Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Code-Free Machine Learning: Introduction to Concepts and Best Practices with Hands-on Experiences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (October 5, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95713 95713-21790778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Code-Free Machine Learning: Introduction to Concepts and Best Practices with Hands-on Experiences

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

September 7 - October 5, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
Wednesdays

Social scientists are increasingly interested in machine learning methods to glean scientific knowledge and actionable insights from designed and gathered data. Implementing machine learning, however, requires users to have programming skills. This can be a daunting challenge for many non-tech savvy researchers. This course aims to guide social scientists to explore how machine learning can be used for their research without learning how to code. This course uses a graphical user interface tool Orange to provide learners with hands-on experiences in implementing machine learning techniques including data cleaning, visualization, and fine-tuning of algorithmic models. The open-source tool Orange is built on popular Python packages, providing basically the same functions and performances as many data scientists would obtain by writing complicated code. The course demonstrates that researchers can utilize the power of machine learning without learning how to code and focus more on machine learning concepts and best practices as well as analytical model development and validation.

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop or desktop with Orange installed to participate in this class. For installation instruction of Orange, see https://orangedatamining.com/

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Jinseok Kim

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:53:44 -0400 2022-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods (October 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98386 98386-21796589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 5, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods.

Shiyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Before arriving at Michigan, she received master's degrees in immigration study, sociology and data science, and a bachelor's degree in psychology. Shiyu's dissertation focuses on the effect of adaptive survey design on estimates. She is also interested in collecting and using neighborhood features as auxiliary variables.

An important methodological challenge in studying neighborhood effects is how to geographically define “neighborhoods” and create contextual features to characterize the areas. In quantitative research that uses survey data, contextual features are commonly defined by census geographies like census tracts and block groups. However, the literature has called for expanding the definition of neighborhoods beyond census boundaries and exploring contextual features in geographic areas more relevant to the studied individuals.
In this research, we compare social and built environment features of neighborhoods based on three geographic definitions (i.e., census tracts, residential buffers, and respondent-informed neighborhoods). We evaluate how the alternatively defined measures influence the detected associations between contextual features and health outcomes. Our findings suggest that the neighborhood definition matters. Therefore, other than simply offering linkages to census boundaries based on participants’ geocoded location, surveys may enrich the data and support further research by producing and releasing case-specific contextual features.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS). Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:43:15 -0400 2022-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Should surveys produce more contextual features? Comparing contextual features by alternative definitions of neighborhoods.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan (October 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96515 96515-21792612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/G1JDR

Loneliness has been increasingly recognized as one of the greatest public health threat and this talk examines what is and is not loneliness, conditions of the “lonely society” and the role of culture in loneliness. Based on my long-term ethnographic studies, I point to how society itself can exacerbate experiences of loneliness. One of the most important messages of this talk is that the anatomy of loneliness is not the anatomy of a single individual, but of a type of society.

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, D.Phil., is a Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. She came to Emory after serving as a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Department of Social Medicine and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. She is a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) grant recipient and a Mind and Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship (The John Templeton Foundation) recipient. Her academic vision is to contribute to cross-cultural understandings of health, illness and well-being by bringing Western and Asian perspectives on the mind-body, religion, medicine, and therapy into fruitful dialogue. Her publications include two monographs, The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan (University of California Press, 2021) and Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan: The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan (Routledge, 2006), as well as a co-edited special issue “Toward an Anthropology of Loneliness” in Transcultural Psychiatry (57:5, 2020, co-edited with Michelle Parsons), and over twenty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on psychotherapeutic practice, suicide, the mind-body relationship and Tibetan medicine. For the past ten years her research has focused on loneliness, empathy, meaning-making, subjectivity and resilience, particularly among populations at risk for suicide, in situations of domestic violence, and in prison, in Japan and the US.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:25:04 -0400 2022-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (October 7, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98982 98982-21797424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:37:20 -0400 2022-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S. Rubin
What’s In Your Attic? (October 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97158 97158-21794078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We would love to see what's in your attic!

Join us for an open house, informal day of sharing and bring in your paper Americana such as maps, letters, journals, books, photographs, and ephemera. Clements staff as well as collector volunteers will be available to share tips about care and storage and to answer questions.

Of course, it's not required that you bring in a treasure to share! This is also a rare opportunity to visit the Clements Library on a Sunday to enjoy our exhibit. You can also learn more about the history, collections, and architecture of the Clements in a behind-the-scenes tour at https://myumi.ch/29Pze

No appraisals will be available at this event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:10:09 -0400 2022-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Social / Informal Gathering Postcard Advertisement for 2022 "What's In Your Attic" Event
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96881 96881-21793528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 115+ programs in over 45 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from a few weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:40:54 -0400 2022-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Join us for the CGIS Study Abroad Fair on October 11, 2022
Global Health Career Panel (October 11, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99188 99188-21797692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Global health offers a range of career possibilities, from academia, to the non-profit, governmental, and for-profit sectors.

Come hear about some career opportunities and learn how to better prepare for the global health careers of the future.

Panelists:
Laura Haskins, MSN, MPH, RN, OCN
Laura Haskins is a nurse and public health practitioner working in global oncology. She has worked as an oncology nurse in diverse settings across the US, and as a nurse educator at cancer centers in Haiti and Rwanda with the NGO Partners in Health. She now works at the UN (the Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy at the International Atomic Energy Agency) where she supports low- and middle-income countries to strengthen their national cancer control programs. She is an active member of the Oncology Nursing Society and has partnered on projects with the Africa Cancer Research and Control ECHO and the US National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health.

Cara Bess Janusz, MA, MPH, PhD
Cara Bess Janusz is an applied public health researcher who focuses on optimizing vaccination and vaccine-preventable disease outcomes in pediatric populations. Her program of research spans the disciplines of epidemiology, health services, and decision and implementation sciences. Her work broadly aims to generate actionable inputs for policy and program decisions related to the delivery of immunization services. She recently completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in pediatric health services at the University of Michigan’s Child Health and Evaluation Research Center. In November 2022, Dr. Janusz will join the School of Medicine at Wake Forest University as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Implementation Science and Epidemiology & Prevention under the Division of Public Health Sciences.

Shannon Prudhomme, MPH
Shannon Prudhomme, MPH is global health professional with experience the areas of women’s health, private sector engagement, livelihoods, and youth education. Throughout her 15-year career, she has been able to cross-pollinate lessons learned from her international and domestic experience working with health, humanitarian relief, and community development organizations, including CARE International, Project HOPE, FHI 360, Africare Zimbabwe, Botswana Family Welfare Association, UNICEF USA, and the Uganda Village Project. Shannon holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan; Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication/Journalism (minor in Biology) from Xavier University of Louisiana; and graduate-level certificates in Impact Investing & Social Enterprise Management from Middlebury Institute and in Strategic Sustainable Development from Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Eric Ramirez-Ferrero, MPH, PhD
For 20+ years, Eric Ramirez-Ferrero has held senior technical and leadership positions in reproductive health, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. He currently serves as Senior Technical Director for the USAID- funded global project, Momentum Integrated Health resilience, which focuses on improving reproductive health outcomes in fragile states and conflict-affected settings. Eric holds two public health graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University.

REGISTER: https://forms.gle/Hdmi6iyiCLhfjztZ8

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:58:20 -0400 2022-10-11T17:30:00-04:00 2022-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Careers / Jobs Global Health Career Panel Speaker Bios
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias (October 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98434 98434-21796653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 12, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm

Brady T. West is a Research Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, selection bias in surveys, responsive/adaptive survey design, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Third Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2022), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by CRC Press in June 2017. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022.

Among the numerous explanations that have been offered for recent errors in pre-election polls, selection bias due to non-ignorable partisan nonresponse bias, where the probability of responding to a poll is a function of the candidate preference that a poll is attempting to measure (even after conditioning on other relevant covariates used for weighting adjustments), has received relatively less focus in the academic literature. Under this type of selection mechanism, estimates of candidate preferences based on individual or aggregated polls may be subject to significant bias, even after standard weighting adjustments. Until recently, methods for measuring and adjusting for this type of non-ignorable selection bias have been unavailable. Fortunately, recent developments in the methodological literature have provided political researchers with easy-to-use measures of non-ignorable selection bias. In this study, we apply a new measure that has been developed specifically for estimated proportions to this challenging problem. We analyze data from 18 different pre-election polls: nine different telephone polls conducted in eight different states prior to the U.S. Presidential election in 2020, and nine different pre-election polls conducted either online or via telephone in Great Britain prior to the 2015 General Election. We rigorously evaluate the ability of this new measure to detect and adjust for selection bias in estimates of the proportion of likely voters that will vote for a specific candidate, using official outcomes from each election as benchmarks and alternative data sources for estimating key characteristics of the likely voter populations in each context.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:50:22 -0400 2022-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Evaluating Pre-Election Polling Estimates using a New Measure of Non-Ignorable Selection Bias
Information Session Webinar- Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) (October 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98336 98336-21796508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Wednesday, October 12, 2002
3:00 - 4:00pm
Registration is required.

Please join us October 12, 2022 to learn about the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. The speaker will be Dr. Brady West.

Advance registration is required, https://bit.ly/3d3upwR

The Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) offers graduate degrees that combine ideas and techniques for producing and analyzing data about humans and our society. Joint us to launch your career in this exciting and rewarding field in which scientists interpret the world through data.

The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:38:06 -0400 2022-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Presentation MPSDS Informational Session Webinar
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - How to Draw a Nationally-Representative Sample: Updating and Reassessing Monitoring the Future's Sampling Procedures (October 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98438 98438-21796659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 19, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT

Professor Richard Miech is Principal Investigator of Monitoring the Future, which since 1975 has drawn annual, nationally-representative samples of adolescents and tracked trends in adolescent drug use. His work focuses on trends in substance use, with an emphasis on disentangling how these trends vary by age, historical period, and birth cohort membership.

The national estimates of drug use from Monitoring the Future (MTF) serve as a gold standard in the field and are a key source of information for research, U.S. policymakers, and nonprofit organizations that seek to reduce teen drug use. For sample selection MTF uses a multistage, random sampling procedure that consists of (1) selection of a specific geographic areas, (2) selection of one or more high schools in each area, and (3) selection of students within each school. MTF has recently begun a revisit and overhaul of its sampling procedures, which were developed more than three decades ago. In this talk Professor Miech discusses this overhaul, including sampling challenges and issues that have arisen over the years, as well as opportunities to streamline and improve MTF sampling with new technology.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:51:08 -0400 2022-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for https://www.src.isr.umich.edu/people/richard-miech/
LHS Collaboratory (October 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96028 96028-21791725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speakers:
Alex John London, PhD
Professor of Ethics and Philosophy
Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Explainability Is Not the Solution to Structural Challenges to AI in Medicine

Explainability is often treated as a necessary condition for ethical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in Medicine. In this brief talk I survey some of the structural challenges facing the development and deployment of effective AI systems in health care to illustrate some of the limitations to explainability in addressing these challenges. This talk builds on prior work (London 2019, 2022) to illustrate how ambitions for AI in health care likely require significant changes to key aspects of health systems.

Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc
Director of AI in Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
On the Inextricability of Explainability from Ethics: Explainable AI does not Ethical AI Make

Explainability is embedded into a plethora of legal, professional, and regulatory guidelines as it is often presumed that an ethical use of AI will require explainable algorithms. There is considerable controversy, however, as to whether post hoc explanations are computationally reliable, their value for decision-making, and the relational implications of their use in shared decision-making. This talk will explore the literature across these domains and argue that while post hoc explainability may be a reasonable technical goal, it should not be offered status as a moral standard by which AI use is judged to be ‘ethical.’

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:10:43 -0400 2022-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The Clements Bookworm: Fundraising has a history you can tell through Objects with Amanda Moniz (October 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98038 98038-21795507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We know the names of major givers in American history. We recognize the power of the everyday philanthropists who have shaped and reshaped the nation. But we have largely overlooked the stories of people who have done the hard work of raising money for charitable causes from the colonial era to today. Yet fundraising has a history and Amanda Moniz is working to tell it as she builds the Smithsonian’s new philanthropy collection.

Amanda B. Moniz, Ph.D., is the David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She curates a long-term exhibit, Giving in America, and is building the Smithsonian's collection of objects telling stories about Americans' historical experiences of giving, fundraising, and working in and using charitable institutions. Her book, From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism, was awarded ARNOVA’S inaugural Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize. She is currently working on a biography of Isabella Graham, an immigrant widow who transformed philanthropy in early national New York, and is grateful to the Clements Library for supporting research in its collections about Graham. Moniz received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2008, and during graduate school, she worked at the Clements as a curatorial assistant in the Manuscript Division.

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by Kristin Cabral ‘88, Member of the Clements Library Associates Board.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:41:19 -0400 2022-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Amanda Moniz.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
STS Speaker. A'uwe Objects of Care: On the Affects and Afterlives of Science (October 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97567 97567-21794759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

In July of 1962 a group of scientists arrived in the A’uwẽ (Xavante) aldeia of Wedezé to conduct exhaustive documentation of the Indigenous people who lived there. Among the data they created for their study in human genetics was a set of anthropometric photographs—arresting images of faces, posed at five different angles by a physical anthropologist. Over the ensuing decades, the images traveled from Brazil to Germany to the United States, accruing new scientific and social meanings as they were passed from one research group to another. As researchers used these images to correlate data and enable their repeated study of the community and their descendants, their A’uwẽ hosts developed strategies—including affective labor—to shape scientists’ work for their own political purposes. Facilitating the return of the digitized images between 2015 and 2019, I participated in this circulation and the beginning of an A’uwẽ project to reclaim these scientific materials. This talk traces the history of this research by posing the question of return: What does A’uwẽ repossession of these images teach us about how to manage and care for the products of mid-century race science? In their transit and use, the photographs tie together generations of researchers and the people they studied. They also mark the persistence and mutation of race and population science into the twenty-first century.

Rosanna Dent is a historian of the life and human sciences and an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on how human interactions unfold in the context of knowledge production, and the implications of these relationships for questions of political and social justice. From 2021-2022 she was a member of the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 2022 she is a fellow of the ACLS. She holds a PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Office of Global Public Health, and the Department of Anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:09:34 -0400 2022-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion A'uwe man with mid-century photo from his community.
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Would electoral research show different findings if we replaced probability face-to-face surveys with other types of surveys? (October 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99079 99079-21797546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
October 26, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Would electoral research show different findings if we replaced probability face-to-face surveys with nonprobability online surveys?

Hannah Bucher is a PhD student in survey research at the University of Mannheim and a research associate at GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences at the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). Her research focuses on (non)probability online surveys.

As respondents of nonprobability online surveys are self-selected, it is often questioned whether results are comparable with those of probability face-to-face surveys. In this paper, I compare a nonprobability online survey and a probability face-to-face survey by the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) in terms of estimation of benchmark statistics; distributions in 80 variables covering measures of political attitudes and behavior; and differences in results of multivariate analyses through a multimodel comparison with individual-level voter turnout as the dependent variable. The probability face-to-face survey performs slightly better in estimating characteristics with external benchmarks. There are substantial differences in numerous variables and their associations in multivariate models. Thus, switching from a probability face-to-face survey to a nonprobability online survey affects empirical findings on individual-level voter turnout and the conclusions drawn therefrom.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:35:50 -0400 2022-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 27, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Global Health Community Special Event (October 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97336 97336-21794331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Physician. Advocate. Humanitarian. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, was these things and more. Join friends from across the institution for a special event examining Dr. Farmer’s life, legacy, and impact on health disparities around the world.

