the manipulation of our biochemical status.

Readings to consider:
"Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy"
"Adverse health effects of marijuana use"
"Practical, legal, and ethical issues in expanded access to investigational drugs"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/017-drugs/.

Partake in the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:53:37 -0400 2018-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Drugs
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (September 28, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Travel and Philosophy (October 1, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53822 53822-13463711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

“…all tourists are dear to Hermes, the god of travel, who is patron also of amiable curiosity and freedom of mind.” George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel. There is an intimate relationship between philosophy and travel: both challenge our everyday assumptions and both raise important ethical questions.

This course will explore those connections. Some of the questions we will discuss include: Is there a moral value to travel? What are the moral virtues or even obligations of the “good traveler”? Should we “do as the Romans do” even if they act immorally (e.g., disrespect women)? Do we have a moral obligation to represent our country when we travel abroad? Can we truly understand another culture and should we try? When does travel become voyeurism? Does our quest for “authentic” travel destroy the very authenticity of the places we visit? If we are concerned about impoverished areas, should we use our money to help them rather than visit them?

Instructor Elias Baumgarten just retired from teaching philosophy for 46 years at UM-Dearborn and has traveled to over 70 countries. This study group for those 50 and over will meet on Mondays, 1-3, from October 1 through October 29.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:16:47 -0400 2018-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 2, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56052 56052-13823413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join us for the introductory meeting of the Cognitive Science Seminar Series. This informal biweekly seminar series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Meeting Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:26:15 -0400 2018-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Meeting Weiser Hall
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44037 44037-9877694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Advisors, CGIS Alumni, and program representatives from around campus and the world will answer your questions about UM study abroad opportunities. Learn about UM faculty-led programs and meet with staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office. Enjoy performances from global student orgs, maize-n-blue giveaways, and free candy from around the world!

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Fair / Festival Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:01:54 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Study Abroad!
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
MIT-Michigan Social Philosophy Workshop (October 6, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52458 52458-12786064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 6, 2018 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 13:04:57 -0400 2018-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
MIT-Michigan Social Philosophy Workshop (October 7, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52458 52458-12786065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 7, 2018 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 13:04:57 -0400 2018-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Workshop / Seminar
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

“Big Data in Manufacturing Systems with Internet-of-Things Connectivity”
Dawn Tilbury, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

“Big (Network) Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science”
Patrick Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, Purdue University.

“The Data Science Expert in the Room”
Katherine Ensor, Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES), Rice University.

“The Elements of Translational Data Science”
Raghu Machiraju, Interim Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University

The symposium will also include:

Research talks from U-M investigators
A poster session and student poster competition
Industry perspectives on data science and social good.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

“Big Data in Manufacturing Systems with Internet-of-Things Connectivity”
Dawn Tilbury, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

“Big (Network) Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science”
Patrick Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, Purdue University.

“The Data Science Expert in the Room”
Katherine Ensor, Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES), Rice University.

“The Elements of Translational Data Science”
Raghu Machiraju, Interim Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University

The symposium will also include:

Research talks from U-M investigators
A poster session and student poster competition
Industry perspectives on data science and social good.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Plato, Through Confucian Eyes (October 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52910 52910-13142321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

While many published studies compare ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, such studies usually start by identifying some set of ideas in the Greek texts, and then argue that one can find the same or similar ideas on the Chinese side. In this talk, Professor Hutton reverses that direction of comparison and use Chinese ideas—and in particular early Confucian views—as a lens to re-examine Greek philosophy, starting with Plato. Through this method, he aims to show how Confucian perspectives can unearth new interpretive insights about Western philosophical texts, and how this process can also aid us in thinking more deeply about the Confucian views themselves.

Eric L. Hutton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he has been teaching since 2002. His research focuses on early Confucianism and comparative studies of ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, especially on the topic of ethics. His major publications include a translation, "Xunzi: The Complete Text" (Princeton University Press, 2014), and an edited volume, the "Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi" (Springer, 2016). He is also co-editor (with Justin Tiwald) of the new translation series "Oxford Chinese Thought."

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. Email us at chinese.studies@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:35:51 -0400 2018-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Eric Hutton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
Bioethics Discussion: Alternative Medicine (October 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49423 49423-11453765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion at the boundaries of the medical sciences.

