Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research: Perspectives from New Scholars (January 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70636 70636-17611219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Program for Research on Black Americans present:

MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research:
Perspectives from New Scholars

Jan 20 || 2:30 pm
ISR 1430 Thompson
Reception immediately following panel discussion

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Lloyd M. Talley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work

Taylor W. Hargrove, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DeAnnah R. Byrd, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

MODERATED BY:
David C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Delaware

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:03:54 -0500 2020-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Welcome MUSES (January 22, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71502 71502-17836313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MUSES

This semester we will have monthly lunches designed to build our community of women of color in STEM field. We would like to invite you to come and have lunch with us and celebrate the new semester. Relaxation coloring activities will also be available.

When: Wed, Jan 22nd, 11:30am-1pm
Where: Duderstadt 1120 Conference Room D

Please, RSVP here so enough food is provided
https://forms.gle/YHUSoeLUHAy5gvMY9

Mark on your calendar following events (all at the same location)
MUSES personal finance - Wed, Feb 26th, 11:30am-1pm
MUSES personal journal - Wed, Mar 25th, 11:30am-1pm
MUSES commemoration - Wed, Apr 15th, 11:30am-1pm

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Meeting Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:37:10 -0500 2020-01-22T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center MUSES Meeting Statue of a woman thinking
Make Your Questions Count: Students and Social Justice in the Data Age (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71817 71817-17888059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

In the spirit of Dr. King's strides towards social justice, the new Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) program in LSA is partnering with UROP to highlight social science research by undergraduate students focusing on social justice and furthering knowledge of humankind and their interactions within societies. Make Your Questions Count: Students and Social Justice in the Data Age will include posters of undergraduate student research, as well as a discussion about the advantages and pitfalls of applying data - big and small - to questions addressing society and social justice.

Join us for LUNCH and LEARNING on Friday, January 24 from noon-2pm in the newly renovated Michigan Union's Pond Room (1st floor - by the Panera entrance).

SOCIAL SCIENCE MAJORS/MINORS: If you've done work in the social justice arena and would like YOUR research to be featured in our event, submit your poster and information about your project to https://forms.gle/5DNL4vhbmo9RP9vf9 no later than midnight on Wednesday, January 22 to be included in the program. Participation in UROP is not required to submit your project!

We hope to see you for lunch on Friday!

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Presentation Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:12:06 -0500 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Presentation QMSS Lunch and Learn
Contraceptive Access Research and Evaluation (January 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71198 71198-17785629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) presents a panel discussion on contraceptive access research and evaluation, with Martha J. Bailey (UM), Katie Genadek (CU-Boulder, US Census Bureau), Jason Lindo (Texas A&M, NBER, IZA), Vanessa Dalton (UM).

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

BIOS:

Dr. Bailey's research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography and health in the United States, within the longer-run perspective of economic history. Her research has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women's childbearing, career decisions, and the convergence in the gender gap. Her most recent projects focus on evaluating the shorter and longer-term effects of Great Society programs, including a recently published book (co-edited with Sheldon Danziger) on the legacies of the War on Poverty. Bailey is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow and in 2007 was an RWJ Health Policy Research Scholar.

Dr. Genadek's research is focused on the relationship between work and family and policy impacts on women's labor supply and household labor. She has ongoing work in areas of couples' time spent together, workplace flexibility, and women's work in a historical context. She is currently analyzing the effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative with a team of scholars in Colorado.

Dr. Lindo's recent and ongoing work is especially focused on documenting the effects of changes in access to reproductive healthcare. This work includes an evaluation of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative and an evaluation of the abortion clinic closures precipitated by Texas HB-2, which were at the center of the US Supreme Court case, Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt.

Dr. Dalton's research interests include family planning and contraception, access to care, healthcare utilization, and human rights. She is Associate Chair of Research in U-M's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the director of the Program on Women's Health Care Effectiveness Research (PWHER), and Co-Director of the Ryan Residency Training Program.



Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:12:14 -0500 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T13:31:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation contraceptive pills
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020 (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72053 72053-17922808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

2019 was a year of global mass protest in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, France, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Haiti and many other countries. Millions of people filled the streets against social inequality.

This global wave of social struggle swept through the United States, where 50,000 autoworkers engaged in the largest auto strike in more than forty years.

The word “socialism” is gaining popularity, especially among young people and workers. Billions are opposed to unending war, unprecedented levels of social inequality, the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, environmental degradation and all the consequences of capitalism.

But does socialism mean working within the same capitalist political parties who are responsible for inequality and war, as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claim? No. Genuine socialism means mobilizing the strength of billions of workers, dismantling the militaries, seizing control of the corporations and reorganizing the world economy to meet social need, not private profit.

This meeting will review the state of world politics and outline a program and perspective for the working class to fight back.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:09:46 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020. 7 PM Monday, January 27. University of Michigan. Michigan League, Vandenberg Room.
Privacy@Michigan 2020 (January 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71094 71094-17777056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register to attend the Privacy@Michigan Symposium and Research Showcase Tuesday, January 28, 1 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre (4th floor) and celebrate the 2020 International Data Privacy Day. Attendance is free and open to the public but space is limited. Please RSVP.

For a schedule of events and to register visit: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan/2020

Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of The New York Times Privacy Project, will give the keynote address. Multi-disciplinary experts will participate in panel discussions on a range of privacy-related topics. A privacy fair including a privacy clinic, where students help with general privacy questions, and posters showcasing privacy research at the University of Michigan will be available throughout the afternoon.

This event organized by the University of Michigan School of Information, University of Michigan Information Assurance, and the Dissonance Event Series.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:49:19 -0500 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium Privacy@Michigan Symposium - Keynote Speaker: Kathleen Kingsbury
Bioethics Discussion: Michigan (January 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52725 52725-12974158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our state.

Readings to consider:
1. 2019 State of the State
2. Michigan Health Policy for the Incoming 2019 Gubernatorial Administration
3. ACA Exchange Competitiveness in Michigan
4. Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why?

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/039-michigan/.

For the ever-present state of things, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/




...Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:55:44 -0500 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Michigan
Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71370 71370-17903275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Michael S. Roth — historian, curator, author, and public advocate for liberal education — is the 16th president of Wesleyan University and former president of California College of the Arts. He is the author of six books, including Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters (Yale University Press, 2014), winner of AAC&U’s 2016 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. President Roth’s newest book is Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness (Yale University Press, 2019), which addresses some of the most contentious issues in higher education in the US, including affirmative action, safe spaces, and questions of free speech.

This event is part of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Research and Scholarship Seminar Series, which features scholars who advance our understanding of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality.

The series also highlights how research and scholarship can address current and contemporary social issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:40:41 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Headshot of Michael Roth
Utopia vs. the City Keynote: Saskia Sassen, Columbia University (January 31, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70919 70919-17753821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014) now out in 15 languages. Recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 5th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2018). Among older books are The Global City (Princeton University Press 1991/2001), and Guests and Aliens (New Press 1999). Her books are translated into over 20 languages. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, including multiple doctor honoris causa, named lectures, and being selected as one of the top global thinkers on diverse lists. Most recently she was awarded the Principe de Asturias 2013 Prize in the Social Sciences and made a member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Netherland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:39:28 -0500 2020-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Saskia Sassen
Status Exchange in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Newlywed Couples (February 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71804 71804-17885894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Partners in same-sex coresidential unions are less likely than partners in different-sex coresidential unions to resemble each other on demographic characteristics such as age, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment. Using recent data from the American Community Survey, this study uses conditional logit models to examine assortative matching patterns among same-sex and different-sex newlywed couples defining marriage markets in a variety of ways. Regardless of how markets are defined, same-sex male couples are less likely than same-sex female couples and different-sex couples to match on race and age. These patterns are somewhat consistent with the notion that individuals seeking a same-sex partner must cast a broad net due to a small number of available partners. This study extends prior research on this topic by directly examining the extent to which partners in the three union types trade valued traits (i.e., compensating differentials). The results suggest that gay men use status exchange as a strategy to find a marriage partner who is similar in terms of overall trade values.
BIO:

Kara Joyner is a Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University and served as Associate Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research for six years. Her research addresses how a variety of factors influence the formation and dynamics of relationships, including friendships, romantic/sexual relationships, cohabiting relationships, and marriages. It also considers how different types of relationships influence well-being and identifies factors that moderate this influence. She has conducted much of this research using data from the Add Health. As a Principal Investigator on an NICHD-funded subproject for a P01 (directed by H. Elizabeth Peters), she recently compared estimates of fertility across major U.S. surveys and developed population-based estimates of male fertility.

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

Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:11:04 -0500 2020-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation Kara Joyner
Paint and Pour- with people like you (February 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72084 72084-17937812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: MUSES

The Movement of Underrepresented Sisters in Engineering and Science (MUSES) will be getting together and learning how to do a beautiful painting with Alesha Jackson. This is a great time to relax and build a community among minority women on campus.

