Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Punishment Continuum: How Court Actors Sentence and Enforce Monetary Sanctions (June 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63727 63727-15833062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

At this ISR Reads Event, hosted by The Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health Epidemiology, Professor Alexes Harris will discuss her book “Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanction as a Punishment for the Poor” (2016 Russell Sage).

The work examines the system of monetary sanctions (fines and fees), how decision-makers interpret the state law, apply the law to people before the court, and monitor their payments. Dr. Harris will also talk about her current five-year study examining the system of monetary sanctions across eight states and discuss policy implications.

Alexes Harris is the Presidential Term Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington.

A livestream of the event will be available: https://bluejeans.com/718378010

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 May 2019 14:35:26 -0400 2019-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Understanding Nutrition and Community Health: A Journey from Service to Research to Advocacy (June 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62249 62249-15718781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Presenter: Cindy Leung, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health

During this workshop, attendees will follow Dr. Cindy Leung’s trajectory in public health. Exploring her early work in local food banks with food-insecure populations and her scientific research on the effectiveness of our federal food programs, attendees will then discuss her present-day qualitative research to better understand the lived experiences of food-insecure individuals. Participants will learn about populations affected by food insecurity, including low-income families and college students.

To wrap up the session, attendees will learn how all of this information is being used to design programs and affect future policies to benefit food-insecure populations. 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. RSVP on our website: cew.umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 May 2019 15:33:12 -0400 2019-06-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-26T14:30:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Cindy Leung
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 27, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-27T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-27T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 28, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 28, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-28T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-28T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-29T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
Summer Youth Employment Program Mid-Summer Celebration (July 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64301 64301-16290408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This celebration brings together youth participants, employers, organizers, and staff from the 2019 Summer Youth Employment Program.

The University of Michigan is an active partner in Summer19, the Washtenaw County Summer Youth Employment Program, a 10-week summer employment and mentorship program that pairs employers with local youth to provide on-the-job training. Summer 19 connects youth to resources for building professional networks, exploring career opportunities, and developing essential job and leadership skills.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:01:36 -0400 2019-07-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-07-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Social / Informal Gathering summer youth employment participants
Environmental Research Seminar "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings" (September 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65290 65290-16565509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The federal government, states, and utilities administer programs to improve the energy efficiency of low-income homes and affordable multifamily buildings. Investments in measures to save energy, as simple as air sealing and insulation, can also yield a broad range of non-energy benefits. This presentation will present research results that show that weatherization can improve health, home conditions, and social determinants of health. The results are drawn from three separate studies that were conducted nationally, regionally (Midwest and Northeast), and in Knoxville, Tennessee. Three3, Inc. conducts research and educational programming to promote the integration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The organization particularly focuses on fostering sustainable futures that: provide equitable benefits to low-income and disadvantaged populations (intra-generational equity); meets ethical obligations to future generations (inter-generational equity); and makes best use of the convergence of human knowledge and technology to meet sustainability goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:56:22 -0400 2019-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar 09/10/2019 Bruce Tonn "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings"
Intersections in Engaged Research (September 27, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63484 63484-15751187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Researchers and co-investigators from all three U-M campuses are invited to join us for Intersections in Engaged Research. This interactive event will bring together researchers and multiple internal sponsor organizations to share and learn how we can leverage university resources to maximize our public and community impact.

It will feature a wide range of engaged research projects, including action-based research, community-based participatory research, community-engaged research, among others, taking place with funding and support through internal U-M award programs.

Attendees will learn more about resources, funding mechanisms, training opportunities and networks that currently exist on campus. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from each other and inform how internal funders support engaged research on campus.

The event will highlight successful research projects, facilitate conversations on key strategies and lessons learned in the field, and include opportunities for networking.