Led by U-M colleagues who knew, worked with and learned from Dr. Farmer, our discussion will be interspersed with clips of the documentary Bending the Arc, which details the history of Partners in Health https://www.pih.org/) from its founding in Haiti through its later work in Peru and Rwanda. Panelists will discuss how they came to know Dr. Farmer, lessons learned from him, and his outsized influence on the work in their fields.

Featuring:

John Ayanian, MD, MPP (https://ihpi.umich.edu/director-john-z-ayanian-md-mpp)
Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy
Director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
College classmate, medical school contemporary and lifelong friend of Dr. Farmer

Michele Heisler, MD, MPP (https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/heisler-michele.html)
Professor of Internal Medicine Health Behavior and Health Education Medical
Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Former Student and mentee of Dr. Farmer

V Koski-Karrell, MPH
MD/PhD Anthropology Candidate, U-M Medical School
Former Partners in Health Research Assistant and mentee of Dr. Farmer

School of Nursing Clinical Instructor Megan Eagle, MSN, MPH, FNP-BC, (https://nursing.umich.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/megan-j-eagle) will moderate.

About Dr. Farmer:

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, was Kolokotrones university professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health, where he pioneered community-based treatment strategies that demonstrated the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings.

About Bending the Arc:

Released in 2017, the full-length documentary (https://bendingthearcfilm.com/) tells the story Dr. Farmer and his Partners in Health co-founders, Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl, and the groundbreaking global health movement they established. The film is available to stream via Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80170312) and is also available to U-M community members to stream on demand via the University of Michigan library (requires U-M authentication): https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/bending-the-arc.

EVENT INFORMATION:

This event will be hosted in person at the U-M School of Nursing Building 2 (426 NIB), Room 2250 with virtual access to live streaming. Please register below and indicate if you will join us in-person or virtually.

REGISTER: https://forms.gle/Un3Tat2zXw9h74yq6

Questions? Contact: Global Health Film Series Organizing Committee ghfilmseries@umich.edu

Sponsored by:
U-M School of Nursing, U-M School of Public Health, U-M Center for Global Health Equity, U-M Taubman Health Sciences Library

Co-sponsored by:
U-M African Studies Center
U-M Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
U-M International Institute
Partners in Health Engage at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:05:33 -0400 2022-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 School of Nursing U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Lecture / Discussion Dr. Paul Farmer Special Event Flier
Biodiversity, Coffee Production, and Dignified Livelihoods Under a Globalized Economy (October 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97576 97576-21794771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Friday, October 28 at noon
School of Social Work, ECC 1840

Dr. Ivette Perfecto is the James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice at the School for Environment And Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on biodiversity and arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in rural and urban agriculture. Her lab conducts agroecological research in Latin America and North America, focusing on the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity and the relationship between biodiversity, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. She is the co-author of four books: Breakfast of Biodiversity, Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty, Coffee Agroecology, and Ecological Complexity and Agroecology. In 2022 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The talks, which are free and open to the public, will also be livestreamed on YouTube. U-M students can participate in the series as a one-credit course - look for it as SWK 503 section 001.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:20:56 -0400 2022-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (October 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - A Multivariate Stopping Rule for Survey Data Collection (November 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98854 98854-21797269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 2, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EDT

Xinyu Zhang
A Multivariate Stopping Rule for Survey Data Collection

Bio
Xinyu Zhang is a PhD candidate studying survey and data science at the University of Michigan. He is primarily interested in responsive survey designs, survey nonresponse, and machine learning techniques. His dissertation topic is using models to inform responsive survey designs.

Abstract
Surveys are experiencing declining response rates. With more and more effort expended to combat these declining response rates, the cost of large-scale surveys has continued to rise. Recent technological developments in survey data collection have allowed the survey designer to make near-real-time intervention decisions. Stopping rules are one of the interventions often considered to improve the efficiency of data collection. Stopping some cases essentially reallocates effort from stopped cases to others, but most previously proposed stopping rules have only considered single estimates. In multipurpose surveys, there may be data quality objectives that must be met for multiple estimates with constraints on costs. We introduce a stopping rule that accounts for the cost and the quality of one or more estimates. The proposed stopping rule is illustrated via simulation using data from the Health and Retirement Study.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:40:59 -0400 2022-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 3, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (November 7, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99608 99608-21798395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:55:29 -0400 2022-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S. Rubin
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
STS Speaker. Compass to Sentinel: The Automation of Self-tracking Technology (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98226 98226-21795744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk draws on ethnographic fieldwork to argue that a shift is underway in the logic of behavioral guidance informing the design and use of so-called self-tracking technology, or apps, and wearable devices that sense, record, and analyze users’ data. While first-wave self-tracking technologies were designed to serve as digital compasses that could provide attentive selves with information to help them navigate the choice-filled seas of modern life, newer technologies are designed to serve as sentinels that can stand watch for distracted and overwhelmed selves, providing just-in-time micronudges to keep them on track.

Co-sponsored by Center for Ethics, Society and Computing, Communication and Media Studies, American Culture, Digital Studies Institute.

Bio: Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (2012), an ethnographic exploration of the relationship between technology design and the experience of addiction. Her current book project, Keeping Track (forthcoming), concerns the rise of digital self-tracking technologies and the new modes of introspection and self-governance they engender. She has published numerous articles on the theme of digital media and subjectivity, and her research has been featured in such national media venues as 60 Minutes, The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Atlantic.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:28:33 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion 2015 Wearables
LHS Collaboratory (November 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96029 96029-21791726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory November Session

Speaker:

Kadija Ferryman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In this talk, Professor Ferryman will discuss the merits and challenges of conducting health equity reviews of artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in health and medicine. The talk will examine how interdisciplinary approaches from the social sciences, bioethics and humanities, and computational fields can be involved in the development of concepts, methods, frameworks, and guidelines for understanding and governing digital health tools.

Dr. Kadija Ferryman is a cultural anthropologist who studies the social, cultural, and ethical implications of health information technologies. Specifically, her research examines how genomics, digital medical records, artificial intelligence, and other technologies impact racial disparities in health. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, she led the Fairness in Precision Medicine research study, which examines the potential for bias and discrimination in predictive precision medicine.

She earned a BA in Anthropology from Yale University, and a PhD in Anthropology from The New School for Social Research. Before completing her PhD, she was a policy researcher at the Urban Institute where she studied how housing and neighborhoods impact well-being, specifically the effects of public housing redevelopment on children, families, and older adults.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:39:25 -0400 2022-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Accounting for Non-ignorable Sampling and Nonresponse in Statistical Matching (November 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100348 100348-21799633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 9, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Accounting for Non-ignorable Sampling and Nonresponse in Statistical Matching

Danny Pfeffermann retired as the National Statistician and Director General of Israel's CBS. He is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton. His main research areas are: Analytic inference from complex sample surveys; Seasonal adjustment and trend estimation; Small area estimation; Inference under informative sampling and nonresponse and more recently; Mode effects and Proxy surveys.

Professor Pfeffermann published about 80 articles in leading statistical journals and co-edited the two-volume handbook on Sample Surveys. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and recipient of several international awards.

Abstract
Data for statistical analysis is often available from different samples, with each sample containing measurements on only some of the variables of interest. Statistical matching attempts to generate a fused database containing matched measurements on all the target variables. In this article, we consider the use of statistical matching when the samples are drawn by informative sampling designs and are subject to not missing at random nonresponse. The problem with ignoring the sampling process and nonresponse is that the distribution of the data observed for the responding units can be very different from the distribution holding for the population data, which may distort the inference process and result in a matched database that misrepresents the joint distribution in the population. Our proposed methodology employs the empirical likelihood approach and is shown to perform well in a simulation experiment and when applied to real sample data.

**Joint paper with Daniela Marella, to appear in International Statistical Review

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:18:24 -0400 2022-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer for Accounting for Non-ignorable Sampling and Nonresponse in Statistical Matching
Information Session Webinar- Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) (November 10, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100543 100543-21800056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Thursday, November 10, 2022
9:30 - 10:30am (EST)
Registration is required, https://tinyurl.com/422xdvdp

Please join us to learn about the University of Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science.

The Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) offers graduate degrees that combine ideas and techniques for producing and analyzing data about humans and our society. Join us to launch your career in this exciting and rewarding field in which scientists interpret the world through data.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:06:53 -0400 2022-11-10T09:30:00-05:00 2022-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion MPSDS Informational Session Webinar
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Racial Foundations of Public Policy: Housing (November 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99185 99185-21797678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Racial Foundations of Public Policy is a speaker series hosted by the Center for Racial Justice that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action. Through it, we bring in renowned scholar-experts from across the country to be in conversation with Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes, the founding director of the Center for Racial Justice at the Ford School of Public Policy. The series is open to all members of the University of Michigan community and the wider public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:48:20 -0400 2022-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-10T17:15:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Dr. John N. Robinson III and Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes
An Introduction to South Korean Salvage Archaeology: An Early Silla Cemetery Site, Chadang-ri (November 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101129 101129-21800852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Located in Yeongcheon, the southeast region of the Korean peninsula, the Chadang-ri site is an early Silla cemetery (ca. 450-500 CE). This project has been ongoing since May (2022) and conducted by the cultural resource management (CRM) firm, Daehan Institute of Cultural Properties. This site is approximately 4,606 square meters, and around 40 tombs have been identified. The tombs of early Silla consist of many styles, such as 1) wooden chamber tomb, 2) wooden chamber tomb with a stone mound, 3) stone-lined tomb, and 4) stone chamber tomb. Those buried in these tombs are hypothesized to be high-status individuals based on the evidence of high-quality burial goods such as gold earrings and protection stones. With the high density of tombs and the various tomb styles, this site has been incredibly useful in understanding early Silla tomb culture within the outskirts of the kingdom. Chadang-ri site is one of many salvage excavation projects conducted in South Korea. Therefore, to understand South Korea’s archaeological data better, it is necessary to understand the context in which the project was started and the goals of each stakeholder. This presentation will share the contents of the Chadang-ri site from excavations from May until August and explain the process of South Korean salvage archaeology.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:49:12 -0500 2022-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual HK
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-14T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Chinese Lives of “Internet Finance”: From Technological Innovations to Ponzi Schemes (November 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96544 96544-21792872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In this talk, Dr. Rao will trace how China’s “internet finance” industry, represented by thousands of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platforms, developed from government-supported “financial innovations” to criminalized Ponzi schemes that ruined the life’s savings of millions. He will unravel this economic process through the stories of ordinary investors and borrowers drawn from 20 months of ethnographic study, and offer an anthropological angle to understand the happening of a financial, social, and moral crisis.

Yichen Rao is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. As an anthropologist, he studies the rapid development of contemporary China through the challenges digital technologies have imposed on human society. Dr. Rao has written ethnographies about China’s controversial internet addiction treatment camps, internet finance platforms, and the 996 overwork issues in the IT industry. He published in journals like "Economic Anthropology" and "History of Psychology." His paper "Dreaming like a Market" on China's P2P lending industry was awarded the Schneider Prize Honorable Mention by the American Anthropological Association.

Zoom registration link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VdCMd2jtQG6CHbxsI4xC8g

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:14:00 -0400 2022-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yichen Rao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
WCED Lecture. Afterlives of Revolution: Populist Authoritarianism in Contemporary Nicaragua (November 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100128 100128-21799243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Luciana Chamorro Elizondo is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2021-23 academic years. She is a political anthropologist who specializes in Central America and writes on revolution and its afterlives, populist politics, authoritarianism, affect and aesthetics. Her larger conceptual interests are in political theology, debt, inheritance and generational difference, political violence, and feminist and queer imaginaries of the future.

As a WCED Fellow, Luciana will continue to develop her book manuscript, "Afterlives of Revolution: Authoritarian Populism and Political Passions in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua", incorporating field research conducted in Nicaragua after the 2018 April uprisings, a pivotal turning point after which the Ortega regime left behind the pursuit of hegemony and instead turned to the use of force and the establishment of a police state to sustain itself in power. She will also advance a series of related projects, including a collaborative and comparative study tentatively titled “Authoritarian Thresholds” which uses ethnographic methods to consider under what conditions democratically elected regimes tip toward the use of exceptional force to remain in power.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: http://myumi.ch/G1J55

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:49:22 -0400 2022-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Luciana Chamorro Elizondo
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Utility of Commercial Data for Sampling Population Subgroups: A Case of Health and Retirement Study (November 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101145 101145-21800872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 16, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Sunghee Lee is a Research Associate Professor at Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on sampling and measurement issues with hard-to-survey population subgroups as well as racial, ethnic, and linguistic minorities.

Chendi Zhao is a Research Assistant and first-year Ph.D. student in the Program in Survey and Data Science

Anqi Liu is a master’s student in MPSDS at the University of Michigan. She works closely with Dr. Sunghee Lee on the Health and Retirement Study sampling.

Abstract
A standard approach for targeting population subgroups in household surveys is to sample general population and then to screen for eligible households. This becomes increasingly costly as the subgroup accounts for a small proportion of the population, which is the case for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). HRS is a population-based longitudinal study of adults ages 50 and older in the U.S. and maintains its representativeness by adding a new age cohort every 6 years. In 2016, HRS targeted those born between 1960 and 1965 with an additional goal of oversampling racial/ethnic minorities. This group is less than 10% of the population. In order to increase the efficiency of screening, HRS had traditionally used probability proportionate size sampling in its area-probability sample with the age-eligible population size as a measure of size as well as stratification based on the race/ethnicity distribution of area sampling units. For 2016, HRS sampling additionally used stratification at the address level by enhancing the population of addresses in the sample areas with commercial data. This study examines the utility of commercial data for increasing efficiency with a focus on its availability and accuracy by analyzing a dataset that combines sampling frame data, screening data, main survey data as well as external data from the American Community Survey.

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
The Annual Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:46:54 -0500 2022-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-21T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (November 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
A Religion & Feminism Author Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean (November 29, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99378 99378-21797972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Panel: Ken Chitwood, Aliyah Khan, William Calvo-Quirós, and Jocelyn Fenton Stitt.


The Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) are proud to highlight and launch the new books of current and former University of Michigan faculty in religion and feminist studies in the Americas. The authors of three books in the field read from and discuss their work at a roundtable moderated by Dr. Ken Chitwood, author of The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean (2021).


William Calvo- Quirós discusses his *Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions* (2022), which follows the migration of popular Catholic saints from Mexico into the U.S. and the evolution of their meaning in the context of racism and Latinx immigrant battles for survival.


Aliyah Khan talks about *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (2020), the first academic monograph on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean, focusing on the gendered fiction, poetry, and music of Islam of enslaved West African Muslims, indentured South Asian Indian Muslims, and their descendants in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica.


Jocelyn Fenton Stitt's *Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing* (2021), the first academic book on pan-Caribbean life writing and the recent use of the genre by Caribbean women to explore historical and archival absences. This talk focuses on Cuban Jewishness, feminism, and formal practices used to write about historical absences.

Combining literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, women’s and gender studies, and historiography, these books showcase the innovative, interdisciplinary ways in which religious studies and feminist scholars study and write about creolized and syncretic cultures in the Caribbean and the hemispheric Americas.


Ken Chitwood will be moderating this conversation. He is a religion scholar conducting research on ethnographic journalism with the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Engaged Spirituality Project and on Latinx Muslim philanthropy with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI. He is the author of the award-winning book, *The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean* (2021).

This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).