When: Sat, Feb 8th 3pm
Where: Chrysler, Room 265 (North Campus)

Please, RSVP here so enough supplies can be provided
https://forms.gle/BgLHdQ97HAk3MrkC9

Event is sponsored by RSG and the College of Engineering

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Meeting Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:45:58 -0500 2020-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center MUSES Meeting Chrysler Center
Love Data Week 2020 with ICPSR (February 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72635 72635-18033409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ICPSR has some great opportunities for you to get involved in 2020 Love Data Week (Feb. 10-14)! First, "Adopt a Dataset (http://myumi.ch/Pl05D)" is back by popular demand! In addition, #LoveData20, an international event, is focusing on working with students to help them get to know the data specialists at their institution, the kinds of work they do, and the data and associated issues that these data specialists engage with. See ICPSR's #LoveData20 hub (http://bit.ly/LDW2020) for more information, and also follow us on Twitter @ICPSR!

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Other Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:13:49 -0500 2020-02-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Other Love Data Week at ICPSR is February 10-14, 2020
OS Hosts Douglas Guthrie (February 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72169 72169-17948639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Doug Guthrie is an organizational sociologist and China scholar. As a former senior executive with Apple in China (2014-19), he will be on campus to provide his experience and insight on organizational strategy and structure.

Talk Title: Organizational Strategy and Structure in the Era of Xi Jinping: The Case of Apple in China

China is a critical location for multinational corporations for a number of reasons: It is the world’s most populous nation, arguably the world’s largest market, and it is home to the world’s most innovative supply chain. After a decade of the Chinese government’s laissez-faire attitude toward foreign corporations operating in China (under Hu Jintao), in 2013, the political environment changed significantly with the ascension of Xi Jinping. Many foreign corporations were caught off guard, and some paid a heavy price. How companies responded to this new political environment is a question of organizational strategy, structure, and design — issues that are at the core of organizational research. In this talk, drawing on decades of China research, and five years as a senior executive working for Apple in China (2014-19), I will use the Apple case to discuss the complexities of navigating China’s current political environment. We will explore Apple’s unique organizational structure — both internally and externally — and its strategy for approaching this critical challenge.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:42:39 -0500 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation doug githrie
STEM Identities and the UM Experience (February 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72267 72267-17966041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: MUSES

How has your identity impacted your experience at U-M? Engage in welcoming group conversations to unpack how troubling individual experiences have common threads. Groups will brainstorm solutions we can enact and strategies we can use to move forward and address issues we’re facing on campus. Be on the lookout for future events like this! Dinner provided!
Please RSVP: https://bit.ly/2NvYMMx

Date: Mon, Feb. 10th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Johnson Rooms, 3rd Floor, Lurie Engineering Center

Co-Sponsors: SHPE-GC, GSBES, MUSES, GEO, SFTP, MSE GSC, ME Dept, and CoE OSA.

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Meeting Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:26:41 -0500 2020-02-10T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-10T19:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) MUSES Meeting Different people with different identities celebrating and doing different things
Love Data Week 2020 with ICPSR (February 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72635 72635-18033410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ICPSR has some great opportunities for you to get involved in 2020 Love Data Week (Feb. 10-14)! First, "Adopt a Dataset (http://myumi.ch/Pl05D)" is back by popular demand! In addition, #LoveData20, an international event, is focusing on working with students to help them get to know the data specialists at their institution, the kinds of work they do, and the data and associated issues that these data specialists engage with. See ICPSR's #LoveData20 hub (http://bit.ly/LDW2020) for more information, and also follow us on Twitter @ICPSR!

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Other Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:13:49 -0500 2020-02-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Other Love Data Week at ICPSR is February 10-14, 2020
Love Data Week 2020 with ICPSR (February 12, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72635 72635-18033411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ICPSR has some great opportunities for you to get involved in 2020 Love Data Week (Feb. 10-14)! First, "Adopt a Dataset (http://myumi.ch/Pl05D)" is back by popular demand! In addition, #LoveData20, an international event, is focusing on working with students to help them get to know the data specialists at their institution, the kinds of work they do, and the data and associated issues that these data specialists engage with. See ICPSR's #LoveData20 hub (http://bit.ly/LDW2020) for more information, and also follow us on Twitter @ICPSR!

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Other Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:13:49 -0500 2020-02-12T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Other Love Data Week at ICPSR is February 10-14, 2020
Love Data Week 2020 with ICPSR (February 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72635 72635-18033412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ICPSR has some great opportunities for you to get involved in 2020 Love Data Week (Feb. 10-14)! First, "Adopt a Dataset (http://myumi.ch/Pl05D)" is back by popular demand! In addition, #LoveData20, an international event, is focusing on working with students to help them get to know the data specialists at their institution, the kinds of work they do, and the data and associated issues that these data specialists engage with. See ICPSR's #LoveData20 hub (http://bit.ly/LDW2020) for more information, and also follow us on Twitter @ICPSR!

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Other Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:13:49 -0500 2020-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Other Love Data Week at ICPSR is February 10-14, 2020
Love Data Week 2020 with ICPSR (February 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72635 72635-18033413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ICPSR has some great opportunities for you to get involved in 2020 Love Data Week (Feb. 10-14)! First, "Adopt a Dataset (http://myumi.ch/Pl05D)" is back by popular demand! In addition, #LoveData20, an international event, is focusing on working with students to help them get to know the data specialists at their institution, the kinds of work they do, and the data and associated issues that these data specialists engage with. See ICPSR's #LoveData20 hub (http://bit.ly/LDW2020) for more information, and also follow us on Twitter @ICPSR!

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Other Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:13:49 -0500 2020-02-14T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Other Love Data Week at ICPSR is February 10-14, 2020
The Summer Institute: ISR's deep dive in Survey Research Techniques & Big Data (February 19, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72598 72598-18024701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Take an hour dive into ISR's Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT). With our Faculty, you'll learn about:

- Big Data and Survey Data enhancement and intersection
- Continuing education to strengthen skill sets
- SISRT's long history & evolution
- Training opportunities & investment
- Distinction between SISRT and the ICPSR Summer Program

Now in its 73rd year, The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is a training program offered by the Survey Research Center at ISR providing summer courses in data collection, survey design and sampling methods to an international audience of research professionals and students from a variety of quantitative disciplines. Anyone who is interested in the survey research process can benefit from taking courses in the Summer Institute.

Presented by ISR Perspectives Committee in the Getting to Know ISR series.

Refreshments provided.

BLUEJEANS VIDEO ARCHIVE:
https://bluejeans.com/s/rZ0fP



SPEAKER BIOS:

BRADY T. WEST's research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures "Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software", and he is a co-author of a second book entitled "Applied Survey Data Analysis."

JAMES LEPKOWSKI received a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Michigan. His current research interests involve the development of survey data collection and analysis methods, including the design of telephone samples for households in the U.S.; the behavior of analytic statistics when data are obtained from complex sample surveys; imputation methods to compensate for item missing data in surveys; weighting to compensate for unit nonresponse; and the interaction between interviewer and respondent in the survey interview.

RAPHAEL NISHIMURA is the Director of Sampling Operations of the Survey Research Operations (SRO) within the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He holds a PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from the University of São Paulo. His main research interest includes sampling methods, survey nonresponse and adaptive/responsive designs.

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Presentation Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:07:41 -0500 2020-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation Summer Institute poster
From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68807 68807-17153411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• MORE SPEAKERS AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

• Keynote address by Dr. Birnbaum will be livestreamed.

• Registration (free) is required.

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

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:21:01 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium PBB to PFAS symposium Feb 20 2020
"Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men" (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69536 69536-17357973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration experiences, from their upbringing in Mexican cities and towns, to their cross-border journeys, to their incorporation into urban gay communities in American cities, and their sexual and romantic relationships with American men. These men’s diverse and fascinating stories demonstrate the intertwining of sexual, economic, and familial motivations for migration.

Professor Carrillo is the author of two books: The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2017). His current research investigates the sexualities of straight-identified men who are sexually interested in both women and men, as part of a larger project on the paradoxes of sexual identity as a social construction.

Carrillo serves as a member of the editorial boards of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamericana. He is a past chair of the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association, and he served as co-chair of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science track of the XVII International AIDS Conference. He also has a history of involvement in HIV/AIDS community based organizations.

Presented by the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:09:33 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Héctor Carrillo, Professor, Northwestern University
Evidence-Based Data Visualization (February 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72152 72152-17946490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

PDHP kicks off our 2020 workshop series on Feb. 21st, with a workshop entitled Evidence-Based Data Visualization, presented by Dr. Audrey Michal of the Michigan Department of Psychology. This half-day workshop will provide a general introduction to data visualization techniques, while introducing a unique evidence-based approach to data viz design (based on Dr. Michal's research on visual routines in graph comprehension and interpretation), and different data visualization strategies for data exploration versus data explanation. Attendees will also get hands-on practice creating different types of data visualizations with R software, using GGPlot2 and other state-of-the-art R packages. As always, this workshop is free and open to the public.

Topics include:

• Introduction to data visualization and principles of data viz design
• Evidence-based practices for data viz (from Dr. Michal's research on graph interpretation)
• Data viz strategies for data exploration vs. explanation
• Hands-on practice creating different types of data visualizations using R's GGPlot2 package.

Registration Required:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

Dr Michal's current work focuses on developing and testing various learning interventions to teach middle and high school students scientific reasoning skills, such as how to critically evaluate evidence in science media reports.

The Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) provides resources and services that support innovative approaches to data collection and analysis and the development of early-career population scientists, as well as research on significant and emergent issues in population dynamics and health.

PDHP is part of the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research. Its faculty affiliates include population scientists from a diverse range of academic disciplines and departments.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:15:53 -0500 2020-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar event poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s Growing Brand in Global Health (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70968 70968-17760241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In areas ranging from universal healthcare to HIV prevention and access to medicine to health technology assessment and tobacco control, Thailand’s public health programs have come to be regarded as a model for the industrializing world. How is it that a resource-constrained nation on the global periphery has produced model policies that are critical to public health and human life so consistently amid such political turmoil? What has led these policies to travel abroad? And more generally, how has a small nation in Southeast Asia exercised such outsized influence in international affairs? Drawing on Fulbright-funded research with policymakers in Thailand and Geneva, this project examines the roots of Thailand’s surprising success.

Dr. Joseph Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University and conducts comparative and historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, public policy, and global health. He is the author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017). Dr. Harris has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, most recently as Specialist on the Political Economy of Healthcare Reform for the Japan-World Bank Project on Universal Coverage. He is a past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Henry Luce Scholarship and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy Studies before joining the faculty at BU. In 2017, Dr. Harris received the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching and a Fulbright Scholarship for a project that explores the diffusion of Thailand’s model public health policies abroad. He serves as Associate Editor at Social Science and Medicine.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:17:36 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Who Gets What They Want and Why? Black-White Differences in Pregnancy Desire and Pregnancy (February 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73037 73037-18129635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

PSC Brown Bag Series presents Jennifer Barber:

This talk draws from two papers, one that investigates whether Black and white women's desires for pregnancy are different during the transition to adulthood, and another that investigates whether Black women who have a strong desire to postpone pregnancy are less likely to see those desires fulfilled than their white peers. The papers draw from Arline Geronimus' weathering framework and Linda Burton's ideas about uncertainty and instability in the Black community to understand Black-white differences in desires for young pregnancy, alongside Warren Miller's Traits-Desires-Intentions-Behavior framework to understand why some women are more likely than others to get what they want in terms of childbearing. Both papers use the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life dataset, which followed a sample of 914 young women ages 18 and 19 with weekly survey interviews for 2.5 years. The analyses also draw from 60 semi-structured interviews with a sub-sample of these women, in which interviewers discussed the women's desires and plans for their future, including childbearing.

We demonstrate that (1) Although young Black women are significantly more likely than young White women to express ambivalence or indifference toward a pregnancy in the near future, those feelings are very rarely expressed by women in either group; (2) Black women experience a smaller reduction in the risk of pregnancy when they do not desire to become pregnant compared to White women; and (3) This Black-White disparity is in part because Black women are more likely than White women to think their intimate partner wants them to get pregnant, which is in turn associated with less contraceptive use.

Other researchers' interpretations of higher rates of undesired pregnancy among Black women as evidence that they do not want to plan their pregnancies may exacerbate racial disparities in undesired pregnancy by facilitating White women's childbearing desires more than Black women's childbearing desires. In contrast, we conclude that it is likely that many Black women who say they want to delay pregnancy really do want to delay pregnancy, but are unable to do so.
BIO:

Jennifer Barber is Professor of Sociology and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center at University of Michigan. In Fall 2020, she will be Professor of Sociology and Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. Barber's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of family sociology, demography, and social psychology, with a focus on young/teen pregnancy, intimate relationships, reproductive control, and intimate partner violence. Her program of research has been continuously funded by NICHD for twenty years. She recently completed an intensive longitudinal data collection project, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study, which collected weekly surveys from 1,000 18- and 19-year-old women for 2.5 years, along with 75+ semi-structured interviews and administrative data. The RDSL focuses on the types of attitudes, intimate relationships, and contraceptive practices that lead to young pregnancy. Barber's work using these data integrates statistical and qualitative analyses. Her current projects focus on (1) how violent and/or demanding intimate partners derail young women's post-secondary education plans, (2) how the dissolution of violent and non-violent intimate relationships during the transition to adulthood varies across demographic groups, and (3) how intimate relationships shape young women's expectations and ability to control heterosexual intercourse and contraceptive use

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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Presentation Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:37:55 -0500 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation Jennifer Barber talk poster
Bioethics Discussion: Overpopulation (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52727 52727-12974161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on one to(o) many.

Readings to consider:
1. Having Children: Reproductive Ethics in the Face of Overpopulation
2. The Ethics of Controlling Population Growth in the Developing World
3. Overpopulation and the Threat of Ecological Disaster: The Need for Global Bioethics
4. Threats and burdens: Challenging scarcity-driven narratives of “overpopulation”

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/041-overpopulation/.

If it's not too crowded, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:56:30 -0500 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Overpopulation
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70972 70972-17760245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism
Wednesday, February 26
10am - 6pm
ISR-Thompson 1430

Morning Session
10am - 12:00pm
Creating Diverse, Joyful, and Productive Working Groups

Working Group Lunches
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon Session
2pm - 4:30pm
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Racism

Poster Session
4:30pm - 6pm

RacismLab invites you to join in celebrating its five-year anniversary, in conjunction with University-wide MLK 2020 programming, for the 2020 RacismLab Symposium and concurrent Poster Session on Wednesday, February 26.

NETWORKING LUNCH FOR POST-DOCS and FACULTY:
Early-career scholars (i.e., postdocs and assistant professors) are invited to sign up for the networking lunch during the symposium. The networking lunch, led by Dr. Debbie Rivas-Drake, will explore strategies for creating diverse, joyful, and productive research groups. For more information and to sign up for a working lunch roundtable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIZfoohv6CHmg99EFgXlSEvfSQYmAJ4cvUUaVsy80hBCp7g/viewform

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:38:30 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium event flyer
Book Club - Part 1: More than enough: claiming space for who you are (no matter what they say), by Elaine Welteroth (February 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72085 72085-17937813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MUSES

The Movement of Underrepresented Sisters in Engineering and Science (MUSES) has a new book club this semester. The book chosen is "More More than enough: claiming space for who you are (no matter what they say), by Elaine Welteroth.

If you would like to join us with this book club, please RSVP with the link below:
https://forms.gle/6MBQY3WEyVwVL4VW7

Books will be given to people interested to come to our discussions.

When: Thu, Feb 27th, 6pm-7pm
Where: North Campus, room: TBD

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

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Meeting Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:56:48 -0500 2020-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center MUSES Meeting Duderstadt Center
ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: William D Lopez, PhD (March 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73220 73220-18179627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Presents:

"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" by William D. Lopez.

In "Separated," Dr. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals.

Dr. Lopez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Many of you may be familiar with Dr. Lopez and his work from his time in RCGD a few years ago. Dr. Lopez is also Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Limited copies of the books are available NOW to be signed out at ISR Thomson HR Office #1078 and the Perry Receptionist desk.

It is a pleasure to host Dr. Lopez at ISR for a visit on March 4th to present on his book! This is a special opportunity to meet the author and have your book signed!

Special Author Visit & Talk
Wednesday, March 4th
ISR Thompson 1430
10:00am-11:30am

Book Signing
11:30am-12noon

To purchase Dr. Lopez's book: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=%099781421433318

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:18:25 -0500 2020-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington (March 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73221 73221-18179628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind

Wednesday, March 11, 2019 (Earth Week)
1:00pm to 3pm
ISR Thompson 1430ABCD

Virtual Live Stream Presentation with: Join us at ISR or online at https://bluejeans.com/569501572

In support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Social Research and School of Public Health we are excited to partner in bringing an award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington.

Washington will join us via livestream to discuss her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."

Ms. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the environmental discussion presenting an argument that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, one that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ achievement gap.

The book explains that environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services is terrible for the brain. Ms. Washington investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at
Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus
Nonfiction Award.

Presentation Co-Sponsors: ISR (ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming & School of Public Health

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:34:03 -0400 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Harnessing the Geospatial Components in Social Science Research Data (March 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73699 73699-18298296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ICPSR at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

In this webinar, co-organized by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), we will take a look at ICPSR’s data archive from a “geospatial” perspective. This webinar is free and open to anyone interested in accessing data or services related to social science research and/or wants to learn more about geospatial aspects of these data.

The webinar will consist of an overview of AAG and ICPSR, followed by a demo on different ways of searching for geography-related data in ICPSR’s archive and a few examples of data containing geospatial identifiers. Finally, a short overview of other scholarly services at ICPSR will be provided, such as the development of ICPSR’s geospatial virtual data enclave (GVDE) infrastructure, leadership and training for the social science research community in data access, curation, methods of research data analysis, and guidance to members about managing their data responsibly and ethically to support research.

Presenters: Bing She (ICPSR), Coline Dony (AAG), and Stuart Hutchings (ICPSR) will take any questions from attendees related to searching and accessing ICPSR data as well as questions on how to harness the geospatial component in these research data. If you are interested to read more details about the AAG or ICPSR’s, and their data archive, we recommend this recent AAG Newsletter article: http://news.aag.org/2019/12/icpsr-provides-access-to-carefully-curated-geography-related-data/

This virtual workshop will also be offered at the Annual Meeting of the AAG in Denver, more info at this link: http://myumi.ch/518WB

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:39:22 -0400 2020-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location ICPSR at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual Webinar alert: Webinar alert: "Harnessing the Geospatial Components in Social Science Research Data," March 20, 2020, 2 PM EDT
CANCELLED - Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Reinterpreting Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Comparative Perspective (March 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71497 71497-17834210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally eventful. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, lived through two dictatorships, a republic, and a civil war, and died in a democracy. In this lecture, Professor Casanova will reflect on the main historiographical currents that have guided his research in the last three decades: social history and change, with special emphasis on civil wars and revolutions; comparative historical sociology; and collective violence in the 20th century.

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University. He has authored and co-authored important books on the history of Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s Spain which were published, in English, by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and I.B. Tauris. He is currently completing a new book about collective violence in twentieth-century Europe, to be published in April 2020. In addition to his scholarship, Casanova is a frequent contributor to the Spanish "El País," and serves as a historical consultant in the television and film industry, both in documentaries and TV series and films.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:31:18 -0400 2020-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion cassanova_image
Bioethics Discussion: Solitude (March 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52729 52729-12974163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link is below.

https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A discussion on who we are when we are alone.

Readings to consider:
1. The Solitude of Self
2. An overview of systematic reviews on the public health consequences of social isolation and loneliness
3. Individual Good and Common Good: A Communitarian Approach to Bioethics
4. Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone

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/043-solitude/.

Take some time alone with the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:12:37 -0400 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Solitude
CANCELED: CID Inaugural Lecture: Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73082 73082-18140496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:22:34 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CANCELLED. STS Speaker. All in the Family: U.S. Demography and the Origins of Neoliberalism (March 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70368 70368-17586195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Neoliberalism is generally understood as an intellectual and political project to retool regulation to protect capital. Consequently, scholars of neoliberalism have traced its progenitors and principles to the disciplines of economics and law. But new scholarship suggests compellingly that neoliberalism is not only a philosophy of government and markets but also a philosophy of care—one that upholds the private family (in lieu of the state) as the ultimate provider and underwriter of that care. Seen in this light, an alternative history of proto-neoliberal ideas reveals itself among a corpus of social scientists whose work has gone unremarked in the historiography of those ideas: demographers.

This talk reframes postwar U.S. demography as a crucible in which the ideal of “family responsibility” for the costs of human welfare was first forged, and global “family planning” as the technoscientific project through which that principle was eventually—and powerfully—instantiated.

Bio: Savina Balasubramanian is assistant professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is a historical sociologist of gender and science in transnational perspective. Her current book manuscript, Intimate Investments: The Science and Politics of Family Planning in Cold War India, tells the story of how American demographers pursued family planning in non-aligned India as an effort to serve U.S. goals to stifle the formation of a robust welfare state in the country—and how the Indian state implemented family planning in ways that conformed to and departed from demographers’ visions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 20:10:46 -0400 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Census 2020: Opportunities and Challenges - Virtual Event (April 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71194 71194-17785608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Virtual Event - https://bluejeans.com/693473684

The Michigan Population Studies Center presents a panel discussion on Census 2020: Opportunities and Challenges, with Barbara A. Anderson, William Frey, David Johnson.

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

BIOS:

Dr. Anderson studies the relationship between social change and demographic change. Her research focuses on the former Soviet Union, China and South Africa. Her teaching centers on the relationship between social and demographic change and on technical demography.

Dr. Frey specializes in migration, population redistribution, and the demography of metropolitan areas. He is currently studying the dynamics of race and status-selective immigration and internal migration dynamics in U.S. metropolitan areas with the 1980-2000 Censuses. He also studies the migration and distribution of the elderly population in the U.S. as well as poverty migration determinants. Frey directs the Social Science Data Analysis Network (www.SSDAN.net) that creates demographic media for educators and policy-makers.

Dr. Johnson's research interests include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes.

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Presentation Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:53:39 -0400 2020-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation U.S. Map
Bioethics Discussion: Responsibility (April 7, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52730 52730-12974164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what we owe to ourselves and others.

NOTICE: Online hosting procedure https://bluejeans.com/7569798571.

Readings to consider:
1. Social Responsibilities of Bioethics
2. The Concept of Responsibility: Three Stages in Its Evolution within Bioethics
3. Bioethics for Whom?
4. Towards an Ethics of Blame

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/044-responsibility/.

Please read the blog responsibly: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:12:34 -0400 2020-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Responsibility
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy (April 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70269 70269-17556193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

This talk examines the unfolding controversy surrounding human genome editing in and across China’s national public sphere and national sphere of experts, the transnational public sphere, and the transnational sphere of experts between 2015 and 2019.

Ya-Wen Lei is an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Contentious Public Sphere" (Princeton University Press, 2018).

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 Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:03:23 -0400 2020-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Beautiful Boy (April 29, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73660 73660-18278619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Addiction Center

Please join us at 7:30pm on April 29 at the Michigan Theater for a screening of the film Beautiful Boy, followed by a Q&A with Joanna Quigley, M.D. and Sarah Rollins, LMSW, from the U-M Department of Psychiatry and U-M Addiction Treatment Services.

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. Starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan. 2018. Drama. 121 min. R.

This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Addiction Center.

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:31:38 -0500 2020-04-29T19:30:00-04:00 2020-04-29T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Addiction Center Film Screening Beautiful Boy
VIRTUAL EVENT: Confronting our Climate Grief in the time of COVID-19 (May 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68154 68154-17018328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

This workshop will be held via Zoom (link to follow via email prior to the event). For safety and privacy, you must be registered to receive the link.

In 2017, the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica published, “Mental Health and our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance.” In October 2018, the U.N. released a report warning that without “unprecedented” political actions, we will likely see catastrophic conditions by 2040. Globally, most communities are already experiencing effects of climate change, and the poorest members of society remain most vulnerable. In this uncertain context, climate grief is real, particularly as the crisis is largely beyond any individual’s ability to control. As a scholar studying climate change, Sampson has sought emerging evidence-based strategies in hopes of coping and building resiliency. In this workshop, together we will: 1) confront our sometimes silent, biggest fears related to climate change, 2) identify ways our community or current professional work may be climate-affected, and 3) create a personal climate resiliency plan that may include household or community action or policy advocacy strategies.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:22:57 -0400 2020-05-07T14:00:00-04:00 2020-05-07T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual Natalie Sampson
Motor City at a Standstill: Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Detroit (June 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74752 74752-18962487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
11:00am EST
Zoom: https://bit.ly/2Afy5YH

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit has emerged as an epicenter of the crisis. To date, more than 1300 Detroiters have died from a coronavirus infection and 43 percent of city residents have lost their jobs. In this ISR Insights talk, Jeffrey Morenoff (Professor, Sociology and Public Policy; Director, Population Studies Center) and Lydia Wileden (PhD Candidate, Sociology and Public Policy; Population Studies Center trainee) will discuss efforts by the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study -- a panel study of more than 1100 Detroiters -- to capture the real-time experiences of Detroiters and share insights from two survey waves on the dramatic financial precarity facing many Detroit households and the behavioral and economic changes residents are making to get by.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 May 2020 21:12:24 -0400 2020-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Suffrage at 100: Women’s Rights, Civil Rights, and Voting Rights from 1920 to COVID-19 (June 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74709 74709-18946562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

The links to access this event will be available on the OLLI website the day prior to the event.

The Nineteenth Amendment is popularly celebrated for enfranchising half of all Americans overnight. But who actually gained the ability to vote after the woman suffrage amendment was ratified? In “Suffrage at 100,” Liette Gidlow, Ph.D., explores the “long history” of the Nineteenth Amendment, connecting it to the voting rights struggles of the 1960s and today.

Liette Gidlow is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, where she is participating in the Long Nineteenth Amendment Project at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 26 May 2020 14:28:32 -0400 2020-06-04T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-04T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lecture
Pandemic Times, Histories for the Present (June 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74855 74855-19018158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The present crisis often is described as and feels unprecedented. What can historical thinking, with its focus on precedents, contribute to our coming to terms with the COVID-19 pandemic? Jacqueline Antonovich and Powel Kazanjian will explore this and other questions about the place of history in the present moment in a one hour conversation, moderated by Helmut Puff. This remote event is presented in webinar format via Zoom and will be recorded for internal purpose only.

Jacqueline Antonovich is a historian of US health and medicine at Muhlenberg College. She also is the co-founder and executive editor of Nursing Clio, a peer-reviewed blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender, health, and medicine.

Powel Kazanjian is the director of the AIDS Program and a member of the History faculty at the University of Michigan. As a historian, he is interested in and has published on the history of bacteriology, epidemics, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Helmut Puff is a historian of early modern Europe and the director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Please pre-register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eeuGjI4TSTeX0SLabRumiA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:55:39 -0400 2020-06-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Clerks in New York work with masks on during the 1918-19 flu pandemic. (The National Archives)
Wealth and the Persistence of Racial Inequality (June 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74898 74898-19065440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, June 17, 2020
11am EST
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98604209689

As the country grapples with its persistent problem of racial injustice, this ISR Insights talk will focus on one aspect of long-standing racial inequality — gaps in family wealth. Featuring new findings on the depth and persistence of racial wealth gaps, Fabian Pfeffer (Associate Professor, Sociology; Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, ISR) will also clarify why rising levels of wealth inequality present a major challenge to the economic prosperity and opportunity of most families in this country.

This webinar is the third in a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR.  If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.  This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:35:19 -0400 2020-06-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
A Dialog About the Definition of Sex – Should it Include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity? (June 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74965 74965-19112544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This event is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

Currently the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the meaning of the word “sex” in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the primary federal law prohibiting discrimination in employment. The Court has been asked to decide whether the definition of sex in U.S. law includes sexual orientation and gender identity.

Join attorneys Maureen Carroll (UM Law Professor) and Angie Peron, JD, MSW, MA, (Executive Director of SAGE Metro Detroit) who familiar with the issues for a panel discussion to learn more about current arguments to the court, and information about a court ruling if a decision is made at the time this class meets.

Join at: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/96725990606?pwd=MDk3ZE5vNjRxbDJublE0RXRsenpUUT09
US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 558 8656
Webinar ID: 967 2599 0606
Password: 289083

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Class / Instruction Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:15:26 -0400 2020-06-22T10:00:00-04:00 2020-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Special Online Lecture
Mental Health and Well-being Among Older Americans During the Pandemic: The COVID-19 Coping Study (July 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75039 75039-19175351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

Wednesday, July 15, 1pm
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92804413123

COVID-19 has both immediate and long-term consequences for the health and well-being of Americans. Older adults are not only at higher risk for severe illness from the disease, but may also be especially vulnerable to social and emotional harms associated with the pandemic. In this ISR Insights talk, Jessica Finlay (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Social Environment and Health, ISR) and Lindsay Kobayashi (Assistant Professor, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health) will discuss insights from the COVID-19 Coping Study of nearly 7,000 adults aged 55+ from across the country. The talk will share participants’ perspectives and diverse experiences during the first upswing of the pandemic, including major sources of stress and ways of coping.

If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:59:29 -0400 2020-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
Survey Research and African Americans: The National Survey of American Life (July 15, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75197 75197-19324451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Blalock Lecture Series and the Getting To Know ISR series are pleased to co-present Dr. Robert Taylor and David Thomas in a talk on ISR's Program for Research on Black Americans and the associated data archived at ICPSR.

Robert Joseph Taylor, MSW, Ph.D., is the Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor and the Harold Johnson Endowed Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. He is the Director of the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research. He is currently on the editorial board of Society and Mental Health and Race and Social Problems and has served on the editorial boards of Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Family Relations. Professor Taylor has published 3 books and over 175 journal articles in two major areas—African American family social support networks and African American religious participation. He has been Principal Investigator of several grants from the National Institute on Aging which examine the role of religion in the lives of Black and White elderly adults. He has been Co-Principal Investigator with James Jackson on several grants from the National Institute of Mental Health on the correlates of mental health and mental illness among Black Americans including the only major national probability surveys of Black Americans (The National Survey of Black Americans and the National Survey of American Life). He has been selected as one of the 250 Highly Cited researchers in the General Social Science Category by ISIHighlyCited.com (Creators of the Citation Index and Current Contents). The selection of a researcher is based on the total number of citations received by that individual as recorded in the ISI database between 1981-1999.

David Thomas supervises staff in both the General Archive and Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD). He began his ICPSR career by processing ABC News/Washington Post and CBS News/New York Times polls. Now, his team is responsible for processing public opinion polls for ICPSR. In addition to polling data, his team processes the National Election Pool data, the American National Election Survey data, American Community Survey, and the Latino National Survey for ICPSR.


Join this virtual event at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99256074056?pwd=RitrT1RwS000SE0xYmh1UGZVUHQ3UT09


Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. The lecture series is held in honor of Tad Blalock, a distinguished statistician and sociologist who was an Official Representative to the Consortium and a member of its Executive Council.

Co-sponsored with ISR's Perspectives Committee as part of the Getting to Know ISR series.

These lectures are all FREE to join and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:18:29 -0400 2020-07-15T19:30:00-04:00 2020-07-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion ICPSR Summer Program and ISR Perspectives' logos
Policing and Protest 2020 (July 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75046 75046-19183194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Note: The webinar has a Q&A format. We welcome your questions before via email (eihswebinar@umich.edu) and during the webinar via Zoom Q&A. This event will be recorded and available for future viewing online.

***Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qVR5E3VGRG2x_xJ4AK47AA

The killing of George Floyd, in the wake of the horrific and obscene history of the killings of unarmed black people by the police, has focused attention like never before on the systemic anti-black racism of the criminal-legal system in the United States. To be sure, the massive expansion and militarization of policing and incarceration are in some ways of comparatively recent origin. Yet they also have a much deeper origin in, and are inextricably connected to, a longer history of the judicial and extra-judicial violence against black people in the continent. The racist inequities of the criminal-legal system, indeed, are not a bug, but a feature.

Our panel of experts, scholars of the United States at the University of Michigan, will help us explore, beyond the headlines, the reach of the long arm of the carceral state in society as well as the challenges and opportunities that have been thrown up by the contemporary protests against the systemic violence of the state. The stakes for understanding the working of the carceral state are documented by the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project of the University of Michigan’s Carceral State Project. However, the momentous protests against anti-Black racism as well as the broad public support they have received both within the United States and across the world—the clamor heard round the world—have also created a novel opportunity for implementing and imagining futures beyond a blatantly rigged carceral framework.

Panelists:
• Melissa Burch, Anthropology, University of Michigan
• Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African History, American Culture, History, University of Michigan
• Matthew Lassiter, History, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
• William D. Lopez, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan

Moderator:
• Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:07:31 -0400 2020-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lobo, "Brionna Taylor" (public domain)
The American National Election Study: History and Insights from Recent Surveys (August 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75386 75386-19457966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 11:00 a.m. EDT
Join us virtually: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92353673792

Why does America vote as it does on Election Day? Since 1948, the American National Election Studies (ANES) has provided data to inform explanations of election outcomes in the United States. The ANES provides survey data from a nationally representative sample of American adults to give researchers a view of the political world through the eyes of ordinary citizens.

In this ISR Insights talk, Dr. Vincent Hutchings (Professor, Department of Political Science; Research Professor, Center for Political Studies) will discuss the history of ANES and why it remains an essential resource for the social sciences. He will talk about the study’s approach to data collection and instrumentation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes conducting surveys through a combination of Internet, video, and telephone interviews. Dr. Hutchings will also highlight politically-relevant results from recent studies, including attitudes on the Black Lives Matter movement.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:02:54 -0400 2020-08-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-12T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
School Mental Health in the Detroit Public Schools Community District (August 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75783 75783-19606037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series - School Mental Health in the Detroit Public Schools Community District

August 25, 11am EST: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98456054707
Robin Jacob, PhD, Co-Director Youth Policy Lab
Elizabeth Koschmann, PhD, TRAILS Program Director

In recent years, rates of child and adolescent mental illness have skyrocketed. Nearly half of adolescents in the United States will experience symptoms of a mental illness before age 18, and one in five will be severely impaired by their symptoms. Among youth ages 10-24, suicide has become the second leading cause of death, killing almost 8,000 young people annually. These problems may be acerbated in urban, high poverty schools. There is evidence of higher rates of both mental illness and self-injury and suicidal behavior in communities of color which is hypothesized to reflect the impact of systemic racism, as well as significant racial disparities in access to high quality health and mental health care. Schools are uniquely positioned to identify and respond to students’ mental health care needs, and to reduce widespread inequities in access to effective prevention and early intervention services. However, only limited data is available on the prevalence and pattern of mental health challenges in urban schools or about the school or district resources available to address those challenges.

This study presents data collected as part of a partnership between TRAILS (Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students), the Youth Policy Lab, and the Detroit Public Schools Community District. In 2019, our study team collected survey data from nearly 3,500 DPSCD teachers, administrators, school staff, almost 11,000 students, and 800 families. In this talk, Drs. Robin Jacob and Elizabeth Koschmann will share findings on (1) the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and exposure to traumatic events among students, (2) the degree to which these are associated with school engagement, absences, and other behaviors, and (3) the challenges staff and district administrators face in providing mental health services for their students.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:29:43 -0400 2020-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Medicine, Aging, Science & Health Workshop (MASH) (September 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76551 76551-19727074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The Making of Seizure: Diagnosis at Home and in the EEG Lab

Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91062039676 - Password: 029919

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:44:18 -0400 2020-09-10T12:30:00-04:00 2020-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
Law, Justice and Social Change - 20 Years after the U-M Tower sit-in: Continuing the Fight for Racial Justice (September 15, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77020 77020-19788566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Approximately twenty years ago, a coalition of student activists confronted the University of Michigan over its racial negligence. For over 37 days, student activists challenged the U-M community by staging a sit-in.

Join us to hear from these former Students of Color Coalition leaders; learn about their experiences, advice on current campus activism, and hear about a new documentary project.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/2RpTVUdLg3PYE6pM6

Zoom link to attend: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92038920270

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:57:37 -0400 2020-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Livestream / Virtual
Bioethics Discussion: The Theory of Mind (September 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58827 58827-14563718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what we think others think.

A few readings we will consider:
––Theory of Mind
––Theory of mind: The state of the art
––Theory of Mind and the Self
––Why psychological accounts of personal identity can accept a brain death criterion and biological definition of death

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit: http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/046-the-theory-of-mind/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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I have a theory you wouldn't mind the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:08:46 -0400 2020-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Theory of Mind
LHS Collaboratory Seminar Series Virtual Kick-Off: Academic Medical Centers as Learning Health Systems (September 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75856 75856-19615923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Learning Health Systems (LHS) methods are now being implemented in interesting and varying ways by academic health centers and their clinical and translational science institutes across the country.
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the following are key attributes of Learning Health
Systems:

• Having leaders who are committed to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Systematically gathering and applying evidence in real-time to guide care
• Employing IT methods to share new evidence with clinicians to improve decision-making
• Promoting the inclusion of patients as vital members of the learning team
• Capturing and analyzing data and care experiences to improve care
• Continually assessing outcomes, refining processes and training to create a feedback cycle for learning and improvement

The LHS Collaboratory's fall seminar series virtual kick-off event will showcase the LHS experiences of three research-intensive academic centers that have been promoting LHS methods. We will be joined by distinguished senior colleagues from Duke,Vanderbilt, and Washington University, who will describe and discuss their institutions' work in this area. They will discuss strategies employed, investments made, challenges encountered, and successes achieved.

Panelists:
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, Vanderbilt University
Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, Washington University
Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke University
Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH, Duke University

Discussant:
Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, Michigan Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:45:31 -0400 2020-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo-blocks
PSC Postdoctoral Fellows: Introductions and Updates (September 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77288 77288-19830140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Introductions and research updates from PSC's 2020-21 cohort of PSC Postdoctoral Fellows.

Heejung Jang
Sarah Patterson
Nicardo McInnis
Sarah Patterson
Jamie Budnick

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:22:37 -0400 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
Complex Systems Seminar | The Ranking Game from a Hungarian Perspective (September 22, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76900 76900-19776605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ZOOM MEETING LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96616169868

Abstract:
We like to see who is stronger, richer, better, more clever. Since we
humans (1) love lists; (2), are competitive and (3), are jealous of
other people, we like ranking. Ranking reflects the reality, illusion and
manipulation of objectivity.

The book "Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play" is offered to people whose neighbor has a fancier car; employees, who are being ranked by their supervisors; managers, who are involved in ranking but may have qualms about the process; businessmen interested in creating better visibility for their companies; scientists, writers, artists, and other competitors who would like to see themselves at the top of a success list; college students who are just preparing to enter the new phase of social competition. The lecture will mirror the speaker's education and experiences in Pest and Buda.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:19:09 -0400 2020-09-22T11:30:00-04:00 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Livestream / Virtual Peter Erdi Headshot
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (September 22, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76351 76351-19709149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration: http://myumi.ch/O4zpw

How does one make performance during a pandemic? In this talk Dr. Arthur looks at the unique ways that artists have addressed HIV/AIDS to answer this question. Considering theatrical interventions by Karen Finley and Demian DinéYazhi´, Dr. Arthur argues that performance created in response to HIV/AIDS can teach us to challenge dominant narratives about a virus and strategies for living through an ongoing pandemic.

Marc Arthur is an artist and scholar who holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University (2019). He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts-based Social Justice Research and Practice at the University of Michigan where he is studying the role of directing, devised theatre, dramatic writing, and acting in achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion. His research and teaching interests encompass contemporary performance and theatre practice, dramatic literature and history, performance studies, queer theory, and critical ethnic studies. He is currently working on his first book project entitled, An Imagined Virus: Theatre, Memory, and the Politics of AIDS, which argues that artists use performance to restage the AIDS crisis by enacting dramaturgies of transformation and new forms of biomedical embodiment.

His academic writing and criticism has appeared in edited volumes and journals including Bomb Magazine, Yale’s Theater, the book Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century, as well as numerous art catalogues. He has also written extensively for Performa Magazine, where he is a Contributing Editor. From 2011 – 2017 he was the Head of Research and Archives at Performa where he organized touring exhibitions, curated programs, led interdisciplinary research projects with a wide range of artists, and spearheaded the acquisition of the Performa collection by NYU’s Fales Library.

As an artist and director, he has developed a new form of performance that incorporates methods from devised theatre, dance, painting, and socially engaged art. His work has been presented at theatres and galleries internationally, including the Martha Graham Dance Theater, La MaMa E.T.C., Dixon Place, The Living Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, the Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, the Wild Project, University Settlement, and Chashama in New York City; New Langton Arts and David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco; Moyse Theatre at McGill University, Montreal; Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels; the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice; Universität der Künste, Berlin; and FRISE, Hamburg.

In this new virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:24:57 -0400 2020-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 2020-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Livestream / Virtual Marc Arthur
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Contentious Citizenship: Zainichi Korean Activism in Japan (September 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75274 75274-19401011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The pursuit among Zainichi Koreans to secure their rights in Japan has a long complex history. Today, Zainichi Koreans are classified as “Special Permanent Resident Aliens,” which provides a set of most citizenship rights without having actual Japanese citizenship status. This talk addresses what triggered the extension of citizenship rights to non-citizens in recent decades in Japan and to what extent Zainichi Korean activism influences discourse and reform of citizenship laws in today’s Japan.

Hwaji Shin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco. Shin was born and grew up in Osaka City, Japan as a third generation Zainichi Korean. Prior to her academic career, she worked as an independent investigator for NGOs in Japan and developed policy recommendation reports for the municipal government on incorporation of the Korean minority community in Japan as well as outreach efforts for the shelter-less population in Osaka City. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her published works address the impact of colonialism and globalization on the citizenship and immigration policies in Japan, as well as minority activism, with a special focus on Zainichi Koreans in Japan. She is currently working on her book manuscript that examines the historical trajectory of citizenship and immigration policies, and its relation to the resistance of the Korean minority in Japan. Her research and teaching expertise are centered in political sociology, with an emphasis on social movements, race and ethnicity, categorical and spatial inequality, globalization, colonialism, and the history, theory and sociology of migration, citizenship, and nationalism.

She is the 2020-21 Center for Japanese Studies Toyota Visiting Professor.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E1fpdXSGRXOBXio3VALwhw

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Nam Center for Korean Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:50:12 -0400 2020-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Hwaji Shin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco, CJS TVP 2020-2021
Beyond the Nuclear Family: Children and Shared Living Arrangements (September 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77290 77290-19832115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

Children's living arrangements are diverse and complex, and a robust body of research has documented links between living arrangements, economic wellbeing, and child outcomes. Despite increasing recognition of the diversity in children's living arrangements most research continues to focus on the nuclear family. This talk draws on a number of published and papers in progress that focus on shared living arrangements of children in the U.S. - examining the people children live with beyond their nuclear family. I will describe trends in household extension over time and across the child's life course showing differences by key demographic groups and patterns of coresidence. I find that although shared living arrangements among children have become more common over the last 20 years, this increase is nearly entirely driven by an increase in multigenerational/three-generation family households (grandparent, parent and child). In 1980, 5% of children lived in a multigenerational household and today nearly 10% do likewise. I'll present results of decomposition analyses that examine the factors that have led to this large increase. By understanding the diverse nature of children's living arrangements and how these arrangements are changing over time, we can better consider how public policies and programs might better support children's development.

BIO:
Natasha Pilkauskas is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. Pilkauskas' research considers how social policy might improve the developmental and life trajectories of low-income children. Much of her research focuses on the living arrangements of low-income children, especially those who live with grandparents. Past and current projects also investigate the role of family/kin transfers in helping families make ends meet; links between maternal employment and school outcomes; the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit; and the effects of the Great Recession on low-income households. Pilkauskas received a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and a PhD in social welfare policy from Columbia University.

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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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:54:48 -0400 2020-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
How Social Workers Can Support Parents and Children During Covid-19 (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77551 77551-19883823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

During Covid-19, parents face new challenges managing family, work and economic demands. In this first session of the Parenting in Context webinar series Shawna J. Lee, U-M SSW associate professor and director of Parenting in Context Research Lab, will present research on parenting, mental health, and coping during the pandemic.

One free social work CE is available to those who participate in the live webinar.

This webinar is recommended for both research and practice audiences and will address:
--What research says about parents' mental health during Covid-19
--How parents are supporting their children's educational needs
--Parents’ coping strategies and activities with their children
--The impact of social distancing on parenting

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Presentation Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:28:50 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Presentation Shawna Lee
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: The Great Separation: "How the Cultural Revolution Has Shaped Contemporary China and Its Relationship to Global Capitalism" (October 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76154 76154-19669624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Cultural Revolution is the dividing line in modern Chinese history and separates its century of revolutions, when China was known for mass mobilization to generate social change, and the Reform Era, which is deeply depoliticized and economically driven. This talk delves into the interplay of socialist politics and socialist economy in the heydays of the Cultural Revolution to offer a new interpretation of the political origins of contemporary China and its paradoxical role in global capitalism.

Xiaohong Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at U-M and a faculty associate of LRCCS and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracy. He received his PhD from Yale and has taught in Singapore and Hong Kong before joining U-M. He is currently writing a book to unpack the Cultural Revolution both as a paradigmatic case of modern Jacobin politics and as a pivotal event that has shaped China today and its position in global capitalism. He has researched and published on patterns of contention in revolutionary China as well as state formation in early modern Europe. He is also beginning a new project on tech innovation and class formation in contemporary China.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oiotRz6ERiC1zkzpNNKZtw

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:47 -0400 2020-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Xiaohong Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
CGIS Virtual Study Abroad Fair (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77893 77893-19943564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Study abroad is not just for juniors. It's not just for language and international studies majors. It's not just for students from certain communities or socioeconomic backgrounds. No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Whether you want to develop the skills you’ll need to compete in a global economy, cultivate your language competencies, or build meaningful connections with people from around the world, this is the best time in your life for a global experience.

Studying abroad often proves to be a pivotal experience, but deciding which program is the best fit can be daunting as you consider questions such as: How will this enhance my course of study? When should I go? For how long? Where? Can I afford it? How do I prepare? Will my credits transfer? The CGIS Study Abroad Virtual Fair is the best time to get all of your questions answered!

During the day of the virtual fair, you'll have instant access to academic advisors, education abroad advisors, Office of Financial Aid & LSA Scholarship Office representatives, and program representatives as well as scheduled events throughout the fair!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:17 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Image300
The State of the 2020 Presidential Campaign with Less than a Month to Go (October 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78169 78169-19987071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Wednesday, October 14 at 1pm, EDT.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/98481922311

Panelists: Michael Traugott (Research Professor Emeritus; Center for Political Studies, Communication Studies, Department of Political Science), Josh Pasek (Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies Associate Professor; Department of Communication Studies and Political Science), and Stuart Soroka (Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies; Professor of Communication Studies and Professor of Political Science, LSA).

The speakers will provide an update on the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden with an emphasis on the current state of public opinion about the candidates and key issues in the campaign.

This webinar is part of a continuing series focusing on the research happening at ISR. If there is a topic you would like to see featured or have an idea for a future presentation, please email abeattie@umich.edu. This talk is being recorded and will be shared widely.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:34:36 -0400 2020-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual event flyer
Philippa Hughes: Dismantling the Polarization Industrial Complex (October 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77322 77322-19840077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Philippa P.B. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and authentic conversations across political, social, and cultural divides. She is an evangelist for dismantling the polarization industrial complex, one conversation at a time. Hughes has designed and produced hundreds of creative activations since 2007 for curious folks to engage with art and one another in unconventional and meaningful ways. She leads CuriosityConnects.us, a partner in Looking For America, a national series inviting politically diverse guests to break bread and talk to each other face-to-face using art as a starting point for relationship-building conversations. Hughes has engineered numerous public-private collaborations that have been funded by the Kresge Foundation, New American Economy, Center for Inclusion & Belonging, and the DC Office of Planning. She has served as a commissioner on the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities among numerous other boards throughout Washington, D.C., where she is based. Hughes has spoken at TEDxAmericanUniversity, Creative Placemaking Week 2018 in Amsterdam, Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, TomTom Festival, Smart Growth America’s Intersections. Her work has been featured by CNN, PBS Newshour, CityLab, andThe Washington Post, among numerous other media outlets. Her formal training took place at the University of Virginia, which launched her into a six-year legal career that ended with the Washington City Paper declaring 2007 “The Year of Philippa.” Deep curiosity about the world and the people in it provided the education that mattered most.

In partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, this event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

Notice of uncensored content

In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:06:41 -0400 2020-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Philippa-Hughes.jpg
Literacy Among American Indians: Levels and Trends from 1900 to 1930 and Across Birth Cohorts from 1830 to 1920 (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77313 77313-19838094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

We investigate levels and trends in literacy among American Indians in the United States. Using 1900-1930 decennial census data, we document literacy for the 1900 through 1930 period and for birth cohorts from 1830 through 1920. We thus provide for American Indians a large-scale picture of the history of literacy. We document the pace and extent of Indian literacy from very low for the birth cohorts of the early 1800s to fairly universal for the cohorts of the early 1900s. We also demonstrate that the increases in Indian literacy were closely related to birth cohort, with successive new birth cohorts having higher levels of literacy. We found little evidence that increases in literacy from 1900 to 1930 happened because adults increased their literacy after the school years and as they matured across the adult life course. We also document important gender differences in Native American literacy, with the proportion literate being lower for women than for men, but with the gender gap decreasing in later birth cohorts. There were also substantial literacy inequalities across geographical regions of the country-ranging from 19 to 74 percent literate across regions in 1900. The trajectories of literacy attainment also varied across regions in interesting ways. We also document that Indian literacy was higher among those living in urban areas, those more integrated into the Euro-American community, and those with Euro-American ancestry.

https://ssai.isr.umich.edu/

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.


BIO:
Arland Thornton is Professor of Sociology, Population Studies, and Survey Research at the University of Michigan, where he is also associated with the , Native American Studies Program and several Centers within the International Institute. He is a social demographer who has served as president of the Population Association of America and previously held a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. He has received four awards for his books as well as distinguished career awards from the American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America. Thornton has focused much of his career on the study of family and demographic issues, with emphasis on marriage, cohabitation, childbearing, gender roles, education, and migration. Thornton has also pioneered the study of developmental idealism, including its conceptualization, measurement, and influence in many places. He has collaborated in the collection and analysis of data from Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Malawi, Nepal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, the U.S., and Vietnam. Thornton is currently conducting research concerning American Indians, with a particular focus on levels and trends in schools, school enrollment, and literacy.


Linda Young-DeMarco is a Lead Research Area Specialist with extensive longitudinal research project management experience. Her expertise includes project conceptualization, construct and measurement development, design and preparation of open ended survey materials, survey questionnaire design, interviewer training, design, implementation, and supervision of data management activities, design and direction of archival activities, contributions to the conceptualization of data analyses, design and execution of data analyses, and collaboration in the authorship of substantive peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters. She has been project manager and collaborator with researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research on numerous international research projects that focus on development and people's ideational beliefs concerning development around the world.

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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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:53:04 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Hong Kong (October 20, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78387 78387-20020765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Nicholas Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law, U-M; Mary Gallagher, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights, Director of the International Institute, U-M; Xiaohong Xu, assistant professor of sociology, U-M; Samson Yuen, assistant professor of government and international studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. Moderator: Jundai Liu, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow.

When handed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong’s special autonomous status was guaranteed by the principle of “one country, two systems” for fifty years. Since then, this status has been eroded. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to large-scale protests against the “Extradition Bill” and the “National Security Law ” in 2019 and 2020, Hong Kong has become an epicenter of contentions. In light of these events, the experts of this panel will share their observations and insights on the judicial, political, and social developments in Hong Kong.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/mnbv3.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:22:58 -0400 2020-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Flashpoint: Hong Kong
CHM 19th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities (October 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78729 78729-20113300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce its 19th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.

This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Powel Kazanjian, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Kazanjian is also Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he teaches on the history of epidemics and the history of sexually transmitted diseases. He has written extensively about the history of AIDS, syphilis, commercial botulism, plague, and the development of bacteriology in America.