This event is intended for:

Faculty and co-investigators from multiple disciplines across the university who are interested in exploring internal funding opportunities and support for engaged research
Faculty grant recipients and co-investigators of internal engaged research funding
Institutional partners who are interested in supporting engaged research and exploring opportunities for collective impact

Questions? Email intersections@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 06 May 2019 14:04:49 -0400 2019-09-27T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Graham Sustainability Institute Conference / Symposium Intersections Logo
Community-Based Participatory Research (Panel Discussion) (October 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67624 67624-16907171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Three (3) U-M experts will lead a Panel Discussion on Community-Based Participatory Research, including: Neeraja Aravamudan, PhD (Assoc. Director, Teaching & Research, Ginsberg Center); Barbara Israel, DrPH (Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center); Erica E. Marsh, MD (Director of Community Engagement, MI Institute for Clinical & Health Research). Discussants will share their experiences with creating equitable partnerships between community members and academic researchers, and touch on some of the challenges. There will be time for Q&A too. Please join us for a stimulating discussion, and feel free to bring your lunch.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:09:56 -0400 2019-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Community-Based Participatory Research
Health, Nature & Our Built Environment: Change through Radical Collaborations (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67640 67640-16909312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:47:35 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jack Spengler
Central Bank of the Future Conference (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63527 63527-15782016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty allevation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.

The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools.

Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.

For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu/central-bank-of-the-future-conference

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:11:29 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
Central Bank of the Future Conference (October 3, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63527 63527-16155523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty allevation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.

The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools.

Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.

For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu/central-bank-of-the-future-conference

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:11:29 -0400 2019-10-03T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
“Every Sector is Public Health Sector": Building Capacity to Address Environmental Health Inequities (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68017 68017-16983971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Oct 8 Natalie Sampson Seminar
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty (October 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66028 66028-16684536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:02:42 -0400 2019-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Efosa Ojomo
Health and Poverty: The Toll of Living with Less (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66030 66030-16684566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:07:33 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Bridgette Brawner
Poverty simulation (October 19, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68352 68352-17069162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Students are invited to participate in a poverty simulation on Saturday, Oct. 19, hosted by Washtenaw County's Friends in Deed / Circles program and facilitated by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice. Doors open at 8:30 a.m., and the simulation will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 4205 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor. Space is limited so you must RSVP to participate. Please contact the Circles office at 734-340-9042 or email suzanne@friendsindeedmi.org.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:55:39 -0400 2019-10-19T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-19T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-17128444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: CEW+

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
The Road to Hell: Why Serving the Poor Does Not Eliminate Poverty (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66033 66033-16684581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:12:22 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Faith Fowler
Film Screening: Circus without Borders (October 27, 2019 12:40pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64161 64161-16171650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 12:40pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Circus without Borders is a documentary about Guillaume Saladin and Yamoussa Bangoura, best friends and world-class acrobats from remote corners of the globe who share the same dream: To bring hope and change to their struggling communities through circus. Their dream unfolds in the Canadian Arctic and Guinea, West Africa, where they help Inuit and Guinean youth achieve unimaginable success while confronting suicide, poverty and despair. Seven years in the making, this tale of two circuses–Artcirq and Kalabante–is a culture-crossing performance piece that offers a portal into two remote communities, and an inspiring story of resilience and joy.

Directed by Susan Gray and Linda Matcha 69 min | USA (2015)



On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq​, UMMA invites you to enjoy a selection of documentary and fictional films about Inuit culture. Sundays, September 22 and October 27: Film screenings at 12:40 and 3:15 p.m; guided exhibition tours 2-3 p.m.

Sunday, September 22 12:40 Kinngait: Riding Light into the World​ (2010, 65 min) 2:00 Exhibition Tour, Special Exhibitions Gallery, 2nd floor 3:15 Maliglutit (Searchers) (2016, 94 min)

Sunday, October 27 12:40 Circus without Borders (2015, 69 min) 2:00 Exhibition Tour, Special Exhibitions Gallery, 2nd floor 3:15 Angry Inuk​ (2016, 85 min)

 

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Film Screening Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:17:13 -0400 2019-10-27T12:40:00-04:00 2019-10-27T13:50:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
INFORMATION SESSION: HEALTHCARE DELIVERY IN EMERGING MARKETS (October 28, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68480 68480-17088477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

This course provides students with the unique opportunity to examine business models for healthcare delivery in emerging markets. Join us at this information session to learn about the winter 2020 projects and travel locations!

