Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. There is No Moral Ought and No Prudential Ought (December 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46995 46995-10722269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

It is natural to think that there are a number of different oughts. There is a moral ought, there is a prudential ought, etc. Furthermore, it is natural to think that each ought is such that one ought to do the best thing one could do, where the sense of best at issue varies with the kind of ought it is. Thus, it is natural to think: morally, a person ought to do the morally best thing she could do; and prudentially, a person ought to do the prudentially best thing she could do. One might also express these thoughts by saying: morality recommends that one do the morally best thing one could do; and prudence recommends that one do the prudentially best thing one could do.

These natural thoughts suggest the further thought that the moral ought and the prudential ought often conflict, and thus that often, morally, one ought to do something although, prudentially, one ought to refrain from doing it.

While these thoughts are natural, and they express a commonly-held view, I will argue that these thoughts are wrong. My modest aim is to show that there is an alternative view to the view I describe above. My more ambitious aim is to show that my alternative view is correct. Once the two views are contrasted, I think it will be clear that although the commonly-held view is indeed common, it is not supported by or warranted by ordinary moral thinking or ordinarily-recognized moral phenomena, and we do better at capturing moral reality – and normative reality more broadly – by jettisoning the common view in favor of the alternative view I outline.

The alternative view denies all the natural thoughts above. It holds that there is no distinctively moral ought, though there are some ought facts that are distinctively moral. Similarly, there is no distinctively prudential ought, though there are some ought facts that are distinctively prudential. Finally, the alternative view holds that distinctively moral ought claims never conflict with distinctively prudential ought claims: it is never the case that, morally, one ought to do something, while prudentially, one ought to refrain.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:04:56 -0500 2017-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium (December 8, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41734 41734-9446512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

details to come

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:25:08 -0500 2017-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:30:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ling Social
CCN Forum- (January 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45845 45845-10310525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

.

]]>
Presentation Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:50:28 -0500 2018-01-05T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Presentation molnar
Excuses and Justifications in Epistemology (January 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47012 47012-10725027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Epistemology concerns what we should believe. Ethics concerns what we should do. Much recent work in the two fields emphasizes their similarities—their shared concern with oughts, normativity, and how things should be in some broad sense—over their differences. An increasingly influential argumentative strategy in the spirit of this broader trend is to argue that the distinction between justifications and excuses—familiar in ethics and the philosophy of law—can be exported to epistemology, where it can do substantial philosophical work. Timothy Williamson, Clayton Littlejohn, Amia Srinivasan, John Hawthorne, Jason Stanley, and others have all argued, in one form or another, that many mistakes in epistemology are the consequence of conflating the distinction between justified belief on the one hand, and merely excusable or blameless belief on the other.

Ultimately, I suspect that this move is too quick—the justification/excuse distinction cannot be straightforwardly or uncritically adopted by epistemologists. But vindicating this suspicion is a major task. My argumentative strategy will involve paying close attention to the roles the excuse/justification distinction plays in the law, and arguing that there aren’t analogous roles to be played by a similar distinction in epistemology. Stepping back, my broader hope is to sound a cautionary note about drawing parallels between practical and epistemic normativity. Concepts and distinctions that have application in the former domain don't 'automatically' have application in the latter, and when they do, it takes theoretical work to show this.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:16:01 -0500 2018-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Excuses and Justifications in Epistemology
Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquium (January 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41735 41735-9446515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The MLK speaker is Colleen Fitzgerald, Director of the Native American Languages Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:36:58 -0500 2018-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ling Social
Lost (and Found) in Translation: Perception and Expression across Borders and Languages (January 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48048 48048-11170226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia. How does an American academic culture of expression interact with the increasingly international body of authors on campus? And, what does it mean to think and write from a non-normative background? Please join us for a scholarly conversation on multilingualism and the pleasures and difficulties of translation.