Readings to consider:
"The placebo effect in alternative medicine"
"The use of complementary and alternative medicine in pediatrics"
"Efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine therapies in relieving cancer pain: a systematic review"
"Trends in the use of complementary health approaches among adults: United States, 2002-2012"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/018-alternative-medicine/.

Be mindful at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:54:30 -0400 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Alternative medicine
A Bioethical Lunch on Complementary Medicine (October 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54449 54449-13585500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion on how the "other kind" of medicine fits in.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 9th
https://goo.gl/forms/tzLNHHsHWBd0ojzj1

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:33:27 -0400 2018-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Complementary medicine
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Lecture on the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55926 55926-13805095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Curator Cheney J. Schopieray explores the breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century, which includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy. Free and open to all, but please register online or by emailing Anne Bennington-Helber, abhelber@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:25:59 -0400 2018-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion D.N. Diedrich Collection poster
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 17, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56457 56457-13905917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This informal biweekly seminar series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:28:33 -0400 2018-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-19T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Cognitive Science Open House (October 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56029 56029-13821107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Please join us for the 5th annual Cognitive Science Open House--an informational session about majoring in cognitive science. Brief presentations will be conducted by the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science staff, faculty, and the Cognitive Science Community student organization. Raffle prizes will be given away. Refreshments will be provided. Registration required.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:54:37 -0400 2018-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Reception / Open House Lightbulb illustration
Department Colloquium (October 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52149 52149-12483089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

A Pluralist, Pragmatist Theory of Disease

Philosophers have proposed various definitions of disease. These have
spanned the normative, the naturalistic, and the social constructivist, for
instance. I argue that disease is not a stable, univocal concept with a
correct definition that can be uncovered or even usefully stipulated.
Rather, the concept of disease shows up in deeply competing projects with
different practical and epistemic goals, and what counts as a disease
varies accordingly. There is no reason to think we have, or should have,
even roughly consistent notions of health and disease underlying these
different projects. There are a messy host of competing strategic reasons
to classify something as a disease or to resist doing so; accordingly, that
something is a disease is often a contingent, historically dependent,
context dependent, perhaps temporary fact about it. Any neater story we try
to tell will occlude some of the important purposes that categorizing
something as a disease can serve, and the complex harms and benefits that
can come with this categorization.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:53:59 -0400 2018-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion kukla poster
Cognitive Science Community (October 23, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56459 56459-13905997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science Community meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. to host student- and professor-led discussions on the latest topics in cognitive science and related fields.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:43:22 -0400 2018-10-23T18:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Zombies (October 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49424 49424-11453766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the rights of the living, the dead, and those in between.

Readings to consider:
"Consciousness: the most critical moral (constitutional) standard for human personhood"
"CDC preparedness 101: zombie pandemic"
"Zombies v. materialists"
"In vitro meat"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/019-zombies/.

Have your brain eaten by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:55:12 -0400 2018-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Zombies
The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53659 53659-13444118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The breadth and depth of the D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century includes over 1,100 original letters, documents, and other handwritten items, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections cover wide-ranging but deeply intertwined subject matter, such as American speech, education, government, Christianity, literature, music, philanthropy.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:53:19 -0400 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition D. N. Deidrich Exhibit
Department Colloquium (October 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52150 52150-12483090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Does Virtual Reality Consist in Veridical, Illusory or Hallucinatory Experience?