For more information, please email BA685-Healthcare@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:25:29 -0400 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Meeting BA685 Students from the Kisii Eye Hospital Team in Kenya
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (October 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66035 66035-16684583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
Special event with authors Stephanie Land and Joy DeGruy (October 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66036 66036-16684584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:24:33 -0400 2019-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T09:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Joy DeGruy
Faculty Research for Impact: Addressing UN SDG #1 - Poverty Alleviation (October 29, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67604 67604-16900792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

How are Michigan Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design charette themed around one of these goals. During the month of October, we will address Goal 1: Poverty Alleviation. Four award-winning Ross faculty members will share their research in an informal setting and students will have the opportunity to brainstorm possible next steps for how the research can be applied to real-world applications that make a positive impact.
October's Faculty Experts: Bill Lovejoy, Aneel Karnani, Ted London, and Jerry Davis

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:12:18 -0400 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Executive Residence (Ross Business School) Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Lovejoy, London, Karnani and Davis
The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66037 66037-16684585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:30:30 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dorian Warren
The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution (November 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69096 69096-17244687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

LECTURE 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:59:04 -0500 2019-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion "Effect of the Proclamation, Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at New Bern, North Carolina" (Harper's Weekly, 1863)
Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66038 66038-16684586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:35:08 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Greg Landsman
Focus Group Training Workshop (November 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69038 69038-17220019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This free workshop is focused on providing the basics of focus group preparation and facilitation for community leaders and residents. We will review how focus groups can help uncover community perspectives and helpful tips and tools related to an hosting an effective focus group.

There will be free parking, and food will be provided at the workshop. Please RSVP to economicmobilitydetroit@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:00:59 -0400 2019-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar Focus group workshop
Dispossessing Detroit: How the Law Takes Property (November 9, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69002 69002-17211735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

The goals of this Symposium are to provide historical and political context for current issues of property dispossession and to consider how governments, private industry, and private citizens can together seek reform. We are excited to bring together voices from law, policy, city government, community organizations, and more to engage the audience on this critical topic! Whether your interests are in tax foreclosure, bankruptcy, or Detroit's story of dispossession, we hope you will join us.

Please RSVP at https://dispossessingdetroitsymposium.com/rsvp-comment/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:03:58 -0400 2019-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium Hutchins Hall
Dispossessing Detroit: How the Law Takes Property (November 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69002 69002-17211736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

The goals of this Symposium are to provide historical and political context for current issues of property dispossession and to consider how governments, private industry, and private citizens can together seek reform. We are excited to bring together voices from law, policy, city government, community organizations, and more to engage the audience on this critical topic! Whether your interests are in tax foreclosure, bankruptcy, or Detroit's story of dispossession, we hope you will join us.

Please RSVP at https://dispossessingdetroitsymposium.com/rsvp-comment/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:03:58 -0400 2019-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (November 14, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65669 65669-16629878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:18:06 -0400 2019-11-14T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
From the Segway to Medical Devices: Inventing People-Centered Solutions (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66039 66039-16684587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:40:55 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dean Kamen
PFAS in MICHIGAN: the state of Michigan's investigations and response (November 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69370 69370-17310321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Wasilevich will address the public health response efforts and how the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has, and will continue to, investigate PFAS exposures and outcomes around the state.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:51:27 -0500 2019-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Nov 19 PFAS in Michigan
Faculty Research for Impact: Addressing UN SDG #10 – Reduced Inequalities (November 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69392 69392-17316498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

How are Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design micro-charette themed around one of these goals. During the month of November, we will address Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities. Three award-winning Ross faculty members will share their research in an informal setting and students will have the opportunity to brainstorm possible next steps for how the research can be applied to real-world applications that make a positive impact.