Speakers:
Pär Cassel (History & International Relations)
Gottfried Hagen (Near Eastern Studies)
Se-Mi Oh (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Benjamin Paloff (Comparative & Slavic Literature)
Will Thomson (Anthropology & Architecture)

Hors d'oeuvres to be served

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:16:05 -0500 2018-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Event poster
CCN Forum- (January 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45844 45844-10310523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

.

]]>
Presentation Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:02:32 -0500 2018-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Presentation goldstone
CCN Developmental Talks (January 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45846 45846-10310528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

.

]]>
Presentation Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:14:55 -0500 2018-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Presentation ccn
CCN Developmental Talks (February 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47650 47650-10971155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

.

]]>
Presentation Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:23:32 -0500 2018-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation CCN
Refutation (February 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47013 47013-10725028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

The practice of refutation has been a central preoccupation of philosophers since Socrates. But what is a refutation? And why do philosophers feel impelled to produce them? With reference to the first question, I produce a definition of refutation: a refutation disproves one proposition in order to discredit another. With reference to the second question, I argue that the refuter’s activity to undermine her interlocutor's account solves a problem facing the project of knowledge-acquisition. This problem was articulated by William James: the project of coming to believe truths is in tension with the project of avoiding belief in falsehoods. The first motivates one to embrace dogmatism, the second to retreat to skepticism. The practice of refutation solves James’ problem by way of a division of labor.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:32:01 -0500 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Refutation
CCN Forum-Brain Network Properties in Aging: A Graph-Theoretic Approach (February 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47651 47651-10971156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Talk Abstract: Growing evidence suggests that healthy aging affects the configuration of large-scale brain networks. Functional brain organization has traditionally been studied using fMRI-based “resting-state” functional connectivity and more recently, in conjunction with graph-theoretic analyses. The graph-theoretic approach enables characterization of the brain’s connectivity structure and derives measures that assess global and local features that may be important for network function. First, I will provide a brief introduction to network theory, focusing on key topological network properties, such as modularity. Then, I will present several representative results from recent fMRI investigations showing age differences in global and local network properties. Finally, I will highlight several methodological aspects that are relevant for functional connectivity and network measures calculations.

Brief Bio: Alex is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, working with Dr. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz. His main research interests are in understanding the structure and dynamics of the large-scale brain networks that mediate interactions between cognitive control and emotion, as well as the roles of aging and training in these interactions. Alex is from Bucharest, Romania. After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology and Neurobiology and the University of Bucharest, he joined the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied the effects of emotional distraction on working memory using brain imaging. In 2016, he joined the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan, where he is currently working on several projects, including the investigation of large-scale brain networks in aging and the effects of cognitive training. His research has been published in several journals including Cerebral Cortex, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, and Biological Psychology.

]]>
Presentation Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:14:16 -0500 2018-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Iordan
Social Brown Bag-Do Votes Speak Louder than Motives? Moral Judgments and Tolerance in the 2016 Presidential Election (February 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49973 49973-11611104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

.

]]>
Presentation Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:11:50 -0500 2018-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Hall
Comparative Literature Colloquium (February 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50028 50028-11622342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Marjorie Levinson and Karl Gaudyn will be presenting.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:27:58 -0500 2018-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Winter 2018 Colloquium (February 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49776 49776-11532465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

details forthcoming

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:56:57 -0500 2018-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:30:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
CCN Forum - (February 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48966 48966-11339493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

.

]]>
Presentation Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:12:56 -0500 2018-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Cassady
First Person Plural: Global echoes of rape and resistance (February 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47014 47014-10725029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Survivors of rape, sexual assault and sexual violence are speaking around the world, instigating a social movement. However, their speech enters mainstream media and legal institutions that edit, interpret, and spin their stories. States and institutions in general are responding in ways that sideline the movement toward agendas that have little to do with addressing the epidemic of sexual violence. What can we learn from this moment and how can we make resistance more effective?

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:12:16 -0500 2018-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
2018 Positive Business Conference (March 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50753 50753-11964847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Positive Business Conference

Culture is key. Businesses with positive cultures enjoy larger profits, better performance, and happier employees. And thriving employees are more committed and satisfied with their jobs. But how do you create this kind of culture?

Develop a strategy for a sustainable positive culture at the Michigan Ross Positive Business Conference, May 10-11. Our theme, “Right from the start: building and sustaining a positive culture from startup to scale,” will provide valuable insights and research you can apply immediately to change business for the better. This year’s lineup of keynote speakers includes Joey Bergstein, Seventh Generation; Bruce Broussard, Humana; Katy George, McKinsey; Thomas Grilk, Boston Marathon; Jan Mühlfeit, Microsoft ret.; and KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Sustainable Brands.

Visit http://www.positivebusinessconference.com to learn more and register to attend.

]]>
Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:29:56 -0400 2018-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Positive Business Conference Conference / Symposium PBC 18
CCN Forum-Socioeconomic status and inhibitory control: Neural and environmental mechanisms (March 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47658 47658-10971163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Brief description: Inhibitory control ability in childhood is related to broad life outcomes in adulthood, even above and beyond IQ. On average, children from low-SES backgrounds are known to perform worse on inhibitory control tasks than their high-SES peers before beginning kindergarten. The mechanisms underlying this SES-related difference are largely unknown. This question is further complicated by the issue of defining "SES"; while there is some evidence that traditional SES variables like family income or maternal education could be driving this effect, it is also possible that more downstream effects of SES, such as living in a disadvantaged neighborhood, are important as well. This presentation will focus on preliminary data from the Michigan Twins Neurogenetics Study (MTwiNS) study, which utilizes recruitment methods that oversample for neighborhood disadvantage. This presentation will explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between SES and inhibitory control. In particular, it will focus on an investigation of the relationships between a behavioral inhibitory control measure, a neural inhibitory control measure, and different SES-related variables.

]]>
Presentation Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:19:20 -0500 2018-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Tomlinson
International Territorial Rights: An Institutional Account (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47015 47015-10725031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

A state’s bundle of territorial rights includes an "international" territorial right. This is the presumptive right of a state to a defined territorial space that other states (and international actors) have a duty to respect. This international dimension of territorial rights is distinct from and prior to the more local aspects of territorial rights. For instance, a justification of a state’s jurisdictional authority over persons within its dominion does not by itself say why the state (or the political society it represents) has any international claim to the territory within which it exercises this authority. Recent arguments for territorial rights invoke, variously, the right of individuals to a location in which to maintain conditions of justice, the right of acquisition, and the right of self-determination. Contra these arguments and others, I propose instead that a state’s international territorial right is ultimately an institutional right, a right that is defined and sanctioned by the rules, norms and practices of the global order. This institutional account of international territorial rights has significant implications for our understanding of global justice.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:00:07 -0500 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Winter 2018 Colloquium- Alexandra D'Arcy ~ University of Victoria (March 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49779 49779-11532469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Drawing on findings from dialect acquisition, historical linguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, this talk addresses one of the most long-standing and central questions in the study of language change: How does change advance across successive generations of speakers? Past research has engaged in post-hoc theorizing about the continuous advancement of change but it has never addressed it directly. Because children must speak differently from their parents for any change to both survive and progress, only real time observation of the same speakers can provide answers to this question. I introduce a project that explicitly sets out to observe the onset and early progression of change in order to track the diachronic evolution of specific linguistic features, zeroing in on the period when children begin to participate in change by shifting their language model along an apparently pre-set direction of change.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:29:30 -0400 2018-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
CCN Forum - (March 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47654 47654-10971159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

.

]]>
Presentation Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:45:28 -0500 2018-03-23T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Deldin
Colloquium on Cognitive Science (March 24, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51120 51120-11976186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 10:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

With the support of the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science, the Cognitive Science Community is pleased to announce the second annual Colloquium on Cognitive Science, to be held on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at the University of Michigan League, on Central Campus. This colloquium will be devoted to the promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration and curiosity amongst undergraduate students interested in the cognitive sciences, and to learn about opportunities for research and career pathways from established cognitive scientists. The event will consist of invited speaker presentations, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn about ideas in cognitive science from some of the leading academic figures in the field, an undergraduate research showcase, and a panel session with graduate students and cognitive scientists from different backgrounds and industries. More information about speakers, undergraduate presentations, and panelists can be found at our website.

