Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. FAST Lecture | Assessing Mechanisms of Mobility and Exchange in the Prehistoric Cyclades (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71613 71613-17844816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Recent research in the Bronze Age Cycladic archipelago has documented the widespread evidence for the distribution of imported products — especially ceramics — throughout the region. In addition, consensus has grown that human mobility was a key feature in driving technical and stylistic changes in Cycladic assemblages. Indeed, the operation of different sorts of mobility seems to be a key feature underlying major patterns of material culture change in the islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. In this era, Cycladic islanders adopted and adapted material culture and practice from the palatial Minoan society of Crete. This presentation discusses human and object mobility in the context of changing patterns of consumption and production in the islands in order to provide new perspectives on the so-called Minoanization phenomenon.

Reception at the Kelsey Museum at 5:30 PM, lecture to follow at 6:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:35:12 -0500 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion detail of the Miniature Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri, Crete
Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70522 70522-17602806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

18th Annual Dimitris and Irmgard Pallas Modern Greek Lecture

Summary:
Since 2016, I have been carrying out an archaeological ethnography project on contemporary migration, focusing on the border island of Lesvos. In this talk, I will report on some of the findings of this project, showing how a sustained and detailed attention to the materiality and temporality of the phenomenon, to the sensorial, affective, and temporal properties of things, can offer insights that elude other kinds of research. Objects, spaces, buildings and landscapes are essential components in the formation of border assemblages, together with border crossers, volunteers, as well as border guards and security apparatuses. I will explore how the attention to such assemblages can not only help us understand what some scholars have described as the new Global Apartheid, but more positively, allow us to imagine a decolonial present and future.

Biography:
Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He worked previously at the Universities of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the University of Southampton (2000-2016), and he has held research fellowships at Princeton University, Getty Research Institute, Cincinnati University, The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the Remarque Institute at NYU. His research interests include Aegean prehistory, the socio-politics of the past, the bodily senses, archaeology and photography, contemporary archaeology, and the materiality of contemporary migration. His books include, The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (OUP, 2007, Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2009), and Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (CUP, 2013). His most recent book is the edited volume, The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. (Equinox, 2018). He co-directs the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project, and in 2020 he will be curating an exhibition at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, entitled, Transient Matter: Border Assemblages in the Mediterranean.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:17:10 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion Pallas 2020
Mid-Day Morsel Drop-In Tour (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64510 64510-16380895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Looking for something to feed your brain on your lunch hour? The Mid-Day Morsel tour at the Kelsey Museum is a 30-minute taste of ancient Mediterranean history and artifact highlights in the Kelsey collection. Mid-Day Morsel tours begin at 12:30 p.m. No registration is needed. Tour participants should gather at our Maynard Street entrance a few minutes before the tour is scheduled to start.

While we do not allow food at the Kelsey Museum, there are numerous lunch options near us on campus. Check out the UMMA Café at the Museum of Art and Darwin’s Café at the Museum of Natural History before or after your tour of the Kelsey.

Mid-Day Morsel tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-764-9304 at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:08:16 -0400 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Mid-Day Morsels
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
Madeline Miller - a public reading and discussion of "Circe" (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70183 70183-17540939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: History of Art

A public reading and conversation with Madeline Miller, author of 'Circe' and 'Song of Achilles.'

About the author:
Madeline Miller grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has taught and tutored Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students for over fifteen years.

She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms.

The Song of Achilles, her first novel, was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times Bestseller. Miller was also shortlisted for the 2012 Stonewall Writer of the Year. Her second novel, Circe, was an instant number 1 New York Times bestseller, and won the Indies Choice Best Adult Fiction of the Year Award and the Indies Choice Best Audiobook of the Year Award, as well as being shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Circe also won The Red Tentacle Award, an American Library Association Alex Award (adult books of special interest to teen readers), and the 2018 Elle Big Book Award. It is currently being adapted for a series with HBO Max. Miller's novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages including Dutch, Mandarin, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic and Greek, and her essays have appeared in a number of publications including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Telegraph, Lapham's Quarterly and NPR.org. She currently lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

http://madelinemiller.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:22:45 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library History of Art Lecture / Discussion Circe
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
Connectivity, Mobility, and Scale in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: A Symposium (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70313 70313-17566468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

Friday events are free & open to the public. Saturday events are by RSVP-only and intended primarily for graduate students and faculty of the University of Michigan.

Friday, February 14

3 - 4:00 pm: Graduate Student Posters
Graduate posters also on display throughout the day on Saturday

4 - 6:00 pm: Public Symposium (Part I)

Introduction: Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
Peter van Dommelen (Brown University)
Miguel Ángel Cau (University of Barcelona)
Against the Grain: Transversal and Micro-Connectivities in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
Pre-Circulated Paper Workshop

Saturday, February 15

**Please note: If you plan to attend the workshop please RSVP and contact Linda Gosner (lgosner@umich.edu) to access the pre-circulated papers.

Morning Session (9-12:20 am)

9-9:10: Introduction: Jeremy Hayne (Independent Scholar)
9:10-9:50: Anthony Russell (Independent Scholar)
10-10:40: Jeremy Hayne (Independent Scholar)
10:50-11:30: Catherine Steidl (Koç University)
11:40-12:20: Jessica Nowlin (UT Austin)
Lunch Break (12:20-2pm)

Afternoon Session (2-5pm)

2-2:40: Giulia Saltini Semerari (Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan)
2:50 – 3:00: Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
3:10-3:50: Catalina Mas (University of Barcelona)
4-4:40: Alejandro Sinner (University of Victoria)
4:40-5: Closing Comments: Peter van Dommelen and Miguel Ángel Cau
Closed Discussion About Publication (5-6)

Symposium (Part II)
Thursday, February 27

TBD: Graduate Student Discussion with Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol)

4-6 pm: Public Symposium (Part II) – Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:16:16 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Conference / Symposium
Connectivity, Mobility, and Scale in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: A Symposium (February 15, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70313 70313-17566469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

Friday events are free & open to the public. Saturday events are by RSVP-only and intended primarily for graduate students and faculty of the University of Michigan.

Friday, February 14

3 - 4:00 pm: Graduate Student Posters
Graduate posters also on display throughout the day on Saturday

4 - 6:00 pm: Public Symposium (Part I)

Introduction: Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
Peter van Dommelen (Brown University)
Miguel Ángel Cau (University of Barcelona)
Against the Grain: Transversal and Micro-Connectivities in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
Pre-Circulated Paper Workshop

Saturday, February 15

**Please note: If you plan to attend the workshop please RSVP and contact Linda Gosner (lgosner@umich.edu) to access the pre-circulated papers.

Morning Session (9-12:20 am)

9-9:10: Introduction: Jeremy Hayne (Independent Scholar)
9:10-9:50: Anthony Russell (Independent Scholar)
10-10:40: Jeremy Hayne (Independent Scholar)
10:50-11:30: Catherine Steidl (Koç University)
11:40-12:20: Jessica Nowlin (UT Austin)
Lunch Break (12:20-2pm)

Afternoon Session (2-5pm)

2-2:40: Giulia Saltini Semerari (Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan)
2:50 – 3:00: Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
3:10-3:50: Catalina Mas (University of Barcelona)
4-4:40: Alejandro Sinner (University of Victoria)
4:40-5: Closing Comments: Peter van Dommelen and Miguel Ángel Cau
Closed Discussion About Publication (5-6)

Symposium (Part II)
Thursday, February 27

TBD: Graduate Student Discussion with Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol)

4-6 pm: Public Symposium (Part II) – Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:16:16 -0500 2020-02-15T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Conference / Symposium
Saturday Sampler Tour | The Roman Empire (February 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69481 69481-17327218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

For over 500 years Rome was ruled by emperors. Some enjoyed decades in power, while some lasted less than a year. Being an emperor could be a dangerous job! Come and explore the Kelsey Museum in this tour to see what the emperors of Rome saw when they looked out over their vast empire. Hear what Roman writers said about them at that time. Decide for yourself if you would have liked living in the time of the emperors, whether or not togas and sandals are your style.