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Film Screening Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:52:40 -0500 2022-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening A Religion & Feminism Author Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Effect of Branching Middle Responses in Dichotomous Polar Scales in Web Surveys (November 30, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101568 101568-21801526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
November 30, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Effect of Branching Middle Responses in Dichotomous Polar Scales in Web Surveys

In telephone surveys, 11 to 49% of respondents would select a middle alternative when it is offered although they would not volunteer it if it were not mentioned in dichotomous bipolar questions. Furthermore, offering a middle option led to differences in response effects that are related to respondent characteristics, including social desirability bias and satisficing effects. While a question form that branches middle responses has been shown to have a lower validity compared to offered form in telephone surveys, potentially, branched question form can motivate respondents to spend extra time and effort in giving a response in the absence of an interviewer. Therefore, differences in validity and reliability of responses to branched question form compared to offered form is a research interest in general population web surveys. This study tests the validity and the reliability to branched question form in a general population survey using a randomized experiment. The branched question form did not change validity and reliability of responses and reduced the satisficing behavior based on the proxies compared to the offered form.

Z. Tuba Suzer Gurtekin is an Assistant Research Scientist within the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. She is the scientific leader of the Surveys of Consumers, which conducts monthly national surveys of American households to understand consumer expectations and how those expectations impact their spending and saving behavior. Her research experience has included development of alternative sample, methodology and questionnaire designs, data collection and analysis methods for a general population in parallel survey modes. In addition to her work through the Surveys of Consumers, she also currently serves on the Board of Associate Editors of CDC’s Preventing Chronic Disease Journal. 608.82She teaches survey sampling and survey methodology in University of Michigan’s Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis Program (OJOC CRDSA).

MPSDS
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

SISRT
June 5 – July 28, 2023

The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is a teaching program of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. It is located on the central campus of the University of Michigan at 426 Thompson Street in Ann Arbor. The summer courses are select offerings from the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science, and can be used to pursue a doctorate, master of science and a certificate in survey methodology.

All 2023 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format with the exception of the Sampling Program for Survey Statisticians. Payment of Summer Scholar and workshop fees must be made in full before you will be officially registered for class. Fees are based on total “course hours” (assigned to each course as shown in the section on description of courses and on the 2023 course schedule) although no formal academic credit is actually earned.

Our courses this summer will be offered primarily by two-way, live video through a platform that supports lectures and group work. In some cases, courses are offered in a flipped format in which lectures are video recorded for students to watch on-demand and then meet with their instructor by two-way live video to discuss the lectures, readings, and problem sets. All classes are scheduled in Eastern Standard Time Zone.

We have been offering courses in remote formats for many years through our connection with the graduate programs at the Universities of Michigan and Maryland which share all courses by live classroom-to-classroom video. In the COVID era, our transition to entirely remote instruction has been straightforward and brought the students’ experience very close to that of a place-based classroom.

We understand that some participants were looking forward to visiting Ann Arbor, networking and participating in social activities. As an alternative, we are planning several virtual social and networking activities in which participants will meet informally (by live video) with their instructors and just with each other in small groups to discuss various topics, some related to courses and some not. This will give participants a chance get to know each other as well as instructors outside the “classroom.” We’re excited to work with you as we learn how to best connect with each other remotely.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:25:54 -0500 2022-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Ravena Landscape Project: wetlands and coastal archaeology around a Byzantine capital (December 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101648 101648-21802182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The study of coastal and lowland landscapes is a challenge for archaeology, as the high geomorphological dynamicity of such ecosystems often limits archaeological research in these areas. The Ravenna Landscape Project systematically investigates the hinterland of Ravenna (northern Italy), a major Roman and Medieval city that developed over time in a complex, marginal landscape. The project presented here aims to offer a way forward to overcome the limits represented by complex geomorphological dynamics and introduce new approaches to studying the local landscape. The lecture will consider the latest results of the project, focusing in particular on the methodologies applied as well as the main goals achieved.

This HYBRID event will be held in in person at the School of Education Room 2327 Brownlee Room, and also livestreamed via Zoom at link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93550588643

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:02:08 -0500 2022-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Cavalazzi
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (December 2, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99610 99610-21798396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:57:43 -0400 2022-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S. Rubin
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 5, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (January 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21806190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

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Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (January 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21806191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

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Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Producing People Who Have No One: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan (January 12, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102034 102034-21803379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at http://myumi.ch/M9Nme

This presentation explores how cultural norms surrounding kinship, many deeply connected to national ideologies of Japanese identity, play out when kinship realities diverge from normative expectations surrounding nurturance and care. Both in Japan—where the ethnographic data for this presentation originate—and also across the world, social welfare systems too often “produce people who have no one,” in the words of one of my interlocutors. What are the conditions for a welfare system that nurtures well-being that produces people who *have* people?

Kate Goldfarb is a cultural and medical anthropologist. Her research focuses on the ways social relationships impact embodied experience, intersections between public policy and well-being, and the co-production of scientific knowledge and subjective experiences.

Her first book project (*Fragile Kinships: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan*, currently under review) explored how social inclusion and exclusion shape holistic well-being. She conducted longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with people connected to the Japanese child welfare system, examining the stakes of family disconnection in a country where the family is considered the basic social unit. This project investigated how kinship ideologies articulate with discourses of Japanese national and cultural identity, how these discourses shape understandings of what is “normal,” and how these concepts of normality are caught up in global circuits of knowledge surrounding human development, child rights, and concepts of “care” under the rubric of social welfare. This project’s analytical frameworks are shaped by kinship theory, medical anthropology, semiotics, feminist studies of science, and queer theory, investigating how past and present social relationships are experienced in visceral, embodied terms.

Her most recent research, based in the U.S., are collaborative projects that take the creation of and engagement with atmospheric data as a social field to study ethnographically. She is the Principal Investigator on a collaborative project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / National Weather Service in applied meteorological research, “Smoke Exposure and Underserved Wildland Fire Communities.” An emergent project, Knowing Air, works to understand how shifting environmental factors—including increased wildfire activity and the COVID-19 pandemic—impact the ways people engage with air quality data (quantitative air quality indices and qualitative, sensory, story-based information) including measures of “invisible” pollutants such as ozone. Finally, she is privileged to collaborate with the Louisville Historical Museum on their Marshall Fire Story Project to support the collection and archiving of community experiences surrounding the devastating December 30, 2021 fire in Boulder County.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:20:50 -0500 2023-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Kate Goldfarb, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Reading the Air and Creating Trouble: Food Allergy Disclosures in Japan (January 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102035 102035-21803380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at http://myumi.ch/n8MJ5

In this talk, Professor Cook explores how people with food allergies in Japan read the air and try to avoid creating trouble for others and themselves through practices of disclosure of their allergies. She traces how their experiences of reading the air and the concept of, and engagement with, feelings of *meiwaku* emerge out of an imagination of how people might respond to their disclosures, and the social risks that they feel food allergies present.

Emma Cook is a social and medical anthropologist whose research currently focuses on feeling, affect and emotion in food allergy experiences in Japan. She is particularly interested in exploring how the individual and social intersect, interact, and are embodied, and how cultural conceptions of food, food sharing, health, illness, and the body affect experiences of food allergies.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:55:22 -0500 2023-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Reading the Air and Creating Trouble: Food Allergy Disclosures in Japan
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CSEAS Lecture Series. Western Cultures as Thailand’s Strategy for Independence (January 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102842 102842-21805226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In the nineteenth century, the second wave of western imperialism hit Southeast Asia. Unable to resist western military forces, Southeast Asia had to surrender to the power of the West. Only one country, Thailand, survived and is proclaimed on the history pages as the sole country in Southeast Asia that survived Western colonization. How Thailand escaped the unbeatable force of the west was always a discussion in many areas of Southeast Asian Studies. One of the key strategies that many scholars discussed was the reformation of cultures through westernization. The upper class of Siamese society employed western cultures, especially in the performing arts, to transform their traditions as equivalent to the standards of the west. The strength of the nation was presented with these reformed cultures that were the work of East-West innovation by Siamese noblemen. This lecture will clarify how Siamese society had enculturated western cultures prior to the nineteenth century, along with the nineteenth-century accelerated modernization in the performing arts through westernization to stop the colonization by the West.

Speaker Bio
Jittapim (Nan) Yamprai is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist with research specialization in the music of Southeast Asia, cross-cultural interaction in the music of East and West in Thailand, music, and diplomacy of the Siamese and French in the seventeenth century, Music in the Ayutthaya, music, and politics, and the music and culture of the Burmese refugees in the United States. She received her doctoral degree in music history and literature from the University of Northern Colorado and two master’s degrees—ethnomusicology from Mahidol University, Thailand, and information and library science from the University of North Texas.

Her writings include the establishment of western music in Thailand, sacred music in the catholic church of Thailand, Southeast Asian musical materials for contemporary compositions, Franco-Siamese music diplomacy in the seventeenth century, etc. Jittapim was an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching in music, Asian studies, and anthropology departments. She works as the artistic director of the Greeley Multi-Cultural Festival and co-artistic director of Beethoven in the Rockies Concert Series. Currently, she is working in International Education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/P1yWg


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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:32:55 -0500 2023-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jittapim Yamprai, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - The Role of Data Collection in Population Science: Contemporary Studies from ABCD to HBCD (January 20, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103756 103756-21807773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
February 1, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 EST

The Role of Data Collection in Population Science: Contemporary Studies from ABCD to HBCD

Abstract

Recently nationwide consortiums of multiple research sites have conducted multi-modal, longitudinal cohort studies and provided unprecedented data sources for population science research. For example, the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study has collected data from 11,880 children ages 9-10 across 21 U.S. research sites, as the largest long-term study of brain development and child health; and the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study will enroll 7,500 pregnant women across 25 research sites and follow them from pregnancy through early childhood, as the largest long-term study of early brain and child development in the U.S. Both studies aim to reflect the sociodemographic diversity of the target population to enable characterization of natural variability and trajectories. Without probability sampling as the touchstone for randomization-based inferences, the data quality and analysis validity require rigorous evaluations and potentially rely on untestable assumptions. The data collection process also presents various challenges during practical operation.

In this talk, I look into both inference and design schemes to study the impact of data collection on population science. First, using the ABCD study as an example of secondary data analysis, I discuss inference approaches focusing on multilevel regression and poststratification for population generalizability and latent subgroup detection for population heterogeneity in brain activity and association studies. Second, I introduce the HBCD study design. HBCD also aims to include individuals demographically and behaviorally similar to those in the substance exposure group, but without exposure, to enable valid causal inference in a non-experimental study design. I discuss our proposed weighting, matching, and modeling strategies to leverage analysis goals to inform the design and dashboard monitoring for adaptive sample enrollment.

Bio

Yajuan Si is a Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr Si’s research lies in cutting-edge methodology development in streams of Bayesian statistics, linking design- and model-based approaches for survey inference, missing data analysis, confidentiality protection involving the creation and analysis of synthetic datasets, and causal inference with observational data.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT)
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:51:50 -0500 2023-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - The Role of Data Collection in Population Science: Contemporary Studies from ABCD to HBCD (January 20, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103756 103756-21807774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
February 1, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 EST

The Role of Data Collection in Population Science: Contemporary Studies from ABCD to HBCD

Abstract

Recently nationwide consortiums of multiple research sites have conducted multi-modal, longitudinal cohort studies and provided unprecedented data sources for population science research. For example, the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study has collected data from 11,880 children ages 9-10 across 21 U.S. research sites, as the largest long-term study of brain development and child health; and the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study will enroll 7,500 pregnant women across 25 research sites and follow them from pregnancy through early childhood, as the largest long-term study of early brain and child development in the U.S. Both studies aim to reflect the sociodemographic diversity of the target population to enable characterization of natural variability and trajectories. Without probability sampling as the touchstone for randomization-based inferences, the data quality and analysis validity require rigorous evaluations and potentially rely on untestable assumptions. The data collection process also presents various challenges during practical operation.

In this talk, I look into both inference and design schemes to study the impact of data collection on population science. First, using the ABCD study as an example of secondary data analysis, I discuss inference approaches focusing on multilevel regression and poststratification for population generalizability and latent subgroup detection for population heterogeneity in brain activity and association studies. Second, I introduce the HBCD study design. HBCD also aims to include individuals demographically and behaviorally similar to those in the substance exposure group, but without exposure, to enable valid causal inference in a non-experimental study design. I discuss our proposed weighting, matching, and modeling strategies to leverage analysis goals to inform the design and dashboard monitoring for adaptive sample enrollment.

Bio

Yajuan Si is a Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr Si’s research lies in cutting-edge methodology development in streams of Bayesian statistics, linking design- and model-based approaches for survey inference, missing data analysis, confidentiality protection involving the creation and analysis of synthetic datasets, and causal inference with observational data.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT)
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:51:50 -0500 2023-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (January 20, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99611 99611-21798398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:03:28 -0400 2023-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-30T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Inside The Peculiar Patriot: A Preview Event (February 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102790 102790-21805155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a film screening of Liza Jessie Peterson's *Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison*, along with LIVE performances by the PCAP *Linkage Community*, and an engaging Q&A to follow!

Thursday, February 2nd
7:00 - 8:30 pm
at the Keene Theater in the U-M Residential College
701 E University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Free and Open to the Public

A collaboration of Detroit Public Theatre & the Prison Creative Arts Project

More about the film:
MTV Documentary Films Presents *Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison* (formerly known as A Peculiar Silence) tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play *The Peculiar Patriot* was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison.

Directed and edited by Cinque Northern, produced by Catherine Gund, featuring Liza Jessie Peterson and Norris Henderson (Peterson and Henderson are also Executive Producers), the film examines how one woman's play challenged the country's largest plantation prison and impacted the incarcerated men long after the record of her visit was erased by the institution's administration.

More about the play:
LaQuanda ‘Betsy’ Ross knows a lot about the New York State Penitentiary system. Her regular visits to loved ones in various upstate institutions have made her quite the expert and a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot." In-between neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy educates herself and the audience on the systemic inequity within America’s prison complex system and its effect on those behind bars, as well as their family and friends.

Written and performed by the incomparable Liza Jessie Peterson, The Peculiar Patriot was inspired by her comprehensive and extensive work in prisons, including on Riker’s Island. Peterson’s tour de force solo piece is an important, funny, and profound investigative look into America’s criminal justice system.

February 8 - March 5
At the Detroit Public Theatre
3960 Third Avenue
Detroit, Mi 48202

Tickets:
February 11 @ 8PM - FREE performance for System-Impacted Individuals
Student Rate - $20 per ticket
System-Impacted Individuals - Pick Your Price

To purchase, visit www.detroitpublictheatre.org or call 313.974.7918

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Performance Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:01:57 -0500 2023-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Scene of Liza Jessie Peterson from The Peculiar Patriot
CSEAS Lecture Series. Refugee Youth Agency in Flux: Active and Passive Waiting in Transit Country Indonesia (February 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102843 102843-21805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Lecture co-sponsored by the Association of Asian Studies*

For more than two decades, Indonesia has been a transit spot for asylum seekers from Central Asia, South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia while irregularly en route to Australia. Following Australia’s controversial ‘stop the boats’ policy, thousands of refugees, including the young population, must wait longer in Indonesia to get their refugee status processed by UNHCR and to have a chance to resettle in a third country. As a non-signatory state to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Indonesia has a limited legal framework to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, which causes grave precarious conditions for them. Nevertheless, arbitrariness in Indonesia’s legal framework and its flexibility in handling refugees surprisingly has provided a certain level of “informal protection” and opportunities for young refugees to make maneuvers in the fluid arenas. As they wait, the young people also plan, anticipate, negotiate, hustle, play, and rest. This talk will focus on the dynamics of refugee youths’ agency-in-waiting. Professor Masardi explores how young refugees exercise passive and active waiting and what contributing factors catalyze or impede the distribution of their agency.