For more information: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/csccolloquium/home
to RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3gJyvDOsBuIWaVTOp_mQWokCj_1AvfTd92Nd2WJ436qHJKw/viewform

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:45:49 -0400 2018-03-24T10:30:00-04:00 2018-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC Colloquium
Women Who Win (March 29, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50926 50926-11927733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Business Women (BBA)

Join us for the first annual Women Who Win conference hosted by Michigan Business Women BBA. This is an OPEN event for ALL female UofM students and will be a fantastic opportunity to hear from empowered executive women from Goldman Sachs, Unilever/Dove, Kraft Heinz, NBC, The Discovery Channel & NPR!

Women Who Win
Date: Thursday, March 29th 2018
Time: 5:30 -7:30 PM
Location: Ross 6th Floor Colloquium

Please RSVP with the following link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefa2w6LDVeBX68jA44o4KXe-76p7cZp2JWKeDLQvhXjBJB6Q/viewform

This event will feature the following Executive Guest Speakers:

Michelle St. Jacques
Former Global Brand Director of Unilever Dove, now SVP Head of Marketing at The Kraft Heinz Company

Elyssa Herman
Former COO of Goldman Sachs, now Managing Director at ScotiaBanks

Rekha Patricio
Former Associate Producer at NBC and The Discovery Channel, now Director of Marketing at NPR

**Dress code is business casual**
REGISTRATION/SIGN-IN AND THE DINNER BUFFET WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 4:30-5:30 PM

]]>
Careers / Jobs Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:30:58 -0400 2018-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Business Women (BBA) Careers / Jobs Women Who Win
CCN Forum-Brain Network Properties in Aging: A Graph-Theoretic Approach (March 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47652 47652-10971157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Growing evidence suggests that healthy aging affects the configuration of large-scale brain networks. Functional brain organization has traditionally been studied using fMRI-based “resting-state” functional connectivity and more recently, in conjunction with graph-theoretic analyses. The graph-theoretic approach enables characterization of the brain’s connectivity structure and derives measures that assess global and local features that may be important for network function. First, I will provide a brief introduction to network theory, focusing on key topological network properties, such as modularity. Then, I will present several representative results from recent fMRI investigations showing age differences in global and local network properties. Finally, I will highlight several methodological aspects that are relevant for functional connectivity and network measures calculations.

]]>
Presentation Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:12:04 -0400 2018-03-30T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Iordan
Final Exhibition-PopUpArt2018 (April 8, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51770 51770-12237495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 8, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: PopUpArt2018

Check out our final exhibition of the semester, helping showcase art on campus. Please also provide your comments, as they are appreciated.
At the Union North Glass Showcase, from 4/8/18 until 4/12/18.

]]>
Exhibition Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:59:28 -0400 2018-04-08T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-08T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union PopUpArt2018 Exhibition Michigan Union
Final Exhibition-PopUpArt2018 (April 9, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51770 51770-12237496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: PopUpArt2018

Check out our final exhibition of the semester, helping showcase art on campus. Please also provide your comments, as they are appreciated.
At the Union North Glass Showcase, from 4/8/18 until 4/12/18.

]]>
Exhibition Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:59:28 -0400 2018-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union PopUpArt2018 Exhibition Michigan Union
Final Exhibition-PopUpArt2018 (April 10, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51770 51770-12237497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: PopUpArt2018

Check out our final exhibition of the semester, helping showcase art on campus. Please also provide your comments, as they are appreciated.
At the Union North Glass Showcase, from 4/8/18 until 4/12/18.

