Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (August 11, 2018 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47914 47914-11118442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 11, 2018 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, 29 Dec 2017 12:52:48 -0500 2018-08-11T12:45:00-04:00 2018-08-11T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
Immigration: A WeListen Staff Discussion (August 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53078 53078-13218009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This session of WeListen is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and lunch will be provided!

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/abjX2

Join us at this WeListen Staff Session to learn current immigration policies and to participate in small group discussions about this complex topic. Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.


By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the UM Office of DEI and the LSA DEI Implementation Leads. The planning committee includes staff members from the Ginsberg Center, the LSA Dean's Office, LSA History, LSA Psychology, the Office of Communtiy-Engaged Academic Learning, and the Michigan Community Scholars Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:28:32 -0500 2018-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-08-17T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Immigration flyer. August 17th, 11am-1pm. North Quad Space 2435.
Department GSI Orientation (August 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53065 53065-13217959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:22:14 -0400 2018-08-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-08-27T10:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-04T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
How to Talk Across the Political Divide (September 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53653 53653-13444102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Deegan-Krause is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University.

This is the Kick-Off event for the 2018-19 season for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:46:02 -0400 2018-09-05T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Finding a Dream in Adversity (September 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53551 53551-13401559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series

I was born as the seventh son of a peasant and graduated from high school at the bottom of my class. It was at the age of 21 years old, working at an agricultural cooperative that I reached a turning point in my life. I went to Idaho as an agricultural trainee, and then I studied at the University of Nebraska and Harvard University. Finally, at the age of 61 years old, I was elected Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture and my dream of becoming a politician came true.

I will talk about how I took advantage of my experiences in the United States in my approach to advancing regional governance in Japan, as well as the response to the Kumamoto earthquake that occurred in 2016.

Ikuo Kabashima is currently in his third term as Governor of Kumamotto Prefecture, Japan. In addition, from 2008 to the present, he is Emeritus Professor at University of Tokyo, He received a Ph.D in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 1979. In addition to teaching at University of Tokyo, he taught at Tsukuba University from 1985-1997.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to bkinzer@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:05:48 -0400 2018-09-06T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ikuo Kabashima, Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (September 7, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53553 53553-13401561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

The positive role of negative emotions in facilitating democratic engagement has come to the fore in recent political science research. But negative emotions are not always a democratic plus. In this study, we focus on the ways in which negative emotions drive selective news exposure, focusing on the decision to consume news about terrorist violence. Drawing on data from a two-wave national online panel of Americans, we find that anxiety is associated with avoidance of news stories about recent terror attacks whereas anger is linked to increased consumption and repeat exposure. Panel data confirm that emotions precede selective exposure. Those angry at terrorists in wave 1 were more likely to watch a complete news story about the Boston marathon in wave 2 whereas those who felt anxious in wave 1 were less likely to watch the entire story in wave 2. These findings are consistent with an emotion regulation model of selective news exposure in which news is consumed if it is expected to arouse positive emotions or satisfy functional goals and avoided if it is expected to arouse negative emotions. We also find that exposure to terrorist violence is politically consequential. Those who reported greater exposure to stories of terror attacks were more likely to support aggressive national security policies in wave 1. In addition, a graphic reminder of the Boston marathon bombing in wave 2 boosted support for national security policies by enhancing the effects of anger on support for torture and increasing the effects of anxiety on support for heightened domestic surveillance policies. In developing an emotion regulation approach to the study of selective news exposure, we underscore the political implications of a highly arousing online news environment in which news consumption is driven by both emotional and informational goals.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:41:10 -0400 2018-09-07T15:30:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (September 8, 2018 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47914 47914-11118443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 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, 29 Dec 2017 12:52:48 -0500 2018-09-08T12:45:00-04:00 2018-09-08T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
A/PIA The Slants Concert and Keynote Lecture (September 8, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53269 53269-13330235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The University of Michigan Asian/Pacific American Studies Program will be kicking off the Fall 2018 semester with a concert/keynote speaking event featuring The Slants, the world's first and only Asian-American dance rock band, as featured on Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NPR, BBC, CBS, TIME, and 3,000+ radio stations, TV shows, magazines, and websites in over 150+ countries. This event is part of the program's goal to raise awareness of issues surrounding use of terms targeting numerous gender and ethnic groups and the plight of Asian Americans in our fractious society.

The Slants will preform some of their most popular hits and their founder/bassist, Simon Tam, will give a keynote lecture on the background of The Slants, focusing on their battle with the Supreme Court over trademarking their band name. Simon Tam is also an author, entrepreneur, and activist.

**Following the set and keynote lecture, there will be a large-group Q&A session, time to meet the band, and an opportunity check out merchandise, receive autographs, and have 1 on 1 questions.

Check out our follow-up event collaboration with WeListen: https://events.umich.edu/event/53906

Simon Tam bio:
Simon was named a champion of diverse issues by the White House and worked with President Barack Obama's campaign to fight bullying. He recently helped expand freedom of speech through winning a unanimous victory at the Supreme Court of the United States for a landmark case in constitutional and trademark law (Matal v. Tam). He has also been a keynote speaker, performer, and presenter at TEDx, SXSW, Comic-Con, The Department of Defense, Stanford University, and over 1,200 events across North America, Europe, and Asia. He has set a world record by appearing on the TEDx stage 12 times.

Simon designed one of the first college-accredited social media programs in the United States. Bloomberg Businessweek called him a "Social Media Rockstar." Forbes says his resume is a "paragon of completeness." Recently, he was recognized as a Freedom Fighter by the Roosevelt Rough Writers, named Citizen of the Year from the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Portland Lodge, Portland Rising Star from the Light a Fire Awards, received a Distinguished Alum Award from Marylhurst University, and he Mark T. Banner award from the American Bar Association.

He serves as board chair for the APANO United Communities Fund and member/advisor for multiple nonprofit organizations dedicated to social justice and the arts. You can find Simon's appearances, writing, and current projects at www.simontam.org.

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Performance Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:01:41 -0400 2018-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 2018-09-08T22:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Performance Band
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 10, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53068 53068-13217996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:48:12 -0400 2018-09-10T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Interest Group/RIW Orientation-- Department of Political Science (September 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52690 52690-12927444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This session will talk through some of the best practices for planning your political science event. We will also discuss the LSA hosting guidelines and will advise on the process for reimbursements and honoraria.

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Meeting Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:04:11 -0400 2018-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Conversations on Europe. Poland, the EU, and Illiberal Democracy (September 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54132 54132-13530675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

In 2015, Poland entered a new era. The right-wing and populist government decided to change the way Poland carries out its internal and external policies under the slogan “A Good Change” ("Dobra zmiana"). Since then, the Law and Justice government has worked diligently to dismantle the constitutional system, destroy the balance of powers, and undermine the justice system. The “Good Change” approach has also involved shrinking the space for civil society and curtailing human rights, especially women’s reproductive rights. Last but not least, the government’s “Good Change” has altered Poland’s position vis-à-vis its dearest values, and shifted its orientation in international relations, most significantly toward the European Union. Dr. Śmiszek’s lecture will analyze these profound transformations, as well as discuss civil society’s resistance to these changes and different institutions’ attempts to preserve the liberal democratic order in Poland.

Krzysztof Śmiszek is a Polish human rights lawyer and activist. He received his Ph.D. in law from the University of Warsaw and is a lecturer at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University in Poland. Dr. Śmiszek’s main areas of expertise are human rights of minorities and women, with a special focus on LGBTI rights. He is also interested in comparative international anti-discrimination legislation and institutional protection against discrimination. He is currently the managing editor of "The Anti-Discrimination Law Review." In Fall 2018, he is the Distinguished Fellow at University of Michigan's Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to crees@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:45:00 -0400 2018-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Krzysztof Śmiszek
Bioethics Discussion: Neuroethics (September 11, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49420 49420-11453762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the origins of our moral situation.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:39:23 -0400 2018-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Neuroethics
Why the working class needs socialism (September 11, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55025 55025-13671786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Why the working class needs socialism: The Trump administration, the Democratic Party and the fight for the political independence of the working class

Presentation by Niles Niemuth, socialist candidate for Congress with the Socialist Equality Party.

Tuesday, September 11 from 7PM–9PM
Room 1300 in the Chemistry Building


Ferocious conflicts are pitting the Trump administration against powerful factions of the military-intelligence apparatus, backed by the Democrats. However, these are conflicts between two reactionary factions of the capitalist ruling elite. Trump is seeking to cultivate a fascistic movement to serve as the spearhead for the policies of the financial aristocracy. The Democrats want a more aggressive war policy in the Middle East and against Russia.

There is growing support for socialism among workers and youth, produced by record social inequality, continuous attacks on wages and social programs, and unending war. The fight for socialism means a fight against the capitalist system. It requires the independent mobilization of the working class against the Democrats, the Republicans and the social system they defend.

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Presentation Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:20:17 -0400 2018-09-11T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T21:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab International Youth and Students for Social Equality Presentation Chemistry Dow Lab
Diversity of Thought and Respecting the Other Side of the Argument: Insights from the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General (September 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55170 55170-13704910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

A star-studded group of former members of the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office will explore the possibility of drawing lessons from that institution for how to approach the hardest discussions on campus. The panel will draw on the framework, ethos, and practice of the Solicitor General’s office to explore insights on how students, faculty, and staff can approach controversial issues on campus—and in particular listening, analyzing, tackling, and responding to arguments on the other side. The panel will seek to offer meaningful reflections on the lifelong process of understanding and responding to deeply controversial arguments, even those that are—to some or many—odious.

Panelists:
- Paul D. Clement, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and Distinguished Lecturer in Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Solicitor General, 2005-08
- Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Solicitor General, 1985-89
- Gregory G. Garre, Partner and Chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group, Latham & Watkins
Solicitor General, 2008-09
- Ian H. Gershengorn, Partner and Chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group, Jenner & Block
Acting Solicitor General, 2016-17
- Nicole A. Saharsky, Partner and Co-Chair of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Gibson Dunn
Assistant to the Solicitor General, 2007-17

Moderated by Julian Davis Mortenson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the Lawyers Club Lounge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:57:58 -0400 2018-09-12T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
CREES Noon Lecture. U.S.-Russia Relations in the Age of Trump and Putin (September 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54187 54187-13539442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Professor Cook will discuss the Russian economy in the 21st century, including the recent U.S. sanctions. She will also examine how they shape U.S.-Russia relations.

Lisa D. Cook is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and in International Relations (James Madison College) at Michigan State University. The first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University in philosophy, politics, and economics. Professor Cook earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Among her current research interests are economic growth and development, financial institutions and markets, innovation, and economic history. From November 2008 to January 2009, Cook was on the Obama Presidential Transition Team and led the review of the World Bank and International Affairs division of the Treasury Department. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer. Professor Cook speaks French, Russian, Spanish, and Wolof.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to crees@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:49:15 -0400 2018-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Lisa Cook
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53069 53069-13217997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:51:42 -0400 2018-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Facebook, Politics, and Participation in the Philippines (September 14, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53507 53507-13392479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Filipinos spend more time on social media than anyone else in the world, yet little is understood about how social media impacts politics in the Philippines. The speakers have examined the broad relationship between Facebook usage and political participation in an increasingly digitally networked Philippines society. New scholarship in political communication espouses a strong positive relationship between social media and the rise of populist politicians, but this hypothesis may not hold true in the case of Rodrigo Duterte's electoral victory. Citing survey findings and social network analysis following the 2016 presidential election, the speakers will demonstrate that political engagement via Facebook played a key role in this unprecedented election, but not in ways previous research has posited. The speakers will use their findings to explain the implications for future political developments in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia.

Aim Sinpeng is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is a co-founder of the Sydney Cyber Security Network and a Thailand Coordinator for the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. She has published widely on Thai politics and has been awarded multiple research grants to study social media and political participation in Southeast Asia. She is completing a manuscript on anti-democratic politics in democratizing states.

Aries A. Arugay is an associate professor of political science and co-convenor of the Strategic Studies Program of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics, international relations, research methodology, and political thought. He currently holds an ASEAN@50 Fellowship from New Zealand’s Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence and the One UP Professorial Chair in Comparative Democratization.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cseas@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:33:48 -0400 2018-09-14T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-14T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Sinpeng Arugay
Eldersveld Prize Lecture (September 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52765 52765-13027851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

When Sam Eldersveld died, he generously donated money to the Department of Political Science to be used to honor faculty and graduate students (in alternating years) for their research accomplishments. Every other year the Department's Executive Committee chooses a faculty member to receive the Eldersveld Prize. Iain Osgood is this year's recipient of the prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:47:17 -0400 2018-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Zafos Xagoraris - The Speaker: American Protests 1960s and Today (September 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53347 53347-13349490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Speaker, an interactive installation by artist Zafos Xagoraris, is an exploration of student protests from the 1960s to present in Ann Arbor and across the United States. This installation will be on view live for one day only, in the U-M Museum of Art’s Stenn Gallery and on UMMA’s front plaza on Saturday, September 15 from 11 am to 8 pm. Xagoraris is a 2018 Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Documentation of Xagoraris’ installation will be included in the upcoming exhibition Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire, on view at Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division Street) from September 21-November 18, 2018.