Saturday Sampler tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:27:06 -0500 2020-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Roman emperor
FAST Lecture | The Olynthos Project: Dirt on an Ancient Greek City (February 20, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72846 72846-18085918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Since 2014 a group of faculty, staff, and students from U-M has worked as part of an international team at the site of the Archaic and Classical city of Olynthos in northern Greece. Our goal has been to create a detailed and comprehensive picture of the settlement, its neighborhoods, and its households. In this lecture, we present a series of examples of the many different questions, methods, and data sets encompassed by the project.

*The Olynthos Project is a collaboration between the Greek Archaeological Service and British School at Athens, by permission of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.*

Reception at 4:30 PM, lecture to follow at 5:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:02:55 -0500 2020-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion excavation at Olynthos
Connectivity, Mobility, and Scale in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: A Symposium (February 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70313 70313-17566470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

Friday events are free & open to the public. Saturday events are by RSVP-only and intended primarily for graduate students and faculty of the University of Michigan.

Friday, February 14

3 - 4:00 pm: Graduate Student Posters
Graduate posters also on display throughout the day on Saturday

4 - 6:00 pm: Public Symposium (Part I)

Introduction: Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
Peter van Dommelen (Brown University)
Miguel Ángel Cau (University of Barcelona)
Against the Grain: Transversal and Micro-Connectivities in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
Pre-Circulated Paper Workshop

Saturday, February 15

**Please note: If you plan to attend the workshop please RSVP and contact Linda Gosner (lgosner@umich.edu) to access the pre-circulated papers.

Morning Session (9-12:20 am)

9-9:10: Introduction: Jeremy Hayne (Independent Scholar)
9:10-9:50: Anthony Russell (Independent Scholar)
10-10:40: Jeremy Hayne (Independent Scholar)
10:50-11:30: Catherine Steidl (Koç University)
11:40-12:20: Jessica Nowlin (UT Austin)
Lunch Break (12:20-2pm)

Afternoon Session (2-5pm)

2-2:40: Giulia Saltini Semerari (Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan)
2:50 – 3:00: Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
3:10-3:50: Catalina Mas (University of Barcelona)
4-4:40: Alejandro Sinner (University of Victoria)
4:40-5: Closing Comments: Peter van Dommelen and Miguel Ángel Cau
Closed Discussion About Publication (5-6)

Symposium (Part II)
Thursday, February 27

TBD: Graduate Student Discussion with Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol)

4-6 pm: Public Symposium (Part II) – Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol)

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:16:16 -0500 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Conference / Symposium
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Early Medieval Cities? (February 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72230 72230-17963868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Abstract: More than 30 years ago, a debate that took place in the journal Archeologia Medievale marked a turning print in the study of post-Roman urbanism. The subject was: can we consider Europe's late antique and early medieval cities as "proper" cities? After some decades, and many archaeological investigations, our perception of this subject has become much different from that pioneering starting point. Are "discontinuity" or "continuity" (in respect to the past) still useful terms to label that segment of European urban history? The presentation will explore the most recent data and discuss new perspectives on urban landscapes during late antiquity and the early middle ages. 

Andrea Augenti has taught medieval archaeology at the University of Bologna since 2000. He has carried out investigations in many Italian sites and directed the excavation of the monastery of San Severo in Classe (Ravenna). Andrea Augenti is also editor of the journal Archeologia Medievale and member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Medieval Archaeology. He is a member of Scientific Committee of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum (Rome) and of the RavennAntica Foundation. He is the author of several publications, including Archeologia dell'Italia medievale (2016) and A come Archeologia (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:55:25 -0500 2020-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
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
Multifocality and State Fragility in Iron Age Central Italy (February 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73247 73247-18181861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Western central Italian states have had a peculiar role in our intellectual history, starting with the most famous of them, the “eternal” city of Rome. With evident teleology, the narrative about the emergence of the earliest agglomerations in the early first millennium BCE has taken the form of an ascending curve. While there is no denying that this regional phenomenon has produced cities with 3000 years of uninterrupted occupation, recent archaeological and historical research have revealed how precarious the process was in its early stages. At various points in their trajectories, many of these centers were abandoned, moved or shrunk. Even more importantly, they all came together in a slow and hesitant way. It is now clear that they were the result of many distinct elite-led groups settling separately within the same defensible location. Such multifocality remained a long-term trait of these agglomerations, shaping their settlement patterns, their institutions and their sociopolitical life. Arguably, participating elites saw the city as a truce space to mitigate their conflicts and as a vehicle to further their long-range ambitions, but they never fully identified with it. This made all these polities inherently weak and impermanent, even when they lasted for centuries.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:23:48 -0500 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion NT
Black Classicisms (February 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73093 73093-18140509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