Faculty and subjects of research include:

Jun Li: New Research Looks At Ways to Help Stop Airbnb Racial Discrimination

A. Yeşim Orhun: Why poor families are paying more for everyday items like toilet paper

Chris Rider: Career mobility and racial diversity in law firms

Due to high interest in these workshops, we must cap attendance at 25. We aim to keep the numbers of participants at a size that can accommodate the space capacity of the +Impact Studio and provide meaningful group discussion.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:38:48 -0500 2019-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T19:00:00-05:00 Executive Residence (Ross Business School) Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Reduced Inequalities
Detroit resident opinion survey meeting (December 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69830 69830-17433858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study regularly surveys a broad, representative group of Detroit residents about their communities.

Topics covered by the survey range from crime and policing to blight, economic opportunity, access to transportation, health, and who benefits most from investments in Downtown and Midtown Detroit.

At this meeting, the DMACS team will review how to access and use DMACS survey data for policy and programmatic decisions.

Free parking and refreshments will be provided. RSVP to economicmobilitydetroit@umich.edu

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Meeting Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:36:48 -0500 2019-12-05T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Meeting DMACS survey results
Biosciences Initiative Second Annual Community Celebration and Symposium with President Schlissel (December 16, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69140 69140-17252904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Celebrating progress of the second year and introducing our 2019 Scientific Initiatives and Exploratory awardees.

The Biosciences Initiative is hosting its second annual community celebration, recognizing the progress of the second year and introducing its most recently awarded projects and groups.

Don't miss your opportunity to learn about these exciting proposals and connect with President Schlissel and fellow members of the biosciences community.

The Biosciences Initiative focuses on funding cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, expert faculty hires, and postgraduate education across the biological sciences at U-M.

Reception with free food and beverages will follow. RSVP to attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVAaOMh-bXpKiIfeMx5PQFEtjADiogJwEHlGkhVcfiiQGZ9w/viewform?usp=sf_link.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:30:00 -0500 2019-12-16T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-16T18:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Conference / Symposium bacteria and people graphic
Poverty Simulation (January 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70415 70415-17594465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

What choices would you make if you had little time and little money to spare?

A poverty simulation presented by Washtenaw County's Friends In Deed and the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice aims to help participants better understand some of the tough choices that people with few resources must make on a daily basis. The three-hour experiential learning workshop is a non-partisan, secular event.

Space is limited, so advance registration is required. You can register online, by calling Friends In Deed's Circles office at 734-340-9042 or by emailing suzanne@friendsindeedmi.org.

Doors open at 8:30 a.m., and the event runs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend, and a suggested donation of $35 can be paid at the door to help defray the cost of holding the event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:05:16 -0500 2020-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar
+Impact Studio Winter Open House (January 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70006 70006-17491350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

The +Impact Studio space is a campus hub for design and impact, located on the second floor of the Executive Learning & Conference Center.  It is designed to be a collaboration area, and it will serve an educational community passionate about design for impact.   Drop by and see the new space, enjoy some food, and invite your friends!  Any time between 2 and 4 pm.

Information about the space will be provided via video screens and printed materials, and the event will feature interactive activities.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:26:09 -0500 2020-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 Executive Residence (Ross Business School) Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Reception / Open House The +Impact Studio at Michigan Ross
Igniting Impact: Enhancing Business Practice and Research Through Greater Collaboration (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66518 66518-17946488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Focused on translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into practical solutions to address global challenges, this conference will gather top thinkers from U-M and across the country to discuss and brainstorm ways for business and other disciplines to take responsibility for these goals.  