Speaker Bio
Realisa D Masardi is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She is the awardee of the prestigious 2022 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies. Currently, Professor Masardi is completing her postdoc program at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Professor Masardi has been working on the issues of children and young people in several migrants/refugees communities in Southeast Asia, focusing on their identities, access to rights, and agency, particularly on their everyday survival movements. She received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her dissertation focuses on the social navigation of independent young refugees from diverse countries facing precarities during transit in Indonesia.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/29V6E

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:04:39 -0500 2023-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan
Investigating Mobile Forager Cultural Adaptations in Central Western Patagonia, Chile (February 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104214 104214-21808656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Central West Patagonia is an area characterized by climatic and landscape contrasts, with a variety of ecotones within a defined area. This region is naturally divided into different river valleys, separated by steep mountains and icecaps. One such valley, the Ibáñez River Valley (IRV),, has been investigated archaeologically since the early 1970s. The IRV contains dozens of sites dating from the Early to Late Holocene featuring residential occupations as well as rock art. However, even with this history of research and robust signature of human behavior, little systematic archaeological survey has been conducted in the IRV due to numerous factors (difficulty of terrain, etc.). In this presentation, I show the results of preliminary research to synthesize findings from already-collected archaeological materials from the Rio Ibanez with new pedestrian survey from the southern extent of the valley. Further, in this presentation I engage with a variety of theoretical themes applicable to this unique cultural and environmental landscape and indicate profitable areas for future research.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Jan 2023 11:07:58 -0500 2023-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Presentation Beggen
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
2023 Robertson Lecture (February 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103734 103734-21807706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbxVSrZ3IwU

Cydney K. Seigerman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Integrative Conservation & Anthropology program at the University of Georgia, where they work with Dr. Don Nelson and are a member of the Human Environmental Change Lab (HECL). Cydney is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a research scholar at the Cearense Meteorological and Water Resources Foundation (Funceme) in Ceará, Brazil.

Cydney's research incorporates methods from the critical social sciences, natural sciences, and theatre/performance studies to explore human-technology-environment relations. Their dissertation work explores how socionatural (i.e., interrelated sociopolitical, environmental, and technological) processes shape and are shaped by the lived experience of water insecurity in Ceará, northeast Brazil.

Before pursuing their Ph.D., Cydney studied chemistry and Spanish language and literature at the University of Michigan, graduating from the Residential College and Honors College. They then relocated to Madrid, Spain, where they served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, studied acting at the theater school La Lavandería, and ran competitively.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:14:07 -0500 2023-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion C. Seigerman
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
At the Intersections of History: Collaborative Archaeology across the Americas (February 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104533 104533-21809566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This talk presents two collaborative and multidisciplinary research projects, one set in the Southern Peruvian Andes and the other in Northern Texas, each informed by Black feminist and decolonizing practice. Both projects attend to marginalized histories through colonial and postcolonial contexts, incorporating descendant communities and local stakeholders into the fabric of the research design. In the Andes, the Proyecto Arqueológico del Valle de Andagua studies social life in the Valley of Volcanoes, a place known for one of the latest cases of mummy worshipping in the Andes with ancestor veneration as a locus of resistance to the Spanish colonial state in the mid-eighteenth century. Today, residents identify the contemporary Peruvian State as the sharpest era of subjugation, noting the contradictions of the postcolonial state. In Denton County, Texas, as part of a road improvement project, the Texas Department of Transportation is supporting the Bolivar Archaeological Project in its investigation of a nineteenth-century blacksmith shop and neighboring hotel. The blacksmith shop belonged to Tom Cook, an African American Freedman, whose descendants became active participants in the project. These projects recognize history is an active process, demonstrating how collaborative projects and the process of co-laboring can co-produce knowledge and realize inclusive histories.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:53:57 -0500 2023-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Menaker
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (February 10, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99613 99613-21798400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:50:17 -0500 2023-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Sensing Noise and Aural Politics under the Chinese Kuomintang in Taiwan (February 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104264 104264-21808766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that Professor Hsieh's talk will be in-person only.

In this talk, Dr. Hsieh examines the political discourse and auditory experience of noise under the Kuomintang (KMT) regime in 1970s-1980s Taiwan. Drawing on news articles, KMT archives, and legislative records, she analyzes distinct transformations of noise—first as a moralizing discourse in the creation of a Chinese citizenry, then as an object in the destabilization of political power, and finally as an arena for environmental rights—-that tethered the embodied sensibilities of citizens to the KMT's aspirations for democratic reform. She concludes by arguing that through noise, hearing is made political: the ability for Taiwanese to hear noise, and what that meant at the time for the legitimacy of the KMT, positions noise at the center of Taiwan’s democratic liberalization.

Jennifer Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She investigates sensory practices in institutional and technological settings, with an emphasis on urban East Asia. Her work has appeared in "American Ethnologist," "Hau," and "Sound Studies Journal," and she has contributed chapters to the edited volumes "Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island" (2022 Routledge) and "Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality" (2020, Oxford University Press). She has held research fellowships at the Fairbank Center at Harvard, the Vossius Center at University of Amsterdam, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:28:02 -0500 2023-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jennifer C. Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - The Evolution of the Use of Models in Survey Sampling (February 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103587 103587-21807518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
February 15, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Richard Valliant, PhD, is a research professor emeritus at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, and at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and has been an associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Official Statistics, and Survey Methodology.

The Evolution of the Use of Models in Survey Sampling

The use of models in survey estimation has evolved over the last five (or more) decades. This talk will trace some of the developments over time and attempt to review some of the history. Consideration of models for estimating descriptive statistics began as early as the 1940's when Cochran and Jessen proposed linear regression estimators of means. These were early examples of model-assisted estimation since the properties of the Cochran-Jessen estimators were calculated with respect to a random sampling distribution. Model-thinking was used informally through the 1960's to form ratio and linear regression estimators that could in some applications reduce design variances.

In a 1963 Australian Journal of Statistics paper, Brewer presented results for a ratio estimator that were entirely based on a super population model. Royall (Biometrika 1970 and later papers) formalized the theory for a more general prediction approach using linear models. Since that time, the use of models is ubiquitous in the survey estimation literature and has been extended to nonparametric, empirical likelihood, Bayesian, small area, machine learning, and other approaches. There remains a considerable gap between the more advanced techniques in the literature and the methods commonly used in practice.

In parallel to the model developments, the design-based, randomization approach was dominating official statistics in the US largely due to the efforts of Morris Hansen and his colleagues at the US Census Bureau. In 1937 Hansen and others at the Census Bureau designed a follow-on sample survey to a special census of the employed and partially employed because response to the census was incomplete and felt to be inaccurate. The sample estimates were judged to be more trustworthy than those of the census itself. This began Hansen’s career-long devotion to random sampling as the only trustworthy method for obtaining samples from finite populations and for making inferences.

Model-assisted estimation, as discussed in the 1992 book by Särndal, Swensson, and Wretman is a type of compromise where models are used to construct estimators while a randomization distribution is used to compute properties like means and variances. This thinking has led to the popularity of doubly robust approaches where the goal is to have estimators with good properties with respect to both a randomization and a model distribution.

The field has now reached a troubling crossroads in which response rates to many types of surveys have plummeted and nonprobability datasets are touted as a way of obtaining reasonable quality data at low cost. Sophisticated model-based mathematical methods have been developed for estimation from nonprobability samples. In some applications, e.g., administrative data files that are incomplete due to late reporting, these methods may work well. However, in others the quality of nonprobability sample data is irremediably bad as illustrated by Kennedy in her 2022 Hansen lecture. In some situations, we are back in Morris' 1937 situation where standard approaches no longer work. Methods are needed to evaluate whether acceptable estimates can be made from the most suspect data sets. Nonetheless. nonprobability datasets are readily available now, and it is up to the statistical profession to develop good methods for using them.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT)
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:55:19 -0500 2023-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Technically Well: Machine Models for Emotional Health Beyond the Human (February 16, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102327 102327-21803856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Register for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/pZned

Many technologists in Japan hope that emerging technologies of automation and AI can address challenges to social and emotional wellbeing; however, some critics argue that many of the digital platforms on which those technologies rely aggravate precisely the forms of human suffering and isolation that they aim to alleviate. This talk discusses examples of social robots, digital avatars, and other machine models of emotional companionship in Japan to consider if people are most well when they are *technically* well.

Daniel White is a sociocultural anthropologist at the University of Cambridge who researches the relationship of emotion, politics, and emerging media technologies. His current project documents experiments in building and living with machines with artificial emotional intelligence in Japan. His recent book is titled *Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety*. Other publications and project information can be found at www.modelemotion.org.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:23:12 -0500 2023-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Technically Well: Machine Models for Emotional Health Beyond the Human
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Constructing Translocal Identities in Neolithic Northwestern China: Insights from Ceramic Analysis (February 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104901 104901-21810425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Over the last century archaeologists have investigated late Neolithic and Bronze Age interaction networks spanning Eurasia, which in the east connected steppe pastoralists with farming communities in what is now northwestern China. While much attention has focused on the adoption and impact of technologies and domesticates from western Asia in eastern Asia, few models have been put forth to explain how and why these networks formed and functioned. What research has been done on this topic has generally focused on analysis of ceramics and metal objects to suggest long-distance movement of commodities between broad geographic regions. Here I suggest that to understand long-distance interactions, we first need to understand the movements of people and goods at the site-specific level, which I theorize using the concept of translocality. This talk will draw on recent petrographic analysis of ceramic vessels from the Tao River Valley of Gansu Province as well as collections from across northwestern China in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden. My results demonstrate that localized interaction was occurring on a regular basis among settlements in the Tao River Valley, and was likely a key aspect of identity formation across a much wider region.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:20:02 -0500 2023-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion aw
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (February 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104070 104070-21808362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series

"The Petro-State Masquerade:
Oil and Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago"

By Ryan Cecil Jobson
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Chicago

In-person and virtual
3:00 - 4:30 PM
West Hall, Room 411
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

“The Petro-State Masquerade” considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil, natural gas, and their petrochemical derivatives.

Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Jobson theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power—enshrined in the hyphenated form of the petro-state—is represented by postcolonial state officials as a Carnivalesque “masquerade of permanence” through the perpetual expansion of fossil fuel ventures. At the same time, low oil and gas prices, diminishing reserves, and renewable energy innovations threaten the viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. In turn, Jobson examines the turn to offshore exploration in the deepwater sector beginning in 1998.

Characterized by protracted production cycles, deepwater ventures feature prohibitive costs and a comparatively low probability of success. After several deepwater ventures failed to yield substantive commercial quantities of oil or gas, the unfulfilled potential of a lucrative offshore geology is invoked to mitigate uncertainty and secure the long-term viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. In their masquerade, state officials depict fossil fuels as inexhaustible resources waiting to be unearthed by multinational capital and novel extractive technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:49:50 -0500 2023-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
ASC Film Screening & Discussion. *13th* (2016, Documentary, 1h 40m) (February 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104658 104658-21809785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: African Studies Center

*13th* is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the history of racial inequality in the United States with a focus on how the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.

A discussion with panelists will follow the film screening:

Matthew Countryman, chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; and professor, Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, and history

Irene Routté, doctoral student in social work and anthropology

Omolade Adunbi, director, African Studies Center; and professor, Afroamerican and African Studies

The event is free but space is limited. Please register at
http://www.myumi.ch/y29R2

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Film Screening Wed, 08 Feb 2023 10:49:30 -0500 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences African Studies Center Film Screening 13th documentary film screening and discussion
Language, Religion, and Indigenous Identity (February 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104651 104651-21809774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Dr. Abelardo de la Cruz, Nahua scholar & Instructor of Nahuatl Language at the University of Utah, will present a forthcoming book chapter, titled “Language, Life-Cycle Rituals, and Indigenous Identity.” In this article, Dr. de la Cruz explores contemporary religious rituals in Nahuatl discourse.

This is a two-part event on Monday, February 20, 2023 in the MLB Commons, 4th Floor

Nahuatl Language Lesson: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lecture: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:25:21 -0500 2023-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Language, Religion, and Indigenous Identity (February 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104651 104651-21809775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Dr. Abelardo de la Cruz, Nahua scholar & Instructor of Nahuatl Language at the University of Utah, will present a forthcoming book chapter, titled “Language, Life-Cycle Rituals, and Indigenous Identity.” In this article, Dr. de la Cruz explores contemporary religious rituals in Nahuatl discourse.

This is a two-part event on Monday, February 20, 2023 in the MLB Commons, 4th Floor

Nahuatl Language Lesson: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lecture: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:25:21 -0500 2023-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
LHS Collaboratory Joint Session with UM School of Dentistry (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102701 102701-21805007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

“The Future is Data Analytics: Many Challenges, Many Opportunities”

Keynote Speaker:

Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD
Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Register in advance via Zoom Webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyKMMpgVQHu2ezvxaJfZEA#/registration

12:00 pm-1:15 pm ET (Keynote)

1:30 pm-2:15 pm ET (Breakout rooms)

The keynote presentation (12:00 pm-1:15 pm ET) will be followed by breakout rooms (1:30 pm-2:15 pm ET) on topics presented by the UM faculty and guests.

Opening Remarks:
Laurey McCauley, DDS, MS, PHD

Breakout room #1: Data Integration and Sharing: Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Research

Wenyuan Shi, PhD
Presentation: Building the Eco-system to Support Disruptive Technologies in Dentistry

Christopher Balaban, DMD, MSC, FACD
Presentation: Entrepreneurship and AI/LHS in Dentistry

Breakout room # 2 Data Integration and Sharing in/out of the Clinic: New Medical and Dental technologies and LHS methods to optimize care

Alexandre F. M. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc
Presentation: Integrating and Sharing Dental and Medical Data in a Diverse Ecosystem – The Learning Health Systems Perspective

Muhammad F. Walji, PhD
Presentation: BigMouth: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Sharing EHR Data in Dentistry

Breakout room #3: Data Integration and Sharing in Imaging and Pharmacogenetics

Lucia Cevidanes, DDS, MS, PhD
Presentation: Innovations in Multimodal Imaging Data Integration and Sharing

Amy Pasternak, PharmD
Presentation: Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Daily Practice

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:22:37 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (February 27, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21805124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

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Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2023-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
Unusual Animals and Unusual Contexts in the Mongol Empire (March 6, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105718 105718-21812841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The history of human-animal relations has become an important sub-field within the broader field of environmental history; environmental history in turn has become one of the most important fields within historical investigation today. Histories and travelogues on the Mongol empire mention a number of animals that are either unusual in themselves or found clustered in unusual human-animal contexts. Study of these animals and their contexts thus sheds useful light on the human-animal relations of the Mongol empire.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:50:09 -0500 2023-03-06T14:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Atwood
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CREES Noon Lecture. Ideologies of Sovereignty after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: The Baltic Case (March 8, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102690 102690-21804986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

In Russia and the Baltic states, competing ideologies of sovereignty have defined their positions in international relations and towards the war in Ukraine. I discuss how Russia’s sovereign ideologies of a great power and Lithuania’s as its victim were mutually constitutive after the collapse of the USSR. After 2014, the Baltics’ radical politics of sovereignty, grounded in its history of occupation and resistance against the USSR/Russia, has become a framework to imagine the imminent war and, after 2022, the future of Europe with its center in the East.

Neringa Klumbytė is associate professor of anthropology, Havighurst Faculty at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, and director of the Lithuania program at the Havighurst Center, Miami University. She is the author of *Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania* (Cornell, 2022); co-editor of *Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85*, with Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (Lexington, 2012); and co-author of *Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania: Ideas, Experiences, and Contexts*, with Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Andrius Marcinkevičius, and Kristina Šliavaitė (Center for Social Research, 2018). She was the editor of *Perspectives in Europe*. Her work has focused on topics of authoritarianism; sovereignty; (post)colonialism, nationalism, and ethnicity; electoral politics; propaganda and censorship; historical justice and memory studies; political satire and humor; food, consumption, and marketing.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/NmNMq

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:30:02 -0500 2023-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Neringa Klumbyte
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Network Size: Measurement and Errors (March 8, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104021 104021-21808283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
March 8, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Abstract
Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a sampling method that leverages the respondents' networks to reach more members of the target population. In RDS, the size of the respondents' social network (also known as personal network size (PNS), or respondent's degree) is important in both the study operations and in estimation. A commonly used estimation of degree is the self-reported data from the interview, which typically has substantial measurement error, and, specifically, is found to be frequently rounded to a multiple of five. Measurement error in the PNS can introduce biased estimates for RDS, especially if the misreporting of the degree is associated with the outcome to be estimated.

This brown bag will present two related studies on the measurement of PNS. The first study uses two sets of data; 1) semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted over Zoom with 19 adult respondents of various ages, gender identities (transgender, nonbinary, cisgender), race, and sexual orientations (gay, lesbian, bi), 2) an RDS web survey targeting the adult LGBT population (n = 394). Thematic analysis conducted on the semi-structured interview transcripts showed a large variation in how respondents define "knowing" someone; for some respondents, it covers a larger network than the "recruitable" network (the network of people respondents are likely to think of recruiting to an RDS study). Meanwhile, the web-RDS shows that the more restrictive PNS questions yielded more realistic ranges for a "recruitable" network, with less proportion of rounded responses on the more restrictive PNS questions.

Motivated by the desire to improve the degree estimation in RDS, the second study presents a latent variable model to make inferences about participants’ actual degrees and potential reporting behaviors. Specifically, individual-level degree estimation will be obtained by revealing the association between the actual degree and relevant personal characteristics and blending their response to “How many [a particular sub-population] do you know in the target population?” Simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed method delivers sensible estimations about the individual degree.

Bios
Ai Rene Ong works at American Institutes for Research (AIR) as a Researcher/Survey Methodologist in the area of Education Statistics. She graduated with a PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan in 2022. Her dissertation research was on the measurement of network size and the mechanism of peer recruitment in Respondent Driven Sampling — a sampling method typically used for hard-to-sample populations.

Yibo Wang is a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate from the department of Biostatistics. She is now working with Dr. Sunghee Lee and Dr. Michael Elliott on measurement estimation in Respondent Driven Sampling

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT)
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:08:47 -0500 2023-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Archaeological Proteins: Tracing the Spread of Dairy (March 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105415 105415-21811735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Biomolecular analyses (proteins, stable isotopes, lipids, and DNA) have been integral in identifying the economic roles of domesticated animals in archaeological contexts. While analyses such as lipids, isotopes, and DNA are well-established, recently developed protein analysis offers new insights. The combination of species- and tissue-specific information provided by amino acid sequences have been critical in clarifying which animals, or animal products, were consumed by archaeological populations. While protein analysis offers new lines of evidence, working with ancient materials requires specific laboratory and data analysis protocols in order to authenticate the age and reliability of the results. Recently, this this method has been used to illuminate the spread of milk use on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe and beyond. Through recently produced protein data, we can see that use of ruminant milk enabled long-distance Yamnaya migrations across arid steppic environments, and specifically, how milking practices traveled in tandem with expanding populations from the western Pontic-Caspian region to the far Eastern Steppe of Mongolia.

Snacks and refreshments to follow the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:55:34 -0500 2023-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 West Hall Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Wilkin
‘You Feel it in Your Bones’: Mobility, Animacy, and Incarceration in the United States (March 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105183 105183-21811267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In this presentation, I explore the ways in which incarcerated people center mobility in conceptualizing what counts as alive and human. I draw on ethnographic research that I conducted between 2016 and 2017 at the Desert Echo Facility (pseudonym), a state prison in the American Southwest that holds individuals from minimum to high-security levels. Some incarcerated people feel supposedly inanimate objects, such as walls and floors, moving, while others feel vibrations moving across the compound. For many of the incarcerated, physical movement signifies aliveness – meaning that incarceration forces them to question if they are less alive than the “inanimate” materials that confine them. Others understand these movements as the direct violence of the state that represent purposeful disruptions to the ways they construct relations. In this context, incarcerated peoples’ alive status is no longer a given and their relations no longer assumed to be inherent and ongoing, but rather, processes to be negotiated within criminal punishment systems. I focus on what these movements mean to incarcerated people, and how they situate these movements within often competing ontological frameworks informed by histories of and ongoing settler violence in what came to be known as the United States.

Content warning: There are examples of physical violence, carceral trauma, and feelings of self-harm in this presentation.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Macario Garcia is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on mobility, animacy, incarceration, and prison-industrial complex abolition. They earned their PhD from the University of Virginia and MA degrees from University of Virginia and American Public University. They are currently partnering with incarcerated people to create maps of carceral migration in the United States and to document oral histories across correctional landscapes.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:02:04 -0500 2023-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion The text on the image from top to bottom, against a light beige background, reads "IRWG," "2023," "‘You Feel it in Your Bones’: Mobility, Animacy, and Incarceration in the United States," "March 9," "with Macario Garcia," "2239 Lane Hall and Zoom," and "Registration Link: https://myumi.ch/4rreZ". The left side of the image has art of Lady Justice while the right side has a picture of the event speaker, Macario Garcia.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
A Preliminary Report on the Medieval Roman Kastra of Kalymnos, Greece (March 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105810 105810-21812992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Aegean island of Kalymnos, part of the Dodecanese Archipelago, has long sat at the crossroads of nations and empires. The ruggedness of its terrain belies its prosperity, and, during the regionally destructive transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, Kalymnians distinguish themselves from their neighbors by the construction of fortifications, in contrast to other islanders’ flight and dispersal. Reporting on a preliminary season of site visits and GIS recording, I place Kalymnos within the context of debates on settlement, conflict, and economy in the tumultuous seventh century A.D. From recalibrations of previous GIS calculations to the ‘discovery’ of entirely undocumented ancient settlements, this presentation represents the transition from unwilling armchair archaeology to the long-awaited field-testing of myriad half-blind hypotheses against the truth of the ground, and the knowledge of local experts.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:21:40 -0500 2023-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Kardulias
"Maasai Remix" Screening and Discussion (March 12, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105545 105545-21812092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Department of Anthropology proudly present:

MAASAI REMIX
Sunday, March 12, 2023; 7 p.m.

Free admission; doors open at 6 p.m.

Following the screening, hear from the filmmakers, Kelly Askew (Chair, U-M Anthropology) and Ron Mulvihill. They will be joined by Queenae Taylor Mulvihill and two of the Maasai personalities featured in the film: Evalyne Mkulati Leng’arwa and Eliah Parpulis Madukuli.


ABOUT THE FILM:
"Maasai Remix" follows three Maasai individuals who—in the United Nations, a Tanzanian village, an American university—confront challenges and bring hope to their community by drawing strength from local traditions, modifying them when necessary, and melding them with new resources. Adam Ole Mwarabu advocates for Maasai pastoralists rights to land in international political spheres. Evalyne Mkulati pursues a college education in the USA, having convinced her father to return 12 cows to a man contracted to marry her. Frank Ole Kaipai, the village chairman, faces opposition as he promotes secondary school education and tries to save the village forest. Sharing a goal of Maasai self-determination in an ever-changing world, Adam, Evalyne and Frank innovate while maintaining an abiding respect and love for their culture.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS:
The award-winning team of filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and anthropologist Kelly Askew has produced several films on Tanzania, exploring topics from Zanzibar orchestral music to contemporary Maasai lifeways: "Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa" (Buda Musique, 2012); and "Orkiteng Loorbaak: Rite of Elders" (2017).

Ron Mulvihill’s feature film "Maangamizi: The Ancient One" won the 2004 Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Film and was Tanzania’s official selection at the 74th Academy Awards. His film "The Marriage of Mariamu" won Best Short Film, the OAU Award, and the Journalists and Critics Award at FESPACO, Africa’s leading film festival (1985).

Kelly Askew, an anthropologist with over 30 years of experience in Tanzania and Kenya and chair of the U-M Department of Anthropology, has worked on several documentary films, including "The Chairman and the Lions" (Documentary Educational Resources, 2012), and a Hollywood feature, "The Ghost and the Darkness" (Paramount Pictures, 1996).

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:29:36 -0500 2023-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2023-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Anthropology Film Screening Poster for Maasai Remix showing two people in silhouette against a red and yellow stylized landscape
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - How to ask for consent to data linkage: Things we’ve learnt (March 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104312 104312-21808815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
March 15, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 EST

The Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation.

Annette Jäckle is Professor of Survey Methodology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, UK and Associate Director of Innovations and Co-Investigator of the UK Household Longitudinal Study: Understanding Society. Her research interests are in methodology of data collection for longitudinal studies, mixed mode data collection, questionnaire design, respondent consent to data linkage, and new ways of using mobile devices for survey data collection.

Abstract
Data linkage usually requires informed consent of respondents, whether for legal or ethical reasons. A common problem is that when consent questions are asked in self-completion surveys, respondents are much less likely to consent than when they are asked for consent in interviewer administered surveys. In the existing literature, predictors of consent are mostly inconsistent, between studies, but also between different consents asked within one study. In addition, experiments with the wording of consent questions have often had no or inconsistent effects. Why is this? And what can be done to increase informed consent to data linkage? This presentation provides an overview of what we have learnt from qualitative in-depth interviews and a series of experiments implemented in two UK probability household panels (the Understanding Society Innovation Panel and COVID-19 study) and in the UK PopulusLive online access panel. We address the following questions. (1) How do respondents decide whether to consent to data linkage? (2) Why are respondents less likely to consent in web than CAPI surveys? (3) How best to ask for multiple consents within a survey? (4) Which wording and formats affect informed consent and why? We end the overview with a summary of the practical implications for how best to ask for consent to data linkage.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT)
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:14:34 -0400 2023-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (March 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104372 104372-21808975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"Decentering the Colonial Native Speaker"
By Anna Babel, Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Joined by Devin Grammon, University of Oregon

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/phut9Aeu6n2MdnLk6
Light refreshments provided

ABOUT THE LECTURE
In this talk, we contrast Eurocentric definitions of the “native speaker” with those of speakers of Quechua, an indigenous language of the Andes that is highly heteroglossic and typically centered on orality rather than written language. The native speaker construct has been thoroughly critiqued in fields such as second language acquisition and language policy and planning by demonstrating the ways in which this concept is racialized, reductionist, and used to validate the hegemony of powerful ethnic and political interests (e.g. Davies, 2003; Paikeday, 1985; Slavkov et al., 2022). Nonetheless, these critiques have tended to rely on implicit assumptions that connect an idealized native speaker to proficiency in a standardized national language via standard language ideologies (Bonfiglio, 2010; Bylin & Tingsell, 2022; Hackert, 2012; Lippi-Green, 1994). Recent critiques in linguistics have advanced the discussion of native speakerism by highlighting the construct’s links to colonialism and essentializing discourses, and advocating for a more specific, and less reductionist approach to the concept (e.g. Chen et al 2021; Birkeland et al forthcoming; Grammon & Babel 2021). Our research builds on these ideas and moves to decenter the colonial native speaker by investigating speakerhood beyond the western European nationalist tradition. We consider data from Peru and Bolivia to explore the concept of the native speaker in Quechua. In our data, drawn from recent interviews as well as long-term ethnographic fieldwork, family connections, place of birth, and language use play an important role in defining a “[native] speaker of Quechua.” Perhaps most strikingly, a Quechua speaker is centrally defined as bilingual or multilingual, and monolingual speakers are characterized as lacking something, objects of pity, and ultimately not fully competent human beings. We argue that it is important to consider - indeed, to center - approaches to speakerhood in multilingual, transnational indigenous communities that offer a contrast to discourses centered on language purism, nationalism and standard language ideologies. These differences point to important critiques that have so far been implicit in the literature on native speakerism. The ways that Quechua speakers define speakerhood lead us to question the naturalized linkages between idealized notions of racial and cultural purity, literacy, language standardization, and a modern national identity that are implicit in much of the academic literature in our fields.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anna Babel is a sociolinguist and a linguistic anthropologist. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and social categories, particularly in settings of language contact. She has carried out long-term research in the Santa Cruz valleys of Bolivia, the setting of her ethnography, Between the Andes and Amazon. Her most recent work considers how we become aware of different ways of speaking, and conversely how our knowledge and beliefs about language influence the way that we speak. In addition to these areas of expertise, she teaches on the role of language in the construction of US and Latino/a/x identities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:24:59 -0400 2023-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 2023-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
How to build a city in the steppes: The transient phenomenon of urbanism on the Mongolian Plateau during the Mongol World Empire (March 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106106 106106-21813759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The study of urbanism in the Mongolian steppes sounds like a paradox, since the image of the marauding nomad living in tents still prevails. And yet Mongolia, with well over 200 abandoned settlement sites with permanent architecture, residences, fortifications and ramparts, as well as hundreds of Buddhist monasteries, offers enormous potential for the study of cities and settlement networks. The ancient sites of this region survived relatively unscathed by modern urbanization and farming activities and form an untapped source of information and an incredibly rich archive for the study of urbanism in the steppes. Astonishingly, international scholarship has afforded little attention to them. This talk will focus on the only two cities from the time of the Mongol Empire (13th and 14th century CE) on the Mongolian plateau: Karakorum, the capital in the Orkhon Valley, and Khar Khul Khaany Balgas, a city with a similar layout in the Khanui Valley. A closer look into systems of craft production and acquisition of a working force will reveal how the Mongol Khans were able to build these cities within a relatively short span of time and within a region without a continued history of urbanism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:05:22 -0400 2023-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Reichert
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (March 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104036 104036-21808304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:32:06 -0500 2023-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rappaport Lecture: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" promo image
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Aiton Lecture: Rethinking the Aztecs: Have we been wrong for 500 years? (March 21, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105175 105175-21811239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In this talk, Professor Camilla Townsend, author of "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," will address what we can learn from Nahuatl-language sources produced in the sixteenth century if we open ourselves to everything they have to teach us. She will also discuss what she believes are the reasons we have tended to be resistant to their messages, even in recent times.

Camilla Townsend is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of numerous books on Indigenous history, among them "Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma" (2004), "Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico" (2006), and "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" (2019), which won the 2020 Cundill Prize in History. Her research has been supported by such entities as the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

This lecture will take place in person in 1014 Tisch Hall on Tuesday, March 21 at 4:00 pm.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:11:53 -0500 2023-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Professor Camilla Townsend
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 21, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Opening Celebration Ceremony (March 21, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104652 104652-21809779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Kick-off the grand opening of the *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons*!

Gallery & sales open at 5:00 PM with reception.
Celebration Ceremony begins at 6:30 PM.

Featuring guest speakers from the University of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Corrections, and artists from previous exhibitions.
It's a powerful evening!

Presented with support from U-M Residential College & Michigan Arts and Culture Council.

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Reception / Open House Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:54:20 -0500 2023-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House Even in the Dark, There’s Beauty, Daniel Teribery, Acrylic, 2021
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
COAST, MOUNTAIN, PLAIN: RESULTS FROM A THREE-PROJECT TRANSECT ACROSS NORTHERN ALBANIA AND INTO KOSOVA (March 22, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106109 106109-21813762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Over the course of two decades, Galaty and colleagues have conducted systematic intensive surveys, site collections, and test excavations across northern Albania and western Kosova. Projects in Shkoder close to the sea, in Shala in the high mountains, and in Peja and Istog on the Dukagjin Plain shed new light on local archaeological records, from prehistory to the present, and on inter-regional interactions. This presentation will review and compare the results of all three research projects, in particular in terms of shifting settlement patterns, and with a focus on changes in social organization, from the Neolithic through the Iron Age.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:01:00 -0400 2023-03-22T12:30:00-04:00 2023-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual MLG
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
LHS Collaboratory (March 23, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105035 105035-21810617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speaker:
Thomas R. Campion, Jr., Ph.D., FACMI, FAMIA
Chief Research Informatics Officer
Associate Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

Clinical and translational investigators need patient data, especially from electronic health record (EHR) systems, to conduct research, but optimal approaches are unknown. This talk explores an approach for supporting different types of investigators and study designs by matching investigators with informatics tools and services.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:51:27 -0500 2023-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Communities, Rural Economies, and Diet in Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece (March 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105610 105610-21812264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

Traditional accounts of the transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Greece identified a considerable drop in population after the demise of the palaces (around 1200/1150 BCE) followed, it was argued, by less arable farming, which led to a 'pastoral economy' in the early Iron Age. This picture was believed to be supported by the high value placed on livestock and near-eating in Homeric epic. While this view has recently changed among specialists, many outdated elements remain embedded in current scholarship. Debates over climate change's role in the disruptions that took place at this time also sometimes reflect these old, inaccurate narratives.

This lecture deploys archaeobotanical evidence and stable isotope analysis to demonstrate that in the Greek Iron Age, people continued to depend on plant-based diets supplemented by some meat and dairy. Although, expectably, there is considerable regional variation, relatively small-scale mixed farming agrarian regimes predominated during the Iron Age. It is evident that people in the Iron Age did not adopt pastoral lifestyles, keep more animals, or increase meat consumption. Instead, the data demonstrate the longevity of 'the Mediterranean diet' in its many variations and reveals some of the values people had over the long term attached to food.

Lin Foxhall is a Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. She also serves as Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (Cambridge University Press). Previously she was Dean of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool and led the University-wide Heritage Research Theme, Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester, and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, where she played a significant role leading the team that discovered the body of King Richard III. She has held posts at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and University College London, and Visiting Professorships in Germany, Denmark, and the USA. She studied at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Liverpool, England.

An active field archaeologist, Lin has led and participated in collaborative research projects in Greece and Southern Italy. She has written extensively on agriculture, rural economies, landscapes, land use, material culture, and gender in the ancient Mediterranean, especially the Greek world, focusing on the time between the Bronze Age and Classical periods.

If you can't join us in person, join us online. This event will be streamed live on March 23 at 4:00 pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7bZVDiI0wk

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:07:43 -0400 2023-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion Rural communities in ancient Greece
Canada's Longest Running Prison Theatre Company: Insights from Kate Rubin, Theatre Artist's Work with William Head on Stage (March 23, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104581 104581-21809646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Residential College

Join us on March 23rd at 7:00 PM in the Duderstadt Center Basement for an informative and engaging keynote speech with Kate Rubin, an experienced and accomplished theatre artist known for her dynamic leadership and collaborative approach.

She has been working with William Head on Stage (WHoS) for the past 17 years, the longest-standing prison theatre company in Canada. WHoS is one of the theatre companies highlighted in Ashley Lucas’s book Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration (Methuen Drama 2021).

Kate will share her distinct perspective on the impact that this work has had on the men, the audiences, the institution, and herself as a facilitator. She will delve into the creative process that she and her colleagues have developed over the years and discuss the challenges and successes of this work.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain insight into the world of prison theatre and its ability to foster specific skills, establish connections, cultivate empathy and understanding, and promote personal growth and expression. Discover this innovative prison theatre company run by the men themselves.

Presented with support from the Prison Creative Arts Project, U-M Residential College, and Center for World Performance Studies.

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Presentation Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:33:06 -0500 2023-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Residential College Presentation Kate Rubin, Theatre Artist and Consultant
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Finding Hunter-Gatherers in Chachapoyas, Peru (March 24, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106485 106485-21814339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Hunter-gatherer archaeological sites are virtually unknown from the Peruvian eastern Andes, the cloud-shrouded slopes which form the intersection of the Andean puna and Amazonian rainforest. Yet these landscapes have long been recognized as key to understanding topics from the human colonization of South America through the development of the central Andes' distinct agricultural complex. In this talk, doctoral candidate Lauren Pratt will present preliminary results from her dissertation field season in Chachapoyas, a region of the eastern Andes of northern Peru. In 2022-23, she and her team conducted test excavations at six caves and rockshelters in the Leymebamba and Uchucmarca valleys, identifying archaeological remains spanning from the Pre-Ceramic through the Late Intermediate Period. Results from these sites tell a previously unknown story of deep history in the Eastern Andes.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:23:32 -0400 2023-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Pratt
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (March 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105612 105612-21812268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"Mind the Gap: Human origins and other poorly known events of the Late Miocene of Africa"
By James Rossie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University

In-Person: 4PM, 411 West Hall
Virtually: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Rossie will talk about his field research at Lake Turkana, and occasionally with the Baringo Paleontological Research Project, aimed at improving our knowledge of ape and human evolution between 14 and 6 million years ago.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Raised in the North Country of New York, James Rossie took an interest in human evolution in college, went to the Koobi Fora Field School in 1995, and then to graduate school at Yale where he was trained by Andrew Hill. While there he met many excellent people, including John Kingston and Laura MacLatchy. After a 3 year post-doc at the Carnegie Museum, Rossie joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 2005. He likes to summer at Lake Baringo and Lake Turkana.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:10:07 -0400 2023-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 25, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Public Resource & Awareness Fair of Mass Incarceration (March 25, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105611 105611-21812267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

On March 25, from 1 to 3 pm, we're launching our 1st Annual Public Resource & Awareness Fair of Mass Incarceration. This event will be held in the Connector Hall in the Duderstadt Center on the North Campus of U-M.

Join organizations and authors in the community to discuss issues of mass incarceration and reentry and to learn about resources.

For those interested in the fields of social work, criminal justice, public
policy, and citizenship, this is a great opportunity to network and connect!

If you are interested in hosting a resource table at this event, please
reach out to Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich.edu.

Part of the *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons*

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Fair / Festival Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:36:04 -0500 2023-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 2023-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Fair / Festival Juan Valdez, Trapped, 2022
Public Exhibition Tour & Response Writing (March 25, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104657 104657-21809782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Come and experience the wide variety of artwork that is happening behind bars through a guided tour by one of PCAP’s curators.

Hear the rich conversations that happened with the artists during this year's selection trips, and find a piece (or two, or three...) that you gravitate towards and write a letter to the artist(s).

We’re warning you though... it is going to be powerful!

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:37:45 -0500 2023-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2023-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Annual Exhibition in the Dudersadt Gallery
Painting the Scene Inside - Artist Talk (March 26, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104660 104660-21809786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2023 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as an artist in prison in this informal panel discussion, moderated by an exhibit curator.

This panel will be followed by a special gathering for families of PCAP artists and writers, Linkage Community members, and PCAP Associates.

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:00:38 -0500 2023-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 2023-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Stories by Artist from previous Annual Exhibitions
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 26, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Launch Party - "I Walk Through Land Mines" (March 26, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104659 104659-21809784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2023 1:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Hear selections from the 15th edition of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, read by family and friends of contributing authors. Books will be for sale following the reading.

PCAP’s Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan's incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers —writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

Presented with support from Jackson Social Welfare Fund of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation, U-M Department of English Language and Literature, and the Michigan Humanities Council.

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Performance Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:01:43 -0500 2023-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 2023-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance State of Mind, “BEE”, 2022
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 27, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (March 27, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104377 104377-21808980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series

*Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression*
Amahl Bishara
Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology
Tufts University

The event will be offered in-person and virtually.
Attend on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank. In both groups, activists assert that they share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups. Through ethnography, Bishara enters these distinct environments for political expression and action of Palestinians who carry Israeli citizenship and Palestinians subject to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, and considers how Palestinians are differently impacted by dispossession, settler colonialism, and militarism. Bishara looks to sites of political practice—journalism, historical commemorations, street demonstrations, social media, in prison, and on the road—to analyze how Palestinians create collectivities in these varied circumstances. She draws on firsthand research, personal interviews, and public media to examine how people shape and reshape meanings in circumstances of constraint. In considering these different environments for political expression and action, Bishara illuminates how expression is always grounded in place—and how a people can struggle together for liberation even when they cannot join together in protest.

Amahl Bishara is Associate Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Tufts University. She is the author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022), about different conditions of expression for Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank. She also writes about popular refugee politics in the West Bank. Her first book, Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013), is an ethnography of the production of U.S. news during the second Palestinian Intifada. She is the president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:10:32 -0400 2023-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 28, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 29, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 30, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Anthropologizing Eastern Europe: A Brief History of Forming an Ethnographic Region (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106492 106492-21814347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

Sociocultural Workshop:

Anthropologizing Eastern Europe:
A Brief History of Forming an Ethnographic Region

Katherine Verdery
Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor Emerita, Anthropology
City University of New York



Katherine Verdery, who obtained her Ph.D. at Stanford University, has conducted field research in Romania since 1973, initially focusing on the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. With the changes of 1989, her work has shifted to problems of the transformation of socialist systems, specifically changing property relations in agriculture. From 1993 to 2000, she did fieldwork on this theme in a Transylvanian community; the resulting book, The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (2003) received the J. R. Staley Prize in Anthropology. She completed a large collaborative project with Gail Kligman (UCLA) and a number of Romanian scholars on the opposite process, the formation of collective and state farms in Romania during the 1950s. The resulting book, Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949–1962 (2011), received a number of prizes in Slavic studies and in sociology.

Verdery’s teaching interests include contemporary and socialist Eastern Europe, the anthropology of property, and time and space. Recent books include "Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of the Romanian Secret Police" (Central European University Press, 2014) and "My Life as a Spy: Investigations In a Secret Police File" (Duke University Press, 2018).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:54:52 -0400 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Workshop / Seminar Portrait of Katherine Verdery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (April 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Science Forum Presentations (April 1, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-01T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (April 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
Science Forum Presentations (April 2, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-02T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (April 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 3, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103488 103488-21807340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"Historical and contemporary anthropogenic effects on mammal communities"
Lydia Beaudrot, Rice University

This event will be presented both in-person and virtually.
Attend on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Lydia Beaudrot is an Assistant Professor of Biosciences and a faculty member in the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University. Her research group uses observational data and statistical modeling to address research questions at the interface of ecological theory and conservation biology, focusing particularly on tropical forest mammal communities. Beaudrot earned her PhD in Ecology from the University of California, Davis. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoc at Conservation International for the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM). Beaudrot was then a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan for three years before joining the faculty at Rice.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:25:13 -0400 2023-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (April 4, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101627 101627-21809822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *27th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are 645 works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

After March 21st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at saraheve@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:55:38 -0500 2023-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Daniel Teribery, "Even in the Dark, There's Beauty"
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Assessing Cross-Cultural Comparability of Self-Rated Health and Its Conceptualization through Web Probing (April 5, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103497 103497-21807352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
April 5, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 EST

Stephanie Morales is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan's Program in Survey and Data Science. She holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Sociology. She is interested in cross-cultural surveys, measurement error in data collection with racial/ethnic minorities, and adaptive survey design.

Assessing Cross-Cultural Comparability of Self-Rated Health and Its Conceptualization through Web Probing

Self-rated health (SRH) is a widely used question across different fields, as it is simple to administer yet has been shown to predict mortality. SRH asks respondents to rate their overall health typically using Likert-type response scales (i.e., excellent, very good, good, fair, poor). Although SRH is commonly used, few studies have examined its conceptualization from the respondents’ point of view and even less so for differences in its conceptualization across diverse populations. We aim to assess the comparability of SRH across different cultural groups by investigating the factors that respondents consider when responding to the SRH question. We included an open-ended probe asking what respondents thought when responding to SRH in web surveys conducted in five countries: Great Britain, Germany, the U.S., Spain, and Mexico. In the U.S., we targeted six racial/ethnic and linguistic groups: English-dominant Koreans, Korean-dominant Koreans, English-dominant Latinos, Spanish-dominant Latinos, non-Latino Black Americans, and non-Latino White Americans. One novelty of our study is allowing multiple attribute codes (e.g., health behaviors, illness) per respondent and tone (e.g., in the direction of positive or negative health or neutral) of the probing responses for each attribute, allowing us 1) to assess respondents’ thinking process holistically and 2) to examine whether and how respondents mix attributes. Our study compares the number of reported attributes and tone by cultural groups and integrates SRH responses in the analysis. This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of SRH by revealing the cognitive processes among diverse populations and is expected to shed light on its cross-cultural comparability.

Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science (MPSDS)
The University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology was established in 2001 seeking to train future generations of survey and data scientists. In 2021, we changed our name to the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Our curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources including survey data, but also including social media posts, sensor data, and administrative records, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. And we bring to data science a focus on data quality — which is not at the center of traditional data science. The new name speaks to what we teach and work on at the intersection of social research and data. The program offers doctorate and master of science degrees and a certificate through the University of Michigan. The program's home is the Institute for Social Research, the world's largest academically-based social science research institute.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT)
The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey and Data Science are offered from June 5 through July 28 and available to enroll in as a Summer Scholar.

The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business, public health, natural resources, law, medicine, nursing, social work, and many other domains of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:00:12 -0500 2023-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The Right to not Gestate (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107220 107220-21815636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This week, we will be hosting Sophie Lewis for a workshop (on Thursday) and a lecture (on Friday).

Thursday, April 6 Workshop: 4PM will be held at Canterbury House (721 E Huron St)

**LOCATION CHANGE**
Friday, April 7 Lecture: 5PM at the Wesley Foundation | 602 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI (entry at the tower door on the corner of State and Huron)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:55:10 -0400 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Poster
The Buahit Serit Rock Art and other Archaeological Sites along the Blue Nile Valley of Ethiopia (April 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107132 107132-21815396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This work presents previously unknown rock art along the Blue Nile, on the walls of the Buahit Serit gorge in Northwestern Ethiopia. Although Ethiopia has the largest number of rock art sites in the Horn of Africa, Buahit Serit is the first documented rock art site in Northwestern Ethiopia. The rock paintings display hunting, herding, and geometric representations, based on a comparison of the motifs and painting style, the site dated relative to the late Holocene (1000 BCE–1000 CE). Further interpretation introduces the idea that some geometric designs may represent stylized headdresses, suggesting cultural continuity with living pastoralists. Complementary survey in this region indicates a potential settlement, burial site, iron slags, and lithic concentrations. Unfortunately, today the Buahit Serit rock paintings, like many Ethiopian rock art sites, are endangered due to anthropogenic and natural causes.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:25:41 -0400 2023-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion TWT
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 7, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105609 105609-21812263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series

"Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin"
Bettina Stoetzer, associate professor of anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This lecture will be given virtually starting at 3PM.
Join the webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

ABOUT THE LECTURE
In this talk, Bettina Stoetzer will present materials from her book "Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin." "Ruderal City" traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal—originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks—to theorize Berlin as a “ruderal city.”

Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries—gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields—to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today’s uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals emergent futures in the margins of European cities. Brimming with stories that break down divides between environmental perspectives and the study of migration and racial politics, Berlin’s ruderal worlds help us rethink the space of nature and culture and the categories through which we make sense of urban life in inhospitable times.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bettina Stoetzer is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the intersections of ecology, globalization, and social justice in the US and Germany. Bettina received her M.A. in Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies from the University of Goettingen and completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011. Before coming to MIT, she was a Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. Bettina’s book, "Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Life in Berlin" (Duke University Press, December 2022), draws on fieldwork with immigrant and refugee communities, as well as ecologists, nature enthusiasts and other Berlin residents to illustrate how human-environment relations have become a key register through which urban citizenship is articulated in contemporary Europe. The ethnographic research and writing for this project has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the ACLS/Mellon Foundation, and a UC Chancellor’s fellowship. Bettina is also the author of a book on feminism and anti-racism, titled "InDifferenzen: Feministische Theorie in der Antirassistischen Kritik" (InDifferences: Feminist Theory in Antiracist Criticism, argument, 2004), and she co-edited "Shock and Awe: War on Words" together with Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Anna Tsing (New Pacific Press, 2004). Bettina is currently working on a new project on wildlife mobility, climate change, and nationalism in the US and Germany. At MIT, Bettina teaches classes on urban life and ethnography, race and migration, environmental justice, gender, science and technology, and the politics of nature in Germany.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:58:12 -0400 2023-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
The Right to not Gestate (April 7, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107220 107220-21815637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This week, we will be hosting Sophie Lewis for a workshop (on Thursday) and a lecture (on Friday).

Thursday, April 6 Workshop: 4PM will be held at Canterbury House (721 E Huron St)

**LOCATION CHANGE**
Friday, April 7 Lecture: 5PM at the Wesley Foundation | 602 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI (entry at the tower door on the corner of State and Huron)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:55:10 -0400 2023-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Poster
Science Forum Presentations (April 9, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 9, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-09T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Winter 2024 Study Abroad Advising with CGIS (April 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102029 102029-21803373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Are you thinking of study abroad during the winter term but have questions?

Pop in to the CGIS office on April 13th any time between 11am and 1pm for open advising on Winter 2024 study abroad options with CGIS!

We can answer questions about Winter 2024 programs, the application process, scholarships and financial aid, and more! Come learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, Spanish, and Humanities/Social Sciences, and interest-specific program sessions, such as studying abroad in the UK and English-taught programs in Asia, to name a few.
*LSA Scholarships, the Office of Financial Aid, and Newnan will also be in attendance.*

Popcorn will be provided!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:18:28 -0400 2023-04-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Consider studying abroad for Winter 2024!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Jeffrey R. Parsons Lecture 2023: Self-Destructive Zones: What Archaeology Tells Us about the Future Risks of Floods, Forest Fires, and Droughts in Southern Appalachia (April 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105713 105713-21812838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Since the Great Depression, the major river valleys of southern Appalachia have seen explosive population growth and economic development, and the region is now synonymous with hydro-electric dams, coal-fired power plants, agriculture, and now eco-tourism, retirement communities, and revitalized, trendy cities. However, like many regions of North America, there is growing concern about the impact of climate change, and in particular costly disasters caused by floods, forest fires, and droughts. Using theory derived from historical ecology and the sociology of disasters, I argue that people are not passive actors in this narrative, and that a review of the rich archaeological record of the region illustrates that the growth machine of capitalism has created self-destructive zones where disasters don’t just happen, they should be expected.

School of Education Building, Room 2327

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:22:40 -0400 2023-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Miller
The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" (April 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104039 104039-21808305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Michael Lempert

"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale"

Lecture Series Abstract:

What trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely, "microscopically"? These lectures explore the political, epistemological, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the "small" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the "interpersonal" relate to the "institutional," "micropolitics" to "mass" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

January 20, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World

February 10, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation

March 17, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction

April 14, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

Michael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize), coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press, 2012), and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of "liberal listening," funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:39:04 -0500 2023-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Rappaport Lecture: "From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale" promo image
Science Forum Presentations (April 16, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 16, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-16T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series (April 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105607 105607-21812261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia series

"A Behavioral Ecology View on the Gender-Health Paradox"
By Siobhán M. Mattison, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, University of New Mexico

In-Person: 3PM, 411 West Hall
Virtual: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92496167134

Why is it that women outlive men yet experience higher morbidity along the way? Public health perspectives have provided important insights on the various factors contributing to the so-called gender-health paradox, but lack a unifying underlying framework to tie different predictors together. In this talk, I describe how behavioral ecology can help to unite disparate findings and explain if and when these trends might be reversed. "Gender reversals" in health among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo of China illustrate how underlying variation in socio-ecologies impacts gender differences in health, with important implications for interventions designed to mitigate disparities.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Siobhán M. Mattison is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of New Mexico and a rotator at the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on explaining health and welfare in light of variation in human kinship and social structure norms. She conducts fieldwork with the Mosuo (Na) of Southwest China and among the Melanesian Ni-Vanuatu. She received her doctoral degree in biocultural anthropology from the University of Washington and trained as a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology and demography at Stanford University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:08:50 -0400 2023-04-17T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T16:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
DAAS Africa Workshop: "An Anthropology of Transit: Eritrean Migrations to Italy in a Time of Crisis." (April 18, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107472 107472-21816074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Fiori Berhane broadly researches the ways in which African refugees challenge discursive and legal-juridical frameworks that undergird the Central Mediterranean crossing. In particular, she studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee activists engage with colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial policies and embedded histories in Italy within efforts to redress multi-modal violence-- that which takes place in their country of origin, transit and settlement.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:18:24 -0400 2023-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion DAAS Africa Workshop with Fiori Berhane
Science Forum Presentations (April 22, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 22, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-22T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
Science Forum Presentations (April 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-23T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
Reconnecting Currents: A Healing at the Huron (April 27, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107764 107764-21816460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 27, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

In this participatory public event, Marsae Lynette presents an evening of film, performance, and community.

This interactive event invites the local community to reconnect with freshwater sources such as the Huron River, as well as one another through reflection, restoration, and jubilation. Audience members are invited to both witness and engage in rituals of reconnection.

Kresge Gilda Award Recipient Marsae Lynette is a dancer, educator, and ethnochoreologist whose research explores the ecological interdependence of women of the African diaspora and freshwater sources through the lens of embodied intelligence and spirituality.

The evening’s journey includes:

– Opening ceremony and intention-setting
– 30-minute film viewing
– Dance performance
– Sunset processional to the Huron River and return to the Freighthouse to conclude

The artist invites audience members to dress in all-white attire.

This performance is a “Pay What You Wish” event. That means that you can decide how much you would like to pay to attend. In most venues, an event like this would cost around $15-25 per person. Please enter the price you would like to pay per ticket, and the number of tickets you wish to reserve.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:21:40 -0400 2023-04-27T18:00:00-04:00 2023-04-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Social / Informal Gathering Marsae Lynette, Reconnecting Currents
Science Forum Presentations (April 29, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 29, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Science Forum Presentations (April 30, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105992 105992-21813475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 30, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Meet a scientist this weekend! Chat with a scientist about their cutting-edge research, in the museum’s Science Forum presentation space. Drop in to hear short 15-minute interactive presentations from researchers across many disciplines, from immunology to anthropology, from biology to engineering. Stay for the Q & A and get your dose of science today! Appropriate for ages 8 and above. Schedule subject to change.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:52:46 -0500 2023-04-30T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-30T14:20:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Presentation
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 4, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 4, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-04T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-04T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 5, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 5, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-05T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 6, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 6, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-06T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-06T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 7, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 7, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-07T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-07T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 8, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 8, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-08T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-08T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 9, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-09T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-09T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 10, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-10T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-10T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 11, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 11, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-11T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-11T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
Heather Ann Thompson Lecture (May 11, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108005 108005-21818788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Over the last five decades the City of Detroit has felt the crisis of mass incarceration first-hand and most acutely. Historian Heather Ann Thompson will discuss the origins of this crisis nationally and locally, its lived impact on city residents as well as on the city itself. From this history, she argues, we can better understand not only why this is the civil and human rights crisis of the 21st century, but what it will take to undo it.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/n7gk3

This evening event is free for members and free with museum admission for non-members.

5-6 p.m. Prior to the program, view the *Humanize the Numbers* exhibition on display now in the Community Gallery

6-8 p.m. Lecture in the Booth Auditorium

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is a native Detroiter and historian on faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the departments of Afro-American and African Studies, History, and the Residential College.

Thompson has published numerous books and has written extensively on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic, Salon, Dissent, NBC, New Labor Forum, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post, as well as for the top publications in her field.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 May 2023 09:37:10 -0400 2023-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 2023-05-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Chris Lewis, 2020 (Humanize the Numbers)
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 12, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 12, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-12T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-12T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 13, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 13, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-13T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 14, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 14, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-14T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-14T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-15T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-15T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 16, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-16T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-16T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 17, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-17T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 18, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 18, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-18T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-18T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 19, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 19, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-19T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-19T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 20, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 20, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-20T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
ReConnect/ReCollect Hands-on Workshop with Philippine Indigenous Artists (May 20, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108195 108195-21819099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 20, 2023 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at UM

Please join us for a workshop of Indigenous Philippine Arts with visiting culture bearers Cathy Ekid Domigyay (textile weaver - Bontoc), Johnny Bangao, Jr. (basket weaver - Bontoc), and Ammin Achaur (tattoo arts - Kalinga), accompanied by Baguio-based illustrator Justine Amores and cultural anthropologist Dr. Analyn Salvador Amores (University of the Philippines, Baguio).

The event will take place Saturday, May 20th from 2-5PM in the third-floor atrium of the South Thayer Building 2022 (202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, 48104). This free, family-friendly event will include demonstrations of artisans’ techniques, participatory workshops and the opportunity to interact with artifacts from the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Light refreshments will also be served. Street parking is available.

ReConnect/ReCollect is a two-year project funded by the Humanities Collaboratory to develop a framework and practices for culturally-responsive and historically-minded stewardship of the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 May 2023 14:35:53 -0400 2023-05-20T14:00:00-04:00 2023-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at UM Workshop / Seminar Master basket weaver Johnny Bangao, Jr.
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 21, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 21, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-21T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-21T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, organ (May 22, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107967 107967-21818667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 22, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

UMS celebrates 130 years of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ with virtuoso Christian Schmitt and this digital-exclusive performance.

ON THE PROGRAM
Charles-Marie Widor “Meditation” from Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Jean Langlais Etude for Pedal Solo No. 7, “Alleluia”
Fritz Lubrich, Jr. “In der Abendstille” op. 24.3
César Franck Choral No. 3 in a minor

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Presentation Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:45 -0400 2023-05-22T00:00:00-04:00 2023-05-22T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Christian Schmitt
Healthcare workers mental health in disaster settings: lessons from Beirut and Ukraine (May 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108029 108029-21818858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

This presentation is the first of 2023 UMSN Coffee and Conversation Series following the UMSN Global Health Summer Institute. Follow the registration link below to see all sessions.

Dr. Maya Bizri is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine and a global mental health consultant. She also holds an MPH from Tufts. After starting her clinical career in Beirut in 2019, a time where the country was undergoing political, economic and COVID-19 challenges, and having started the first psycho oncology program mid-pandemic and Beirut blast, her interests shifted to global mental health. More particularly, Dr Bizri is interested in addressing the mental health of healthcare workers in disaster, conflict and low-resource settings. Most recently, she was on a medical mission to Ukraine with MedGlobal to pilot a training in trauma-informed care for healthcare workers. Clinically, Dr Bizri's interests lie in delirium management, psychiatry for the medically ill, psycho-oncology and transplant psychiatry.


Register on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/2tsv3va9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 May 2023 11:44:37 -0400 2023-05-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-05-23T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Livestream / Virtual Dr. Maya Bizri conversation series flier
ELEVATE THE MIC (July 21, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108841 108841-21820463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Event Date: July 21, 2023 @ Ann Arbor Art Fair
Event Time: 11AM – 5PM
Venue: Stage on Main – Corner of Main and Williams, Ann Arbor
Presenting Sponsors: DTE & the Ark

Join us for an inspiring day at *ELEVATE THE MIC: Performers Uniting for Social Progress.* Experience powerful spoken word, captivating music, and heartfelt performances that advocate for positive change and social justice in our community.

Be moved by passionate artists as they use their voices and talents to shed light on pressing social issues, challenge prevailing narratives, and promote inclusivity, equality, and unity.

This event is more than just a performance. Connect with like-minded individuals, engage in meaningful conversations, and learn about organizations dedicated to social progress.

*Note: Leave your mark on the collaborative healing-centered art project at the event. Designed for creators of ANY age & ALL skill levels in the community! All materials provided.*

Event Schedule:
11 AM Youth Arts Alliance
12 PM Voices of the Underheard w/ LAITR
1 PM MI Citizens for Prison Reform
2 PM American Friends & Service Committee Band
3 PM In & On Our Own Terms, by the Linkage Community/Shakespeare in Prison Alumni

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Performance Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:14:40 -0400 2023-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2023-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Jocelyn, a spoken word performer on stage
Beyond Land Acknowledgments (August 31, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110962 110962-21825921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 31, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

Beyond Land Acknowledgments

Thursday, August 31, 2023
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
1010 Weiser Hall

Strolling dinner with reception to follow; this event is in-person only.
The history of American anthropology and the founding of the University of Michigan are inextricably linked to that of First Nations. In recognition of that history, both the University of Michigan and the American Anthropological Association have articulated a commitment to American Indian and Alaskan Native communities, scholars, and students as part of their institutional work to create more inclusive and diverse organizations.

One very public way in which this has happened has been the creation and performance of land acknowledgments, an act intended to raise an audience’s awareness of the colonial history that alienated local tribes from their land base and to educate audiences about the existence of these (contemporary) Indigenous communities. The proliferation of land acknowledgements has also resulted in a critical discussion of their use(s) such that the AAA stopped incorporating them into their annual meetings and other events in 2021. Because of the visibility of land acknowledgments, from personal emails to event introductions, we will begin with the debates they have provoked about tokenization, issues of recognition (of Indigenous people) and ongoing coloniality, and failures of accountability.

We invite you to join us in this discussion and our endeavor to reconceptualize land acknowledgments, their role in academic organizations and institutions, and the potential they signify. We will move beyond these moments of awareness-raising and consider other opportunities that institutions have to create a more inclusive environment for Indigenous peoples, as students, scholars, advocates, artists, stakeholders and stewards.

For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:54:17 -0400 2023-08-31T16:00:00-04:00 2023-08-31T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
MIDAS Annual welcome-back social and faculty research pitch (September 6, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109817 109817-21823037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) invites you to kick off the new academic year with us at our annual Welcome-back Social and Faculty Research Pitch. Come and talk with MIDAS affiliate faculty members and others in the U-M data science and AI research community, hear research collaboration opportunities, find out upcoming research and training activities at MIDAS, and discuss how MIDAS can work with you!

For more information and list of speakers, please visit our event page: https://midas.umich.edu/welcome-back-social-and-faculty-research-pitch/

Registration: https://forms.gle/fATqaGoV8tKjjAcY8


Scheduled presentations:
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Stacy Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor, Anthropology.
Research area: Evolutionary causes and consequences of social behavior.

Anne Draelos, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics.
Research area: Real-time machine learning for adaptive neuroscience applications.

Minji Kim, Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics.
Research area: Computational 3D genomics.

Cam McLeman, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Applied Sciences.
Research area: Graph-Based Methods, Machine Learning, Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Networks, Statistics.

Runzi Wang, Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability.
Research area: Built environment, landscape architecture, machine learning, stormwater management, stream water quality, urban hydrology.


3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Yan Chen, Professor, Information.
Research area: Causal inference, data science for social good, experiment design.

Hui Jiang, Professor, Biostatistics.
Research area: Bioinformatics, computational statistics, machine learning, optimization, statistical genomics.

Sean Johnson, Assistant Professor, Astronomy.
Research area: Galaxy evolution, quasars, the circumgalactic medium, the intergalactic medium.

Liang Zhao, Associated research scientist, Climate and Space Science and Engineering.
Research area: Solar wind plasma, heliophysics.

Stella Yu – Professor, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: Representation learning with minimal supervision.

Nishil Talati, Assistant Research Scientist, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: Hardware-software co-design for efficient and secure data analytics.


3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Wei Hu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: Deep Learning, Representation Learning, machine learning, optimization, theory.

Max Z. Li, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering.
Research area: Design, management, and optimization of air transportation systems.

Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering.
Research area: AI for social impact.

Liang Qi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering.
Research area: Atomistic simulations, computational materials science, machine learning.

Hui Deng, Professor, Physics.
Research area: Deep learning for nanophotonics applications.

Shai Revzen, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research area: Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems.

P.C. Ku, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research area: Optoelectronic devices.

Majdi Radaideh, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.
Research area: Autonomous Control, Nuclear Reactor Design, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Uncertainty quantification, optimization.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:31:43 -0400 2023-09-06T14:30:00-04:00 2023-09-06T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation MIDAS Annual welcome-back social and faculty research pitch cover image
Culture, History, and Politics (CHiP) Workshop (September 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111354 111354-21826882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her book, Colonizing Palestine, traces social and political mechanisms by which forms of hierarchy, violence, and supremacy that endure into the present were gradually created.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:08:18 -0400 2023-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-06T17:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar CHiP "Colonizing Palestine" flyer
CSEAS Lecture Series. Countering Infrastructures of Impunity with Performance and Creative Arts (September 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110625 110625-21825177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Drawing on her forthcoming book, *Infrastructures of Impunity*, Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965-66) is not only a legal status but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at once—at times, some are dormant while others are ascendant—taken together, all elements can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure whose existence explains and accounts for the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth-telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure by countering its temporality, affect, social stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific actions, policies and processes that would begin to dismantle it.

ELIZABETH F. DREXLER is an associate professor of anthropology and director of Peace and Justice Studies. She has been working in Indonesia since 1996, focusing on issues of human rights and state violence. Her research projects explore how societies address the legacies of political violence, emphasizing the relationships among institutions, transnational interventions, historical narratives, and contested memories in establishing the rule of law and reconstructing social and political life—or failing to do so. She is particularly concerned with the role that knowledge of past violence, whether acknowledged or denied, plays in the present.
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:47:48 -0400 2023-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Fall 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series: In Praise of Addiction (September 18, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108925 108925-21820597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents the Fall 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series:

"IN PRAISE OF ADDICTION"
Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
Professor of Anthropology

3:00 - 5:00 PM
Rackham Assembly Hall

MON. SEPT. 18: "A Short History of Dependency, Addiction and Vice"
(Zoom recording: https://myumi.ch/DwDJ6)

FRI. OCT. 6: "Devotion and Defiance in Mexico City"
(Zoom recording: https://myumi.ch/XnmyA)

FRI. NOV. 10: "Case Studies in Hoarding and Gobbling"
(Zoom recording: https://myumi.ch/Dwbj4)

FRI. DEC. 1: "In Praise of Addiction: An Invitation"
(Zoom recording: https://myumi.ch/byp1X)


ABOUT THE SERIES

This four-part lecture series offers an ethnographic counternarrative to the never-ending U.S. Drug Wars that are justified by our profound disdain for dependency. Roberts juxtaposes this disdain with what she learned from her working-class neighbors in Mexico City. In their neighborhoods, vices are dependencies that isolate, while addictions are dependencies that connect. Neither state is shameful.

Could praising rather than pathologizing addiction reduce the staggering violence and racist incarcerations of the Drug Wars? And might more of us survive if we stopped shaming ourselves for our dependencies?

ABOUT PROFESSOR ROBERTS

Elizabeth F.S. Roberts is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, who investigates scientific and public health knowledge production and its embodied effects in Latin America and the United States. She currently collaborates with engineers and environmental health scientists in the United States and Mexico as part of two ongoing team-based projects in Mexico City that she directs: “Mexican Exposures: A Bioethnographic Approach to Health and Inequality” and “Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City” (NESTSMX). In these projects, she and her team trace the looping social, economic, biological, and technical processes that shape everyday life, health, and inequality in working class neighborhoods. One of the key aims of Professor Roberts’ current work is the development of bioethnography, a method that combines social and life sciences approaches in order to make better knowledge about health and inequality. Dr. Roberts’ earlier research focused on assisted reproduction in the United States and Ecuador, reproductive governance in Latin America, and transnational medical migrations. She is the author of the book "God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes" (Univ. of California Press 2012) and is currently finishing her book manuscript on addiction called "In Praise of Addiction: Devotion and Defiance in a Damaged World."

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Please email anthro-events@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:52:20 -0500 2023-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Decorative graphic with text, In Praise of Addiction by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, professor of anthropology
UMMAA in the Field: Lightning Talks from Graduate Student Field Projects (September 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112635 112635-21829210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In 2023, UMMAA parachuted their graduate students to different parts of the world armed only with a blunt aged trowel and a notebook to print their memories and findings in distant lands. The goal is a journey to the human past in the hands of tenacious young archaeologists eager to cross mountains, sail the Mediterranean, and reach the arid Levant for pieces of information embedded in modest debris forgotten in the ground. Some students have made it home and want to share the diversity of their findings, stories with local stakeholders, and plans for their following research stage.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:43:27 -0400 2023-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion 9.21.23
DESIGNING A DREAM: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE “BLUE DREAM” HOUSE BY DS+R (September 21, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111190 111190-21826181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

As the brainchild of collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, Blue Dream is an extraordinary house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) that sought to renew the legacy of modernist architecture and art in the Hamptons. In advance of the launch of the eponymous book published by DelMonico Books, architecture critic Paul Goldberger will discuss the complex design process behind Blue Dream with DS+R partner Charles Renfro and Associate Principal Holly Deichmann. The panel discussion will offer insights into how Blue Dream reinterprets organic architecture for the 21st century, and stands as a striking addition to the roster of architecturally ambitious modernist houses on Long Island.

Paul Goldberger is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011, he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He is the author of numerous books, including BALLPARK: Baseball in the American City, Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry, Building with History, Why Architecture Matters, Building Up and Tearing Down, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and DUMBO: The Making of a Neighborhood and the Rebirth of Brooklyn. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City and was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design at The New School.

He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. In 2012 he received the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in recognition of the influence his writing has had on the public’s understanding of architecture. In 2017, he received the Award in Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which called him “the doyen of American architectural critics.”

Charles Renfro joined Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 1997 and became a Partner in 2004. He was the Partner-in-Charge of Blue Dream, leading the complex design process. He led the design and construction of the studio’s first concert hall outside of the US – The Tianjin Juilliard School in China – as well as the studio’s first public park outside of the US – Zaryadye Park in Moscow. Charles has also led the design of much of DS+R’s academic portfolio, with projects completed at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Brown University, the University of Chicago, and the recently completed Columbia Business School. Charles is also leading the design of two projects in his native Texas: the renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas, and Sarofim Hall, a new home for Rice University’s Visual Arts department in Houston. Charles is a board member of BOFFO, a nonprofit organization that supports the work of queer LGBTQ+ BIPOC artists and designers. He has twice been recognized with the “Out100” list, and also distinguished as a notable LGBTQ leader by Crain’s New York Business. He is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts.

Holly Deichmann is an Associate Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). She was the Project Director for Blue Dream, overseeing the complex design process alongside Partner-in-Charge Charles Renfro. She was also the Project Architect of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Project Director for the adjoining Park Union Bridge, a curved steel structure connecting the museum campus to the adjacent America the Beautiful Park. Holly was also the Project Director for the recently-completed Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is currently the Project Director for the New Museum of Transport in Budapest, a new home for the museum located on the brownfield site of a former train repair facility.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:21:22 -0400 2023-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Designing a Dream
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (September 22, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111408 111408-21826992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

LOCATION CHANGE - to SSW B780

Part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series which introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation.

Pre-talk by Alexa Eisenberg, Research Fellow, Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:57:21 -0400 2023-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Geronimus and Eisenberg lecture promo
Sonic Contributions (September 22, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Sonic Contributions (September 23, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Everything You Need to Know When Utilizing Probability Panels: Best Practices in Planning, Fielding, and Analysis (September 27, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112696 112696-21829462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

MPSDS SEMINAR SERIES
September 27, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 pm

IN PERSON AND VIA ZOOM
- In person, room 1070 Institute for Social Research.
- Via Zoom. The Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN UTILIZING PROBABILITY PANELS: BEST PRACTICES IN PLANNING, FIELDING, AND ANALYSIS

Speakers: David Dutwin & Ipek Bilgen

Probability-based panel survey research is more widespread than ever, as the continuing decline in survey response rates makes cross-sectional sample surveys less and less accessible both in terms of fit for purpose data quality and cost. The attraction of probability panels for surveys is their ability to attain, dependent upon their recruiting methods, comparable response rates to cross-section polls, but at a lower cost and more expeditious execution. Panels are a unique type of survey research platform: Unlike cross-sections, panels recruit respondents specifically for future participation in surveys. In return, panelists are financially compensated, typically to join the panel in the first place, and then secondarily for each survey in which they participate.

These differences to cross-sectional surveys have a range of potential implications. How does the method and effort of recruiting impact who joins, and as a consequence what is best practice? What do panels do to retain panelists over time and which strategies are more successful than others? How much of a concern is panel conditioning, that is, the impact of persons repetitively taking surveys over time, and what are the implications for how frequently panelists should take surveys? How do panels, which exclusively request that panelists take surveys on the Internet, deal with people who do not have or are not comfortable using the Internet? What is the impact of panelist attrition and what are best efforts to replenish retired panelists? How successful are panels are executing true longitudinal surveys? And, given the additional layers of complexity, how are panel surveys properly weighted and estimated?

This seminar is meant to serve two purposes. First, it will serve as a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what, in short, they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. Second, it will serve as an exploration of best practices for the practitioners of surveys: Raising issues of data quality, cost, and execution.

Learning Objectives:

1. For consumers of panel data: Understanding the features of panels with which to be knowledgeable; to know the important questions to ask panel vendors when assessing their fit for purpose of your research.
2. For researchers and practitioners: To understand the many dimensions and decision points in the building, maintenance, deployment, and delivery of multi-client panels and panel data.

Bios:

David Dutwin, PhD, is Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Business Ventures and Initiatives and Chief Scientist of AmeriSpeak at NORC at the University of Chicago. David provides scientific and programmatic thought leadership in support of NORC’s ongoing innovations. In addition to identifying new business opportunities, he lends expertise on research design conceptualization, methodological innovation, and product development. He leads the panel operations and the statistics and methods divisions of AmeriSpeak. David assists in NORC strategic vision and strategy, project acquisition and management of advance research methods. Prior research has focused on election methodology, surveying of low-incidence populations, the use of big data in survey research, and data quality in survey panels. He is a senior fellow of the Program for Opinion Research and Election Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. An avid member of the AAPOR community, David served as president from 2018-2019. He previously served on AAPOR’s Executive Council as conference chair and has served full terms on several committees. For over twenty years, he has taught courses in survey research and design, political polling, research methods, rhetorical theory, media effects, and other courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Arizona, and West Chester University.

Ipek Bilgen, PhD, is a Principal Research Methodologist in the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Ipek is the Deputy Director of NORC’s Center for Panel Survey Sciences. Additionally, she oversees AmeriSpeak’s methodological research and innovations. As part of her role within AmeriSpeak, she also provides survey design expertise, questionnaire development and review support, and leads cognitive interview and usability testing efforts for client studies. Ipek received both her Ph.D. and M.S. from the Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM) Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published and co-authored articles in Journal of Official Statistics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Survey Practice, Social Currents, Social Science Computer Review, Field Methods, Journal of Quantitative Methods, SAGE Research Methods, and Quality and Quantity on issues related to interviewing methodology, web surveys, online panels, internet sampling and recruitment approaches, nonresponse and measurement issues in surveys. In the past, she has served on AAPOR’s and MAPOR’s Executive Councils. Ipek is currently teaching at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and serving as Associate Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:29:30 -0400 2023-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Panel Discussion: Renée Fleming’s Music and Mind (September 27, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110203 110203-21824490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Soprano superstar Renée Fleming is a leading advocate for the study of powerful connections between the arts and health, and has worked with the National Institutes of Health and other leading organizations to bring attention to research and practice at the intersection of music, health, and neuroscience. The day before her performance in Ann Arbor, she will be joined by local researchers and medical practitioners for a public conversation exploring these important topics.

Presented in partnership with Michigan Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:38:58 -0400 2023-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T19:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building University Musical Society (UMS) Lecture / Discussion Renée Fleming
The “home” as a setting for human behavioral evolution (September 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113002 113002-21829871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

A home is used by modern human societies as a place to cook and share food, to sleep, to socialize with our loved ones, to relax and recuperate, and to shelter from the elements. It is the place where our children grow and learn the rules of our society and where we strengthen and maintain important social bonds. For these reasons, the home often holds a special emotional and symbolic place in our minds, and within society at large. Because so many of the most important aspects of being human transpire in these spaces, a greater attention to changes in living spaces over the course of human evolution could help us understand our development as a species. In this talk, I will present some changes in living spaces that I see revealed in my own research and I will go on to speculate what else could be learned from an increased focus on the evolution of the human home.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:31:53 -0400 2023-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Clark
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Museum Studies Program: Museums at Noon (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112060 112060-21828389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Two museum studies students will discuss their international internships:
Alexandra Norwood (Anthropology): The Apes of Uganda: An Exhibit and Outreach Program at the Uganda Museum
Denisa Glacova (Middle East Studies): Is ANU - Museum of the Jewish People Telling the Whole Story?

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Presentation Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:35:51 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Museum Studies Program Presentation Museums at Noon
2023 Michigan Anthropology Four Field Symposium (September 29, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111407 111407-21826985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is proud to present its
2023 Four Field Symposium

Kinship: Humans and Beyond

Friday, September 29
1-5 PM; reception to follow
Michigan Union, Rogel Ballroom (2nd Floor)

REGISTER: https://forms.gle/ckvTWKpEmYR5yGXM6
LIVESTREAM: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/anthro092923.html

Join us for a series of discussions exploring human, animal, and human-animal relations as researched across the four subfields of anthropology—relations that touch on language, biology, society, and material culture.

SPEAKERS - SESSION 1

E. Summerson Carr, University of Chicago (linguistic)
"Working Like a Dog: Canine Labor in U.S. Human Services"

Amy Elizabeth Clark, Harvard University (archaeology)
"Friends, foes, or frenemies? Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and other archaic humans on a shared landscape"

SPEAKERS - SESSION 2

Kevin Langergraber, Arizona State University (biological)
"Kinship and social relationships: how do humans differ from their non-human primate cousins?"

Juno Salazar Parreñas, Cornell University (sociocultural)
"Kinship with Nonhuman Primates (but probably not in the way you think)"

The third and final session will include all presenters in a roundtable discussion. Breaks and refreshments will be provided.

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If you will need accommodations to attend this event, please request them in the registration form or by email to anthropology.exec.secretary@umich.edu by Monday September 18, 2023.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:40:53 -0400 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Anthropology Conference / Symposium Yellow silhouettes of animals arranged like puzzle pieces to form a human head in profile, with text Michigan Anthropology 2023 Four Field Symposium - Kinship: Humans and Beyond
Michigan in Washington Fall 2023 Application Deadline (October 2, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110233 110233-21824612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington program is accepting applications for Winter 2024 and early admission to Fall 2024. The deadline is October 2nd and applications are available on M-Compass. Info Session: September 12th and 19th at 6:00 PM
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99157149437

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Meeting Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:35:22 -0400 2023-10-02T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!