Combining archival material sourced from the Bentley Historical Library at U-M with an interactive “soapbox,” visitors to this installation are able to experience protest moments of the past and communicate their own messages of dissent in the present. The project aims to recognize the resurgence of student protests in creating social discourse today and draws a connection to the past.

In his audio and text archival explorations, Xagoraris illustrates the role of documentation of the 1960s protest movements — New Left, Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society — in sustaining a vital connection between protesters working in disparate cities, separated by the sprawling geography of our nation.

Xagoraris states: “Through documentation of iconic moments of the 1960s protests, we see photos of People’s Park and Arnold Kaufman and the teach-ins at the University of Michigan. Together, these events create one complicated but unique series of relatable moments, influencing each other and depicting a past era but also projecting an image of the future.”

In addition to Xagoraris’ archival exploration, The Speaker visitors will find an interactive “soapbox,” complete with AV equipment designed to project the speaker’s voice outside of the museum and display a green-screen image of the visitor making an address from atop a 1964 Ford Thunderbird parked on the museum plaza — a historical nod to the famous image of Mario Savio during a Free Speech Movement protest in Berkeley.

The Speaker was created with the collaboration of Tom Bray, Chrisstina Hamilton, Katerina Stefanidaki, and the students of the Identity Politics course taught by professors Marianetta Porter and Irina Aristarkhova at the Stamps School of Art & Design. This interactive installation is presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Zafos Xagoraris is a Witt Artist in Residence at Stamps School of Art & Design and a Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.  His work consists of drawings, participatory events and public sound installations. He has participated in exhibitions such as documenta 14, Kassel and Athens, Manifesta 7, Rovereto, the 4th Athens Biennial, the 1st Bienal Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale and the 27th Sao Paulo Bienal. 

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Exhibition Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:15:38 -0400 2018-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/zafos-speaker.jpg
GAPS (September 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54016 54016-13513097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:27:48 -0400 2018-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
A/PIA Studies & WeListen: 'Slants' Panel and Discussion Session (September 17, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53906 53906-13478723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Following the "A/PIA The Slants Concert and Keynote Lecture," A/PIA Studies and WeListen are teaming up to bring you a Panel and Discussion Session event about the Supreme Court case involving the Asian American dance rock group, The Slants, over trademarking.

There will be short presentations from four of our U-M faculty experts: Leonard Niehoff of the Law School will provide legal commentary on the case and issues of free speech/hate speech related to the case. Amy Stillman, Matthew Countryman, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes of American Culture will comment on efforts by targeted groups to reclaim derogatory/hate terms. Bethany Hughes of American Culture will provide commentary on how targeted groups, especially Native Americans, respond to the commercial use of "derogatory" terms.

Following the presentations, WeListen will lead a discussion session with all of the attendees sorted into groups.

Learn more about the case before the panel: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/19/533514196/the-slants-win-supreme-court-battle-over-bands-name-in-trademark-dispute

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:32:55 -0400 2018-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-17T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
National Issues (September 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53374 53374-13355924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This study group 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 discussion groups for those 50 and over for two hours on selected Tuesdays: September 18, October 2, October 16, October 30, November 6, November 20, December 4, and December 18.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 03 Aug 2018 07:06:18 -0400 2018-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Current Events (September 18, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53240 53240-13317303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

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

This group will meet for two hours on Tuesdays from September 18 through December 18.

Instructor Thomas Longworth is a retired Industrial Engineer who resides in Ann Arbor. Instructor Margaret Pooler is a retired librarian who has been a member of the group for over 10 years.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 29 Jul 2018 20:15:19 -0400 2018-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (September 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53071 53071-13217999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:53:31 -0400 2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
"Grievance and Protest" Why Does the First Amendment Protect Speech Critical of the Government? (September 20, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53535 53535-13399423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 4:30pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

A conversation with:
Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School
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Ashley Messenger, First Amendment / Media Lawyer, National Public Radio

Moderated by Len Niehoff, Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School

Sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Law School

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:33:54 -0400 2018-09-20T16:30:00-04:00 2018-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 South Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion South Hall
High Stakes Culture (September 20, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55253 55253-13707129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 5:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

We are in a moment in which a ‘culture war’—in large part about race—has been ignited and is being stoked daily by activists across the political spectrum and by the President of the United States himself. This high stakes culture war is playing out across digital media in ways that we need to better understand.

Please join us for a conversation about Childish Gambino’s “This is America” and the sprawling, contentious conversation it sparked across the internet. What is he trying to say? How did the internet respond? How are our meaning making practices evolving? Why does culture matter so much now to so many, and who gets to decide what it means?

Come talk to humanities scholars Megan Ankerson (communication studies), Anita Gonzalez (theater), Robin Wilson (dance), Stephen Berrey (American culture & history), and moderator Angela Dillard (Afroamerican and African studies & Residential College) about these questions and others you might have about Childish Gambino’s America and yours.

About the High Stakes Culture Series:

For the second year, the High Stakes Culture series explores the “culture wars” that have recently been ignited across the country. Activists from all points of the political spectrum, even the President of the United States himself, are turning to beloved cultural objects to stake a claim for their differing beliefs in a politically fraught moment. Black athletes are taking a knee. Anti-immigration voters are rallying for a wall. Long-standing Confederate monuments are coming down.

What is at stake in the ways we understand culture and cultural conflict? High Stakes Culture is a series, presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Collaboratory, that brings humanities perspectives to bear on current debates. Join us as we ask: How and why does culture matter so much now?

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:16:44 -0400 2018-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 2018-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 North Quad Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion This is America
Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-in: One-year since Hurricane Maria (September 20, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54565 54565-13598941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck the island of Puerto Rico with catastrophic force, shattering lives, communities, infrastructure and the physical environment. One year later, Puerto Rico remains in the grips of an ongoing and systematic crisis.

The Listening to Puerto Rico teach-in event will feature a panel discussion with U-M faculty and collaborators from Puerto Rico. During this discussion you will hear powerful narratives of loss and recovery, abandonment and resilience, failure and hope as you come to better understand Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future. During the teach-in event, there will be an opportunity for audience members to share their own story about Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico or to ask the panelists a question. Light refreshments will be provided.

Panelists will include:

- Moderator: Will Potter, Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department and Senior Academic Innovation Fellow
- Rose Figueroa, Two-time Michigan Alumna who helped lead collection efforts across Michigan in the wake of Hurricane Maria
- Larry La Fountain-Stokes, Interim Director of Latina/o Studies Program and Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan
- Amilcar Matos-Moreno, PhD Candidate in the School of Public Health
- Luis Trelles, Producer, Radio Ambulante and 2018-19 Knight Wallace Fellow

This event is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, both housed in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. This teach-in is associated with the Listening to Puerto Rico Teach-Out, which is an online learning event created by the Office of Academic Innovation at U-M and the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Notre Dame. We encourage you to join the online conversation, which is is live until September 24th.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:47:53 -0400 2018-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion Puerto Rico Mural
Where A Law Degree Can Take You (September 20, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55520 55520-13752400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: BULA -- Black Undergraduate Law Association

BULA is hosting our first speaker of the year! We welcome Sarah Zearfoss, the UMich Law School Admissions Dean. She will speak about her law school experience, legal career, and transition to working in law schools. It is a great opportunity to explore what a law degree can do for you or get an in-depth look at law schools and appellate processes.

Come enjoy food, fellowship, and answered questions!

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Presentation Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:53:52 -0400 2018-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 2018-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) BULA -- Black Undergraduate Law Association Presentation
Decolonizing Our Disciplines: A Roundtable Discussion (September 21, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53183 53183-13274238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Global Postcolonialisms Collective for an interdisciplinary lunch conversation on grappling with colonial legacies and enacting decolonial methodologies and practices in academic institutions. Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/akOrsbew0Vn1Yk7D3.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:04:42 -0400 2018-09-21T12:30:00-04:00 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Early Atlantic Workshop. Crowded Places: Slavery, Science, and the Roots of Fresh Air in the Atlantic World (September 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55250 55250-13707122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In the late-eighteenth century, European chemists Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Priestley, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele all individually claimed that they had first discovered the element oxygen. While the debate escalated among British, German, and French scientists, British physicians proved the existence of oxygen by turning to the international slave trade. They showed how lack of oxygen among enslaved Africans crammed in the bottom of ships, which traveled from Africa to the Caribbean, led to high mortality rates. The international slave trade, in turn, made a scientific theory legible. Oxygen later emerged as a key element in the periodic table but how the international slave trade gave it scientific validity has been forgotten.

This paper grows out of Prof. Downs' book project, "The Laboring Dead: From Subjugation to Science in Global History."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:31:56 -0400 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Voice your Vote!! (September 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55770 55770-13777549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This Monday, September 24th, members of Turn Up Turnout will be at the Duderstadt Connector from noon to 4PM to help you get signed up on TurboVote so we can reach our 90% goal. They can help you get registered, change your registration address, sign up for absentee ballots, and get important election information and reminders.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:27:42 -0400 2018-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Office of Student Affairs Other Voice Your Vote! Free Cookies!
AMAS Lecture: As Black Muslim as Bean Pie: Food, Faith, and Nationhood in African American Islam (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54303 54303-13565725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

*Bean pie will be served!*

If American national identity can be signified by apple pie, then African American Muslim identity can be signified by navy bean pie. Developed in the early 20th century by members of the Nation of Islam (NOI), the bean pie has achieved iconic status in Black urban communities as a tasty dessert associated closely with African American Muslims (in and out of the NOI) who produce and distribute it. As a signature dish, the pie is much more than an edible treat—baked into the pie are communities’ spiritual commitments, political ideologies, cultural discourses, and economic programs. Drawing on oral histories and archival sources, this presentation will examine what the navy bean pie and food practices of African American Muslims can tell us about their faith, politics, and culture.

Zaheer Ali is the Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society, where he currently directs Muslims in Brooklyn, a public history and arts project designed to amplify the stories of Brooklyn’s Muslim communities and contextualize those stories in the broader histories of Brooklyn, New York City, and the United States. His work on the project was recently featured in a now viral video on the Muslim bean pie for Slate.com’s Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail? that has been viewed over 4 million times on Facebook, with over 50,000 shares. He also co-hosts and co-produces Flatbush + Main, Brooklyn Historical Society’s award-winning monthly podcast, now in its third year of exploring Brooklyn’s past and present through scholarly discussions, historical archives, and oral histories. Formerly, he served as Project Manager of Columbia University’s Malcolm X Project under the direction of the late Manning Marable, and served as a lead researcher for Marable’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011). In addition to Brooklyn, Muslims in America, and Malcolm X, his scholarly interests include 20th century United States history, the Black freedom movement, and Prince Rogers Nelson—topics explored in courses he has taught as an adjunct lecturer at New York University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:25:25 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Picture
Comparative Politics Workshop (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Drugs (September 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49421 49421-11453763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the manipulation of our biochemical status.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:53:37 -0400 2018-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Drugs
Exploring Together the Meaning of Current Political Events (September 26, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53372 53372-13355922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Participants will discuss current political events using diverse perspectives. The idea is to provide different choices about what these events mean. This allows the opportunity for independent decisions to emerge.

Instructor Dr. Thomas Murray has previously contributed to several OLLI study groups focusing on current events.

These 90 minute discussions for those 50 and over will take place on Wednesdays from September 26 through November 7.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 12 Aug 2018 07:10:55 -0400 2018-09-26T15:30:00-04:00 2018-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Honoring the Career of Mary Corcoran (September 27, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52715 52715-12969911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The Department of Political Science will join the Ford School in honoring the career of Professor Mary Corcoran.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:38:49 -0400 2018-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Political Science Reception / Open House
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

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

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

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

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

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
Inaugural Lecture as the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies. Democracies Emerging and Submerging (September 27, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52006 52006-12793954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Does it still make sense to study emerging democracies in a historical moment when democracies seem mostly to be submerging? In his inaugural address as WCED Director, Dan Slater discusses how research on authoritarianism and democratic dysfunctions might ironically shed light on enduring questions of democratic emergence—especially when it builds on concepts transcending disciplinary boundaries.

Dan Slater specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. He comes to Michigan after twelve years on the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he served as director of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and associate member in the Department of Sociology. His book manuscript examining how divergent historical patterns of contentious politics have shaped variation in state power and authoritarian durability in seven Southeast Asian countries, entitled "Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia," was published in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series in 2010.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:47:40 -0400 2018-09-27T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Dan Slater
WCED Conference. Democracies Emerging and Submerging (September 28, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54777 54777-13643003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Understanding how and why democracies emerge requires attention to how and why they submerge. In this second installment of the multiyear and cross-university Democratic Change Research Initiative, this conference gathers leading scholars of authoritarianism and democratization at WCED to present and discuss their ongoing research on why democracy and autocracy either emerge and endure or falter and fail.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:58:46 -0400 2018-09-28T08:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Conference / Symposium Democracies Emerging and Submerging
Women in Political Science Speaker Series (September 28, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54099 54099-13528368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:52:15 -0400 2018-09-28T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Film Screening Haven Hall
The African Politics Reading Group (September 28, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 55104-13687191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

We are a small, informal group of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles, working papers, published books, and book manuscripts.

If you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:14:30 -0400 2018-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (September 28, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53932 53932-13502205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:00:41 -0400 2018-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (September 28, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-09-28T15:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
WCED Conference. Democracies Emerging and Submerging (September 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54777 54777-13643005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Understanding how and why democracies emerge requires attention to how and why they submerge. In this second installment of the multiyear and cross-university Democratic Change Research Initiative, this conference gathers leading scholars of authoritarianism and democratization at WCED to present and discuss their ongoing research on why democracy and autocracy either emerge and endure or falter and fail.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:58:46 -0400 2018-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Conference / Symposium Democracies Emerging and Submerging
WCED Panel. How Democracies Live and Die (September 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54784 54784-13643011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Steven Levitsky, professor of government, Harvard University
Thomas Carothers, senior vice president for studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Didi Kuo, research scholar, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

In their new book How Democracies Die, Harvard University professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt address what may be the defining political question of our time. In this capstone event to WCED’s “Democracies Emerging and Submerging” conference, Professor Levitsky discusses how democracies both live and die with Thomas Carothers from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Didi Kuo from Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:35:09 -0400 2018-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion How Democracies Die cover
Third-Year Graduate Student Research Conference (October 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53331 53331-13347350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The conference hosts half-hour paper presentations throughout the day (10-minute student presentation, 10-minute faculty discussant, 5-minute audience Q&A).

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:06:24 -0400 2018-10-02T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Political Science Conference / Symposium
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
WCED Lecture. Cooperate or Resist? State-Society Relations and Authoritarianism in Russia and Beyond (October 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54101 54101-13528399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

This talk will outline a theory of state-society relations in weak and strong states and connect it to two types of authoritarianism. It suggests that in countries where the state serves as the primary collective identity, people tend to cooperate with state representatives and make it easy for the ruler to build efficient centralized state structures while failing to create institutions of accountability and prevent the abuse of power. In the countries where the primary collective identities are non-state ones, people tend to resist state initiatives and only agree to short-term deals which creates a fruitful ground for clientelism and hinders building state capacity. At the same time, these societies are better equipped to build institutions of accountability and prevent a large-scale abuse of state power. Examples of grassroots-level state and civil society organizations from four Russian regions (Kemerovo region, Rostov region, the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Republic of Altai) will illustrate the different patterns of state-society relationships. The talk will also discuss several implications of the proposed theory for the study of political regimes.

Natalia Forrat is a 2018-20 WCED postdoctoral fellow. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in 2017. Before coming to Michigan, she was a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research has appeared in Post-Soviet Affairs and Comparative Politics along with a number of Russian-language venues. At Michigan, Natalia Forrat will be working on her book manuscript on the relationship between state-society relationships and authoritarianism.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:27:58 -0400 2018-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Natalia Forrat
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44037 44037-9877694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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Fair / Festival Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:01:54 -0400 2018-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Study Abroad!
Lost in Translation: The Architecture and/of Chinese Edition (October 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55224 55224-13700533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Have you ever wondered how architecture sounds in Chinese? Or questioned if the language of architecture would sound any more esoteric if it were in Chinese? Does linguistic difference matter? What is lost and what is gained when designspeak traverses the Chinese-English divide? How does the medium of design discourse affect its content? Is graphic communication the great equalizer? Is architecture sinicizable? Do you doubt that these are answerable questions? Find out on October 3rd, 5–7pm, at the Taubman College Commons.

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia.

Panelists:
FU Liangyu, Communications & Media Studies
WANG Jieqiong, Architecture & Urban Studies
William THOMSON, Anthropology & Architecture
ZHANG Fang, Fine Arts, Design, & Economics

Hors d'oeuvres to be served.
All are welcome!
No registration is required but please RSVP so we can provide enough food for everyone.

This event is organized by GRIN with generous support from Rackham and in partnership with Taubman College DEI.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 13:00:55 -0400 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Flyer
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 3, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-03T19:30:00-04:00 2018-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 4, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
Emory Douglas: Designing Justice - Penny Stamps Speaker Series Presentation (October 4, 2018 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53880 53880-13472307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Emory Douglas worked as the resident Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1967 through the 1980s. In addition to creating iconic posters and postcards, a key part of Douglas’ responsibilities in this role included art direction, design, and illustration for the organization’s newspaper, The Black Panther. During his tenure, Douglas created powerful images to depict the reality of racial injustice in America and to promote the party’s ideologies. His distinctive style established the “militant-chic” style decades before the aesthetic became popularized and sought to flip the cultural paradigm from one of African American victimhood to one of powerful outrage.

Douglas’ work can be explored in full in the comprehensive monograph Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (Rizzoli, 2007). His work has also received retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York. In his retirement, Douglas continues to exhibit and make work on topics such as crime and the prison industrial complex. His work is included in the exhibition Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire, on view at Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.) through November 18.  There will be a Q&A and post-talk reception at Stamps Gallery immediately following this event.

Presented in partnership with the Stamps Gallery, with support from Design Core Detroit.

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Presentation Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:15:37 -0400 2018-10-04T17:10:00-04:00 2018-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/douglas.jpg
Emory Douglas: Stamps Gallery Q&A and Reception (October 4, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55798 55798-13779895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a Q&A and reception at the Gallery following Emory Douglas’ Speaker Series presentation on Thursday, October 4. 

Emory Douglas worked as the resident Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party in the San Francisco Bay area from 1967 through the 1980s. His work is included in the exhibition Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire at Stamps Gallery through November 18.

Image: “Mother and Daughter”, Emory Douglas 2012. © 2018 Emory Douglas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:15:37 -0400 2018-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 2018-10-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/_Mother-and-Daughter-Emory-Douglas.jpg
AIG (American Institutions Group) (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55576 55576-13759163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:40:53 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 5, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Xu Bing: The Origins of Creativity (October 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53881 53881-13472308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Sunday, October 7, 4pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

Internationally renowned artist and film director Xu Bing is one of the most well-known contemporary artists in China, recognized for his representations of artistic sophistication, political conscience, and far-reaching imagination. His artworks have been exhibited at many prestigious venues, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. He has been included in the Venice Biennale three times and honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Graphics Council, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, the Wales International Visual Art Prize, and a US Department of State Medal of Arts. For this special Speaker Series event, Xu will talk about his signature works and his new film, Dragonfly Eyes (2017), which will have its Michigan premiere at the Michigan Theater on Sunday, October 7, at 6:15 pm.

After this presentation, Xu will participate in several related events at the Michigan Theater on Sunday, October 7, 2018:

5:30 pm: Pre-screening reception at the Michigan Theater Main Lobby. RVSP to confucius.umich.edu.
6:15 pm: Screening of Dragonfly Eyes (2017)
7:45 pm: Post-screening Q&A with Xu Bing

Presented in partnership with the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M Confucius Institute, U-M Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies, and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Presentation Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:47:29 -0400 2018-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/bing_xu.jpg
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

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

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

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

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

The symposium will also include:

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Electoral Reform via Ballot Initiatives: Redistricting, Voter Registration, and Voter Rights in Michigan (October 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56248 56248-13867119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 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. Check event website right before the event for viewing details.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

The panel will look at two initiatives on the November 2018 ballot: the Voters Not Politicians initiative to reform redistricting (Proposal 2), and the Promote the Vote initiative to expand voting and registration opportunities.

The goal of the event is to inform the audience of pros and cons of the two ballot initiatives, while at the same time fostering "civil civic discourse" on these policy issues from a variety of perspectives.
Panelists:
-John Chamberlin, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Policy will serve as Moderator
-Nancy Wang (Voters Not Politicians -Board President) will discuss the ballot initiative on on redistricting reform
-Sharon Dolente (Promote the Vote - Voting Rights Strategist, ACLU of Michigan) will discuss the ballot initiative on expanding voting and registration opportunities
-Christopher Thomas (former Director of Elections for the State) will react to/comment on the two reform proposals
-Richard McLellan (Election Law Attorney) will discuss why the VNP proposal would not be good policy for the State.

Sponsored by: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Co-sponsored by: WeListen, Domestic Policy Corps (DPC), LSA Political Science, League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor Area, Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:54:51 -0400 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Panel speakers
Panel: Electoral Reform via Ballot Initiatives (October 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52348 52348-12641716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

The panel will look at two initiatives that may be on the November 2018 ballot: the Voters Not Politicians initiative to reform redistricting, and the Promote the Vote initiative to expand voting and registration opportunities.

The goal of the event is to inform the audience of pros and cons of the two ballot initiatives, while at the same time fostering "civil civic discourse" on these policy issues from a variety of perspectives.
Panelists:
-John Chamberlin, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy will serve as Moderator
-Nancy Wang (Voters Not Politicians) will discuss the ballot initiative on gerrymandering/redistricting
-Sharon Dolente (Promote the Vote) will discuss the ballot initiative on expanding voting and registration opportunities
-Christopher Thomas (former Director of Elections for the State) will react to/comment on the two reform proposals
-Richard McLellan (Election Law Attorney) will discuss why the VNP proposal would not be good policy for the State.

This event is open to the public.

Sponsored by: The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)
Co-sponsors: WeListen, Domestic Policy Corps (DPC), Department of Political Science

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:23:22 -0400 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion
STS Speaker. Alternative Facts and States of Fear: Reality in the Age of Climate Fictions (October 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54115 54115-13528456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk is concerned with the nature of reality in an age of “alternative facts.” It is a case study situated in the realm of mass market fiction that seeks to examine how postmodern techniques so often associated with STS have been deployed to undermine claims to scientific authority. Specifically, I look to the work of Harvard MD-turned-author, Michael Crichton, and his 2004 novel, State of Fear. What can Crichton’s particular form of cultural production teach us not only about specific scientific controversies, but an era now referred to as post-truth and an American president whose dominant political motives are a tangle of profit-making and fear-mongering? My approach does not attempt to purify fact from fiction or provide clarity amidst what Guy Debord called the “society of the spectacle,” in which representation is preferable to reality, truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Rather, I will discuss practices and techniques that have contributed to a reinvention of reality and argue that a rigorously feminist STS provides invaluable resources for navigating the present.

Biosketch: Joanna Radin is associate professor of History of Medicine at Yale where she is also affiliated with the Departments of History and of Anthropology as well as the programs in American Studies; Ethnicity, Race & Migration; and Religion & Modernity. Her research examines speculative projects of the post-war life and human sciences. She has particular interests in feminist, queer, and indigenous STS and science fiction. She is the author of Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood (Chicago 2017), a history of the low-temperature biobank and co-editor, with Emma Kowal, of Cyropolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (MIT 2017), which considers the technics and ethics of freezing across the life and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:08:49 -0400 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Radin
2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium (October 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45230 45230-11710205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Featured speakers:

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

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

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

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

The symposium will also include:

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:01:31 -0400 2018-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
impactXchange–VOTING (October 9, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56083 56083-13830280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 11:30am
Location: The Grove
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

North Campus DEI Collaborative–College of Engineering, Stamps School of Art & Design, Duderstadt Center, School of Music, Theater and Dance, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Rackham Student Government

Join the North Campus DEI Collaborative impactXchange–College of Engineering, Stamps School of Art & Design, Duderstadt Center, School of Music, Theater and Dance, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Rackham Student Government in celebration of Diversity Week 2018.

The all day celebration aims to put students in the driver’s seat of decision making. We will explore the topic of VOTING and how voting and not voting impacts students and their peers (students will be able to register to vote too!). Students will learn what they can do in their communities to create change (regardless if they can vote or not). Live performances, exhibition posters on voting, workshops, food, and entertainment will make this event one that must not be missed.

When: Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Where: The Grove and Duderstadt Center
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
Special Guest: Ruby Sales–Building a Vibrant Youth Culture at 6:30pm in the new Taubman College Commons.
Light refreshments will be served.

Ruby Nell Sales looks at her work as a calling rather than a career. She answered the call to social justice as a teenager at Tuskegee Institute where she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and worked on voter registration in Lowndes County, Alabama. Sales has made the struggle for racial justice one of the centerpieces of her work through the SpiritHouse Project. Recognizing a need to nurture the hope that still resides in young people as well as to revive an intergenerational community and human compassion, in 2016 the SpiritHouse Project introduced Hope Zones.™ They are alternative learning spaces designed to strengthen the hope, courage, reason, and will of young people to individually and collectively stand up for themselves with dignity, clarity and nonviolent persistence. According to the Harvard Gazette, Ruby spoke about the fight for racial equality in the U.S. and shared, “Even in the face of challenges, there are reasons for hope. Freedom must be seen as a constant struggle. We don’t have to give in to despair.”

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Fair / Festival Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:56:52 -0400 2018-10-09T11:30:00-04:00 2018-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 The Grove A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Fair / Festival One Vote, One Difference
Don't Blame the Working-Class: Understanding Working-Class Politics and Culture in the Trump Era (October 9, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55915 55915-13805085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Residential College

Sherry Lee Linkon is a professor of English and American Studies at Georgetown University, where she directs both the Writing Program and the American Studies Program. Trained in American Studies, her research and teaching cover a wide range of fields, including American literature and culture, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, urban studies, and working-class studies. Her latest book, The
Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring (Michigan, 2018), examines contemporary writing that reflects the continuing effects of deindustrialization on ideas about work, place, and working-class culture.

John Russo is a Visiting Researcher at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. Before moving to Washington, he was a Professor of Management and Coordinator of the Labor Studies Program in the Williamson College of Business Administration at Youngstown State University. Russo has written widely of labor and social issues and is recognized as a national expert on labor unions, work, and working-class politics. For his many activities, Dr. Russo is one of the few professors at YSU to have ever received Distinguished Professorship Awards in each of four areas: research and scholarship, teaching, university service, and public service.

Together, Linkon and Russo have produced two books: Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown (University Press of Kansas, 2002) and the edited collection New Working-Class Studies (Cornell UP, 2004). They also co-directed the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University for 17 years.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:20:02 -0400 2018-10-09T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Residential College Lecture / Discussion Don't blame the working-class
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Alternative Medicine (October 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49423 49423-11453765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion at the boundaries of the medical sciences.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:54:30 -0400 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Alternative medicine
Story of Self Workshop (October 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56168 56168-13841821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

JC Kibbey hosts a workshop where scientists will learn the importance of personal narratives to make compelling arguments to non-scientists. This event will be held at two locations, one on central campus, another on north campus. Event is an hour long, and will start at 11:00 am (North Campus) and at 1:00 pm (Central Campus). Lunch will be provided. RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/sEzIv4jA64Sz6cZA3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:12:39 -0400 2018-10-10T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar JC Kibbey
Story of Self Workshop (October 10, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56168 56168-13841822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

JC Kibbey hosts a workshop where scientists will learn the importance of personal narratives to make compelling arguments to non-scientists. This event will be held at two locations, one on central campus, another on north campus. Event is an hour long, and will start at 11:00 am (North Campus) and at 1:00 pm (Central Campus). Lunch will be provided. RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/sEzIv4jA64Sz6cZA3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:12:39 -0400 2018-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar JC Kibbey
Donia Human Rights Center Future Leaders in Human Rights Panel (October 10, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56183 56183-13841869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Donia Human Rights Center Future Leaders in Human Rights Panel showcases cutting edge research in human rights conducted by young scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds. It is also a forum for University of Michigan students and scholars interested in human rights issues to come together for interdisciplinary intellectual engagement and to promote innovative and impactful research in human rights. Please RSVP for the panel here: http://myumi.ch/Lqkge

Panelists:

Charles Crabtree
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
"How Public Opinion Shapes Discriminatory Policing"

Why do the police discriminate against racial minorities? Unlike existing studies, which focus on explicit or implicit biases among the police, I argue that racial discrimination depends in a conditional way on the extent of egalitarian views among the police and the public. To test the implications of my theory, I conduct an innovative survey experiment with American law enforcement administrators and elected officials who oversee the police. As predicted, elected politicians exhibit less racial discrimination in law enforcement oversight when informed that the public supports racial equality in policing. Contrary to my theory, though, police do not react to perceived public demand for egalitarianism. Overall, my results suggest that public attitudes toward racial equality influence police discrimination only indirectly, through the institutions that monitor and check their power. My paper contributes to the growing inter-disciplinary literature on the politics of policing by illuminating how public opinion shapes law enforcement outcomes.

Charles Crabtree is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His substantive research focuses on various aspects of repression and discrimination in comparative, American, and international politics. Methodologically, he is interested in research design, experiments, and using computational tools to better understand the social world. He has published work on these topics in the British Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Electoral Studies, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, the Journal of Peace Research, Political Research Quarterly, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, PS: Political Science & Politics, Research & Politics, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, and in several journals in other fields.

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Volha (Olga) Chykina
Postdoctoral Fellow, Donia Human Rights Center
“Public Opinion Towards Immigrants and the Educational Experiences of Immigrant Students: Evidence from Europe and the United States”

In my work, I examine whether heightened levels of anti-immigrant sentiment negatively affect the academic outcomes of immigrant youth. More specifically, I conduct a cross-national examination of the achievement and educational expectations to attain a college degree of first and second-generation immigrant youth in Europe as well as a sub-national examination in the United States. As part of it, I analyze data from traditional and new immigrant destination countries in Europe. In line with my theory, I find that an increase in anti-immigrant sentiment is associated with a decrease in student math achievement and student expectations to attain a college degree. I also analyze data from standardized state assessments in California. I find that an increase in anti-immigrant sentiment is associated with a reduction in student scores on these tests. To conduct these analyses, I create a novel measure of sub-national anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States. Prior studies have largely ignored that students might be influenced by discrimination that occurs outside the schoolhouse. My work addresses this gap in the literature by showing that anti-immigrant sentiment might hamper immigrant educational outcomes. These findings are especially important in light of heightened anti-immigrant sentiment in both Europe and the United States.

Volha Chykina is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was a Ph.D. student in the Educational Theory and Policy program and the Comparative and International Education program at the Pennsylvania State University. Broadly defined, her research attempts to answer the question of what drives educational inequality in the United States and cross-nationally. A significant portion of this research examines how the educational policies and characteristics of immigrant and minority students’ communities affect their educational outcomes. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in Sociological Science, the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Socius, The Social Science Journal, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Globalisation, Societies and Education, and European Education. She also has a number of working projects that can be found on her website, http://volhachykina.org/.

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Tamy Guberek
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Information
“Data Dilemmas: The Impact of Communicating Uncertain Numbers in Human Rights Decision-making”

Data about crime, violence and human rights abuses is shrouded with uncertainty. Missing data is high, rarely randomly distributed, and ground truth is almost never attainable. How does communicating the limitations of these data impact decision-making? While human rights scholars recommend that advocates transparently communicate data limitations to audiences, existing studies from cognitive science and science communication disagree about whether doing so is effective, counterproductive, or something in between. In this talk, I will present early results from experimental research where I find strong evidence that the content of conveying uncertainty in data matters. As predicted, simple caveats have no impact on decisions, while more informative expressions of uncertainty do. These findings suggest that those who include numeric information about such difficult to observe phenomena should carefully review and consider the impact of their communication strategies.

Tamy Guberek is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research focuses on various challenges as data, archives and technology intersect with advancing human rights and protecting vulnerable communities. She has published in Archival Science, Statistics Politics and Policy, and the ACM Human Factors in Computing (CHI) peer-reviewed proceedings, as well as co-authored various reports with and for human rights practitioners. Prior to graduate school, Guberek led work in Latin America for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to umichhumanrights@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 16:08:24 -0400 2018-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion dhrc_image
Wai Wai Nu, International Award-Winning Human Rights Activist (October 10, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54928 54928-13654169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

CEW+ is excited to host international and award-winning activist, Wai Wai Nu at CEW+ Advocacy: Catalysts for Change, an inspirational evening featuring the 2018 Christobel Kotelawela Weerasinghe Lecture as part of the University of Michigan’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit week.

Ms. Nu’s lecture will be the culmination of an evening focused on highlighting the applied research of U-M faculty and students engaged in diverse scholarship. Prior to her taking the stage, the Center will award the Carol Hollenshead Award and the inaugural CEW+InspireAward. This new initiative, CEW+Inspire, is a multifaceted program that aims to expand the vision of what is possible and teach lifelong skills to underserved students, empowering each to make bold and confident choices about their futures.

The Student Fellowship Poster Session will begin at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater lobby and the event will begin at 6:00 pm in the main theater.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested.

RSVP HERE: https://cewadvocacycatalystsforchange.eventbrite.com

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Other Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:41:37 -0400 2018-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-10T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Other Wai Wai Nu
Op-Ed Writing Workshop (October 10, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56141 56141-13839495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Dr. Brancho will host an informative workshop where participants will gain the basic skills to effectively write a short, but persuasive article meant for submission to news outlets as an opinion piece. If there is enough interest, a Peer-Editing follow-up will have peers review and further edit the opinion piece to improve chances publishing/persuasiveness.RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PRBTwjYFeK01_aVHvtopJrywjKMOXLMoq7RyYvABxFE/edit

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:12:07 -0400 2018-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 North Quad Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar Dr. Jimmy Brancho
The Young Karl Marx (October 10, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55615 55615-13765952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The Young Karl Marx is the latest creation of Raoul Peck, director of the acclaimed feature film Lumumba (2000), on the first prime minister of Congo after independence, and the prize-winning documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016), on the American writer
Raoul Peck James Baldwin.

In this new film, the filmmaker has taken on the story of two young activist-friends, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, co-authors of The Communist Manifesto (1848). This is anything but a conventional biopic—rather, it is a historical tale about thought on the move that serves as a model for the political struggles of today.

Screening followed by discussion with Geoff Eley (History), Brian Porter-Szücs (History), and Helmut Puff (History, Germanic Languages and Literatures; panel chair).

The Young Karl Marx (2017). 118 minutes. English, French, German (with subtitles).

This event is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. Additional support from Askwith Media Library.

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Film Screening Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:31:08 -0400 2018-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T22:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Film Screening Young Karl Marx Poster
Diversity of Thought and Respecting the Other Side of the Argument: Insights from the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General (October 11, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55170 55170-13696036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

A star-studded group of former members of the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office will explore the possibility of drawing lessons from that institution for how to approach the hardest discussions on campus. The panel will draw on the framework, ethos, and practice of the Solicitor General’s office to explore insights on how students, faculty, and staff can approach controversial issues on campus—and in particular listening, analyzing, tackling, and responding to arguments on the other side. The panel will seek to offer meaningful reflections on the lifelong process of understanding and responding to deeply controversial arguments, even those that are—to some or many—odious.

Panelists:
- Paul D. Clement, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and Distinguished Lecturer in Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Solicitor General, 2005-08
- Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Solicitor General, 1985-89
- Gregory G. Garre, Partner and Chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group, Latham & Watkins
Solicitor General, 2008-09
- Ian H. Gershengorn, Partner and Chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group, Jenner & Block
Acting Solicitor General, 2016-17
- Nicole A. Saharsky, Partner and Co-Chair of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Gibson Dunn
Assistant to the Solicitor General, 2007-17

Moderated by Julian Davis Mortenson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the Lawyers Club Lounge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:57:58 -0400 2018-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Statistical Learning Workshop (October 11, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56289 56289-13876218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:59:02 -0400 2018-10-11T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | China's Crisis of Success (October 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55887 55887-13802782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China’s success has made its economy and polity so complex that continued success requires transformation. China is struggling with the needed transition. Western views of this process are frequently both strong and wrong.

William Overholt has been Senior Research Fellow at Harvard since 2008. From 2013-2015 he was also President of the Fung Global Institute in Hong Kong. From 2002-2008 he was Distinguished Chair and Director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy. He served as Asia regional Head of Strategy and Economics for Nomura from 1998 to 2001. Before that, he was Managing Director and regional Head of Research at Bank Boston Singapore. During 18 years at Bankers Trust, he managed a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984 and then served as regional strategist in Hong Kong. At Hudson Institute, 1971-1979, he directed planning studies for the U.S. Department of State, National Security Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Council on International Economic Policy.

Dr. Overholt has published eight books, including "China’s Crisis of Success" (2018); "Renminbi Rising: The Emergence of a New Global Monetary System" (2016); "Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics" (2008); "The Rise of China" (1993); "Political Risk" (1982); and (with William Ascher) "Strategic Planning and Forecasting" (1983). He is principal co-author of: "Asia's Nuclear Future" (1976) and "The Future of Brazil" (1978). With Zbigniew Brzezinski, he founded the semi-annual "Global Assessment" in 1976 and edited it until 1988.