This event is co-sponsored by the Aspen Institute Business & Society program and Responsible Research in Business Management.
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Thursday, March 5th

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Welcome & Opening Keynote

Ach Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham, co-founders of Good Business Lab, and their corporate partners share their formula for using research to find a common ground between worker wellbeing and business interests

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Break

3:15 – 4:15 pm: Break Out Sessions

4:15 – 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 – 5:30 pm: Plenary

Andrew Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and Neil Hawkins, President of the Erb Family Foundation and former Chief Sustainability Officer of Dow

5:30 – 6:30 pm: Cocktails

6:30 – 8:00 pm: Dinner & Keynote Panel

“What’s next in the gig economy: how Uberization is changing the way you will think about how you work”

Carl Camden, founder and president, IPSE.US



Friday, March 6

8:00 am: Breakfast

8:45 – 9:45 am: Plenary

“What’s next in talent: intrapreneurship, employee activism, and the new deal at work”

Kevin Thompson, General Manager, GOOD Worldwide

9:45 – 10:00 am: Break

10:00 – 11:00 am: Choose Your Own Adventure Breakout Sessions

Sustainable Supply Chains
Precarious Labor
Finance for Good
11:00 – 11:30 am: Break

11:30 – 12:30 pm: Choose Your Own Adventure Breakout Sessions

Lean Production and Labor
Gigs and Better Jobs
Reducing your Carbon Footprint
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch & Keynote

1:45 – 2:45 pm: Plenary

“What’s next in China: doing business in China during turbulent times”

Doug Guthrie, Apple; Christopher Marquis, SC Johnson Professor of Management, Cornell University; Xun (Brian) Wu, Professor of Strategy, Michigan Ross

2:45 – 3:00 pm: Final Reflections & Goodbyes

More details to follow as the conference date approaches!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:58:38 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Conference / Symposium
Volunteer Abroad to Empower Communities and Reduce Inequalities: AIESEC x CEW+ (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69999 69999-17491344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Join AIESEC, the largest youth-led non-profit partnered with the UN, on January 28th at CEW+ to find out more about opportunities to volunteer abroad over the summer, working towards reducing inequalities! Opportunities are available in countries such as Costa Rica, Brazil, and more!

In this session, we will give you all the information you need about the experience and application process, we will have a former participant, and we will be helping interested students apply to these opportunities.

Come to learn more about how you can contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goal #10 Reducing Inequalities!

RSVP requested for lunch: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/volunteer-abroad-to-empower-communities-and-reduce-inequalities-aiesec-x-cew

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Presentation Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:33:21 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Presentation Flyer
Faculty Research for Impact: Addressing UN SDG #3 - Good Health and Well-Being (January 28, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70002 70002-17491347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

How are Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design micro-charette themed around one of these goals. During the month of January, we will address Goal 3: Good Health & Well-Being.  Several award-winning Ross faculty members (to be announced) will share their research in an informal setting, and students will have the opportunity to brainstorm possible next steps for how the research can be applied to real-world applications that make a positive impact.

This limited-size two-hour workshop will feature:

Faculty presentations on key research insights.
Discussion
Design micro-charrette using specific design tools for problem identification

Due to high interest in these workshops, we must cap attendance at 25. We aim to keep the numbers of participants at a size that can accommodate the space capacity of the +Impact Studio and provide meaningful group discussion.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:46:53 -0500 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 Executive Residence (Ross Business School) Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Designing Business Models for Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies (February 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71978 71978-17905486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

The +Impact Studio at Michigan Ross in partnership with the U-M Global CO2 Initiative and the Erb Institute is excited to offer an innovative workshop in which students will use design thinking methodologies to create business models for carbon capture and utilization technologies. Award-winning U-M faculty will share their research on these technologies in an informal setting, and participating students will have the opportunity to learn and apply the business model canvas to them. This process will result in ideas for sustainable businesses that work to meaningfully combat climate change, and further ways to get involved and potentially pursue these business ideas will be shared.