Does virtual reality (VR) involve: (i) illusory or hallucinatory experience of things that are not there? or (ii) veridical experience of computational objects? I argue that traditional thinking about this issue involves a false dichotomy. I articulate my own account of illusion and hallucination, and argue that it entails VR experience is complex with veridical and non-veridical elements. I begin by presenting new cases of illusion and hallucination that have not heretofore been identified. These cases show that the traditional accounts of illusion and hallucination are incorrect. I provide a taxonomy of all the different kinds of illusion and hallucination. New instances of illusion and hallucination provide much needed, important data for testing theories of experience and perception—and can illuminate the nature of virtual reality experience. I go on to discuss virtual reality experience of the sort that is produced today, and show that we need to take account of the nature of the technology in thinking about the veridicality of the experience.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:39:43 -0400 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
"The Knowledge Illusion: Do You Know as Much as You Think You Know?" (October 30, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53387 53387-13355937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Acquiring knowledge and understanding are central to making our way in the modern world. Some of us claim to be experts because we try to know a lot about one topic.
Most of us are satisfied with knowing enough about some topics to get through the day. The book, "The Knowledge Illusion", by two cognitive scientists, Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach, explores why we are all under the illusion that we know more than we actually do.
They discuss how we think in groups, with technology and about science and politics. They also make recommendations for how to cope with our limitations. We will read their accessible book across the six sessions. Humility and curiosity are the only prerequisites for the course.
Craig Ramsay is a political scientist who taught for decades while coping with his own illusions of knowledge.
This Study Group for those 50 and over will meet Tuesdays 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. October 30 – December 11.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:50:21 -0400 2018-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 31, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56458 56458-13905918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This informal biweekly seminar series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:33:27 -0400 2018-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
RGFP Lecture (November 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54694 54694-13636287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Sep 2018 13:43:33 -0400 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
The socialist perspective on the 2018 midterm elections (November 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57368 57368-14175633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in a meeting on the 2018 midterm elections. The meeting will feature a presentation by Niles Niemuth, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for Michigan’s 12th congressional district. Niles will review the current political situation and the significance of his campaign.

There is growing support for socialism among workers and youth throughout the district and around the world. This is the outcome of record levels of social inequality, continuous attacks on wages and social programs, and unending war.

The IYSSE is fighting to show workers and students that the fight for socialism means a fight against the capitalist system. It requires the independent mobilization of the working class against the Democrats, the Republicans, and the social system they defend.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:33:12 -0500 2018-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-04T21:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion Niles
Bioethics Discussion: Cloning (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49425 49425-11453767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion coping with copying, seeing double, and creating anew.

Readings to consider:
"Genetic encores"
"Human cloning and our sense of self"
"The ethics of reviving long extinct species"
"Uniqueness, individuality, and human cloning"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/020-cloning/.

Take a gander at the blog should you have the time: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:56:43 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cloning
PoSe Lecture: Priority and Privilege in Scientific Discovery (November 9, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55312 55312-13716048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Some have argued that the so-called “Priority rule” in science is best thought of as a behavior regulator for the scientific community, which benefits society by adequately structuring the distribution of intellectual labor across pre-existing research programs. To the contrary, considerations about how news of scientific developments spreads throughout a scientific community at large suggest that the priority rule is something else entirely, which disadvantages historically underrepresented or otherwise marginalized social groups.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:23:58 -0400 2018-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
PoSe Discussion (November 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56323 56323-13878532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Why Philosophers Should Care about Computational Complexity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:09:43 -0500 2018-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
A Bioethical Lunch on Genomics (November 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54448 54448-13585499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion on four letters with profound implications.

For more information about the group in general, please check out our website: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:08:48 -0500 2018-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Genomics
RGFP Lecture - (November 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54695 54695-13867079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

.Title : When Orgasms Do Not Equal Pleasure:

Accounts of Bad Orgasm Experiences During Consensual Sexual Encounters



Abstract: Orgasm is considered by many to be the most satisfying aspect of sex. Accordingly, orgasms are generally assumed to be wholly positive experiences; and thus, sex with orgasm is assumed to be always necessarily positive or pleasurable. But, are orgasms always experienced in unilaterally positive ways? The evidence that women and men can orgasm while being sexually assaulted suggests that the answer is no; orgasm can result from physical stimulation even during resistance and absence of arousal. Despite this, research has yet to explore the frequency of orgasms in non-positive consensual sexual encounters and whether orgasms themselves can be non-positive, or even negative. This calls to question: 1) Do individuals experience orgasm in non-positive consensual sexual encounters and how do individuals characterize these experiences? 2) Can orgasms themselves be non-positive or negative?
In this talk, I will discuss findings from my dissertation project, which suggested that orgasm during non-positive and/or negative consensual sexual encounters may be a common phenomenon despite notions that orgasm equates that a sexual encounter was positive and pleasurable. I will discuss how participants characterized their bad orgasm experiences, how social location can create stressful expectations for orgasm, and how participants comments complicated notions of orgasm as inherently pleasurable.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:04:46 -0400 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Bioethics Discussion: Animal Experimentation (November 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49427 49427-11453768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion testing the limitations of our testing limitations.