Dr. Overholt received his B.A from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Yale.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:47:09 -0400 2018-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Islamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition (October 11, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54178 54178-13537258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Until recently, the concept of islamophobia was located in the field of religious tolerance and pluralism. Professor Modood pioneered an alternative understanding of the phenomenon, defining islamophobia instead as anti-Muslim racism in the context of multicultural citizenship. That alternative definition is now emerging as the dominant interpretation, accepted by UNESCO and gaining traction in social sciences and public discourse alike. Professor Modood will outline the public career of the concept of Islamophobia and discuss his misgivings about the direction that some Islamophobia/Muslim studies are taking.

Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics, and public policy and the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is also the co-founder of the international journal Ethnicities. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports, as well as over 200 articles and chapters. He was a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute for part of 2013-15, and a “Thinker in Residence” at the Royal Academy of Flanders, Brussels in 2017. His latest books include "Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea" (2nd ed., 2013); "Multiculturalism Rethought" (2015); "Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Debating the Dividing Lines" (2016); and "The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Problems, Asian Challenges" (2017).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cesmichigan@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:53:31 -0400 2018-10-11T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Tariq Modood
Marijuana Legalization: A WeListen Staff Discussion (October 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55483 55483-13747849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This session of WeListen is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and lunch will be provided!

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/6QKOZ

Join us at this WeListen Staff Session to learn about the debate surrounding marijuana legalization and to participate in small group discussions about this complex topic. Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.


By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the UM Office of DEI and the LSA DEI Implementation Leads. The planning committee includes staff members from the Ginsberg Center, the LSA Dean's Office, LSA History, LSA Psychology, the Office of Communtiy-Engaged Academic Learning, and the Michigan Community Scholars Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:28:44 -0500 2018-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Marijuana Legalization Flyer
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 12, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (October 13, 2018 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47914 47914-11118444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 13, 2018 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, 29 Dec 2017 12:52:48 -0500 2018-10-13T12:45:00-04:00 2018-10-13T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
Annual Copernicus Lecture. Contemporary Poland Fighting for Democracy (October 15, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54803 54803-13645215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In the 2018 Copernicus Lecture, Barbara Nowacka will discuss the ongoing challenges to democracy in Poland and Polish civil society’s resistance to them.

Barbara Nowacka is a feminist, politician, and progressive activist. She is chancellor of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw, holds an MBA, and is an IT specialist by education. Nowacka is a member of the Women’s Congress National Council and chair of the progressive association “Initiative Poland.” She is also co-founder and deputy chair of the Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation, an organization which aims to promote equality, social justice, and social inclusion. Nowacka headed the election committee for the “United Left” coalition during the 2015 Polish parliamentary election, and from 2015-17 she was a co-chair of the “Twój Ruch” political party. In 2016 and 2017 she organized and chaired the “Save Women” initiative, a civil bill which aimed to liberalize abortion laws in Poland. In October 2016, in response to an attempt by the political right to implement a total ban on abortion, Nowacka became a leading figure in the “Czarny Protest” action, a massive nationwide demonstration which ultimately succeeded in forcing the political right to back down. For her role in “Czarny Protest,” Nowacka was ranked one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2016 by Foreign Policy magazine.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:44:38 -0400 2018-10-15T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Barbara Nowacka
20th Century Origins of the Middle East Conflict (October 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53238 53238-13313001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1918) and the Iranian Revolution (1979) changed the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. In this study group for those 50 and above we will examine how these events have destabilized the region and led to the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS).

The class draws from four texts, which are helpful--though not required--reading: War that Ended Peace (M. McMillan); Balfour Declaration (J. Schneer); Lawrence in Arabia (S. Anderson); and Myth of the Great Satan (A. Milani).

Instructor Gourdji who has taught on the Ottoman Empire and Iranian history will lead each two hour session which will meet on Tuesdays from October 16 through December 4 (except on November 20).

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Class / Instruction Sun, 29 Jul 2018 09:10:46 -0400 2018-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
GAPS (October 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54018 54018-13513098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:29:16 -0400 2018-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Following the Money in Michigan Politics (October 17, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53013 53013-13200556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Michigan elections are becoming increasingly expensive, and the upcoming 2018 election in Michigan could be one of the priciest in state history. Learn how the role of money in Michigan politics has changed over the last decade. This will be a fascinating presentation by Craig Mauger, Executive Director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network.

This After 5 presentation does not require Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership and is open to the public.

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Presentation Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:13:36 -0400 2018-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T20:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Presentation After 5
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (October 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (October 18, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
AMAS Lecture: "SyrianamericanA: A Nation-State of Mind" (October 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54298 54298-13565716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

From the jasmine tree-lined courtyards of Nizar Qabbani's Damascene homes to the flooded riverbanks of Langston Hughes' Harlem Renaissance poems, this unique performance-lecture is equal parts presentation / conversation. With a decade-long artistic journey that has both paralleled the rise of social media & borne witness to major sociopolitical shifts in Syria, Omar Offendum discusses how he's been able to develop a special blend of Hip-Hop & Arabic poetry to bridge cultural divides.

Omar Offendum is a Syrian-American rapper / poet living in Los Angeles. Known for his unique blend of Hip-Hop & Arabic poetry, he’s been featured on prominent world news outlets, lectured at a number of prestigious academic institutions, collaborated with major museums & cultural organizations, and helped raise millions of dollars for various humanitarian relief groups. A graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, he’s been able to carve a distinct path for himself as a thoughtful entertainer / activist able to speak to a multitude of relevant issues & diverse global audiences over the course of his decade-long career. Offendum was recently named a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow for 2018-2019.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:57:25 -0400 2018-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Picture
AIG (American Institutions Group) (October 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55578 55578-13759164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:43:43 -0400 2018-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
WCED Lecture. Populism and the Erosion of Democracy (October 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54102 54102-13528400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Populist parties and politicians are surging in both developed and new democracies, prompting much analytical and popular concern. Their rise is largely due to the failure of mainstream political parties to articulate and respond to popular concerns about immigration, changing labor markets, and perceived cultural threats. This talk explains how populists benefited from the shortcomings of mainstream parties, how they gained power in several countries, and the consequences of their governance for the formal and informal institutions of liberal democracy.

Anna Grzymala-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Her research interests include political parties, state development and transformation, informal political institutions, religion and politics, and post-communist politics. She is the author of Redeeming the Communist Past, Rebuilding Leviathan, and Nations Under God.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:35:30 -0400 2018-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Anna Grzymala-Busse
The African Politics Reading Group (October 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 55104-13687192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

We are a small, informal group of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles, working papers, published books, and book manuscripts.

If you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:14:30 -0400 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Exposure to Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Social Media (October 19, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54841 54841-13645308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating "echo chambers" that insulate people from opposing views about current events. We surveyed a large sample of Democrats and Republicans who visit Twitter at least three times each week about a range of social policy issues. One week later, we randomly assigned respondents to a treatment condition in which they were offered financial incentives to follow a Twitter bot for one month that exposed them to messages produced by elected officials, organizations, and other opinion leaders with opposing political ideologies. Respondents were re-surveyed at the end of the month to measure the effect of this treatment, and at regular intervals throughout the study period to monitor treatment compliance. We find that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative post-treatment, and Democrats who followed a conservative Twitter bot became slightly more liberal post-treatment. These findings have important implications for the interdisciplinary literature on political polarization as well as the emerging field of computational social science.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:06:58 -0400 2018-10-19T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 19, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-19T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The class struggle, revolution, & socialism in the 21st century (October 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56780 56780-13999361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

There is great interest in socialism in the US, but little understanding of what the struggle for socialism entails. The capitalist media is trying to channel pro-socialist sentiment toward the Democratic Party and portray it as a mildly reformist program that involves no fundamental change in the allocation of wealth, let alone the overthrow of existing property relations. It is a “socialism” that can even attract the support of thoughtful and socially conscious investment bankers.

But socialism can only be realized by the conscious political mobilization of the American and international working class in the greatest revolutionary struggle in history. The working class must prepare itself for this struggle by learning the lessons of the 20th century, which was the scene of the greatest revolutionary upheavals of history. It must learn the history of the Fourth International, the revolutionary socialist opposition to Stalinist counter-revolution.

Either the working class carries out the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism or it will be subjected to fascistic dictatorships and catastrophic wars. The political alternative that stands before humanity is not mild reform or the status quo, but revolutionary socialism or capitalist barbarism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:30:31 -0400 2018-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion Leon Trotsky
Comparative Politics Workshop (October 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Dialogues on Diversity in Science (October 23, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56172 56172-13841826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Join the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and The Endowment for Basic Sciences at an innovative diversity dialogue event featuring EMMY award-winning actor and diversity trainer Ron Jones.

Ron Jones is the executive director of Dialogues on Diversity (DOD), a theatre company that uses theatrical models to make messages of difference, inclusion, and social justice accessible, engaging, and entertaining. At this event, Ron Jones and his cast will create a performance specifically catered to address obstacles faced in our scientific communities and workspaces.

RSVP Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QYRPPVJtxrVMICEWsE91a4yDMg2denVc1hQFxm3EGB4/edit?ts=5ba3e8ad

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Performance Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:11:17 -0400 2018-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Michigan Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Performance Marketing Ad for event
Bioethics Discussion: Zombies (October 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49424 49424-11453766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:55:12 -0400 2018-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Zombies
SUMIT 2018: Security at University of Michigan IT (October 25, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55622 55622-13765961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register now for SUMIT_2018, the University of Michigan’s annual symposium to raise awareness and educate the community on cybersecurity. This free, one-day conference is an exciting opportunity to hear recognized experts discuss the latest issues, trends, and threats in cybersecurity and privacy. This year’s theme focuses on U-M’s role as a leader and best in security and privacy research. The presenters are all faculty, students, or alumni of U-M.

For a complete list of speakers and to register visit the SUMIT_2018 website: http://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/sumit/2018

Attendance is free, but registration is required.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:27:03 -0400 2018-10-25T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium SUMIT 2018: U-M Security and Privacy - Innovative Leaders
Statistical Learning Workshop (October 25, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56842 56842-14012660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Roll call scaling techniques are empirical standards for studies of voting behavior within legislative bodies. Though ideal point estimation techniques are frequently used, the theoretical implications of assumptions made in order to empirically estimate ideal points provide cause for concern. Current scaling techniques ignore the role of group-level dependencies within the data. Assumptions about independence of observations in the scaling model ignore the possibility that members of the voting body have shared incentives to vote as a group. In turn, this leads to potential biases in the estimated values of the ideal points and underestimation of the number of dimensions needed to model the ideal point space. In this paper, I propose a new ideal point model that explicitly allows for group contributions in the underlying spatial model of voting. I derive a corresponding empirical model that utilizes flexible Bayesian nonparametric priors to estimate group ideological effects in ideal points and the corresponding dimensionality of the ideal points. I apply this model to the 114th U.S. House and show how grouped ideological effects can be uncovered using only a set of roll call votes. This model provides insights into open questions related to group dynamics in legislative voting and has important implications for literature that utilizes ideal point estimates.

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Meeting Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:58:05 -0400 2018-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Networks of Interdependence, International Organizations and the Global Political System (October 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53195 53195-13280700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

The Harold Jacobson Lecture was established in 2002 to honor Harold Jacobson, former director of the Center for Political Studies. "Jake" was best known for his work in international law and cooperation. The Harold Jacobson Lecture is an annual event to celebrate Jake’s contribution to the Center for Political Studies and to the study of international organization, international law, foreign policy, and the environment. Harold Jacobson lecturers have included Edith Brown Weiss, Kathryn Sikkink, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Charlotte Ku, and David Kay.

The lecture occurs every other year in the fall. The Harold Jacobson Lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Studies and the Department of Political Science.

Paul Diehl is the Associate Provost and Director, Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:37:00 -0400 2018-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Paul Diehl
Table Talks on the Diag (October 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56407 56407-13896806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Talk about the issues that matter most with your fellow students. Discuss topics ranging from healthcare to immigration to the environment in a 1:1 setting, and grab a snack before you go!

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Other Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:44:26 -0400 2018-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Ginsberg Center Other Table Talks on the Diag
Political Theory Workshop (October 26, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54931 54931-13654173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:09:28 -0400 2018-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 26, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-10-26T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Changing the Tides in the Gulf: How the Changing Economic and Politics of the GCC are Affecting U.S. Security Interests (October 29, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56033 56033-13821112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: International Policy Center

This is not a public event

Ford Security Seminar will host William G. Rich to discuss about how some economic trends are shaping Gulf politics and security.