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/MKnvLLPYMyTr2mg86

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:59:23 -0500 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Global CO2 Initiative
Financial Inclusion: A Conversation with Adrienne Harris (February 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69973 69973-17491318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Join the +Impact Studio at Ross and MBA Finance Club for a discussion on financial inclusion with U-M Ford School Professor and Gate Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Adrienne Harris. Adrienne also advises fintech companies, incumbent financial institutions, and large venture capital firms. Most recently, she was the Chief Business Officer and General Counsel at a San Francisco-based inter-tech start-up for which is is now an advisor.

As part of the school’s Business+Impact initiative, the +Impact Studio brings together students from Ross and other disciplines in applying design principles to translate insights from faculty research into practical solutions to societal challenges. Studio faculty Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Jerry Davis will be on hand to engage Ms. Harris in a lively discussion about her work in governmental and corporate strategy around financial inclusion and fintech availability to the underserved.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/financial-inclusion-in-the-age-of-fintech-tickets-92064733095

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:07:58 -0500 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Adrienne Harris
No Defense: The U.S. Government's War on Water (February 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72213 72213-17957434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

In conjunction with the Feb 20 symposium, "From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large-Scale Chemical Contaminations" this FREE event is sponsored by the National Wildlife Foundation and the Michigan League of Conservation Voters.

"No Defense" is a documentary that tells the story of the Americans who are fighting against one of the largest-known polluters in the country — the United States government. Since the 1990s, it’s been documented that a category of chemicals known as perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) are harmful to life, yet the government continues to mandate its use at hundreds of sites across the country, contaminating surface water and drinking water, with no plan in place to clean it up. This film highlights the people who are suffering, who are blowing the whistle, and who are fighting the United States military’s war on water.

The film focuses on the PFAS contamination problem in Oscoda, Michigan, as a case study into how the U.S. military has failed to protect human health and the environment around the nation and the world. The PFAS contamination in Oscoda was discovered nearly 10 years ago, making it the first PFAS site in Michigan and the first PFAS military site in the world. The film's director, Sara Ganim, is a former CNN correspondent who won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal at Penn State; she also has done extensive reporting on water issues in other communities in the U.S, including Flint.

Documentary. 270 min. Including Filmmaker Q&A. NR.

No Defense is directed by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Sara Ganim. Produced by Emmy-award winning journalist Lennart Bourin. Executive Producer Robert P. Ufer.

Film will be followed by a Filmmaker Q&A.

*Admission is free, but you're encouraged to reserve tickets at this link: https://bit.ly/2RUYYWU

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Film Screening Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:29:58 -0500 2020-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Film Screening No Defense: The US Government's War on Water (PFAS documentary)
From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68807 68807-17153411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The PBB to PFAS Symposium will provide a unique venue for fostering collaboration between researchers and community members with:

• Keynote address by Dr. Linda Birnbaum (Director NIEHS, retired);

• Presentations by community residents and academic researchers working on PBB and PFAS health impacts;

• Breakout groups focused on strategies for building effective community-academic collaborations;

• Organized by UM's Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), Central Michigan University's Dept of History, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Emory University’s HERCULES Exposome Research Center;

• ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS: Michele Marcus, PhD, Emory University’s Michigan PBB Registry; Jane Keon, Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force; Francis Spaniola, former Michigan State Representative; Tony Spaniola, JD, creator Michigan Cancer Registry; Courtney Carignan, PhD, Michigan State University; Monica Lewis-Patrick, President & CEO, River Network and We The People of Detroit

• COMMUNITY PANELISTS: Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Rockford; Theresa Landrum, Detroit; Lawrence Reynolds, Flint; Donele Wilkins, Detroit; Tim Neyer, Mt. Pleasant

• MORE SPEAKERS AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

• Keynote address by Dr. Birnbaum will be livestreamed.

• Registration (free) is required.

• Register for the IN-PERSON Event in Ann Arbor: http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_FromPBBtoPFAS_Register.php?Attendance=InPerson
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• Register for the Keynote LIVESTREAM: http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_FromPBBtoPFAS_Register.php?Attendance=LiveStream

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:21:01 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium PBB to PFAS symposium Feb 20 2020
Igniting Impact: Enhancing Business Practice and Research Through Greater Collaboration (March 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66518 66518-16744953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Focused on translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into practical solutions to address global challenges, this conference will gather top thinkers from U-M and across the country to discuss and brainstorm ways for business and other disciplines to take responsibility for these goals.  

This event is co-sponsored by the Aspen Institute Business & Society program and Responsible Research in Business Management.
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Thursday, March 5th

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Welcome & Opening Keynote

Ach Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham, co-founders of Good Business Lab, and their corporate partners share their formula for using research to find a common ground between worker wellbeing and business interests

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Break

3:15 – 4:15 pm: Break Out Sessions

4:15 – 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 – 5:30 pm: Plenary

Andrew Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and Neil Hawkins, President of the Erb Family Foundation and former Chief Sustainability Officer of Dow

5:30 – 6:30 pm: Cocktails

6:30 – 8:00 pm: Dinner & Keynote Panel

“What’s next in the gig economy: how Uberization is changing the way you will think about how you work”

Carl Camden, founder and president, IPSE.US



Friday, March 6

8:00 am: Breakfast

8:45 – 9:45 am: Plenary

“What’s next in talent: intrapreneurship, employee activism, and the new deal at work”

Kevin Thompson, General Manager, GOOD Worldwide

9:45 – 10:00 am: Break

10:00 – 11:00 am: Choose Your Own Adventure Breakout Sessions

Sustainable Supply Chains
Precarious Labor
Finance for Good
11:00 – 11:30 am: Break

11:30 – 12:30 pm: Choose Your Own Adventure Breakout Sessions

Lean Production and Labor
Gigs and Better Jobs
Reducing your Carbon Footprint
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch & Keynote

1:45 – 2:45 pm: Plenary

“What’s next in China: doing business in China during turbulent times”

Doug Guthrie, Apple; Christopher Marquis, SC Johnson Professor of Management, Cornell University; Xun (Brian) Wu, Professor of Strategy, Michigan Ross

2:45 – 3:00 pm: Final Reflections & Goodbyes

More details to follow as the conference date approaches!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:58:38 -0500 2020-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Conference / Symposium Ross School of Business
Igniting Impact: Enhancing Business Practice and Research Through Greater Collaboration (March 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66518 66518-16744954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Focused on translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into practical solutions to address global challenges, this conference will gather top thinkers from U-M and across the country to discuss and brainstorm ways for business and other disciplines to take responsibility for these goals.  

This event is co-sponsored by the Aspen Institute Business & Society program and Responsible Research in Business Management.
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Thursday, March 5th

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Welcome & Opening Keynote

Ach Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham, co-founders of Good Business Lab, and their corporate partners share their formula for using research to find a common ground between worker wellbeing and business interests

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Break

3:15 – 4:15 pm: Break Out Sessions

4:15 – 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 – 5:30 pm: Plenary

Andrew Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and Neil Hawkins, President of the Erb Family Foundation and former Chief Sustainability Officer of Dow

5:30 – 6:30 pm: Cocktails

6:30 – 8:00 pm: Dinner & Keynote Panel

“What’s next in the gig economy: how Uberization is changing the way you will think about how you work”

Carl Camden, founder and president, IPSE.US



Friday, March 6

8:00 am: Breakfast

8:45 – 9:45 am: Plenary

“What’s next in talent: intrapreneurship, employee activism, and the new deal at work”

Kevin Thompson, General Manager, GOOD Worldwide

9:45 – 10:00 am: Break

10:00 – 11:00 am: Choose Your Own Adventure Breakout Sessions

Sustainable Supply Chains
Precarious Labor
Finance for Good
11:00 – 11:30 am: Break

11:30 – 12:30 pm: Choose Your Own Adventure Breakout Sessions

Lean Production and Labor
Gigs and Better Jobs
Reducing your Carbon Footprint
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch & Keynote