A panel presentation to mark Black History Month and the release of Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Oxford University Press), by Ian Moyer of the University of Michigan, Heidi E. Morse of the Ann Arbor District Library, Michele Valerie Ronnick of Wayne State University, and Patrice D. Rankine of the University of Richmond.

The event is FREE and open to the public. Accessible parking is available outside of the Cass Ave. entrance. Free parking is available in our staff parking lot on Putnam St. Entrance to the Library is through either the Woodward Ave. or Cass Ave. doors.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:31:13 -0500 2020-02-29T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Contexts for Classics Lecture / Discussion Black Classicisms
Mid-Day Morsel Drop-In Tour (March 6, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64510 64510-16380896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Looking for something to feed your brain on your lunch hour? The Mid-Day Morsel tour at the Kelsey Museum is a 30-minute taste of ancient Mediterranean history and artifact highlights in the Kelsey collection. Mid-Day Morsel tours begin at 12:30 p.m. No registration is needed. Tour participants should gather at our Maynard Street entrance a few minutes before the tour is scheduled to start.

While we do not allow food at the Kelsey Museum, there are numerous lunch options near us on campus. Check out the UMMA Café at the Museum of Art and Darwin’s Café at the Museum of Natural History before or after your tour of the Kelsey.

Mid-Day Morsel tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-764-9304 at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Sunday Drop-In Tour | Women in the Ancient World (March 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69484 69484-17327221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Celebrate International Women's Day with a tour of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology! In this docent-led tour, explore the status of women in various ancient societies highlighted by representations of women, goddesses, and mythological females.

Drop-In Tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:44:28 -0500 2020-03-08T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-08T14:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Women in the ancient world
Sunday Drop-In Tour | Around the Table (March 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71272 71272-17794069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Whether it was an elaborate Greek symposium or a small family dinner in Pompeii, people had to eat! On this tour, learn more about what all of those unusually shaped Greek dishes and cups were used for and what was for dinner in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Leave the museum with some ancient recipes to try when you get home!

Drop-In tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18261079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18085916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73569 73569-18261081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.

CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict,civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:23:26 -0400 2020-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 14, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73569 73569-18261082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 7:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.

CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict,civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:23:26 -0400 2020-03-14T19:30:00-04:00 2020-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED - Resistance and resilience: Women performing ancient Greek tragedy in the contemporary Middle East and Asia (March 17, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72220 72220-17957453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

CANCELED AS OF MARCH 12TH, 2020.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ABOUT A POSSIBLE RESCHEDULING IN THE FALL, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSICS@UMICH.EDU TO BE ADDED TO OUR EVENTS MAILING LIST.

The Department of Classical Studies is excited to present a film series in March 2020 exploring Greek tragedy and the experience of contemporary women in the Middle East and South Central Asia.

The first two films, “We are not Princesses” and “Queens of Syria” depict performances of Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Trojan Women by Syrian women in exile in Lebanon and Jordan, respectively. The third film, “Playing with Fire: Women Actors in Afghanistan” examines the dangers facing Afghan women who want to perform in the theater, specifically as they learn about ancient Greek tragedy.

The films will be shown on March 17, March 24, and March 31st, 2020 at 7 pm in the Hussey Room, Michigan League.

We are grateful to the following Departments and Programs for their support: Classical Studies, Modern Greek, History of Art, Theater and Dance, the Residential College, Film, Television and Media.

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:40:05 -0400 2020-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Film Screening Resistance and Resilience
Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73236 73236-18181848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Early Roman comedy, dating to around 200 BC, was written and performed by slaves and poor men for an audience that included slaves and poor people. These writers and actors took the old comic character of the slave cook and did something new, in line with these plays’ general resistance to authority. This talk is illustrated by rarely-seen images of cartoon cooks contemporary with the plays, juxtaposed with modern parallels from cookie jars to South Park’s Chef to Betye Saar’s “Liberation of Aunt Jemima".

Content warning: this talk will include discussion and display of images related to modern slavery and anti-black racism.

Location: Rackham Amphitheater (4th floor)
NB: There are two spots for wheelchair users in the middle of the Amphitheater, using the North Entrance.

March 19th, 5:30pm
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:08:32 -0500 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen
CANCELED - Resistance and resilience: Women performing ancient Greek tragedy in the contemporary Middle East and Asia (March 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72220 72220-17957454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

CANCELED AS OF MARCH 12TH, 2020.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ABOUT A POSSIBLE RESCHEDULING IN THE FALL, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSICS@UMICH.EDU TO BE ADDED TO OUR EVENTS MAILING LIST.

The Department of Classical Studies is excited to present a film series in March 2020 exploring Greek tragedy and the experience of contemporary women in the Middle East and South Central Asia.

The first two films, “We are not Princesses” and “Queens of Syria” depict performances of Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Trojan Women by Syrian women in exile in Lebanon and Jordan, respectively. The third film, “Playing with Fire: Women Actors in Afghanistan” examines the dangers facing Afghan women who want to perform in the theater, specifically as they learn about ancient Greek tragedy.

The films will be shown on March 17, March 24, and March 31st, 2020 at 7 pm in the Hussey Room, Michigan League.

We are grateful to the following Departments and Programs for their support: Classical Studies, Modern Greek, History of Art, Theater and Dance, the Residential College, Film, Television and Media.

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:40:05 -0400 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Film Screening Resistance and Resilience
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (March 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73257 73257-18184059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The speaker will present how the Adult Learning Division at the Art Institute of Chicago engages college and professional groups within various disciplines. She will discuss how the division approaches art education with these different audiences and her own work there to assist in creating a program for interdisciplinary students and professionals.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:25:01 -0400 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Art Institute of Chicago
CANCELED - Resistance and resilience: Women performing ancient Greek tragedy in the contemporary Middle East and Asia (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72220 72220-17957455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

CANCELED AS OF MARCH 12TH, 2020.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ABOUT A POSSIBLE RESCHEDULING IN THE FALL, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSICS@UMICH.EDU TO BE ADDED TO OUR EVENTS MAILING LIST.

The Department of Classical Studies is excited to present a film series in March 2020 exploring Greek tragedy and the experience of contemporary women in the Middle East and South Central Asia.

The first two films, “We are not Princesses” and “Queens of Syria” depict performances of Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Trojan Women by Syrian women in exile in Lebanon and Jordan, respectively. The third film, “Playing with Fire: Women Actors in Afghanistan” examines the dangers facing Afghan women who want to perform in the theater, specifically as they learn about ancient Greek tragedy.

The films will be shown on March 17, March 24, and March 31st, 2020 at 7 pm in the Hussey Room, Michigan League.

We are grateful to the following Departments and Programs for their support: Classical Studies, Modern Greek, History of Art, Theater and Dance, the Residential College, Film, Television and Media.

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:40:05 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Film Screening Resistance and Resilience
[CANCELED] Saturday Sampler Tour | Health and Medicine (April 4, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69487 69487-17327224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

How was illness prevented and treated in the past? Who was your doctor, and what were their credentials? On this tour, learn more about the kind of medical care you might have received in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Artifact highlights include Roman medical tools, amulets, and food (part of many medical recipes).

Saturday Sampler tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:02:38 -0400 2020-04-04T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other ancient toiletry kit
Greek to Me (April 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70528 70528-17602865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

The Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities

Summary:
Everyone knows that a classical education equips you for whatever life may throw at you, that Homer and Plato and Sophocles speak to the twenty-first century, but it’s also true that ordinary life can prepare you to study the classics. Who you are when you come to a text—say, Sophocles’ Antigone—can give you an intimate experience that you wouldn’t have had if that text had been thrust at you as “required reading” before you were ripe for it. I was in my thirties, working as a copy editor at The New Yorker, when I began studying modern Greek in order to travel; I fell in love with the Aegean, and immersed myself in classical Greek. It was a kind of therapy. When I got an opportunity to write about Greek, thirty years after my first enchantment, it seemed as if all my life had been leading to this. I dove into the scholarship, reading introductions and afterwords, footnotes, endnotes—all the scholarly apparatus. Scholarly books put the acknowledgments first and sum up their arguments neatly in the introduction, whereas journalists, hoping to inject suspense, grudgingly supply a “nut graph” and leave their acknowledgments for last. There were areas I had to acquire a deep knowledge of in order to write about superficially. Some of my favorite rabbit holes: the alphabet, the transmission of classical texts, Homer, the bizarre death of Milman Parry, code breakers who died young, schools of translation, gods and goddesses in the age of marketing (Apollo Electric, Hermes Hauling, Odyssey Phone Repair), the poet James Merrill (who lived in Athens as a rich young gay man), Freudian terminology, U.S. towns with Greek names, the shield of a fire chief (my father) and how it evokes Achilles and the world of the hero . . . Some of these things survived in the book as a single sentence, some not at all.

How can a person, condensing all her experience and following up every lead, write something that is both accessible and serious, neither too detailed for the nonspecialist nor too callow for the scholar? On the one hand, I didn’t have enough classical Greek to impress a scholar, and, on the one hand, I didn’t have enough modern Greek to hold my own with a native. A book that filtered Greek through me would have something to disappoint everyone. But I kept reminding myself that epic poetry and philosophy and tragedy are not solely the province of the scholar. Like the earth, “holy and inexhaustible,” they belong to us all.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:34:17 -0500 2020-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion Mary Norris
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73268 73268-18184070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The presenter will discuss the development of an educational outreach program and curation of a local heritage exhibit at the El Kurru Community Heritage Center in Sudan. The International Kurru Archaeological Project, Sudanese archaeologists, and local stakeholders are preparing programming and exhibitions about the site’s archaeology and the local culture.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:27:36 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Drone photograph of El-Kurru
[CANCELED] Saturday Sampler Tour | Ancient Environment (April 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69490 69490-17327226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

How did the environment effect the peoples of the ancient world? On this tour we explore how the peoples of the Mediterranean, Near East, and Egypt lived in their diverse natural environments, and how they dealt with changes. Learn about how slow-moving climate change and drastic natural disasters have led to some of archaeology’s greatest discoveries.

Saturday Sampler tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:05:15 -0400 2020-04-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-18T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other stamp seal with farmer
Bioethics Discussion: History (April 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52731 52731-12974165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the means to our ends.

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

Readings to consider:
1. Bioethics and History
2. The History of Bioethics: Its Rise and Significance
3. What can History do for Bioethics?
4. “My Story Is Broken; Can You Help Me Fix It?”: Medical Ethics and the Joint Construction of Narrative

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/045-history/.

Of historical note – the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:22:43 -0400 2020-04-21T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion History
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
FAST Lecture | IPCAA at Home (September 24, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77550 77550-19883821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In this virtual meeting, catch up with some of U-M's IPCAA students and learn how they've been continuing their studies in the age of COVID.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92387511223

Meeting ID: 923 8751 1223
Passcode: 495351

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:47:04 -0400 2020-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Two open books
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
Slave Theater in the Roman Republic (October 14, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77658 77658-19899717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman Republican Reading Group (R3G to its friends) is excited to announce a virtual visit from Amy Richlin to discuss her book Slave Theater in the Roman Republic.

A zoom link will follow closer to the date.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:33:39 -0400 2020-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Knowledge
IISS Lecture Series. Theology, Ideology and Polemic: The Image of the Rāfiḍa in al-Jāḥiẓ’s Corpus (October 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78780 78780-20123141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

IISS is pleased to announce the public lecture "Theology, Ideology and Polemic: The Image of the Rāfiḍa in al-Jāḥiẓ’s Corpus" by Professor Hussain Abdulsater (Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame):

Texts are mirrors that can reflect sentiments and tactics that authors captured and channeled into society in their portrayals. In particular, sectarian polemics served as discourses of legitimation in the formative period of Islamic theological schools. According to the great Muʿtazilī master Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī (d. 915), his ancestor the great littérateur Abū ʿUthmān al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 868-9) is famed for his obsessive compulsion to argue against the Rāfiḍa.

This talk examines how Jāḥiẓ portrayed the Imāmī community (rāfiḍa) in terms of both its theological views and its social practices. What emerges from his writings on the Rāfiḍa is an image of a community of simple-minded fanatics. One the one hand, the Imāmīs adhere to anthropomorphic and deterministic beliefs and are blind followers of authority. On the other hand, they are passionate believers who strongly stand in solidarity with one another. This, for Jāḥiẓ, explains their coalition with the superficial traditionalists against the rationalist Muʿtazilīs.

Please register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqceyhpj4vGdK2ABUNb1QFv1UbVT3ZX6ih

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:57:59 -0400 2020-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
FAST Lecture | Domus, Wine Cellars, and Churches at Amheida: Late Antique Ceramic Contexts in an Egyptian Oasis (October 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78426 78426-20042431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Excavations at Amheida, located in the Dakhleh Oasis in the western desert of Egypt, have always had a strong ceramological component: the ancient walls in the site were constructed with a mix of broken potsherds and mudbrick, the latter which has eroded with time and left millions of chinking sherds scattered on the vast sandy surface. An initial survey conducted in 2005 estimated the surface ceramics to total about 330 million sherds. Beyond architectural remains, the ceramics have also revealed much about Dakhleh’s economy and society.

This talk will explore three particular ceramic contexts that reveal aspects of Dakhleh’s wine production in the Roman period, via ostraka and wine jars; about olive oil production and exportation, through the history of its kegs; and about the lives of the councilmen and clergy, through imported amphorae and local finewares.

Zoom meeting room opens at 5:45; lecture begins at 6:00.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98081414141
Meeting ID: 980 8141 4141

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:37:41 -0400 2020-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual View of Amheida
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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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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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
The Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup and the UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series present The Problems and Prospects of Community-Based Archaeology: A Roundtable Discussion (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78710 78710-20107417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

How do archaeologists design research projects alongside community partners? What does it mean to pursue a multi-vocal interpretation of the past? What are the economic consequences of archaeological fieldwork for descendent communities? These questions, among others, have come to characterize a set of practices in archaeology broadly defined as "community archaeology". For academic archaeologists, understanding our role as producers of knowledge for, and alongside, a diversity of communities has become central to pursuing ethical research and reckoning with archaeology's colonial and imperialist origins. This roundtable will put four archaeologists in dialogue to discuss their current research projects and the various ways they consider and incorporate community engagement. It will explore best practices related to community involvement in archaeology and examine how community-based practices have changed, and continue to change, the fundamental nature of archaeological methodologies, pedagogy, and publication. The conversation will span the globe, from Detroit to Northern Sudan, addressing the problems and prospects of community archaeology in a variety of different political, social, and cultural contexts.

Zoom Link https://umich.zoom.us/j/96336389639

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:25:31 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual 11.20.2020
Premodern Colloquium. Cheap Seats in Dante's Heaven (December 13, 2020 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76974 76974-19782535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate student discussion group, now in its forty-second year of continuous operation. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discus work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:07:21 -0400 2020-12-13T15:45:00-05:00 2020-12-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual
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