Readings to consider:
"Does animal experimentation inform human healthcare?"
"Ethical principles and guidelines for experiments on animals"
"The flaws and human harms of animal experimentation"
"Animal testing is still the best way to find new treatments for patients"
"Alternatives to animal testing"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/021-animal-experimentation/

Consider monkeying around the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:58:41 -0400 2018-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Animal experimentation
"Mindfulness - A Medicine for Soul and Body" (November 28, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53393 53393-13358061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Mindfulness Meditation is easily accessible and amazingly effective as a treatment for chronic illness, anxiety, depression and pain. It helps us to live more easily and acceptingly with the difficulties of being human and to foster inner peace and a sense of well-being.
Research shows us that it changes our brain, making our mind sharper. Mike Murray is a Clinical Psychologist. He has studied and practiced meditation, East and West, for over fifty years. The text we’ll be using for this class is “Mindfulness - Finding Peace in A Frantic World” by Mark Williams and Danny Penman.
This Study Group for those 50 and over will begin Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. November 28 - December 19.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:47:15 -0400 2018-11-28T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (November 28, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56574 56574-13949136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The final meeting of the term will be this Wednesday, November 28th, from 5-6 p.m. Steven Langsford and Wilka Carvalho will each be presenting a talk related to the following topic: "Defining and applying optimality for simple decisions is hard, but breaking down decisions makes this easier and facilitates generalization."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:35:38 -0500 2018-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
MMP Lecture: The Argument from Fitting Anger for Retributivism (November 29, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57453 57453-14202427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Some philosophers deny that anger is ever fitting, while others consider vicious, self-destructive, or always wrong to act upon. We will first argue that the best gloss of anger takes it to be directed at offenses, understood as transgressive actions that provide reason to retaliate (in the first-person case) or to punish (in the third-person case). Call such backward-looking considerations, about what people do and why they do it, retributive reasons. If anger is ever fitting, then retributive reasons exist; and anger, like other natural emotions, is sometimes fitting. This result itself is significant, because it belies the claims of those who endorse the so-called utilitarian theory of punishment, and it illustrates the significance of a sentimental value: the anger-worthy. But it also forms the basis of our sentimentalist defense of retributivism, which constitutes an all-things-considered justification of punishment relying partly on retributive reasons.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:16:44 -0500 2018-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Aristotle on the science of perception (November 29, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52591 52591-12868033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

4-6 PM in 2175 AH

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:39:39 -0500 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Ancient Philosophy Lecture (November 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52376 52376-12652720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Aristotle on shame & moral education: pleasure, pain, and art

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:41:30 -0500 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Bioethics Discussion: Suicide (December 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49428 49428-11453770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our (chosen?) ends.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of Sisyphus"
"The ethics of suicide"
"Suicide: rationality and responsibility for life"
"Suicide responsibility of hospital and psychiatrist"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/022-suicide/.

Please consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/. (And your own health and well-being if you're in that place in your life right now.)


[If you and/or someone you know is currently feeling suicidal, please feel free to reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.]

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:27:01 -0400 2018-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Suicide
Department Colloquium (December 7, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52151 52151-12483091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Instrumental Virtues and Instrumental Rationality

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:59:11 -0500 2018-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Education (December 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57762 57762-14289145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

We would like to cordially invite you to a stellar gathering of world-renowned distinguished speakers, including Swami Sarvapriyananda from the Vedanta Society of New York.

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Conference / Symposium Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:09:06 -0500 2018-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Vedanta Study Circle Conference / Symposium poster
A Bioethical Lunch on Harry Potter (December 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54450 54450-13585501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion on the boy who lived and what that means.

Please RSVP Here
https://goo.gl/forms/oiPBMyqZZ6IEJKtr2

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:34:54 -0500 2018-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Harry Potter