1:45 – 2:45 pm: Plenary

“What’s next in China: doing business in China during turbulent times”

Doug Guthrie, Apple; Christopher Marquis, SC Johnson Professor of Management, Cornell University; Xun (Brian) Wu, Professor of Strategy, Michigan Ross

2:45 – 3:00 pm: Final Reflections & Goodbyes

More details to follow as the conference date approaches!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:58:38 -0500 2020-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Conference / Symposium Ross School of Business
Forum on "Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience" (March 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72763 72763-18070598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

*Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php*

Our climate is our planet’s life support system. Climate change influences human health and disease in numerous ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and disease carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks. As described in the Lancet Countdown report, some existing health threats will intensify and new health threats will emerge. Not everyone is equally at risk, and children are especially at risk. Preventive and adaptive actions are needed.

The keynote speaker is an emergency medicine physician who co-authored the U.S. portion of the Lancet Countdown report and Health and Care Delivery in the New England Journal of Medicine. A panel of experts will present solutions from a variety of other universities who are reducing their carbon footprint in response to the urgent public health need.

Welcome: Joseph C. Kolars, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives, UM Medical School

Keynote: "Climate Action: Children’s Health Drives Need for Urgent Action" Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS, Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and emergency medicine physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Schedule
11:00-11:45 am | Registration outside of Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education, Michigan Medicine
11:00-11:45 am | Lunch in Towsley Center Dining Room for registered guests
12:00-1:30 pm | Program in Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center (also will be live streamed)
1:30-2:00 pm | Reception in Towsley Center Dining Room

*Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php*

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:52:24 -0500 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:30:00-04:00 Towsley Center for Cont. Med Ed Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience
Local Businesses, Global Entrepreneurship: A Journey to Build Impact (March 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72926 72926-18094770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

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


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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:35:59 -0500 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion A restaurant in Colina, Chile. Image courtesy of TechnoServe.
Virtual Info Session for Fall 2020 +Impact Studio Course (BA 670) (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73362 73362-18208325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Come to Ross’ +Impact Studio to learn more about the course that is actually taught there. Faculty and staff will gather at the +Impact Studio to discuss next Fall’s 4.5-credit +Impact Studio: course (BA 670 - https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/impact-studio-translating-research-practice-11862), a design thinking course that teaches practical work skills in ethnography, ecosystem mapping, ideation, prototyping, and business model design. Instructor Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Business+Impact staff will help. Students from all grad programs across campus are welcome to sign on to virtual session at https://bluejeans.com/370086699

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Other Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:30:26 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Other Impact Studio class
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Jenny Zhang, Fiction Reading (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70551 70551-17604944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. It examines the many ways that family and history can weigh us down and also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

Zhang is also the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find. Her second collection of poetry, My Baby First Birthday, is forthcoming from Tin House. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.   

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. 
 
U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

 
 

 

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Presentation Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CANCELED: CID Inaugural Lecture: Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73082 73082-18140496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) was founded at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) in 2019 as a partnership between ISR, the Institute’s Survey Research Center, and the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The center pursues cutting-edge research and innovative teaching on one of the central societal challenges of our time: social inequality.

Join us for our inaugural lecture as we talk to Thomas Piketty about his new book, Capital and Ideology. In this book, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, presents a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and outlines a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.

We will have a panel discussion with Elizabeth Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Fabian Pfeffer, Director of the Center for Inequality Dynamics, with a reception to follow where Mr. Piketty will be signing books.

Please RSVP for this event: https://www.inequalitydynamics.umich.edu/piketty-rsvp/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:22:34 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Truth in Sentencing Townhall (March 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73586 73586-18267633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Learn about and discuss ways to bring back a sentencing credit system in Michigan prisons with state legislators.

Featured panelists: Senator Jeff Irwin, Senator Sylvia Santana, and more!

Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/2IlshO3

Questions? Email ashrenbu@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:48:43 -0500 2020-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T15:15:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Truth in Sentencing Townhall