Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Chairman Mao’s Children and China’s Difficult Past: Generation, Class, and Memory (December 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52929 52929-13148798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chinese government sent about 17 million secondary school graduates (the “educated youth” or “zhiqing”) to villages, state farms, and military corps, to achieve some practical and ideological goals. The "send-down" program, however, failed dismally and had detrimental impacts on the zhiqing generation’s life courses. Despite its failure, the zhiqing’s memory of their sent-down years is a mixture of grievance, resentment, self-congratulation, nostalgia, and heroism. Drawing on various data collected through interviews, ethnography, archival research, and textual analysis (2013-2018), Professor Xu examines their memory to explore the mentality and political views of this generation of “Chairman Mao’s children,” who have inherited the legacy of the Mao years and have to reconcile it with the sea changes in the post-Mao society, and theorize the relations between generation, class, and memory.

Bin Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture. He is the author of "The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China" (Stanford University Press, 2017), which has won two book awards from the American Sociological Association. His research has also appeared in leading sociological and China studies journals. He is currently writing a book and a few related articles on the collective memory of China’s “educated youth” (zhiqing) generation—the 17 million youths sent down to the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:22:39 -0400 2018-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Bin Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University
The War on Poverty Project: Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty (December 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58180 58180-14435497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Friday, December 14

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

10:40am Break

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

11:30am-1:10pm Lunch Break

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

2:40pm Break

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:37:00 -0500 2018-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Event flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Race (January 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49429 49429-11453772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:28:05 -0400 2019-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Race
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (January 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58725 58725-14544830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Monday, January 21, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: Transforming ourselves to build an inclusive society
By: john a. powell, Director Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley

Panel discussion with noted citizen activists to follow keynote:
Moderator: Neda Ulaby, National Public Radio
-Nick Licata, Founding Chair, Local Progress (Seattle, WA), @NickJLicata
-Rosalie Lochner, Founder, Michigan Support Circle
-Jessyca Matthews, MI English Teacher of the Year, Carmen-Ainsworth High School (Flint, MI)
-Kayla Reed, Founder, St. Louis Action Council, @iKaylaReed

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:01:08 -0500 2019-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (January 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58198 58198-14441905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Discourses of White nationalism & racism today" by Alexandra Stern, Professor & Chair
Dept of American Culture, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:37:59 -0500 2019-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ASP Lecture: Bridging Memories in a Contested Geography – Eastern Turkey between Western Armenia and Northern Kurdistan (January 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57956 57956-14381732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Grounded in the field of late Ottoman history this lecture will draw on the disciplines of political sociology and anthropology to challenge bottom-up narratives and relate the past of contested geographies located in the shattered zones of the post-Ottoman and the post-Soviet. Dr. Leupold will examine the relationship between biographical subjects, the politics of memory and communal boundaries in the region around Lake Van - a geography where collective violence stretches back in time to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and into the contemporaneous Kurdish conflict. The lecture will begin by reconstructing the history of competing national movements and collective violence in the late-Ottoman period, and then deconstruct official Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish accounts to juxtapose ‘official histories’ with their local counter-narratives.

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.

Photo caption: Yüksekova, Southeastern Turkey

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:32:27 -0500 2019-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Yüksekova, Southeastern Turkey
Privacy@Michigan (January 28, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59816 59816-14788715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information Assurance

Join us in celebrating International Data Privacy Day!
Privacy@Michigan, hosted by the University of Michigan School of Information and U-M Information Assurance, brings together faculty, researchers, students and staff from different colleges, schools and units across campus and aims to spark ongoing, multidisciplinary conversations about privacy’s role in society—here at U-M and worldwide.

Keynote Speaker: Sarah St.Vincent, Researcher/Advocate on National Security, Surveillance, and Domestic Law Enforcement, Human Rights Watch

This event is free, but please RSVP to reserve a spot.

https://www.safecomputing.umich.edu/events/data-privacy-day

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:44:36 -0500 2019-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information Assurance Conference / Symposium Privacy At Michigan Ad
Mental Health Awareness Workshop (January 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60143 60143-14840457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: STEM in Color

STEM in Color is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to our mental health awareness workshop: “How to Save a Life: Strategies for Addressing Mental Health Challenges in STEM and a Call for Cultural Change”. For this occasion, we have specifically partnered with the University of Michigan’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) to develop a workshop that will not only raise awareness surrounding the mental health challenges faced by our community, but one that will equip participants with research based strategies for promoting mental well-being through prevention, intervention, and coping mechanisms.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:09:38 -0500 2019-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons STEM in Color Workshop / Seminar Mental Health Workshop
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59556 59556-14752317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 28, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“A Culture of Racism: Conceptual and Methodological Innovations.”

By Courtney Cogburn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Columbia University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:29:57 -0500 2019-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Gender (January 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49430 49430-11453774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who we are, who society sees, and who we want to be.

Readings to consider:
"Doing gender"
"For whom the burden tolls"
"Performative acts and gender constitution"
"The restroom revolution: unisex toilets and campus politics"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/024-gender/.

Take a look at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:29:55 -0400 2019-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Gender
"Dirty work," Invisibility and Dignity: An Intersectional Exploration of Janitors in India, US and South Korea (February 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60157 60157-14840472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

My research explores “dirty work” and dignity, based on my comparative work of Janitors in the US, South Korea and India. Using an interdisciplinary framework, my talk will focus on how intersections of caste, gender, social class, age and ethnicity shape the invisibility of janitors in the workplace in culture-specific ways. Using qualitative interviews, social media analyses and ethnography, my research documents various dignity injuries experienced by janitors in these three cultural contexts. My talk will also present how Janitors also actively restore their dignity and infantilization of their labor in these three cultural contexts. I will discuss the relevance of intersectional framework to study dignity in workplace.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:49:58 -0500 2019-02-01T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Neighborhoods, Suburbs, Environments" (February 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58925 58925-14578311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects.

Today, U-M faculty members explore the history and development of living environments, emphasizing the promises of sociability and social mobility suburban and city neighborhoods may have offered, and the realizations and failures of such promises.

Featuring:

Alexandra Murphy (sociology)
Matthew Lassiter (history, American culture)
Harley Etienne (architecture)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:05:05 -0500 2019-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Sociology of Health and Medicine: Rethinking Autonomy? (February 6, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60210 60210-14849101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:15pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Dr. Stonington will share stories from around the world that call into question the pervasive use of individual autonomy as the organizing framework of bioethics. Cases will include: cancer care in Thailand, obesity prevention in Mexico City, primary care for diabetes in Ypsilanti, MI, and others. The goal of these stories will be to challenge assumptions about how people do and/or should engage with their bodies, their health, and health interventions.

Dinner provided, RSVP Required: https://myumi.ch/aVA37

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:40:00 -0500 2019-02-06T18:15:00-05:00 2019-02-06T19:15:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Refuge Neighborhoods: Gentrification and Ontological Security in Japan’s Declining Yoseba (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60505 60505-14901382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the economic bubble’s collapse, Japan’s former yoseba (day labor ghettos) have transformed into concentrations of homelessness, welfare-subsidized housing, and supportive social services. However, many of the former pay-by-the-day hotels (doya) now cater to foreign and domestic budget travelers and the neighborhoods are seeing large scale redevelopment. How are residents, especially the poor, experiencing this advancing gentrification? Do these neighborhoods retain their function as neighborhoods of refuge (kakikomi chi’iki), buffering residents from the most extreme forms of urban marginality? I will explore these questions by drawing on ethnographic research in Tokyo’s San’ya and Osaka’s Kamagasaki conducted over a 25-year period.

Matthew Marr is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociocultural Studies and Asian Studies at Florida International University. His research focuses on homelessness in the US and Japan, showing how urban inequality is shaped by social conditions operating at multiple levels, from the global to the individual.

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, 28 Jan 2019 13:19:51 -0500 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Marr, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociocultural Studies and Asian Studies,Florida International University
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59561 59561-14752320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 11, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Politics of Personal Responsibility and the Health Consequences for Black Americans of Working Twice as Hard to Get By.”

By Darrick Hamilton, PhD
Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:18:41 -0500 2019-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
STS Speaker. Back to the Future: An STS Approach to Markets (February 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58153 58153-14433289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

As the late Leigh Star noted, infrastructure is that often invisible stuff all around us that is both relational and ecological. I employ the tools of STS in an attempt to unpack infrastructure with respect to markets. Markets may be examined as (1) institutions, (2) the sum of particular sorts of economic transactions and (3) places where politics is enacted. Contemporary economists have focused on the sum of transactions, largely ignoring institutions and politics. However, given the performative character of economics, I need also to examine how economics, in its theoretical treatment of markets, has influenced the development of actual markets. Finally, any ecological study must also include standards, a relatively new form of infrastructure taken for granted by most economists. Based on preliminary investigations, I propose three hypotheses: First, actual markets (must) fail to deliver distributive justice. Second, economics as a discipline lags behind the actual changes in the nature of markets. Third, standards have taken on an increasingly important position as infrastructural devices that shape markets, first supporting and then undermining neoclassical approaches. Institutional economists of a century ago understood that a pragmatic approach, emphasizing the evolutionary character of markets, allowed construction of perspectives that change with the times. A re-reading of their work opens new vistas for STS approaches to markets.