]]>
Exhibition Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:59:28 -0400 2018-04-10T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union PopUpArt2018 Exhibition Michigan Union
Final Exhibition-PopUpArt2018 (April 11, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51770 51770-12237498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: PopUpArt2018

Check out our final exhibition of the semester, helping showcase art on campus. Please also provide your comments, as they are appreciated.
At the Union North Glass Showcase, from 4/8/18 until 4/12/18.

]]>
Exhibition Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:59:28 -0400 2018-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union PopUpArt2018 Exhibition Michigan Union
Final Exhibition-PopUpArt2018 (April 12, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51770 51770-12237499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: PopUpArt2018

Check out our final exhibition of the semester, helping showcase art on campus. Please also provide your comments, as they are appreciated.
At the Union North Glass Showcase, from 4/8/18 until 4/12/18.

]]>
Exhibition Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:59:28 -0400 2018-04-12T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union PopUpArt2018 Exhibition Michigan Union
The Michigan Fashion Media Summit (April 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46642 46642-10569777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Fashion Media Summit Organization

The Michigan Fashion Media Summit is a day-long experience for students and industry professionals that are passionate about fashion, retail, media, and business. The mission is to inspire and educate the next generation of fashion industry leaders by connecting them to creative and professional opportunities across the retail world. The Michigan Fashion Media Summit is the premier platform for college students, University of Michigan alumni, and industry professionals to collaborate and shape the future fabric of fashion.

]]>
Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:14:53 -0500 2018-04-13T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Fashion Media Summit Organization Conference / Symposium MFMS
Winter 2018 Colloquium (April 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49781 49781-11532472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

details forthcoming

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:03:29 -0500 2018-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
2018 Positive Business Conference (May 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50753 50753-11861931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Positive Business Conference

Culture is key. Businesses with positive cultures enjoy larger profits, better performance, and happier employees. And thriving employees are more committed and satisfied with their jobs. But how do you create this kind of culture?

Develop a strategy for a sustainable positive culture at the Michigan Ross Positive Business Conference, May 10-11. Our theme, “Right from the start: building and sustaining a positive culture from startup to scale,” will provide valuable insights and research you can apply immediately to change business for the better. This year’s lineup of keynote speakers includes Joey Bergstein, Seventh Generation; Bruce Broussard, Humana; Katy George, McKinsey; Thomas Grilk, Boston Marathon; Jan Mühlfeit, Microsoft ret.; and KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Sustainable Brands.

Visit http://www.positivebusinessconference.com to learn more and register to attend.

]]>
Conference / Symposium Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:29:56 -0400 2018-05-10T08:00:00-04:00 2018-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Positive Business Conference Conference / Symposium PBC 18
Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum-Introductions (September 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53745 53745-13459387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

CCN Area Forum Kickoff

]]>
Presentation Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:42:09 -0400 2018-09-07T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum (September 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53753 53753-13459388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

.

]]>
Presentation Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:19:49 -0400 2018-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Myrna Cintron-Valentin
Linguistics Colloquium (September 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53458 53458-13383554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics Fall 2018 Colloquium Series begins September 21st with a presentation by Stephanie Shih, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California.

ABSTRACT
Catching phonology in the Pokéverse: Cross-linguistic comparisons in sound symbolism

Sound symbolism flouts the core assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign in human language. The cross-linguistic prevalence of sound symbolism raises key questions about the universality versus language-specificity of sound symbolic correspondences. One challenge to studying cross-linguistic sound symbolic patterns is the difficulty of holding constant the real-world referents across cultures. In this talk, I present a rich, cross-linguistic dataset that addresses the challenges of cross-linguistic comparison by providing a controlled reference ‘universe’: the Pokémon game franchise. Pokémon names are compared across six languages—Japanese, English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Russian. The results show that while languages have a tendency to encode the same attributes with sound symbolism, they crucially also feature differences in sound symbol-ism that are rooted in language-specific grammar dependence. The Pokémon findings are significant to understanding how phonology interacts with the real world, in the cueing of socioculturally-defined categories.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:21:00 -0400 2018-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Stephanie Shih
Lost in Translation: The Architecture and/of Chinese Edition (October 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55224 55224-13700533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Have you ever wondered how architecture sounds in Chinese? Or questioned if the language of architecture would sound any more esoteric if it were in Chinese? Does linguistic difference matter? What is lost and what is gained when designspeak traverses the Chinese-English divide? How does the medium of design discourse affect its content? Is graphic communication the great equalizer? Is architecture sinicizable? Do you doubt that these are answerable questions? Find out on October 3rd, 5–7pm, at the Taubman College Commons.

