BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195692@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195642@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195492@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195392@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195442@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130925T135958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sibande On Campus: Exhibit: The wait seems to go on forever (mural\, 2008) DESCRIPTION:Rising young South African artist Mary Sibande constructs elaborate visual narratives to consider race\, gender\, and class in post-colonial South Africa. Rooted in her own family’s history of three generations of women as domestic servants\, Sibande’s larger-than-life figures clothed in yards of fabric confront the viewer with the stark limits of cultural heritage as well as the possibility of transformation. Sibande’s Ann Arbor fellowship includes an original installation at the U-M Institute for the Humanities gallery\, a Penny Stamps lecture\, an open studio at the Stamps School on North Campus\, and exhibition of Sibande’s existing work at Gallery DAAS\, the U-M Museum of Art\, and the Stamps School Slusser Gallery. UID:14842-1193307@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/14842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:multicultural,social justice,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T154323 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“And it was just right”: Food and cooking in children’s literature DESCRIPTION:These folk tales\, adventure stories\, cookbooks\, advertising pamphlets\, and didactic novels from the U-M Library's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and Children’s Literature Collection use images and descriptions of food to amuse\, instruct\, admonish\, reassure\, tempt\, warn\, and raise that “eew-gross” reaction so loved by children of a certain age.\n\nStories for children are full of food\, from Little Red Riding Hood’s basket of goodies to Harry Potter’s earwax-flavored jelly beans. Since at least the mid-19th century children have been a distinct audience for cookbooks and other food-related publications. This exhibit brings together materials from two fascinating strengths of the library: Children’s Literature and American Culinary History. Come and explore the roles food plays in children’s literature\, and the ways books on food address children.\n\nExhibit curated by William Gosling\, University Librarian Emeritus\, and JJ Jacobson\, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, from items in the Special Collections Library. UID:15768-1196294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:books,children's entertainment,culinary,library,university library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lower Level Display Cases, Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140112T000016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Adam Unsworth -Standards and Originals DESCRIPTION:Christopher Harding\, (piano)\, Andrew Bishop (bass clarinet)\, Jennifer Goltz (soprano)\, Michael Gurevich (electronics). PROGRAM: Beethoven - Sonata for Horn and Piano\, op. 17\; Berio - Altre Voce\; Heusen - Like Someone in Love\; Monk - Round Midnight\; Unsworth - Balance\; Parker - Confirmation\; Felder - Boxman for Horn and Electronics. UID:15578-1195032@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15578 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T132147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T153000 SUMMARY:Other:Types of Roses: Class and Categories DESCRIPTION:An illustrated program by Mike Dosey at Matthaei Botanical Gardens on rose types. Also\, discussion of the newest roses\, Q&A\, and refreshments. Presented by Huron Valley Rose Society.\n UID:15751-1196238@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,matthaei botanical gardens,roses LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131010T142223 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140112T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dr. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys DESCRIPTION: UID:15185-1194029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15185 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:dr ralph stanley,music,the ark,the clinch mountain boys LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195593@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Lightscapes: Photographs of the American West DESCRIPTION:Kim Kozlowski is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Novi\, Michigan. Inspired by the natural beauty of the American West\, this collection of images is a celebration of light in its many forms: from radiant sunrises to the soft magic of sunset\, from light beams breaking through storm clouds to the diffused light of a forest. Kozlowski’s landscape photography is typically characterized by attention to light\, color\, composition and sharp detail. Her goal is to inspire others to seek out open spaces and new vistas in the natural world. UID:15647-1195743@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass DESCRIPTION:The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops\, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino\, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan\, and in 1982\, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection\, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection\, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium\, including Dominick Labino\, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter. UID:15648-1195856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195493@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195443@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T154323 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“And it was just right”: Food and cooking in children’s literature DESCRIPTION:These folk tales\, adventure stories\, cookbooks\, advertising pamphlets\, and didactic novels from the U-M Library's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and Children’s Literature Collection use images and descriptions of food to amuse\, instruct\, admonish\, reassure\, tempt\, warn\, and raise that “eew-gross” reaction so loved by children of a certain age.\n\nStories for children are full of food\, from Little Red Riding Hood’s basket of goodies to Harry Potter’s earwax-flavored jelly beans. Since at least the mid-19th century children have been a distinct audience for cookbooks and other food-related publications. This exhibit brings together materials from two fascinating strengths of the library: Children’s Literature and American Culinary History. Come and explore the roles food plays in children’s literature\, and the ways books on food address children.\n\nExhibit curated by William Gosling\, University Librarian Emeritus\, and JJ Jacobson\, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, from items in the Special Collections Library. UID:15768-1196295@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:books,children's entertainment,culinary,library,university library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lower Level Display Cases, Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T143807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to SPSS DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS\, within-case transformations\, data management with multiple files\, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. UID:15670-1196094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,statistics,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140108T155639 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Fracking Lecture DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public.\nLunch provided (note: limited seating for 45). \n\nSpeaker:\nSusan Christopherson\, Professor\, Department of City and Regional Planning\, Cornell University\n\nAbstract:\nVertical drilling for natural gas\, using at times another form of hydraulic fracturing\, is permitted and has occurred for many years in the Marcellus Shale states. The current controversy is over something different: the combination of horizontal drilling techniques and high volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) to extract natural gas that is embedded in shale layers -- an industrial process requiring the use of millions of gallons of water per well\, the utilization of a different array of chemicals\, and the disposal of the resulting hazardous waste\, all on a scale far in excess of what vertical drilling requires. The two drilling processes are dramatically different in their impact on the regions in which they occur\, both environmentally and economically.\n\nThis research project addresses why hundreds of communities in the Marcellus and Utica shale “plays” have taken local legislative action in the face of a regulatory regime that has vested state government with the authority for regulating high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) natural gas development and responsibility for its effects on local economies\, public health\, and environmental conservation. \n\nLegislative actions began in 2010 and escalated in 2012. They have included outright bans\, local moratoria and land use restrictions in zoning law. In response to the assertion of local authority over natural gas development over fifty local governments in New York have adopted resolutions based on a model distributed by the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York to support state regulation of natural gas development (Joint Landowners Coalition of New York\, 2012). Local governments in both New York and Pennsylvania are currently (March 2013) engaged in court cases that seek to sort out the prerogatives of states\, localities\, property owners\, and oil and gas industry firms. Communities seeking to regulate HVHF activity face state supersession laws that have been interpreted as preempting any local action to address the community scale impacts of HVHF natural gas development. The resulting court cases pose financial and legal risks for these communities that are not trivial\, and they could not be undertaken without significant resources\, organization\, and widespread public support.\n\nThis study analyzes why and how the local response to HVHF shale gas development has emerged. To understand why more and more communities have been moved to exercise local authority or “home rule” over natural gas development\, we need to examine how they came to understand (1) the risks attendant to HVHF\, and (2) their strategic and regulatory options. An answer to these questions requires looking at the concerns that have framed the public discussion\, and at how key local actors evaluated industry and state government willingness or capacity to address those concerns. \nOur analysis is supported by dozens of formal and informal interviews conducted since 2010 with experts on the environmental\, social and economic impacts of natural resources development in general and shale gas development in particular\; state and local public officials\; industry representatives\; environmental advocates\; and attorneys representing communities in suits over “home rule” authority. These interviews provided us with an understanding of how issues were framed and reframed over time\, and of how key actors have adapted (Christopherson and Rightor\, 2012).\n\nIn 2012\, we carried out a systematic study of communities taking local legislative action in response to HVHF shale gas development in the four Marcellus states (New York\, Pennsylvania\, Ohio\, and West Virginia). We began by developing a database of communities and the type of legislative action they had taken\, and continually updated it over the course of the year. We conducted a socio-economic analysis to learn about how these communities compare with similar communities in their state\, and classified their location along a rural-urban continuum (based on the county in which a community is located). We then used these broad classifications to select a stratified sample of communities that had passed local resolutions or legislation on shale gas development in two states\, New York (which has not yet authorized HVHF natural gas development) and Pennsylvania (which has)\, and conducted structured interviews with the highest-ranking public official or his or her designee in each community. These interviews obtained information on the process of decision-making\, the critical issues discussed in public meetings\, and on community expectations regarding oil and gas industry practices and State regulation or monitoring of the industrial activities associated with HVHF. We also posed questions on residents’ attitudes toward shale gas development in the Empire State Poll conducted yearly by Cornell University’s Survey Research Institute.