Dr. Kazanjian will deliver his lecture, “The Persistence of Contagious Diseases.” By the later 20th century, it had become common for public health officials and lay writers to envision a future in which epidemic diseases had been eliminated. The appearance of the new deadly disease that would eventually be known as AIDS in 1981, however, challenged their confident vision. The potent antiretroviral therapies (ART) introduced in 1996 enabled individuals receiving treatment to survive a full lifespan. By 2014, a global UNAIDS campaign sought to “end AIDS as a global health threat” by 2030” by maximizing the distribution of ART to infected people. The UNAIDS campaign is conceptually similar to earlier 20th century programs that sought to end syphilis by expanding specific therapy. The failure of these syphilis campaigns, together with the realization that today’s efforts to end AIDS is falling short of their 2020 milestones, however, raise uncertainties about whether the ongoing UNAIDs campaign will succeed. Socioeconomic and behavioral factors have hindered the biomedical campaigns to eliminate syphilis and AIDS. To be effective, scientific public health campaigns must also address how to rectify the socioeconomic conditions and human behaviors that vex elimination efforts and lead to emerging epidemics like AIDS and Covid-19. Epidemic diseases, along with efforts launched to contain them, have been and continue to be an inescapable part of our existence.

Please join us for this engaging and timely online lecture from one of the nation’s premiere infectious disease experts.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93152555886

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:06:52 -0400 2020-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for the History of Medicine Lecture / Discussion CHM 19th Annual Davenport Lecture
Quantitative Methods in my Work (and at U-M!) Speaker Series (October 22, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78570 78570-20066106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

Join us as LSA/QMSS undergrads, Chloe Aronoff and Lillian Kleinknecht, interview U-M faculty researchers about their work and visions for Quantitative Research in our changing and data drive world.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:48:42 -0400 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Livestream / Virtual QMSS Session 1 flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-14563721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-20162611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
Quantitative Methods in my Work (at U-M!) (October 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78831 78831-20131190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

This session will be facilitated by U-M LSA/QMSS students, Sarah Childs and Jack Lee

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:39:00 -0400 2020-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Lecture / Discussion Session 2 flyer
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The Gendered Pursuit of Individualism: Fertility Intention and the Meaning of Children in Contemporary Urban China" (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76165 76165-19671598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

Reproduction links the personal and the political. Through policies that promote or limit births, the state attempts to regulate individuals’ reproductive behavior. At the same time, individuals make reproductive decisions guided by their own fertility intentions and the meaning they attach to children and parenthood. A puzzle remains: Why does active pro-natalist state policy fail to achieve fertility recovery? This talk centers on urban Chinese individuals’ fertility decision-making under the 2016 universal two-child policy. By examining the meaning of children, Dr. Zhou highlights how a gendered pursuit of individualism underlies women’s and men’s fertility aspiration and behavior. In turn, she sheds light on the question of why state policies promoting births may not resonate on the individual level.

Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Her work combines statistical analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews, and agent-based computational models. With a focus on gender equity and authoritarian reproductive governance, Dr. Zhou’s current project investigates the intended and unintended consequences of China’s recent shift toward a universal two-child policy.

Zoom webinar registration (required) is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iRfY-cuAQ1-a7rzonTaPDQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:52:04 -0500 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yun Zhou, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Reflections on Learning to Improve: Foundational Ideas, Observations from Practice, and Building a Field (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78908 78908-20152763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

While the LHS Collaboratory is typically focused on learning health, learning systems actually have very broad applicability. Moreover, there has been a strong interest in the Collaboratory from the education community which is also focused on learning systems.

A thought leader in this area, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be speaking about a set of critical observations acquired in the course of his own efforts to improve how large complex educational systems work.

Discussants:

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Dean,
George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education,
and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor School of Education
Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research; Latino/a
Studies; and the Joint Program in English & Education
University of Michigan

Caren M. Stalburg, MD, MA
Collaborative Lead for Education
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director of HILS Online Masters
University of Michigan

Moderator:

Donald J. Peurach, PhD
Professor
University of Michigan School of Education
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:41:04 -0400 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans and the World of Work (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71756 71756-20178449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Join us as Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr. explores the themes of his research captured in his latest book, From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work. His extensive interviews with the low-income African American community in Ypsilanti bring new insights about perceptions of and preparation for the future of work outside of the major cities and middle to upper-class society.

This event will include a brief interview with Dr. Young conducted by Dr. Earl Lewis (University of Michigan), and a panel discussion with Dr. H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan) and Derrick Jackson (Director of Community Engagement, Washtenaw County), moderated by Dr. Carla O'Connor (University of Michigan).

Dr. Young is the Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy [by courtesy] at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy & Director of the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan.

Dr. Shaefer is the the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and Director of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan.

Derrick Jackson, MSW, is the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Director of Community Engagement.

Dr. O'Connor is the Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Education, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Director, Wolverine Pathways.

We encourage you to purchase a copy of the book if interested through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Solutions, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Ann Arbor YMCA.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:07:53 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans, and the World of Work. Featuring Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr.
Quantitative Methods in my Work (and at U-M!) Speaker Series (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78761 78761-20121152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

*Facilitated by David Woodruff and Madeline Paxson*

Join us by Zoom as LSA/QMSS Undergrads interview and chat with UM faculty/researchers about their work and visions for Quantitative Research in our changing and data-driven world.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/3q92V

A Zoom will be provided to those who register!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:12:29 -0400 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Lecture / Discussion Nov 12 flyer
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers: Work Experiences & Concerns of food retail, food services, and hospitality workers (November 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79384 79384-20288598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Marie-Anne Rosemberg is an assistant professor in UM's School of Nursing.
ABSTRACT
Objectives: COVID-19 presents a unique burden specifically for workers in service industries not only because they are disproportionately at risk for contracting the virus but also because of their work-related burdens. We aimed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on these workers.
Methods: This was a mixed-method study with a congruent triangulation design. Participants were recruited through social media. Each interview lasted up to 20 minutes. The survey data included demographic questions along with items from the CAGE and PC-PTSD questionnaires.
Results: Twenty-seven individuals completed audio-recorded phone interviews and 28 completed the survey. Participants were mostly women with an age range between 19 and 65. Participants worked in food retail (n=23), restaurant (n=25), and hospitality (n=7) industries. Length of time on the job ranged from two months to 25 years and 60% of the participants worked full time. Participants reported experiencing symptoms of depression and maladaptive coping. Job insecurity, change of job tasks, and work hours were the most common ways that COVID-19 affected the workers. Themes that emerged about participant’s concerns included being infected and/or unknowingly infecting others, the unknown, isolation, and work and customer demands. Constant changes relating to communication and protection measures were a major source of stress. There was discordance in the perceived level of threat of COVID-19. Most participants reported that their workplace complied with their state’s mandates for protection measures. While others reported lacking basic supplies such as soap, hand sanitizer, and masks.
Conclusions: In addition to their work experiences, COVID-19 has affected service workers at the financial, physical and mental levels. This study has implications of employers, occupational health and safety professionals and policy stakeholders.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:33:42 -0500 2020-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers
Research Universities and the Public Good in the Time of COVID-19 (December 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79506 79506-20345431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

Jason Owen-Smith (Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS); Executive Director, Research Analytics; Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research)

Wednesday, December 2 at 2pm EST: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91211224326

America's most research intensive universities represent about 3% of higher education institutions, but they conduct 90% of the nation's academic research. Drawing on his recent book, Research Universities and the Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future and the work of ISR's Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS), which he directs, Jason Owen-Smith will explain how these unique and essential organizations serve as an important form of "social insurance" in the face of an uncertain future. Universities like U of M are uniquely able to address "unknown unknowns," problems and opportunities we do not know we have yet. No other sector or type of organization accomplishes is equipped to serve this purpose in our society. COVID-19 puts special pressures on the academic research mission that come after more than a decade of declining public support. The pandemic and its effects jeopardize the US Academic Research Enterprise (US-ARE) and with it the future health, wealth, and well-being of our nation and the world. Drawing on unique data science resources developed at IRIS, and 20 years of work on the economic and social value of research and innovation, Owen-Smith highlights the challenges and explains how they might be addressed by federal and state policy-makers, the leaders and faculty of institutions like ours.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Livestream / Virtual flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Annihilation (December 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58833 58833-14563725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our obliteration.

[Video-conference link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94651294615]

A few readings to consider before oblivion:
–– Bioethics and the Metaphysics of Death
––The Ontological Representation of Death: A Scale to Measure the Idea of Annihilation Versus Passage
––The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective
––Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President’s Council on Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/052-annihilation/.

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When the server hosting this blog is turned off, where does the website go: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:52 -0500 2020-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Annihilation
Bioethics Discussion: The Madness of Crowds (January 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58834 58834-14563726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on popular delusions.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings from the madding crowd:
––The Liverpool Cholera Epidemic of 1 and Anatomical Dissection—Medical Mistrust and Civil Unrest
––The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review in the Web Era
––The Hippocratic Thorn in Bioethics’ Hide: Cults, Sects, and Strangeness
––The Importance of Complying with Vaccination Protocols in Developed Countries: “Anti-Vax” Hysteria and the Spread of Severe Preventable Diseases

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/053-the-madness-of-crowds/.

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It would be shear madness if you did not crowd the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:27 -0500 2021-01-12T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Madness of Crowds