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia.

Panelists:
FU Liangyu, Communications & Media Studies
WANG Jieqiong, Architecture & Urban Studies
William THOMSON, Anthropology & Architecture
ZHANG Fang, Fine Arts, Design, & Economics

Hors d'oeuvres to be served.
All are welcome!
No registration is required but please RSVP so we can provide enough food for everyone.

This event is organized by GRIN with generous support from Rackham and in partnership with Taubman College DEI.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 13:00:55 -0400 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Explanation: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful (October 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54883 54883-13651912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Like scientists, children and adults are often motivated to explain the world around them, including why people behave in particular ways, why objects have some properties rather than others, and why events unfold as they do. Moreover, people have strong and systematic intuitions about what makes something a good (or beautiful) explanation. Why are we so driven to explain? And what accounts for our explanatory preferences? In this talk I’ll present evidence that both children and adults prefer explanations that are simple and have broad scope, consistent with many accounts of explanation from philosophy of science. The good news is that a preference for simple and broad explanations can sometimes improve learning and support effective inferences. The bad news is that under some conditions, these preferences can systematically lead children and adults astray.

]]>
Presentation Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:23:48 -0400 2018-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Tania Lombrozo
Department Colloquium (October 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52149 52149-12483089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

A Pluralist, Pragmatist Theory of Disease

Philosophers have proposed various definitions of disease. These have
spanned the normative, the naturalistic, and the social constructivist, for
instance. I argue that disease is not a stable, univocal concept with a
correct definition that can be uncovered or even usefully stipulated.
Rather, the concept of disease shows up in deeply competing projects with
different practical and epistemic goals, and what counts as a disease
varies accordingly. There is no reason to think we have, or should have,
even roughly consistent notions of health and disease underlying these
different projects. There are a messy host of competing strategic reasons
to classify something as a disease or to resist doing so; accordingly, that
something is a disease is often a contingent, historically dependent,
context dependent, perhaps temporary fact about it. Any neater story we try
to tell will occlude some of the important purposes that categorizing
something as a disease can serve, and the complex harms and benefits that
can come with this categorization.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:53:59 -0400 2018-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion kukla poster
Department Colloquium (October 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52150 52150-12483090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Does Virtual Reality Consist in Veridical, Illusory or Hallucinatory Experience?

Does virtual reality (VR) involve: (i) illusory or hallucinatory experience of things that are not there? or (ii) veridical experience of computational objects? I argue that traditional thinking about this issue involves a false dichotomy. I articulate my own account of illusion and hallucination, and argue that it entails VR experience is complex with veridical and non-veridical elements. I begin by presenting new cases of illusion and hallucination that have not heretofore been identified. These cases show that the traditional accounts of illusion and hallucination are incorrect. I provide a taxonomy of all the different kinds of illusion and hallucination. New instances of illusion and hallucination provide much needed, important data for testing theories of experience and perception—and can illuminate the nature of virtual reality experience. I go on to discuss virtual reality experience of the sort that is produced today, and show that we need to take account of the nature of the technology in thinking about the veridicality of the experience.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:39:43 -0400 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Social Area Brown Bag (November 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54941 54941-13654197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Seeing clearly in the mind’s eye: The relationship of decentering to mood and anxiety disorders and health behavior change

]]>
Presentation Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:37:11 -0500 2018-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Fresco
Social Area Brown Bag (November 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54942 54942-13654200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

.

]]>
Presentation Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:41:10 -0500 2018-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation FelsmanYu