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:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716496@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552475@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716244@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372223@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655831@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161202T133929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:TRANSFORMING MOBILITY — THE SIGNAL IN THE NOISE DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lawrence D. “Larry” Burns is former corporate vice-president of Research\, 
Development\, and Planning at General Motors. Burns oversaw GM’s advanced 
technology\, innovation program\, and corporate strategy. He was a member of GM’s 
Automotive Strategy and Automotive Product Boards. Within GM\, he personally 
championed vehicle electrification\, “connected” vehicles\, fuel cells\, bio-fuels\, advanced batteries\, autonomous driving\, and innovative concept vehicles.\n\nNew technology and business models are converging to transform the way people and goods move around and interact. It is now possible to supply better mobility at a significantly lower cost to consumers and society by innovatively 
combining connected\, coordinated\, driverless\, shared\, and tailored vehicles. 
Individually\, each of these building blocks promises incremental improvements over today’s road transportation system. When combined to enhance the mobility experiences of consumers\, the improvements are radical and the changes are transformational. \n\nThis is the first of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Future of Transportation: Don’t Turn in Your Car Keys Yet! UID:36501-5639318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Transportation LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987587@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446196@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224425@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gifts of Art presents Snowflake Making Workshop DESCRIPTION:In this annual workshop\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark\, a.k.a. Doctor Snowflake\, shares his paper cutting techniques and helps participants try their hands at some seasonal designs. There is also opportunity for participants to experiment with their own creations. As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s work is a retrospective. It is on display until March 12\, 2017 in the Gifts of Art gallery where the workshop will be held. If attending the workshop\, please bring scissors. If planning to bring a group\, please call Gifts of Art at 734-936-ARTS (2787)\, as space is limited. UID:37032-6128203@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200,Workshop LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170215T162330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T140000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad. UID:33562-6457686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Internship LOCATION:LSA Building - 1100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161101T150929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Weekly Drop-in Meditation/Gentle Yoga Sessions DESCRIPTION:Open to all U-M students\, faculty and staff. No mats required. \n\nQuestions? E-mail Paola Savvidou (savvidou@umich.edu)\nWellness Coordinator\, School of Music\, Theatre & Dance. UID:35623-5280564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35623 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2032 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Carillon Recital DESCRIPTION:The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals\, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing\, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells. UID:35477-5235959@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T151440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intro to i>Clicker for Canvas Users DESCRIPTION:Join us in learning how and why to use LSA’s Audience Response System\, i>clicker. During this workshop you will learn everything you need to know to get started using i>clicker in your courses. We will discuss how to set up the necessary equipment\, how to create and start polling sessions\, how to view polling results\, and how i>clicker integrates with Canvas for grading purposes. We will also share useful tips on using i>clicker effectively during class.\n\nRegister here: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/?s=i+clicker&submit=Search UID:36563-5716744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36563 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center PC Classroom, 2001-A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T140822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thesis Defense: Regulation of regenerative and degenerative responses to axonal injury DESCRIPTION:Mentor: Cathy Collins\n\nAbstract: Axons allow neurons to communicate over long distances\, however their long length makes them vulnerable to injury\, since damage at any location leads to loss of a neurons function within a circuit. Repair from axonal damage requires that damaged axon gains an ability to initiate new growth which is termed axonal regeneration. This involves the activation of signaling pathways in the injured neurons which promote a ‘regenerative’ state\, but many neuronal types in the mammalian central nervous system show a failure to initiate this state. Functional repair also requires that the distal axonal stumps\, which have lost connection with cell bodies hence are non-functional\, undergo degeneration and clearance via a process termed Wallerian degeneration. This degeneration takes place via a cell autonomous self-destructive pathway\, akin to apoptosis\, but with distinct\, and still poorly characterized molecular components. \n\nMy thesis work has focused on understanding the cellular mechanisms by which neurons detect and respond to axonal damage. A conserved axonal kinase\, named DLK in mammals or Wallenda (Wnd) in Drosophila\, appears to function as a ‘sensor’ of axonal damage in neurons. However\, the mechanism that activates Wnd/DLK is unknown. I have discovered that the cAMP-regulated protein kinase A (PKA) is a conserved and direct upstream activator of Wnd/DLK: PKA is required for the induction of Wnd/DLK signaling in injured axons\, and directly stimulates its activation via phosphorylation of its activation loop. Elevation of intracellular cAMP level is a broadly known but poorly understood method to stimulate the growth potential of axons. In this study\, I found that DLK is essential for the regenerative effects of cAMP. These findings link two important mediators\, DLK/Wnd and cAMP/PKA\, into a unified and evolutionarily conserved molecular pathway for regulating axonal regeneration upon axonal injury. \n\nMy work has also identified a new regulator of Wallerian degeneration\, from the fortuitous discovery of a mutation that strongly inhibited axonal degeneration in the strain background of dcp-1 mutant. Genetic mapping\, whole genome sequencing and rescue analysis pinpoint this phenotype to a mutation in the putative transmembrane protein\, Raw. Raw functions as a negative regulator of the transcription factor AP-1\, and this activity mediates its role in axonal degeneration. While Raw does not have an obvious mammalian homologue\, the basic mechanism of axonal degeneration is highly conserved between Drosophila and mammalian neurons\, so understanding the mechanism for Raw in degeneration may lead to new insight for understanding and treating nerve damage in humans. UID:35859-5351656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35859 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Research,Science,seminar LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Common Room, Lower Level West CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170120T123022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T151000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Myers Briggs Program- Senior Capstone (BME 450) DESCRIPTION:This session is only open to Senior Capstone (BME 450) this program is designed to use the MBTI to help students identify their type\, their teammates' type and how it affects the way they approach the project. UID:37009-6108947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37009 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:East Room Pierpont Commons 2101 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2090 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T151219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Classroom Discussions: Technology Driven Engagement and Assessment in the classroom DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for instructors who are familiar with the basic usage of audience participation tools\, but are looking for more advanced i>clicker pedagogical usages and best practices. Learn to move discussions and assessments away from a memorization focus\, and towards a deeper principles and application based understanding of complex course content. This participation based workshop will help instructors understand the pedagogical do’s and don’ts of integrating i>clickers to encourage active participation through discussion and asking better questions to assess student understanding. It’s helpful to come with a powerpoint presentation/lecture with questions you’d use with i>clicker\, and be prepared to discuss and participate with other instructors!\n\nNote: Participants do *not* need prior experience with i>Clicker to join for this workshop. If they have not directly worked with the system before in their courses\, they will likely need to attend one of the “Intro to i>Clicker in Canvas” workshops or request a consultation session to get set up.\n\nRegister here: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/?s=Classroom+Discussions&submit=Search UID:36564-5716746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36564 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center PC Classroom, 2001-A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T121524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T160000 SUMMARY:Performance:Graduate Concerto Competition Finals DESCRIPTION:Each of the winners of this annual competition for undergraduate and graduate students will perform their competition-winning piece with one of the School’s orchestras at an upcoming SMTD concert at Hill Auditorium. UID:37151-6179584@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161215T135202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session. \nPresentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office\, G155 Angell Hall. \nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more. \nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. UID:31885-5974168@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Diversity,Environment,Inclusion,International,Multicultural,Networking,Scholarships,Social Justice,Student Org,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Volunteer LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T084836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:China Reading Group DESCRIPTION:Open to doctoral students and faculty in the social sciences. Please email blakeapm@umich.edu if you would like to attend. UID:34930-5046414@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34930 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5664 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T120127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Inaugural Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference DESCRIPTION:WHAT\nThe Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Conference (MUSE) is an inaugural conference and workshop aimed at bringing together the immense array of sustainability and environment-related research ongoing at the University of Michigan.\n\nWHEN & WHERE\nMUSE 2017 will be held February 9-10\, 2017 in Ann Arbor at the University's Palmer Commons.\n\nWHO\nMUSE will bring together University leadership\, faculty\, fellows\, and graduate students for a mixture of interdisciplinary lectures\, panel discussions\, poster sessions\, and network- and skill-building activities. Opportunities will be provided to present both early-stage and final findings from your research. Participation among researchers at all stages of their careers (early to senior) will allow new opportunities for collaboration\, mentorship\, and learning about new developments in fields relevant to your work.\n\nWHY\nThe purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social\, physical\, natural\, and engineering sciences. Faculty\, research fellows\, and graduate students are encouraged to attend.\n\n HOW\nMUSE is spearheaded by a group of PhD students from the SNRE\, CLASP\, EEB\, Psychology\, Political Science\, Nursing\, and Communication Studies. Funding is made possible by SNRE.\n\nWHAT NEXT\n***Registration for MUSE is now open until January 20. Registration is free and open to the entire UM community\, but space is limited\, so please register only if you plan to attend the entire conference. To register\, go to bit.ly/muse2017registration*** UID:35428-6515040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35428 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Architecture,Astronomy,Biology,Business,Chemistry,Chinese Studies,Classical Studies,conference,Ecology,Economics,Education,Engineering,Environment,Graduate,History,Information and Technology,Japanese Studies,Jewish Studies,Law,Literature,Mathematics,Middle East Studies,Native American,Networking,Nursing,Philosophy,Physics,Psychology,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Reception,Research,Science,Sociology,Spanish Studies,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T120127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Inaugural Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference DESCRIPTION:WHAT\nThe Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Conference (MUSE) is an inaugural conference and workshop aimed at bringing together the immense array of sustainability and environment-related research ongoing at the University of Michigan.\n\nWHEN & WHERE\nMUSE 2017 will be held February 9-10\, 2017 in Ann Arbor at the University's Palmer Commons.\n\nWHO\nMUSE will bring together University leadership\, faculty\, fellows\, and graduate students for a mixture of interdisciplinary lectures\, panel discussions\, poster sessions\, and network- and skill-building activities. Opportunities will be provided to present both early-stage and final findings from your research. Participation among researchers at all stages of their careers (early to senior) will allow new opportunities for collaboration\, mentorship\, and learning about new developments in fields relevant to your work.\n\nWHY\nThe purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social\, physical\, natural\, and engineering sciences. Faculty\, research fellows\, and graduate students are encouraged to attend.\n\n HOW\nMUSE is spearheaded by a group of PhD students from the SNRE\, CLASP\, EEB\, Psychology\, Political Science\, Nursing\, and Communication Studies. Funding is made possible by SNRE.\n\nWHAT NEXT\n***Registration for MUSE is now open until January 20. Registration is free and open to the entire UM community\, but space is limited\, so please register only if you plan to attend the entire conference. To register\, go to bit.ly/muse2017registration*** UID:35428-6515041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35428 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Architecture,Astronomy,Biology,Business,Chemistry,Chinese Studies,Classical Studies,conference,Ecology,Economics,Education,Engineering,Environment,Graduate,History,Information and Technology,Japanese Studies,Jewish Studies,Law,Literature,Mathematics,Middle East Studies,Native American,Networking,Nursing,Philosophy,Physics,Psychology,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Reception,Research,Science,Sociology,Spanish Studies,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170105T181527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170105T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Specialist Recital: Lijia Phang\, Violin DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Paganini - Caprice no. 17 in E-flat Major (Sostenuto - Andante)\; Koh - \; Dvorák - Romance in F Minor\, op. 11\; Koh - kilo\; Wieniawski - Thème Original Varié\, op. 15. UID:37380-6515034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37380 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716413@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552561@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716245@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161222T134706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 SUMMARY:Other:#UMich200 Student Kick-Off DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the start of the Bicentennial year with\nFree Bagels\, T-Shirts\, and other Bicentennial Swag \n(while supplies last) UID:37104-6153923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Food,Free,umich200 LOCATION:Haven Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T091300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Art of Managing Multiple Projects & Multitasking DESCRIPTION:Learn the fundamentals of organizing projects from initiation to completion while balancing the demands of time\, scope\, and tasks of ongoing responsibilities.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nOrganize a complex project into measurable units of activity\nEstablish top priorities for each responsibility or project\nUtilize a variety of multitasking strategies to increase your productivity\nIdentify shortcuts to complete projects more efficiently\nUse techniques to achieve realistic schedules for keeping track of multiple projects\nDetermine ways to motivate others to assist you in accomplishing projects\nDescribe the goals and schedule of a project so others involved will meet deadlines\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nManaging “loose ends” more successfully\nFeeling less chaotic and “in control” of workloads\nBecoming less stressed and overwhelmed by work demands\nFeeling a sense of accomplishment following the completion of complex projects\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone whose job includes managing multiple priorities and balancing responsibilities UID:36964-6096065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36964 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - LPD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170202T091836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Clements Library: A Century of Collecting\, 1903 - 2016 DESCRIPTION:The William L Clements Library is one of the world’s finest early American history collections. The books\, maps\, manuscripts\, prints\, photographs\, and other original treasures in the Library’s holdings form a remarkable collection of primary sources on America from Columbus through the nineteenth century. \n\nVisit the newly renovated William L Clements Library to see the unique treasures that reflect the broad range of our collections. This exhibit highlights the collecting philosophy and practices of Mr. Clements and the Library’s four Directors. \n\nFor more information about the Library and using it for research\, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu. UID:30796-5313808@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Exhibition,History,Library,Lifelong Learning LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655832@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T143503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Out of the Ordinary DESCRIPTION:The Library has been in collecting mode almost non-stop since it opened in 1923\, and many unusual or extraordinary objects have found a home within its walls. The four Clements Library curators have each contributed to this exhibit a selection of interesting\, remarkable\, or peculiar items. As we celebrate the return of the Clements collection to 909 South University Avenue\, we invite you to peruse a few of the oddball items that have turned up in a great library.\n\nExhibit open: November 4\, 2016 - April 28\, 2017\nExhibit hours are Fridays 10:00am - 4:00pm UID:35740-5313776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Graduate,Graduate School,History,Information and Technology,Library,Undergraduate LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161209T142237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Writers Unlimited DESCRIPTION:Writers are asked to bring printed copies of their short stories\, novels\, essays\, magazine articles\, poems or memoirs to class. Fellow writers will offer friendly criticism on all aspects of writing. Joy Rome was Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, South Africa. This class for adults over 50 meets Mondays through August 25th. UID:36758-5871436@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Literature,Retirement,Writing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987588@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T112646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sexual Harassment in Academia: A Call to Action DESCRIPTION:Despite headlines to the contrary\, sexual harassment is both a far-reaching and longstanding problem in academia. The 1964 ban on sex discrimination in the workplace\, the coining of the term “sexual harassment” in 1975\, and the 1980 guidelines on sexual harassment issued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) all clearly emerged from a need for workplaces free from obscene remarks or advances. Despite fifty years of attention\, sexual harassment continues to be a problem across many disciplines\, including science. This talk will review existing research on academic sexual harassment as well as insights gleaned from an analysis of nearly 500 cases documented in media reports\, legal briefs\, and university documents. In the past year alone\, sexual harassment perpetrated by a US professor\, dean\, or university president has been documented at least once a week. \nWhile individual academic institutions are currently working to generate policies to protect against sexual harassment\, these individual efforts are unlikely to produce the type of cultural shift needed to combat sexual harassment in academia. We analyzed sexual harassment policies for 38 universities responsible for graduating many future faculty as well as 252 affiliated societies of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This analysis indicates that most professional societies do not have sexual harassment policies. Those policies that do exist within both professional societies and universities fail to meet minimum standards established by the EEOC. We suggest that it is incumbent upon parent organizations such as AAAS to articulate norms and expectations regarding sexual harassment. UID:37025-6121772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987775@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170331T144602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Deadline for Max Kade AY 2017-18 Applications DESCRIPTION:The Max Kade German Residence\, a Michigan Learning Community\, offers students a unique opportunity to live in the only language house on campus. The core theme of the Max Kade Haus is experiential learning – applying what is learned in one's German classes to everyday life. Immerse yourself in German language and culture with like-minded colleagues!\n\nRequirements and more information are on our website: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/undergraduate-students/max-kade-german-residence/how-to-apply.html\n\nApplications for the 2017-18 academic year are due on Friday\, January 6\, 2017\, at noon. Every interested student will have to complete an application and an essay\, whether they were in the house previously or not. Notificaiton will be sent to students with the department's decision of whether to admit them to the Max Kade House on Monday\, January 9\, 2017\, at noon.\n\nNEW student application AY 2017-18: https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQRKzgaRd--mRt7AtOxKsGJYL7vXYJP5o3xCC4PvZyJanv2w/viewform\nRETURNING student application AY 2017-18: https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfbETeibMfBsObqD4oJzNsZF62v7JEAEXTptVcB-s26r9N1A/viewform\n\nPlease contact Annie Varner\, varnera@umich.edu\, or Vicki Dischler\, vdisch@umich.edu with questions. UID:36762-5819999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Max Kade,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161222T135237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Life After Grad School Seminar | Career Planning and Paths for Physicists DESCRIPTION:Dr. Meghan Anzelc\, VP and Lead Data Scientist for Zurich North America\, will speak about her transition from academia to the corporate world. She’ll share how she made that transition\, what she learned through the process\, and how she uses her education in physics today. She will also share some of the career opportunities available to physicists across a wide range of industries. UID:37106-6153924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37106 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170215T162330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T140000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad. UID:33562-6457701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Internship LOCATION:LSA Building - 1100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T120241 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T130000 SUMMARY:Other:meeting DESCRIPTION:jackal\; UID:37411-6534025@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:jakob CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170707T073547 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Yiddish Leyenkrayz DESCRIPTION:The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty\, students\, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature\, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays\, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.\n\nNOTE: Event details may vary\, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm. UID:26737-6502316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 3000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161011T111843 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Comparative Politics Workshop (CPW) DESCRIPTION:Held in the Walker Room UID:34908-5043515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5664 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Carillon Recital DESCRIPTION:The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals\, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing\, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells. UID:35477-5235960@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170105T121151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Mastering the American Accent DESCRIPTION:If English is not your first language\, and you would like to work on your speaking and listening abilities\, the University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a special accent reduction program to help build your skills. The program will help you \"hear\" the American accent for better listening\, while also helping to improve your own speech.\n\nCall 734-764-8440 to register or for more information. \n\nWeekly Sessions Include:\n- Group conversations \n- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of the student’s goals \n- Exercises for improving articulation\, rate control\, and projection \n- Guidance from a licensed speech-language therapist UID:33399-5890712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33399 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Discussion,Diversity,Economics,Engineering,English As A Second Language,Inclusion,International,Language,Mathematics,Physics,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Rackham,Science,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161031T074314 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistical Learning Workshop DESCRIPTION:Held in the Walker Room UID:34926-5043634@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5664 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T181714 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics DESCRIPTION:Circadian clocks govern biological functions that repeat with a period of approximately 24 hours\, with light as the primary synchronizer of the human circadian clock. Using techniques from optimal control\, we can generate schedules of light and dark that shift a model of the circadian clock to a new time zone as quickly as possible. In April 2014\, we released a mobile application\, Entrain\, for relaying these optimal schedules to travelers crossing multiple time zones. Here I will discuss how the schedules in Entrain are calculated\, as well as new approaches that can make the schedules more robust to real world constraints. I will also discuss data collected through Entrain and future directions for the project\, including integrating mathematical modeling with wearable devices on mobile platforms. \n Speaker(s): Olivia Walch (University of Michigan) UID:36293-5557487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36293 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161011T110404 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IWAP Series Meeting DESCRIPTION:Held in the Prefunction Room UID:34909-5043542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34909 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5760 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T131921 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Achieving Equity in Earth Science Through the Sharing of Social Capital DESCRIPTION:An equitable discipline – one that encapsulates fairness and justice – is reflected by transparency\, avenues for access\, inclusive practices\, and open dialogue. A lack of diversity within a discipline reflects\, at least in part\, a lack of equity. The Earth Sciences are the least diverse discipline among the major sciences\, and they also are facing an unprecedented workforce shortage. How can we respond to this lack of diversity\, and where do we have the potential to make systemic changes that can help the field achieve equity for all?\nIn order to address equity\, institutions need to become more aware of the factors that influence how diverse student populations come to recognize the Earth Sciences as a viable career field. This talk will consider the social capital imparted by mentoring relationships\, the impact of mentoring on sense of belonging\, and the types of mentoring that can lead to the development of mentor trust. Using a mixed-methods approach\, this talk will draw on survey and interview data from undergraduate and graduate students currently pursuing Earth Science careers\, as well as Earth Science professionals. Taken together\, these data paint a picture about the potential for well-planned mentoring relationships to help build systemic equity. UID:33847-4813750@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33847 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161031T163417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Orientation Leader Informational Mass Meeting DESCRIPTION:How will you spend your summer? \n\nIf you are interested in gaining critical skills that employers are looking for\, would like to have a positive impact on the campus community\, and want to have a summer you will never forget\; come and learn more about applying to be a 2017 Orientation Leader.\n\nThis meeting will go over the responsibilities and remuneration of the position\, skills you will gain\, and include a panel of former Orientation Leaders to discuss their experience. UID:35541-5269416@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Mass Meeting LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161215T135202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session. \nPresentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office\, G155 Angell Hall. \nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more. \nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. UID:31885-5974169@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Diversity,Environment,Inclusion,International,Multicultural,Networking,Scholarships,Social Justice,Student Org,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Volunteer LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161011T145435 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Crossroads Ceili DESCRIPTION:Dinner and Show tickets available! Check back soon for more info. UID:33953-4826118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T130531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T230000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Friday Flicks: \"The Breakfast Club\" DESCRIPTION:CCI kicks off our Winter Friday Flicks line up on Friday\, January 6 with \"The Breakfast Club.\" Join us in the Michigan Union Anderson Room at 9pm for this classic!\n\n\"A brain\, a beauty\, a jock\, a rebel and a recluse are forced to spend a Saturday together in high school detention. The five bare their souls to each other then band together against their sadistic and insecure principal in this teen drama featuring the 80s Brat Pack.\" UID:37083-6147495@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37083 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Social LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T180049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170106T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T000000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Wii U at Mary Markley\, Fridays 9 PM - 12 AM DESCRIPTION:Do you like playing Smash 4? How about Mario Kart 8? Or do you just in general enjoy Nintendo games? Lucky for you\, CGC hosts Wii U events at Mary Markley every Friday nights from 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM (not including academic breaks)! Come anytime you want and we'll let you join in on the gaming or you can just watch other members play\, meet the community\, and overall just have a great time. This weekly event is hosted by an Event Coordinator\, Logan Huacuja. Details about the specific room where the event will be happening will be posted in the group chat and our Facebook page. If you have any questions specifically about this event\, please contact Logan Huacuja: lhuacuja@umich.edu UID:35711-5307935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716498@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716414@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716582@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161207T095029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T113000 SUMMARY:Other:Hands-On Demo: Hunting Mammoths and Mastodons?! DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interactive demonstration exploring some of the evidence of mastodon and mammoth interactions with early people who lived in Michigan between 10 and 15 thousand years ago. Visitors will meet the Museum mastodons\, learn about a recent mammoth find\, and discover the interactions between people and these massive mammals by examining stone points and bone casts. Visitors also will learn how museum scientists reproduce important fossils and artifacts by making their own casts to take home!\n\nHands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities\, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.\nSUNDAYS at 3:00 p.m. UID:36645-5761785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum,Science LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224427@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170206T084516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets are discussed in this live star talk\, and includes a trip into space to look at far away objects. We briefly discuss how light that travels to Earth from far\, far away—the distant past—informs science about the Universe we live in today.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. \nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. UID:36641-5761749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161207T093442 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Larry Cat in Space DESCRIPTION:A playful\, imaginative cartoon about an inquisitive cat who stows away aboard a space ship and visits the Moon. Primarily targeted at grades K-3 but enjoyable for everyone\, the show teaches several things about the Moon and includes a short live night sky discussion.\n\nSATURDAYS at 12:30 p.m. UID:36642-5761771@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170206T084516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets are discussed in this live star talk\, and includes a trip into space to look at far away objects. We briefly discuss how light that travels to Earth from far\, far away—the distant past—informs science about the Universe we live in today.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. \nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. UID:36641-5761753@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161208T154722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Rome and the Villa of the Mysteries DESCRIPTION:On this guided tour\, explore the Kelsey Museum's Roman collections and the famous reproduction of the frescoes from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. The original fresco has amazed viewers since it was first excavated\, including Frances W. Kelsey\, the museum's namesake. UID:36731-5794261@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36731 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170103T093514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope DESCRIPTION:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope follows two students as they chat with a female astronomer at a local star party. The students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo’s modifications\, to a child’s spyglass\, to the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the future of astronomy.\n\nSATURDAYS and SUNDAYS at 2:30 p.m. UID:36643-5761776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161207T095029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T153000 SUMMARY:Other:Hands-On Demo: Hunting Mammoths and Mastodons?! DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interactive demonstration exploring some of the evidence of mastodon and mammoth interactions with early people who lived in Michigan between 10 and 15 thousand years ago. Visitors will meet the Museum mastodons\, learn about a recent mammoth find\, and discover the interactions between people and these massive mammals by examining stone points and bone casts. Visitors also will learn how museum scientists reproduce important fossils and artifacts by making their own casts to take home!\n\nHands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities\, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.\nSUNDAYS at 3:00 p.m. UID:36645-5761789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum,Science LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121732 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T151500 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Maryland DESCRIPTION:Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Maryland UID:32641-4594666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Men's Basketball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170206T084516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets are discussed in this live star talk\, and includes a trip into space to look at far away objects. We briefly discuss how light that travels to Earth from far\, far away—the distant past—informs science about the Universe we live in today.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. \nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. UID:36641-5761757@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160927T134202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170107T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Yellow Room Gang DESCRIPTION:The Yellow Room Gang is an octet of Michigan songwriters: \"One Shining Moment\" composer David Barrett\, Detroit native and Great American Song Contest winner Jim Bizer\, contemporary country-folk road warrior Annie Capps\, Irish-American chanteuse Kitty Donohoe\, four-time Detroit Music Award winner Jan Krist\, Michael Hough and David Tamulevich of the \"Music to Cure What Ails You\" duo Mustard's Retreat\, and southeastern Michigan folk veteran Matt Watroba. The Yellow Room is the \"brilliantly yellow\" living room of Tamulevich's house on Ann Arbor's Old West Side\, where gang members meet monthly for musical brainstorming and mutual critique. Come and be a fly on the wall as the exchange of creative ideas flows freely! \"To have any one of these songwriters perform at Trinity House is a real treat\,\" says promoter Bill Keith. \"To have them perform together is unbelievable.\" The Yellow Room Gang is celebrating its 12th year of existence and new music. UID:33142-4693540@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096096@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552478@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716415@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716331@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552563@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716247@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716583@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T151827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:PCAP Facilitator Training DESCRIPTION:PCAP facilitators work in teams to lead weekly creative arts workshops in prisons\, youth detention and treatment centers\, and community settings. Training is required for all facilitators\, including those in PCAP courses and in the volunteer student organization.\n\nRegister by January 4\, 2017 at https://umich.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_08tTjsWr982GleZ.\n\nAll facilitators must complete a training session and sign a facilitator agreement before they begin a workshop. Facilitators in PCAP courses must meet class guidelines. Volunteer facilitators must attend bi-weekly meetings (Wednesdays\, 6-8pm\, 1423 East Quad\, starting January 11). Please email pcapinfo@umich.edu with any questions. UID:37043-6128218@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Community Service,Music,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org,Theater,Visual Arts,Volunteer LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1405 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987590@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446199@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170105T154129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:optiMize Workshop #4 DESCRIPTION:Action-based sessions on Visioning and Strategy Planning\, with a great lunch provided in between! Free and open to all. UID:34357-4916077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34357 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Collaboration,Entrepreneurship,Innovate Blue,Optimize LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224428@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987777@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160912T222922 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Less Than Perfect DESCRIPTION:In our society\, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives\, we learn as much or more from our flaws and failures as we do from our successes. \"Less Than Perfect\" celebrates failure and the lessons it teaches. Featuring objects that span more than 2000 years and four continents\, this exhibition explores the stories they tell about their makers\, their making\, and their use. \n\nThe exhibition—with objects from the Kelsey Museum\, the Museum of Art\, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology— is organized around three themes. \"Failed Perfection\" presents archaeological objects that failed in production to explore how researchers use them to study about ancient technologies. \"Deliberate Imperfection\" features beautiful and finely crafted objects whose makers deliberately introduced asymmetries or other imperfections into their products—and considers why artists choose to make imperfect things. \"Restoring Perfection\" highlights artifacts that were repaired in antiquity by people who strove to restore usefulness and beauty to broken or damaged objects.\n\nTogether these themes allow visitors to ponder the tensions between perfection and imperfection in their own lives and to explore how people in diverse cultures have addressed this divide. UID:30909-4613165@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30909 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Archaeology,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161004T100127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Less Than Perfect DESCRIPTION:In our society\, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives\, we learn as much or more from our flaws and failures as we do from our successes. \"Less Than Perfect\" celebrates failure and the lessons it teaches. Featuring objects that span more than 2000 years and four continents\, this exhibition explores the stories they tell about their makers\, their making\, and their use. \n\nThe exhibition—with objects from the Kelsey Museum\, the Museum of Art\, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology— is organized around three themes. \"Failed Perfection\" presents archaeological objects that failed in production to explore how researchers use them to study about ancient technologies. \"Deliberate Imperfection\" features beautiful and finely crafted objects whose makers deliberately introduced asymmetries or other imperfections into their products—and considers why artists choose to make imperfect things. \"Restoring Perfection\" highlights artifacts that were repaired in antiquity by people who strove to restore usefulness and beauty to broken or damaged objects.\n\nTogether these themes allow visitors to ponder the tensions between perfection and imperfection in their own lives and to explore how people in diverse cultures have addressed this divide. UID:34487-4954407@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34487 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T114457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T140000 SUMMARY:Meeting:WISE Peer Mentoring Round Robin Event DESCRIPTION:Includes lunch\n\nAimed at freshman\, sophomore and transfer students in STEM. Meet with\nyour upper level peers: women from science\, math and engineering\nmajors with a wealth of experience. Bring questions pertaining to\nmajors\, time management\, classes\, research\, internships\, student\norganizations and/or campus jobs. During the event you will receive\nbios off all 14 of our peer mentors and then you will have the\nopportunity to speak in a small group with 3-4 different peer mentors\nof your choosing. Each mentor will be seated at a table and you will\nmove tables every 15 minutes so that you can meet different mentors\nand get different perspectives on your questions.\n\nRegistration is required:\nhttp://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/round-robin/ UID:36186-5485265@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36186 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Science,Social LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 2244 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170108T120051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T180000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Sunday Afternoon Rock Climbing DESCRIPTION:We will be climbing at Planet Rock Ann Arbor this Sunday(Jan 8th) from 1:30 to 6PM. Feel free to join us and have fun. If you are new\, we will be very glad to introduce you to the group.IMPORTANT: \nSign-up for the event at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclgEU6Hp8ZC-OBfSzJoZN-Pjjk-VrIT9IRy9_UucLpLw42Kg/viewform?c=0&w=1Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/935594249910723/ UID:37460-6540065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37460 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Planet Rock CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170206T084516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets are discussed in this live star talk\, and includes a trip into space to look at far away objects. We briefly discuss how light that travels to Earth from far\, far away—the distant past—informs science about the Universe we live in today.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. \nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. UID:36641-5761761@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170108T120053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:7th Executive Board Meeting DESCRIPTION:Seventh Executive Board Meeting: Mason Hall\, January 8th\, Sunday\, 2:30 PM  to 5:00 PM. The room is 3315 MH.There will be an Executive Board meeting on Sunday from 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM at Mason Hall. Attending this meeting is optional and this meeting basically is for anyone who's interested in discussing the club's future and/or interested in securing a leadership position in the club.Some topics to be discussed:Winterfest planning and poster making\, etc. Winterfest is on Tuesday\, Jan 10.Anything else that's of immediate importance for the club's second semesterThe meeting will be specifically at 419 S State St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\, Mason Hall\, room 3315 (if you don't know where that is\, message me on Discord group chat or you may text me through (734) 678-1354 for guidance). UID:37284-6501725@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37284 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170103T093514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope DESCRIPTION:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope follows two students as they chat with a female astronomer at a local star party. The students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo’s modifications\, to a child’s spyglass\, to the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the future of astronomy.\n\nSATURDAYS and SUNDAYS at 2:30 p.m. UID:36643-5761780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161207T095029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T153000 SUMMARY:Other:Hands-On Demo: Hunting Mammoths and Mastodons?! DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interactive demonstration exploring some of the evidence of mastodon and mammoth interactions with early people who lived in Michigan between 10 and 15 thousand years ago. Visitors will meet the Museum mastodons\, learn about a recent mammoth find\, and discover the interactions between people and these massive mammals by examining stone points and bone casts. Visitors also will learn how museum scientists reproduce important fossils and artifacts by making their own casts to take home!\n\nHands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities\, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.\nSUNDAYS at 3:00 p.m. UID:36645-5761793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum,Science LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170206T084516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets are discussed in this live star talk\, and includes a trip into space to look at far away objects. We briefly discuss how light that travels to Earth from far\, far away—the distant past—informs science about the Universe we live in today.\n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. \nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. UID:36641-5761765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T235959 SUMMARY:Auditions:Mass Meeting for 'The Pirates of Penzance!' DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society's informational 'Mass Meeting' will be held on Sunday\, January 8th\, 2017 in the Michigan Room at the Michigan League Building. Come hear about our April 2017 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's international sensation \"The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty.\" A sign up sheet for auditions on January 9\, 10\, and 11 will be available. Directors\, designers and board members will be there to meet and greet longtime Society members and new faces and to talk about our plans for the final production of our 70th season! UID:36824-6616185@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36824 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Room, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T121542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Rachel Johanna Berkowitz\, Flute DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: CPE Bach - Flute Concerto in D Minor\, H.484.1\, Wq.22\; Brown - Arcana\; Dello Joio - Trio for flute\, cello\, and piano\; Debussy - Violin Sonata in G Minor. UID:36956-6076842@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36956 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160926T155243 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170108T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nathan Bell DESCRIPTION:Nathan Bell has lived life. At 56\, the wizened songwriter’s weary voice bleeds experience. He’s seen both sides of the coin—traveled the nomadic\, bohemian path of the hard-luck troubadour\, and found comfort and meaning in the stability of a family\, a home and a near two-decade corporate gig. And now\, with a guitar back in his hands where it should be\, he’s ready to tell the tale. But it’s not just his own story he’s after. It’s a story of America\, of the working classes—both blue and white collar. Bell is a songwriter’s songwriter\, a man who has shared bills with legends like Townes Van Zandt\, Emmylou Harris\, Taj Mahal and Norman Blake. The son of a poet and professor\, he has a keen eye for detail\, and an unapologetic penchant for the political\, populist humanism of his literary heroes John Steinbeck\, Jack London\, and Studs Terkel. With his latest LP\, \"Don’t Do This for Love\, I Do This for Love\" (the third installment in a potent trilogy that began with 2011’s \"Black Crow Blue\" and continued with 2014’s \"Blood Like a River\")\, Bell has created a song cycle that is both moving and timely. \"It’s fairly easy\,” Bell says\, “to come up with a concept built around working men in the traditional sense—miners and factory workers. But there’s also these white-collar guys who thought there was a rainbow at the end of this thing—that if you worked hard and took care of your family\, it paid off. So you gave up things\, you made certain sacrifices. But when you really look at it\, where’s the payoff? A lot of it is gone. And Donald Trump isn’t bringing it back. He’s not the guy\, it’s not the place\, it’s not the time. The middle class is getting screwed\, just not by the people they think because journalism has gotten so bad. Back in the days of the Soviet Union\, when they had no real journalism\, it was up to the artists to fill that role\, and that’s a big part of what I was trying to do on this record.” UID:33957-4826122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33957 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T235959 SUMMARY:Auditions:Mass Meeting for 'The Pirates of Penzance!' DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society's informational 'Mass Meeting' will be held on Sunday\, January 8th\, 2017 in the Michigan Room at the Michigan League Building. Come hear about our April 2017 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's international sensation \"The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty.\" A sign up sheet for auditions on January 9\, 10\, and 11 will be available. Directors\, designers and board members will be there to meet and greet longtime Society members and new faces and to talk about our plans for the final production of our 70th season! UID:36824-6616186@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36824 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Room, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716500@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552479@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716416@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716332@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716248@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716584@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170124T063023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T103000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Breakfast with University Career Center! DESCRIPTION:Join EXCEL fore breakfast and learn about resources for all UMstudents through the University Career Center. UID:37283-6489437@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37283 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:EXCEL Lab (1279) Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499692@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170327T144002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Going Live with Blue Jeans: Real-time audio and video connections for teaching\, research\, meetings\, and events DESCRIPTION:This hands-on workshop provides a quick-start introduction to the Blue Jeans Network service for live two-way connections. Bring guest speakers into your classroom. Teach your class remotely when you are on the road. Construct public events with audiences of thousands of people. Create recordings with the touch of a button. Arrange interviews\, classes\, and special events without regard to the locations of the participants. Connect yourself or your students with places and experiences you and they cannot otherwise access. Join us and learn how to create and manage live connections with this great high-quality service.\n\nRegister for the workshop here: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/?s=blue+jeans UID:37269-6483082@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37269 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center Mac Classroom, 2001-B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655835@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161211T114858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T120000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:OLLI Winter Open House DESCRIPTION:Please join us to learn about the various winter and spring offerings of our 1500 member group for those over 50. Meet old and new friends\, enjoy refreshments\, and preview our new lectures venue starting summer 2017. UID:36778-5871438@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36778 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161211T132755 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T150000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Monday Art DESCRIPTION:You decide what to create in this informal\, year-round class. You can bring bag lunches (no meat please) and stay or drop in for a while. You can work in any medium. If you wish\, we will critique your work. If you want to learn a new medium\, we can help. Occasionally\, we will view DVDs or do new\, experimental work. Please bring materials to start\, along with your enthusiasm. Expect to have fun. Instructors: Barbara Anderson and Nancy Major. This is a continuation of a year-long class. This class for adults over 50 meets Mondays through August 28th. No class on 1/16\, 3/27\, 4/10\, 4/17\, 5/1 and 5/29. UID:36759-5819995@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36759 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446200@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224429@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161202T095615 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Startup Career Fair CFE Icebreaker DESCRIPTION:Get ready for Winter 2017 at the CFE Icebreaker. Learn about the Center for Entrepreneurship’s offerings: undergraduate and graduate courses\, treks\, The Startup Competition\, mentoring and advising\, funding\, workshops and much\, much more!\n\nFor registration\, sponsorship and other information\, visit cfe.umich.edu/scf UID:36486-5632894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36486 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career Fair,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneurship,Innovate Blue,Startup LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987778@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987692@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161209T121554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Redefining Identity DESCRIPTION:Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative\, social\, and professional opportunities of peers\, faculty\, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.\n\n​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness\, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups\, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus. \n\n​​Redefining Identity\nJanuary 9 - 21\, 2017 \nDuderstadt Gallery\n​Reception: Monday\, January 16\, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm\n\nSubmit Your Work\n\nAll graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday\, December 31\, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday\, January 1\, 2017.\n\nSubmit your work to Retaining Identity → UID:36752-5819976@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T181714 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mathematical Biology DESCRIPTION:Speaker(s): Allen Liu (University of Michigan) UID:34532-4959717@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34532 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161222T103942 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Info Session: Advanced Spanish Study Abroad DESCRIPTION:Are you working on or thinking about a Spanish major or minor?\n\nIf you've completed Spanish 277\, you're eligible for any of these spring/summer programs abroad that provide a unique way to continue your Spanish language acquisition.\n• Language and Culture in Salamanca\, Spain (300 level)\n• Intensive Language & Culture in Santiago\, Chile (400 level)\n• Intensive Language & Culture in Santiago de Compostela\, Spain (400 level)\n\nSantiago de Compostela is a spring program. Salamanca and Santiago\, Chile\, run during summer term. Choose the program that fits your schedule best\, and on all 3 earn 6 credits in 6 weeks.\n\nEach program includes excursions to incredible destinations of cultural significance—Segovia\, Avila\, or Madrid in central Spain\, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile\, or the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain.\n\nLearn more about these UM faculty-led programs at the info session on January 9 and how you can earn pre-approved RLL credit at the 300 or 400 level. UID:37085-6147496@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37085 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Latin America,Literature,Majors,Spanish Studies,Study Abroad LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Carillon Recital DESCRIPTION:The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals\, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing\, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells. UID:35477-5235963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170215T162330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad. UID:33562-6457716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Internship LOCATION:LSA Building - 1100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T181715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry & Physics DESCRIPTION:The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence refers to a conjectural equivalence between Gromov-Witten invariants (virtual counts of curves in hypersurfaces) and Fan-Jarvis-Ruan-Witten invariants (virtual counts of curves equipped with a root of their canonical bundle). Originally suggested by Witten\, the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence was made mathematically precise and proved for genus-zero invariants by Chiodo and Ruan in 2008. Moreover\, Chiodo and Ruan suggested an explicit higher-genus correspondence written purely in terms of genus-zero data.\n\nIn this talk\, I will describe the genus-one verification of Chiodo and Ruan's higher-genus conjecture for the quintic threefold. The first hour will focus on discussing the background of the problem and previous results\, including our recent result that provides an explicit formula for genus-one FJRW invariants. The second hour will be devoted to discussing the higher-genus formulation of the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence in terms of quantized symplectic operators\, and the proof of the restriction to the genus-one invariants. This is a report on joint work with Shuai Guo. Speaker(s): Dustin Ross (San Francisco State) UID:35380-5207603@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35380 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T101432 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | Analyzing MicroBooNE Data with Convolutional Neural Networks DESCRIPTION:The MicroBooNE experiment consists of a liquid argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) that sits 470 m from the origin of the Booster Neutrino beam at Fermi National Lab. The goal of the experiment is to advance our knowledge of neutrino-nucleus cross sections and shed light on the MiniBooNE low energy anomaly. The latter is one of several anomalies seen in neutrino oscillation experiments that have been interpreted as hints for non-standard neutrinos. I will discuss the status of MicroBooNE and some of its achievements after one year of data taking. In particular\, I will focus on one effort to use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to reconstruct and select neutrino events. CNNs\, a type of machine learning algorithm\, are often the state-of-the-art approach in many computer vision tasks. For example\, CNNs have found applications ranging from automated human face recognition to real-time object detection for self-driving cars. I’ll describe our first steps in applying CNNs to the task of analyzing neutrino events in LArTPCs. UID:36509-5639325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36509 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Graduate,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T151045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T163000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Info Session: Italian Studies in Rome DESCRIPTION:You don’t need a background in Italian language for this exciting introduction to Italy and its culture.\n\nJoin fellow UM students and faculty in Rome for this annually customized program. Courses focus on various topics each year\, thrown into relief by the dynamic\, historic neighborhoods of Rome. Absorb the local scene through engaging course content and planned excursions in and around Rome. Take 2 classes and earn 3 credits for each.\n\nIn addition to the cultural activities and site visits that complement your coursework\, many extracurricular activities are offered to help you experience Italian culture. Previous activities have included visits to the Vatican\, Mussolini’s Villa\, the Italian Parliament\, and trips to Ostia Antica\, Latina\, and Montecassino.\n\nSummer 2017 courses are “The Roots of the Italian Taste: Revisiting Seven Thousand Years of Italian Food-Ways and Culinary Traditions” and “Discovering Italy.” UID:37035-6128204@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37035 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Economics,Environment,European,Food,History,International,Public Health,Public Policy,Science,Social Justice,Study Abroad LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Italianissimo at Wintefest DESCRIPTION:Visit Italianissimo during Winterfest for information about upcoming events and conversation hours. Chat in Italian and eat Baci chocolate kisses! Ci vediamo lí! UID:37470-6565425@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37470 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T181716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics Seminar DESCRIPTION:We will brainstorm and vote for topics for this semester. There will be cookies! UID:37476-6591150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37476 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T093246 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T190000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Winter Fest DESCRIPTION:Missed Festifall? Looking to increase your student org membership? Register for Winterfest! Orgs may participate either Monday January 9 or Tuesday January 10!!\n\nStudent Org Registration Fee: $25 UID:35471-5232916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35471 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Festival,Student Org LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180053 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T190000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Winterfest 2017 DESCRIPTION:Come join Wolverine CuiZine! We'll be at the Winterfest Day 1 L4!  UID:37521-6616188@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Table L4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T181716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Group\, Lie and Number Theory DESCRIPTION:We give a closed formula for the sum of all Hecke eigenforms on Gamma_0(N)\, multiplied by their odd period polynomials in two variables\, as a single product of Jacobi theta series for any squarefree level N. We also show that for N = 2\, 3 and 5 this formula completely determines the Fourier expansions of all Hecke eigenforms of all weights on Gamma_0(N). This is a generalization of a result of Zagier in 1991 for modular forms of level one.\n\nThis is a joint work with Yoonkyung Park and Don Zagier. Speaker(s): YoungJu Choie (POSTECH) UID:35992-5408303@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35992 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161122T164738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Engineering IA Teaching Orientation DESCRIPTION:EIATO is a required orientation for new IAs to learn important skills in teaching and get the opportunity to practice teaching in front of peers. UID:36220-5494996@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Michigan League - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161215T135202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session. \nPresentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office\, G155 Angell Hall. \nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more. \nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. UID:31885-5974172@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Diversity,Environment,Inclusion,International,Multicultural,Networking,Scholarships,Social Justice,Student Org,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Volunteer LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170215T153222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T203000 SUMMARY:Meeting:WISE - AADL Girls Who Code Club DESCRIPTION:Closed to WISE Ann Arbor District Library Girls Who Code Club members.\nTo be included on the wait list for next year\, please email umwise@umich.edu and include your request\, your daughter's name\, age\, grade\, school and best email to contact in August. (GWC club is for girls in grades 6-12) UID:35862-5354254@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35862 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Bystander Intervention Training DESCRIPTION:Central Student Government is deeply committed to changing the culture around sexual misconduct and alcohol and other drug misuse on campus. This is why we want to empower Michigan students to receive Bystander Intervention training around these important and challenging issues.We have instituted a pilot funding policy\, in which a student organization will only be eligible to claim\, at most\, $1\,000 per semester from SOFC until that group sends at least two of its authorized signers to one Bystander Intervention training facilitated by campus partners. This pilot policy will go in effect at the beginning of next semester\, Winter 2017.** Please only register for one event and mark this in your calendar. Registration is a commitment to attend. Not attending will cause a delay in allowing your organization to claim more than $1\,000. ** UID:36523-5671374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Wolverine Room, Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T235959 SUMMARY:Auditions:Auditions for \"The Pirates of Penzance!\" DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty\, music by A.S. Sullivan\, book and lyrics by W.S. Gilbert\, on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday\, January 9\, 10\, and 11\, 2017\, from 7:00 – 10:00 pm at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) at 1202 Kipke Dr. (near Crisler Center and the U-M Stadium).\n\n\"The Pirates have gathered at Penzance to celebrate the natal day of one of their own - pirate-in-training Frederic\, who is to be released from his indentures on his 21st birthday. Frederic\, who values the concept of 'duty' above all else\, has vowed\, upon his emancipation\, to vanquish his former comrades. Soon the Pirates find themselves preparing for battle with Major-General Stanley\, who escaped from their clutches by prevarication\, even as Frederic finds himself falling in love with Mabel\, the Major-General's daughter. Then suddenly\, new alliances are turned topsy-turvy when Frederic discovers he might not have completely fulifilled the terms of his indentures\, and his duty may once again place him on the side of piracy\, and against both his future father-in-law\, and his chosen bride!\"\n\nAll principal and ensemble roles are available for SATB\, including Frederic (Tenor)\, Mabel (Soprano)\, Major-General Stanley (Comic Baritone)\, Ruth (Alto)\, The Pirate King (Baritone)\, the Sergeant of Police (Bass Baritone)\, and others.\n\nAuditioners are encouraged to attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting on Sunday\, January 8\, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Kalamazoo Room at the Michigan League\, 911 N. University Avenue\, on the U-M Central Campus\, to hear about the production from the directors and designers\, and to sign up from prime audition appointments. Audition times are also available by e-mail at umgassexec@umich.edu\, and walk-ins are always welcome on audition nights.\n\nFor the audition\, please prepare ~32 bars of a selection from musical theater\, comic opera\, or opera\, in English\, and bring a copy of the sheet music for the (provided) accompanist. Also be prepared to read scenes from the libretto. Callbacks may be held on Thursday\, January 12 at 7:00 pm. Production dates for The Pirates of Penzance are April 13-16\, 2017 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League building.\n\nCome join us for a rollicking good time! UID:36825-6667458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Board Meeting DESCRIPTION:Meeting time TBA sometime between 7-10 pm1st Floor Crofoot Room UID:37471-6565426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37471 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T235959 SUMMARY:Auditions:Auditions for \"The Pirates of Penzance!\" DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty\, music by A.S. Sullivan\, book and lyrics by W.S. Gilbert\, on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday\, January 9\, 10\, and 11\, 2017\, from 7:00 – 10:00 pm at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) at 1202 Kipke Dr. (near Crisler Center and the U-M Stadium).\n\n\"The Pirates have gathered at Penzance to celebrate the natal day of one of their own - pirate-in-training Frederic\, who is to be released from his indentures on his 21st birthday. Frederic\, who values the concept of 'duty' above all else\, has vowed\, upon his emancipation\, to vanquish his former comrades. Soon the Pirates find themselves preparing for battle with Major-General Stanley\, who escaped from their clutches by prevarication\, even as Frederic finds himself falling in love with Mabel\, the Major-General's daughter. Then suddenly\, new alliances are turned topsy-turvy when Frederic discovers he might not have completely fulifilled the terms of his indentures\, and his duty may once again place him on the side of piracy\, and against both his future father-in-law\, and his chosen bride!\"\n\nAll principal and ensemble roles are available for SATB\, including Frederic (Tenor)\, Mabel (Soprano)\, Major-General Stanley (Comic Baritone)\, Ruth (Alto)\, The Pirate King (Baritone)\, the Sergeant of Police (Bass Baritone)\, and others.\n\nAuditioners are encouraged to attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting on Sunday\, January 8\, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Kalamazoo Room at the Michigan League\, 911 N. University Avenue\, on the U-M Central Campus\, to hear about the production from the directors and designers\, and to sign up from prime audition appointments. Audition times are also available by e-mail at umgassexec@umich.edu\, and walk-ins are always welcome on audition nights.\n\nFor the audition\, please prepare ~32 bars of a selection from musical theater\, comic opera\, or opera\, in English\, and bring a copy of the sheet music for the (provided) accompanist. Also be prepared to read scenes from the libretto. Callbacks may be held on Thursday\, January 12 at 7:00 pm. Production dates for The Pirates of Penzance are April 13-16\, 2017 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League building.\n\nCome join us for a rollicking good time! UID:36825-6667459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T180051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170109T203000 SUMMARY:Auditions:Mass Meeting for 'The Pirates of Penzance!' DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society's informational 'Mass Meeting' will be held on Sunday\, January 8th\, 2017 in the Michigan Room at the Michigan League Building. Come hear about our April 2017 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's international sensation \"The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty.\" A sign up sheet for auditions on January 9\, 10\, and 11 will be available. Directors\, designers and board members will be there to meet and greet longtime Society members and new faces and to talk about our plans for the final production of our 70th season! UID:36824-6616187@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36824 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Room, Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716501@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552480@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716417@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716333@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552565@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372228@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160824T151601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics: A Review DESCRIPTION:This workshop is a one-day intensive review of common statistical methods of design\, measurement\, analysis and presentation of scientific investigations. The workshop is designed for any scholar engaged in quantitative research UID:32413-5413376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Research,Statistics,Workshop LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T161203 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T233000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Anti- Semitism: What Has Changed Since 1945 DESCRIPTION:Victor Lieberman is the recipient of the 2014 Golden Apple Award\, an annual award granted by students for the best teacher at the University of Michigan. He graduated first in his class from Yale University and received his doctorate from the University of London. His course on the History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict is one of the largest at the University of Michigan. He presents contrasting viewpoints for Arabs and Israelis with equal sympathy for each party. His books have also won prizes from the Association for Asian Studies and the World History Association. The chief journal of history\, The American Historical Review\, has described his recent two-volume study\, Strange Parallels\, as the most important work of history produced so far this century. He will compare anti-Semitism in Europe\, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries\, with contemporary expressions around the world of anti-Semitism and anti- Zionism. UID:37449-6534092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Jewish Studies,Lifelong Learning,Middle East Studies,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655836@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170112T142633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T120000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:ARCHIGRAM EXHIBITION OPENING DESCRIPTION:Exhibition on View January 14 - February 19\nThis exhibition opening reception begins after Dennis Crompton's lecture in STAMPS Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center.\nThis exhibition celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of Archigram\, the British architects whose dynamic and provocative vision of future life brought the pop spirit to the architecture avant garde in 1960s Britain.\nVibrant\, playful\, optimistic\, and iconoclastic\, the visionary architectural projects presented by Archigram in exhibitions\, collages\, drawings and film\, played an important role in 1960s pop culture and have an enduring influence on architecture today. Archigram was founded in London in 1961 around a nucleus of young architects: Warren Chalk\, Peter Cook\, Dennis Crompton\, David Greene\, Ron Herron and Michael Webb. Inspired by pop culture\, advances in technology and the belief that architects had a responsibility to develop new ways of responding to social change\, the group rebelled against the conservative architectural establishment by launching a magazine – entitled Archigram – to express its ideas. \nOrganized by Dennis Crompton for Archigram. Supported by the Johe Fund. \nJoin us also for an opening lecture delivered by Dennis Crompton\, January 13 at 6:00pm in the Walgreen Drama Center's STAMPS Auditorium\, followed by an opening reception for the exhibition at the Liberty Research Annex. UID:37563-6629403@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37563 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170119T091226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T120000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Behind the Scenes Tour! American the Rare: The William L. Clements Library DESCRIPTION:Where can you see an ostrich egg collected in the 1800s\, a 1787 map of the Western Hemisphere engraved and printed by Armenian monks\, and a miniature photo album from 1870?\n\nThe Clements Library\, of course! The Library has been in collecting mode for Americana almost non-stop since it opened in 1923\, and many unusual or extraordinary objects have found a home within its walls.\n\nRegister for a Behind the Scenes tour to learn about this selection of interesting\, remarkable\, and peculiar items by emailing clementsevents@umich.edu or by phone at 734-764-5864. UID:36142-6629275@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Graduate,Graduate School,History,Information and Technology,Lecture,Library,Museum,Politics,Rackham,Undergraduate LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446201@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224430@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161202T100109 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Startup Career Fair: Resume Workshop & Interview Practice DESCRIPTION:Get some advice before the fair from recruiters working for startups as well as advisors at the University of Michigan about your resume!\n\nFor registration\, sponsorship and other information\, visit cfe.umich.edu/scf UID:36487-5632895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36487 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career Fair,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneurship,Innovate Blue,Startup LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987779@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161216T143243 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T124500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Faculty Candidate: Neural circuitry for context-dependent behavior and learning DESCRIPTION:Host: Sara Aton UID:36704-5787603@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36704 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161118T065243 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jens Christopher Schmidt\, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Colorado\, will be presenting a faculty candidate seminar on Tuesday January 10th\, 2017 at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall\, MS II. The title of his talk is: \"Biochemical and Biophysical Mechanisms of Telomerase Recruitment to Telomeres.\" UID:36138-5453605@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36138 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biological Chemistry LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T130249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Environmental Research Seminar: Health effects of the 2008 northern California wildfires: a spatiotemporal approach DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWe investigated health effects associated with fine particulate matter during a long-lived\, large wildfire complex in northern California in the summer of 2008. We estimated exposure to PM2.5 for each day using an exposure prediction model created through data-adaptive machine learning methods from a large set of spatiotemporal data sets. We then used Poisson generalized estimating equations to calculate the effect of exposure to 24-hour average PM2.5 on cardiovascular and respiratory hospitalizations and ED visits. We further assessed effect modification by sex\, age\, and area-level socioeconomic status (SES). We observed a linear increase in risk for asthma hospitalizations (RR=1.07\, 95% CI=(1.05\, 1.10) per 5 µg/m3 increase) and asthma ED visits (RR=1.06\, 95% CI=(1.05\, 1.07) per 5 µg/m3 increase) with increasing PM2.5 during the wildfires. ED visits for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were associated with PM2.5 during the fires (RR=1.02 (95% CI=(1.01\, 1.04) per 5 µg/m3 increase) and this effect was significantly different from that found before the fires but not after. We did not find consistent effects of wildfire smoke on other health outcomes. The effect of PM2.5 during the wildfire period was more pronounced in women compared to men and in adults\, ages 20–64\, compared to children and adults 65 or older. We also found some effect modification by area-level median income for respiratory ED visits during the wildfires\, with the highest effects observed in the ZIP codes with the lowest median income. Using a novel spatiotemporal exposure model\, we found some evidence of differential susceptibility to exposure to wildfire smoke.\n\nShort bio:\nColleen Reid’s research focuses on the interaction of environmental and social exposures on population health with a particular focus on the health impacts of exposures influenced by global climatic changes and society’s responses to those changes. Specifically\, she has led research projects on the health impacts of the 2008 northern California wildfires\, and the creation and evaluation of a national neighborhood-level map of vulnerability to extreme heat events. Trained in environmental epidemiology and spatial exposure assessment at the University of California\, Berkeley\, her post-doctoral training was in social epidemiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Reid is currently an assistant professor in Geography at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. UID:37425-6534065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37425 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Chemistry,Ecology,Environment,Free,Health & Wellness,Lecture,Outdoors,Politics,Pre-Health,Public Health,Public Policy,Science,Social Justice LOCATION:School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 3755 SPH I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161209T121554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Redefining Identity DESCRIPTION:Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative\, social\, and professional opportunities of peers\, faculty\, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.\n\n​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness\, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups\, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus. \n\n​​Redefining Identity\nJanuary 9 - 21\, 2017 \nDuderstadt Gallery\n​Reception: Monday\, January 16\, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm\n\nSubmit Your Work\n\nAll graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday\, December 31\, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday\, January 1\, 2017.\n\nSubmit your work to Retaining Identity → UID:36752-5819977@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170125T063018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Startup Career Fair: What's your Pitch & Ask a Career Advisor DESCRIPTION:Small Companies. Big Impact. It's not what you wear\, it's what you do. \nGet some advice before the Startup Career Fair from a University Career Center Advisor. \n\nTopics include:\n\nCreating and practicing your \"elevator pitch\" to employers\, understanding what Startup companies are looking for\, and\, any other questions or advice you are wondering about. UID:36922-5999951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Carillon Recital DESCRIPTION:The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals\, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing\, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells. UID:35477-5235964@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T142754 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Join the Arts Ambassadors! DESCRIPTION:Want to share your love of the arts? Arts at Michigan is seeking students for our Arts Ambassadors program who live in a Residence Hall or living community (fraternity or sorority house\, co-op\, etc.) and are eager to share their passion for the arts with their peers! Deadline to apply is January 20th. UID:37592-6635780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Culture,Dance,Film,Literature,Music,Networking,Social,Theater,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170215T162330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad. UID:33562-6457731@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Internship LOCATION:LSA Building - 1100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161218T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:String Showcase DESCRIPTION:A monthly performance series featuring the finest among our outstanding SMTD string students. Soloists and chamber music groups will be selected by the faculty to perform on this prestigious event. UID:36148-5456054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T181734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Commutative Algebra DESCRIPTION:This will concern planning of talk topics for the semester. One suggestion has been to have a learning seminar for the commutative algebra background for Bhargav's course\, though people may come and suggest other topics as well. Hope to see you there! Speaker(s): None (University of Michigan) UID:37417-6534051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T181733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Geometry/Topology DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:37386-6527690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37386 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170125T123024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Are You LinkedIn? DESCRIPTION:This program is UROP students only. UID:37351-6508679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37351 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Room 2009 Ruthven Alexander G Museums Bldg 1109 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T101604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Tunable Mid-Infrared Photonics with Phase-Transition Materials DESCRIPTION:This talk will review our efforts to utilize phase-transition materials in mid-infrared optics and highlight relevant related