William G. Rich is an International Affairs Fellow at CFR in New York. He previously worked as a diplomat for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and in a variety of other U.S. government counterterrorism and intelligence roles, both domestically and overseas.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:42:11 -0400 2018-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 2018-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) International Policy Center Workshop / Seminar
Tying the Big Man’s Hands: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes. (October 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53536 53536-13399424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Professor Meng's research centers broadly on political institutions in dictatorships and authoritarian durability, using game theory and statistical methods. In particular, she examines party building in autocratic regimes with the goal of understanding why we see variation in the institutional capacity of ruling organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:44:48 -0400 2018-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
There's Always Someone Who Doesn't Want You To Vote (October 30, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56912 56912-14023821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In democracies, ours included, voting is free, equal and secret – except when it’s not. A panel of distinguished scholars will discuss the subtle and not so subtle ways in which voting rights continue to be undermined in the context of a long history of electoral interferences, voter suppression, discouragement, and intimidation. They will discuss the deliberate targeting of particular groups and individuals as well as structural and infrastructural infringements on voting rights.

Panel Discussion Featuring:
Vincent L. Hutchings (Political Science, University of Michigan)
Rebecca Scott (History, School of Law; University of Michigan)
Michael J. Steinberg (Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan)
Heather Ann Thompson (Afroamerican and African Studies, History, Residential College; University of Michigan)
Matthew Countryman (moderator; Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, History; University of Michigan)

Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:15:30 -0400 2018-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion poster_crop
CREES Noon Lecture. Theater, Sociability, and Politics in Putin’s Russia (October 31, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54188 54188-13539443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The theater world in Russia is lively as ever, with a range of styles and interests represented by innovative and original work. But that world is also under significant threat as the Russian state puts increasing pressure on theaters and especially directors. The substance of the great art of theater is communication, respect, reverence, and an unflagging belief in humanity. Theater thrives on humanity the way flowers feed on soil, sun, and water. It in turn produces the conditions for humanity to grow. Theater produces and nurtures community and brings people together. In her lecture, Irina Khutsieva will expound on the relationship between theater, state and society in today's Russia.

Irina Khutsieva is a stage director and acting instructor in Moscow, Russia. Trained at “GITIS,” the Russian Academy of Theatrical Art, she has more than 30 years of experience in Russian theater. She now directs her own studio theater, the Chamber Theater, Moscow, founded in 2004. Khutsieva has staged more than 50 plays in Russia, Germany, and the U.S. She has worked at one of Russia’s most distinguished theater academies – the Shchepkin Higher Theatre Institute, associated with the State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia. She also has extensive experience teaching college drama majors. A specialist and practitioner of the Stanislavski Method, she incorporates the principles and traditions of Russian psychological theater and has also developed her own staging and teaching methods. In recent years, she has directed a major gala performance shown on Russian national TV and has run workshops for professional actors in regional towns throughout Russia.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to crees@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:05:55 -0400 2018-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Irina Khutsieva
Election 2018: A Round Table Discussion (November 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56411 56411-13896808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Ashley Jardina, Stuart Soroka, and Brendan Nyhan will engage in a roundtable discussion about the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.

This event will be live-streamed https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/isr/pre-election.html

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Presentation Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:44:28 -0400 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Presentation Election 2018: A Round Table Discussion
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-02T10:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
AIG (American Institutions Group) (November 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55579 55579-13759165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:47:00 -0400 2018-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Patchwork Leviathan: How Pockets of Bureaucratic Governance Flourish within Institutionally Diverse Developing States (November 2, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56877 56877-14014910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Within seemingly weak states, exceptionally effective subunits lie hidden. These high-performing niches exhibit organizational characteristics distinct from poor-performing peer organizations, but also distinct from high-functioning organizations in Western countries. This article develops the concept of interstitial bureaucracy to explain how and why unusually high-performing state organizations in developing countries invert canonical features of Weberian bureaucracy. Interstices are distinct-yet-embedded subsystems characterized by practices inconsistent with those of the dominant institution. This interstitial position poses particular challenges and requires unique solutions. Interstices cluster together scarce proto-bureaucratic resources to cultivate durable distinction from the status quo, while managing disruptions arising from interdependencies with the wider neopatrimonial field. I propose a framework for how bureaucratic interstices respond to those challenges, generalizing from organizational comparisons within the Ghanaian state and abbreviated historical comparison cases from the nineteenth-century United States, early-twentieth-century China, mid-twentieth-century Kenya, and early-twenty-first-century Nigeria.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:47:02 -0400 2018-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Political Theory Workshop (November 2, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53934 53934-13502207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:02:09 -0400 2018-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 2, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-02T15:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The socialist perspective on the 2018 midterm elections (November 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57368 57368-14175633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:33:12 -0500 2018-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-04T21:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion Niles
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Cloning (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49425 49425-11453767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:56:43 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cloning
Physicians, Public Speech and Politics (November 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56752 56752-13994905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Please join the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry for the 23rd Annual Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine. The title of this year’s talk is “Physicians, Public Speech and Politics.” It will be presented by Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, M.D., J.D. on Wednesday, November 7 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in Ford Auditorium at University Hospital.

Weintraub Brendel is the director of the master’s degree program at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She bases her clinical work in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where she is the director of Law and Ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior; provides medical oversight for the hospital’s inpatient guardianship team; and practices clinical and forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Brendel’s clinical practice has focused on patients with complex psychosocial problems, including trauma, dementia, mental illness, homelessness, substance abuse, decisional incapacity, lack of community support, and poverty. This broad work has informed her educational efforts and research interests focusing on issues at the interface of psychiatry, medicine, law, ethics, and human rights. She is an avid teacher and lecturer in both medical and legal settings.

Dr. Brendel graduated from both University of Chicago Law School and Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed her psychiatry residency at MGH and McLean Hospital and a forensic psychiatry fellowship at MGH. From 2006 – 2007, Dr. Brendel was the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University.

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. Brendel to our campus in November for this esteemed lectureship,” said Debra Pinals, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Program in Psychiatry, Law and Ethics at U-M. “Dr. Brendel brings a depth of knowledge to the field of psychiatry and ethics, and will be speaking on a timely topic related to physicians, politics and public speech. She is well suited to speak to the delicate intersection of these areas of focus from the perspective of a mental health and legal professional.”

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:21:53 -0400 2018-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion Waggoner lecture
Emerging Scholars (November 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53073 53073-13218000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:03:28 -0400 2018-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Emerging Scholars (November 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53074 53074-13218001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:05:30 -0400 2018-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (November 10, 2018 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47914 47914-11118445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 10, 2018 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, 29 Dec 2017 12:52:48 -0500 2018-11-10T12:45:00-05:00 2018-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
The U.S. at "endless war": Public policy and those who serve (November 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57238 57238-14139835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public.

Dinner from Chela's Restaurant & Taqueria will be served. Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/wnJqY5GVZTxAFmV92

Join the conversation: #policytalks

Ford School faculty, students, and staff (along with the general public) are warmly invited to join this community event as we celebrate Veterans Day and explore issues at the intersection of public policy and military service.

The United States has been at war for 16 years with no clear end in sight. Further, over the past decade the U.S. has made an effort to shrink the size of its military--while at the same time increasing its responsibilities and engagement around the world. Meanwhile, in the absence of mandatory service we see a growing demographic divide between policymakers who chart the course for war or peace and the people and families who bear the brunt of fighting and deployment.

With those contexts in mind, panelists and audience members will discuss issues such as: what are the cascading effects of policy decisions on active duty folks, national guard members, and their families? When policies change at the top level, what are the impacts on those who are serving?

And what should future policy leaders understand about veterans' issues--transition to civilian life, workforce/employment issues, mental health and substance abuse, demographic trends in the composition of the veteran population, the future and long-term sustainability of Veterans Affairs, etc?


Panelists:

U.S. Army Captain Heath Bergmann (MPP '19), Masters of Public Policy student at the Ford School.

Jan Malaikal, Chief administrator for LSA Chemistry, retired U.S. Army officer. MA, Naval War College

Troy Nienberg (BA '05, JD '08), legislative director for U.S. Rep Dan Kildee (Flint), current Air National Guard officer and HH-60 Combat Rescue Pilot.


Moderator:
Professor Luke Shaefer, Associate Professor and Director, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:07:09 -0400 2018-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion
LACS Lecture Series. Beyond Left and Right: Grassroots Social Movements and Nicaragua's Civic Insurrection (November 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56063 56063-13823429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk offers some starting points for understanding Nicaragua’s civic insurrection via an account of social movements that oppose the state’s proposal for an Interoceanic Grand Canal. The opposition has been represented in the now defunct National Dialogue with the state by the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, an amalgam of diverse interests from the private sector, student movement, grassroots social movements, and civil society. Spanning the political spectrum, these groups make for strange bedfellows, giving the Alliance a certain ideological incoherence beyond the desire to see Ortega and Murillo step down, a restoration of democratic institutions, and an end to the violence. An examination of grassroots social movements, however, provides an often-overlooked entry point into the roots of the civic insurrection. These movements illustrate why traditional ideological and political divisions between the Latin American Left and Right have limited utility for parsing relationships among diverse opposition actors and the self-proclaimed socialist state. An analysis of the factors that drive grassroots resistance to Ortega and Murillo, such as economic policy, corruption, growing authoritarianism, state violence, racism, and land dispossession, reveal a Sandinista state that no longer embraces Leftist politics and a country that has outgrown its old political categories.

Jennifer Goett is Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics at James Madison College, Michigan State University. She is a cultural anthropologist, specializing in political and feminist anthropology. Her research interests include race, gender and feminist theory, social movements, human rights, violence and the state, and critical security studies in Latin America. She has published work on indigenous and Afrodescendant social movements for multicultural rights in Central America, particularly Nicaragua, and on state sexual violence, racialized policing, and infrastructure megaprojects. Goett is the author of Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism (Stanford University Press 2016). The book examines the gendered strategies that Afrodescendant Creole women and men use to assert autonomy over their bodies, labor, and spaces in the context of drug war militarization and state violence in postwar Nicaragua. Her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) News blog, and other journals and edited volumes. For two decades, she has engaged in activist work with indigenous and Afrodescendant communities in Nicaragua and Honduras, focusing on collaborative research to secure collective rights to land and natural resources.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:31:54 -0400 2018-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion goett_image
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Election 2018: What Happened? (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56438 56438-13903626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Ken Goldstein, Walter Mebane, and Vince Hutchings will engage in a roundtable discussion about the results of the 2018 midterm elections.

This event will be live-streamed https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/isr/post-election.html

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:49:23 -0400 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Presentation Election 2018: What Happened?
CEW+Inspire Workshop Series – Gender Revolution in the Trump Era: Transformations in Consciousness and Gender Relations (November 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56377 56377-13894477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Explore the rapid transformation in gender consciousness and gender relations during this workshop with Dr. Pamela Aronson. Attendees will discuss changes stemming from three primary sources: the rise of women running for political office in 2018, the emergence of new social movement activism, and the creation of the “#MeToo” movement, which has sparked a new public discourse on sexual assault and harassment. While exploring the ways that this new consciousness has also faced backlash and opposition, this workshop will shed light on the emerging gender revolution by examining how rapid transformations are influencing everyday relationships between men and women. A hands-on wellness activity will be presented by the CEW+ Inspire team to complement this workshop. The discussion will be followed by a networking reception.

Free and open to the public. Please register by November 8th.

About the Presenter: Pamela Aronson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research examines how inequalities impact identities and the life course. Past research has considered young women’s transition to adulthood, perception of role models, work and family orientations, and attitudes toward feminism. She also studies class and gender differences in the experience of postsecondary education and career development. Gender and feminist consciousness, as well as the impact of internalized misogyny in electoral politics, are the focus of her new research project.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:10:17 -0400 2018-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar CEW+ Logo
African Politics Reading Group (November 15, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56287 56287-13876217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

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Meeting Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:51:18 -0400 2018-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 2018-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (November 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
The Future of North American Trade, NORTH AMERICAN COLLOQUIUM 2018 (November 15, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57103 57103-14092930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Policy Center

Organized by Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, National Autonomous University of Mexico and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The objective of the North American Colloquium is to provide a forum that strengtens a wider North American Conversation and more fruitful trilateral cooperation between Canada, Mexico and the US. Colloquium will allow for distinct internal/regional and indigenous perspectives within each country to be showcased. The Colloquium will engage policy-makers with leading scholars and practitioners in all three jurisdictions, broadening the range of viewpoints accessible to leading decision-makers in North America. This conference brings together experts and decision-makers across a wide range of fields to look back, and ahead, at NAFTA. The conference is organized around four themes:

(1) Politics of NAFTA: S. Simpson, C. Sands, C. Ruiz, E. Guterrez
(2) NAFTA & the auto industry: E.Davalos Lopez, D. Paterson, F. Volpe
(3) Economics of NAFTA: convergence & competitiveness: J. Steeves, A. Deardorff, F. Parro, C. Freund
(4) Future of NAFTA: P. Morrow, E. Blanchard, D. Fagan

Bob Rae was elected eleven times to the House of Commons and the Ontario legislature between 1978 and 2013. He was Ontario’s 21st Premier from 1990 to 1995, and served as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. He was named “Parliamentarian of the Year” by his colleagues in the House of Commons in 2011 and received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians in 2018.

He is working now as a lawyer, negotiator, mediator, and arbitrator, with a particular focus on first nations, aboriginal, and governance issues.He is a Fellow of the Forum of Federations, and teaches at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Law, Massey College, and Victoria College, and is a widely respected writer and commentator.

An author of five books (most recently, the best selling What’s Happened to Politics) and many studies and reports, Bob Rae is a Privy Councillor, a Companion of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, and has numerous awards and honorary degrees from institutions in Canada and around the world.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:53:41 -0400 2018-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Policy Center Conference / Symposium
On Capitalism: How to Write Nothing and Sell 100,000 Copies (November 15, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57400 57400-14184710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Young Americans for Freedom

A Talk on Capitalism: How to Write Nothing and Sell 100,000 Copies

Host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at The Daily Wire, Knowles wrote the #1 national bestselling treatise "Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide." Come hear him speak on the virtues of capitalism in our country!

Date: November 15th
Location: Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League
Time: 8pm (Doors open at 7:30pm)
Cost: FREE (Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis until room is full)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Nov 2018 22:07:22 -0500 2018-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Young Americans for Freedom Lecture / Discussion Michael Knowles
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
AIG (American Institutions Group) (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55579 55579-13759166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:47:00 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52959 52959-13159590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

visiting talk by Severine Autesserre (Barnard)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:26:08 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop with Severine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University) (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54151 54151-13530694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Séverine Autesserre is a Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College, Columbia University. She works on civil wars, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and humanitarian aid.

Professor Autesserre's latest research project examines successful international contributions to local and bottom-up peacebuilding. Her 2014 article in International Peacekeeping presents some of the early ideas for this research. Her 2017 article in the International Studies Review, her Op-Eds in the Washington Post (here and here), and her Foreign Affairs pieces (here and here) present her first findings. In academic years 2016-2018, she will work full time on this project as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, with additional research support from the Folke Bernadotte Academy and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Her previous project focused on the everyday elements that influence peacebuilding interventions on the ground. It included extensive fieldwork in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and briefer comparative research in Burundi, Cyprus, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste. The book based on this research, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention, was released by Cambridge University Press in 2014. It won the 2016 Best Book of the Year Award and the 2015 Yale H. Ferguson Award from the International Studies Association as well as honorable mentions for two other book prizes (the 2015 Chadwick Alger Prize from the International Studies Association and the 2014 African Argument Book of the Year). Findings from this project have also appeared in Critique Internationale and African Affairs (the latter piece won the 2012 Best Article award from the African Politics Conference Group).

Her earlier research project focused on local violence and international intervention in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Dr. Autesserre has travelled regularly since 2001. Her fieldwork and analysis culminated in The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. The book won the 2012 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order and the 2011 Chadwick Alger Prize presented by the International Studies Association to the best book on international organizations and multilateralism. Research for this project has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Organization, the Review of African Political Economy, the African Studies Review, the African Security Review, International Peacekeeping, the Revista de Relaciones Internationales, and the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs. It is the topic of a recent TED Talk that has more than 750,000 views.

Professor Autesserre's work has won numerous other prizes and fellowships, including two research awards from the United States Institute of Peace (2004-2005 and 2010-2012), two Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grants (2010 and 2011), a Presidential Research Award from Barnard College (2010), several grants from Columbia University (2010 – 2016), two Mellon Fellowships in Security and Humanitarian Action (2004-2006), the 2006 Best Graduate Student Paper award from the African Studies Association, and a Fulbright Fellowship (1999-2000).

Professor Autesserre teaches undergraduate classes such as "Civil Wars and International Interventions in Africa," "Building Peace," and "Aid, Violence, and Politics in Africa." She also regularly offers a SIPA course ("Civil Wars and Peace Settlements") and a doctoral seminar entitled "Debates on International Peace Interventions."

Before becoming an academic, Dr. Autesserre worked for humanitarian organizations (including Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the World) and development agencies in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua, and India. She holds a post-doctorate from Yale University (2007), a Ph.D. in political science from New York University (2006), and master’s degrees in international relations and political science from Columbia University (2000) and Sciences Po (France, 1999).

Academic Focus:
Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
Democratic Republic of Congo
International relations
Politics of humanitarian and development aid

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:05:33 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (November 16, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53935 53935-13502208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:03:41 -0400 2018-11-16T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 16, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-16T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
What Happened in the November 2018 Elections (November 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53732 53732-13453004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Professor Traugott studies the mass media and their impact on American politics. This includes research on the use of the media by candidates in their campaigns and its impact on voters, as well as the ways that campaigns are covered and the impact of this coverage on candidates. He has a particular interest in the use of surveys and polls and the way news organizations employ them to cover campaigns and elections.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:21:56 -0400 2018-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Calling Pyongyang: Changes in Journalistic Approaches to North Korea since 2000 (November 20, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54422 54422-13583296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

How does news get made when it comes to North Korea, one of the least accessible regimes in the world? My talk traces changes in the production of news over the past two decades. First, there are more eyes on the ground, with higher numbers of journalists, diplomats, and tourists in the country. Second, the explosive growth in the number of North Korean defectors has had a mixed impact on journalism. While the defectors’ testimonies added context, they also led to an increase in sensationalistic coverage with unverified reports of human rights abuses. Third, the 2009 introduction of cellular phones to the North Korean population has made it much easier for reporters to communicate directly with North Koreans. Taken together, the changes not only show a shift in journalistic norms, but also hint at a fundamental shift of the Pyongyang regime towards more openness.

Soomin Seo is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and a member of the Media and Communication Doctoral Program at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. She received her PhD in communications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and studied public policy at Harvard University. Her work has appeared in publications such as Journalism Studies and Columbia Journalism Review. She is also a former journalist who worked for international news outlets.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:29:51 -0500 2018-11-20T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Abstract: South Korea had a Watergate moment in 2016, when a corruption scandal led to an impeachment of the president. Two media outlets in particular, the progressive Hankyoreh and JTBC, a TV station with roots in Samsung, first broke and then sensationalized the scandal that motivated the candlelight protests. Building on research about national media systems and sociology of news work, this article critically examines the news media and journalistic culture to derive three main findings. First, the democracy movement of the 1980s provided institutional and cultural foundations. Second, commercial desires facilitated higher-quality journalism, rather than undermining it. The economic liberalization and the precarity of the economy as a whole influenced both the media industry at large and the specific business strategies that motivated JTBC. Third, there is an Americanization of journalistic norms and culture. While the two outlets were outnumbered by better-funded pro-government outlets, the duo ultimate
Bioethics Discussion: Animal Experimentation (November 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49427 49427-11453768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion testing the limitations of our testing limitations.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:58:41 -0400 2018-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Animal experimentation
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 23, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-23T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Informing America’s Citizenry (November 26, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57868 57868-14365959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Barbara L. McQuade, is a law professor. From 2010 to 2017,
Ms. McQuade served as the U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the first woman to serve in her position. She also served as vice chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and co-chaired its Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. As U.S. attorney, she oversaw cases involving public corruption, terrorism,
corporate fraud, theft of trade secrets, civil rights, and health care fraud, among others. Before becoming U.S. attorney, Professor McQuade served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit for
12 years, serving as deputy chief of the National Security Unit, where she handled cases involving terrorism financing, export violations, threats, and foreign agents. She is a frequent
guest commentator on MSNBC and other news media.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:17:53 -0500 2018-11-26T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-26T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Comparative Politics Workshop (November 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (November 27, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54100 54100-13528398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. Visit http://www.ii.umich.edu/wced for details about upcoming events.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 08:40:59 -0500 2018-11-27T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Dissonance Event Series: Catching Fake News (November 27, 2018 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57303 57303-14148802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 6:15pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Two years after the 2016 election, are we winning the war against digital misinformation and manipulation? This panel will describe the technical and journalistic challenges of identifying fake news and manipulated information online and assess the effectiveness of the response by platforms like Facebook in the U.S., Europe, and around the world.

Brendan Nyhan, Professor, Ford School will act as moderator, and panelists will include Mark Ackerman, Professor, School of Information; Ceren Budak, Asst. Prof., School of Information; Fredrik Laurin, Knight-Wallace Fellow, Special Projects Editor for Current Affairs, SVT (Swedish Television); and Rada Mihalcea, Professor, EECS.

More info at https://www.safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:37:13 -0400 2018-11-27T18:15:00-05:00 2018-11-27T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Dissonance: Catching Fake News, Nov. 27, 2018
ASP Lecture: The Armenian Cause, Statehood, and Democracy: Reflections on Levon Ter-Petrossian’s Writings (November 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53297 53297-13338828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Armenia has experienced a series of transformative events since the late 1980s – the Karabagh movement, independence, war, and political as well as economic transitions. These events have attracted considerable scholarly and journalistic attention. But Armenia has undergone significant ideological shifts as a nation-state which have attracted less attention. Shortly after the birth of the Karabagh Movement, some of the prized assumptions of Armenian nationalism and politics came under assault. The ideology of the Armenian Cause in particular, despite slogans about class politics and socialist internationalism, has been embraced even by Armenian Communists since the end of WWII. These ideologies have been the subject of hitherto unprecedented intellectual scrutiny. From the very early years of independence a parallel conversation involving Armenia’s political class has debated competing visions of a liberal vs. a “national” state. These debates continue to this day. The recent publication of Levon Ter-Petrossian’s speeches, articles, and interviews now available to an English-speaking audience will be deployed to revisit these debates, looking at them through the eyes of one of its most important actors, the first President of Armenia (1991-98).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us (tumanyan@umich.edu) at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:37:23 -0500 2018-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Arman Grigoryan, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Lehigh University
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 30, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
AIG (American Institutions Group) (November 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55579 55579-13759167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. The reading selections are decided by you all, so during the first meeting, you'll be able to sign up for a week where you get to pick the article.

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Meeting Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:47:00 -0400 2018-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Political Theory Workshop (November 30, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53936 53936-13502209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:03:04 -0400 2018-11-30T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 30, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
American Institutions Group (AIG) (December 3, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57837 57837-14323265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of grad students and faculty who study American institutions, and we meet biweekly to discuss recent work in the field. It works like this: for the first half of our meeting, we generally discuss current events/politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper.

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Meeting Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:37:00 -0500 2018-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Meeting Haven Hall
Title IX Comment Writing Event (December 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57893 57893-14366721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Department of Education proposed new regulations on Title IX and campus sexual violence. You can read them here: https://bit.ly/2A4POhD.

The Department of Education solicits public input on their proposed regulations (it's called a “notice and comment” period). The Department is required to respond to this input before issuing its final regulations. A court can strike down a regulation if the Department cannot explain its reasoning, or if the regulation is inconsistent with Title IX.

Join students and professors as we mobilize and write responses to the Department of Education's new sexual violence regulations, and make our voices heard. Dinner and event support will be provided by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/4ADthWq8MwRNAm0x1

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:58:40 -0500 2018-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar banner with event title and information
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Suicide (December 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49428 49428-11453770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our (chosen?) ends.

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

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

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


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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:27:01 -0400 2018-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Suicide
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (December 7, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-12-07T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
The African Politics Reading Group (December 7, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55104 55104-13687194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

We are a small, informal group of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students (not all Africa specialists) that reads and discusses a range of articles, working papers, published books, and book manuscripts.