\n\nAbout the presenter:\nSusan Christopherson is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. She is a geographer whose career has been based on commitment to the integration of scholarly work and public engagement. Her research interests are diverse\, but focus on political-economic policy\, especially its spatial dimensions. Much of her research is comparative and she has published a series of articles and a book on how different market governance regimes influence regional development and labor market policies. \n\nSusan Christopherson’s public engagement has spanned arenas from the local to the global. She has acted as a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as well as national\, state\, and local government. She is currently chair of the International Economic Development Council advisory committee on higher education and economic development. Over the course of her career she has produced dozens of policy reports and articles aimed at a public audience. The goal of these publications -- on economic development issues\, labor force development\, and the knowledge economy –is to make academic research accessible and useful to policy makers.\n\nSince 2010\, she has received a series of grants from the Park Foundation and the Heinz Endowments to direct research on the economic and social consequences of natural gas drilling. Initial results from this research appear in The International Journal of Town and City Management\; Planning Magazine\; book chapters and in a series of policy briefs on www.greenchoices.cornell.edu. Her most recent research project analyzes 298 communities in the Marcellus region states that have responded to the environmental\, social and economic impacts of shale gas extraction with regulatory or legislative action. Her next research project will focus on assessing where and what types of jobs are created in conjunction with shale gas development.\n UID:15968-1196666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,health and wellness LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1230-O'Neill Classroom, 735 S. State Street (corner of State/Hill) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140102T163256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of the so called ribeirinhos (river people) of Brazil's Pantanal region\, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The images by Marcin Szczepanski\, senior multimedia producer at the College of Engineering\, portray the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. UID:15934-1196589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,film,multicultural,north campus,social justice,student org,visual arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, Room 1019 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T145313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Stata DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces participants to the use of Stata for Windows. After an introduction to the fundamentals of the Stata environment\, the workshop introduces importing and entering data \nmanaging data sets\, performing statistical analyses (including descriptive analysis\, hypothesis testing\,regression \nanalysis\, and analysis of survey data)\, and graphing tools within Stata..\n UID:15672-1196098@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15672 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,stata,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131222T161039 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T163000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The American Presidents\, Part 2: Washington to Eisenhower--OLLI (50+) Study Group DESCRIPTION:This class meets select Mondays and Tuesdays\, January 13 - April 15. Please Contact OLLI office for specific dates. \n\n\nThis continuing program will examine how films depict the personal and political lives of presidents\, from George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower\, and it will emphasize how the passage of time has affected our perspectives of them. A recommended text is \"To The Best Of My Ability: The American Presidents\" by James M. McPherson. Presidential and history enthusiasts as well as novices are equally welcome. Dr. Adelman is an Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry and a Past Director of the Institute of Gerontology. \n UID:15919-1196547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,lifelong learning,politics,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - University Living CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131125T155056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition Reception DESCRIPTION:This program invites you to celebrate all works presented in the Juried Art Competition at a reception with light refreshments. The winner chosen by the jury will be announced and anyone is welcome to vote for their favorite piece of work in the People's Choice component of the competition. The People's Choice votes will be open until the end of January and the winner will be announced online. UID:15621-1195344@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cciprograms,freefood,getinvolved,juriedartcompetitionreception,umich LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Gallery Wall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131223T103207 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Seminar Series - Special Day! DESCRIPTION:Context dependence is a hallmark of species interactions: a given interaction will have different effects depending on when and where it occurs. To incorporate species interactions into our understanding of large-scale ecological patterns and responses to environmental change\, we must identify the major causes and effects of context dependence. In this talk\, I will consider the environmental drivers of context dependence in interactions among plants\, ants\, and hemipteran insects. I will then consider how the context-dependent outcomes feed back to the environment to structure local communities. Through the study of a geographically widespread interaction among a myrmecophytic tree and its symbiotic ants and scale insects\, I will describe how evolutionary history\, historical biogeography\, and ecology shape how strongly trees benefit from their symbiotic insects. I will then describe the mechanisms that structure these variable outcomes\, including the chemical stoichiometry of ant-plant-hemipteran interactions and the roles of microbial partners. Finally\, I will describe the effects of these variable outcomes on local and regional communities of leaf-eating herbivores and other plant-dwelling ants. UID:15924-1196552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131219T102431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T173000 SUMMARY:Performance:What does it mean to work in a system that fails you and your kids?: A beginning teacher's journey through the Chicago Public Schools DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nThis performance will be live webstreamed. Please visit http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/events/calendar/1679/ on January 13 prior to the start of the event for viewing information.\n\nAbout the performance:\nThis ethnodramatic performance tells the story of a beginning teacher's first year in the Chicago Public Schools and her efforts to make a difference in a third grade classroom with 16 boys and 5 girls\, where about half the students had not been promoted the previous school year.\n\nThe first year teacher shares stories of the year's struggles\, successes\, and the students she cared for most. She describes the students she cared for and the students she did not know how to help.\n\nThe script for the play was constructed out of verbatim transcriptions of the teacher's interviews and shares her exact words. Interactive discussion frames the beginning and end of the performance. A first year teacher's experience performed simply\, without embellishment. A long running inquiry designed to raise questions\, not answers.\n\nBy Charles Vanover\, Ph.D.\nPerformance by Jennifer Jean Smith\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. UID:15905-1196490@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15905 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mlk day,mlk symposium LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130911T114316 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Managing Anxiety DESCRIPTION:Managing Anxiety \nwhether you worry too much about school\, relationships\, or anything else\, these sessions are designed to help you manage your stress and anxiety. \n\nEach Monday 4:15-5:30 p.m. you and other interested students will meet with a counselor and focus on one of the most frequent concerns of U-M students. These are the very issues that U-M students have told us are the most common issues they deal with every day. The counselor will share some helpful information\, talk about strategies and clinical resources\, and she or he will also make time for you to share a little bit about your concerns (if you wish to do so). UID:14597-1192693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/14597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:caps,common concerns,managing anxiety,mental health LOCATION:Michigan Union - CAPS Office 3100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140113T170201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Preparing for and Applying to Medical School DESCRIPTION:Career Center Senior Asst. Director of Pre-Professional Services\, Mariella Mecozzi\, will share tips and strategies to best prepare for and apply to medical school. Program Sponsored with the Pre-Medical Club UID:16024-1196939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131213T100443 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140113T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Savvy Seeker: Strategic Internship Searching DESCRIPTION:Are your friends\, advisors\, or family members telling you to secure an internship\, but you're not really sure what all the hype is about? Perhaps you have considered an internship but are not sure where to find one.\n\nWhether you know exactly what you are looking for or you've just started considering an internship\, this workshop is for you! Participants will discuss savvy and strategic ways to move forward in an internship search.\n\nRegister through Career Center Connector today and you will be one step closer to making the most of your internship search.\n\nTo Register:\n\n1. Log in to Career Center Connector: http://careercenter.umich.edu/article/career-center-connector\n\n2. Click \"Workshops and Employer Events\"\n\n3. Click \"Workshops\"\n\n4. Find the small group discussion you are interested in attending\n\n5. Click RSVP UID:15817-1196348@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15817 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,internship,internship search,the career center LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center Program Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195594@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Lightscapes: Photographs of the American West DESCRIPTION:Kim Kozlowski is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Novi\, Michigan. Inspired by the natural beauty of the American West\, this collection of images is a celebration of light in its many forms: from radiant sunrises to the soft magic of sunset\, from light beams breaking through storm clouds to the diffused light of a forest. Kozlowski’s landscape photography is typically characterized by attention to light\, color\, composition and sharp detail. Her goal is to inspire others to seek out open spaces and new vistas in the natural world. UID:15647-1195744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass DESCRIPTION:The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops\, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino\, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan\, and in 1982\, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection\, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection\, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium\, including Dominick Labino\, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter. UID:15648-1195857@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195494@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T154323 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“And it was just right”: Food and cooking in children’s literature DESCRIPTION:These folk tales\, adventure stories\, cookbooks\, advertising pamphlets\, and didactic novels from the U-M Library's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and Children’s Literature Collection use images and descriptions of food to amuse\, instruct\, admonish\, reassure\, tempt\, warn\, and raise that “eew-gross” reaction so loved by children of a certain age.\n\nStories for children are full of food\, from Little Red Riding Hood’s basket of goodies to Harry Potter’s earwax-flavored jelly beans. Since at least the mid-19th century children have been a distinct audience for cookbooks and other food-related publications. This exhibit brings together materials from two fascinating strengths of the library: Children’s Literature and American Culinary History. Come and explore the roles food plays in children’s literature\, and the ways books on food address children.\n\nExhibit curated by William Gosling\, University Librarian Emeritus\, and JJ Jacobson\, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, from items in the Special Collections Library. UID:15768-1196296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:books,children's entertainment,culinary,library,university library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lower Level Display Cases, Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T143807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to SPSS DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS\, within-case transformations\, data management with multiple files\, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. UID:15670-1196095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,statistics,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131211T161104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sunni and Shi'i Islam: Understanding Sectarian Divides in the Muslim World DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Saeed Khan\, Wayne State University Lecturer on Ethnic Identity and Muslim History\, in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages\, Literature and Cultures.\n\nSectarian divisions between Sunni and Shi'i Muslims have intensified into conflicts in Syria\, Iraq\, Pakistan and Bahrain. The lecture will provide a historical overview of the ideological\, political and theological differences between these two Islamic jurisdictions. UID:15794-1196325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15794 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,islam,lifelong learning,middle east conflict,muslim,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel, 2900 Jackson Ave. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130917T110938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T133000 SUMMARY:Meeting:My Brothers DESCRIPTION:The My Brothers Committee invites you to join us for:\nMy Brothers: A Lunch Series for Self-Identified Men of Color\n\n*Free Lunch Provided by Ahmo's*\n \nDate: Tuesdays\, 9/17\, 10/8\, 11/12\, 12/3 \n\nTime: 12:00pm -1:30pm (early arrival encouraged\; late arrivals welcomed)\nLocation: The Parker Room\, 2nd floor of the Michigan Union across from the MESA Office. (Please note this change in location for the first session only. All future sessions will be held in the former location\, CSG Chambers.)\n\n\nOur Mission: My Brothers seeks to empower men of color around issues of identity\, intercultural competency\, and health and wellness that affect them in an open atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan men of color – undergraduate and graduate\, faculty and staff.\n UID:14699-1193017@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/14699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:fellowships,free lunch,men,men of color,mental health,minority men,multicultural,nerworking LOCATION:Michigan Union - CSG Chambers CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140102T163256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of the so called ribeirinhos (river people) of Brazil's Pantanal region\, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The images by Marcin Szczepanski\, senior multimedia producer at the College of Engineering\, portray the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. UID:15934-1196590@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,film,multicultural,north campus,social justice,student org,visual arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, Room 1019 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T145313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Stata DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces participants to the use of Stata for Windows. After an introduction to the fundamentals of the Stata environment\, the workshop introduces importing and entering data \nmanaging data sets\, performing statistical analyses (including descriptive analysis\, hypothesis testing\,regression \nanalysis\, and analysis of survey data)\, and graphing tools within Stata..\n UID:15672-1196099@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15672 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,stata,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130130T103042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Beating the Blues DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays – Beating the Blues. This session will give students information on what depression is and is not. It will also explore ways to help students feel more energized and well equipped to navigate through their difficult situation or depressed mood. \n\nMeets every Tuesday during the semester\, Led by Amanda Byrnes\, LMSW\n\nEach Tuesday 4:15-5:30 p.m. you and other interested students will meet with a counselor and focus on one of the most frequent concerns of U-M students. These are the very issues that U-M students have told us are the most common issues they deal with every day. The counselor will share some helpful information\, talk about strategies and clinical resources\, and she or he will also make time for you to share a little bit about your concerns (if you wish to do so). \n\n UID:12281-1192659@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12281 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:beating the blues,health and wellness LOCATION:Michigan Union - CAPS Office 3100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T131933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Resume Review Nights DESCRIPTION:Polishing your resume for Winter Expo? Getting your resume ready for your job or internship search? Schedule an appointment for our Resume Review Nights\, and have your resume critiqued by a Career Center staff member or a Guest Employer.\n\n\nCan't make our evening hours? No problem\, simply schedule an appointment during the day for a resume review!\n\n\nSign up for an appointment at: http://careercenter.umich.edu/contact/makeappointment under \"\"Resume Review Nights\" UID:15667-1196088@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,career fair,employers,resume,resume review night,resume writing,the career center,winter career expo LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140115T161317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T193000 SUMMARY:Other:UROP Summer Opportunities DESCRIPTION:UROP Summer Opportunities UID:16093-1197032@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16093 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:the career center,urop LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T132706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T203000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Basic Beekeeping I with Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers DESCRIPTION:Budding beekeepers encouraged to attend tonight’s program for answers to questions on keeping bees. Pros\, cons\, and costs of beekeeping also explored. Info: meghanom@gmail.com. Presented by Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers (A2B2).\n UID:15752-1196239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:beekeeping,environmental,matthaei botanical gardens LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131125T103234 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T203000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Center for the Education of Women Celebration of Women and Film DESCRIPTION:CEW Celebrates: Women and Film: The Annual CEW Mullin Welch Program\nJanuary 14\, 2014\, Michigan Theatre\n7:00 -8:30 p.m.\nSpecial Guest: Cynthia Wade\n\nCEW’s anniversary will kick off at the Michigan Theater with a gift to the community. The evening will include a free program of specially selected short films by and about women\, along with birthday festivities. Oscar winning film director Cynthia Wade will discuss her documentary\, “Mondays at Racine.” Community partners committed to women’s causes will celebrate their work alongside CEW. This event is free and open to the \npublic. UID:15617-1195340@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for the education of women,film,women LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Michigan Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131219T082652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige DESCRIPTION:In a critical Cold War moment in 1957\, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik\, the world's first satellite. \n\nYanek Mieczkowski's Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment shows that Eisenhower refused to panic and guided America's space program--but in a sharp political conflict\, he clashed with John Kennedy over sending men to the moon and improving America's global prestige. \n\nOpen Seating\; Free Admission\; Free Parking\; Book sales/signing and reception follow program.\n UID:15900-1196485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15900 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eisenhower,satellites,space race,sputnik LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140114T000017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140114T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Low and Lower DESCRIPTION:Cellist Brooks Whitehouse and Bassist Paul Sharpe are “Low and Lower\,\" America\&##39\;s #1-selling cello bass duo. This ensemble\&##39\;s performances are a mash-up of artistry\, virtuosity\, and satire. Low and Lower has developed a whole new genre in answer to the question\, \"Cello and bass...seriously?\" With MacGyver-like determination they create\, inspire and commission works using only the limited materials at hand - a cello\, a bass\, two voices\, a sense of humor\, a touch of theater\, and a willingness to do almost anything. UID:15626-1195350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15626 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195595@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Lightscapes: Photographs of the American West DESCRIPTION:Kim Kozlowski is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Novi\, Michigan. Inspired by the natural beauty of the American West\, this collection of images is a celebration of light in its many forms: from radiant sunrises to the soft magic of sunset\, from light beams breaking through storm clouds to the diffused light of a forest. Kozlowski’s landscape photography is typically characterized by attention to light\, color\, composition and sharp detail. Her goal is to inspire others to seek out open spaces and new vistas in the natural world. UID:15647-1195745@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass DESCRIPTION:The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops\, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino\, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan\, and in 1982\, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection\, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection\, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium\, including Dominick Labino\, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter. UID:15648-1195858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195495@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195445@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T154323 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:“And it was just right”: Food and cooking in children’s literature DESCRIPTION:These folk tales\, adventure stories\, cookbooks\, advertising pamphlets\, and didactic novels from the U-M Library's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and Children’s Literature Collection use images and descriptions of food to amuse\, instruct\, admonish\, reassure\, tempt\, warn\, and raise that “eew-gross” reaction so loved by children of a certain age.\n\nStories for children are full of food\, from Little Red Riding Hood’s basket of goodies to Harry Potter’s earwax-flavored jelly beans. Since at least the mid-19th century children have been a distinct audience for cookbooks and other food-related publications. This exhibit brings together materials from two fascinating strengths of the library: Children’s Literature and American Culinary History. Come and explore the roles food plays in children’s literature\, and the ways books on food address children.\n\nExhibit curated by William Gosling\, University Librarian Emeritus\, and JJ Jacobson\, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, from items in the Special Collections Library. UID:15768-1196297@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:books,children's entertainment,culinary,library,university library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lower Level Display Cases, Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T143807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to SPSS DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS\, within-case transformations\, data management with multiple files\, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. UID:15670-1196096@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,statistics,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131218T105214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Hendley\, William Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Political Science\, University of Wisconsin\n\nMuch of what we think we know about Russian law centers on high-profile cases brought against political dissidents. Politics invariably trumps law in these cases. But these cases of “telephone law” are the exception\, not the rule. Few ordinary Russians find themselves caught up in disputes that have political resonance. This lecture focuses on how law is experienced in everyday life in Russia. Over the past few years\, Hendley has conducted field research at the newly-created justice-of-the-peace courts (mirovye sudy). These courts now constitute the portal of entry to the judicial system for most cases. The ever-increasing number of cases has created challenges for judges. She looks at the operation of these courts from the point of view of both judges and litigants. Using survey data\, she analyzes disputants’ level of satisfaction with their experiences in the JP courts.\n\nKathryn Hendley is the William Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where she has taught since 1993. Her research focusing on legal reform in post-Soviet Russia has been supported by grants and fellowships from many sources including the National Science Foundation\, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research\, World Bank\, and Fulbright Scholar Program. She has published widely on legal and economic reform in Russia and on issues relating to how ordinary Russians experience law. She received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law and her Ph.D. from University of California\, Berkeley.\n\nSponsors: CREES\, WCED\n\nPart of the series Pluralism in Politics and Culture\, a new initiative jointly sponsored by CREES and WCED that examines the foundations of free and open societies. The project builds on the university’s rich legacy of study and support of the dissident culture in the former Soviet Union and on several existing efforts at U-M. The series focuses on multiple facets of political pluralism\, including its legal\, cultural\, and economic dimensions\, and explore them in a broader historical context. UID:15870-1196455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:law,russia LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140102T163256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of the so called ribeirinhos (river people) of Brazil's Pantanal region\, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The images by Marcin Szczepanski\, senior multimedia producer at the College of Engineering\, portray the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. UID:15934-1196591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,film,multicultural,north campus,social justice,student org,visual arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, Room 1019 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T145313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Stata DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces participants to the use of Stata for Windows. After an introduction to the fundamentals of the Stata environment\, the workshop introduces importing and entering data \nmanaging data sets\, performing statistical analyses (including descriptive analysis\, hypothesis testing\,regression \nanalysis\, and analysis of survey data)\, and graphing tools within Stata..\n UID:15672-1196100@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15672 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,stata,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131222T165105 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T163000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Current Events\, Section 2--OLLI (50+) Study Group DESCRIPTION:This class meets Wednesdays\, January 15 - August 20\, and is taught by Joan Innes and Joy Rome.\n\n\nThis discussion group is for people interested in what's happening at the local\, national\, and global level. All opinions receive a courteous hearing. No materials or special expertise required. Just bring an open mind and a good sense of humor. \n UID:15920-1196548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15920 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:current events,lifelong learning,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131218T133802 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ASP Lecture DESCRIPTION:Arsene Saparov\, lecturer in history\, U-M\n\nThe Soviet leadership often stands accused of deliberately drawing internal frontiers in the Caucasus so as to create leverage against union republics. Violent conflicts that broke out in the 1990s in Abkhazia\, Nagorno-Karabakh\, and South Ossetia seem to prove this assertion. In this talk\, an attempt will be made to understand the logic of Bolshevik boundary-making in the South Caucasus. The speaker will investigate to what extent the Bolsheviks were concerned with controlling the peripheral borderlands through a divide-and-rule policy\, and to what extent they were genuine in their claim to solve the conflicts.\n\nSponsors: ASP\, CREES UID:15875-1196461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:armenia,caucasus,soviet union LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140106T110751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Miriam the Prophetess Exhibit - Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:A collection of etchings by Israeli artist: Leora Wise\n\nAbout the exhibit:\n The etchings draw upon biblical and Mishnaic texts\, as well as the \n artist’s own feminist perspective\, to depict Miriam the prophetess \n as a talented\, creative\, wise\, and courageous leader.\n\nAbout the artist:\n Leora Wise is a narrative artist who lives in Jerusalem. Her work\n is figurative and is often based on myths\, legends\, and family \n history. Her art has been exhibited in Israel\, England\, France\, \n Spain\, Amsterdam\, and the U.S.\n\nRemarks by Rivka Bliboim\, Frankel fellow \n UID:15944-1196619@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15944 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:jewish studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 2000 Thayer CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T131933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Resume Review Nights DESCRIPTION:Polishing your resume for Winter Expo? Getting your resume ready for your job or internship search? Schedule an appointment for our Resume Review Nights\, and have your resume critiqued by a Career Center staff member or a Guest Employer.\n\n\nCan't make our evening hours? No problem\, simply schedule an appointment during the day for a resume review!\n\n\nSign up for an appointment at: http://careercenter.umich.edu/contact/makeappointment under \"\"Resume Review Nights\" UID:15667-1196089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,career fair,employers,resume,resume review night,resume writing,the career center,winter career expo LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T171351 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140115T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Deadly Gentlemen DESCRIPTION: UID:15680-1196125@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15680 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music,the ark,the deadly gentlemen LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131121T155916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:4\,000 Years for Choice DESCRIPTION:This exhibition combines two projects by graphic designer Heather Ault. \"4\,000 Years for Choice\" is an exhibition of posters about the age-old practice of abortion and contraception as a means to reclaim reproductive freedom as a deeply personal and life-sustaining act existing throughout all of human history. The \"Reproductive Roots\" series shines a bright light on the many voices from the abortion care and reproductive justice movements\, using vividly designed social media graphics and notecards to inspire conversations from a breadth of perspectives. \n\nHeather Ault is a visual artist\, pro-choice activist\, and independent scholar creating artwork to shift conversations about reproductive rights and justice. She uses vibrant graphics\, affirmative language\, and historical accounts to transform ugly discord into visual narratives that are beautiful and empowering.\n\nThe exhibition is presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Department. It is cosponsored by the Program for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice\, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. \n\n UID:15605-1195194@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:reproductive health,reproductive justice,visual arts,women,women's health LOCATION:Lane Hall - Lane Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140113T135919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Maps and Mapmaking in India DESCRIPTION:The Stephen S. Clark Library’s map collection contains a rich variety of historical and modern maps and atlases of India. The exhibit\, which runs through April 22\, highlights many of our earliest maps\, including a facsimile of an Arabic manuscript from 1159 C.E. The exhibit covers the history and evolution of the mapping of India\, colonialism\, modern geoscapes portraying ”˜Mother India\,’ and maps of India today.\n\nMaps of India are presented in conjunction with the winter 2014 LSA theme semester \"India in the World.\" UID:16019-1196842@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16019 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,india,library,maps,theme semester LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Lightscapes: Photographs of the American West DESCRIPTION:Kim Kozlowski is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Novi\, Michigan. Inspired by the natural beauty of the American West\, this collection of images is a celebration of light in its many forms: from radiant sunrises to the soft magic of sunset\, from light beams breaking through storm clouds to the diffused light of a forest. Kozlowski’s landscape photography is typically characterized by attention to light\, color\, composition and sharp detail. Her goal is to inspire others to seek out open spaces and new vistas in the natural world. UID:15647-1195746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195546@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass DESCRIPTION:The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops\, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino\, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan\, and in 1982\, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection\, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection\, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium\, including Dominick Labino\, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter. UID:15648-1195859@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195496@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195446@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T143807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to SPSS DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS for Windows. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS\, within-case transformations\, data management with multiple files\, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. UID:15670-1196097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,statistics,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131211T180254 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Center for Michigan: Provoking the Public’s Agenda to Make Michigan a Better Place DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Philip H. Power\, Founder and President of the Center for Michigan. \n\nThe Center for Michigan works to make Michigan a better place by 1) calling forth public views through community conversations\, 2) nourishing and amplifying those views through journalism and 3) taking those views into the halls of power. For example\, over the past year the Center for Michigan successfully worked to increase state support for the Great Start Readiness Program\, the state’s pre-K program aimed at low-income four-year-olds. \n UID:15796-1196327@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:community,journalism,lifelong learning,politics,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel, 2900 Jackson Ave. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T144650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Clinical Immersion in Thailand DESCRIPTION:UMSN faculty and staff will share their stories and insights from a recent 5-week clinical immersion in Thailand.\n\nThis is a brown bag event. Please feel free to bring your lunch. All are welcome.\n\nhttp://nursing.umich.edu/about-our-school/news-portal/201311/3566#.Uq9ZQeIw-so UID:15836-1196414@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15836 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:clinical immersion,nursing,southeast asia,thailand LOCATION:School of Nursing - Room 1191 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140102T163256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of the so called ribeirinhos (river people) of Brazil's Pantanal region\, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The images by Marcin Szczepanski\, senior multimedia producer at the College of Engineering\, portray the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. UID:15934-1196592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,film,multicultural,north campus,social justice,student org,visual arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, Room 1019 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131212T141032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Featured Music Majors DESCRIPTION:The Outreach Program for the Performing Arts is a course offered to students enrolled in the School of Music\, Theatre\, & Dance at the University of Michigan. Students perform in the community at local hospitals\, retirement homes and schools. The musical styles range from classical music to Broadway show tunes. The performers also enjoy interacting with audiences and providing interesting information about their musical experiences. UID:15810-1196341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15810 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,music LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T145313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Stata DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces participants to the use of Stata for Windows. After an introduction to the fundamentals of the Stata environment\, the workshop introduces importing and entering data \nmanaging data sets\, performing statistical analyses (including descriptive analysis\, hypothesis testing\,regression \nanalysis\, and analysis of survey data)\, and graphing tools within Stata..\n UID:15672-1196101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15672 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,stata,workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140110T163838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CBSSM Seminar: Erica Sutton\, PhD (Jan. 16) DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our next CBSSM 2013-2014 seminar:\n\n\"A Critical Public Health Ethics Analysis of Informed Consent for Newborn Screening: An Ontario Case Study\" \n\nErica Sutton\, PhD\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, CBSSM\n\nSummary: Public health ethics (PHE) is a theoretical lens often used to analyze public health programs\, practices\, policies\, and institutions. PHE strives to find a balance between achieving population health goals and promoting individual liberty. To reach this balance PHE scholars encourage the use of least restrictive alternatives. However\, least restrictive approaches are often taken for granted as presumed goods and their ability to protect individual liberty and the common good is often assumed. I examine this presumption through an examination of informed consent – implied and express – for newborn screening (NBS) in Ontario. I conducted an exploratory qualitative case study to understand how 57 individuals involved in the lobbying\, development\, and implementation of expanded NBS in Ontario perceive consent policy for NBS. In this seminar I will present my interview findings on participants’ attitudes towards informed consent for NBS as contextualized within the broader PHE principles of least restrictive alternatives\, effectiveness\, autonomy\, and social justice. Challenging informed consent as a presumed good and submitting the practice of consent to ethical scrutiny legitimates the concerns of those wary of consent\, illuminates the perceived benefits and risks of consent\, and creates an opportunity to mitigate risks before implementing or adjusting NBS consent policy. \n\n UID:15994-1196823@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:informed consent,public health,public policy LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 16, Conference Rm 266 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131121T161334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:4\,000 Years for Choice DESCRIPTION:This lecture expands upon the Lane Hall Gallery exhibition\, \"4\,000 Years for Choice: A Graphic Guide to Reproductive Justice\,\" featuring two related projects by graphic designer Heather Ault.\n\n\"4\,000 Years for Choice\" is an exhibition of posters about the age-old practices of abortion and contraception as a means to reclaim reproductive freedom as a deeply personal and life-sustaining act existing throughout all of human history. The \"Reproductive Roots\" series shines a bright light on the many voices from the abortion care and reproductive justice movements using vividly designed social media graphics and notecards to inspire conversations from a breadth of perspectives. \n\nHeather Ault is a visual artist\, pro-choice activist\, and independent scholar creating artwork to shift conversations about reproductive rights and justice. She uses vibrant graphics\, affirmative language\, and historical accounts to transform ugly discord into visual narratives that are beautiful and empowering. \n\nThe lecture is hosted by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Department. It is cosponsored by the Program for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice\, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology\, and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nA reception follows the lecture.\n\n UID:15606-1195328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:gender,health and wellness,reproductive health,reproductive justice,social justice,visual arts,women,women's health,women's studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - Room 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140108T090707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Widespread anthropogenic changes to communities and ecosystems reinforce and reinvigorate our need to understand fundamental ecological questions. How do species interact? How do communities assemble? How do ecosystems function? Importantly\, how do human impacts such as nutrient enrichment and land use change alter these processes? In this talk\, I explore two main research areas that ask fundamental ecological questions in changing environments. First\, I show that nutrient enrichment can dramatically alter relationships between grasses and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi\, but that different grass species respond differently to altered environmental conditions. This finding inspires one of my future research directions\, which asks whether this mechanism influences community assembly in nutrient-enriched habitats. Second\, I briefly explore causes of variation in beta diversity (spatial variation in species composition within a community) in post-agricultural habitats. This line of research motivates a second future research direction\, which asks what effect these differences in beta diversity have on ecosystem function. Understanding these core ecological topics\, species interactions and the causes of beta diversity\, remain important goals for basic community ecologists. Today’s rapidly changing human-impacted ecosystems provide both inspiration and a testing ground for exploration of these core topics. My research program is rooted in the belief that knowledge of fundamental ecological processes and how they respond to altered environmental contexts is vital to our understanding of life around us. UID:15954-1196645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15954 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131217T151339 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T180000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Maps and Map-making in India: Exhibit Opening DESCRIPTION:Maps of India are presented in conjunction with the winter 2014 Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA) theme semester “India in the World.” Additional maps from the Clark Library will be on display and light refreshments will be provided. UID:15858-1196444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit opening,india,library,maps LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196535@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131202T131933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Resume Review Nights DESCRIPTION:Polishing your resume for Winter Expo? Getting your resume ready for your job or internship search? Schedule an appointment for our Resume Review Nights\, and have your resume critiqued by a Career Center staff member or a Guest Employer.\n\n\nCan't make our evening hours? No problem\, simply schedule an appointment during the day for a resume review!\n\n\nSign up for an appointment at: http://careercenter.umich.edu/contact/makeappointment under \"\"Resume Review Nights\" UID:15667-1196090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:career,career fair,employers,resume,resume review night,resume writing,the career center,winter career expo LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131217T145958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T171000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:Free and Open To the Public\n\nMexican-Canadian media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer creates interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. Using technologies such as robotics\, computerized surveillance and telematic networks his light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency”. With solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney\, he was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the 2007 Venice Biennale. He has also shown at Biennials and Triennials in Havana\, Istanbul\, Liverpool\, Montréal\, Beijing\, Moscow\, New Orleans\, Seoul\, Seville\, Shanghai\, Singapore and Sydney. UID:15854-1196429@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,arts at michigan,lecture series,penny stamps speaker series,penny w stamps LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131213T101113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T181000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Find your EXPO-tential: Career Expo Success DESCRIPTION:You've heard about the Career Expo coming up on January 22 and you keep getting e-mails telling you to go. Your friends keep talking about the event.\n\nBut you wonder--what is Winter Career Expo and what are you supposed to do at the event?\n\nThis workshop is designed just for you! Find out what to expect. Who will be there. How to approach employers. What to wear. Strategies for success. Your personal pitch. And how to follow-up after the event.\n\nRegister through Career Center Connector today! UID:15818-1196350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15818 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:the career center,winter career expo,workshop LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center Program Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131213T101113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T194000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Find your EXPO-tential: Career Expo Success DESCRIPTION:You've heard about the Career Expo coming up on January 22 and you keep getting e-mails telling you to go. Your friends keep talking about the event.\n\nBut you wonder--what is Winter Career Expo and what are you supposed to do at the event?\n\nThis workshop is designed just for you! Find out what to expect. Who will be there. How to approach employers. What to wear. Strategies for success. Your personal pitch. And how to follow-up after the event.\n\nRegister through Career Center Connector today! UID:15818-1196351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15818 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:the career center,winter career expo,workshop LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center Program Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131104T160732 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Mikaela Davis DESCRIPTION:Mikaela Davis is a harpist/singer-songwriter from Rochester\, New York. Her musicianship became clear at age eight when she began to study the harp with Grace Wong\, principal harpist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Mikaela was a harpist in the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra from 2006-2010 and was a concerto competition winner in 2010. She now attends the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Mikaela is joined by Alex Coté on drums and percussion\, and Cian McCarthy on guitar\, sitar\, and keys. You've never heard anything quite like this combination before! Audio engineer Brian Moore\, who recorded Mikaela's debut album\, describes her sound as “harp and voice with an eclectic instrument mix whipped into a melancholy lo-fi sound\; an intricate balance of fluttering vocal folds and fingers on strings that blend effortlessly.” UID:15437-1194823@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15437 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mikaela davis,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140116T000014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140116T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Jaclyn Johnson\, conductor DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Bach - Nun komm\, der Heiden Heiland\, BWV 61\; Finzi - In terra pax\, op. 39. UID:16025-1196940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131121T155916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:4\,000 Years for Choice DESCRIPTION:This exhibition combines two projects by graphic designer Heather Ault. \"4\,000 Years for Choice\" is an exhibition of posters about the age-old practice of abortion and contraception as a means to reclaim reproductive freedom as a deeply personal and life-sustaining act existing throughout all of human history. The \"Reproductive Roots\" series shines a bright light on the many voices from the abortion care and reproductive justice movements\, using vividly designed social media graphics and notecards to inspire conversations from a breadth of perspectives. \n\nHeather Ault is a visual artist\, pro-choice activist\, and independent scholar creating artwork to shift conversations about reproductive rights and justice. She uses vibrant graphics\, affirmative language\, and historical accounts to transform ugly discord into visual narratives that are beautiful and empowering.\n\nThe exhibition is presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Department. It is cosponsored by the Program for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice\, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. \n\n UID:15605-1195195@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:reproductive health,reproductive justice,visual arts,women,women's health LOCATION:Lane Hall - Lane Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140113T135919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Maps and Mapmaking in India DESCRIPTION:The Stephen S. Clark Library’s map collection contains a rich variety of historical and modern maps and atlases of India. The exhibit\, which runs through April 22\, highlights many of our earliest maps\, including a facsimile of an Arabic manuscript from 1159 C.E. The exhibit covers the history and evolution of the mapping of India\, colonialism\, modern geoscapes portraying ”˜Mother India\,’ and maps of India today.\n\nMaps of India are presented in conjunction with the winter 2014 LSA theme semester \"India in the World.\" UID:16019-1196843@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16019 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,india,library,maps,theme semester LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195697@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Lightscapes: Photographs of the American West DESCRIPTION:Kim Kozlowski is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Novi\, Michigan. Inspired by the natural beauty of the American West\, this collection of images is a celebration of light in its many forms: from radiant sunrises to the soft magic of sunset\, from light beams breaking through storm clouds to the diffused light of a forest. Kozlowski’s landscape photography is typically characterized by attention to light\, color\, composition and sharp detail. Her goal is to inspire others to seek out open spaces and new vistas in the natural world. UID:15647-1195747@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Paperweights & Studio Glass DESCRIPTION:The American studio glass movement started in 1962 with glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops\, taught by Harvey Littleton along with scientist Dominick Labino\, introduced a small furnace built for working glass that made it possible for artists to work in independent studios. The studio glass movement quickly spread north to Michigan\, and in 1982\, a decision was made that studio glass would be the focus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn permanent art collection\, which is housed at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. This exhibition is a portion of that collection\, spotlighting studio glass art by major artists working in the medium\, including Dominick Labino\, Marvin Lipofsky and Richard Ritter. UID:15648-1195860@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Level B2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195447@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131222T165414 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T110000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Computerized Investing 201 - Active Investing--OLLI (50+) Study Group DESCRIPTION:This class meets every other Friday\, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. 1/17\, 1/31\, 2/14\, 2/28\, 4/4\, 4/18\, 5/2. It will be taught by Bob Shaw and Dale Brandenberg.\n\nYou will learn strategies for active investing using your computer to select mutual funds and stocks. We will address questions such as: stocks and mutual funds that will be best for you and whether to use index funds or actively managed funds. We will discuss how to evaluate class-nominated stocks and mutual funds\, building upon asset allocation concepts. A prerequisite for this course is having taken Computerized Investing 101 or being an active investor. We do not intend to cover basic investing questions. Both class leaders are active investors. \n UID:15921-1196549@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15921 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:computers,investing,lifelong learning,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140108T110148 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Your Story & Your Path: Women Studies Capstone and The Career Center DESCRIPTION:This is a closed session for students enrolled in the Women Studies Capstone course to work with Career Center Staff in their career exploration and planning. UID:15957-1196650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15957 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seniors,the career center,women's studies LOCATION:Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130912T160909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Lecture Series. \"Battleground of Creativities: \"Vietnamese Tài Tu Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries\" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Cannon’s research investigates the changing practices of a genre of traditional music called don ca tài tu. As a recipient of the Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship\, he conducted 15 months of extensive fieldwork research in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta in 2008 and 2009 and returns every year to continue his research. In 2011\, he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan on charismatic musicianship in Vietnam titled “Making Tradition Charismatic: Music\, Memory and Alliance in Contemporary Southern Vietnam” under the guidance of Professor Joseph Lam. UID:14653-1195056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/14653 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ethnomusicology,vietnam LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140109T093825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Freshman Fridays at The Career Center DESCRIPTION:The Career Center is pleased to announce the return of \"Freshman Fridays\"\, with great food\, smiling staff\, XBox\, and some added guest appearances over the semester!\n\nBring a friend\, and stop on in! 12pm-1pm on Fridays at The Career Center! UID:15976-1196673@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:first year students,freshman,freshman friday,the career center LOCATION:Student Activities Building - The Career Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140102T163256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of the so called ribeirinhos (river people) of Brazil's Pantanal region\, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The images by Marcin Szczepanski\, senior multimedia producer at the College of Engineering\, portray the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. UID:15934-1196593@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,film,multicultural,north campus,social justice,student org,visual arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery, Room 1019 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140114T133939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T180000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:UM3D Lab Winter 2014 Open House DESCRIPTION:Curious about new technologies\, or have a project in mind but not sure where to start? The UM3D Lab Winter Open House will feature demonstrations of Virtual Reality\, Rapid Prototyping\, Motion Capture\, 3D Scanning\, Mobile Development\, Animations\, and more. Learn more about what the 3D Lab to offer at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqYx2OuxYo.\n\nIn addition to various technology\, projects\, and expertise\, this semester we're kicking off some exciting new services\, technologies\, and learning opportunities:\n\n* FREE Magics and Mimics Workshop! This workshop will introduce you to powerful extraction and model cleanup software available to you in the 3D Lab. The workshop is offered during the Open House\; join us at 4pm in the VisLab.\n\n* Oculus Rift - Try out the acclaimed headset and see what low-cost Virtual Reality can do.\n\n* Cube 3D Printers - Ever want to print something in 3D? Now is your chance while we offer six open-access printers (with free material) as part of a study.\n\n* Digital Creators Collective - A series of workshops to help you build better models\, visualizations\, and presentations. Curious about creating models for 3D Printers? Need to make professional animations and images for presentations? Want to learn how to convert photos into 3D objects? These hands-on\, practical workshops are for you. Learn more at the Open House.\n\nJoin us to see the amazing technology and services available to you through the Library. For more information visit um3d.dc.umich.edu/. UID:16049-1196962@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16049 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:3d,duderstadt,library,motion capture,oculus rift,open house LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - UM3D Lab, First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140114T141212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T143000 SUMMARY:Presentation:How the University of Michigan Pioneered Assistive Technology Implementation DESCRIPTION:As part of their 40 anniversary\, each month Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) is hosting a speaker to present on a disability issue as it relates to the University community.\n\nThis month\, Jane Berliss-Vincent will discuss the history and implementation of assistive technology at U-M. Jane is the Assistive Technology Lead and overseer of the Knox Center Adaptive Technology Site located in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library.\n\n UID:16053-1196966@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16053 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:knox center services,ssd 40th anniversary LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery Room 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140108T122232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Professional Development for Grad Students: Public Policy & LSA PhDs DESCRIPTION:This is a closed session for currently dual enrolled Public Policy and LSA PhD students in PP810. Career Center and Rackham staff will showcase career resources for PhD students. UID:15960-1196651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15960 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:graduate students,the career center LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140109T113641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Internet Wins: How Hacker Culture Drives Creative Destruction DESCRIPTION:Internet-based technologies\, and the startups that build them\, have radically disrupted almost every aspect of our lives: how we work\, play\, buy\, travel\, socialize\, etc. In this talk\, we examine how the hacker culture of the Internet has also changed the way we innovate -- i.e. commercialized invention -- and created a new platform for economic growth through the globalization of tech culture\, collaboration\, and community.\n\nDug Song has a history of leading successful products and companies to solve pressing security problems. He spent 7 years as founding Chief Security Architect at Arbor Networks\, protecting 80% of the world's Internet service providers\, and growing to $120M+ annual revenue before its acquisition by Danaher.\n\nBefore Arbor\, Dug built the first commercial network anomaly detection system (acquired by NFR / Check Point)\, and managed security in the world's largest production Kerberos environment (University of Michigan). He is a 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan\, with a BS in Computer Science.\n\nDug's contributions to the security community include popular open source security (OpenSSH\, libdnet\, dsniff)\, distributed filesystem (NFSv4)\, and operating system (OpenBSD) projects\, and co-founding the USENIX Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT).\nThe event is followed by a reception\; all are welcome to attend. UID:15978-1196688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15978 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:google lecture,school of information LOCATION:North Quad - Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140117T000012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dissertation Lecture Recital: Francis Yun\, harpsichord DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Handel - Apollo e Dafne HWV 122. UID:16096-1197053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16096 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131008T133822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140117T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Seth Glier w/sg Anne Heaton DESCRIPTION:Seth Glier compels attention with his powerful falsetto\, melodic prowess\, and what Performer Magazine calls his “intoxicating groove.” This Massachusetts singer\, pianist\, and guitarist\, who abandoned studies at the Berklee College of Music after one year because he “decided I should be playing for people and not for grades\,\" aims straight for the gut with his soaring\, powerful songs. Seth has shared stages with such diverse artists as James Taylor\, Mark Knopfler\, The Verve Pipe\, and Ellis Paul\, who raves\, \"Talent like Seth Glier's brings out the psychic in all of us ... He's gonna be huge.\" Seth was raised on the music of Joni Mitchell\, Martin Sexton and Randy Newman\, but considers his brother to be his greatest influence. “My brother is autistic and non-verbal. I learned to communicate with words better once I realized how to communicate to someone without them\,\" he says. Seth comes to Michigan with a new album\, \"Things I Should Let You Know\,\" which shows the 24-year-old songwriter beginning to grapple with the issues of adulthood. Singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist Anne Heaton opens.\n UID:15147-1193881@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15147 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:anne heaton,music,seth glier,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Back Home in Earth’s Garden: Clay & Fibers DESCRIPTION:Susan Sutherland Barnes has been exploring patterns in nature and the combining of clay and fibers for over thirty years. Her early background\, in painting and printmaking and later a BFA in fibers from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame\, Indiana\, has fostered a unique perspective on working with clay. In this recent body of work\, she continues to follow her interest in the leaf as an iconic motif and incorporates these explorations in a new group of pieces combining round reed basketry and stoneware. Sutherland Barnes recently returned to her home state of Michigan after twenty years away and now maintains a clay and fibers studio in Paw Paw\, Michigan. UID:15646-1195698@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T144049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Florilegium: Color Photography DESCRIPTION:Lansing\, Michigan artist Kim Kauffman shares her appreciation of the botanical world through photo collages of subjects from gardens. She finds her garden the perfect place to experience the natural world on a daily basis and believes that a connection with this world is critically important in our urban lives. She creates a surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light\, color\, texture and scale. These superbly sharp and sensuously soft images challenge us to reimagine our natural world. UID:15645-1195648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Fusion & Separation: Mixed Media on Panel DESCRIPTION:Mary Rousseaux's works appear to be flowing liquid that melds on the surface. The painting materials both fuse and separate\, settling into forms that depict unions. Often deep within the dense surfaces are linear elements\, which add a graceful and lyrical quality. \"I am influenced by nature and the elemental battle fought for balance in the environment”¦ Things that once held a simple position become more complex in the erosion\,\" says Rousseaux. She maintains a large loft studio in an industrial building in Detroit\, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. UID:15644-1195598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Migration: Paper\, Graphite & Collage DESCRIPTION:Print maker and installation artist Yoriko Hirose Cronin has always been interested in birds: their calls\, flight habits\, and especially their migration patterns. She begins her work with an analysis of migration flight. Circles signify orbits\, and solid dots are stars\, constellations\, and the moon in the night sky. Cronin received her BFA from U-M and MFA from Wayne State University. UID:15643-1195548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snap Line on Detroit: Ink on Rag Paper DESCRIPTION:Margi Weir began making drawings of ink and ink wash about 10 years ago using a technique that she calls snap line. A snap line is the mark made by dipping cotton twine into liquid ink or diluted ink\, pulling it tight and snapping it against the paper in an action similar to plucking a guitar string. Some of the drawings in this exhibition explore the technique itself\, and some describe the terrain in New Mexico where she lived before she moved to Detroit in 2009 to join Wayne State University faculty. In the most recent drawings\, Weir studies the skeletons of buildings in Detroit and explores her fascination with empty spaces – the terrain vagues – left by the destruction and reclamation of Detroit's neighborhoods. UID:15642-1195498@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T142906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 2 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:15640-1195398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131126T143146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Textures & Patterns: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces\, continuous and broken lines\, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds\, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats\, stamps\, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor\, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo\, Ohio\, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University. UID:15641-1195448@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T092515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T120000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Eco-Restoration Workdays – Matthaei Botanical Gardens DESCRIPTION:Enjoy and learn about the beautiful natural areas at Matthaei Botanical Gardens as you contribute to our restoration efforts. Education and tools provided. RSVP/advance registration required for individuals and groups. Volunteers under age 18 must submit a permission form prior to participation\; those under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. The Matthaei eco-workday takes place year-round on the third Saturday of each month. (734) 647-8528 or tgriffit@umich.edu.\n\n UID:15733-1196196@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15733 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,matthaei botanical gardens,volunteer LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131216T123721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scales of Contact: DESCRIPTION:Scales of Contact: Architecture & Global Infrastructures\, an exhibition of architecture research by Taubman College graduate students\, opens to the public at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History this Monday\, December 16. \n\nTen students collaboratively designed and fabricated a modified cabinet-of-curiosities to contain select images\, drawings\, and models from the fall semester’s Vast Machines architecture studio taught by Assistant Professor Meredith Miller. Centered in the museum’s rotunda\, the white plastic monolith is punctured by multiple view-holes\, offering glimpses of the students’ globally-oriented design and research projects\, represented in miniature. The ten student projects each proposed an “earth observatory” at the intersection of a particular global system and the local environments\, material conditions\, and visual cultures that system intersects.\n\nStudio Brief:\nThe recent book by Paul N. Edwards\, A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming\, discusses the controversy around climate science over the authority of data models versus empirical observation. Requiring an extensive global infrastructure of data gathering and weather monitoring\, scholarship and policy\, instruments and standards\, climate models synthesize data amassed at the scale of the world. They fill in gaps between measurements\, account for variations in instruments\, and advance comprehensive predictions based on dynamic patterns run forward. It could be argued then that the model is a more complete representation of reality than observable reality itself.\n\nCosmology and cosmography set the stage for globalization\; imaginations of the world in its entirety precede direct access to the globe through sight. Well before the Apollo photographs of the “whole earth” came to symbolize an emerging ecological consciousness\, visual representations and conceptual models made sensible various theories about planetary mechanics and lent an aesthetic sensibility to the political\, theological\, and existential ideas associated with them.\n\nWith the Whole Earth generation as our precedent\, the VAST MACHINES studio identifies new technologies of planetary consequence\, updates the political issues at stake and defines the current sensibilities of today’s “Whole Earth.” Student projects explicate specific infrastructures of global knowledge and exchange as the context for local acts of architecture. The exhibition\, Scales of Contact\, concludes the term by reformatting their studio projects as a collection of possible worlds. \n UID:15834-1196399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - Rotunda CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140113T135919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Maps and Mapmaking in India DESCRIPTION:The Stephen S. Clark Library’s map collection contains a rich variety of historical and modern maps and atlases of India. The exhibit\, which runs through April 22\, highlights many of our earliest maps\, including a facsimile of an Arabic manuscript from 1159 C.E. The exhibit covers the history and evolution of the mapping of India\, colonialism\, modern geoscapes portraying ”˜Mother India\,’ and maps of India today.\n\nMaps of India are presented in conjunction with the winter 2014 LSA theme semester \"India in the World.\" UID:16019-1196844@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16019 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,india,library,maps,theme semester LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130930T172909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Justin Roberts & The Not Ready For Naptime Players DESCRIPTION:Justin Roberts has become an Ark family favorite! Justin and his band\, the Not Ready for Naptime Players\, dish out intelligent and whimsically rocking music for kids and their parents. Roberts started out in the Minneapolis indie rock band Pimentos for Gus\, which inspired a devoted but small following. So Roberts decided to moonlight (during the day) as a Montessori preschool teacher. Soon he began writing songs for a new generation of fans: his students. He was soon being compared to everyone from Elvis Costello to Fountains of Wayne and Nick Lowe. It was clear that Justin had figured out the elusive trick of appealing to both kids and adults. Kiddie mosh pits broke out\, word spread\, and shows started selling out–at renowned venues like New York's Symphony Space and even Lollapalooza. Time Out NY Kids named Justin's \"Meltdown\" CD to its list of the best children's music of the last 30 years\, and he comes to town with a new release\, \"Recess.\" Time to hit the playground!\n UID:14920-1193420@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/14920 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:justin roberts,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131206T133539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T150000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Springtime in Istanbul - Plants of Turkey and Cyprus DESCRIPTION:A presentation by long-time Rock Garden Society member Bill Brown on the spring flora of Turkey and Cyprus. Turkey especially is renowned as the source of many of our finest spring bulbs\, and many other plants from Turkey also do well in our Michigan climate. Presented by Great Lakes Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. Info: reznicek@umich.edu.\n UID:15753-1196240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cyprus turkey rock garden matthaei,environmental LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131213T133329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T140000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Korean Cinema Now: The Berlin File DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan\n2013\, 120 minutes\n\nJUNG Jin-soo (played by HAN Seok-kyu)\, a South Korean intelligence agent\, comes across an unidentifiable operative\, a 'ghost\,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent\, PYO Jong-seong\, whose information cannot be found on any intelligence database. Jung quickly goes after Pyo to unveil his identity and gets himself embroiled in a vast international conspiracy. In the meanwhile\, another North Korean operative\, DONG Myung-soo\, is dispatched to Berlin with a secret agenda to purge Pyo and take control of the North Korean embassy. Dong sets a trap to frame Pyo's wife\, RYUN Jung-hee\, for treason and tightens the noose around Pyo's neck. Pyo surveils his wife with hopes of clearing accusation against her but he plunges into deeper confusion when he discovers her secret... UID:15824-1196358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15824 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:korean cinema LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140118T000013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Masters Recital: Chris Rodgers\, trombone DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Crespo - Improvisation no. 1 for Solo Trombone\; Mussorgsky - Sunless\; Hidas - Fantasia for Trombone\; Wagenseil - Trombone Concerto\; Madas - (M)Aria. UID:16097-1197054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16097 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131220T154113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:People of the River Photography and Video Exhibit DESCRIPTION:People of the River captures the life of so called ribeirinhos (river people) that inhabit the Pantanal region in Brazil. Pantanal\, located roughly in the center of South America\, is one of the largest wetlands in the world\, with a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.\nThe author portrays the changing nature of life in Pantanal and how its residents cope with the environmental\, social and economic challenges around them. The exhibit also documents the work of Pantanal Partnership\, the collaboration of U-M students with Pantanal’s residents and schools that aims to provide healthy water and renewable energy to the area by building water filters\, bio-digesters and wind turbines. Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies\, College of Engineering\, LACS Brazil Initiative and UM Library UID:15916-1196537@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,duderstadt,gallery,global,photo exhibit,photography,student org,student show LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140118T000012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:Masters Recital: Julian Hernandez\, clarinet DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Lovreglio - “Fantasia da Concerto” motives from La Traviata by G. Verdi\; Brahms - Sonata\, op. 120\, no. 2 in E-flat Major\; von Weber - Grand Duo Concertante\; Bartok - Contrasts for Violin\, Clarinet\, and Piano. UID:16027-1196942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16027 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20131023T102833 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dragon Wagon DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor's own Dragon Wagon calls their music \"bluegrass folk-rock with a shot of Irish whiskey.\" No matter how your pour it\, this is a lot of fun! Dragon Wagon offers Michigan roots music at its finest! Each performance is fun\, original\, and expertly musical. This band's honest sound and genuine crowd connection never disappoint\, and they spice up the bleugrass combination of mandolin (Troy Radikin)\, fiddle (Megan Urich)\, banjo (Rich Delcamp)\, guitar (Don Sicheneder)\, and bass (Adam McDermott)\, with percussion (the mysterious Jurado) that brings infectious energy to get crowds on their feet! Dragon Wagon has been one of Michigan's breakout bands over the last two years\, playing the Electric Forest festival and tearing up countless local stages. It's easy to see why–they really are breathing fire! UID:15338-1194703@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15338 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:dragon wagon,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140118T000012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Aaron Berofsky\, violin and Edward Parmentier\, harpsichord DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Corelli - Sonata in F Major\, op. 5\, no. 10\; Locatelli - Sonata in D Minor\, op. 6\, no. 12\; Leclair - Sonata in A Major\, op. 9\, no. 1\; Bach - Sonata in C Minor\, BWV 1024 \; Handel - Sonata in A Major\, HWV 361. UID:15520-1194977@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/15520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140118T000012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140118T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Masters Recital: Patrick Montgomery\, trombone DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Emperor Joseph I - Alme Ingrate\; Bezossi - Sonata in C Major\; Jansson - Messa per quattro tromboni\; Casterede - Sonatine\; Ewald - Quintet no. 3\; Rush - Rebellion. UID:16026-1196941@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/16026 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR