Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 18, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Faith & Coming Out (March 18, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82714 82714-21163652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Spectrum Center is proud to present Faith & Coming out: a student & parent panel on family, community, and loving yourself. Many individuals in the LGBTQ+ community have questions, fears, and hopes about how their queerness interacts with their faith, but it's not a subject often talked about. In an effort to help our students understand themselves better, we have brought together five people to share their stories about coming out or being come out to. There isn't one method to create a perfect harmony between an individual's religion and LGBTQ+ identity, but highlighting more narratives can help reflect the many possible paths and make the journey just a little less uncertain.

This event's panelists come from the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Catholicism.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:06:09 -0500 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event information against a multicolored background reminicent of stained glass.
Michigan India Conference (March 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82608 82608-21137866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan India Conference

Have you heard the good news? The annual Michigan India Conference is back, and we’re going virtual for 2021.

We hope to see you there. We have a series of influential speakers you won’t want to miss! The theme for this year's conference is Stability & Change, so we have brought you the best decision-makers and thinkers surrounding India's government, India's economy and the Indian consumer. Get a chance to learn about the latest trends, opportunities, and maybe even a chance to network with some of India’s prestigious figures.

The Michigan India Conference gives business leaders, students, alumni, policymakers, and anyone interested, a chance to learn more about what drives this dynamic economy. Whether you are interested in doing business in India or want to learn more about policy and government, the Michigan India Conference is open to all. We hope you will join us.

Take advantage of our first fully-digital conference!
Register today: https://forms.gle/ug5R9KMKs1dXu28bA

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:06:47 -0500 2021-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan India Conference Conference / Symposium Michigan India Conference
The Clements Bookworm: "What We're Reading Now" (March 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82187 82187-21050554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Panelists Dick Marsh, Sara Quashnie, and Paul Erickson revisit the theme of our first Bookworm in March 2020, discussing “what we’re reading now.”

Register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this webinar series. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session.*

*Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:11:52 -0500 2021-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
CSEAS Lecture Series. Tradition Never Dies: “Lắng nghe,” Active Listening, and Activism in Contemporary Vietnam (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80035 80035-20548979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This event is free and open to the public; please register at https://bit.ly/3lzI791
Friday, March 19, 2021, 12 PM EST

Tradition always seems to be dying, or so say “the experts.” Scholars at academic conferences, diplomats at UNESCO, and government policy makers have belabored tradition’s downfall for decades as evidence of the necessity of intervention. Frequently, however, these interventions hide ulterior motives—for scholars, codifying traditions advance their careers; for diplomats, supporting the documentation of art bolsters tradition for consumption; for policy makers, selectively supporting certain practices over others serves nation-building strategies. These experts also tend to ignore the voices of practitioners themselves. Had these experts listened, they would have understood that tradition remains firmly tied to everyday life and even activism.

In this presentation, I examine how “tradition” lives a vibrant life in contemporary Vietnam and suggest that we retire the trite adage that tradition is dying. Tradition is tested, certainly, and frequently is reframed and revised; indeed, one genre of southern Vietnamese opera, cải lương, includes renovation (cải) in the genre name. Television shows, films, and popular music present many examples of how tradition does not simply inspire but is actively practiced and carried forward. In the television show Tài tử miệt vườn (Countryside Amateur), singers of southern Vietnamese traditional music from all walks of life receive praise from a panel of established singers and teach traditional music to viewers within a flashy gameshow format. In the film Song Lang (2018), director Leon Le tells a love story of two men in the 1980s and uses sounds of cải lương to give voice to LGBT voices on screen. In the music video for “BET ON ME” by the rapper Suboi, sounds of the đàn tranh zither mix with a Beyoncé-like delivery of lyrics to advocate for particular kinds of listening in an increasingly modernized Vietnam. All of these examples advance activism through tradition for forms of living to which we need to listen more closely.

Dr. Alexander M. Cannon is Lecturer in Music at the University of Birmingham (UK), where he teaches classes in ethnomusicology, critical musicology, and the traditional musics of Asia. He further serves as Co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum, the journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), and sits on the BFE Committee. He formerly served as Book Reviews Editor for the Yearbook of Traditional Music and as Secretary of the Board for the Society for Asian Music. An alumnus of the University of Michigan, he holds an MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he wrote a dissertation on the southern Vietnamese traditional music genre đờn ca tài tử (music of talented amateurs). He recently completed a book manuscript titled “A Music Without a Name”: Creativity from Seed to Ruin in Southern Vietnam, and also has an article forthcoming in the journal Ethnomusicology. He has previously published in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Asian Music, and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:41:03 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Phondi Discussion Group (March 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (March 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81356 81356-20887830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Bill Baxter will give a presentation on Weirdnesses in Mandarin pronunciation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:05:40 -0500 2021-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Gathering Together After 1 year (March 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82860 82860-21203304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

All are invited to come together as a Michigan community to honor the past year and reflect on our collective loss and resiliency throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 19th, 3pm
Register here: https://myumi.ch/MEKDE

Please also consider sharing your personal reflections of the past year. Selections will be chosen to compose a collective piece which will be shared during the virtual gathering.
https://forms.gle/fAmALP7viToLEyEZ7

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Well-being Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:16:43 -0400 2021-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being Gathering Together After 1 Year
SynSem Discussion Group (March 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Homeostatic Processes Are Not Actions: Against Capacity Views of Action and Agential Control" (March 22, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81512 81512-20903723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Malte Hendrickx (U-M philosophy) will give a talk titled "Homeostatic Processes Are Not Actions: Against Capacity Views of Action and Agential Control."

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

ABSTRACT
Philosophy of action seeks to explicate the difference between what we do (actions) and what happens to us (mere behavior). The popular control view argues that one acts if and only if one agentially controls a movement. But is an agent in control only when causally affecting an occurrent movement in the right way? Or is having the capacity to affect the unfolding movement, as needed, sufficient for agential control? According to the "Capacity View", whether I control a movement is not settled by what I do to control it, but by what I could do to control it. I show that this is wrong, since there are controlled movements for which agents have the capacity for control, yet which are neither actions nor agentially controlled. These are movements like your passive breathing and blinking, which are controlled by bodily subsystems and allow for agential interference. The capacity view is unable to separate the passive process from the active interference. Consequently, the capacity for agential control can neither be a sufficient condition for action, nor for agential control.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:21:45 -0400 2021-03-22T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Freedman Lecture Panel (March 22, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82862 82862-21203326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Who was the historical John the Baptist? The New Testament authors portrayed him as the forerunner of Jesus of Nazareth and claimed that he played a significant part in shaping the early Jesus Movement and Christian Origins. The 2021 Freedman Lecture hosted specialists of the New Testament to reflect on the person and tradition of John the Baptist: Joel Marcus, Joan Taylor, Albert Baumgarten, Edmondo Lupieri, Rivka Nir, and Gabriele Boccaccini. Each panelist responded to the question, ‘Who is my John the Baptist?’

Join us on Zoom from 3-5pm on March 22 for a showing of the Freedman Lecture Panel followed by lively discussion with four additional New Testament specialists who will reflect on the presentations and the recent Enoch Nangeroni Meeting dedicated to John the Baptist (http://enochseminar.org/online-2021).

The live discussion is chaired by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

Discussants include James McGrath (Butler University), Clare K. Rothschild (Lewis University/Stellenbosch University), Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies), and Joshua Scott (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:14:54 -0400 2021-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Freedman Lecture Panel: Who was the Historical John the Baptist?
March Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering (March 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83027 83027-21257025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Those who are close to UM's campus can choose to pick up a free meal the day of the event!

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event’s host will be Askari Rushing (he/him/his). Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Askari graduated from Auburn University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Accountancy. Upon graduating, he taught K-8 Spanish in the DC Public School System for one year. After realizing that teaching was not his passion, he attended Middlebury College and received his Master of Arts in Spanish in 2017. Directly following this, he returned to his alma mater and received his Master of Accountancy in 2018. While studying for his MAcc, he realized that he had a passion for academic advising and decided to pursue a Master of Arts in Higher Education at the University of Michigan. He graduated in 2020 and accepted a job with Mississippi State University working in their Athletic Academics department as a Tutor Coordinator. After 6 months, he returned to the University of Michigan where he currently works as an Academic Program Specialist on the Rackham Professional Development DEI Certificate Program.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:25:57 -0400 2021-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Time and date details along with the description of Askari available in event text. Pictured is Askari, a Black individual with short-shaved hair, beard, and mustache. He is wearing glasses and a jacket and is smiling at the camera.
Bioethics Discussion: Accidents (March 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58839 58839-14563731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we were not meant to have.

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

A few readings to consider:
––Defining Failure: The Language, Meaning and Ethics of Medical Error
––Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error
––Medical Error and Moral Luck
––When AIs Outperform Doctors: Confronting the Challenges of a Tort-Induced Over-Reliance on Machine Learning

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/058-accidents/.

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By accident, by choice, or not at all, the three ways of arriving somewhere, such as the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:39:36 -0500 2021-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Accidents
Some U.S. and Global Top 10’s in 2021 (March 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79861 79861-20509627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This is a presentation for those who like Top 10 Lists! We will consider Top 10 U.S. and GLOBAL lists on subjects such as ... the BEST music ratings, travel destinations, airlines, cities, roads, foods, diets, cars, beaches, etc.
Next, we'll take a look at Top 10 countries regarding - taxes, economic growth, immigration, healthcare, global warming, trade, education, crime rates, "prosperity", "happiness", overall "best" nations ratings etc. Classes will be 60% Top 10 lists / 40% open forum discussion. All lists provided via E/M in advance of your class.
Douglas Stowell leads this group that meets Wednesday March 24. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:23:39 -0500 2021-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Concussion Prevention: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (March 24, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83111 83111-21272914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Office of Research

Please join the Michigan Exercise & Sport Science Initiative and the University of Michigan Concussion Center on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at 11:30am for a panel discussion focusing on concussion prevention. You will learn concussion prevention methods from experts in athlete conditioning, equipment manufacturing, and sports policy at the state, national, and international levels.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:43:41 -0400 2021-03-24T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Office of Research Lecture / Discussion Concussion
Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82828 82828-21179596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Please join us for the last event in our series addressing the theme: "Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment."

This event will consist of a panel featuring scholars and medical, mental health, and fitness experts discussing movement, and physical and mental wellness/well-being as ways of combatting the body politics of racism. The event will include panelists’ demonstrations and audience participation.

If you'd like to join along with the Afrobeats dance demonstration (and we hope you do), please wear comfortable clothes and use a space where you have room to move. All ages and abilities are welcome; no experience needed!

--Abigail Eiler, LMSW, MSW, QMHP: Clinical Assistant Professor, U-M School of Social Work; Director, Athletics Counseling, U-M Athletics; Chair, Mental Health & Wellness Cabinet, Big Ten Conference

--Chiamaka Ukachukwu, MS: PhD Candidate (Specializing in Cardiovascular Electrophysiology), U-M Department of Pharmacology; Afrobeats Dance Instructor, U-M Recreational Sports

--Dr. Kamaria Washington, DPT: Physical Therapist (Specializing in Pelvic Floor Concerns), Therapeutic Associates Bethany Physical Therapy (Portland, OR)

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Well-being Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:58:46 -0400 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Well-being U-M Health Sciences - Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
James S. Jackson’s Continuing Legacy and Contributions to Social and Behavioral Research on Black Americans (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82484 82484-21108104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series – James S. Jackson’s Continuing Legacy and Contributions to Social and Behavioral Research on Black Americans

Wednesday, March 24, 1pm EST. https://umich.zoom.us/j/99879554198

Panelists: Robert Taylor (Harold R Johnson Endowed Professor of Social Work, Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, and Faculty Associate, RCGD); Belinda Tucker (Professor Emerita of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and the Special Liaison for Faculty Development, UCLA); and Phillip Bowman (Professor, Higher and Postsecondary Education at the U-M International Institute)

Join Robert Taylor, Belinda Tucker, and Phillip Bowman for a panel discussion on the continuing legacy and contributions of James S. Jackson.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:45:04 -0500 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
NCF talks followed by Q&A (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82547 82547-21116100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

The Nineteenth-Century Forum would like to invite you to two talks followed by a Q&A with: 
Sober Postdoctoral Fellow, Ross Martin and Graduate Candidate, Srdjan Cvjeticanin

‘On Emerson’s Revolutionary Ecstasies: Cardiovascular Exuberance and Anti-Slavery Thinking’ presented by Ross Martin 

Since Richard Poirier began undoing the notion that Ralph Waldo Emerson proposes a mode of individualism that is stable and resists releasing itself into the world beyond it, some influential readers—from Stanley Cavell, to George Kateb, to Sharon Cameron, to Branka Arsić—have furthered Poirier’s account, reintroducing us to an Emerson who regards life as open and overflowing. Benefiting from the exuberant thinking of Margaret Fuller and Georges Bataille (read alongside Emerson), my talk elaborates on the Emersonian scholarship of recent decades to discuss overabundance from a cardiovascular standpoint as a surging tide that rushes through concentric expansions, and so the scientific impetus for Emerson’s anti-slavery thinking. Augmenting Emerson’s scientific abolitionism with archival evidence, I further investigate his study of Emanuel Swedenborg—the Enlightenment scientist turned mystic—whose lost hematology dissolves anatomical boundaries so that the inward intensity of individuality must release itself and transfigure. Briefly reconstructing Emerson’s Swedenborgianism, my talk uncovers a vision of ontological fecundity unfurled over his career that merges Swedenborg with an emerging strain of American radicalism exemplified by the Haitian Revolution. Finally, I turn to Toussaint Louverture who for Emerson represents the heart’s emancipatory powers, thus situating revolutionary change in an overactive heartbeat at the center of a momentous movement. With Louverture, Emerson at last identifies the dawning of a new age, an upheaval in residual experience through an utmost ecstasy.

‘A nothing tormented by a nothing’ presented by Srdjan Cvjeticanin

In "The Mast-Head," the thirty-fifth chapter of Moby Dick, Ishmael makes the following assertion: "For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the cracking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber." The ensuing chapter, "The Quarter-Deck," proves him right. With a rousing speech, Ahab seduces his entire crew into abandoning their material interests and risking their lives in order to seek revenge against a whale, a whale on whose white hump he piled "the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." No sooner than Ahab stops to take a breath, the Pequod's decks erupt into a deafening chant of  "Death to Moby Dick." The capture is immediate. It happens so quickly and with such ease that Ahab confesses surprise. Why was it so simple, so effortless to convince the entire crew to follow a madman into madness? The second chapter of my dissertation, "A nothing tormented by a nothing," investigates the answer to this question. It does this by first conceptualizing the historico-philosophical conditions animated in Moby Dick and then constructing the theory of the subject operative in Melville's works (esp. Moby Dick, Pierre, Bartleby). After this, I turn to Moby Dick and the "Whiteness of the Whale," by way of which I establish the crucial difference between Ishmael and Ahab, and propose an answer for why Ishmael alone survives. I conclude by constructing the political theory I understand to be embedded in Melville's fictions and arguing for the political function of aesthetics. My talk covers the first part of this chapter.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:23:30 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series Featuring Duncan K. Ralph (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) (March 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82733 82733-21169592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Antibodies are an integral part of the adaptive immune response, and are a critical component of both vaccine-induced and naturally-acquired immunity. The development of deep sequencing approaches in recent years has allowed us to sample a significant fraction of the diverse repertoire of B cell receptor sequences from which antibodies are made. These sequences encode a wealth of information on the somatic rearrangement and evolutionary processes that determine the contours of our antibody repertoires, and thus our ability to respond appropriately to pathogens and vaccines. Extracting this information, however, requires a careful inference approach across several different analysis steps. I will describe the computational approaches that we have taken to solving these problems, which constitute the partis software package, and describe their application in several projects, including HIV and Dengue data.

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Biography: Duncan attended the University of California at Santa Cruz for his undergraduate studies in physics, completing his thesis on energy transport in condensed matter theory in 2005. He completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, working on the Large Hadron Collider at the European particle physics laboratory (CERN). His thesis described the observation of Higgs boson decays to four leptons. Since 2014, he has worked in Frederick Matsen’s lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, first as a postdoctoral researcher and more recently as a staff scientist, writing new computational methods for the analysis of B cell receptor deep sequencing data.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:20:24 -0500 2021-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Rooting for Change: UMSFP Student Food Summit (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81827 81827-20967183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) connects food, environmental, and social justice-oriented clubs on campus to create a network of empowered students working to better our food system both on-campus and in the surrounding community.

From 5-8PM on Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25, we are inviting you to attend Rooting for Change: Student Food Summit! The two-day summit will consist of Zoom webinars and learn-shops, as well as an optional networking happy hour after Wednesday's session. While learn-shop sessions and the happy hour are specifically for students, anyone is welcome to attend the Tiny Talks and Keynote Zoom webinars.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 06 Feb 2021 12:31:13 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Livestream / Virtual Rooting for Change! 5-8pm Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25 2021
Rooting for Change! (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81828 81828-21257024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) connects food, environmental, and social justice-oriented clubs on campus to create a network of empowered students working to better our food system both on-campus and in the surrounding community.

The UM Sustainable Food Program is inviting you to attend Rooting for Change: Student Food Summit! The two-day event will consist of student-led learnshops, a storytelling event Tiny Talks about Food Justice, and a keynote address Food as Healing with Shane Bernardo. Also on the program are a networking happy hour on Wednesday evening and well-being breaks to cultivate personal resilience on both days.

U-M students are welcome to attend some or all of this free event. Register for learnshops along one track (Identity, Equity, & Justice | Hands-on Learning | Resources for Student Orgs) or pick and choose individual learnshops based on your interests.

Staff, faculty, and community members are invited to join in for Tiny Talks at 7pm on Wed, 3/24 and the keynote event at 7pm on Thurs, 3/25.

Our objectives in hosting this summit are to:
* Foster collaboration between UMSFP Member Groups, Working Group participants, UMSFP, Campus Farm, Maize and Blue Cupboard students
* Inspire deeper engagement with co-curricular opportunities to engage with sustainable food at U-M
* Promote a sense of personal and organizational connectedness to one another and to the food we grow, buy, sell, cook, and eat
* Challenge attendees to explore all aspects of the food system through the lens of social justice
* Center fun, relationship-building, and well-being in this work

Please don't hesitate to contact umsfp.core@umich.edu for more information!

DAY 1 - Wed, March 24 (5-9pm)
5:00 - Opening
5:30 - Share Out from Student Orgs
6:00 - Learnshop Session 1 (Equity & Food Access | Nutrition Label Literacy | Grants for Student Orgs)
6:45 - Meditation with Mac Realo
7:00 - Tiny Talks About Food Justice
8:00 - Networking Happy Hour

DAY 2 - TENTATIVE: Thurs, March 25 (5-8pm)
5:00 - The Future of UMSFP
5:15 - Learnshop Session 2 (Food Futures | Recycling & Composting | Food Policy Advocacy)
6:00 - Yoga break
6:15 - Learnshop Session 3 (Food & Social Identity | Campus Farm Flavors | Student Food Access)
7:00 - Keynote: Food as Healing with Shane Bernardo
7:50 - Key Takeaways & Closing

Register: bit.ly/rfcsign

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:14:57 -0400 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Livestream / Virtual Rooting for Change! 5-8pm Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25 2021
SLE Community Nights (March 24, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
LHS Collaboratory March Session (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82008 82008-21006745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speakers Stefan Boes, PhD and Sarah Mantwill, PhD from the university of Lucerne will discuss the Swiss Learning Health System.

Promoting and supporting uptake of evidence and evidence-informed decision-making in health-systems related policy and practice is a challenge. In Switzerland, the need to address this matter has been increasingly emphasized by different actors in the health system. In particular, the lack of comprehensive coordination efforts in the field of health services research, and subsequent knowledge translation activities, has been stressed. In response, the Swiss Learning Health System (SLHS) was established as a nationwide project in 2017, currently involving 10 academic partner institutions. One of the overarching objectives of the SLHS is to bridge research, policy, and practice by providing an infrastructure that supports learning cycles by: continuously identifying issues relevant to the Swiss health system, systemizing relevant evidence, presenting potential courses of action, and revising and reshaping responses. Key features of learning cycles in the SLHS include the development of policy/evidence briefs that serve as a basis for stakeholder dialogues with actors from research, policy and practice. Issues that are identified to be further pursued are monitored for potential implementation and eventually evaluated to inform new learning cycles and to support continuous learning within the system.

Dr. Boes and Dr. Mantwill will provide an overview of the SLHS and its key features, as well as its capacity building efforts to train young researchers in the field of learning health systems, and the development of a centralized metadata repository in support of creating a sufficient large evidence basis to support learning cycles in the Swiss health system. Further, they will discuss lessons learned from the past and the newest developments of the SLHS in light of a second funding phase supported by the Swiss government.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:57:27 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory Logo
Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82046 82046-21012682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Homelessness and housing insecurity have become an epidemic in our country, especially in communities of color. During a pandemic, these individuals end up being our most vulnerable. Join us for this virtual discussion featuring panelists working on the front lines of Detroit’s housing insecurity crisis, who will discuss how the pandemic has exacerbated housing issues. Featured panelists include LaTonia Walker, mobility coach of Creating Opportunities to Succeed (COTS); Amber Elliott, project manager and community improvement advisor for Built for Zero Nationals; Courtney Smith, executive director of Detroit Phoenix Center; and Candace Montgomery, systems transformation advisor of Detroit’s Built for Zero, Community Solutions.
RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W208

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:35:10 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about *Como el cielo después de llover* (2020) (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81576 81576-20927565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Please join us for the next event in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Spring 2021 Colombia Film Series. Join us on March 25 for a conversation about the film *Como el cielo después de llover* (2020) with the Mercedes Gaviria (Director) and Dr. Juana Suárez (Associate Arts Professor, New York University). Moderated and organized by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies, University of Michigan).

Registration for the panel discussion: https://myumi.ch/yKBKM
Registered attendees will receive links to a Canvas course site with a link to the film, as well as a link to the Zoom meeting on March 25.

*Como el cielo después de llover* (2020)
After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the place of women in the film world, which is still strongly ingrained with a patriarchal mindset. A documentary about gender, identity, and the arts.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12209212/

Please register on the Google form to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Please note this is a conversation, not a film screening. Please watch the film before the event on March 25. University of Michigan affiliates will find the movie available to watch online through the university library. Registered attendees will receive an email with further instructions, including a link to a Canvas site for the Colombia Film Series and a link to the Zoom meeting on March 25.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:20:43 -0500 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Como el cielo poster
The Quito Project Annual Event. One Year In: Lessons in Virtual Teaching | Conversations with Student and Community Educators (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83268 83268-21328378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

To join: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92081280992

In light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, The Quito Project's annual event has been rethemed to create a collaborative panel and conversation space for student educators to discuss lessons learned from a year of teaching virtually.

The panel features speakers from PALMA, En Nuestra Lengua, and the School of Education. Conversation will focus on resources/strategies for engaging students in a virtual format, addressing access disparities, and what things teachers hope to bring over from online teaching as they transition back into in-person learning.

This workshop is open to educators in all disciplines, especially those who are still university students themselves. We will offer a space for students to hear from their peers and share their own experiences from a challenging year.

For more information, contact: averysan@umich.edu


Co-sponsors: The Quito Project, School of Education, Romance Languages & Literatures, PALMA (Proyecto Avance, Latino Mentoring Association)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:50:02 -0400 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion The Quito Project Annual Event image
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Rooting for Change! (March 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81828 81828-20967184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) connects food, environmental, and social justice-oriented clubs on campus to create a network of empowered students working to better our food system both on-campus and in the surrounding community.

The UM Sustainable Food Program is inviting you to attend Rooting for Change: Student Food Summit! The two-day event will consist of student-led learnshops, a storytelling event Tiny Talks about Food Justice, and a keynote address Food as Healing with Shane Bernardo. Also on the program are a networking happy hour on Wednesday evening and well-being breaks to cultivate personal resilience on both days.

U-M students are welcome to attend some or all of this free event. Register for learnshops along one track (Identity, Equity, & Justice | Hands-on Learning | Resources for Student Orgs) or pick and choose individual learnshops based on your interests.

Staff, faculty, and community members are invited to join in for Tiny Talks at 7pm on Wed, 3/24 and the keynote event at 7pm on Thurs, 3/25.

Our objectives in hosting this summit are to:
* Foster collaboration between UMSFP Member Groups, Working Group participants, UMSFP, Campus Farm, Maize and Blue Cupboard students
* Inspire deeper engagement with co-curricular opportunities to engage with sustainable food at U-M
* Promote a sense of personal and organizational connectedness to one another and to the food we grow, buy, sell, cook, and eat
* Challenge attendees to explore all aspects of the food system through the lens of social justice
* Center fun, relationship-building, and well-being in this work

Please don't hesitate to contact umsfp.core@umich.edu for more information!

DAY 1 - Wed, March 24 (5-9pm)
5:00 - Opening
5:30 - Share Out from Student Orgs
6:00 - Learnshop Session 1 (Equity & Food Access | Nutrition Label Literacy | Grants for Student Orgs)
6:45 - Meditation with Mac Realo
7:00 - Tiny Talks About Food Justice
8:00 - Networking Happy Hour

DAY 2 - TENTATIVE: Thurs, March 25 (5-8pm)
5:00 - The Future of UMSFP
5:15 - Learnshop Session 2 (Food Futures | Recycling & Composting | Food Policy Advocacy)
6:00 - Yoga break
6:15 - Learnshop Session 3 (Food & Social Identity | Campus Farm Flavors | Student Food Access)
7:00 - Keynote: Food as Healing with Shane Bernardo
7:50 - Key Takeaways & Closing

Register: bit.ly/rfcsign

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:14:57 -0400 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Livestream / Virtual Rooting for Change! 5-8pm Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25 2021
Michigan India Conference (March 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82608 82608-21137867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan India Conference

Have you heard the good news? The annual Michigan India Conference is back, and we’re going virtual for 2021.

We hope to see you there. We have a series of influential speakers you won’t want to miss! The theme for this year's conference is Stability & Change, so we have brought you the best decision-makers and thinkers surrounding India's government, India's economy and the Indian consumer. Get a chance to learn about the latest trends, opportunities, and maybe even a chance to network with some of India’s prestigious figures.

The Michigan India Conference gives business leaders, students, alumni, policymakers, and anyone interested, a chance to learn more about what drives this dynamic economy. Whether you are interested in doing business in India or want to learn more about policy and government, the Michigan India Conference is open to all. We hope you will join us.

Take advantage of our first fully-digital conference!
Register today: https://forms.gle/ug5R9KMKs1dXu28bA

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:06:47 -0500 2021-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan India Conference Conference / Symposium Michigan India Conference
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Entrepreneurship (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82917 82917-21219294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:

The Business and Society Speaker Series: Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: Noon- 1:15 p.m. EDT

OVERCOMING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Over the past five years, less than 3% of venture capital funding went to Black and Latinx founders. What are the barriers to entrepreneurship for minorities and how can venture capital become more inclusive to entrepreneurs? What steps should be taken by operators and financiers to ensure that sufficient funding is accessible to businesses in these communities? Join moderator Rashmi Menon, entrepreneurship lecturer at Michigan Ross, for a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists about how they are working to expand equity in this space.

MODERATOR // RASHMI MENON // MICHIGAN ROSS
Entrepreneurship Lecturer

VASCO BRIDGES // NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL
Chief of Staff, Distribution

LATRESHA (LC) HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder

MARC HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder & CEO

HARLYN PACHECO // MICROSOFT VIVA
BD & Strategy

MARLO RENCHER // TECHTOWN DETROIT
Director, Technology-Based Programs

Business and Society web page:
https://michiganross.umich.edu/business-society

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:28:12 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Join us for a conversation addressing race in business and business education.
Healing Justice: Rediscovering Spirit (March 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82980 82980-21233242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

As part of the Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care During Challenging Times series, this Rediscovering Spirit session aims to increase awareness of interdependence of the self, relationships, work and the world. Spiritual practice can contribute to healing justice in the following ways: 1) Help to cultivate balance and alleviate stress in one’s life; 2) Learn how to de-identify with things that no longer serve us; 3) Increase connection and 4) Increase personal and collective empowerment such that one can more effectively work with, and on behalf of others to alleviate suffering and end oppression.

U-M Counseling and Psychological Services will offer two workshops (“Healing Justice in the Fabric of Community” and “Healing Justice: Rediscovering Spirit” ) focused on components of Loretta Pyles’ (2018) Healing Justice: Self-Care for Change Makers. To be true to healing justice, it’s vital to highlight its origins. The movement was originally created by queer folx, BIPOC, women and those with disabilities starting from the 60s with a resurgence in the late 2000s. U-M participants will learn ways of healing “a sense of brokenness or disconnection that may be a result of trauma, oppressive socio-cultural narratives and practices or the ways in which humans may lose touch with each other and themselves.”

All students (undergraduate, graduate and professional) are invited to attend this powerful session!

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/40778

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Well-being Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:35:59 -0500 2021-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Well-being Healing Justice
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
TEDxUofM 2021 Conference: Ignite (March 27, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82449 82449-21100195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: TEDxUofM

SIGN UP FOR ZOOM LINK HERE: https://www.universe.com/tedxuofm2021

Ignite plays on the idea of rising from the ashes: the chance to destroy existing norms and create new ones. To us, Ignite represents our hope for a brighter future. We have the power to ignite whatever we so choose within ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities—it all starts with one idea worth spreading.

This year's conference will feature 6 amazing TEDx Talks, engaging performers, and interactive learning activities. We will be revealing our exciting lineup of speakers on tedxuofm.com and our social media links throughout February and March!

TEDxUofM: Ignite will be hosted via Zoom. Sign up for a FREE ticket through Universe! https://www.universe.com/tedxuofm2021

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:59:03 -0500 2021-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location TEDxUofM Livestream / Virtual Conference Logo
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 29, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81513 81513-20903724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Xin Sun (U-M Psychology) will be the featured speaker.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:31:02 -0500 2021-03-29T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Bee Vang, at 16, held the leading Hmong American role as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino. He subsequently performed in independent films and on stage at Brown University where he received a 2016 liberal arts degree in international politics, media, and cultural studies. He also trained in China in techniques of Chinese opera and Japanese performance. Throughout this time, Vang engaged in social justice and media activism, and published works related to the visibility and inclusion of Southeast Asian Americans and, more broadly, Asian Americans in Hollywood and mainstream popular culture. His work covered such topics as representation, race, gender, sexuality, production, geopolitics, refugees, criminal justice, mass incarceration. Vang presented at multiple conferences related to these topics, and publicly lectured or gave workshops in over thirty venues, domestically and overseas including the University of Toronto, Beijing University, Minzu University, and Zhongshan University.

Meanwhile, Vang worked at MSNBC with The Rachel Maddow Show in broadcast journalism, at The Economist in print journalism, and at First Look Media in documentary filmmaking with Laura Poitras. After several years working as a print journalist, nonfiction writer, and policy researcher, he recently moved to LA to devote himself to acting, filmmaking, and other creative pursuits.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
Using Artificial Intelligence for Optimal Truck Platooning under Uncertainties (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82674 82674-21155688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Truck platooning is the process of using connected vehicle technology to join two or more trucks in a convoy. Platooning is associated with two, major societal benefits: environmental, through lowered fuel consumption, CO2 emission, and traffic efficiency, and safety improvement, through automated driving. Quantification of fuel consumption in platoons depends on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the system, specifically the resistance or drag force of trucks. While optimization of fuel consumption is pivotal in truck platooning, analysis of CFD is computationally expensive, especially when uncertainties are present, due to geometrical variability of trucks and platoons as well as in wind magnitude and direction.

This research proposes an artificial intelligence-based surrogate model which enables near real-time optimization of platoon configurations based on fuel consumption and impacts on pavement conditions. Attendees will learn how a deep neural network (DNN) model can be trained using data from CFD simulations that utilize high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:26:18 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 31, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83395 83395-21369780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Large, deeply phenotyped cohorts are reshaping the world of environmental epidemiology. Two such “big data” resources that are reshaping how we understand environmental health are electronic health records and human cohorts with genome-wide molecular phenotyping. Each provides a unique perspective that is moving the field closer towards “personalized” insights into environmental health risks. Here I will talk about a series of studies which utilize electronic health records and molecularly phenotyped cohorts to investigate vulnerable populations, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetic biomarkers of environmental sensitivity. Together these studies are helping us to understand environmental health risks in a new light.

Short bio:

Dr. Cavin Ward-Caviness is a Principal Investigator in the Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division of the US Environmental Protection Agency. With a background in computational biology and environmental epidemiology, Dr. Ward-Caviness seeks to understand the environmental factors which influence health in vulnerable populations and the molecular mechanisms that influence environmental health risks. The Ward-Caviness lab uses a variety of “big data” approaches, and Dr. Ward-Caviness is the PI of the EPA CARES research resource, which allows researchers to study environmental health effects in vulnerable patient populations, e.g. individuals with heart failure, using large electronic health record databases. Dr. Ward-Caviness is also interested in how epigenetics and metabolomics can serve as an early indicator of adverse health effects from chemical and social environmental exposures and in particular how molecular biomarkers can give us insight into how the environment may accelerate the aging process and thus contribute to chronic disease. By integrating molecular and clinical data, Dr. Ward-Caviness seeks to understand environmental health as a way to advance personalized medicine and reduce health disparities.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:15:11 -0400 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
COVID-19: Reflections and vision for the future (March 31, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82941 82941-21227210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This March marks the one year after the pandemic.

Join the Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series as we host social demographer, professor of Public Policy & Health Management and Policy, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Dr. Paula Lantz for COVID-19: Reflections and vision for the future. Award-winning science journalist and author, Nicholas St. Fleur, will be moderating and guiding us through a discussion that reflects on the impacts of the pandemic on local community health and policy, and explores what comes next.

Trotter Multicultural Center looks forward to seeing you on March 31st from 5:30-7 PM. Register at: myumi.ch/9obEl

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:38:11 -0400 2021-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
Reflections on the Past Year (March 31, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83333 83333-21344233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Wondering how other student organizations have approached work this year? Want to hear stories about adjustments made and lessons learned that you can apply to your own org's plans for Fall 2021? Interested in learning what it's been like to be in a student org for this past year?

Join us on March 31 for a panel conversation with student leaders about what they tried and how it worked. Get ideas and ask questions for your peers!

Register here to participate in the Q&A: http://bit.ly/cci-panel

We will also be livestreaming our discussion to Facebook Live with no registration required!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:53:54 -0400 2021-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Studen Org Panel Discussion
SLE Community Nights (March 31, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83156 83156-21282858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

The Arab & Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan (AMAS), Hikayat, the Spectrum Center, and Arab Heritage Month (AHM) are partnering to host a reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar! Zeyn will be reading from his new book Thirty Names of Night & answering your questions!

Visit http://www.zeynjoukhadar.com to learn more about Zeyn's work.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:37:31 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS, HIKAYAT & ANAM PRESENT
CSEAS Lecture Series. Ruptured Ecologies: How Thai Settler Colonialism is Reshaping the Northern Uplands & Indigenous Futures (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80549 80549-20738204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public. Please register at http://bit.ly/3q8h5sf

The literature on colonialism in mainland Southeast Asia tends to focus on the European colonial project, in part because of unease among scholars around applying the concept of indigeneity in the region. However, an increasingly robust scholarly and activist conversation around indigeneity in Southeast Asia (see: Morton et al. 2016; Baird 2018) invites a parallel examination of the states and politics against which indigeneity is articulated. In this paper, I examine the Thai state’s upward expansion into the northern uplands over roughly the past half-century through the lens of settler colonial theory (Wolfe 2006; Veracini 2011; Whyte 2017, 2018). Focusing primarily on state conservation and development interventions, I argue that this upward expansion has been – and continues to be – a settler colonial project. I draw on extended ethnographic fieldwork in and beyond two Akha communities in Chiang Rai Province to show how state interventions rupture and replace Indigenous ecologies with settler ecologies; facilitate (ethnic) Thai settlement while continuing to deny Uplanders’ land claims; disadvantageously integrate Uplanders into the market economy; and create generational rifts between elderly Uplanders and the youth on whom they depend to both care for them and carry on their cultural traditions. Together, these interventions reshape upland landscapes and social relations in ways that reinforce state claims to upland spaces and threaten both the place-based livelihoods and “collective continuance” (Whyte 2017, 2018) of Upland Indigenous communities – a hallmark of settler colonialism. In closing, I briefly discuss emergent forms of adaptation and resistance in Upland communities.

Daniel B. Ahlquist is an Assistant Professor in Michigan State University’s James Madison College of Public Affairs. As a teacher and a scholar, he is motivated by an interest in human-environment relationships and the ways political and economic inequalities between social groups play out through uneven relationships to the environment. His current research projects explore the cross-cutting themes of state conservation and development agendas, agrarian change, displacement, and changing forms of inequality in Southeast Asia. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University.


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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:20:48 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Phondi Discussion Group (April 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (April 2, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81357 81357-20887831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Savi Namboodiripad and Sally Thomason will give a survey presentation on Dravidian languages.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:08:09 -0500 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (April 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Memory and Expectation in Processing Mandarin Relative Clauses" (April 5, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81514 81514-20903725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Tzu-Yun Tung will present her work on the processing of relative clauses in Mandarin.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

Title: Memory and Expectation in Processing Mandarin Relative Clauses

Abstract: The cause(s) of processing cost of different types of relative clauses (RC) have been difficult to pin down due to the opposite direction of processing asymmetry reported in the literature. While an advantage of subject relative clause (SR) has been found in English, both subject and object relative clause (OR) advantage have been documented in Mandarin. The discrepancy may however be due to (1) ambiguities in the experimental stimuli that obscured RC processing with ambiguity resolution, and (2) different word regions of interest.

The current study eliminates the stimuli confound, and unveils the word-by-word processing of Mandarin RCs using electroencephalography (EEG), compared against predictions of expectation-based Surprisal account, as well as memory-based Dependency Locality Theory (DLT). Instead of viewing the critical RC region (relative verb and relative noun) as a whole, we extract results at the relative verb region which is nearest to the co-dependent trace. Since the relative verb is situated later in the sentence in OR compared to SR, an object advantage indexed by the left anterior negativity (LAN) effect surfaces, which aligns with the Surprisal account, as well as the storage metric of DLT. At the head noun region where the filler-gap dependency is completed, a symmetric processing profile emerges, consistent with the Surprisal account. We additionally speculate the retrieval process of the trace with regard to predictions of the Activation and Direct-access model.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:13:08 -0400 2021-04-05T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury (April 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82620 82620-21147746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

In this presentation, Anthony Mora, Associate Professor of History and Interim Director of Latina/o Studies, will consider the decisions that Disney producers made during the production of the widely popular 1950s television show Zorro. As had been the case with the iconic character since his creation in 1919, setting the action in Southern California inevitably raised questions about prevailing racial assumptions and the meaning of the United States' Mexican past. Widely popular among children, Zorro concealed more secrets than just his identity.

Register here: tinyurl.com/ZorroLatinxSuperhero

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:17:44 -0500 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury
Animal Rights: A WeListen Staff Discussion (April 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82956 82956-21227225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members across the political spectrum.

All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLApril21

We will discuss the history of animal rights in the U.S., and animals as food sources and the impact on climate change. Participants will receive a content presentation to review in advance of the virtual session, and the majority of our time will be spent in small group discussion.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine, and the LSA DEI Office.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:13:59 -0500 2021-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen April 2021
LACS & CSAS Conversation: Madam Vice President: Navigating South Asia and the Caribbean | A virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83434 83434-21377669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration is required: http://myumi.ch/4pE97

Moderator:
Dr. Supriya Nair, Professor of English, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Ambassador Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor from Practice, Law School, University of Michigan

Dr. Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

Dr. Rupert Lewis, Emeritus Professor in Political Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica

The Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies present a virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean.

Kamala Harris inhabits multiple identities that are often seen as separate or non-legible within the same frame (South Asian/South Asian American, Black, Caribbean). What does her Vice Presidency mean vis-a-vis these identity categories? How does Kamala Harris help bridge South Asia and the Caribbean, making visible connections that evade our commonplace understandings of people and places? This event seeks to discuss these themes as well as how we understand Kamala Harris as an international and domestic figure and how international and domestic politics and concerns are deeply intertwined.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:23:57 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion LACS/CSAS Event
Anti-Asian Violence and the LGBTQ+ Community (April 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83275 83275-21330360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This panel will consist of Queer Asian individuals who will talk about the more visible increase in anti-Asian violence. It is important for the LGBTQ community to dialogue about and to take actions addressing in-community racism and anti-racism efforts in the broader society. With the rise anti-Asian violence highlighted in the media, this panel will discuss their personal experiences being Asians in the LGBTQ+ community and calls to action supporting Asian communities experiencing harm.

The panelists are:
Arielle Chen, B.A. (she/her) from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
K. Ian Shin, PhD. (he/him) from the Asian / Pacific Islander American Studies program
Grace Sekulidis, MSW (she/her), an alumnx from UM
Anooshka Gupta (she/her), an LSA student

The moderator will be Mark Chung Kwan Fan, M.A. (he/him), from the Spectrum Center.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:29:16 -0400 2021-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event information alongside headshots of the four panelists and moderator.
Bioethics Discussion: Virtual Reality (April 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58840 58840-14563732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion like any other?

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

A few reading to consider:
––Internet-Delivered Health Interventions That Work: Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses and Evaluation of Website Availability
––Ethics of Virtual Reality in Medical Education and Licensure
––Wearables and the medical revolution
––Creating Bioethics Distance Learning Through Virtual Reality

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/059-virtual-reality/.

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A decently maintained virtual reality may be found on the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:39:24 -0500 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Virtual Reality
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83241 83241-21320453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: More than 3,000 new Marine recruits were studied prospectively during their initial Marine-mandated two-week quarantine and their subsequent basic training at Parris Island. The COVID Health Action Response for Marines (CHARM) studied completed 20,000 study visits and obtained more than 70,000 biosamples including pre- to post- SARS-CoV-2 infections in more than 1000 recruits. Serological, transcriptomic, and epigenetic analyses identify the response signature to SARS-CoV-2 infection in these largely asymptomatic young adults. Phylogenetic analysis and modeling provide insight into epidemiology and guidance for public health measures.

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Specialty: Neurology

Research Topics: Addiction, Apoptosis/Cell Death, Basal Ganglia, Bioinformatics, Brain, Cellular Immunity, Cerebral Cortex, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuro-degeneration/protection, Receptors, Reproductive Biology, Signal Transduction, Theoretical Biology, Vaccine Development, Viruses and Virology

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:23:58 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
SLE Community Nights (April 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Pathways for Bipartisanship with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell & Fred Upton (April 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83464 83464-21383599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join us the afternoon of April 8th at 3:00 PM for two congressional updates and Q&A sessions with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI 12th District) and Fred Upton (R-MI 6th District).

During this virtual event, Representative Upton will provide an update on his priorities for Michigan, including his work in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Representative Dingell will also provide an update on her concurrent work on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Natural Resources. In this joint panel, both representatives will discuss present opportunities to work across the aisle in bipartisan decision-making among the current political vitriol and economic climate. Students will be given the opportunity to ask questions to both speakers on issues of bipartisanship, their joint efforts in the House, their commitment to their constituents in Michigan, and future opportunities for collaboration and compromise.

This event will be held virtually on April 8th at 3:00pm ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the zoom link and information will be sent to your email. Please contact msolom@umich.edu if you have any additional questions.

Register at: https://linktr.ee/umichcsg

Speaker Bio:
U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell, U.S. House of Representatives
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell represents the 12th District of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before being elected to Congress, Debbie was the Chair of the Wayne State University (WSU) Board of Governors. An active civic and community leader, she is a recognized national advocate for women and children. For more than 30 years Debbie served one of Michigan’s largest employers, the General Motors (GM) Corporation, where she was President of the GM Foundation and a senior executive responsible for public affairs. In her commitment to job creation, Debbie led the effort to bring the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a $20 million partnership designed to help create jobs and economic growth, to southeast Michigan. She is a past chair of the Manufacturing Initiative at the American Automotive Policy Council. Debbie resides in Dearborn. She holds both a B.S.F.S. in Foreign Services and an M.S. in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University.

Speaker Bio:
U.S. Representative Fred Upton, U.S. House of Representatives
Congressman Fred Upton is proud to represent the common-sense values of Southwest Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District. A diverse section of the state that stretches from the shores of Lake Michigan, the Sixth District is home to key industries that range from agriculture to auto parts manufacturing to high-tech biomedical innovation centers. It includes all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren counties, and most of Allegan County. Prior to his election to Congress, Fred worked for President Ronald Reagan in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). While at OMB, he learned from President Reagan’s example that it does not matter who gets the credit, as long as the job gets done. That has been Fred’s approach since he was first elected to Congress in 1986 and continues today. Fred holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Amey, have two adult children.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:10:29 -0400 2021-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Community Speaker Event (April 8, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83613 83613-21438452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Assistant Professor Savithry Namboodiripad, U-M Department of Linguistics, will give a talk on language change.

ABSTRACT
How do languages change in multilingual contexts? In this talk, I'll run through a few different types of language change, and show how taking an interdisciplinary approach can help us understand how factors such as language ideology and language policy might influence how words are pronounced/understood, as well as how words are ordered. I will show some examples across contexts, from American English and Malayalam, and argue that differences in how speakers categorize linguistic material as belonging to one language or another is an important factor in how languages change due to language contact.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:52:47 -0400 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Globally Engaged Career Panel (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83274 83274-21330358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

An open Q&A will follow! Registration is required: https://myumi.ch/Xew9R

Join the International Institute for a virtual conversation with a panel of distinguished professionals, all graduates of U-M area studies programs, who have pursued career paths with a global reach. Our panelists will share their stories and experiences, based on questions prepared in advance by U-M Masters in International and Regional Studies (MIRS) students. This event is open to anyone seeking new perspectives on globally engaged career paths and job search insights.

This event is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the US Department of Education.

About the Panelists:
Emily Etue received an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment and a Graduate Certificate in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and spent almost a decade working throughout Asia, mainly in the Asia-Pacific Region. Now based in Texas, her private sector and international non-profit experience opened a network of connections that she actively works to maintain. Emily strongly believes in the power of networking and feels it is the key ingredient to finding a fulfilling career.

Frank Hennick is a Grants Manager at CAPI USA, a nonprofit that provides basic needs, jobs skills, and civic engagement services to immigrant and refugee communities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro. Before joining CAPI, he worked with the Karen Organization of Minnesota (KOM), a nonprofit that provides human services to St. Paul’s growing community of Karen refugees from Burma and their children. He completed his M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2013 and his research focused on tensions between nationalism and the process of European integration, and how these tensions play out in education policy, public art and monuments, music, and journalism. He lives in St. Paul, where he remains involved with the Center for Victims of Torture and counts down days until the Brewers’ baseball season.

Evan Hoye works in Academic Services at the University of Michigan International Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 2015, double majoring in International Studies (Norms, Security, and Cooperation) and German, with a minor in Translation Studies. Prior to joining the International Institute, Evan served in a number of student services administration roles at the University of Michigan, including project management at the School of Information, stewarding the release and promotion of an educational app commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial Celebration.

Lydia McMullen-Laird is a journalist for WNYC radio in New York covering climate change and the environment. Previously, she lived in China and conducted research on a Fulbright Fellowship, worked in environmental law for the Natural Resources Defense Council and began her journalism career producing environmental videos. While studying at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, she interned at the American Embassy in Moscow. McMullen-Laird is also passionate about sustainable living and is the co-founder of the NGO Live Zero Waste.]

Moderators:

Sam Breazeale, MA Candidate in International and Regional Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Katherine Downs, MA Candidate in International and Regional Studies, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; MSW Candidate in School of Social Work


Co-sponsors:
African Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, International Institute, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, Residential College

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:24:55 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Lecture / Discussion event_image
SoConDi Discussion Group (April 9, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Loving Our Planet Like We Should Love Each Other (April 9, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82372 82372-21084380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab

A student-organized symposium to help our community learn about how climate change impacts people with disabilities

Featuring:
Sarah Young Bear-Brown (Meskwaki Nation)
Izzy Laderman (Disability Awareness Around Climate Change)
Rafi Darrow (Sins Invalid)
Teddy Dorsette III (Detroit Disability Power)

Production Team:
Def Lens Media

This event is being organized by first year students in Linguistics 102 Deafness & Disability v. Climate, Contagion, and Capital.

ASL-English interpreting and CART captions will be provided. Please contact Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) if you have any additional access needs.

Registration: tinyurl.com/DisabilityClimateCrisis

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:19:42 -0400 2021-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab Conference / Symposium Event flyer - screen reader-friendly PDF available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pRGzh-k3qma1MFjvkMlqmEyCcyabEQXK/view?usp=sharing
2021 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80911 80911-20818987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is an annual event featuring leaders in the transportation and mobility sector from across the globe. The 4th Annual Symposium will feature panels covering the FCC reallocation of the 5.9GHz spectrum, transportation equity, mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and mobility-on-demand (MoD), and much more! A second track will also be offered that will provide findings from recently-completed CCAT research.

New for 2021: The 2021 Global Symposium will be returning to the two-day, two-track format while remaining entirely virtual. Expect all of the excitement of an in-person conference from the comfort of your home. A new and improved version of the Student Poster Competition will also be offered. The virtual setting will provide attendees with plenty of time to speak with budding researchers about their work. The first 195 people to register have an opportunity to have unique, CCAT swag delivered to them ahead of the event (U.S. residents only).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:31:16 -0500 2021-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies Professors, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (University of California, Davis), about their book Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin (University of Michigan)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power-holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fight-the-tower/9781978806368

Bios:
Dr. Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora, co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower, and co-editor of Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.

Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
The Beauty of Your Face (April 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82538 82538-21116089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Novelist Sahar Mustafa to read from and discuss her novel The Beauty of Your Face, W. W. Norton, 2020. The novel has been assigned in some AMAS courses and will be the April selection for the Muslim Student Association book club.
The workshop will be open to the public.

Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. She writes and teaches outside of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:19:30 -0500 2021-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion The Beauty of Your Face
The Rainbow Coat Panel (April 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83616 83616-21438454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Please join the Spectrum Center for the first of a hopefully annual event, The Rainbow Coat Panel! This event is meant to open a community-wide intersectional discussion regarding first-generation and low-income queer and trans* students' experiences. The panelists include:

Trevor Bechtel, Student Engagement Coordinator at Poverty Solutions (he/him);
Jessie Fullenkamp, UM Alumna and Education and Evaluation Director at the Ruth Ellis Center (she/her);
Jay Hash, former Spectrum Center Student Staff Member (they/them);
Samuel Ramirez-Morales, a current undergraduate student in LSA (he/him)

A huge thank you to our collaborators for this event from Poverty Solutions at UM and the Ruth Ellis Center. You can learn more about these organizations and their work at https://poverty.umich.edu and https://ruthelliscenter.org respectively.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:12:04 -0400 2021-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion This event aims to open an intersectional dialogue regarding first-generation and low-income queer and trans* students' experiences. Co-sponsored by the Spectrum Center, Poverty Solutions at UM, and the Ruth Ellis Center.
2021 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80911 80911-20818988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is an annual event featuring leaders in the transportation and mobility sector from across the globe. The 4th Annual Symposium will feature panels covering the FCC reallocation of the 5.9GHz spectrum, transportation equity, mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and mobility-on-demand (MoD), and much more! A second track will also be offered that will provide findings from recently-completed CCAT research.

New for 2021: The 2021 Global Symposium will be returning to the two-day, two-track format while remaining entirely virtual. Expect all of the excitement of an in-person conference from the comfort of your home. A new and improved version of the Student Poster Competition will also be offered. The virtual setting will provide attendees with plenty of time to speak with budding researchers about their work. The first 195 people to register have an opportunity to have unique, CCAT swag delivered to them ahead of the event (U.S. residents only).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:31:16 -0500 2021-04-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar (April 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82892 82892-21211375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to learn from Dr. Davidson in a smaller setting and ask questions about issues related to colonialism, museum collecting, and the Bible.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuCsqDgvGdAwbZXvzSl20icACdwirItc


Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that desperately rely upon material remains to bring the Bible to life. These archives have been central to Biblical Studies and the maintenance of the Bible as a product of imperial modernity. The Bible as a text and archive plays a critical role in the production and maintenance of the narratives of racial capitalism, a central aspect of Western modernity. By examining the language and ephemera of contemporary readers, who have been racialized by imperial logics that produce Bible translations and narrativize objects in archives, this presentation situates the geography of contemporary racialized readers as the site from which to develop an archive of the Bible. Local geographies, both the specific geography of the context of the Bible and the geography of a modern reader, are seen as productive challenges to the universalizing myths of modernity. Greater attention to contextual languages and experiences offer opportunities to unmask the cultural and geographical boundedness of stories, objects, and lives that form the core deposit of the Bible.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:59:36 -0500 2021-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar
Asian American Activism & Documentary Films: A Conversation With Grace Lee (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83465 83465-21383600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

GRACE LEE is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA, both for PBS; JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase (through USC and the U.S. State Department), and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network.

She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by numerous awards and artist grants from the likes of Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, UCLA, International Documentary Association and the USC World Building Institute. She is currently a producer/director on a five-part landmark PBS series THE ASIAN AMERICANS as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement. http://gracelee.net

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83595 83595-21436485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
My lab's research involves the development and application of systems biology approaches—combining computation, machine learning, quantitative modeling, and experiments—to study the immune system in health and disease. Recent technological and computational advances allow comprehensive interrogation of multiple modalities (e.g., proteins, mRNAs, immune receptor sequences) in single cell resolution in the human population. Here I will highlight our work in the analysis human and single cell variations along the axes of early immune development, vaccination, and COVID-19. If time permits, I will also discuss the integration of tissue imaging, machine learning, and multiscale dynamical modeling of immune cell interactions to investigate the homeostatic regulation of autoreactive T cells.

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Biography: Dr. Tsang is a senior investigator in the NIH Intramural Research Program and leads a laboratory focusing on systems and quantitative immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He also co-directs the Trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI) and leads its research program in systems human immunology. Dr. Tsang trained in computer engineering and computer science at the University of Waterloo and received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University. Dr. Tsang has worked as a software engineer and pursued systems biology research in both academia and industry including Rosetta Inpharmatics, Caprion Proteomics, MIT, and Merck Research Laboratories. Dr. Tsang has won several awards for his research, including NIAID Merit Awards for the development of a data reuse and crowdsourcing platform OMiCC and for leading a system biology study of human immune variability and influenza vaccination, which was selected as a top NIAID Research Advances of 2014. He currently serves as the founding chief editor of systems immunology for Frontiers in Immunology. He has served as a scientific advisor for a number of programs and organizations including ImmPort (the clinical and molecular data repository for NIAID), the Committee on Precision Medicine for the World Allergy Organization, the NIAID Modeling Immunity for Biodefense Program, the Allen Institute, the Immuno-Epidemiology Program at the National Cancer Institute, and the Human Vaccines Project.

https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:59:05 -0400 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
SLE Community Nights (April 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
Coded Bias "At the Movies" Panel Discussion (April 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83580 83580-21430624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

Join a panel of U-M experts over Zoom for an "At the Movies" style discussion of the film Coded Bias. The panelists will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society. Panelists include:
- Nazanin Andalibi, assistant professor of information, School of Information; assistant professor of Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
- Mingyan Liu, Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Nicholson Price, professor of law, Law School
- Grace Trinidad (moderator), Ethics, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Health

AVAILABLE PRIOR TO THE DISCUSSION
To be better informed prior to the Coded Bias panel discussion, be sure to take time to watch a free screening of the film between April 8 and April 14. More information is available at https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

Add the panel discussion to your Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MWZjMnFtNmw0MzN2MDk0cmRyaHQ4b3VpMTggdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:13 -0400 2021-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event Series: Panel Discussion on the film Coded Bias
CSEAS Lecture Series. Stemming the Nationalist Tide: Imperial Control and the Protection of Traditional Islam in British Malaya (April 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81006 81006-20832765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/38V5uGZ

While early nationalist movements led by modernist Muslims were brewing on the coasts of the Malay Peninsula in the early decades of the twentieth century, a competing project – sponsored by the British colonial administration – was underway inland in the Malay states. In the Malay states, the authority of traditional rulers was enhanced through the systematic protection and regulation of Islam and Muslim subjects. Uncovering administrative reports from the colonial archives, I show that there was unprecedented surveillance over two classes of religious activities: conversions into and out of Islam, and the publication and sale of religious materials, both of which served to strengthen and protect traditional authority. With these materials, I explore a hitherto under examined yet concerted imperial project of state-led traditional religious nationalism devised to stem the tide of modernist Muslim and anti-colonial movements in British Malaya.

Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani is a comparative-historical and political sociologist of empire and state-formation, modernization and development. She studies how law and religion organize elites and build states and specializes in the colonial and modern histories of Southeast Asia. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2019 and is currently a National University of Singapore overseas postdoctoral fellow. As visiting associate at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan, she is working on her book project, *Sacred States and Subjects: Law, Religion and Colonial State-Building in Malaya*.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:56:55 -0400 2021-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Speaker Image
Nji Kchi-Nshinaabe’baniik Gdish-Chigemi Wi (We Do This for the Ancestors): The Basics of NAGPRA (April 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83684 83684-21454206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

Panelists:
William Johnson - Ziibiwing Center of Anishinaabe Culture & Lifeways, Interim Director
Veronica Pasfield - Bay Mills Indian Community NAGPRA Designee
Amadeaus Scott - UMMAA NAGPRA Collections Manager

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_agbr9WzoQaGnCxSfAc_YQQ

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) created a federal legal process for the return of Native American human remains and cultural items to Native American Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations. However, the work that museums and tribes complete together can also be used as an opportunity to create good and lasting relationships that extend beyond NAGPRA.

How can museum best practices and traditional tribal knowledge work together in mutually beneficial ways? How can transparency and mutual respect forge productive relationships between tribes and museums? How can future collaborations emerge as a result of the personal and professional relationships that are developed?

The panelists will provide a basic overview of NAGPRA compliance through a consideration of both the tribal and museum sides of the process. They will also draw from practical experience to show how indigenous knowledge and teachings can help inform and improve professional methods of care and an understanding of the best practices of museums.

Sponsors:
UM College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
UM Office of Government Relations
UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Office of Research
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
UM Museum Studies Program
UM Department of American Culture
UM Native American Studies Program
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:43:24 -0400 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Phondi Discussion Group (April 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group: "The Quechua-Aymara contact relationship: where are we, and what's next?" (April 16, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81358 81358-20887832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:41:35 -0400 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (April 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-04-16T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Leadership in Technology: Conversation with David Goeckeler of Western Digital (April 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83438 83438-21377702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The Leadership in Technology: Distinguished Lecture Series invites you to hear from industry leaders and find inspiration in their journeys as you embark upon your own path to challenge the present and enrich the future through the innovative use of technology.

The explosive growth of connected devices is fueling an ever-increasing demand for access to data -- and driving a massive wave of new opportunities. Join David Goeckeler, chief executive officer at Western Digital, Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at U-M, and Michael Wellman, professor and division chair of Computer Science & Engineering at U-M for a discussion on innovation, leadership, and opportunity in today’s technology landscape.

Students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited to submit questions in advance, during the registration process, or live in the session.

Leadership in Technology: David Goeckeler of Western Digital
April 19, 2021
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

To learn more and to register, visit: its.umich.edu/speakerseries

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:17:35 -0400 2021-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Picture of David Goeckeler, Western Digital along with event details
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 19, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81515 81515-20903726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Soo Hyun Ryu (U-M Psychology) will be the featured speaker.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:29:55 -0500 2021-04-19T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
One Thousand & One Journeys: The Arab Americans - Discussion with filmmaker (April 20, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83806 83806-21534271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) Social Connectivity & Community Engagement for a free virtual screening  of "ONE THOUSAND & ONE JOURNEYS: THE ARAB AMERICANS" and dialogue on Activism, Advocacy and Allyship with film director Abe Kasbo. A zoom watch party and discussion will take place at 5:30 p.m. with the film's executive producer and director who will share the untold story of almost 200 years of the contributions of those who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf have made to the American fabric. A zoom link for the discussion after registration in a separate email. Access only available for U-M students, staff, and faculty.

ABOUT THE FILM

“Arab-Americans have proudly ventured beyond their ethnicity, language and religion to make noteworthy contributions to both the immigrant experience and ultimately the American experience. They served this nation with significant contributions throughout the spectrum of society – as politicians and public servants, entertainers, physicians, business leaders, and educators. It is this extraordinary and uniquely American story of people and places that must be told.” Abe Kasbo, filmmaker.A Thousand And One Journeys: The film vividly paints a portrait of the Arab-American immigrant experience through the stories of people who, like all Americans, immigrated in pursuit of the American Dream, including Senator George Mitchell, Jamie Farr, General John Abizaid, Anthony Shadid, Helen Thomas and more. With historical immigration patterns as background, the film explores the personal stories of Arab-Americans and how they have contributed to the collective American experience. At a time when the media tends to paint Arab peoples and culture with the broad brush of terrorism, it is increasingly important to present a positive image of the many people of Middle Eastern, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula who have made America their home, and highlight their American journey as an important part of the larger American Experience.As the Arab-American community increasingly finds itself in the media and public spotlight, now is the time to present a positive image of Arab-Americans and the diversity of their contributions, experiences, backgrounds and faith.

ABOUT THE FILM SERIES

“Activism is inherently a creative endeavor. It takes a radical imagination to be an activist, to envision a world that is not there. It takes imagination and that’s not far from art.” - Ava DuVernayMESA’s social connectivity and CCI hope to generate thought provoking discussion, engagement around advocacy, activism and allyship this semester by presenting a series of films huddled around these topics, areas that we believe require critical and intentional reflection year round. Each film presentation will conclude with a discussion from students, professionals, and artists familiar with the themes presented throughout the series and in the film. Each film and discussion will be available virtually and will take place the third Tuesday each month at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are available through MUTO for each film. (2/16 - Just Mercy, 3/16 - Hidden Figures, 4/20 - One Thousand Journeys: The Arab-Americans).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:58:50 -0400 2021-04-20T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual
Bioethics Discussion: Abdication (April 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58841 58841-14563735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our renunciation.

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

A few readings to consider:
––The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine
––Decentralization of health care systems and health outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment
––Vox Populi or Abdication of Responsibility?: The Influence of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on the Public Discourse Regarding Abortion, 2016-2019
––Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/060-abdication/.

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Before you give up, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:38:57 -0500 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Abdication
GPASS Event. The Bioarchaeology of the Lower Rio Verde, Oaxaca, Mexico (April 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83795 83795-21532311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Link to the event: https://wccnet-edu.zoom.us/s/89151954844
Passcode 09255

Arion T. Mayes is a professor of biological anthropology at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2001. She is a Research Associate with the New York African Burial Ground and the San Diego Museum of Man. Her work entails both national and international fieldwork in Oklahoma, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the revitalization of unstudied museum collections. Her research in bioarchaeology and dental anthropology focuses on the effect of subsistence strategies on population health with an emphasis on transitional dietary regimes, and population variation as evidenced through morphological change, occupational stress, and disease processes. As one of the earliest regions of independent domestication of plants in the world, Oaxaca allows for temporally extensive studies of biocultural adaptations and the biological history of a region. She has authored several articles and one book chapter regarding the early people of the lower Rio Verde of Oaxaca, as well several articles on population and dental variation in New World populations. Dr. Mayes has received and participated in research grants and awards including the National Geographic Society, SDSU University Grants Program, NSF, and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

The Global Project in Applied Social Sciences (GPASS) is a collaboration between area studies centers at the International Institute and Washtenaw Community College with the goal of developing new curriculum related to applied social sciences through global studies content. Participating area studies centers are: the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This project is funded in part by three Title VI National Resource Center Grants from the US Department of Education.

Co-sponsors:
Washtenaw Community College
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:26:05 -0400 2021-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual Event image
SLE Community Nights (April 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75689 75689-20817012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join the SLE for weekly virtual activities such as social gatherings, wellness activities, and discussions of current events. Check for details each week in the SLE Newsletter.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:07:40 -0500 2021-04-21T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering
"Clinical Ethics and COVID: Reflections After One Year" (April 22, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83781 83781-21508900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained healthcare providers, patients, and systems in ways previously unimaginable. Clinical ethicists have been summoned to the forefront of the pandemic response, both at the bedside as well as on a meta-level. This interactive panel will consider the lessons after one year of managing pandemic ethics, covering issues of equity, scarce resource allocation, proactive ethics, and visitor policies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:20:52 -0400 2021-04-22T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Lecture / Discussion Event ad
Special Joint Seminar between DCMB, Mathematics, MIDAS, and Smale Institute (April 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83615 83615-21491327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes. This talk looks at consciousness from the perspective of theoretical computer science. It formalizes the Global Workspace Theory (GWT) originated by cognitive neuroscientist Bernard Baars and further developed by him, Stanislas Dehaene, and others. Our major contribution lies in the precise formal definition of a Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), also called a Conscious AI. We define the CTM in the spirit of Alan Turing’s simple yet powerful definition of a computer, the Turing Machine (TM). We are not looking for a complex model of the brain nor of cognition but for a simple model of (the admittedly complex concept of) consciousness. After formally defining CTM, we give a formal definition of consciousness in CTM. We then suggest why the CTM has the feeling of consciousness. The reasonableness of the definitions and explanations can be judged by how well they agree with commonly accepted intuitive concepts of human consciousness, the range of related concepts that the model explains easily and naturally, and the extent of its agreement with scientific evidence.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/95135773568

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:17:45 -0400 2021-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Earth Day: Get to Know Ann Arbor CCL (April 22, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83787 83787-21516705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

For #EarthDay, take action to help #RestoreOurEarth!

Join our Get to Know Ann Arbor CCL session to learn about the work Citizens' Climate Lobby does to avert the climate crisis and find out how to get involved.

This is an informal, no pressure session to meet a few of our active volunteers, ask any questions you have, and explore opportunities for getting involved.

Register in advance to receive the zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvde2vqjsvEtBDEMbIN-0HwvJ45JJjK7G5

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:02:15 -0400 2021-04-22T19:30:00-04:00 2021-04-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual graphic with leaves, CCL logo, and title, date and time of event
20th Annual James V. Neel Lectureship (April 23, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83872 83872-21561727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS - 20TH ANNUAL JAMES V. NEEL LECTURESHIP

“Remembrance of Things Past: Reactivation of Fetal Hemoglobin for Therapy.”

Presented by:
Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Harvard Medical School

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021
12:00PM - 3:00PM EST
Zoom Meeting ID: 983 1136 4189
Zoom Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98311364189

Sponsored by:
The Department of Human Genetics
University of Michigan Medical School
Event Website: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/human-genetics/events/202105/20th-annual-james-v-neel-lectureship

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:02:42 -0400 2021-04-23T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion 2021 JAMES V. NEEL LECTURESHIP FLYER
IISS Lecture Series. A Spiderweb Story: The Faint but Numerous Strands of an Interconnected Middle Ages in Varqa & Golshah (April 23, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83578 83578-21430606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar is pleased to announce a new public lecture "A Spiderweb Story: The Faint but Numerous Strands of an Interconnected Middle Ages in Varqa & Golshah" with Professor Cameron Cross on April 23 at 1:00-2:30 PM.

The Abstract:

The story of Varqa and Golshah, the oldest extant romance in the New Persian language, offers a fascinating glimpse into the interconnected literary histories of the Middle East. At first glance, the poem is evidently an adaptation of a well-known love-story within the Arabic literature of the Abbasid period, but the story quickly gets more complicated. By looking at the internal development of the narrative within the Arabic corpus, we can trace the gradual accretion of "romance" motifs to its plot, bringing it closer within the generic worlds of (parts of) the Thousand and One Nights and Persian love-stories like Bizhan and Manizheh. These same motifs, however, point at a deeper layer of thematic interconnectivity, namely the long accounts of love and adventure written in Greek in the first to fifth centuries CE. The adaptation of Varqa and Golshah into Persian, then, suggests not a "beginning" but a "re-beginning" of romance in the eleventh century, a continuation of Hellenistic models in dialogue with Arabic and Iranian traditions. In fact, the most notable innovation in the Persian tale is not the addition of romance but of epic, with extended battles interposed between the scenes of courtship and separation. These battle scenes, along with the "surprise" ending of a resurrection and mass conversion, bring the romance squarely into the fold of political and sacred history. In this regard, the romance finds a close analogue in one of the earliest and most widely translated romances of the Byzantine and Western European cultural blocs, Floris and Blancheflor. The structural and motival similarities between these two narratives not only point to a common set of literary practices, due to their shared Hellenistic heritage, but also to a certain convergence of historical factors in the eleventh and especially the thirteenth century, an era of intense transregional exchange through trade, pilgrimage, and holy war. Like a spiderweb viewed in the right light, Varqa and Golshah illuminates these many strands, faint but strong, that connect the histories of the Middle East and Mediterranean world.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qd-uprjsuHtxNIsfTOnqZn4pk8xzGgD0h

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:05:50 -0400 2021-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
"The Impact of COVID-19 on Equity for Women in Academic Medicine" (April 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83873 83873-21561729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

A recent consensus study report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlighted growing concerns regarding the current and future impact of COVID-19 on the careers of women in academic science and medicine. This panel will explore and discuss both the national data and the impact of the pandemic on the careers of faculty at U-M. It will provide the perspectives of key leaders in our institution about the challenges and opportunities created by the great disruptions we are currently experiencing.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:20:46 -0400 2021-04-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Lecture / Discussion CBSSM Faculty Equity Event
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-06T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Celebrating Chinese Ceramic Arts & the Weese Collection (May 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83894 83894-21603216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lease register now to reserve your spot..

Celebrating the William C. Weese Collection of Chinese Ceramics and the creation of the Weese Program in Ceramic Art, made possible through the extraordinary generosity of William C. Weese MD (BS ‘65). The Weese Collection includes more than 1,000 ceramics and decorative arts from China’s Neolithic period through the Ming and Qing dynasties, with pieces dating from as early as 3000 BCE through to the mid 19th century.

This event will feature Natsu Oyobe, UMMA Curator for Asian Art, in conversation with William C. Weese in a vibrant discussion about ceramic arts, including a preview of a fall exhibition of Asian ceramic arts, highlights of the Weese Collection, and Dr. Weese’s collecting interest and practice.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 May 2021 18:15:17 -0400 2021-05-12T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Lagranian Control at Large and Local Scales in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flows (May 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83812 83812-21538223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns this May with Professor Alexandre Bayen, the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley! This talk investigates Lagrangian (mobile) control of traffic flow at local scale (vehicular level), and how self-driving vehicles will change traffic flow patterns. Professor Bayen describes approaches based on deep, reinforcement learning presented in the context of enabling mixed-autonomy mobility. This lecture also explores the gradual and complex integration of automated vehicles into the existing traffic system. Attendees will learn the potential impact of a small fraction of automated vehicles on low-level traffic flow dynamics, using novel techniques in model-free, deep reinforcement learning, in which the automated vehicles act as mobile (Lagrangian) controllers to traffic flow.

Illustrative examples will be presented in the context of a new, open-source computational platform called FLOW, which integrates state-of-the-art microsimulation tools with deep-RL libraries on AWS EC2. Interesting behavior of mixed autonomy traffic will be revealed in the context of emergent behavior of traffic: https://flow-project.github.io/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:42:19 -0400 2021-05-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color (May 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84044 84044-21619677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 14:03:45 -0400 2021-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Livestream / Virtual ‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Curator’s Choice: Provenance Research and Repatriation to African Communities (May 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84092 84092-21619989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/provenance-research-and-repatriation-to-african-communities-tickets-152584595633.

Repatriation, provenance, and collaboration with community partners are among the pressing issues facing museums with collections of African objects. These conversations have entered public discourse through discussions of the objects looted from Benin City in 1897. Yet, questions of African collections extend beyond the Benin case. Each collection has its own specific histories and presents unique challenges for museum professionals. 

Join this program organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA that features curators from the Fowler, New Orleans Museum of Art, and University of Michigan Museum of Art for presentations and a panel discussion about current approaches and examples of work happening in museums today. The program will be moderated by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie.

This program is generously supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. De Becker has been working for many years with a team to reinstall UMMA’s permanent African collection, which will double the footprint of the African gallery and has prompted a separate project grappling with issues of restitution entitled, Wish You Were Here. 

Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba is the Francois Billion Richardson curator of African art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He received his doctorate in Art History from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and specializes in the visual cultures of shrines, having contributed articles and book chapters on the topic to various publications. He also writes on the museum and the politics of acquisition. 

Carlee S. Forbes is the Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Fowler Museum, where she researches the African objects donated by the Wellcome Trust in 1965. Forbes received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with the Ackland Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Her research focuses on art produced during the colonial period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, museum and collecting histories, and issues of provenance. 

Erica P. Jones is Curator of African Arts at the Fowler Museum. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. Since joining the Fowler Museum in 2015, Jones has organized several exhibitions. In 2018, she curated a solo exhibition of Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power, and authored the accompanying publication. Her 2019 exhibition, On Display in the Walled City: Nigeria at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925, directly relates to the research conducted by the Fowler’s Mellon team. 

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on modern and contemporary African art, cultural informatics, and the arts and cultural patrimony of Africa and the African diaspora in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of An African Modernist (2008), Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art (2011), and founder-editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. 

 

This program is organized and presented by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 May 2021 18:15:14 -0400 2021-05-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-05-24T15:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84044 84044-21619675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 14:03:45 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Livestream / Virtual ‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color
‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84044 84044-21619676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 14:03:45 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Livestream / Virtual ‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color
*The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan* (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84017 84017-21619594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to announce the virtual Book Launch and discussion of Kathryn Babayan’s new book, *The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan *(Stanford University Press, 2021). The book is available for purchase during the event for a publisher’s discount (20% off).

The book launch with discussion from Çiğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğaziçi Universitesi) and Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University) will be held on Tuesday, May 25, from 1:00-2:30 pm EDT. You may register for the event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zt5vPV6lTK2ht8By3P_7cQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:00 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Andean Circle Event. New Perspectives on the Cuzco Region (May 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84108 84108-21620295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at: https://myumi.ch/pdP3y

Presentations:

*State Expansion in Middle Horizon Peru: Re-Examining Wari Impact on the Local Communities of the Cusco Region*, by Veronique Belisle

In the Andes, the Middle Horizon (600-1000 CE) has traditionally been interpreted as a period during which a strong Wari imperial state conquered several provinces and tightly controlled local populations. In the Cusco region of southern Peru, research conducted at large Wari installations has long guided reconstructions of Wari power, leading scholars to argue that Wari presence resulted in the loss of local autonomy and the reorganization of economic activities. In this talk, I use regional surveys and excavation data from the local center of Ak’awillay to test this model and evaluate Wari military, economic, and religious impact in Cusco. Results do not support the hypothesis of a military conquest of the region and suggest strong continuity in agricultural production, exchange networks, and ritual activities. I conclude that Wari impact in Cusco was not as strong as originally proposed and that similar to other early states worldwide, Wari influence did not penetrate very deeply into local life.

*Colonial Legends and the Anthropological Reconstruction of Inca Origins*, by R. Alan Covey

Spaniards collected myths of Inca origins as part of political and religious discourse on colonization. Certain versions of the story eventually became part of Peruvian national history, a legend that John Rowe challenged in the 1940s with his own historical paradigm. Rowe's historicist approach influenced the work of lo andino scholarship in archaeology and ethnohistory as research proliferated from the late 1960s onward. In recent decades, a new body of archaeological data has demonstrated the need for a new anthropological paradigm for Inca origins. The completion of horizontal excavations and regional surveys, and the introduction of new analytical techniques (radiocarbon dates, bioarchaeology, geochemical analysis) have generated multiple lines of evidence for independently reconstructing important aspects of Inca state formation and early territorial expansion. Recent and emerging research encourages new approaches to the ethnohistoric record and better engagement with data from Inca provincial regions. This talk will review the intellectual history of the discourse on Inca origins, summarize current evidence, and identify areas for future interpretation, including issues that are difficult to resolve with archaeological evidence.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 25 May 2021 11:40:17 -0400 2021-05-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium