Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Relationship Between Science and Religion (October 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64655 64655-16410953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Through guided group discussion, we will look at the history and current state of the relationship between the scientific community and the Christian (or religious) community. Are the two inherently opposed to one another? What ideas are responsible for the conflicts between them? Can we better understand each other and listen to opposing viewpoints? How do those with a passion for both science and religion reconcile the two?

Cathy Britton, instructor, has a strong background in science, a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Control Systems, and 27 years of experience as an electrical engineer. Over the years, she has observed and studied this conflict carefully, having close relationships with people on both sides of the conflict. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Fridays, 1:00–3:00 pm on October 25 – December 6 (no class on November 29).

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 08:49:58 -0400 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Author's Forum Presents: "Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity" (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66149 66149-16709267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Ellen Muehlberger (history, classical studies, Middle East studies) and Deborah Dash Moore (Judaic studies, history) discuss Muehlberger's latest book, followed by Q & A.

Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying—not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge’s court but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces how, in late ancient Christianity, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one’s actions by angels and demons and, after that, fitting punishment. This emphasis on the experience of death ushered in a new ethical sensibility among Christians, in which one’s death was to be imagined frequently and anticipated in detail. This was initially meant as a tool for individuals: preachers counted on the fact that becoming aware of a judgment arriving at the end of one’s life tends to sharpen one’s scruples. But, as this book argues, the change in Christian sensibility toward death did not just affect individuals. Death imagined as the moment of reckoning created a fund of images and ideas within late ancient Christian culture about just what constituted a human being and how variances in human morality should be treated. This had significant effects on the Christian adoption of power in late antiquity, especially in the case of power’s heaviest baggage: the capacity to authorize violence against others.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:16:15 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Moment of Reckoning
Meal with Middle East (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68403 68403-17077941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

All undergraduate students are invited to enjoy lunch and conversation with the current students, prospective students, faculty, and staff of the Department of Middle East Studies. Join us on November 7, 2019, anytime between 12:00-2:00pm.

RSVP at bit.ly/mealmes

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:31:34 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Social / Informal Gathering Meal with Middle East Poster
Spirituality and Healthcare: Lessons from Fred (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68542 68542-17096949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
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Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion and the Department of Internal Medicine present Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, Acting Director, Senior Research Scholar, Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Georgetown Univeristy

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:47:19 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks (December 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67284 67284-16831258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how two illustrator-auteurs, Miroco Machiko (b. 1981) and Arai Ryōji (b. 1956), de-center the human to picture forth a fecund, transhuman multiverse. Both artists operate within a strong postwar tradition of picturebook art, which derives a sense of freedom from its association with youth and play. Here style, far from being merely decorative, shapes our worlds and the possibilities we see in them.

Heather Blair is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on lay religiosity and questions of how visual culture and religion intersect in Japan. Her publications include Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan (2015) and articles in venues such as Monumenta Nipponica, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, and Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. She is currently working on a monograph with the provisional title The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Japanese Picturebooks.

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 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:09:20 -0400 2019-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
"Getting to Zero: Religious Leaders as Trusted Messengers for Eliminating HIV/AIDS" (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69288 69288-17299771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion present A. Oveta Fuller, PhD., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:48:12 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
"Catholic End of Life Ethics after Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans" (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70258 70258-17556177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Michael Redinger, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor, Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law, Co-Chief, Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law, Western Michigan University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:59:09 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Africa Workshop with Robert Launay (Northwestern) (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71004 71004-17766504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Biography
Robert Launay is a social/cultural anthropologist trained in the United States, England, and France. He has conducted extensive field work in West Africa (specifically in Côte d’Ivoire) with Muslim minorities historically specializing in trade. His first book, Traders without Trade (Cambridge University Press), focused on how this minority was able to adapt to its loss over its former trade monopoly. His second book, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town (University of California Press), which won the Amaury Talbot Prize for best African ethnography in England in 1992, dealt specifically with religious change and controversy. He has recently edited a volume on Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards (Indiana University Press, in press).

After years of teaching the history of anthropology to undergraduates and graduates alike in the department, he has begun research on the history of the discipline, publishing several articles on the history of ethnography in Africa (particularly in French) and, more extensively, on the ‘prehistory’ of the field. His recently publishd book, Savages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology, traces the ways in which “modern Europeans” came to define themselves with reference to non-moderns (ancient Greeks and Romans in particular) and non-Europeans from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. He has edited an anthology of early sources in anthropology, Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From classical antiquity to the eighteenth century (Wiley/Blackwell 2010)

Most recently, he has begun a project on French foodways in the Midwest, in collaboration with Aurelien Mauxion, a graduate of the program who wrote his dissertation under his supervision. The project takes as its starting point the fact that the Midwest was colonized by France before it became part of the United States. They are looking at how early French settlers adapted to specifically American foods and environments, and how contemporary descendants of French settlers express their identities in terms of what they cook and eat.

In Spring 2018, Prof. Launay spoke at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Universities of Bayreuth and Gottingen in Germany.
Research and teaching interests
The history and ‘prehistory’ of anthropological theory, as well as its contemporary developments; the anthropology of scriptural religions, with particular focus on Islam; the historical ethnography of West Africa; the anthropology of food, particularly French foodways in the American Midwest.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:19:47 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
"Considering Disability: Religion and Human Limitation in Medical Contexts" (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72365 72365-17998145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents Sarah Barton, THD, MS, OTR/L, BCP

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:44:22 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
A Brief Review of Iran History and Culture (March 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70832 70832-17660820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The main goal of this course is to inform and give a better understanding about Iran to the study group. This includes a brief review of Iran history from ancient times up to the 21st century, conversion of the Iranian from Zoroastrianism to Islam and later to Islam-Shia, a review of the three aspects of Iranian society: modernity, nationalism, and Islam, discussion of the Iranian two revolutions in 1906 and 1979, review of the history of U.S.-Iran relations. Instructor Moe Bidgoli will lead the study group on Mondays from March 9 through 30.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:08:33 -0500 2020-03-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
CANCELLED: The Satan of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (March 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72997 72997-18123074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This event has been cancelled

The figure known in the Hebrew book of Job as "the satan" appears only the prologue and only up to Job 2:7. Yet there is a rich and diverse history of reception of him among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic interpreters. This lectures explores portrayals of this Satan in different religious traditions, including literary classic and the visual and performing arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:37:21 -0400 2020-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Freedman Lecture Poster
Wisdom Circle (March 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70466 70466-17600680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This is a study of the common spirituality and inter-connectivity of the world’s great religious and spiritual traditions, otherwise known as the perennial wisdom. Religion has often been part of the problem; can spirituality be part of the solution? An examination of the new romance between Science and Spirituality. Guest speakers, discussion, and brief lectures. The Study Group for those 50 and over led by James Ramelis is held Fridays March 13 through May 1.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:35:20 -0500 2020-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Relationship Between Science and Religion (March 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70462 70462-17600675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Through a guided group discussion, we will look at the relationship between religion (and belief in God) and science (and the scientific community). Are the two inherently in conflict? What ideas or events are responsible for the conflicts? Can we better understand each other and listen to opposing viewpoints? How can those who have a passion for both faith and science reconcile the two? The Study Group for those 50 and over led by Cathy Britton is held Fridays March 27 through May 1.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:02:08 -0500 2020-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Religion and Violence (April 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70463 70463-17600677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Violence is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, as it
has always been. How can we resolve conflict and manage serious differences without assaulting and killing each other? Among the reasons suggested for why we are violent is that religion tells us to do so. What is the link between religion and violence? Does religion necessarily involve violence? Can religion help us to curb violence? Are some religions more violent than others? Why? Why not? These are some of the questions we shall consider in this course in lectures and discussions. Kenneth E. Phifer is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He served 25 years as minister of the Ann Arbor congregation and has degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of numerous articles and books. He has 17 grandchildren. The Study Group for those 50 and over is held Fridays April 17 through May 15.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:09:43 -0500 2020-04-17T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Finding Meaning, the Sixth Stage of Grief (September 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75516 75516-19515160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Through reading and discussion we will explore Finding Meaning, the Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler. This is a perfect book for 2020 and any time for anyone who’s experienced a loss. “In the sixth stage we acknowledged that although for most of us grief will lessen in its intensity over time, it will never end. But if we allow ourselves to move fully into this crucial and profound sixth stage – meaning – it will allow us to transform grief into something else, something rich and fulfilling.” Read the Introduction and Chapters 1-3 for the first class.

Instructor Abby Wilson is retired clergy and loves to dance with ideas. The work group will meet on Wednesdays from September 23 through October 28. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:41:24 -0400 2020-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Final Decisions (September 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75515 75515-19515159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will cover a number of topics relating to end of life decisions. They include: Michigan’s laws relating to burial; honest talks with doctors, based in part on Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal; choosing time of death; interesting cross-cultural funeral rituals; and options outside of traditional burial such as cremation, green burial, donation to medical schools, reef burial, cryogenics, and bio-urn (ashes planted with a tree seed).

Instructor Marion Holt has extensive knowledge of this subject and has developed two courses on aging. The study group will be held on Tuesday, September 29.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session

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Class / Instruction Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:59:57 -0400 2020-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Religion and Violence (October 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75518 75518-19515162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Violence is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, as it has always been. How can we resolve conflict and manage serious differences without assaulting and killing each other?

Among the reasons suggested for why we are violent is that religion tells us to do so. What is the link between religion and violence? Does religion necessarily involve violence? Can religion help us to curb violence? Are some religions more violent than others? Why? Why not?

These are some of the questions we shall consider in this course in lectures and discussions. Instructor Kenneth E. Phifer is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He served 25 years as minister of the Ann Arbor congregation. He has degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of numerous articles and books. He has 17 grandchildren.

This study group will be held on Wednesdays from October 14 through November 11.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:09:10 -0400 2020-10-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Living with Purpose and Meaning (October 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75517 75517-19515161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We all want to be of value. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to feel this way at times in our society. Through guided discussion, we will work together to discover what each of us has to offer and discuss ways to use the best of ourselves to make a difference in the world. We will cover questions such as: What are we passionate about? What are our strengths? What type of work most suits us? How can we draw on our experience to contribute to the world in a meaningful way?

After 27 years working as an Electrical Engineer and raising 3 children, Instructor Cathy Britton is searching for answers to the questions above. The goal of this study group is that through discussions and reflection, the group can learn from each other and grow together.

The study group will be held on Thursdays from October 15 through November 12. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:02:10 -0400 2020-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups