Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (June 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-06-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-27T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (June 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-06-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-28T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (June 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-29T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (June 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-06-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-06-30T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (June 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-06-30T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-01T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-02T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-04T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-05T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-06T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (July 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-07-07T10:00:00-04:00 2017-07-07T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-07T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-07T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-08T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (July 8, 2017 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37173 37173-6299577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 8, 2017 12:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions.

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Meeting Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:48:11 -0500 2017-07-08T12:45:00-04:00 2017-07-08T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-09T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-09T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-11T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 12, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-12T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-12T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-13T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (July 14, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 14, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-07-14T10:00:00-04:00 2017-07-14T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-14T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-14T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-15T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-16T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-16T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-18T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-19T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-20T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 23, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 23, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-23T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-23T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 26, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-26T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Gerrymandering (July 26, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40951 40951-9160260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

After the U.S. census in 2020, to equalize legislative representation, we will redraw the maps: new congressional districts, state legislative districts, county commission districts, and city wards. The lack of constraints on the process can lead to "gerrymandering": abusive manipulation of those boundaries. How did we get here, how does it affect governing, and what can we do? Washtenaw County Clerk Larry Kestenbaum offers insights based on his long experience in the field.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 May 2017 10:10:26 -0400 2017-07-26T19:00:00-04:00 2017-07-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion After5
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (July 28, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-07-28T10:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (July 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-07-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-30T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-02T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (August 4, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-08-04T10:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-05T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-06T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-06T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-09T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-09T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 10, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 10, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (August 11, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-08-11T10:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 12, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-12T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-12T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (August 12, 2017 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37173 37173-9243512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 12, 2017 12:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions.

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Meeting Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:48:11 -0500 2017-08-12T12:45:00-04:00 2017-08-12T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-13T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-15T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-15T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-16T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-17T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (August 18, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-08-18T10:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-20T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 23, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-23T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 24, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-24T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (August 25, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-8592798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-08-25T10:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children (August 26, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/35506 35506-5255664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: HR Communications

Free multimedia exhibit for families and educators sheds light on the rights, ideas and creativity of children.

Designed to engage educators, policy makers and families in exploring the transformative power of early learning, the exhibit describes the educational approach of the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy through photography, video and children’s work.

Hands-on activities using light and shadow and materials found in nature allow visitors to connect with key concepts. Activities for families will be offered in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and other community partners.

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Exhibition Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:21:08 -0400 2017-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center HR Communications Exhibition Wonder of Learning host and partner logos
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (September 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-09-01T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (September 8, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-09-08T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. Politics Matters: (How) Can Aid Help? (September 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41870 41870-9487262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Responding to growing interest in the transnational politics of decent work and inclusive development, this talk explores the drivers of Vietnam’s industrial relations reforms. It draws attention to: wildcat strikes, which triggered concerns about regime legitimacy; pressures on manufacturers from reputation-conscious buyers; the Trans Pacific Partnership’s stipulation of freedom of association; together with economic and geopolitical incentives to join TPP. While donor-supported pilots do not appear to have motivated reform, they are nonetheless important: providing a valuable space for reformists to explore new ideas; iteratively adapt; garner evidence of what furthers their perceived interests and ideologies; with which they can persuade anxious, conservative colleagues, so as to build a reform coalition. By tracing the politics of governance reform, and situating aid in this wider context, this qualitative study furthers our understanding of the politics of inclusive development. It also makes two constructive suggestions: how to effectively scale-up pilot programs, and productively engage with wider opportunities for inclusive development, besides aid.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:40:33 -0400 2017-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Alice Evans
EIHS Symposium: The Future of the Past (September 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41698 41698-9438337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

On April 25, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order authorizing the possible reclassification of national monuments, a threat to the preservation of the country’s natural, archaeological, and historical heritage. This is just one example of current initiatives that put the future of the past at risk. For as long as history as an academic field has existed, its practitioners have relied on, dialogued with, or resisted the political contexts in which they operated. The current climate, however, has prompted a new urgency to writing, teaching, and researching the past. The inputs of our panelists will offer analytical reflections on what concerns us at present, followed by a general discussion.

Panelists and topics:
Kathryn Babayan (History, Near Eastern Studies; University of Michigan): Generation 9/11: The Future of Islamic history in America
Matthew Countryman (American Culture, History; University of Michigan): Citizen Historians: Historical Activism and Scholarly Responsibility
Geoff Eley (History, University of Michigan): Anxiety about Borders: Race, History, and the Foreigner
Alexandra Minna Stern (American Culture, History, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Studies; University of Michigan): Reading the Alt-Right: Timescapes and Tropes of White Nationalism
Helmut Puff (History, Germanic Languages and Literatures; University of Michigan): panel chair

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:41:17 -0400 2017-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Tisch Hall
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (September 9, 2017 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37173 37173-6299579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2017 12:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions.

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Meeting Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:48:11 -0500 2017-09-09T12:45:00-04:00 2017-09-09T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
Vital Talks: A Stamps Gallery Panel Discussion (September 9, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43456 43456-9766040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Co-presented with Literati Bookstore, Vital Talks is a panel discussion on culture, politics, and healing moderated by Srimoyee Mitra, Stamps Gallery Director. This event is free and open to the public.

Panelists include artists Shelagh Keeley, Dylan Miner, Sheryl Oring, The Hinterlands, and curator Gaëtane Verna, director of the Power Plant Contemporary Art, Toronto.

The Stamps Gallery is a brand new space for contemporary art and design thinking, making. This fall, the Gallery launches its fall program with two major exhibitions: The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/ Decoding and Vital Signs for a New America. Both exhibitions encourage audiences to construct new readings of the past and imagine new paradigms for the future. This discussion brings together artists and curators from these shows to share their work and strategies on learning from diverse histories of collectivity and resistance.

Books by the panelists and related to the exhibitions will be available for purchase, courtesy of Literati Bookstore.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:15:53 -0400 2017-09-09T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/hinterlands.jpg
Robocalypse Now?: Technology and the Future of Work (September 11, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41582 41582-9367005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

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

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

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:43:47 -0400 2017-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Selma film screening and discussion (September 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42129 42129-9560488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The Institute for the Humanities, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the English Language Institute present a free screening of the critically acclaimed film Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay and based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. A short introduction to the film and its historical context will precede the screening at 4:10pm, and a discussion with graduate students Maryam Aziz (American Culture), David Hutchinson (History), and Tara Weinberg (History) will follow at 6:30pm.

Presented in conjunction with "Marching Forward: Social Justice Then and Now" series of events, projects, and resources associated with Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s visit to the University of Michigan on September 21, 2017. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marchingforward/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:49:52 -0400 2017-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for the Humanities Film Screening Selma
Selma Screening and Discussion (September 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43138 43138-9728908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Please join us for a screening and a discussion with graduate students Maryam Aziz (American Culture), David Hutchinson (History), and Tara Weinberg (History).

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Film Screening Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:24:15 -0400 2017-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Film Screening Hatcher Graduate Library
Bioethics Discussion: First, do no harm (September 12, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43713 43713-9832696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the basis of medical care.

Essays to consider:
"The Hippocratic Oath"
"The nocebo effect of informed consent"
"The doctor-patient relationship in different cultures"

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:14:08 -0400 2017-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion First do not harm
Environmental Law & Policy Program: EPA General Counsels (September 13, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43678 43678-9829823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:45am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:25:55 -0400 2017-09-13T11:45:00-04:00 2017-09-13T13:10:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion South Hall
DISC Lecture. Political Shari‘a, Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Love in Razinat T. Mohamed’s Novel "Habiba (Beloved)." (September 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42227 42227-9585111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

By 2002, Islamic law–Shari‘a–had been introduced in several northern Nigerian states. This development took place in the context of democratization and opening up of the political space after a prolonged period of military dictatorship. Claiming to establish a new moral order, these sharia-cratic states imposed new and sometimes draconian penalties against some “sexual offenses.” In the main, these alleged offenses targeted women and other gender minorities. This state of affairs triggered strong reactions from Nigerian women and human rights activists as well as from some non-governmental organizations. Included in this momentum of activism were Nigerian women writers and more particularly Muslim women writers from states that adopted Shari‘a, using both the Soyyaya (love story) genre in Hausa language and English novels to convey their messages of protest. The primary aim of this essay, then, is to explore this literary response to the moral order imposed by sharia-cracy through an examination of Razinat T. Mohamed’s novel, "Habiba (Beloved)" (2013).

Ousseina D. Alidou is professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature. She is a theoretical linguist whose research focuses mainly on the study of women’s orality and literacy practices in African Muslim societies; African Muslim women’s Agency and gender justice; African women’s literatures; Gendered discourses of identity; and the politics of cultural production in African Muslim societies.

Sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) with support from the African Studies Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Islamic Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:32:32 -0400 2017-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Alidou
State Attorneys General and the Trump Administration: Rising Intergovernmental Conflict (and Perhaps Some Cooperation?) (September 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43705 43705-9832689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
4:00pm-5:30pm

Free and open to the public

About the lecture:
With Republicans controlling Congress and the White House following the 2016 elections, Democrats have turned to the states to spur challenges to President Trump’s agenda. Among the most prominent of Trump’s state-level adversaries have been state attorneys general, who in just the first few months of 2017 have challenged federal policy from immigration to the environment. While intergovernmental conflict has continued to deepen, AGs have also found areas of bipartisan cooperation as well. This talk will discuss the role of state AGs during the early months of the Trump Administration. In addition to providing an overview of the various tools AGs have used to gain national prominence, Dr. Nolette will highlight several of the emerging trends in AG activity.

Paul Nolette an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. His work focus on the dynamics of contemporary American federalism as well as the interplay between politics and law. His book, Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America (University Press of Kansas, 2015), examines how state litigators have used lawsuits against large corporations and the federal government to influence national policy.

Professor Nolette completed his Ph.D. in political science at Boston College prior to joining the Marquette faculty in the fall of 2011. He also received a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2004 and a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Anselm College in 2001. After law school, Professor Nolette worked in a litigation law firm and later served as the legal counsel for the Labor and Workforce Development Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Sponsored by: University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)
Co-Sponsor: University of Michigan Law School

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:34:39 -0400 2017-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Paul Nolette
LSA Student Government Mass Meetings - Fall 2017 (September 13, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43741 43741-9835487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: LSA Student Government

Come to 1427 Mason Hall at 7pm on September 13th and/or 14th to learn how you can get involved with LSA Student Government, meet the committee chairs and vice chairs, and get FREE PIZZA!!!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:07:39 -0400 2017-09-13T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall LSA Student Government Rally / Mass Meeting SGFallMassMeeting17
From Propaganda to 'Fake News': A History of how not to be duped (September 14, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42903 42903-9677719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Will Potter is an award-winning author, TED Senior Fellow and Internationally recognized civil liberties advocate

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Presentation Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:28:31 -0400 2017-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Presentation
Remembering Tom Hayden through Current Scholarship (September 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42551 42551-9611964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us to celebrate the life and legacy of anti-​war activist, politician, and U-M alumnus Tom Hayden (1939-2016) through the research of current U-M students and recent U-M graduates who have focused on topics related to Hayden's work. Talks will be followed by a reception.

Austin McCoy, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, U-M, speaks about "Tom Hayden and the Final Campaign to End the War."
Leah Schneck, senior in the Residential College studying Social Theory and Practice, talks to "Participatory Democracy: Arnold Kaufman and the Rise of the New Left (1960-67)."
Sian Olson Dowis, doctoral candidate in U.S. History at Northwestern University, covers "Out of Isolation: The New Left in Urban America."

In 2014 U-M Library acquired Hayden's papers to add to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, an archive in the Special Collections Library documenting the history of social protest movements and marginalized political communities from the 19th century to the present. The Tom Hayden Papers are used frequently by students, scholars and researchers.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:09:25 -0400 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Tom Hayden 2014
When Courts Call Out Political Actors (September 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43187 43187-9737075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Linda Greenhouse, the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, writes a biweekly column about the Supreme Court and the law in The New York Times. She reported on the Supreme Court for The New York Times from 1978 to 2008. She teaches at Yale Law School and is the author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, as well as a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun,
Becoming Justice Blackmun. She also co-authored Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling.

Introduction by Richard D. Friedman, Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:39:08 -0400 2017-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Constitution Day poster
32nd Graham Hovey Lecture "Piercing the Bubble: Politics, Media and America's Prosperity Gap" (September 14, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41887 41887-9505632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Alec MacGillis, award-winning political journalist, will address income inequality in the U.S. and the perilous implications of winner-take-all cities and left-behind places.
Event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:18:07 -0400 2017-09-14T17:30:00-04:00 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Alec MacGillis, political reporter for ProPublica and 2011 Knight-Wallace Fellow
LSA Student Government Mass Meetings - Fall 2017 (September 14, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43741 43741-9835488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: LSA Student Government

Come to 1427 Mason Hall at 7pm on September 13th and/or 14th to learn how you can get involved with LSA Student Government, meet the committee chairs and vice chairs, and get FREE PIZZA!!!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:07:39 -0400 2017-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall LSA Student Government Rally / Mass Meeting SGFallMassMeeting17
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (September 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Keeping the Dream Alive Part I: DACA and the Law (September 18, 2017 11:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44682 44682-9966081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 11:50am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Professors Margo Schlanger and David Thronson will discuss the legal aspects and implications of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Co-sponsored by the Latino Law Students Association, the Michigan Immigration and Labor Law Assocation, and the Law School Educational Environment Committee.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:36:02 -0400 2017-09-18T11:50:00-04:00 2017-09-18T12:50:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Machiavelli’s The Prince (September 18, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42910 42910-9682998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Knowledge Seekers will be able to craft their own answers to questions about Machiavelli’s work, The Prince. Should the ends justify the means? Should rulers convey their true beliefs or hide them? What does it mean to be Machiavellian? The Prince poses unsettling questions like these, whose answers have redefined centuries of political wisdom.

Professor William Landon teaches this Great Course on The Prince for those 50 and above. Instructor Richard Galant serves as an on-site guide helping the class decide whether the Machiavelli we think we know bears any resemblance to the Machiavelli who lived, pondered, and wrote The Prince.

This study group meets for 90 minutes on Mondays from September 18 through October 30.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:26:06 -0400 2017-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
"Punks" @ 20: Revisiting Cathy Cohen’s Queer Coalitional Vision (September 18, 2017 2:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42079 42079-9536061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:10pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

LGQRI presents a symposium in tribute to and reconsideration of Cathy Cohen’s generative article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” Published in GLQ in 1997, Cohen’s piece articulated a queer of color critique that transformed the field.

(Full text available here: http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/3/4/437.full.pdf+html)

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:

2:10 - 4pm: Welcome and Introductions (Dean Hubbs, LGQRI Director)
Panel Presentations
- Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, English & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
- Jafari S. Allen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
Marlon M. Bailey, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
- Christina Hanhardt, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of Maryland

4:00 pm: Roundtable Discussion featuring Guest of Honor, Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
Moderated by David Hutchinson, History PhD Student

Presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initative (LGQRI). Cosponsored by the Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI), Departments of English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies, Anthropology, American Culture, the Spectrum Center, and the Stamps School of Art & Design.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:38:41 -0400 2017-09-18T14:10:00-04:00 2017-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) Conference / Symposium photo of protesters carrying rainbow banner with words "unite"
Current Events (September 19, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42216 42216-9584904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This discussion group is for people 50 and over interested in current events happening at the local, national and global level. All opinions will be heard courteously. No materials or special expertise required, just an open mind and a good sense of humor.

This study group will meet for two hours on Tuesdays from September 19 through December 19.

Instructors for this study group are Bill Milne, who retired in 1996 from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD., and Joan Innes, a native Ann Arborite who has been leading Current Events for five years.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:49:22 -0400 2017-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
WCED Lecture. Elections in Hard Times: Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century (September 19, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42226 42226-9585110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Why are 'free and fair' elections so often followed by democratic backsliding? Irfan Nooruddin answers this critical question, showing why even clean elections fail to advance democracy when held amidst challenging structural conditions. This lecture will open with a comprehensive, accessible synthesis of fifty years of research on elections and democratization, a resource for experts, policymakers, and students. It then develops a new theory of why elections fail in countries with little democratic history or fiscal resources, and a history of violent conflict. Nooruddin’s talk leverages an eclectic mix of cross-national data, short case studies and surveys of voters to support this theory.

Irfan Nooruddin is the Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian Politics and the Faculty Chair of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. He directs the Georgetown University India Initiative, a university-wide initiative that advances research and teaching around India and its role in world affairs and creates a platform for high-level dialogue among American and Indian leaders from government, business, civil society, and the academy. He is the author of "Elections in Hard Times: Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century" (Cambridge, 2016) and "Coalition Politics and Economic Development: Credibility and the Strength of Weak Governments" (Cambridge, 2011). Professor Nooruddin specializes in the study of comparative economic development and policymaking, democratization and democratic institutions, and international institutions. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and is a Team Member with Lokniti: Programme on Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:23:42 -0400 2017-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Irfan Nooruddin
CREES Noon Lecture. Problematizing Populism: The Polish Radical Right and the Return of National Communism (September 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41364 41364-9190535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

It’s easy to be confused by the rhetoric of the current political struggle in Poland. On the one hand, the ruling party presents itself as the most uncompromising opponent of communism and its legacy, but on the other hand, many liberal critics see a resurrection of the communist state. Although these two claims seem mutually exclusive, both are partly correct. The current government’s ostentatious Catholicism, as well as its glorification of the armed resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s would not suggest hidden communist sympathies. But just below the surface of this undeniable anticommunism, the current government has indeed perpetuated a strand of Polish politics with roots stretching back to the period before 1989. Recognizing this historical context not only helps us understand the current regime, but retrospectively casts a new light on the whole postwar era.

Brian Porter-Szűcs is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of several books including: "Poland and the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom" (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and "Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland" (Oxford UP, 2010), which won the Kulczycki Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2012). His research has been supported by grants from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Fulbright Association, the United States Institute for Peace, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Porter-Szűcs received his doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He blogs about Polish politics, culture, society, and history at http://porterszucs.pl/.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:11:54 -0400 2017-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Porter-Szucs
CGIS Open House! (September 21, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43512 43512-9798613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS would like to invite you to our open house that will take place in our new office in Weiser Hall! Come by and check out student submitted photos, meet our advisors, and most importantly EAT! There will be plenty of food, free t-shirts, and opportunities to learn about studying abroad!

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 03 Sep 2017 17:12:09 -0400 2017-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
RESCHEDULED - Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell: March (September 21, 2017 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42261 42261-9593295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Due to a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Penny Stamps Speaker Series event featuring Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell has been postponed. This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, September 21 at 5:10 pm in the Michigan Theater, but has been rescheduled and will now take place on November 27, 2017 at 7 pm in Hill Auditorium: http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps/detail/john-lewis

In lieu of a Penny Stamps Speaker Series event on Thursday, September 21, Stamps will present a free screening of Get in the Way at 5:10 pm in the Michigan Theater. This 2017 PBS documentary chronicles the journey of civil rights hero, congressman, and human rights champion John Lewis and is presented in partnership with Detroit Public Television (DPTV).  Learn more about this screening: http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps/detail/screening_get_in_the_way

The John Lewis Speaker Series event is co-presented with the Conflict and Peace Initiative at the University of Michigan’s International Institute. Please visit the Conflict and Peace Initiative’s Marching Forward website (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marchingforward/) for information on additional events with MARCH illustrator Nate Powell.

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John Lewis is a civil rights leader and an American politician, serving Georgia’s 5th district since 1987. A member of the Democratic party leadership, Lewis has served as Senior Chief Deputy Whip since 2003. Born the son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis’s childhood was filled with deeply inspirational moments, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. heard on radio broadcasts. As a college student, Lewis’s inspiration fueled his commitment to end legalized racial segregation; he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the “Big Six” leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. His dedication to the highest ethical standards and moral principles has won Lewis the admiration of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress. Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls “The Beloved Community” in America. Lewis co-wrote his story with his then-Congressional Aid, now Digital Director and Policy Advisor, Andrew Aydin, in the form of the graphic novel trilogy, MARCH (2013). The collaborative work is illustrated by New York Times best-selling graphic novelist Nate Powell.

In partnership with the International Institute’s Conflict and Peace Initiative and the King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professorship Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:15:33 -0400 2017-09-21T17:10:00-04:00 2017-09-21T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/lewis.jpg
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (September 22, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Newborn Screening (September 25, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43249 43249-9748036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Advances in prenatal screening and genetic manipulation have the potential to all but eliminate birth defects and genetic disorders. For example, prenatal genetic testing in Iceland has almost completely erased incidents of down’s syndrome in newborns. This has led to growing concerns over creating designer babies, hyperbole about the potential for a new era of eugenics, and broader questions about whether science is outstripping societal or ethical norms in regards to human genetic diversity.

Join Joselin Linder, author of “The Family Gene”, and Jodyn Platt, assistant professor in the U-M Medical School in a panel discussion about the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and newborn screening. The conversation will be moderated by Kayte Spector-Bagdady, assistant professor in the U-M Medical School and chief of the research ethics service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:18:18 -0400 2017-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T19:15:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Newborn Screening
Dealing with Alternate Universes and Views of Reality in Politics (September 26, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42217 42217-9584905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Current mass media provides us with the picture of political adversaries living in alternate universes with different views of reality. From social media to cable TV, we find ourselves in information silos of our own construction, getting news and views from like-minded sources. This can make it hard for us to grapple with the complexities of the political world we live in today.

This study group is for those 50 and over and will meet for 90 minutes on Tuesdays from September 26 through November 7 (except for October 10). Participants will bring their values and beliefs to facilitate their understanding of alternative political realities and share each other’s critical insights, to help them become more informed citizen.

Instructor Tom Murray has a Ph.D. in Communications from U-M, is Emeritus Professor of Communication at EMU.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:50:18 -0400 2017-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
WCED/ASC Panel. Election Crisis in Kenya (September 26, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44804 44804-9980574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

“The presidential election was not conducted in accordance with the constitution, rendering the declared results invalid, null and void.”

With that stunning announcement, David Maraga, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, overturned the results of the August 2017 presidential election in Kenya, and mandated that fresh elections be held within 60 days. In a country with a history of contentious elections and contested electoral results, the decision by the Court to intervene in the election took many observers by surprise.

This roundtable brings together four faculty experts who will offer their views on the current political crisis in Kenya, its historical roots, and the extent to which the August election was marred by fraud.

Anne Pitcher, Afroamerican & African Studies/Political Science
Derek Peterson, History/Afroamerican & African Studies
Mai Hassan, Political Science
Walter Mebane, Political Science/Statistics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:46:24 -0400 2017-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion photo: Dan Spealman, Aga Khan Foundation
LACS Lecture. Atlantic History Initiative. Rumors of Slavery: Defending Emancipation in a Hostile Caribbean (September 26, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43885 43885-9852283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Professor Eller will be workshopping her recent article, “Rumors of Slavery,” as well as discussing its connections to her book, We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. In her study of the reoccupation of Dominican territory by the Spanish, Eller deepens study of the impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world and breaks from paradigms that emphasize perpetual conflict between Haitians and Dominicans in the nineteenth century. She contextualizes the small body of writing of Dominican elites with new analyses of inclusive and popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to fragments of poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance, as well as Caribbean anti-slavery movements across multiple islands and coasts, were anchored in a rich and complex political culture that traveled beyond individual shores.

Anne Eller is an assistant professor of history at Yale University. She teaches and researches colonial and modern Caribbean and Latin American history, comparative colonialisms, citizenship, Atlantic history, and the African Diaspora. She is currently writing a second monograph about the Caribbean after emancipation, tentatively entitled Other 1898s.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:27:30 -0400 2017-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion anne-eller
Bioethics Discussion: Organ and Body Donations (September 26, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43714 43714-9832699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the give and take of our very selves.

Essays to consider:
"The survival lottery"
"The case for allowing kidney sales"
"Organ donation and retrieval: whose body is it anyway?"

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:17:36 -0400 2017-09-26T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Organ and body donations
Regime vs. Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia (September 28, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43526 43526-9810357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Lecture. “Regime vs. Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia.” Vladimir Gelman, Professor, European University at St. Petersburg and University of Helsinki.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:51:28 -0400 2017-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Rubin Speaker Poster
The Computer Says No (September 28, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44801 44801-9980570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

LIVESTREAM: http://myumi.ch/6kNPk

Auditing Algorithms: Adding Accountability to Automated Authority is a group of events designed to produce a white paper that will help to define and develop the emerging research community for “algorithm auditing.” Algorithmic Auditing is a research design that has shown promise in diagnosing the unwanted consequences of algorithmic systems.

Automated software-based systems in finance, media, information, transportation, learning, or any application of computing can easily create outcomes that are unforeseeable by their designers, so algorithm auditing has the potential to improve the design of these systems by making their consequences visible. Auditing in this sense takes its name from the social scientific “audit study” where one feature is manipulated in a field experiment, although it is also reminiscent of a financial audit.

These events and the resulting white paper proposes to coalesce this new area of inquiry and to produce a report characterizing the state of the art and potential future directions. Participants and white paper co-authors will have opportunities to clarify the potential dangers of algorithmic systems, to specify these dangers as new research problems, to articulate challenges that they face as researchers interested in this area, to present existing methods for auditing or needs for new methods, and to propose research agendas that can provide new insights that advance science and benefit society.

This initiative is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and co-organized by the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University. Events are hosted at the University of Michigan.

Speakers:
Solon Barocas, Cornell University
J. Nathan Matias, Princeton University
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:43:52 -0400 2017-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Music, Work, Society: Speculations and Mediations at the Jahrhundertwende (September 28, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44745 44745-9969053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

In 19th century German cultural and academic life a wide-ranging discussion emerged about the relationship between music, work, society, and political economy. A disparate group sought to position music not as the ancients and early moderns had done, as a matter of mathematics, physics, and cosmic speculation, but as a matter of biology, physiology, ethnology, sociology, and economics. Focusing mainly on the political economist Karl Bücher and his influence across various media, this talk examines one social scientist’s encounter with music and follows its reverberations outside of academic life.

Celia Applegate is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair of History and Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She studies the culture, society, and politics of modern Germany, with particular interest in the history of music, nationalism and national identity. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley, 1990), the co-editor (with musicologist Pamela Potter) of Music and German National Identity (Chicago, 2000), and the author of Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the St. Matthew Passion (Cornell, 2005), winner of the DAAD/GSA Book Prize. She is currently working on comprehensive interpretation of musical life in Germany from the 17th century to the present, titled "Music and the Germans: A History." She teaches courses on modern German politics and culture, the history of the Holocaust, of European thought, and of European nationalism and ethnic conflicts. In 2017-18, Applegate is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), sponsored by a grant from the Edward T. Cone Foundation as a Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies.

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 at least one week in advance.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:27:27 -0400 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Annual Grilk Lecture
Transformative Thinking: A Conference on Jacques Derrida's Seminars (September 29, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43926 43926-9855165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This conferences addresses the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida’s recently published seminars on Martin Heidegger (dating from 1964-65, titled Heidegger: The Question of Being and History) and Karl Marx (Théorie et pratique: Cours de l’ENS-Ulm 1975-1976). Of particular interest for this meeting is the evaluation of their importance for contemporary political thought, under conditions of globalization and the crisis of liberal democracy, not so much in reference to the way Derrida remains faithful to the philosophers he approaches, but to the way in which his reading shifts the very ground of our thinking regarding the relation between historicity, the history of Being, and our understanding of the the limitations of the political.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:46:43 -0400 2017-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Transformative Thinking Conference
How To Watch Them Watching You (September 29, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44806 44806-9980576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

LIVESTREAM: http://myumi.ch/LRzw3

Auditing Algorithms: Adding Accountability to Automated Authority is a group of events designed to produce a white paper that will help to define and develop the emerging research community for “algorithm auditing.” Algorithmic Auditing is a research design that has shown promise in diagnosing the unwanted consequences of algorithmic systems.

Automated software-based systems in finance, media, information, transportation, learning, or any application of computing can easily create outcomes that are unforeseeable by their designers, so algorithm auditing has the potential to improve the design of these systems by making their consequences visible. Auditing in this sense takes its name from the social scientific “audit study” where one feature is manipulated in a field experiment, although it is also reminiscent of a financial audit.

These events and the resulting white paper proposes to coalesce this new area of inquiry and to produce a report characterizing the state of the art and potential future directions. Participants and white paper co-authors will have opportunities to clarify the potential dangers of algorithmic systems, to specify these dangers as new research problems, to articulate challenges that they face as researchers interested in this area, to present existing methods for auditing or needs for new methods, and to propose research agendas that can provide new insights that advance science and benefit society.

This initiative is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and co-organized by the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University. Events are hosted at the University of Michigan.

Speakers:

Eric Gilbert, University of Michigan
Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois
Casey Pierce, University of Michigan
Ashkan Soltani, former CTO, US Federal Trade Commission
Christo Wilson, Northeastern University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:41:09 -0400 2017-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (September 29, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Transformative Thinking: A Conference on Jacques Derrida's Seminars (September 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43926 43926-9855166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This conferences addresses the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida’s recently published seminars on Martin Heidegger (dating from 1964-65, titled Heidegger: The Question of Being and History) and Karl Marx (Théorie et pratique: Cours de l’ENS-Ulm 1975-1976). Of particular interest for this meeting is the evaluation of their importance for contemporary political thought, under conditions of globalization and the crisis of liberal democracy, not so much in reference to the way Derrida remains faithful to the philosophers he approaches, but to the way in which his reading shifts the very ground of our thinking regarding the relation between historicity, the history of Being, and our understanding of the the limitations of the political.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:46:43 -0400 2017-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Transformative Thinking Conference
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Bicentennial Davis, Markert, Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (October 3, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41067 41067-9552281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:20:00 -0400 2017-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Michael Mann
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. What's the Problem with Populism? (October 3, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42984 42984-9688340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Populism is said to be on the rise around the world. Some see it as a threat to democracy, others hope that it can bring political institutions closer to "the people." The lecture critically assesses these claims and also suggests how we might rethink democracy in light of the dramatic political developments of 2016.

Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University, where he is also the founding director of the Project in the History of Political Thought at the Center for Human Values. His publications include "Constitutional Patriotism" (2007); "Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe" (2011); "Wo Europa endet: Ungarn, Brüssel und das Schicksal der liberalen Demokratie" (2013); and "What Is Populism?" (2016), which has been translated into fifteen languages.

The lecture is presented in honor of Kathleen Canning, Sonya G. Rose Collegiate Professor of History; Chair, Department of History; and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, German, & Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:20:56 -0400 2017-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Jan-Werner Müller
History and Politics of Climate Change (October 3, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42728 42728-9651137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

This panel will focus on the university’s historical role in climate change science and the current political and social impacts of climate change. Featuring panelists:

Benjamin Iuliano (Undergraduate Student, Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity, University of Michigan)
Stephen Mulkey (President Emeritus, Unity College)
Theresa Ong (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation)
Sandra Steingraber (Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Ithaca College)

Ben Iuliano is a senior at the University of Michigan studying ecology, evolution, and biodiversity, with a minor in food and the environment. In his time at Michigan, Ben has been a student activist affiliated with a variety of groups including Science for the People, the Michigan Student Power Network, and the U-M fossil fuel divestment campaign (Divest and Invest). During the 2015-2016 school year, he served as a student leader for Divest and Invest, overseeing campaign successes including the approval of a Faculty Senate Assembly Resolution and campaign endorsement by the Michigan Daily. Ben has published research on pollinator ecology in urban agroecosystems, and serves as the sustainable food, healthy communities program assistant at the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor.

As a scholar of the interdisciplinary literature in environmental science, Stephen Mulkey is an active public interpreter of climate change and sustainability. His recent research focuses on the role of landscape carbon stocks in climate mitigation and on the academic structure of interdisciplinary programs in the environmental and sustainability sciences.From 2011 to 2015, he served as president of Unity College in Maine, a four-year liberal arts institution dedicated to sustainability science.

Theresa Wei Ying Ong, PhD, is a recent University of Michigan Ecology and Evolutionary Biology alum, where she worked with John Vandermeer. Currently, she is a NSF postdoctoral research fellow. She is broadly interested in theoretical agroecology, especially in the setting of urban gardens. Her work focuses on how biocomplexity influences the resilience of these agricultural systems to both ecological and political perturbations. Her scientific work has been published in Nature Communications, and in news outlets including Science Daily. Theresa has helped to organize many political and scientific events at U of M including the Climate Teach-In +50: End the War Against the Planet, the Early Career Scientists Symposium on Humans as a Force of Ecological and Evolutionary Change and the symposium in honor of John Vandermeer: Science with Passion and a Moral Compass. She is a graduate of the Frontiers Masters Program, an initiative to diversify the field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a proud member of Science for the People.

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from US cancer registries and was adapted for the screen in 2010. As both book and documentary film, Living Downstream has won praise from international media. A contributing essayist and editor for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis is presented in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:42:44 -0400 2017-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Climate Future Graphic
Carbon Pricing Canada Style: Pricing carbon in a post-Paris, Trump era (October 4, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44913 44913-10006497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
11:30am-1:00pm (pizza lunch provided)

Free and open to the public

About the lecture: Can a carbon price survive in a highly decentralized, fossil-fuel producing nation that is tightly integrated with the economy of the United States? Against the backdrop of worldwide interest in carbon pricing as a way to meet commitments made in Paris, and in the context of a Trump presidency, this talk examines the history, origins and prospects of carbon pricing in Canada. The talk will focus on recent efforts at developing a national carbon price framework at the federal level, the challenges now facing the current federal government as it moves toward implementation, and the prospects for carbon pricing in the future. Specific attention will be paid to the role of recalcitrant provinces, a divided public, and the influence of political developments in the United States. The talk will also explore key controversies over carbon pricing, and highlight potential lessons from the Canadian experience.

Erick Lachapelle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal where he teaches courses on international environmental politics, comparative public policy and research methods. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto where he completed his dissertation entitled, Energy Security and Climate Change Policy in the OECD: The Political Economy of Carbon Energy Taxation. Author of two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, Erick is the lead researcher for the Canadian Surveys on Energy and the Environment, and is also a Research Partner with EcoAnalytics. His research examines the politics of climate change and energy policy, environmental public opinion, risk perception, and political communication around climate policy and the transition toward a clean economy from both a comparative and international perspective.

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

Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Erb Institute; University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability(SEAS); University of Michigan Program in the Environment (PitE)

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091.

Follow on Twitter @closup

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:28:44 -0400 2017-10-04T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Erick Lachapelle
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Escaping poverty through entrepreneurship (October 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44863 44863-9992112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Please check event website just before the event for viewing details.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

A Policy Talks @ the Ford School event with a lecture by Arthur Brooks, President of American Enterprise Institute, on poverty and public policy. Followed by a conversation with Luke Schaefer, Director of Poverty Solutions, and community Q&A.

Co-sponsored by Poverty Solutions and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

About the speaker:

Arthur C. Brooks has been president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) since January 1, 2009. He is also the Beth and Ravenel Curry Scholar in Free Enterprise at AEI.
Before joining AEI, Dr. Brooks was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government at Syracuse University, where he taught economics and social entrepreneurship. Before
pursuing his work in academia and public policy, he spent 12 years as a classical musician in the United States and Spain.

Dr. Brooks is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the bestselling author of 11 books on topics including the role of government, economic opportunity, happiness,
and the morality of free enterprise. His latest book is the New York Times bestseller, "The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America”
(Broadside Books, 2015). He has also published dozens of academic journal articles and the textbook “Social Entrepreneurship” (Prentice Hall, 2008).

Dr. Brooks has a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He also holds an M.A. in economics from Florida Atlantic University and a B.A. in
economics from Thomas Edison State College.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:59:52 -0400 2017-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Arthur Brooks
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Immigration, Religion and Race in the U.S. and Europe - Politics in an era of populism (October 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43527 43527-9810358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Immigration has been an important topic in elections in Europe since the rise of the Front National in France in the 1980s. In the last year the far right has seen mixed results, but immigration has played an important role for populist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, Islamic terrorism and the refugee issue has played a key role in raising the salience of the immigration issue. In the U.S., undocumented immigration from Latin America and the spread of immigrants to new regions of the country has also raised the salience of the issue. Using evidence from previous research, including research examining the importance of the salience of the immigration issue, Professor Givens will examine the connection between immigration, religion and race and the rise of populist politicians in the U.S. and Europe.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:27:56 -0400 2017-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Rubin Speaker Poster
Bill McKibben, "Down to the Wire: A Hot Fight in a Hot World" (16th Peter M. Wege Foundation Lecture on Sustainability) (October 5, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42731 42731-9653771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Bill McKibben, an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel." His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”

A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books,National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors . In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni—in his honor.

Bill McKibben is the featured presenter of the School for Environment and Sustainability's 16th Peter M. Wege Foundation Lecture on Sustainability.

This program is presented in partnership with MC²: Michigan & the Climate Crisis in conjunction with the Bicentennial LSA Theme Semester with support from: Science for the People, Office of the Provost; School for Environment and Sustainability; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Bicentennial Office; College of Engineering, Rackham School for Graduate Studies; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Center for Sustainable Systems; Institute for the Humanities; Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Labadie Collection; LSA Honors Program; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; American Culture; Chemistry; Communication Studies; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecological and Evolutionary Biology; Ford School of Public Policy; Graham Institute; History; Museum of Natural History; Physics; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Anthropology; Asian Languages and Cultures; English Language and Literature; and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Photo by Steve Liptay.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:40:21 -0400 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Bill McKibben
The Catastrophe in Puerto Rico: An Indictment of Capitalism (October 5, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45426 45426-10175519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

More than 1.5 million people without potable water. Ninety percent of homes damaged. Eighty percent of crops destroyed. Broken sewer and electrical power systems. Food, fuel and medical supplies dwindling rapidly. Two weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, the US territory is facing a social crisis of unprecedented proportions.

The leaders of both the Democratic and Republican Parties in the US have spent the last quarter century mobilizing trillions of dollars in manpower and equipment across the globe to pursue wars of aggression and global domination. However, in the face of the devastating destruction of Puerto Rico, the political establishment is incapable and unwilling to mobilize emergency aid to the territorial island of 3 million desperately vulnerable people.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are needed to save the lives of those at risk of death and disease and to rebuild and modernize infrastructure. Such efforts cannot be accomplished under capitalism. We proceed not from what the financial aristocracy says is affordable for disaster relief and rebuilding, but from what is necessary for the working class to secure its rights to the necessities of life.

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality fights for international socialism through the conscious, independent political mobilization of the working class. We encourage all students, youth, and workers to attend our meeting.

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Meeting Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:25:15 -0400 2017-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting San Juan, Puerto Rico shortly after Hurricane Maria
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (October 6, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Keeping the Dream Alive Part II: DACA and our Community (October 6, 2017 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45126 45126-10092996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:45am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Who are DACA recipients and what effect does lack of immigration status have on individuals, families, communities? What role can law students and attorneys play? Professor William Lopez from the UM National Center for Institutional Diversity and Michigan Law alumnus George Barchini, '15, will discuss the social context for DACA and what law students and lawyers can do.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:04:21 -0400 2017-10-06T11:45:00-04:00 2017-10-06T12:50:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 7, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (October 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45200 45200-10107471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:44:49 -0400 2017-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Academic Innovation Class / Instruction Teach Out Series
Redistricting in Michigan and Other States:  Should Politics Choose the Voters? (October 10, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42051 42051-9529959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Sue Smith is Redistricting Director for the League of Women Voters of Michigan and she is a past President of the state League. Sue is retired from Central Michigan 
University where she was a business professor and administrator for 20 years. While living in Mt. Pleasant, Sue served on the Board of Education and the Mt. Pleasant City Commission and also served as the mayor of Mt. Pleasant.

In Michigan and most states redistricting is done by the state legislatures. Why is this a problem and what can citizens do about it?

This is the second in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2017-18. A variety of topics will be covered. There is one lecture each month, for a total of ten. The next lecture will be on November 14, 2017. The subject is Stand Up For the Power of Skillful Teaching.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Aug 2017 16:46:54 -0400 2017-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
4th annual Fast Food for Thought (October 10, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41991 41991-9505624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

The 4th annual “Fast Food for Thought” will bring together 10 interdisciplinary faculty members from across campus to give a series of fast-paced talks (5 minutes each) related to food and/or agriculture. Speaker information coming soon.

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Presentation Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:43:14 -0400 2017-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Presentation fast food for thought flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Human Experimentation (October 10, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43715 43715-9832702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion testing the limits of testing ourselves.

Essays to consider:
"The Belmont Report"
"The patient and the public good"
"Scientific research is a moral duty"
"We're trying to help our sickest people, not exploit them"

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:21:54 -0400 2017-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Human Experimentation
Association for Political Theory Conference (October 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/29065 29065-2958450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Political Science

To be held at the Michigan League

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 May 2017 09:04:53 -0400 2017-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Political Science Conference / Symposium
Migritude (Workshop) (October 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41721 41721-9440440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Thursday, October 12, 2017
9:30-11AM; 2:30-4:10PM
CONTACT: smnair@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:53:50 -0400 2017-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Migritude Schedule
2017 Hanes Walton Jr. Memorial Lecture (October 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45111 45111-10084376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

The Hanes Walton Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research in honor of Hanes Walton, Jr.

2017 Speakers:

Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Presentation: Black Death on Your Laptop: The Case for Rethinking What Counts as Political Knowledge

Michael Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago
Presentation: Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:10:45 -0400 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Project Flyer
Accounting for violence: How to increase safety and break our failed reliance on mass incarceration (October 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45300 45300-10152981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

About the event:

Over 50% of people in state prisons have been convicted of violent crimes, and in recent decades the rate at which people are being incarcerated for violent crimes has been increasing even as actual crime rates have been falling. Clearly any robust solution to the problem of mass incarceration in the United States must include a better way to handle violent offenses.

Danielle Sered will speak about her experience directing Common Justice, a program of the Vera Institute of Justice that develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration. It is the first alternative-to-incarceration and victim-service program in the United States that focuses on violent felonies in adult courts. The evidence shows that both violence and mass incarceration can be reduced at the same time.

Under Danielle Sered’s leadership Common Justice received the Award for Innovation in Victim Services from Attorney General Holder and the federal Office for Victims of Crime in 2012. Before planning the launch of Common
Justice, Danielle served as the deputy director of Vera’s Adolescent Reentry Initiative, a program for young men returning from incarceration on Rikers Island. Prior to joining Vera, she worked at the Center for Court Innovation's
Harlem Community Justice Center, where she led its programs for court-involved and recently incarcerated youth. Danielle teaches about restorative justice at CUNY and was a Rhodes Scholar.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:56:40 -0400 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion
The Catalan Referendum and the Crisis of Capitalism (October 12, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45672 45672-10254208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Forty years after the fall of Spanish General Francisco Franco’s fascist regime, the streets of a major Western European city have once again been turned into a war zone. The world has looked on in shock and horror as riot police beat up peaceful protesters and forcibly repressed a vote on an independence referendum in Catalonia, Spain.

Madrid’s barbaric crackdown was not a legal action, but an act of terror against innocent people aimed at whipping an entire region of Spain into line. The crackdown, coming after weeks of threats and police operations launched by Madrid in Catalonia, is a political indictment not only of the ruling Partido Popular, but of the entire Spanish ruling elite and all of Spain’s main NATO allies.

While the IYSSE condemns the police crackdown in Catalonia, we also oppose the Catalan nationalists parties who seek to build a new capitalist state in Catalonia. The division of the Spanish working class by parties with a long record of supporting war and imposing austerity, offers workers nothing. On the contrary such a move would separate Catalan workers from their greatest ally against Madrid’s onslaught: the entire Spanish and European working class.

In opposition to the 21st century madhouse of the European Union, the working class must advance its own strategy: the development of a working class counter-offensive, mobilizing workers across national borders in a common struggle for socialism.

Join the IYSSE for a critical analysis of the events in Spain, the question of separatism, the global crisis of capitalism, and the way forward for the international working class.

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Meeting Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:05:06 -0400 2017-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union International Youth and Students for Social Equality Meeting Spanish National police attack pro-referendum supporters
Association for Political Theory Conference (October 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/29065 29065-2958451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Political Science

To be held at the Michigan League

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 May 2017 09:04:53 -0400 2017-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Political Science Conference / Symposium
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (October 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Association for Political Theory Conference (October 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/29065 29065-2958452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Political Science

To be held at the Michigan League

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 30 May 2017 09:04:53 -0400 2017-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Political Science Conference / Symposium
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (October 14, 2017 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37180 37180-6362731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2017 12:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions.

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Meeting Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:08:37 -0500 2017-10-14T12:45:00-04:00 2017-10-14T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
Charles M. Blow Presentation (October 16, 2017 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41129 41129-10313333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Humility Colloquium

NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow will present a keynote presentation on the topic of Donald Trump, arrogance, pride, and American democracy. Blow’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is organized by the Humility in the Age of Self-Promotion Colloquium at the University of Michigan. Admission is open and without tickets.

Charles M. Blow's Op-Ed column in The New York Times appears on Thursdays and Mondays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justices, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mr. Blow is also a CNN commentator, a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale, and author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014.

Charles M. Blow's presentation is sponsored by Michigan Radio and The Ann Arbor District Library, and by these University of Michigan units: The Center for Engaged Academic Learning, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Communication Studies, The Department of American Culture, The Department of History, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Ginsberg Center, The Institute for the Humanities, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, The Office of DEI, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The Residential College, and Spectrum Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:59:05 -0400 2017-10-16T21:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Humility Colloquium Lecture / Discussion Charles M. Blow
A Reading from COLLISION (Havarie) (October 18, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44781 44781-9980554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A raft with eleven Algerian refugees, running low on fuel. A cruise ship with a small town’s worth of international passengers and crew members. An Irish freighter. A Spanish rescue vessel. One single point of convergence in a vast wash of blue water. When a disabled raft nears The Spirit of Europe, the third largest cruise liner in the world, the ship’s captain is forced to do something headquarters in Miami wants to avoid: cut the engines.

COLLISION (German title Havarie) is a maritime thriller by one of Germany’s most celebrated crime writers, building suspense through the eyes of a diverse array of memorable characters. A screening of the film Collision, based on the research and the novel, follows the next day (Thurs Oct 19, 7:15 pm, Michigan Theater.)

Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute, U-M Center for European Studies, U-M Screen Arts and Cultures, U-M Office of Research, and the U-M Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

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 at least one week in advance.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:03:01 -0400 2017-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Havarie
SUMIT_2017: U-M's Cyber Security Conference (October 19, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44213 44213-9897592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register now for SUMIT_2017, the University of Michigan’s annual symposium to raise awareness and educate the community on cyber security. This free, one-day conference is an exciting opportunity to hear nationally recognized experts discuss the latest technical, legal, and operational trends and threats in cyberspace. This year speakers will be discussing surveillance, censorship, and internet freedom.

For a complete list of speakers and to register visit the SUMIT_2017 website. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

http://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/sumit/2017

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:00:27 -0400 2017-10-19T08:30:00-04:00 2017-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium SUMIT 2017 October 19
"How Race and Racism Work in Liberal Space: An Interactive Discussion" (October 19, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41852 41852-9487232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

A Residential College 50th Anniversary Celebration Event

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:33:21 -0400 2017-10-19T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion RC 50th Anniversary
Screening of COLLISION (Havarie) (October 19, 2017 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44785 44785-9980560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As the film unfolds, one single, mesmerizing shot of a refugee boat adrift in the vast blue sea, a web of stories unfolds and worlds intersect and collide. Against the flood of news images about the refugee crisis, Collision radically redirects our imagination of Europe to a set of coordinates in the Mediterranean Sea.

Based on the same research and Merle Kröger’s book by the same title (reading Oct 18 at 7pm at Literati bookstore.)

HAVARIE premiered at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and won the German Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film 2016, the arte-documentary award at the Duisburger Filmwoche, Best international feature film at L'Alternativa Barcelona, Best editing in an international feature at RIDM - Montreal international documentary festival, and special mention for the Prix Georges de Beauregard at the Festival International de Cinéma in Marseille.

Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute, U-M Center for European Studies, U-M Screen Arts and Cultures, U-M Office of Research, and the U-M Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

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 at least one week in advance.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:52:18 -0400 2017-10-19T19:15:00-04:00 2017-10-19T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Collision (Havarie)
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (October 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Charles M. Blow Presentation (October 20, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41129 41129-8981754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Humility Colloquium

NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow will present a keynote presentation on the topic of Donald Trump, arrogance, pride, and American democracy. Blow’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is organized by the Humility in the Age of Self-Promotion Colloquium at the University of Michigan. Admission is open and without tickets.

Charles M. Blow's Op-Ed column in The New York Times appears on Thursdays and Mondays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justices, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mr. Blow is also a CNN commentator, a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale, and author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014.

Charles M. Blow's presentation is sponsored by Michigan Radio and The Ann Arbor District Library, and by these University of Michigan units: The Center for Engaged Academic Learning, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Communication Studies, The Department of American Culture, The Department of History, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Ginsberg Center, The Institute for the Humanities, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, The Office of DEI, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The Residential College, and Spectrum Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:59:05 -0400 2017-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Humility Colloquium Lecture / Discussion Charles M. Blow
"Reflections on 65 Years of U.S. Political History" (October 21, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41906 41906-9489354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 11:30am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

A Residential College 50th Anniversary Event

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:02:42 -0400 2017-10-21T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-21T12:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion RC50
The James H. and Jean B. Memorial Lecture: "Press, Politics, Performance" (October 21, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41907 41907-9489355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2017 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

A Residential College 50th Anniversary Event

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:06:19 -0400 2017-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion RC50
CMENAS Lecture. Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine (October 22, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45227 45227-10116114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

How are health and human rights of marginalized communities impacted by decades of conflict, displacement, segregation, and occupation? Through eyewitness reports and intimate stories, Dr. Rothchild explores everyday life up-close in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. Followed by reception and book signing.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:15:06 -0400 2017-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion Alice-Rothchild-event
Bioethics Discussion: Big Data, Little Privacy (October 24, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43717 43717-9832704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the shape of things to come.

Essays to consider:
"Ethical issues in big data health research"
"Confidentiality in medicine: a decrepit concept"
"On telling patients the truth"

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:25:08 -0400 2017-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Big data, little privacy
Detroiters Speak: Reclaiming the Commons (October 24, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45608 45608-10234577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Co-curated this semester by Diana Copeland, Will Copeland and Craig Regester, this interactive public course will focus in the first three sessions on the interconnected crises facing everyday Detroiters around water shutoffs, home foreclosures, public schooling, labor and gentrification.

In the last five sessions, however, we'll turn to an exploration and further creative development of the many grassroots community responses happening in Detroit that are pushing back against efforts to privatize practically everything in the City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:02:38 -0400 2017-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Reclaiming the Commons Flyer
Are Tax Breaks Entitlements? (October 25, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42215 42215-9584903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

U. S. federal income tax policies include a large number of provisions widely known as tax breaks or tax loopholes. More specifically they come in the form of deductions, credits, exclusions and preferential rates. They have the effect of significantly reducing the income taxes paid (i.e., the effective tax rate) by individuals and corporations. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates in 2017 all tax breaks combined will amount to $1.6 trillion.

This study group for those 50 and over will focus on the political psychology of these tax breaks: the attitudes and behaviors of individuals, interest groups, political parties and policymakers in the public policymaking process. Discussion of a large number of specific tax breaks will be included. Information on tax breaks will be distributed by the instructor to provide a foundation for the sessions.
Instructor Craig Ramsay is an Emeritus Professor of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University who taught about the politics of economic policymaking for four decades. This study group will meet for two hours on Wednesday’s from October 25 through November 15.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:55:33 -0400 2017-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
CJS Thursday Lecture | Dynasties and Democracy in Japan (October 26, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42801 42801-9661741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Political dynasties exist in nearly all democracies, but have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where over a third of all legislators and two-thirds of all cabinet ministers in recent years come from families with a history in parliament. Such a high proportion of dynasties in a developed democracy is unusual, and has sparked concerns over whether the democratic processes in Japan are working properly. In his forthcoming book, Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan, Smith introduces a comparative theory to explain the persistence of dynastic politics in democracies like Japan, focusing in particular on electoral rules and party recruitment processes. Original legislator-level data from twelve democracies and candidate-level data from Japan are used to explore the implications of this theory for candidate selection, election, and cabinet promotion, as well as the consequences of dynasties for democratic representation.

Daniel M. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where he is also affiliated with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research focuses on the impact of political institutions, especially electoral systems and candidate selection processes, on aspects of democratic representation and behavior in Japan and Western Europe.

Co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:57:27 -0400 2017-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion David M. Smith, Assolciate Professor in the Department of Government, Harvard University
Trump, Twitter and Fake News: How Journalists Can Build Credibility by Opening Up Their Work (October 26, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44737 44737-9969046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Free and open to the public.
Doors open at 2 p.m. Seating is on a first-come basis.
Questions about the event, email: WallaceHouseRSVP@umich.edu.

Event will be live webstreamed at https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/?p=8583.

How should the press adapt when those in power use the epithet “fake news” to attack real reporting? Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post, offers suggestions for both reporters and news consumers on navigating this new era. He will discuss how journalists can open up their own reporting process through social media, show the public the work that underlies their stories and invite readers in as collaborators.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Fahrenthold used social media to follow-up on Donald Trump’s pledge to donate money to veterans groups. Posting his reporter’s notes on Twitter to solicit leads, Fahrenthold uncovered Trump’s questionable charitable practices and found no evidence that Trump donated money to veterans groups as he’d claimed. Fahrenthold was also the first reporter to reveal the existence of the “Access Hollywood” 2005 video in which Trump bragged about groping women. For his series of stories, Fahrenthold won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

A graduate of Harvard, Fahrenthold has been at The Washington Post since 2000. There he reports on President Trump’s businesses and conflicts of interest. He previously covered the Washington, D.C., police, the environment, New England, Congress and the federal bureaucracy for the paper.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:33:54 -0400 2017-10-26T14:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post
Examining Your Political Identity (October 26, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43347 43347-9751075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

How has your political identity been shaped? Who/what has impacted your beliefs, and how do your views continue to grow and change?

As a participant, you’ll explore the roots of your political identity, and how your campus experience plays a role in shaping your views.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:55:57 -0400 2017-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere (October 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40535 40535-9675043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas colonies.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:21:37 -0400 2017-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Cassini Planisphere
Brazil Initiative at LACS Round Table. Political Polarization, Legal Uncertainty, and Institutional Distrust: The ​Current ​Brazilian Crisis (October 30, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45931 45931-10333017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

A dramatic scenario is unfolding in Brasilia: The Chamber of Deputies is at the brink of deciding whether it will authorize a criminal trial against the sitting president, and tensions are escalating between the Supreme Court, the legislature and the executive branch. Social policies and programs instituted under past governments are being budgetarily undermined and gutted by executive orders. What explains the dynamics of Brazil's current crisis? Our two speakers -- one of whom works as a staff attorney in the Chamber of Deputies, and the other of whom is a political scientist -- will help us understand Brazil's political polarization and institutional fracture.

Speakers:
LEAONARDO BARBOSA, ​Staff Attorney at the ​Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia, and Professor of Law at the Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development, Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia

FABIO DE SA E SILVA, Assistant Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies, University of Oklahoma

Chair:
VICTORIA LANGLAND, Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Associate Professor of History and Portuguese

Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the University of Michigan Law School

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:03:15 -0400 2017-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 2017-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion brazil-crisis-event
Democratic to Authoritarian Rule (October 30, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42218 42218-9584906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course is based on a series of lectures offered through the University of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series on the EdX platform. The goals of the course are: 1) understand political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making; 2) become familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule; 3) learn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies; and 4) interact with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes.

In this study group for those 50 and above which meets on Mondays for two hours from October 30 through November 30, participants will listen to lectures from a variety of experts, then engage in discussion. Additional materials might be included.

Instructor Karen Bantel was a professor and consultant in business strategy and entrepreneurship.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:56:43 -0400 2017-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Clean Heat & Energy Justice: assessing equitable transitions to clean air in NYC (Environmental Research Seminar) (October 31, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46163 46163-10407019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Environmental Research Seminar Series sponsored by the Integrated Health Sciences Core of M-LEEaD (Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:59:39 -0400 2017-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Oct 31 Seminar D.Hernandez
Detroiters Speak: Reclaiming the Commons (October 31, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45609 45609-10234578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Co-curated this semester by Diana Copeland, Will Copeland and Craig Regester, this interactive public course will focus in the first three sessions on the interconnected crises facing everyday Detroiters around water shutoffs, home foreclosures, public schooling, labor and gentrification.

In the last five sessions, however, we'll turn to an exploration and further creative development of the many grassroots community responses happening in Detroit that are pushing back against efforts to privatize practically everything in the City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:05:02 -0400 2017-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Reclaiming the Commons Flyer
CREES Noon Lecture. From Land to Sea: Reconceptualizing Southeastern Europe as a Region (November 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41386 41386-9199025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk asks how insights drawn from the oceanic or watery turn may help us rethink the Balkans, an area often conceptualized in highly terrestrialized ways. How, for example, might thinking with water challenge scholarly understandings about the predominance of the national idea in the modern era, as well as the image of Central and Southeast European empires as contiguous, continental entities? In addressing these questions, the speaker draws upon nearly two decades of field research in and on the Adriatic Sea. In particular, her discussion centers on a key case study: the mass migration or “exodus” from Istria, a peninsula in the northeastern Adriatic Sea which passed from Italian to Yugoslav control after a protracted territorial dispute in the decade after World War II. The predominant (if contested) narrative of this migration depicts it in terms of longstanding Italian-Slavic ethnic enmity. Such an interpretation largely attributes the reasons for the Istrian exodus to a history of violence seen as particularly “Balkan.” Ironically, however, even while this reading of events in post-1945 Istria privileges the lens of a regional (Adriatic) history of ethnic conflict, the growing historiography on this topic pays little attention to either actual seaspace or perspectives associated with the oceanic turn. In offering a series of suggestions for how to anchor histories of the modern Adriatic in both the lived seascape and oceanic concepts (such as taking scholarship both “offshore” and “alongshore”), the speaker also investigates the limits of such seaborne thinking for our understanding of Southeastern Europe.

Pamela Ballinger is Fred Cuny Professor of the History of Human Rights and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees in anthropology (B.A. Stanford University, M.Phil Cambridge University, M.A. Johns Hopkins University) and a joint Ph.D. in anthropology and history (Johns Hopkins University). She is the author of "History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans" (Princeton University Press, 2003). She has published on topics such as refugees, displacement, ethnic cleansing, human rights, and the Adriatic seascape in journals that include "Comparative Studies in Society and History," "Contemporary European History," "Current Anthropology," "History and Memory," "Journal of Modern Italian Studies," "New Global Studies," and "Past and Present."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:55:05 -0400 2017-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Istria
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Threat of Falling High Status and Corporate Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents (November 1, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45097 45097-10084363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Social status and its dynamics may be an important predictor of which firms will engage in large-scale bribery. Prior theory is incomplete, however, and prior empirical studies have lacked comprehensive and reliable data on firm-level bribery decisions. We offer a new theoretical prediction and a novel data set on high-level corruption in South Korea, where the accounting records of two presidents in the 1987–1992 era were exposed to after-the-fact legal and public scrutiny. We find that, controlling for a range of alternative explanations, the threat of falling high status—that is, the combination of longstanding high social status with current-period mediocre economic performance relative to that of industry peers—is a significant predictor of increases in the amount of large-scale corporate bribery.

Jordan Siegel is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Professor Siegel is also a Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute and an Associate-in-Research at the Harvard Korea Institute of the Harvard Asia Center.

Professor Siegel specializes in the study of how companies gain competitive advantage through their global strategy. Professor Siegel finds that there are numerous opportunities for companies to attain superior sustainable corporate performance through creative strategies for corporate governance and human resource management.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:52:11 -0400 2017-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Jordan Siegel
DISC/WCED Film and Discussion. Tickling Giants (November 1, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42229 42229-9585113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Sara Taksler, director (111 min., 2016). Discussion moderated by Allen Hicken, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies, U-M.

"Tickling Giants" tells the story of Dr. Bassem Youssef, the "Egyptian Jon Stewart," who decides to leave his job as a heart surgeon and become a late-night comedian. The movie is about how he finds creative, non-violent ways to protect free speech and fight a president who abuses his power.

Sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC), with support from the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Language Resource Center, and Egyptian Student Association.

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:50:53 -0400 2017-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Tickling Giants poster
How to Dismantle an Environmental Agenda— and Will It Stick? (November 2, 2017 11:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46199 46199-10418360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 11:50am
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Janet McCabe is a senior law fellow at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, where she works to advance policies that better protect the environment, including those that support healthy, clean air and safe drinking water. McCabe previously served as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s acting assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, where she played a key role in framing, shaping, and implementing the Clean Air Act, including the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:45:04 -0400 2017-11-02T11:50:00-04:00 2017-11-02T12:50:00-04:00 South Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion McCabe poster
ASC Lecture.Trepidation, Longing, and Belonging: Liberating the curriculum at universities in South Africa (November 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46187 46187-10409867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

The lecture will focus on the political and higher educational context that has led to the call for decolonization of the curriculum at universities in South Africa, and the contested and varying ideas of curriculum decolonization. Dr. Badat will argue (i) that liberation of the curriculum and curricula is urgent and long overdue, and that there is a historic opportunity for liberating the curriculum from old and pernicious orthodoxies that impede knowledge making, arbitrarily value certain modes of knowledge making and certain knowledges, and constrain the construction, teaching, and assessment of courses and syllabi; (ii) that liberating the curriculum is inextricably connected to transforming institutional cultures, and to clarifying the purposes, goals, and roles of universities in South Africa, a society that must simultaneously ensure environmentally sustainable economic development, advance social equity, and consolidate and deepen democracy.

Dr. Saleem Badat is the program director of International Higher Education
and Strategic Projects at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His portfolio includes the South Africa program and international grantmaking in higher education.

Dr. Badat has served as the director of the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape, as the first head of the Council on Higher Education, which advises the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, and as vice-chancellor (the equivalent of the president in the US system) of Rhodes University in South Africa. He has been chairperson of Higher Education South Africa, and of the Association of African Universities Scientific Committee on Higher Education. He is a board member of the Centre for Higher Education Transformation, a member of the Carnegie 3 Study on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa Think Tank, and a trustee of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:12:41 -0400 2017-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion liberating-curriculum
EIHS Symposium: Attica and Foucault: A Conversation on Heather Ann Thompson's "Blood in the Water" (November 3, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41697 41697-9438336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In 1972, the French philosopher Michel Foucault visited Attica in upstate New York. Though he was engaged in prison politics in his native France, this was probably the first penitentiary the author of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977) was able to enter. In the United States, Attica unfailingly conjures up memories ofone of the deadliest prison uprisings in American history—the subject of a penetrating and celebrated new study by Heather Ann Thompson. Our symposium aims at bringing these prison histories into dialogue.

Professor Thompson’s interlocutor, Bernard Harcourt, is a political theorist with a focus on penal practices. He edited Foucault’s works on punitive society and counts among the theorists of the carceral state.

Link below to read the interview Foucault gave after his visit to Attica Prison. Hard copies available in the Eisenberg Institute (1521 Haven Hall).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29766617

Presented with support from the Political Theory Workshop and the Department of Political Science.

This event is free and open to the public. We regret that lunch will not be served at this event due to the 1-3 pm timing.

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:22:20 -0400 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Panopticon
The Past, Present, and Future of Elections in Michigan, and Beyond (November 6, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46490 46490-10509815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
11:30am-1:00pm (pizza lunch provided)

Free and open to the public

About the lecture:
Since the November 2016 elections, issues surrounding the nuts-and-bolts of election administration have risen to the forefront of discussion and debate, both here in Michigan and across the nation. This CLOSUP event begins with Debra Horner presenting new survey data collected by the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) exploring views of Michigan's local government leaders on: confidence in the accuracy of Michigan elections; problems experienced in election administration; training of poll workers and clerks who oversee elections; plans to update voting equipment; and support and opposition to a host of potential election reforms.

Then Christopher Thomas will explore a range of related issues, placing Michigan’s experiences in broader national context, while discussing the past, present and future of election issues. Thomas will address topics such as voter registration policy and the effects of President Trump's voter fraud commission as well as recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the Voting Rights Act, control of ballots, voting equipment failure, and allegations of Russian interference, ending with thoughts on challenges and reforms going forward.

Dr. Debra Horner is a project manager at U-M's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy in the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), where she oversees the biannual Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) program. She has been a lecturer in the Political Science Department for the past 10 years, and also teaches a class on Michigan Politics and Policy in the Ford School. She received her doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2007, and has experience with large-scale survey research projects both in academia and the private sector. Debra's primary areas of research center on individuals’ political attitudes and political participation, as well as a wide range of policy issues at the state and local levels in Michigan.

Christopher M. Thomas retired from the Michigan Department of State on June 30, 2017 after 40 years of election administration service, which included 36 years as Director of Elections. His election related activities include working as a Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and serving on the Boards of two distinguished election organizations: MIT Election Data and Science Lab and U.S. Vote Foundation.

While employed by the Michigan Secretary of State, he administered the Michigan election law, campaign finance act and lobbyist disclosure law. He began his election administration career in 1974 in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. House of Representatives and the Federal Election Commission. In 2013, he was appointed by President Barack Obama as a Commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which made recommendations to improve the election day experience of America’s voters.

Chris earned a B.A. in Political Science from Michigan State University, a M.A. in Urban Affairs from St. Louis University in St. Louis, MO, and a J.D. from Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing. He is currently a member of the Michigan State Bar Association and was an Adjunct Professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, teaching Election Law between 2001 and 2013. He is a founding member of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) and was elected NASED’s President in 1997 and again in 2013. He represented NASED on the Board of Advisors to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from 2004 to 2017 and served as the Board Chair from 2006 – 2008. At the NASED Summer Conference in 2012 he was honored to receive NASED’s Distinguished Service Award.

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

Co-Sponsors: Students of Color in Public Policy (SCPP); Domestic Policy Corps (DPC); CivCity; The League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor Area; University of Michigan Ginsberg Center; University of Michigan Political Science Department

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Nov 2017 07:48:59 -0400 2017-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion
DISC/WCED Panel. Unraveling the Arab Spring: Egypt Since 2011 (November 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42661 42661-9622484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Moderator: Pauline Jones, DISC director. Panelists: Samer Ali, CMENAS director, U-M; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U-M; Jean Lachapelle, Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Bassem Youssef, satirist.

"Unraveling the Arab Spring: Egypt Since 2011" examines the aftermath of Egypt's Arab Spring, the revolution that shook the country six years ago. This panel features the renowned Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian surgeon turned comedian, who fled his homeland after the government forced him to terminate the production of his show "Al-Bernameg" - the first political satire show in the Middle East. Youssef will join U-M distinguished scholars Juan Cole and Samer Ali, as well as Jean Lachapelle, Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, to discuss the shifting relationships between Egyptians, their government, and freedom of expression in an Egypt that attempts to thrive beyond the Arab Spring.

Organized by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, with support from the University Musical Society and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:02:04 -0500 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion By Sherif9282 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Bioethics Discussion: Universal Healthcare (November 7, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43718 43718-9832707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the (inevitable?) end of medicine.

Essays to consider:
"Bubbles under the wallpaper"
"Uncertainty and welfare economics of medical care"
"Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009"

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:29:09 -0400 2017-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Universal healthcare
Detroiters Speak: Reclaiming the Commons (November 7, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45610 45610-10234579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Co-curated this semester by Diana Copeland, Will Copeland and Craig Regester, this interactive public course will focus in the first three sessions on the interconnected crises facing everyday Detroiters around water shutoffs, home foreclosures, public schooling, labor and gentrification.

In the last five sessions, however, we'll turn to an exploration and further creative development of the many grassroots community responses happening in Detroit that are pushing back against efforts to privatize practically everything in the City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:08:09 -0400 2017-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center Semester in Detroit Lecture / Discussion Reclaiming the Commons Flyer
CREES Noon Lecture. The Red Web Comes to the United States (November 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41587 41587-9367017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Despite the gloomy and depressing mood that swept Russia after the Russian government defeated the Moscow protests in 2012 and the patriotic hysteria generated by the annexation of Crimea, uncensored debates and unrestricted exchange of opinions still remain possible on the Russian internet. The Kremlin certainly didn’t emerge a winner from its first serious collision with the global network. So how did the Kremlin, once so fearful of the power of the internet and understanding so little about the nature of the global network, find a way to use it in the United States, the birthplace of the internet and still its innovative powerhouse?

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and co-founder and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He has been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999. He has co-written with Irina Borogan "The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB" (PublicAffairs, 2010) and "The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries" (PublicAffairs, 2015). The new, updated edition of "The Red Web," with a completely new chapter about the US election and Russian interference in 2016, was published in August 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:24:34 -0400 2017-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Andrei Soldatov
Public Meeting: Why Study the Russian Revolution? (November 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46454 46454-10495473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Across the world, millions of people are asking themselves, “What is socialism?” as they search for solutions to rising poverty, social inequality, and the expansion of the US’s never-ending wars worldwide. Some, including Senator Bernie Sanders, claim socialism is compatible with support for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. But to learn what socialism really is, one must examine the greatest event of the 20th century: the Russian Revolution of 1917.

What was the Russian Revolution? How did it become the dominant event of the 20th century, forever altering history by giving rise to the most powerful and progressive social movements of the last century?

David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, will review the causes, consequences and enduring significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 01:20:40 -0400 2017-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T22:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion The Russian Revolution Centenary, 1917-2017
Impact on Inequality (November 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35924 35924-5374860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UMich200

The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan. An illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women’s studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:52:56 -0400 2017-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UMich200 Conference / Symposium ISR Bicentennial Image
Ross Business+Impact Vision Session (November 9, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44618 44618-9934438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Center for Social Impact

During the 2017-18 academic year, there will be a series of engaging, participatory events with the goal of answering this question: How can the Michigan Ross community—students, faculty, alumni, and partners—become the most progressive source of business solutions to the world’s biggest challenges?

This event is by invitation only.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:44:20 -0500 2017-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T20:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Center for Social Impact Conference / Symposium Business+Impact Visioning Session
Local Elections: Impact and Involvement (November 9, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45623 45623-10240179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Join us for a light dinner and conversation at Ann Arbor City Hall.

Talk with local elected officials about how you can have an impact, and how their decisions shape our local community.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:15:47 -0400 2017-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar 20140710-Canon6D-00042.jpg
Ross Business+Impact Vision Session (November 10, 2017 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44618 44618-9934439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 7:30am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Center for Social Impact

During the 2017-18 academic year, there will be a series of engaging, participatory events with the goal of answering this question: How can the Michigan Ross community—students, faculty, alumni, and partners—become the most progressive source of business solutions to the world’s biggest challenges?

This event is by invitation only.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:44:20 -0500 2017-11-10T07:30:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Center for Social Impact Conference / Symposium Business+Impact Visioning Session
Impact on Inequality (November 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/35924 35924-5374861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: UMich200

The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan. An illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women’s studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:52:56 -0400 2017-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) UMich200 Conference / Symposium ISR Bicentennial Image
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (November 11, 2017 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/37173 37173-6299580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2017 12:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Worried about climate change? Wondering how you can make a real difference? Come to the monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL is a national, grassroots organization working to enact federal legislation to put a price on CO2. Our meetings consist of dialing in to a national conference call (featuring different guest speakers each month), followed by local discussion of actions.

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Meeting Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:48:11 -0500 2017-11-11T12:45:00-05:00 2017-11-11T14:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
Rescuing Democracy: A Free Conference for the Community (November 11, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46524 46524-10526989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts of Citizenship

For centuries, America’s democratic ideals have been compromised by the realities of race, class, and gender hierarchy. Today, not only do those realities continue, they are being exploited by the highest offices in the land to sow confusion, and prevent cooperation among Americans of common political interests. How can America finally establish democracy as a reality and work to protect it from anti-democratic forces? This conference will provide the opportunity to answer that question and to register with organizations that are working toward that end.

Speakers:

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
La'Ron Williams, B.F.A., Professional Storyteller and Racial Justice Educator

THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY IN THE U.S., 1787-1877
Howard Brick, Ph.D., Louis Evans Professor of History, University of Michigan

DEMOCRACY & AMERICA'S CONTRADICTORY REALITY
Peter Hammer, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, Professor of Law, Wayne State University

DEMOCRACY OR RACIAL OLIGARCHY?
Vincent Hutchings, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

CLOSING: SIGN-UP FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION GROUPS
La'Ron Williams, B.F.A., Professional Storyteller and Racial Justice Educator

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Conference / Symposium Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:51:55 -0400 2017-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts of Citizenship Conference / Symposium
The Disappearing Franchise (November 13, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46754 46754-10622857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091

11:30am-1:00pm (lunch provided)


Free and open to the public.

Join the conversation with @SCPP_FordSchool using #SCPPTalks

Presented by the Students of Color in Public Policy, Vann R. Newkirk, II, staff writer at The Atlantic, explores how democracy and the ballot have been curtailed for people on the margins of society and examines the legal implications on gerrymandering and voter ID sparked by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 2013 Supreme Court decision, Shelby County v. Holder.

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP); The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Ford School of Public Policy Student Affairs Committee; Ford School of Public Policy Domestic Policy Corps; American Culture Department; Political Science Department; Political Scientists of Color; Spectrum Center; and Wallace House, home to the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows and the Livingston Awards.


Questions? Contact SCPP President Gabrielle Horton (gjhorton@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:49:56 -0500 2017-11-13T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion
Medieval Lunch. It Happened Earlier Than You Think: Jewish-Christian Disputations in Late Antiquity (November 14, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43770 43770-9841061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Sep 2017 08:57:42 -0400 2017-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Disputation in Late Antiquity
WCED Lecture. The Politics of Secrecy in the Age of Revolutions (November 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42983 42983-9688339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Americans have recently been questioning the propriety of secrecy in government, particularly in the legislative process. As partisan acrimony plumbs new depths, public discussion has focused in no small part on the process by which laws are drafted, debated, and implemented. Though there are few formal rules on what work must be done in public view on Capitol Hill, let alone in the White House, there is a general expectation that a representative democracy requires a certain degree of publicity, or transparency, in its politics. This lecture will illuminate the origin of this belief, rooting it in the late eighteenth century Age of Revolutions. As countries like the United States and France established representative republics, the question of what should be done in public view, versus what could legitimately be kept secret, was central to shaping both understandings and implementations of representative democracy. Though still largely unresolved, it is a question that remains at the heart of our conceptions of what a representative government is, how it should work, and what makes it legitimate.

A growing concern with state secrecy permeated politics in the North Atlantic World during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Suspicion of government secrets became central to mounting critiques of monarchical and ministerial power in the French and British empires on the eve of the revolutions that would rock them. In the lecture, the speaker will trace how the nascent republics in the United States and France contended with the mounting distrust of government secrecy as they set up new regimes that claimed to speak for the people. Debates over the proper place of secrecy in these new governments were immediately and intimately linked to evolving conceptions of what it meant for politics to be representative and, especially, what it meant for representative government to be democratic. More than simple procedural questions—over whether doors to legislative chambers would be open or closed, for example—these debates about secrecy in politics were tantamount to contests over the meaning of representative government and how it would work during the American and French revolutionary periods. They laid the foundation for ongoing debates about how much transparency is required and tenable to sustain our representative democracy.

Katlyn Carter is a Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Princeton University in 2017. Her current research is on state secrecy and representative politics in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. As a postdoctoral fellow, Katlyn will be working on a book manuscript about the relationship between state secrecy and the first representative democracies. She will also begin work on her next project, which will examine the problem of truth and trust at the founding of the American and French republics. The project will aim to provide historical context to the challenge of dealing with fake news and determining fact from fiction in a political system governed by public opinion and with a free press. Prior to beginning her Ph.D. at Princeton, Katlyn received a B.A. with high honors in history from the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a media relations consultant in Washington, DC.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:47:30 -0500 2017-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Katlyn Carter
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (November 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45619 45619-10240176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Professor Chavasse presents research from her travels to the Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland, and to Berlin, Germany where she created a new dance work for Tanz Tangente. In Poznan, the panoply of dance, music and theater events focused on the festival theme-- The Balkans Platform, (Platforma Blakany), with the title of "We The People", analogous to our "not my president" protests. Chavasse will discuss the highly politicized works she witnessed as an audience member, posing questions about gender politics and social inequality and autocracy. She will also discuss the genesis of a new dance created with Tanz Tangente in Berlin, called "Little Monsters,” in which the movement exploration is centered around pulsing, agitation, manipulation and absence.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:57:19 -0400 2017-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Chavasse with Tanz Tangente
ASP Lecture | Biopolitics and Life-Writing among Ottoman Armenians: The Sacred Life of Zabel Yesayan (November 15, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42279 42279-9593312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

The Cilician massacres in 1909 were a moment in the newly emerging political landscape that affected not only the lives of Armenians in the region, but the entire Armenian community in the Ottoman state. This talk explores the (bio) political meaning of the dehumanization of Armenians with its focus on the personal experiences of the Ottoman Armenian writer and activist, Zabel Yesayan. If biopolitics can be defined as the management of lives by new power mechanisms that deprive people of human agency, then how are we to understand the category of the biopoliticized life? Can a ‘biopoliticized life’ speak for itself, for its reduction to a state of bodily existence, for its own death?

In relation to the loss of one’s political and everyday life, this talk concentrates on the paradox of the making of the modern biopoliticized subject, which materializes in an alternative and radical form of life-writing. Emphasizing the ways one engages with life-writing, which Dr. Aktokmakyan calls ‘auto-bio-thanato-graphy,’ the talk examines the ‘non-sovereign’ quality in Yesayan’s "Among the Ruins" to reframe a theory of agency and body politics, as well as the notion of the political in the Western Armenian literature.

Maral Aktokmakyan earned her PhD in Western Languages and Literature from Boğaziçi University in 2016. She specializes in modern Western Armenian literature with her Master’s Thesis on female literary styles and discourses in the works of Serpouhi Dussap and Charlotte Brontë. She is currently working on the literary representations of biopolitical reductions with a particular emphasis on the Ottoman Armenians before and after the Genocide. Her dissertation, entitled "If This is Life: Rethinking the Modern Subject through the Aporia of Biopolitics," examines the ways in which biopoliticized lives in the works of Zabel Yesayan and Hagop Mntzuri, William Faulkner and Joseph Conrad are represented and problematized.

Photo caption: Ottoman Armenians celebrate the restoration of constitution in 1908, Merzifon- in Les Armeniens 1917-1939 La Quete d’un Refuge (The Armenians, 1917-1939 In Search of Refuge). By Michel Paboudjian.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:57:40 -0400 2017-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ottoman Armenians celebrate the restoration of constitution in 1908, Merzifon- in Les Armeniens 1917-1939 La Quete d’un Refuge (The Armenians, 1917-1939 In Search of Refuge). By Michel Paboudjian
Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century (November 15, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45663 45663-10251403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Dessert reception to follow.
This event will be live webstreamed. Please check the event page right before the event for viewing information.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

About the book:
The idea that a Senator—Republican or Democrat—would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn’t always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), Republican from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the model of a consensus builder, and the coalitions he spearheaded continue to form the foundation of American foreign and domestic policy today. Edward R. Murrow called him “the central pivot of the entire era,” yet, despite his significance, Vandenberg has never received the full public attention he is due—until now. With this authoritative biography, Hendrik Meijer reveals how Vandenberg built and nurtured the bipartisan consensus that created the American Century.

For more information, visit http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo25248451.html

About the author:
Hendrik Meijer worked as a reporter and editor before joining Meijer, Inc., where he is executive chairman. He is the author of a biography of his grandfather, Thrifty Years: The Life of Hendrik Meijer, and the executive producer of the documentary America’s Senator: The Unexpected Odyssey of Arthur Vandenberg.

This event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, and the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:16:32 -0400 2017-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Gerald Ford Library Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Talk by Nancy MacLean (November 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46182 46182-10409864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Residential College

Author of "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:27:36 -0400 2017-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Residential College Lecture / Discussion Nancy MacLean
MEMS Lecture Series. Eating Italy: A History of Italian Food and Italian Identity (November 21, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44201 44201-9897572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Pizza, pasta, and tiramisù are today some of the most obvious symbols of Italian culture. Why is this? What has connected food and Italianness so intimately? In this lecture the leading historian of European food explores how the construction of an Italian nation and the confection of an Italian cuisine became entangled. He demonstrates that over the past thousand years, for several and contingent reasons, the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula have politicized their eating habits.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:52:22 -0400 2017-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Italy in pasta by fotoest
Bioethics Discussion: Family in Medicine (November 21, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43720 43720-9832708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on love, blood, and responsibility.

Essays to consider:
"The abnormal child"
"Life past reason"
"Treatment decisions regarding infants, children and adolescents"

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:19:34 -0500 2017-11-21T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Family in medicine
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Symposium (November 27, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46867 46867-10658850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Office of the Executive VP of Medical Affairs

The 2017 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Symposium, co-hosted by the National Academy of Medicine and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will focus on how challenges associated with managing acute and chronic pain have led to an explosion in the abuse of prescription pain medications and a nationwide epidemic. Panelists will consider how to inform health care policies that impact the opioid epidemic by asking:

• How can we use the wealth of epidemiological, clinical, and basic science information about the biology of pain and addiction to stem the opioid epidemic?
• What can be done now?
• What should be done in the longer term?

Pioneering pain researcher, Dr. Allan Basbaum, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and member of the National Academy of Medicine, will describe the current understanding of the neurobiology of pain and discuss opportunities to translate knowledge about basic research into treatments for various types of pain, as the country continues to confront real life challenges.

The plenary lecture will be followed by a panel of University of Michigan faculty who will address various facets of the opioid epidemic across a wide range of disciplines.

• Dr. John Traynor, Edward F Domino Research Professor; Associate Chair for Research, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan
• Dr. Shelly B. Flagel, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry Research Associate Professor, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
• Dr. Chad M. Brummett, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Director, Clinical Anesthesia Research; Co-Director, Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan OPEN); University of Michigan
• Dr. Richard Miech, Research Professor; Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:03:10 -0500 2017-11-27T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Taubman Center Office of the Executive VP of Medical Affairs Lecture / Discussion
LACS Lecture Series. Echoes of Transformation and Crises. Debates on Political Institutions in Interwar Argentina within the University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of Law (1920s-1940s) (November 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46561 46561-10547331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Although Argentine historians have begun to analyze how politicians understood the crisis of democracy in the interwar period, few studies have explored how legal scholars understood the problems of the Argentine representative system and the broader crisis of the worldwide liberal constitutional order in the interwar period.

This lecture focuses on debates over republican and federal systems in interwar Argentina, particularly through analysis of the scholarly production of professors and alumni linked to the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. In this sense, it will analyze intersections between the worlds of academics and politics, and examine the most important diagnoses about the constitutional system and its actual operation in the view of one of the most important schools of Law in the country. In this context, the cases of the United States and Europe became crucial points of comparison, leading many to argue for the need to reform Argentina’s political institutions.

Dr. Ignacio López holds a Ph.D. in History from Torcuato Di Tella University, in Argentina. Among his many distinctions and academic positions, Ignacio is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. He was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Argentina in order to pursue a postdoctoral research visit at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) at the University of Michigan under the mentorship of Dr. Paulina Alberto. He also holds a position as Adjunct Professor of History at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Catholic University of Argentina

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:02:47 -0500 2017-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion echoes-image
Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell: MARCH (November 27, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44787 44787-9980558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

John Lewis is a civil rights leader and an American politician, serving Georgia’s 5th district since 1987. A member of the Democratic party leadership, Lewis has served as Senior Chief Deputy Whip since 2003. Born the son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis’s childhood was filled with deeply inspirational moments, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. heard on radio broadcasts. As a college student, Lewis’s inspiration fueled his commitment to end legalized racial segregation; he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the “Big Six” leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. His dedication to the highest ethical standards and moral principles has won Lewis the admiration of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress. Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls “The Beloved Community” in America. Lewis co-wrote his story with his then-Congressional Aid, now Digital Director and Policy Advisor, Andrew Aydin, in the form of the graphic novel trilogy, MARCH (2013). The collaborative work is illustrated by New York Times best-selling graphic novelist Nate Powell.

This non-ticketed, free, and public event will offer open seating on a first come, first serve basis.

This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is co-presented by the International Institute’s Conflict and Peace Initiative, the King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professorship Program, and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. The Conflict and Peace Initiative is hosting a series of Fall 2017 social justice events called Marching Forward (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marchingforward).

Additional support is provided by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Department of Political Science; Institute for the Humanities; National Center for Institutional Diversity; Office of Community-Engaged Academic Learning; Rackham Graduate School; and Office of Research.

Visit http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps to view upcoming Stamps Series events.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:04:54 -0400 2017-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T20:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion http://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/lewis.jpg
Live Streaming-- "March" Keynote Address (November 27, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46444 46444-10489761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The Department of Political Science will live stream the event featuring Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell.

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Other Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:15:52 -0400 2017-11-27T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T21:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Other Haven Hall
LACS Lecture Series. The Role of International Development and Entrepreneurship in US Foreign Policy in Latin America (November 30, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47000 47000-10722273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

As individual areas of concentration, entrepreneurship, US foreign policy, international development, and Latin America can each consume the interest, time, and energy of those who study them. This discussion introduces the nexus of all of these elements and outline some basic facts, assumptions, and perspectives. LTC Singleton will discuss three important overviews of US Foreign Policy in Latin America, US Foreign Trade Policy, and the UN approach to international development. In this context, we will look at how these three policies impact entrepreneurs attempting to establish themselves in Latin America, highlighting the opportunities and obstacles that they will most likely encounter. A comparative analysis of the sugar production industry in Latin America and the consumption markets in the US and Europe will also be discussed.

Speaker Bio: Prior to his current service in Belize, Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Singleton served as the U.S. Army Attaché to Bolivia from 2015 to 2017, Acting Defense Attaché to Jamaica in 2016, and Operations Officer and Army Section Chief for the Security Cooperation Office of the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 2013 to 2015. He also served in many command and staff positions in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America, including combat operations in the Global War on Terrorism. After multiple combat tours, he transitioned to a career as a multilingual US Army Foreign Area Officer. Both the Departments of State and Defense have recognized LTC Singleton’s work in combat and foreign relations. These include four Bronze Star Medals for heroic service in combat, a Defense Meritorious Service Medal for interagency service overseas, an Army Commendation Medal with “V” device for valor in combat, and the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award.

LTC Eldridge R. Singleton was awarded both his Bachelors of Science degree and commission in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant Infantry Officer by the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He also holds a Masters of Arts in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:51:09 -0500 2017-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion singleton-image
Ross Business+Impact Vision Session (November 30, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44618 44618-9934440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Center for Social Impact

During the 2017-18 academic year, there will be a series of engaging, participatory events with the goal of answering this question: How can the Michigan Ross community—students, faculty, alumni, and partners—become the most progressive source of business solutions to the world’s biggest challenges?

This event is by invitation only.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:44:20 -0500 2017-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T20:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Center for Social Impact Conference / Symposium Business+Impact Visioning Session
IISS Workshop. The Long-Term Impact of Religious Institutions on Development (November 30, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46905 46905-10670087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

How do religious institutions affect development? While religious institutions are frequently depicted and studied as part of history, their long-run role in affecting politics and economy today remains uncharacteristically understudied in the scholarship. Religious institutions around the world have historically commanded political and economic resources. Outside of the limited scholarship on the Church however, religious institutions are little understood for their political and economic impact. I will address this question by researching if and why the Sufi Khanaqah affects long-term development. Development being indicated by contemporary public goods and inequality—the two dependent variables. District is the unit of analysis at which Khanaqahs and development will be analyzed. To identify the mechanism and estimate the effect more comprehensively, I will also examine the effect of covariates measuring Khanaqah patronage and trade routes. The study will constitute districts of India and Pakistan between 1858-2011.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:03:06 -0500 2017-11-30T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Prospects for Peace in the Middle East (November 30, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46475 46475-10501263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of History

Ambassador Kurtzer served as US ambassador to Egypt under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, and as ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush from 2001-2005. He has edited or co-authored three books on American policy in the Middle East and, during his 29-year career in the U.S. foreign service, held a number of positions concerned with formulating American policy for the region.

This talk is also sponsored in part by the Hannah S. and Samuel A. Cohen Memorial Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:41:49 -0500 2017-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of History Lecture / Discussion Kurtzer Ad
Ross Business+Impact Vision Session (December 1, 2017 7:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44618 44618-9934441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 7:30am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Center for Social Impact

During the 2017-18 academic year, there will be a series of engaging, participatory events with the goal of answering this question: How can the Michigan Ross community—students, faculty, alumni, and partners—become the most progressive source of business solutions to the world’s biggest challenges?

This event is by invitation only.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:44:20 -0500 2017-12-01T07:30:00-05:00 2017-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Center for Social Impact Conference / Symposium Business+Impact Visioning Session
Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin (December 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47099 47099-10790921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory (CCCT) workshop warmly welcomes all to its second colloquium and conference (Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin) held this upcoming Saturday, December 2, 2017. The colloquium and conference will focus on the thought and legacy of Walter Benjamin.

The first event will be a colloquium, from 10am-12pm, in 3222 Angell Hall. In preparation for the talks given at 4pm, we will be discussing Walter Benjamin’s “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” and “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” as well as Lynne Huffer’s “Foucault’s Fossils: Life Itself and the Return to Nature in Feminist Philosophy.” If you want to request a copy of these essays, please email either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu).

The second event will take place from 4-6:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall and will consist of the talks given by Professor Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan; "The Stock Image: Muybridge, Uexkull, Benjamin"); Professor Ingrid Diran (University of Michigan; "Fossils and Monsters: Reading Benjamin with Foucault"); and Professor Michelle Ty (Clemson University, "When History Merges into Setting").

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:20:25 -0500 2017-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin (December 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47099 47099-10790922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory (CCCT) workshop warmly welcomes all to its second colloquium and conference (Dialogues in Contemporary Theory II | On Benjamin) held this upcoming Saturday, December 2, 2017. The colloquium and conference will focus on the thought and legacy of Walter Benjamin.

The first event will be a colloquium, from 10am-12pm, in 3222 Angell Hall. In preparation for the talks given at 4pm, we will be discussing Walter Benjamin’s “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” and “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” as well as Lynne Huffer’s “Foucault’s Fossils: Life Itself and the Return to Nature in Feminist Philosophy.” If you want to request a copy of these essays, please email either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu).

The second event will take place from 4-6:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall and will consist of the talks given by Professor Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan; "The Stock Image: Muybridge, Uexkull, Benjamin"); Professor Ingrid Diran (University of Michigan; "Fossils and Monsters: Reading Benjamin with Foucault"); and Professor Michelle Ty (Clemson University, "When History Merges into Setting").

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:20:25 -0500 2017-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-02T18:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
Michigan Cannabis Leaders Summit (December 3, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46924 46924-10700260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 3, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Come join Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Green Wolverine as we host the movers and shakers of the cannabis industry! Informative discussions will be held on the intersections of medical cannabis, business, law and policy.

Confirmed Speakers include:
- State Rep. Yousef Rabhi
- Jeff Irwin, former State Rep. and political director of Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol
- Mark Passerini, owner of Om of Medicine
- Stephen Goldner, attorney and toxicologist
- Dennis Hayes, attorney
- Ben Rosman, CEO of PSI Labs
- Nicholas Tennant, founding partner of Precision Extraction Solutions
- Nick Zettell, assistant campaign manager for MI Legalize
- Kevin Boehnke, Ph.D. candidate in University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Dr. Lev Spivak-Birndorf, MS, PhD.: co-founder of PSI Labs; recipient of NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- Danny Victor, JD: member of Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation; CEO at Gulfstream Gardens
- Tom Lavigne, JD.: Partner at Cannabis Counsel, PLC; cannabis attorney; member of Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation

Event will include food and refreshments, giveaways, interactive seminars and discussions, and networking opportunities. This is an event you will not want to miss!

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:14:34 -0500 2017-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Students for Sensible Drug Policy Conference / Symposium Summit Banner
Reflecting on Politics, History and Half a Century at Michigan (December 4, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42853 42853-9672378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

A panel of colleagues and former students of Zvi Gitelman discuss current research on some of the topics that have interested Professor Gitelman throughout his distinguished career.

A Century of Ambivalence: Politics and the Jews
Panel Discussion: 3:00 – 4:45 pm
Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto: "Orphans and Abandoned Babies: Soviet Yiddish Songs About World War II"
David Fishman, Jewish Theological Seminary: "Rabbis Against the Revolution: On Conservative Jewish Politics in Late Imperial Russia"
Todd Endelman, University of Michigan: "Fighting Antisemitism with Numbers"

Reflecting on Politics, History and Half a Century at Michigan
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan: 5:00 pm

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

Photo Credit: James Reslier-Wells

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:38:40 -0500 2017-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Zvi Gitelman
WCED Lecture. Civil Courts and Authoritarian Stability (December 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43907 43907-9855115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Post-Soviet Kazakhstan has been ruled by a single, personalist dictator since independence, and power is concentrated among a narrow elite. As extant literature on dictatorships predicts, state officials there regularly expropriate private property; valuable urban land is a favorite target. In this context, why would the Kazakhstani state – which has a highly effective security apparatus – take the seemingly redundant step of turning to courts to resolve the resulting conflicts with property owners? Moreover, why would citizens do the same, when they acknowledge courts’ lack of independence and high levels of corruption? In this lecture, Hanson argues that the central government compels local officials to channel disputes through civil courts to address negative consequences from their predatory, rent-seeking behavior. The dictator seeks to control rather than eliminate that behavior, because tacit permission to use their positions for self-enrichment helps ensure subordinates’ loyalty. However, it also generates costs for the autocrat. In particular, it sparks social unrest. Requiring local officials to channel conflict through courts offers an improved outcome for a few victims, while reducing the ability of all to engage in protests; it also creates and enforces guidelines for officials’ informal behavior. In short, formal legal institutions help manage corruption and its consequences. In making these arguments, Hanson draw on extensive in-country fieldwork in three regions of Kazakhstan, including interviews, ethnographic observation in district and appellate courts, original survey data, and official court records and other documents.

Margaret Hanson is a Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year. Her research focuses on institutions that help autocracies endure. Specifically, she examines how formal and informal institutions interact to shape governance in authoritarian regimes. Her broad research interests include authoritarian stability, governance, and development, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:49:38 -0500 2017-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hanson
Bioethics Discussion: Death (December 5, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43721 43721-9832709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our ends.

All are encouraged to come, though in time all will be met.

For more information, please contact belmont@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:22:09 -0500 2017-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Death