If you would like to join us regularly or just from time to time, please email nichino@umich.edu to be added to the email distribution list.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:14:30 -0400 2018-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Winter Wonder Gathering (December 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53075 53075-13218002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Email pswebevents@umich.edu for details.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:10:15 -0400 2018-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T16:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Reception / Open House Haven Hall
Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Meeting (December 8, 2018 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47914 47914-11118446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 8, 2018 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, 29 Dec 2017 12:52:48 -0500 2018-12-08T12:45:00-05:00 2018-12-08T14:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting CCL Logo
GAPS (December 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54019 54019-13513099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Meeting Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:30:36 -0400 2018-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-10T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Why it Matters Today (December 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57441 57441-14193514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

The UM Retirees Association meeting will feature Dr. Thompson, who received the Pulitzer Prize in History as well as numerous other awards for her book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1973 and its Legacy. She is nationally and internationally known for her writing on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system. She has worked in both the policy and advisory arenas and has presented at many universities.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:03:33 -0500 2018-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Presentation
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (December 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
The War on Poverty Project: Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty (December 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58180 58180-14435497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Friday, December 14

9:00-9:20am Martha Bailey: Welcome and introductions
9:20-10:00am Chloe Gibbs: “Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood” (with Andrew Barr)
10:00-10:40am Douglas Miller: “Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start”

10:40am Break

10:50-11:30am Martha Bailey: “Prep School for Poor Kids’: The Long-Run Impact of Head Start on Human Capital and Productivity” (with Shuqiao Sun and Brenden Timpe)

11:30am-1:10pm Lunch Break

1:10-2:00pm Hilary Hoynes: “Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program,” a joint presentation of Economic History and Labor Economics Seminars
2:00-2:40pm Valentina Duque: “The Long-Term Health and Economic Benefits of Community Health Centers” (with Martha Bailey and Andrew Goodman-Bacon)

2:40pm Break

2:50-3:30pm Olga Malkova: “Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X” (with Martha Bailey and Zoe McLaren)
3:30-5:00pm
Short talks (~15 min each):

Jacob Bastian: “The Rise of Working Mothers and the 1975 Earned Income Tax Credit”
Andrew Goodman-Bacon: “A Strong Start: Short- and Long-Run Effects from Medicaid’s Introduction”
Jamein Cunningham: “Legal Services and the Civilian Perspective”
Rob Gillezeau: “The Community Action Program and the 1960s Uprisings”
Nic Duquette: “Beethoven, Baumol and Bloat: The Establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Professionalization of American Orchestras” (with Mirae Kim)
Bryan Stuart: “The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act” (with Martha Bailey and John DiNardo)

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:37:00 -0500 2018-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Event flyer
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (December 14, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-12-14T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (December 14, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-12-14T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-18T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-18T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (December 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-12-21T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-21T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (December 21, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 21, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-12-21T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (December 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2018-12-25T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-25T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (December 28, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 28, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2018-12-28T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-28T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-01T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-01T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-04T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-04T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-08T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
– An Update on U-M Governmental Issues in Lansing and Washington, DC (January 10, 2019 1:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57867 57867-14363818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 1:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Ms.Wilbanks is U-M Vice President for Government Relations and directs the University of Michigan’s Government Relations programs at the local, state and federal levels. She will provide us with an update on the latest issues in Lansing and Washington D.C. With all the changes happening as a result of the mid-term elections this should be a very informative session, especially on topics that affect the University and Higher Education.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:56:14 -0500 2019-01-10T01:30:00-05:00 2019-01-10T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics (January 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58505 58505-14510827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club is a partnership between UMMA and Literati Bookstore in connection with UMMA's exhibition Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s. Surrounded by the large-scale artworks by Sam Gilliam, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books will explore visions and critiques relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period, and include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (Jan 10), Art on My Mind, Visual Politics by bell hooks (March 14), Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel (May 9), Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (July 11), and How We Get Free, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

The Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.  

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
African Politics Reading Group (January 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58409 58409-14494078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Politics Reading Group

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Meeting Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:32:46 -0500 2019-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall African Politics Reading Group Meeting Haven Hall
Get Involved: How to Give Your Feedback on Department of Ed Title IX Regulations (January 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59477 59477-14745553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC and the Ginsberg Center for a drop-in event that will include short informational presentations by Kamaria Porter, PhD Candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, and Erin Byrnes, Lead of Democratic Engagement at the Ginsberg Center, on how to provide feedback on the Department of Education’s proposed regulations on Title IX.

Currently the Department of Education is taking public input on these regulations in what is called a “notice and comment period”. The department must respond to this input before these new regulations are finalized. This event will provide you with information about how to make your opinions heard by the Department of Education and give you the space to draft your own comments.

Light snacks will be provided

When:Friday, January 11th 2:00-5:00PM (Drop in! Short presentations starting at 2:15pm!)
Where: SAPAC Office, 330 E. Liberty Street Suite 3D

Read the proposals here

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Presentation Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:46:42 -0500 2019-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Presentation Pink flier that restates the information found in this article
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-11T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts (January 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59075 59075-14677952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: New text-as-data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to discover, measure, and then utilize text-based variables for testing social science theories of interest from large collections of text. We introduce a conceptual framework for making causal inferences with text-based measures as either a treatment or outcome.  We argue that nearly all text-based causal inferences depend upon a latent representation of the text and provide a set of sufficient assumptions to identify causal effects when text is used as a treatment or outcome. We provide a framework to learn the latent representation---justifying the use of popular unsupervised methods such as topic modeling or principal component analysis---and then estimate causal effects with the same sample used to learn the latent representation. But estimating the latent representation, we show, creates new risks: we may introduce an identification problem or overfit. To address this problem we introduce a split-sample framework.  We apply our framework to study whether increasing the proportion of women on Congressional committees leads to more representation of women’s ideas during the legislative process and to assess how partisans respond to social media messages from President Trump.

Bio: Justin Grimmer is an associate professor of political science at Stanford University. His research examines how representation occurs in American politics using new statistical methods. His first book Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters (Cambridge University Press, 2013) shows how senators define the type of representation they provide constituents and how this affects constituents' evaluations. His second book The Impression of Influence: How Legislator Communication and Government Spending Cultivate a Personal Vote (Under Review, with Sean J. Westwood and Solomon Messing) demonstrates how legislators ensure they receive credit for government actions. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Regulation and Governance, and Poetics. During the 2013-2014 academic year he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:12:20 -0500 2019-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Justin Grimmer, PhD
Family Art Studio: Don't throw it out! Let's make art with it! (January 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58506 58506-14510828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Create a 3D sculpture inspired by the artist Louise Nevelson who was known to make work using everyday objects and materials she found on the street. We will explore the UMMA exhibition, Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, which features a large-scale work by Nevelson, as well as other well known abstract expressionists, followed by a hands-on workshop with local artists Susan Clinthorne and Nora Venturelli. 

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Family Art Studio: Don't throw it out! Let's make art with it! (January 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58507 58507-14510829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Create a 3D sculpture inspired by the artist Louise Nevelson who was known to make work using everyday objects and materials she found on the street. We will explore the UMMA exhibition, Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, which features a large-scale work by Nevelson, as well as other well known abstract expressionists, followed by a hands-on workshop with local artists Susan Clinthorne and Nora Venturelli. 

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-12T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Comparative Politics Workshop (January 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
CANCELLED Conversations on Europe. Multiculturalism in Europe: What Is It? How Did It Arise? Why Is It Important? (January 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59278 59278-14728133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:46:05 -0500 2019-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Opening: Deported: An American Division (January 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59202 59202-14717500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

A display of Rachel Woolf’s documentary photography capturing Lourdes Salazar Bautista and her family’s experience of deportation. Woolf, 2018 winner of the Emerging Lens competition, captures moments in the days before Bautista’s deportation hearing in Detroit and the family’s forced return to Toluca, Mexico, revealing in intimate detail the impact of deportation on real families. Stamps professor Hannah Smotrich designed the exhibition and collaborated with Ford School faculty Ann Lin and Fabiana Silva to situate the photographs in a policy, political, and historical context. Exhibit will be on display through January 31.

For more information about the exhibit, visit http://www.artworksprojects.org/project/deported/

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Exhibition Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:14:04 -0500 2019-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Exhibition Deported
WCED Roundtable. Nigeria’s Elections: Democracy and Disillusionment (January 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58791 58791-14559372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

In 2015, Nigerian voters elected a new party for the first time since democratic transition in 1999. Foreign observers hailed the election as a watershed moment for Nigerian democracy and applauded the performance of the country's electoral commission. Many Nigerians hoped that President Muhammadu Buhari would take muscular action against government corruption, economic recession, and the Boko Haram insurgency. Four years later, the Buhari administration's performance has been mixed. Some progress has been made in the northeast against Boko Haram, but rule of law is worsening in other parts of the country. Corruption remains endemic, and state governments struggle to pay salaries in the wake of federal budget cuts. At the same time, a new generation of reformist governors is trying to chart a new path at the state level, while the country's electoral commission has invested in technology in hopes that it can tamp down on ballot fraud and violence.

This panel will examine the prospects for 2019's elections. Will the ruling All Progressives Congress hold onto power? What issues will shape Nigerian voters' choices? What dynamics at the local level are the most important factors to watch? And, most fundamentally, will these elections reflect the will of the Nigerian electorate, or will money and violence continue to play an outsized role in Nigerians' electoral choices?

Omolade Adunbi is a political anthropologist and an assistant professor of Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan. His areas of research explore issues related to resource distribution, governance, human and environmental rights, power, culture, transnational institutions, multinational corporations and the postcolonial state. His latest book, "Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria" (Indiana University Press, 2015) addresses issues related to oil wealth, multinational corporations, transnational institutions, NGOs and violence in oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Adrienne LeBas is an associate professor of government at American University. She was previously a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and assistant professor of political science and African studies at Michigan State University. Her research interests include social movements, democratization, and political violence. LeBas is the author of the award-winning "From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa" (Oxford University Press, 2011) and articles in the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Democracy, Comparative Politics, and elsewhere. LeBas also worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Zimbabwe, where she lived from 2002-03.

Dan Slater specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. He is the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies, professor of political science, and director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. Previously he was director of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and associate member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His book manuscript examining how divergent historical patterns of contentious politics have shaped variation in state power and authoritarian durability in seven Southeast Asian countries, entitled "Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia," was published in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series in 2010.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:47:56 -0500 2019-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Nigeria's Elections
Bioethics Discussion: Race (January 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49429 49429-11453772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on (in)equality that is more than skin deep.

Readings to consider:
"Racial disparity in emergency department triage"
"Dealing with the realities of race and ethnicity"
"Race/ethnicity and success in academic medicine"
"Race and trust in the healthcare system"
"Why bioethics has a race problem"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/023-race/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:28:05 -0400 2019-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Race
Statistical Learning Workshop (January 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59442 59442-14743389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Meeting Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:21:42 -0500 2019-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Meeting Haven Hall
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 16, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, Greenpeace, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
FUNDING is available for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (January 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2019-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (January 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2019-01-18T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-01-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
MFA Graduate Student Symposium: Site, Non-Site, Website (January 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58510 58510-14510832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 19, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join the next generation of artists at their studio site as they explore theory and practice in the age of the internet. Keynote presentation at 11 a.m.: "The Body as a Cyberfeminist Non-Web Site" by Yvette Granata, followed by demos, interactive workshops, and an opportunity to tour the Graduate studios.     Yvette is a multi-media artist, writer, film designer, and sometimes curator. Her work explores the socio-politics of technology through feminist art practice, cyber feminism, and techno-philosophy. Her work takes the shape of various forms and intersects video, sound, performance, computational media, and theoretical installations. Her media artwork has been exhibited at the Harvard Carpenter Center for the Arts, The Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam, The Kunsthalle in Detroit, Papy Gyro Nights in Norway and Hong Kong, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center in Buffalo. www.yvettegranata.com

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:16:26 -0500 2019-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58501 58501-14510823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s explores large-scale works of art by Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Sam Gilliam, and Al Loving, within the context of highly-charged debates of the early 1970s about aesthetics, politics, race, and feminism. This exhibition explores the gendered and racialized terms upon which great art was defined and assessed, and the strategy of artists to question the identity and aesthetics of the artist making the art. UMMA docents will help visitors look through the lens of the four artists’ works to explore the aesthetic choices inherent in abstraction as well as the acts of staining, pouring, draping, —or even taking apart the wall itself—within this charged political context.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
MLK Day Eye on Detroit: Whats in the News? (January 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57810 57810-14314710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Fake News is everywhere. You can’t go online without seeing clickbait. It is getting increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction. The President claims that the media is the enemy of the State. The Russians are planting stories that advance their own interests.
Corporate interests are believed to have an effect on the news and what you hear. How can you tell real news from fake? Who is telling you the truth? Is there an end to the fake news? Join us as we Unravel these challenges and more.

Schedule of Events:

10:00 - 11:30am: Keynote Lecture from Hill Auditorium
11:30 - 12:30pm: Luncheon
12:30 - 2:00pm: Eye on Detroit: Discussion Panel

To RSVP, please click the link below

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Other Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:21:52 -0500 2019-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Other UMDC MLK
One family's story: People, policy, & the politics of deportation (January 21, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59395 59395-14737076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/1F89tlEPAScS7z0S2

11:30 - 12:00: Strolling lunch and viewing of Deported: An American Division
12:15 - 1:30: Panel discussion

Join Rachel Woolf, Independent visual journalist; Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Knight-Wallace Fellow, Mexican journalist and asylum seeker; Laura Sanders, co-founder of the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights; and School of Public Health clinical assistant professor William D. Lopez for an interdisciplinary discussion moderated by Ford School professor Ann Lin on the recent history, impact, and ramifications of current American immigration policy.

For more information about the exhibit, visit http://www.artworksprojects.org/project/deported/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:40:12 -0500 2019-01-21T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lourdes Salazar Bautista