Biosketch: Larry Busch is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at MSU. Dr. Busch's current interests include the use of standards in public and private policy making, biotechnology and nanotechnology policy, agricultural science and technology policy, higher education in agriculture, and public participation in the policy process and the consequences of neoliberal policies for democratic governance. His most recent book is Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education. MIT Press, 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:50:59 -0500 2019-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Busch
Ethics for a Learning Health Care System: The “Common Purpose” Framework (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59180 59180-14694666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

There is increased interest among health care institutions to transitioning to become learning health systems. In this process, however, there are increased practical and moral challenges from using the traditional definitions of “research” vs “practice” to determine which activities within such systems require IRB review and other ethics oversight, and which do not. As health systems more deliberately integrate care delivery with ongoing data collection, a set of ethics commitments for this integrated approach must be articulated. This presentation will provide an example of an ethics framework for learning health care and underscore how also being guided by commitments to transparency, engagement, and accountability around the ongoing learning are also essential, ethically.

The LHS Collaboratory is co-sponsored by the Department of Learning Health Sciences, the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and the Office of Research at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:21:51 -0500 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Workshop / Seminar Nancy Kass, ScD
Sexpertise: Sexuality Through a Social Justice Lens (February 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61068 61068-15027195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Sexpertise is a two-day series of workshops on February 12th and 13th, 2019, planned by and for students. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships through a social justice lens. We'll explore topics of interest to U-M students including empowerment, identities, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:23:55 -0500 2019-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Sexpertise Flier
Bioethics Discussion: Circumcision (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49431 49431-11453775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on health, tradition, and mutilation.

Readings to consider:
"Male circumcision"
"Female genital alteration: a compromise solution"
"Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework"
"Rationalising circumcision"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/025-circumcision/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:30:45 -0400 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Circumcision
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Sexpertise: Sexuality Through a Social Justice Lens (February 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61068 61068-15027196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Sexpertise is a two-day series of workshops on February 12th and 13th, 2019, planned by and for students. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships through a social justice lens. We'll explore topics of interest to U-M students including empowerment, identities, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:23:55 -0500 2019-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Sexpertise Flier
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (February 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58726 58726-14544831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Friday, February 15, 2019, 1:00-3:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: The promise and peril of evidence-based activism
By: William Darity
Professor, School of Public Policy, Duke University

Round table discussions with noted scholar activists to follow keynote:
-Kristie Dotson, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @DrBlkFeminist
-Alexes Harris, Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Washington, @AlexesHarris ‏
-Mary Romero, Professor, Dept of Sociology, Arizona State University
-Kyle Whyte, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @kylepowyswhyte
-Camille Wilson, Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan

After the keynote and brief panel presentations, each of the speakers will lead a round table discussion, facilitated by ISR's RacismLab members, on how we can integrate action for equality into our roles as researchers and educators. Round table discussion participation is limited and available through sign up. If you would like to participate, please sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/46rQzoLYni48V0h62

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:13:46 -0500 2019-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Disclosure Dilemmas: Hidden Benefits of Revealing Not So Hidden Stigmas at Work (February 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60661 60661-14937076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

This talk will present findings from three sets of studies demonstrating the potential benefits of disclosing hidden stigmas at work. The first examines how vocal cues can differentiate heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals, and how these distinctions can ultimately lead to job-related discrimination. The second study examines how disclosing a non-heterosexual identity can improve interpersonal outcomes when stigmas become known through indirect cues. The third study meta-analytically examines both the intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits of disclosing/expressing a stigmatized identity, as well as the boundary conditions of these effects. These studies are representative of my general program of research in that they identify subtle forms of workplace discrimination as well as potential strategies that stigmatized targets can engage in to remediate these barriers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:47:59 -0500 2019-02-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59562 59562-14752321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 18, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Perinatal Mental Health: racial disparities and rural mental health needs.”

By Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
University of Illinois

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:26 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
The 2nd Annual Data for Public Good Symposium (February 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60915 60915-14988672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Do you have experience in working alongside community partners in data analysis or program evaluation? Do you want to connect with others who are using their skills for public good? National efforts from organizations such as DataKind, Data Science for Social Good, and Statistics without Borders have been expanding in recent years as more individuals recognize their potential to impact social change. Great things can happen when individuals are empowered to dedicate time, resources, and knowledge to the pursuit of public good. Whether we work in the foreground or the background, we can all contribute to improving the lives of those around us.

Statistics in the Community (STATCOM), in collaboration with the Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER) and the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC), invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Data for Public Good Symposium hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). The symposium showcase the many research efforts and community-based partnerships at U-M that focus on improving humanity by using data for public good. If you are interested in attending, please register in the link below.

Presenters:
- Partners for Preschool: The Added Value of Learning Activities at Home During the Preschool Year, Amanda Ketner, School of Education
- University-Community Partnership to Support Ambitious STEM Teaching: Leveraging University of Michigan expertise in education, research, and evaluation to support innovative, interactive teaching across the S.E. Michigan region and beyond, C. S. Hearn, Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER)
- Open Data Flint, Stage II, Kaneesha Wallace, MICHR
- Research-Practice Partnerships at the Youth Policy Lab, A Foster, ISR Youth Policy Lab and School of Education
- The LOOP Estimator: Adjusting for Covariates in Randomized Experiments, Edward Wu, Statistics
- Barrier Busters: Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Strategy to Promote Economic Self-Sufficiency, Elise Gahan, School of Public Health
- Implementing Trauma-Informed Care at University Libraries, Monte-Angel Richardson, School of Social Work
- Why did the global crude oil price start to rise again after 2016?, Shin Heuk Kang, Economics
Poverty and economic hardship in Michigan communities: Data from the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), Natalie Fitzpatrick, Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy
Understanding Networks of Influence on U.S. Congressional Members’ Public Personae on Twitter, Angela Schopke, Chris Bredernitz, Caroline Hodge, School of Information

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:52:27 -0500 2019-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Conference / Symposium 2nd Annual Data for
How 20 Words and an Emoji Led Me to the Front Line of Saving Democracy (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61081 61081-15027220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Part of the Department of Sociology's Law, Justice, and Social Change Speaker Series

Two days after the 2016 elections, 27-year-old Katie Fahey, a political novice, posted on Facebook, “I’d like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan. If you’re interested in doing this as well please let me know. {smiley face emoji}.” What began as a Facebook group, turned into an army of volunteers in a matter of weeks. The massive nonpartisan citizen campaign, now named Voters Not Politicians, gathered over 400,000 signatures to put redistricting reform on the Michigan ballot. The ballot initiative sought to create an independent commission to determine voting districts in Michigan. Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved the ballot measure in November 2018. The success of Fahey’s campaign has made it a model for anti-gerrymandering campaigns—and citizen organizing—across the nation. As Tina Rosenberg wrote in the New York Times, “If you doubt that a private citizen can make a difference, meet Fahey.”

RSVP REQUIRED: https://myumi.ch/65kpB

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:37:47 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Katie Fahey
How 20 Words and an Emoji Led Me to the Front Line of Saving Democracy (February 21, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61081 61081-15027221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:45pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Part of the Department of Sociology's Law, Justice, and Social Change Speaker Series

Two days after the 2016 elections, 27-year-old Katie Fahey, a political novice, posted on Facebook, “I’d like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan. If you’re interested in doing this as well please let me know. {smiley face emoji}.” What began as a Facebook group, turned into an army of volunteers in a matter of weeks. The massive nonpartisan citizen campaign, now named Voters Not Politicians, gathered over 400,000 signatures to put redistricting reform on the Michigan ballot. The ballot initiative sought to create an independent commission to determine voting districts in Michigan. Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved the ballot measure in November 2018. The success of Fahey’s campaign has made it a model for anti-gerrymandering campaigns—and citizen organizing—across the nation. As Tina Rosenberg wrote in the New York Times, “If you doubt that a private citizen can make a difference, meet Fahey.”

RSVP REQUIRED: https://myumi.ch/65kpB

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:37:47 -0500 2019-02-21T17:45:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Katie Fahey
Gender Harassment in Science: Is it Just Me? (February 22, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60849 60849-14972980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

No, it isn’t just you. Sexual harassment is rampant across the sciences and other male-dominated disciplines. Gender harassment in particular, the “put downs” of sexual harassment, are rarely recognized as creating a negative workplace for women and gender minorities. Yet gender harassment is the most prevalent and frequent form of harassment, and thus has similar negative outcomes for women compared to the kinds of singly traumatic sexual events described more often in the media. In this talk, I will show how the history and culture of science creates white masculine ideals that permeate its modern practice, and how these ideals in turn influence the lived experience, productivity, and inclusion of women of color and white women. I will draw from recent publications as well as upcoming projects to demonstrate the ways in which people who are sexually harassed 1) question the validity of their experience, 2) question their scientific identity and worth, and 3) become targeted for intersecting forms of harassment depending on their other identities (e.g., gender identity, race, sexuality).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:49:03 -0500 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58202 58202-14441912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical racism & contemporary social structure" by
David Cunningham, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Hedwig Lee, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Geoff Ward, Associate Professor, Dept of African & African American Studies
all of Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:41:38 -0500 2019-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Constraints and Conventions in African Assortative Mating (February 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61496 61496-15117151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Educational attainment is a central determinant of social positioning in African society, particularly as schooling has spread across the continent. When the educational composition of a population changes, longstanding systems of social stratification are transformed, including intra-marital assortative norms. The relative scarcity or abundance of a given credential influences marital sorting processes in two ways: by altering the composition of the population and by reconfiguring cultural conventions and gendered valuations of status. Using DHS data representing 32 sub-Saharan African countries and five decades of birth cohorts, we examine the prevalence and propensity of educational assortative outcomes as a function of educational access (the percentage of a cohort who ever attended school) and wife's educational attainment. We demonstrate that educational expansion created gendered changes in educational compositions, which led to increased prevalence of hypergamy (wives who married "up") in most countries, despite a growing aversion to hypergamy in nearly all countries and across all educational groups.

BIO:

Margaret Frye's research investigates the complex and often misaligned relationships between culture, ideas, and demographic patterns. Much of our shared culture is about what people do during key life junctures—finishing school, getting married, having a child, starting a career—but our beliefs, ideals, and expectations are imperfect reflections of these demographic regularities. Frye uses a diverse set of both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate these questions. Her research is primarily located in sub-Saharan Africa, and she is currently in the midst of a longitudinal data collection project in Kampala, Uganda, examining changing understandings of status resulting from Uganda’s simultaneous expansion of university education and contraction of formal employment opportunities. Her research has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of sociology, Demography, and Population and Development Review.

A PSC Brown Bag Seminar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:22:48 -0500 2019-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Frye
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (February 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59183 59183-14694669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

"Constraints and conventions in African assortative mating"

Monday, February 25, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Maggie Frye, University of Michigan, Sociology

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:48:21 -0500 2019-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Combining Social and Biological Data (February 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61437 61437-15099359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

• How does bringing a population-based perspective to biological data change what we know about ourselves?

• How best to do this type of research?

• What's going on in the Basement of ISR?

ISR Perspectives presents Jessica Faul & Colter Mitchell as the next speakers in the "Getting to Know ISR" public presentation series.

In recent years a substantial number of population-based and social science studies have begun adding biological data. These data can include genetic and epigenetic measures, telomere length, hormones, brain scans, clinical and inflammation markers, just to name a few. Including biological data expands the reach and potential of social science studies by adding richer health-related content to the survey measures we collect. Researchers using biological data can identify early biomarkers of health conditions and disease, elucidate the consequences of potentially harmful environmental exposures, and discover the mechanisms by which the social context and our life experiences change us on a cellular level. The union of social and biological sciences helps build a stronger case for the importance of social science research.
Refreshments provided!

All Welcome. Presented by the ISR DACCD Perspectives Committee.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact abeattie@umich.edu.


BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Faul received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. She is currently a Research Associate Scientist in the Survey Research Center, a Co-PI of the Health and Retirement Study, and is affiliated with the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA), the Population Studies Center, and the University of Michigan BioSocial Methods Collaborative. Her research focuses on socioeconomic predictors of health and health disparities across the life course, specifically on dementia and cognitive decline in older age. She is interested in research and methods that integrate genetic and other biomarkers into social science research, especially the interaction between genetics, biomarkers and social environments on measures of health and well-being.

Dr. Mitchell is a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Research Center, the co-Director of the ISR Biospecimen Lab and the NIA course Genomics for Social Scientists (both with Dr. Faul), Associate Director of the Biosocial Methods Collaborative, and research affiliate of the Population Studies Center and MiCDA. He leads the collection and analysis of the biological data for the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing project. He has a broad background in sociology, demography, statistics, genetics, and molecular biology. His research utilizes population-based studies to examine how social contextual factors such as family instability, poverty, incarceration, childhood trauma, neighborhood characteristics, and parenting interact with and influence genetic, epigenetic, neurodevelopment, and telomere data and how those in turn predict later life health and wellbeing. He also has a line of research on the collection and analyses of biosocial data.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:38:06 -0500 2019-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Jessica Faul & Colter Mitchell
Forum on Climate Change & Health -- What the Science Says & What We Can Do (February 26, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59580 59580-14754546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

The program includes: a keynote discussion (3:30-5:00 pm) in Forum Hall followed by a reception concluding the event (5:00-6:00 pm). The keynote panel will be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing.
Register (free) here: https://goo.gl/forms/3uK2Qj8SztrhzK4o2
Keynote Panel Live Stream: https://youtu.be/s9zCthg0G8M
This event is organized by the UM Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), NIEHS grant P30ES017885 and is co-sponsored by the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), and UM SPH Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
More information is available here:http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2019.php

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:29:18 -0500 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Climate Change & Health
Bioethics Discussion: Pain (February 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49432 49432-11453776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on what we (don't want to) feel.

Readings to consider:
"The undertreatment of pain"
"Moral agency in pain medicine"
"Suffering and the goals of medicine"
"The unequal burden of pain: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in pain"
"Pain medicine and its models: helping or hindering?"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/026-pain/.

Try not to hurt yourself over at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:32:57 -0400 2019-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Pain
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59564 59564-14752323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 11, 2019
Rm 6050, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Health Contextualized: Inequalities in Physical and Mental Well-Being at the Intersection of Race, Skin, and Place.”

By Taylor W. Hargrove, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:59:44 -0500 2019-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Mental Health (March 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49433 49433-11456547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our internal (dys)functions.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of mental illness"
"Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses"
"Diagnostic issues and controversies in DSM-5"
"How stigma interferes with mental health care"
"Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/027-mental-health/.

Please, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:07:55 -0500 2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Mental health
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
FIXED INTEREST (March 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61628 61628-15159075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: RIW: Risk, Lending, & the Future of Debtor Urbanization

Fixed Interest centers debt as a determinant of contemporary urbanization. We have assembled graduate students and leading scholars to explore the constellation of borrowing and lending and its expression in a variety of geographies, fields of practice, technologies, institutions, labor, and political ideologies. These presentations and discussions will interrogate the fringes and the FIREs (finance, insurance, and real estate) of debtor urbanization. This scholarship examines the relationship between debt and urban and neighborhood decline (in growing and shrinking cities).

Fixed Interest will include three graduate student papers and two lectures by path-breaking UM scholars relating debt to forms of urban and institutional power. Dr Rachel Weber, Professor of Urban Planning & Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will provide the closing lecture on value, property, and urban development.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:59:59 -0500 2019-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) RIW: Risk, Lending, & the Future of Debtor Urbanization Conference / Symposium Symposium Poster
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59565 59565-14752325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, & U-M School of Social Work

Monday, March 19, 2019
Rm 1430, 2:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action.”

Winkelman Lecture

By David Williams, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:36:02 -0500 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
OS Info Night (March 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61168 61168-15045289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Want to learn more about Organizational Studies?

Join us to hear more about this interdisciplinary major based in social sciences where students customize their own education. Enjoy a small community of dedicated and ambitious students with access to top-notch faculty and an engaged alumni network. You'll have the opportunity to hear from the Program Director, Major Advisor, Prospective Student Advisors, and a diverse panel of OS students!

Visit our website in the meantime for more information on the curriculum, application, or to sign-up for a prospective student advising meeting.

Follow us on Facebook to engage with our community and stay up-to-date with OS happenings!

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Meeting Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:42:53 -0500 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 West Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Meeting Organizational Studies
BLI Speaker Series: What's going on in the world of work? (March 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61871 61871-15223795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The recipe for career success used to be clear: get into the best college you can, study something practical, take a job with a name-brand corporation, work your way up the career ladder, and retire to Boca with a company pension and health plan.

But with the corporate world dis-integrating, careers turned into jobs and now jobs are turning into gigs. What are the opportunities and hazards for leaders in this new world of work? Does everyone have to learn Python and SQL, or can you get by on great soft skills?
This talk has all the answers.

Jerry Davis is the Associate Dean for Business+Impact at Michigan Ross, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published widely in management, sociology, and finance.

Davis’s research is broadly concerned with the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether "shareholder capitalism" is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States.

The Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) is a student-powered, faculty-guided community dedicated to developing student leadership learning and practice. The BLI Speaker Series offers an opportunity to explore the rich body of research about engaged leadership and to hear from faculty, organizational leaders and alumni who have worked to develop their own leadership capacity.

Open to the public, free of charge, light snacks

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:03:46 -0400 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Presentation BLISS
Gender: New Works, New Questions- The War on Sex (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57792 57792-14306151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Speakers:
- David M. Halperin (editor), W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, English Department, University of Michigan
- Trevor Hoppe (editor), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Sara McClelland, Associate Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies, University of Michigan
- J.J. Prescott, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:18:23 -0500 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion war on sex book cover
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58205 58205-14441914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical trauma: Racial dispossession & Native populations" by Joseph Gone, Professor, Dept of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:40:41 -0500 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59566 59566-14752326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Physically Vulnerable, but Psychologically Resilient?: Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health.”

By Christy Erving, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:40:32 -0500 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Eugenics (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49435 49435-11456548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who ought to be here.

Readings to consider:
"Eugenics: its definition, scope, and aims"
"The second international congress of eugenics"
"CC Little renaming resolution"
"Buck v. Bell Supreme Court opinion"
"Moderate eugenics and human enhancement"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/028-eugenics/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:10:19 -0500 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Eugenics
Human Flow - Film Screening and discussion (March 28, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60994 60994-15000023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:45pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Human Flow Film Screening & Discussion

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II.
Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration.
The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

https://www.humanflow.com/

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Film Screening Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:28:48 -0500 2019-03-28T17:45:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:45:00-04:00 School of Nursing U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Film Screening Human Flow Film Screening Poster
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59567 59567-14752327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 1, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Stratification and Health: Patterns, Upstream Drivers and Mechanisms.”

By Tyson Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Duke University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:43:58 -0500 2019-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Expo (April 4, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61492 61492-15117148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 11:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

You are invited to the Institute for Social Research EXPO:

Enjoy a variety of ​fun food​!​ (while supplies last)

Xplore the rich portfolio of ISR social science research projects​!​

Peruse a variety of training programs for students, postdocs and faculty​!​

Observe the many opportunities for involvement​ and ​engage​!​

Come learn more about the many exciting projects and programs housed within ISR.
Our featured programs and projects include:

Michigan Program in Survey Methodology AND Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques | Michigan Retirement Research Center | Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) | IRIS | M-CARES (Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study) | PSC Training Programs | LIFE-M (Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database | U-M HomeLab | Poverty Solutions | Panel Study of Income Dynamics | Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS)/ Program in Society, Population and Environment (SPE) | DACCD & Perspectives | ICPSR | ICPSR Summer Program | Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) | Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) and the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) ​| Health and Retirement Study | American National Election Studies | Racism Lab | Staples Staff Development Fund

Please contact abeattie@umich.edu with any questions​ or if you need any accommodations to attend this event.​

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Fair / Festival Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:17:12 -0500 2019-04-04T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Fair / Festival flyer
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (April 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61342 61342-15088105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.

Physician Jonathan M. Metzl’s quest to understand the health implications of “backlash governance” leads him across America’s heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment fueled pro-gun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. And he shows these policies’ costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, rising dropout rates, and falling life expectancies. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise.

Event Accessibility :
Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:09:03 -0500 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover "Dying of Whiteness"
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59568 59568-14752328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 8, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Psychosocial Stress, Health Behaviors and Disparities in Cardiovascular Health between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans.”

By Mosi Ifatunji, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for African American Research
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:48:49 -0500 2019-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Replicability of Medical Studies (April 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49436 49436-11456549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the significance of our results.

Readings to consider:
"Reproducibility in science"
"Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science"
"How many scientists fabricate and falsify research?"
"Is the replicability crisis overblown?"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/029-replicability-of-medical-studies/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:36:18 -0400 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Replicability of medical studies
Studying migration processes using Facebook data (April 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63035 63035-15536930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series (2 of 4)

Professor Zagheni will discuss his work around Big Data in Population Science.

Emilio Zagheni (PhD in Demography, UC Berkeley 2010; MA in Statistics, UC Berkeley 2008) is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also a Data Science Fellow of the eScience Institute. Zagheni is a demographer who uses mathematical, statistical and computationally-intensive approaches to study the causes and consequences of population dynamics. Motivated by the ambition to improve people's lives through the scientific study of our societies, he is consolidating a portfolio that leverages interdisciplinary approaches to monitor demographic change, to explain population processes, and to predict future demographic outcomes. He is best known for his pioneering work on using Web and social media data for studying migration processes. In 2016, he received the Trailblazer Award from the European Association for Population Studies for his pivotal role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Emilio Zagheni has published in top journals in Demography (e.g.Demography, Population and Development Review, Population Research and Policy Review) and Statistics (e.g., Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biostatistics) as well as in computer science conference proceedings (e.g. WebSci, WWW, WSDM, ICWSM). He co-chairs the IUSSP Panel for Digital Demography.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:55:37 -0400 2019-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Emilio Zagheni
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59570 59570-14752329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 15, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racism, Racial Identity, and Psychological Health: Developmental Mechanisms During the Transition to Adulthood.”

By Enrique Neblett, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology-Child/Family Track, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:53:14 -0500 2019-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Data Science at the New York Times (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62827 62827-15477379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: The Data Science group at The New York Times develops and deploys machine learning solutions to newsroom and business problems. Re-framing real-world questions as machine learning tasks requires not only adapting and extending models and algorithms to new or special cases but also sufficient breadth to know the right method for the right challenge. I’ll first outline how unsupervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning methods are increasingly used in human applications for description, prediction, and prescription, respectively. I’ll then focus on the ‘prescriptive’ cases, showing how methods from the reinforcement learning and causal inference literatures can be of direct impact in engineering, business, and decision-making more generally.

Bio: At Columbia, Chris is a founding member of the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, the Department of Systems Biology, and is affiliated faculty in Statistics. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY (http://hackNY.org), a nonprofit which since 2010 has organized once a semester student hackathons and the hackNY Fellows Program, a structured summer internship at NYC startups. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia he was a Courant Instructor at NYU (1998-2001) and earned his PhD at Princeton University (1993-1998) in theoretical physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a recipient of Columbia’s Avanessians Diversity Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:04:51 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Chris Wiggins, PhD
The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It (April 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62736 62736-15453645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Across the world, the far-right occupies positions of power it has not held since World War Two. With social inequality reaching astronomical proportions, the ruling elites are resurrecting all the political filth responsible for the worst crimes of the 20th century.

In Germany, the scene of the holocaust and Hitler’s Nazi movement, fascism is once again rearing its ugly head. A neo-Nazi party, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), is now the main opposition party with high-level support from within the state and academia. Building a mass movement capable of defeating fascism requires learning the lessons of history.

The lessons of the 1930s show that the fight against fascism requires the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist system. Learning these critical lessons is the only way to prevent the disaster of Nazism on an even greater scale today.

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Speaker: Christoph Vandreier, German Trotskyist, prominent leader of the fight against fascism and author of “Why Are They Back? Historical Falsification, Political Conspiracy, and the Return of Fascism in Germany.”

Vandreier is Deputy National secretary of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) in Germany, which was placed under state surveillance on advise of the neo-Nazi AfD for its “anti-fascist” and “anti-capitalist” politics.

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Presentation Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:36:21 -0400 2019-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Youth and Students for Social Equality Presentation Public meeting: The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It – Speaker: Christoph Vandreier, author of Why Are They Back?
Understanding the Social Implications of AI (April 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62790 62790-15466656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

"If we are going to augment humanity with the machine, we need to do it in a way that doesn’t bring along our mistakes of the past."
— Gregory Simpson, Chief Technology Officer for Synchrony Financial

Through mobile phones, the Internet of Things, and web computing, every single day around the globe we create a quintillion bytes of data. Pairing that trove of data with enormous computational power, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making strides into every aspect of everyday living, from emails and targeted advertising, to healthcare and education. But with great power comes great responsibility. This Dissonance Event Series discussion will take a multidisciplinary look at the social implications of artificial intelligence and consider the promises and potential pitfalls we may look forward too.

Panelists include
- Ella Atkins, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, School of Information; Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT

- Ram Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

- Michael Wellman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,College of Engineering (Moderator)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:05:19 -0400 2019-04-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Understanding the Social Implications of A.I.
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59572 59572-14752331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 22, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Discrimination and Cortisol: One Pathway to Health Disparities among Black Americans.”

By Eleanor K. Seaton, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Center for Child and Family Success
Associate Professor, Social and Family Dynamics, T. Denny Sanford School of (SSFD)
Arizona State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:58:31 -0500 2019-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Panel: Viewpoint Diversity and the Future of Intellectual Discourse (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62901 62901-15492418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

We live in increasingly polarized times, and partisan animosity is at a high. Against this backdrop, it is tempting to sort ourselves into echo-chambers. What effects might this have on future discourse about important scientific, ethical, and policy matters? How does polarization affect the academy? Can viewpoint diversity increase the quality of research in politically relevant fields like social psychology, sociology, or political philosophy? Join us for a panel discussion with Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology at Rutgers, and Hrishikesh Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan. All are welcome. Coffee and snacks will be provided!

Hosted by the Freedom and Flourishing Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:29:14 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion F&F Panel
Grad School and Beyond (April 24, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62886 62886-15486006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

When is the right time to look for a job?
What are resources for looking for a job?
How should you work with your committee in the job search process?
How should you handle your applications and reference letters?

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:49:04 -0400 2019-04-24T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Job Market
Department of Sociology Undergraduate Honors Symposium (May 2, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63343 63343-15651046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 2, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The 2019 Department of Sociology Honors Cohort will present their theses.

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Presentation Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:55:29 -0400 2019-05-02T17:30:00-04:00 2019-05-02T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Sociology Presentation
Department of Sociology 2019 Graduation Reception (May 3, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63344 63344-15651047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The Department of Sociology recognizes the importance of graduating from college in the lives of students and families. Each spring, the department hosts a reception for graduating Sociology majors.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:58:07 -0400 2019-05-03T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-03T14:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Sociology Reception / Open House
Michigan Meetings Keynote: Adam Greenfield, Urbanscale (May 10, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63522 63522-15773893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 10, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Adam Greenfield, founder and managing director of Urbanscale, is a passionate advocate for the human-centered design of technological systems.

Between 2008 and 2010, he was Nokia’s head of design direction for service and user interface design; earlier in the decade, he had worked as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of Internet consultancy Razorfish.

He is the author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006), Urban computing and its discontents (2007, with Mark Shepard) and the forthcoming The city is here for you to use.

Adam has spoken before South by Southwest Interactive, LIFT (and LIFT Asia), PICNIC, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, the MIT Media Lab, the Royal Society of London, and a very wide variety of other citizen, professional, corporate, academic and governmental audiences worldwide.

KEYNOTE
LIVING A DIGITAL LIFE: OBJECTS, ENVIRONMENTS, POWER
2019 MICHIGAN MEETING
U-M Rackham Graduate School; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; LS&A; School of Information

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 May 2019 10:51:02 -0400 2019-05-10T16:30:00-04:00 2019-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Adam Greenfield Image
Theorizing and Historicizing: Political Economy, Rights, and Moral Worth (May 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63325 63325-15642810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The symposium we have organized for Margaret Somers reflects the depth and breadth of her research practices and commitments, involving scholars who bridge as widely as possible all her areas of interest, and who have engaged with her work in varying capacities in their own work.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 01 May 2019 15:58:40 -0400 2019-05-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-05-17T18:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium Peggy Symposium
Theorizing and Historicizing: Political Economy, Rights, and Moral Worth (May 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63325 63325-15710565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The symposium we have organized for Margaret Somers reflects the depth and breadth of her research practices and commitments, involving scholars who bridge as widely as possible all her areas of interest, and who have engaged with her work in varying capacities in their own work.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 01 May 2019 15:58:40 -0400 2019-05-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-18T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium Peggy Symposium
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
Book club- Becoming by Michelle Obama Part I: Becoming me (Chap 1-8) (June 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63964 63964-16041377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

This summer MUSES is having a book club featuring "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. Becoming was the #1 best-selling book in 2018 totaling 3.4 million copies. Come join us as we discuss the journey of the first African American first lady of the United States.

The book club will be divided into 3 parts:

Becoming me (Chap 1-8): June 25th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Becoming us (Chap 9-18): July 30th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Become more (Chap 19-24): Aug 27th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D

Food will be provided, Please RSVP here for June 25th, so we can have enough food
If you need a book or have any other question, please contact us at umichmuses@gmail.com

Best,
MUSES Committee

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Meeting Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:09:36 -0400 2019-06-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-06-25T19:30:00-04:00 MUSES Meeting
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
Book Club - Becoming by Michelle Obama Part 2: Becoming us (Chap 9-18) (July 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64488 64488-16372918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MUSES

We will continue our book club featuring "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. Becoming was the #1 best-selling book in 2018 totaling 3.4 million copies. Come join us as we discuss the journey of the first African American first lady of the United States.

We already explored Becoming me (Chap 1-8) on June 25th.

Following, we will explore:
Becoming us (Chap 9-18): July 30th, at 6pm, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Become more (Chap 19-24): Aug 27th, at 6pm, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D

If you would like to join us on July 30th, at 6 pm. Please, RSVP below so we can have enough food.
https://forms.gle/4HhPTKSnUPqUFdaL8

If you need a book or have any other questions, please contact us at umichmuses@gmail.com

Best,
MUSES Committee

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Meeting Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:42:40 -0400 2019-07-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-07-30T19:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center MUSES Meeting Duderstadt Center
U-M Ideas Lab: Informational Webinar on Predicting Human Performance (July 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64096 64096-16147464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Attend this webinar to learn more about the 2019 Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab: Predicting Human Performance.

Experts will:
- present background surrounding the Ideas Lab
- explore the topic in depth
- answer questions live from the audience

Questions may be sent ahead of time to biosciences@umich.edu.
Registration for the webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/e93ed8dbfacf569acde7dc3c8da9331e
On-line attendance- please register yourself and utilize your individual link for the meeting.
In-person attendance- you may register on-line or when you arrive.

About U-M Ideas Lab:
The Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab is your chance to pursue high-risk, high-reward, creative ideas and solutions to broad biosciences challenges alongside colleagues with diverse areas of expertise. Use this interactive think tank funding opportunity to pursue innovative research while still focusing on your current program and other duties.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:01:40 -0400 2019-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar Ideas Lab Banner
Words of Wisdom and Breakfast with Crystal Ashby (September 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65361 65361-16573561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: MUSES

Crystal Ashby is a dynamic and innovative executive with a record of successes leading government and external affairs, legal and ethics and compliance organizations. She has held many executive roles during her career, including VP of BP Oil Company. For years she has helped Michigan female students with her wisdom and advice for a successful career and personal life. This is an opportunity you cannot miss.

If you would like, you can find more about Crystal at https://lab.engin.umich.edu/members/crystal-e-ashby/

Breakfast will be served!
Please, RSVP at the link below so we can provide enough food.
https://forms.gle/brHkoUmScrUt7H9h8

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Meeting Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:40 -0400 2019-09-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building MUSES Meeting
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"
CREES Noon Lecture. Nature, Consumption, and Waste in the Cold War and Beyond (September 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64336 64336-16322405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The goal of this lecture is to reevaluate state socialism’s environmental record from a transnational rather than a comparative perspective. Zsuzsa Gille will argue that state socialist modernity had its own view of nature and materials, as well as a largely misunderstood ethical stance to consumption that is ignored in today’s studies of Capitalocene examining the interrelations of capitalism and climate crisis. The presentation will provide an overview of the environmental advantages and disadvantages of central planning with an eye to demonstrating how Cold War-era trans-bloc relations and a unique socialist economic logic mutually constituted each other. In discussing the post-1989 developments, she will demonstrate a missed opportunity for a greener postsocialism. Instead of returning to the rightfully criticized Anthropocene term, Gille will argue for a more central role for waste and materiality in our understanding of the current dilemmas around global environmental problems.

Zsuzsa Gille is professor of sociology and director of global studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of "Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union" (Indiana University Press, 2016); "From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary;" co-editor of "Post-Communist Nostalgia" with Maria Todorova (Berghahn Press, 2010); co-editor of the forthcoming book "The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe;" and co-author of "Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World" (University of California Press, 2000).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:33:55 -0400 2019-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Hungarian industrial poster
PSC Brownbag: Postdoc Introductions (September 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66766 66766-16776777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Keeping with tradition, we will welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Arianna Gard, Dr. Heejung Jang, Dr. Sarah Patterson. Each will give a brief description of their professional paths, present a summary of their doctoral work, overview of postdoctoral project and additional research interests, etc.

Please bring your lunch.

Monday, 9/16/2019, 12:00pm

Location: 6050 ISR Thompson St

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:01:57 -0400 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories (September 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66955 66955-16787747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in her honor. These interdisciplinary scholars build on the foundations of cultural history while also defining and embracing new historical
questions in ways that keep gender, race, sexuality, and cultural practice at the core of their research. This conference will feature papers that centralize the margins of the French empire; foreground interpersonal relationships in the process of artistic, intellectual, and cultural production; and position science as an integral part of politics, culture, and society, including historical practice.

The conference will feature the research of current University of Michigan students working in these areas as well as former students engaging in interdisciplinary historical scholarship on French cultural history. Michigan faculty will chair each session. Dena Goodman, one of the most innovative historians in this field, will provide closing remarks for the conference.

Participants:
Former Michigan Students:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2011)
Steve Auerbach, Georgia College and State University (Michigan B.A., 1991; LSU History
Ph.D., 1999)
Katie Cangany, Notre Dame University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2003)
Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Michigan Musicology Ph.D., 2013
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside (Michigan History Ph.D., 2008
Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University (Michigan Art History Ph.D., 2012)
Robert Kruckeburg, Troy University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia (Michigan History and Women’s Studies Ph.D., 2008)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Michigan History and Anthropology
Ph.D., 2006)
Sean Takats, George Mason University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2007)
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University (Michigan History and Women's Studies Ph.D., 2010)

Current Michigan Students:
Haley Bowen, University of Michigan (Doctoral Student, History)
John Finkelberg, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Courtney Wilder, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, Art History)

Michigan Faculty:
Joshua Cole, History
David Hancock, History
Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Women’s Studies
Bill Paulson, Romance Languages
David Porter, English and Comparative Literature
Susan Siegfried, Art History and Women’s Studies

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:24:28 -0400 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories (September 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66955 66955-16787748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in her honor. These interdisciplinary scholars build on the foundations of cultural history while also defining and embracing new historical
questions in ways that keep gender, race, sexuality, and cultural practice at the core of their research. This conference will feature papers that centralize the margins of the French empire; foreground interpersonal relationships in the process of artistic, intellectual, and cultural production; and position science as an integral part of politics, culture, and society, including historical practice.

The conference will feature the research of current University of Michigan students working in these areas as well as former students engaging in interdisciplinary historical scholarship on French cultural history. Michigan faculty will chair each session. Dena Goodman, one of the most innovative historians in this field, will provide closing remarks for the conference.

Participants:
Former Michigan Students:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2011)
Steve Auerbach, Georgia College and State University (Michigan B.A., 1991; LSU History
Ph.D., 1999)
Katie Cangany, Notre Dame University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2003)
Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Michigan Musicology Ph.D., 2013
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside (Michigan History Ph.D., 2008
Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University (Michigan Art History Ph.D., 2012)
Robert Kruckeburg, Troy University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia (Michigan History and Women’s Studies Ph.D., 2008)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Michigan History and Anthropology
Ph.D., 2006)
Sean Takats, George Mason University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2007)
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University (Michigan History and Women's Studies Ph.D., 2010)

Current Michigan Students:
Haley Bowen, University of Michigan (Doctoral Student, History)
John Finkelberg, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Courtney Wilder, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, Art History)

Michigan Faculty:
Joshua Cole, History
David Hancock, History
Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Women’s Studies
Bill Paulson, Romance Languages
David Porter, English and Comparative Literature
Susan Siegfried, Art History and Women’s Studies

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:24:28 -0400 2019-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775
Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66470 66470-16736454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Brady T. West of the University Of Michigan's Program in Survey Methodology, as he conducts a half-day workshop titled "Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data". This workshop is designed for survey data analysts of all skill levels, and will present theoretically appropriate methods of analyzing survey data collected from complex sample designs. Dr. West will also present the implications of incorrect analyses based on his research findings from a meta-analysis of analytic error, while also providing examples of proper design-based data analysis techniques using SAS and Stata. As always, this workshop is free and open to the public.

Topics include:

• Overview of theoretically appropriate design-based analysis of survey data collected from complex samples

• Case studies in analytic error (including findings from a meta-analysis of recent scientific publications), and the implications of using incorrect analysis methods

• Appropriate use of survey weights and design-based methods of variance estimation for population inference related to descriptive parameters and regression models

• Examples of proper design-based data analysis techniques using SAS and Stata (attendees are also welcome to ask about similar methods in other software packages)

BIO:

Dr. West's current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer variance, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of the book Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software and co-author of the book Applied Survey Data Analysis.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:09:44 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster for Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data
BIONIC Lunch: The Quantified Self (September 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63776 63776-15873594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion on big data, tiny electronics, and the ever shifting boundary between what we know about ourselves and how we measure up to others.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/tHcf9gDFAF6YeYHt5

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:59:34 -0400 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Quantified self
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66679 66679-16770194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Improving Data Quality for Web Surveys in Real Time through Predictive Modeling Using Paradata

Paradata are a rich source of data that are collected through little additional effort by researchers. However, paradata are often underutilized. This study suggests a novel approach to use paradata to alter the survey itself in real time in order to improve data quality.

Through a predictive model, paradata about the responses will be utilized to alter the presentation of the survey questions themselves. First, if respondents straight-line through a grid section of the survey, following grids could be changed to single item questions in order to discourage straight-lining. Second, if respondents display multiple indicators of poor data quality, key questions could be moved forward in the survey to present earlier. This second option reduces survey length, lowers cognitive burden for respondents that are taking short cuts, and prevents drop-offs. Both of these techniques could help to improve data quality.

Though programming a survey to adapt in real time may involve a large effort in the beginning, once employed it could be used across projects for little additional cost. Improving data quality should be a goal of everyone in the survey research community. As web surveys continue to increase in frequency of implementation, the focus on data quality of this mode should be a priority.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:22:32 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
Examining Harassment Experiences Among National Park Service Employees (September 27, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66710 66710-16770296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

In September of 2014, the Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewell received a letter of complaint from 13 former and current National Park Service (NPS) employees who described incidents of discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environments they experienced or witnessed over their 15 years of collective employment at NPS (US Department of the Interior, 2016a). These complaints were validated by the DOI Inspector General and subsequently triggered investigations and congressional hearings into the nature and extent of sexual harassment within the NPS work environment. In response to these events, the leadership of the NPS renewed its commitment to making substantial and long-term cultural changes at the agency to prevent sexual harassment and to ensure every employee has a safe and respectful work environment (Reynolds, 2016). As part of these efforts, the leadership of the NPS commissioned a study of the work environment at the NPS. The study was designed to assess employees’ attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors on a wide range of topics related to the character, context, correlates and consequences of harassment and/or assault behaviors experienced by employees within the NPS work environment. This presentation will present findings related to employees’ experiences with harassing and/or assault behaviors and situational factors surrounding these experiences. The presentation will also report findings regarding demographic, occupational, and organizational factors linked with harassing and/or assault behaviors experienced at work; and job-related consequences of harassing and/or assault behaviors experienced at work. The presentation will discuss how the results from the study served to inform, influence and impact strategic and long-term efforts to change the NPS culture, to prevent sexual harassment and ensure that every employee has a safe and respectful work environment.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:35:16 -0400 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
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
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66680 66680-16770195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Switching away from web surveys: what can we learn from JavaScript "OnBlur" functions about response behavior?

The increase in web surveys allows researchers to collect a variety of paradata alongside traditional survey responses. Some paradata, such as response times, enjoy a long tradition in survey research, but others, such as window/tab switching, are only rarely used in survey research. In this talk, I focus on the usefulness and usability of JavaScript "OnBlur" functions informing about how often and for how long respondents switch away from web surveys. For this purpose, I present the results of two empirical studies: the first study explores the impact of on-device multitasking, such as switching away to check social media notifications, on response behavior. The second study, in contrast, focuses on the consequences of looking up answers online for measuring political knowledge. The talk ends with a discussion of further fields of application for JavaScript "OnBlur" functions in survey research.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:29:55 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
Interpersonal Workplace Mistreatment: From Antecedents to Intervention (October 4, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65118 65118-16517533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

From incivility and undermining, to harassment and aggression, researchers have documented the many ways in which people mistreat one another while on the job. Research shows that interpersonal workplace mistreatment is associated with harm to individual targets, bystanders, and organizations. However, less scholarship is focused on understanding the antecedents to workplace mistreatment and ways to intervene - why it happens and what to do about it. This talk will review research my colleagues and I have done to help understand ways to counter workplace mistreatment and build respectful workplaces, as well as research opportunities in this area of organizational studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:03:20 -0400 2019-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Second Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture: "Beyond the Decolonial Turn: The Imaginary as Will to Feel" (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66334 66334-16727913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of American Culture

As a deconstructive tool, does the decolonial necessarily expose colonial powers, structures, laws, and institutions? What are the flaws of a decolonial theory that regards a materialist perspective while occluding the spirit of the mind and body? It is as if the method and the theory exist in parallel universes, never to touch or entice each other but instead battle in a false binary. And yet, we cannot have theory without method; we cannot have a materialist, grounded “real” critique without the affective body, without the people who feel, who touch, who experience and imagine other ways of being. The imagination, after all, is the door to creativity, to other ways of being and knowing. Overall, the real without the imaginary lacks vision and affirms a two- dimensional, uninspired ontology and epistemology. I’m posing the “will to feel” as a mode that reasserts the imaginary within the decolonial. Ultimately, can the “will to feel” transform us and the toxic world we inhabit in the 21st century?

There will be a light reception following the lecture.

Dr. Emma Pérez earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2017, she joined the University of Arizona as a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center and a Professor in the Department of Gender/Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her novels include, Gulf Dreams (1996); Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009), which earned the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009) and 2nd place in Historical Fiction from International Latino Books (2010). Her most recent novel, Electra’s Complex (2016) is a mystery set in an east coast college. She continues to research and write about LGBT Chicanx/Latinx through a queer of color lens.

ATTN: There will also be a private brunch with Emma Pérez for Graduate Students. RSVP required: https://forms.gle/5fNfoMHzPhEFzUH98

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:27:26 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Photo
“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
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
Addressing Sexual Violence with Institutional Courage (October 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65119 65119-16517534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Sexual violence (including sexual assault and sexual harassment) occurs frequently and can cause substantial harm. Sexual violence is often experienced in the context of an institution (such as a university); our research indicates that associated institutional behaviors can harm or help. In this presentation I will present concepts and research related to these issues: betrayal trauma theory & betrayal blindness, DARVO (Deny, Attack, & Reverse Victim & Offender; a harmful perpetrator response to disclosure), institutional betrayal, and institutional courage. I will conclude by offering concrete steps that individuals and institutions can take to respond well to disclosures and to address sexual harassment and promote institutional courage.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:37:29 -0400 2019-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
“Daring Greatly”: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (October 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64612 64612-16396978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us for a study of Brene Brown’s popular book “Daring Greatly”. This book talks about how we are all enough and having the courage to be vulnerable in a world where everyone wants to appear strong, confident and like they know what they’re doing. This class will include book discussion, self-reflection and practical ways to apply this to everyday life.

This study group for those 50 and over will be led by instructors Bernadette Beach and Barbara Cherem. It will meet for two hours on Wednesdays from October 16 through November 6.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:54:52 -0400 2019-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
OLLI Reads "What the Eyes Don't See" (October 21, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64678 64678-16426885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk.

And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice.

OLLI Reads invites OLLI members and others to read together and discuss two books a year. This fall we are collaborating with Great Michigan Read, and other community partners, to enjoy participating in a wider project. Michigan Humanities’ Great Michigan Read creates a statewide discussion each year on the humanities themes of a selected book.

Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, is the founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative. Currently an associate professor of pediatrics and human development at the MSU College of Human Medicine, she has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for her role in uncovering the Flint water crisis and leading recovery efforts.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is not required to attend this event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:19:40 -0400 2019-10-21T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Osher Logo
Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control: Tracing the development of early career research on racial health inequities (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68117 68117-17011958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Racial inequities in health have been documented and described in the public health literature for decades, yet these inequities have remained or even increased. In order to move forward, we must understand the role of cultural and structural racism upon which these inequities are built. Cultural racism shapes our society's structure and ultimately shapes the answers to the questions: "Whose life counts? Who is worthy of a healthy life?" In this presentation, Dr. Hicken will discuss the interwoven nature of both career trajectory, as a former PSC predoctoral trainee, and the development of her science on cultural and structural racism and health inequities. Specifically, she will outline her theory on racism and health and describe her collaborative data project designed to empirically examine this theory.

BIO:
Dr. Margaret Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the UM RacismLab, an interdisciplinary research collected designed to facilitate the career progression of scholar who study cultural and structural racism. She is also director of the Landscapes of Racism Dispossession and Control data project, supported with funding from NIDDK, NIMHD, and NIA, to examine the ways in which historical and contemporary forms of racial control have resulted in contemporary health inequities.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:05:11 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hicken
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68015 68015-16983970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research - Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:57:45 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Trent Buskirk
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Graduate Certificate Info Session (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67933 67933-16969022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Join us for an information session about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Graduate Certificate!

Wednesday, October 23rd, 4:00pm-5:00pm
5240 Weill Hall
There will be SNACKS!

Do you want to learn how science and technology policy is made? Are you interested in the social and ethical implications of developments like gene editing and autonomous vehicles? Are you concerned about the increased politicization of science and research funding?

In the STPP graduate certificate program, graduate students from across the University analyze the role of science and technology in the policymaking process, gain experience writing for policymakers, and explore the political and policy landscape of areas such as biotechnology, information technology, energy, and others. Graduates of the STPP certificate have gone on to a range of policy-engaged scientific roles in government, NGOs, and academia.

More information about the program is available at: http://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/graduate-certificate/

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Presentation Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:21:49 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Presentation Information Session promotional slide
Machine Learning in Survey Research (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68286 68286-17039621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Adam Eck (assistant professor of computer science, Oberlin College), as he conducts a half-day workshop titled “Machine Learning in Survey Research”. This workshop is designed for population/survey researchers and analysts of all skill levels, and will present an introduction to machine learning concepts and their applications to survey research (such as sample frame creation, respondent modelling, and open-ended response coding).

Topics Include:
• Introduction to machine learning and its applications to survey research
• Decision trees and random forests
• Deep learning and other neural network-based techniques
• ML techniques to model respondent behaviors, assist with coding of open-ended responses, and more
• Demonstration using R and Python

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP).

BIO:
Adam Eck is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Oberlin College. His primary research and teaching interests include: intelligent agents and multiagent systems, machine learning, data science, and computer-aided education.

More specifically, Adam enjoys learning about and developing solutions within decision making under uncertainty (how should agents gather information and behave to maximize rewards in complex, dynamic environments), reinforcement learning (how can agents learn how their worlds' operate in order to guide their decisions), and sequential supervised learning using recurrent neural networks (how can we predict future outcomes based on sequences of past observations).

REGISTRATION:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:01:52 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Machine Learning in Survey Research poster
Little MUSES Mixer (October 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68082 68082-17009753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: MUSES

Don't you wish you knew certain things earlier in your education? Don't you wish you knew others like you that are going through or have already gone through similar difficulties in your education? Come join us at Little MUSES Mixer where you will have the opportunity to get to know others like you and share your experiences. In this event, graduate and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to interact and network over great food and activities.

Please, RSVP on the link below so enough food is provided
https://forms.gle/yHZrVfSjn1CJSVMJ7

Best,
MUSES Committee!

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Meeting Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:45:22 -0400 2019-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building MUSES Meeting
Diversity and Inclusion Counts: How Quantifying Diversity and Inclusion Can Influence Racial Inequality in Higher Education (October 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68908 68908-17194945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

A semester never goes by without news highlighting some aspect of racial inequality occurring on our campuses, such as disparities in graduation rates, who pursues different majors, interpersonal experiences such as microaggressions, or blatant racist actions that mark the campus climate. Many of our universities invest in promoting diversity and inclusion, including monitoring progress in different areas, but what if some of our approaches can hide or even reproduce racial inequality on campus?

W. Carson Byrd, a 2019-2020 NCID scholar-in-residence, will discuss a snippet of his current research examining how the processes and policies at universities can reinforce racial inequality on our campuses, particularly when campus units rely on numbers-driven approaches to both measure and monitor progress of diversity and inclusion.

W. Carson Byrd is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville and a 2019 NCID scholar-in-residence. Dr. Byrd's research examines how colleges and universities can simultaneously operate as centers for social mobility and engines of inequality with particular attention to the reproduction of racial inequalities on college campuses. He is currently working on a new book tentatively titled Behind the Diversity Numbers: What Makes a University “Too White” and How to Change Racial Inequality in Higher Education that examines how universities’ uses of quantitative approaches to diversity and inclusion can shape racial inequality on campuses. He is also the author of Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses (Rutgers University Press), an examination of how college students’ social interactions influence what they think about race and inequality, and co-editor of Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses (Rutgers University Press), a collection of intersectional studies of college students, faculty, and staff.

Sponsored by the National Center for Institutional Diversity, Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Sociology.

The National Center for Institutional Diversity Research and Scholarship Seminar Series features scholars who have furthered our understanding of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality — as they occur and affect individuals, groups, communities, and institutions. The series also highlights how research and scholarship can be applied to address current and contemporary diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in higher education and society.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:32:07 -0400 2019-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Image of Carson Byrd
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68016 68016-16983972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research
Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:22 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Youjin Lee
Iran Beyond the Headlines (November 1, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68917 68917-17194956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Persian Student Association

Iran is one of the key elements in shaping America’s foreign policy..... yet it remains one of the most misrepresented countries in the American media. As Anthony Bourdain put it, “The Iran you see from the inside—once you walk the streets of Tehran; once you meet Iranians—is a very different place than the Iran you know from the news.”

Come join us for a presentation to debunk stereotypes, and get a better glimpse of Iranians and Iranian life.

****Free Persian dinner provided!****

Please RSVP at the following link: https://forms.gle/NX33EWj5YmtDTgcF8

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Presentation Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:42:07 -0400 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 East Hall Persian Student Association Presentation Iran Beyond the Headlines
“Everybody Lies” (November 4, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64613 64613-16396979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former Google data scientist, lecturer at the Wharton Business School, and NY Times opinion writer, draws this conclusion in the title book. He analyzed data derived from bits of information left on Google, social media, dating, and even porn sites, that reveal people’s personal truths.

He maintains that Internet searches done in private and social media postings reveal what folks really think and that people lie to friends, lovers, surveys – even themselves. The author covers inner feelings on topics such as prejudice, hate, sex, abortion, how we fill our time, our Facebook friends, our communities, and many other subjects. He then covers what Big Data does well, does poorly, and what it should and shouldn’t be used for.

This study group for those 50 and over will read and discuss this book. The first session will cover the Foreward and Introduction (p. xi - 24).

Instructor Gerry Lapidus has lead over 50 OLLI book discussion groups on topics such as social science, politics, and religion.

This study group will meet for two hours on Mondays from November 4 through December 16.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:00:21 -0400 2019-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Logics in Conflict: Campus Sexual Assault in a Time of Legal Uncertainty (November 8, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68560 68560-17096959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

In 2011, the Office for Civil Rights, the Department of Education unit responsible for compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, circulated a “Dear Colleague Letter” (DCL) clarifying that peer sexual assault was sexual harassment and thus negligent responses could place schools in violation of Title IX. The 2011 DCL had major implications for the adjudication of peer sexual violence. Compliance with the DCL required American universities receiving federal funds to change their policies. Most did, a few did not. Among those that did, responses were more heterogenous than might have been expected given that federal funding is at stake. This heterogeneity is also puzzling theoretically, as socio-legal theorists expect organizations to display at least symbolic compliance with legal mandates. We argue that one reason for this puzzling response was that prior to 2011, most universities had policies to address what they referred to as “student sexual misconduct.” Peer-to-peer sexual violence was understood as a form of student misconduct, to be handled by student conduct professionals. While civil rights lawyers had come to understand peer sexual assault as a Title IX issue, this was not obvious to student conduct professionals. Nor were student conduct professionals prepared to cede their turf to civil rights experts. The ensuing collision between civil rights and student conduct logics generated a range of heterogeneous outcomes. Theoretically, we will discuss how organizational change is produced out of processes of organizational bricolage, or hybridization.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:23:44 -0400 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
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
Building a Legacy with Dr. Susan Montgomery (November 12, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68643 68643-17130510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:45pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: MUSES

This year is MUSES' 20th year anniversary, and our theme this year is Building a Legacy. On Nov 12th, we will have the pleasure to host a very special guest, Dr. Susan Montgomery, that truly represents what legacy looks like.

Doctor Susan Montgomery has had an important role in mentoring and advising students and student organizations throughout her career. She joined the University of Michigan in 1993 after a two-year postdoc developing educational modules following her PhD from Princeton University. She has taught many courses over the years including ‘Teaching Engineering’ which molds future engineering faculty. She has served as an advisor for undergraduate chemical engineering students, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and Habitat for Humanity. Recently she received the “Achievement Award” at the Willie Hobbs Moore Luncheon, given to an individual in STEM whose achievements encourage and inspire others to achieve their goals. She is in the process of transitioning to phased retirement, and certainly her contributions to our organization and our community at the University of Michigan will be forever remembered.

All are welcome!

When: Nov 12th, at 6pm.
Where: Johnson Room, Lurie Engineering Center (1221 Beal Ave)

Dinner will be provided. Please, RSVP below so enough food is provided.
https://forms.gle/StwpgEtjUurczAVz9

for more information or questions, contact umichmuses@gmail.com

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Meeting Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-11-12T17:45:00-05:00 2019-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr MUSES Meeting This was taken with the old Nikkor f1.4 35mm AIS, wide open, making for a pretty abstract image.
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69183 69183-17261059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Fertility and mortality trends are the most fundamental determinants of human populations, and Western industrialized countries have witnessed notable changes in these patterns in recent decades: fertility rates have declined, and life expectancy has continued to increase. While demographers and other social scientists have explored the broad implications of population aging, less well understood are the individual-level consequences of conjoint changing fertility and mortality patterns. In particular, there is limited information about the extent to which life courses overlap today versus in prior decades and the implications of such. In this paper, we provide new evidence about generational overlap between grandparents and grandchildren using population register data from Denmark. We describe changing patterns of grandparents being alive-and life expectancy-at grandchildren's birth. Then, we evaluate differences in these patterns by socioeconomic status. These findings have implications for the transmission of inequality, as well as resource demands on governments.



BIO:
Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the wellbeing of children and parents. Her recent work is focused on changing patterns of parenthood and family complexity, including differences by socioeconomic status. She has published in a range of demography, family and general social science journals.


PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:56:21 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop (November 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69414 69414-17318580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Discussion of third year paper.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:26:40 -0500 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
How to Negotiate Your First Job Offer Webinar (November 20, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69447 69447-17324763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:15pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

Everyone should negotiate their first job offer but offer negotiations are hard. Negotiating is hard because most graduates dread the experience. Negotiating is also hard because recruiters are negotiating experts. On the other side of the table, recruiters have years of negotiating expertise. This FREE webinar will illuminate what are the tactics that recruiters use to win offer negotiations, what are tactics a candidate can employ, and how you can make an extra $10,000 from simply being a more effective negotiator. Free webinar by Ralph Inc (https://www.withralph.com/)

This webinar is focused on Masters and PhD students
When: Nov 20th, at 12:15pm
Where: You can access the webinar from your own computer. sign-up on the link below and the webinar link can be sent to you


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGlMglhl3rY-SYsIENEqrWG0Yq_pPoanyog2fWozEO-ayfgg/viewform

for more information and questions, please contact: Fatoumata Fall at fatu@withralph.com

Sponsored by the MUSES

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Meeting Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:05:37 -0500 2019-11-20T12:15:00-05:00 2019-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 MUSES Meeting Offer negotiation free Webinar
School district segregation and the racial inertia of parental choices since 1970 (December 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69186 69186-17261061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Since the 1970s, residential segregation between school districts has accounted for two thirds of all school segregation in the U.S., but it is unclear how much families prioritize racial characteristics of school districts when they choose where to live. I analyze the relative importance neighborhood and school district characteristics on residential selection for households from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics between 1970 and 2015 using a discrete choice analysis. A post-estimation counterfactual simulation reveals the partial effects of micro sorting behaviors on macro segregation. I find that racial avoidance has played an increasingly prominent, but always secondary, role in segregation between districts since 1970, with economic and housing characteristics adding little explanatory power. More than half of district segregation is explained by tendencies to stay or move to nearby neighborhoods without crossing district lines. District recirculation reinforces the inertia of historic racial exclusion at a large, socially meaningful spatial scale.

BIO:
Peter Rich is a sociologist at Cornell University studying the intersection of structural inequality, individual choice, and public policy in the United States. His work primarily examines how micro sorting processes affect policies intending to expand opportunity to under-served populations. Peter's recent projects analyze spatial inequality between school districts, the effect of charter school expansion on racial segregation, trends in parental residential sorting during and after the era of school desegregation, and the contextual origins of racial gaps in educational outcomes.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:19:26 -0500 2019-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Peter Rich
Conversation with Dr. Brandi Jones, guest speaker from CoE DEI Lecture Series (December 3, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69785 69785-17423617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:30pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

Come join us for a conversation with Dr. Brandi Jones, speaker guest from the CoE DEI Lecture Series. This conversation will help underrepresented students navigate engineering PhD programs in ways that will allow them to progress academically. In particular, the session will focus on socialization as an important factor in graduate student success. The session will explore social integration, academic community building, activating social capital, and navigating the culture of engineering.

for more information about Dr. Brandi Jones, use the link below
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/leadership/brandi-jones/

When: Dec 4th, 1:30-2:45
Where: TBD

RSVP on the link below so we know how many people are coming
https://forms.gle/7dQv9FG4Pqb4YYUx7

This conversation will be after her talk from 12- 1pm with titled Equity-Minded Action: Promoting a culture of excellence in strategies and outcomes for Black engineering students at East Pierpoint Commons

for more information, contact: umichmuses@gmail.com

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Meeting Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:27:30 -0500 2019-12-03T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T14:45:00-05:00 MUSES Meeting
Conversations on Europe. What’s Left of the Yellow Vest Movement (December 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65695 65695-16629901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The emergence of the yellow vests movement, its rapid extension, its endurance, and its popularity have been a source of surprise and confusion among politicians as well as commentators. Whereas it was initially viewed as a mere reaction to an increase in fuel tax, it soon appeared to be a broader protest against the policies led by Emmanuel Macron regarded as deepening economic inequalities. Instead of responding to the claim to more social justice, the government first expressed contempt but soon used repression, the violence of which caused hundreds of severely wounded. Characterized by a unique repertoire of action, an unusual combination of social groups and a grassroots organization without clear leaders, the mobilization challenged traditional forms of democratic representation. While it is too early to assess its long-term signification, it has however revealed the resistance of the “classes populaires” to authoritarian neoliberalism.

Didier Fassin is professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. A physician, sociologist, and anthropologist, he has conducted research in various countries on issues related to inequality and immigration. His recent works are ethnographies of the police, the justice system and the prison institution as well as on the idea of crisis.

Anne-Claire Defossez is researcher in social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. A sociologist, she was previously a public manager heading the administration of two large cities in the Paris region. Her current work is about women’s participation in local politics and about the crisis of democratic representation in France.

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

(Image: “Mouvement des gilets jaunes Bruxelles” by Pelle De Brabander is licensed under CC BY 2.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0])

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:47:43 -0400 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion “Mouvement des gilets jaunes Bruxelles” by Pelle De Brabander is licensed under CC BY 2.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0]
Bioethics Discussion: Antinatalism (December 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52723 52723-12974156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the end to our means.

Readings to consider:
1. The Last Messiah
2. Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
3. Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti-Natalism
4. The Ethics of Procreation and Adoption

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/037-antinatalism/.

Tell your descendants to consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-12-10T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Antinatalism
Our Compelling Interests Series: Leveraging Diversity (December 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64781 64781-16776795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Please join us for a panel discussion on Leveraging Diversity as contributors to the Our Compelling Interests book series and initiative share their perspectives on what we gain from diversity. The panel will explore the diversity narratives as well as how we leverage diversity to create new forms of a healthy civic nation. Joining the moderator, U-M professor Angela Dillard, will be contributors to the first three volumes in the book series and the co-authors of the highly anticipated fourth publication.

Immediately following the book event, we invite you to a reception in the East Conference Room (4th Floor) from 5:30–6:30 p.m., where you will have an opportunity to speak to the panelists.

Livestream is available for the event; please access here, https://media.rackham.umich.edu/rossmedia/Play/42227c81203b464aa9749df4ee0e40831d

MODERATOR
Angela Dillard
Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies and in the Residential College, University of Michigan

PANELISTS
Tony Banout
Senior Vice President, Interfaith Youth Core

Nancy Cantor
Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark

Gary Orfield
Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles; Co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA

Scott Page
John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:26:04 -0500 2019-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion Our Compelling Interests Series: Leveraging Diversity; book cover artwork for the three volumes of the series; Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 4:00–5:30pm