literature. Materials like vanadium dioxide (VO2) and rare-earth nickelates (RNOs) undergo structural and electronic phase transitions that can be driven via thermal\, electrical\, and optical means. These phase transitions result in dramatic changes in electronic properties\, and correspond to large changes in optical properties\, especially in the mid-infrared spectral range where the Drude response dominates. Previously we have demonstrated that VO2 integrated into thin film structures enable temperature- and current-tunable absorbers and reflectors and plasmonic antennas\, as well as thermal emitters with anomalous temperature dependence. \n\nMore recently\, we looked to expand the palette of tunable optical materials by defect engineering VO2 to alter its properties\, and by using less-studied phase-transition materials such as samarium nickelate (SNO). By combining these approaches\, thermally driven phase transitions can be found over a range of critical temperatures from below room temperature to above 100 °C. We are currently demonstrating anomalous thermal emitters using SNO\, which can mask the temperatures of objects from thermal imagers\, and VO2-based metasurfaces with new functionalities using nanoscale defect engineering with ion irradiation. UID:36419-5607183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Graduate,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T080105 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fellowship Funding Workshop DESCRIPTION:Tips for writing your statement of purpose for international fellowship funding applications. \n Advice on: \n Formulating your research question \n Appealing to the selection committee \n Justifying your need for funding \n Defining goals for overseas travel and/or research \n \n II Staff will be on hand to answer questions regarding: \n FLAS \n II Individual Fellowships \n Rackham International Research Awards \n II Samo Alajbegovic Fellowships \n grants from area studies centers \n National grant and fellowship opportunities \n\nWe ask you pre-register at: https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjlCkYCluLavANW4UR0vJb8hhKLEl3EYng0ZFOZGOyqMXbGg/viewform UID:36236-5504681@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36236 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161222T094155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T163000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Info Session: London School of Economics and Political Science DESCRIPTION:Join a global conversation on the full range of social sciences—from economics\, politics\, and law to sociology\, anthropology\, accounting\, and finance—on the University Study in the UK—London School of Economics and Political Science program.\n\nLSE has one of the largest concentrations of applied economic\, financial\, and social researchers in the world. The School offers a full-year study abroad program to international students called the General Course. Earn 12 credits not only in economics but in over 250 courses in social sciences taught across a variety of departments.\n\nLSE consistently receives high ratings for the quality of its teaching and research. It is also home to the world’s largest social science library\, the British Library of Political and Economic Science. The academic-year program goes from October to June with breaks in December and March-April.\n\nLSE holds a well-established Welcome Party for visiting students hosted by the Dean of General Studies and organizes a general social calendar to allow students to meet new people and explore the UK and Europe on a range of day trips and short breaks to locations like Amsterdam and the Scottish Highlands. UID:37082-6147494@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37082 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Business,Economics,European,International,Law,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy,Study Abroad LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T180055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Michigan Pole Dance Society at Winterfest! DESCRIPTION:Come visit us for more details and to get to know other (potential) members. http://www.polarityannarbor.com/michigan-pole-dance-society.html We have a $200 fee for the semester for 20 classes on Tuesdays from 8:30-9:30pm and Sundays at 3:30-4:30pm on campus at Polarity. We have free stickers!! UID:37378-6514678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37378 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T093246 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Winter Fest DESCRIPTION:Missed Festifall? Looking to increase your student org membership? Register for Winterfest! Orgs may participate either Monday January 9 or Tuesday January 10!!\n\nStudent Org Registration Fee: $25 UID:35471-5232917@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35471 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Festival,Student Org LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T180054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Winterfest 2017 DESCRIPTION:Student organization fair. UID:37193-6444483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37193 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161103T121840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Institute Panel: \"New Directions in the Study of the Yishuv: History\, Geography\, Culture\" DESCRIPTION:The study of the Yishuv—the Jewish community in pre-State Palestine— has been undergoing significant changes in recent years. In this panel\, three of the Frankel Institute fellows who come from different disciplines will discuss their work\, as well as the new questions\, approaches and directions that they are bringing to the forefront.\n\nLiora Halperin\, University of Colorado-Boulder\nNoah Hysler-Rubin\, Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design\nLior Libman\, State University of New York-Binghamton\n\nImage courtesy of Zoltan Kluger\n\nIf you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation\, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event. UID:35663-5291730@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35663 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Jewish Studies,Lecture LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161215T135202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session. \nPresentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office\, G155 Angell Hall. \nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more. \nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. UID:31885-5974173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Diversity,Environment,Inclusion,International,Multicultural,Networking,Scholarships,Social Justice,Student Org,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Volunteer LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170125T123016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T194500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Great Career Expo-PREP-Tacular! DESCRIPTION:Come one\, come all! \n\nWinter Career Expo is right around the corner\, so join the University Career Center to prepare yourself for a successful Expo!\n\nThe Great Career Expo-PREP-Tacular will give you all the tools for success at the Expo:\n -5:00-5:30 p.m.: \"Preparing for the Winter Expo\" Presentation \n -5:30-7:45 p.m.- Drop in Advising on resume andCareer Expo quick questions\n\nWe'll also have popcorn\, hot chocolate\, and games!\n\n*Drop in hours are for undergraduate students. Graduate students are encouraged to make an appointment through Handshake for a resume review. \n UID:36912-5999941@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36912 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170105T154452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ZLI Startup Workshop: How to Succeed at Business Plan Competitions DESCRIPTION:Business plan competitions can be a good way to get experience pitching your company. In addition\, you could meet potential investors and perhaps even win some prize money. But there can also be downsides to competing. This 90-minute workshop will help participants determine if/when to enter competitions — and provide “do’s & don’t’s” to help you put your best foot forward in the Michigan Business Challenge and any other competitions you decide to enter. UID:37373-6508705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37373 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business Plan,Entrepreneurship,Innovate Blue,Zell Lurie Institute,Zli LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T181735 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Algebraic Geometry DESCRIPTION:We will plan the semester schedule. Everyone is encouraged and welcome to come! UID:37381-6515035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37381 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170123T164958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Depression\, Anxiety\, and Time Management DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation and Q & A focusing on a topic that impacts student mental health. The presentation will be followed by a support group session to discuss challenges faced when coping with depression\, anxiety\, and mood swings and share successful strategies for managing illness in the context of college life. It will also be an opportunity to connect with other students who may have similar experiences.Visit www.campusmindworks.org for more information\, including group dates and topics. No pre-registration required.\n\nPizza will be served! UID:36495-5632904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Psychology LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170125T123023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T203000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Developing Your Brand: A Night of Professionalism Workshops DESCRIPTION:Interprofessional: Open to all Graduate Students \n\nSessions:Strategic Branding with Linkedin\, Sharpen your interviewing skills\, andSpeak in public with confidence. \n\nCo- Sponsored by Pharmacy FraternityPhi Delta Chi\, American Pharmacists Association Academy of student pharmacist\, UCC\, Toastmasters International \n\nTo register please email Caitlin at CMFERG@med.umich.edu UID:37262-6483074@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37262 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:540 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T123946 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 SUMMARY:Presentation:How to Make the Most of the LSA Internship Forum and an Introduction to Informational Interviewing DESCRIPTION:Planning on attending the LSA Internship forum but don't know what to expect? Come to our session and learn how to make the most of the Internship Forum and how to informational interview.\n\nRSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/wvAOdVfBrmqIOR7w1 UID:37496-6603861@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151222T093127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Michigan College Advising Corps January Information Session DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Michigan College Advising Corps January Information Session! Learn how YOU can help increase the number of first-generation\, low-income\, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education in the state of Michigan. Please visit our website for more information (http://ceo.umich.edu/mcac/)\, or contact mobu@umich.edu directly with any questions. UID:27403-6629405@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Community Service,Culture,Detroit,Discussion,Diversity,Education,Food,Free,Inclusion,Leadership,Multicultural,Networking,Social,Social Impact,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - 2105B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Basketball vs. Indiana DESCRIPTION:Michigan Women's Basketball vs. Indiana UID:32917-4636499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32917 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Basketball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170125T123026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:University Career Center at LSA Internship Forum DESCRIPTION:Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/38868\n\nCome on by and Ask a Career Advisor! \n\nDo you have questions about your resume\, how to craft a cover letter\, and what an elevator pitch is?\n\nCome check out the LSA Internship Forum and learn more about internship experiences and the topics above. \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to umich.joinhandshake.com\, locate the event\, and then click the 'Join Event' button. UID:37501-6610203@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henderson Room Michigan League 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor,MI 48104, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T134122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Native Gardens at Home DESCRIPTION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum director and U-M landscape architecture professor Bob Grese explores approaches for using native plants in home gardens and providing habitat for pollinators. In the second half of the program\, MSU research specialist Julia Brokaw gives a presentation on mason bees and building nest boxes for them. UID:36789-5897149@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36789 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Beekeeping,Ecology,Environment LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T180328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:PPSO Mass Meeting! DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in Pre-Pharmacy? Are you interested in joining a club that connects you with more Pre-Pharmacy students? Join PPSO! The only Pre-Pharmacy Student Organization on campus! Our mass meetings are: Tuesday\, Jan. 10th\, 7-8 pm (3330 Mason Hall) and Wednesday\, Jan. 11th\, 6-7 pm (3330 Mason Hall). Any and all students interested in pharmacy are welcome! Also\, you do NOT have to attend both meetings if you are interested. If you have any questions\, email us: prepharmexec1617@umich.edu.   UID:37174-6312197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37174 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:3330 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T180056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T220000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Weekly Study Tables DESCRIPTION:Weekly Study TablesStarting 1/10/2017Every Tuesday from 7:00-10:00PM in 1014 Tisch Hall UID:37569-6635378@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37569 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Tisch Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170104T181525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Piano Faculty Recital DESCRIPTION:Concert of works by Schumann\, Schubert\, Bartok\, Chopin\, Nancarrow\, and Cunningham\, performed by U-M piano faculty Christopher Harding\, Matthew Bengtson\, Amy I-Lin Cheng\, John Ellis\, Arthur Greene\, Martin Katz\, and Logan Skelton. The Steinway Gallery of Detroit has offered the piano of the legendary Vladimir Horowitz to be used during this recital. \n\nPROGRAM: Schumann- Arabesque in C major\, op. 18\, Christopher Harding\; Schubert- Fantasia in F Minor\, d. 940\, for piano four-hands\, Amy I-Lin Cheng\, Martin Katz\; Bartók- from “Concerto for Orchestra\,” Logan Skelton\; Chopin- Etude in A-flat Major\, op. 25 #1\, Barcarolle\, op. 60\, Arthur Greene\; Nancarrow- Canon B for Ursula\, Matthew Bengtson\; Cunningham- from “Harlem Suite\,” John Ellis UID:36579-5723177@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36579 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161108T142313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170110T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Bill Bynum & Co. DESCRIPTION:Downriver Wayne County resident Bill Bynum writes hardcore country and bluegrass songs steeped in the music his Southern-migrant parents brought to Detroit. Bill was recently profiled by the Associated Press\, and both his calendar and the venues he plays have been growing more crowded lately. \"My music is kind of a Southern roots-based acoustic music\, but I feel like I am very hard to box into a category\,'' he says. \"There's more emotional content to my music than probably most people's.'' It's the truth! With songs both traditional and original\, and a sound that's at once as comfortable as old jeans and as fresh as a new blade of grass\, Bill Bynum & Co. is a band that’s easy to love and hard to quit. Come check out Bill's new band\, featuring stringmaster Drake Lolley\, bassist Scott Kendall\, and fiddler Hessie Mae Hasheian! UID:35617-5280547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T235959 SUMMARY:Auditions:Auditions for \"The Pirates of Penzance!\" DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty\, music by A.S. Sullivan\, book and lyrics by W.S. Gilbert\, on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday\, January 9\, 10\, and 11\, 2017\, from 7:00 – 10:00 pm at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) at 1202 Kipke Dr. (near Crisler Center and the U-M Stadium).\n\n\"The Pirates have gathered at Penzance to celebrate the natal day of one of their own - pirate-in-training Frederic\, who is to be released from his indentures on his 21st birthday. Frederic\, who values the concept of 'duty' above all else\, has vowed\, upon his emancipation\, to vanquish his former comrades. Soon the Pirates find themselves preparing for battle with Major-General Stanley\, who escaped from their clutches by prevarication\, even as Frederic finds himself falling in love with Mabel\, the Major-General's daughter. Then suddenly\, new alliances are turned topsy-turvy when Frederic discovers he might not have completely fulifilled the terms of his indentures\, and his duty may once again place him on the side of piracy\, and against both his future father-in-law\, and his chosen bride!\"\n\nAll principal and ensemble roles are available for SATB\, including Frederic (Tenor)\, Mabel (Soprano)\, Major-General Stanley (Comic Baritone)\, Ruth (Alto)\, The Pirate King (Baritone)\, the Sergeant of Police (Bass Baritone)\, and others.\n\nAuditioners are encouraged to attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting on Sunday\, January 8\, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Kalamazoo Room at the Michigan League\, 911 N. University Avenue\, on the U-M Central Campus\, to hear about the production from the directors and designers\, and to sign up from prime audition appointments. Audition times are also available by e-mail at umgassexec@umich.edu\, and walk-ins are always welcome on audition nights.\n\nFor the audition\, please prepare ~32 bars of a selection from musical theater\, comic opera\, or opera\, in English\, and bring a copy of the sheet music for the (provided) accompanist. Also be prepared to read scenes from the libretto. Callbacks may be held on Thursday\, January 12 at 7:00 pm. Production dates for The Pirates of Penzance are April 13-16\, 2017 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League building.\n\nCome join us for a rollicking good time! UID:36825-6667460@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T142646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T050000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Clustronics on Quantum Many-Body Architecture DESCRIPTION:Quantum many-body problems still remain largely unsolved because their information content grows exponentially with particle number due to interactions. I will overview why identifying particle clusters yields a realistic first-principles description of diverse many-body and quantum-optics problems\, and why it introduces the control of clusters – clustronics – as a powerful approach to realize macroscopic quantum effects. I will discuss how clustronics theory can realistically guide experiments by showing several examples involving semiconductors and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. UID:36513-5639329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Graduate,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716418@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716334@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552566@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716250@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170407T141632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Who belongs at the University of Michigan? Who gets to draw its boundaries? Michigan students have asked and answered these questions for nearly two hundred years. Against a backdrop of local\, national\, and global change\, they have negotiated their place and redefined their responsibilities. At times\, students have debated among each other\, sparred with faculty and administrators\, negotiated with community members\, and contended with politicians. In so doing\, they have shaped the physical campus\, the student body\, the meaning of community\, and the university’s mission as a public institution.\n\nThis exhibit showcases key moments of student expression\, politics\, and culture from the first decades of the university’s existence in Ann Arbor\, through the upheavals of world wars\, and to the social and cultural turmoil of the late-twentieth century.\n\nOn display January 4-February 25\, 2017\, Hatcher Library Gallery (Room 100).\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester initiative is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:35907-5372229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,LSA200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T143443 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): Teacher Tenure\, Performance Screens\, and Teacher Improvement: Tenure Reform in New York City DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nPublic school teacher tenure has been debated for nearly a century. Nearly all of this debate has focused on the two competing goals: the protection of teachers from arbitrary dismissal for political or other non-performance related reasons versus the desire to dismiss teachers who are ineffective. There is virtually no discussion of the potential for tenure to act as a performance screen that improves teacher quality and student achievement. A 2009-10 New York City (NYC) reform of its teacher tenure process offers a unique opportunity to explore the implications of a rigorous tenure performance screen. The reform exposed teachers to higher expectations and resulted in a large increase in the share of teachers having their probationary period extended one additional year rather than being granted tenure.\n\nDoes a more rigorous tenure review process improve the performance of early career teachers? To understand the value of the tenure review process as a performance screen\, we examine the reform’s effect on the performance (value-added) and retention of probationary teachers (first three years of teaching) as well as the impact having the probationary period extended on teacher performance. We employ rich data covering AY 2005-06 through AY 2013-14 that include information available to principals about teacher performance\, final tenure decisions\, and school-\, teacher-\, and student-level covariates. To isolate the causal impact of the more rigorous tenure review\, we estimate difference-in-differences models that compare the differences in performance (value-added) or teachers’ retention decisions between early career (those affected by the reform) and later career (those not affected by the reform) teachers over the pre-reform and post-reform periods. UID:36871-5974272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36871 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Education,Research,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T091514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Zen of Meeting Facilitation DESCRIPTION:A well-run meeting is a joy to behold—and requires an array of skills\, from planning the agenda and setting the tone to managing air time and keeping discussions on track. How do you deal with difficult people\, moderate your own reactions\, and find common ground? How do you determine whether a meeting is even necessary? We'll explore these questions and more in this interactive session.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nRecognize the key components of successful meetings\nIdentify and practice successful facilitation skills\nDiscuss ways to summarize and clarify meeting agreements for accuracy and successful follow up\nApply techniques that increase your conflict management skills\nCreate meetings that have “satisfying arc” and successful pace\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nDeveloping your ability to run productive and collaborative meetings\nIncreasing your people skills\, both in and out of meetings\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone who plans and facilitates meetings UID:36965-6096067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36965 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - LPD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T092852 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Listen Up! Hear What's Important\, Ignore the Rest DESCRIPTION:We are constantly bombarded by noise that makes real listening increasingly difficult. This leads to missing important information\, frustration\, and alienation from others. This workshop will help you take control of your listening environment so you can be a better listener.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nRecognize the importance of silence within a conversation\nDistinguish between verbal noise and true content\nIdentify your own personal listening bad habits\nPractice listening for key words within a conversation\nConstruct questions to assist you in listening more fully to others\nDetermine when listening is most difficult for you\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nIncreasing your ability to listen well\nImproving your overall performance at work and home\nConnecting more fully with others\nDecreasing the noise in your life that prevents you from listening well.\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone who wants to maximize their listening skills and improve interpersonal relations UID:36966-6096069@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36966 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - LPD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161211T122359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:OLLI Study Group Registration Begins Today DESCRIPTION:OLLI offers winter and spring Study Groups on a variety of topics: Art & Architecture\; Current Events\, Law\, Policy & Politics\; Foreign Language\; History & Culture\; Hobbies & Games\; Investing\; Literature\, Poetry\, & Drama\; Music\, Theater\, & Film\; Religion\, Philosophy\, & Spirituality\; Science\; Service Learning\; Social Sciences\; Technology\; and Writing.\n\nOLLI Study Groups are for those over 50\, and may meet once\, 6 or 8 times\, a semester\, all year\, or anything in between. Please go to the OLLI web site for further information about present class listings. On-line and in person registration begin at 9:30 a.m. today.\n\nhttps://olli-umich.org/olli/index.php/member/ctlg#cat-Study%20Groups UID:36779-5871433@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36779 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Registration,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655837@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161201T093146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T113000 SUMMARY:Meeting:RCEC DESCRIPTION:Bimonthly meeting of Residential College Executive Committee UID:36395-5607147@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Leadership LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1807 EQ CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T102939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T110000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Romeo Is Bleeding - Film Screening DESCRIPTION:A fatal turf war between neighborhoods haunts the city of Richmond\, CA. Donté Clark transcends the violence in his hometown by writing poetry about his experiences. Using his voice to inspire those around him\, he and the like-minded youth of the city mount an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet\, with the hope of starting a real dialogue about violence in the city. Will Richmond force Donté to compromise his idealistic ambitions? Or will Donté end Richmond’s cycle of trauma?\n\nMolly Raynor is a poet\, educator and community leader. She has facilitated creative writing workshops in prisons\, juvenile facilities\, halfway houses\, high schools\, teen centers and summer camps and has traveled from coast to coast performing spoken word and organizing youth slams. She’s a two-time Ann Arbor youth poetry slam champion and has coached both the Ann Arbor youth team and the University of Michigan slam team. She’s published two poetry collections and has been featured on National Public Radio. Molly graduated with a Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan in 2006\, where she created her own major\, entitled “Critical Pedagogy & Activism Through the Arts”. After spending six years as a member and leader within several spoken word programs and collectives (the Volume Youth Poetry Project\, Ann Arbor Wordworks and the Cypher)\, Molly moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and founded RAW Talent in 2008. She is the recipient of a Jefferson Award for Public Service as well as a Teachers 4 Social Justice Award. UID:37512-6655087@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Diversity,Film,Free,Multicultural,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987593@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T132649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Conversations on Europe. Hearing Race and Music in Communist East Germany DESCRIPTION:Neo-nazism\, racism\, xenophobia\, PEGIDA\, and skinheads: East Germany has earned a reputation lately as a place hostile to immigrants and to racial and ethnic difference. But\, historians point out\, the region wasn't always this way. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989\, the communist German Democratic Republic prided itself for its anti-racism and commitment to international solidarity. How\, then\, do we understand the stark contrast between East Germans under communism and today? How were generations of East Germans taught to understand racial and ethnic difference? This presentation explores how the East German state was and was not the anti-racist state they claimed to be. Championing African American performers as heroes in the fight against imperialism\, the East German state and the audiences attending African American musical concerts nonetheless found ways to valorize and demonize musical and racial difference. \n \nKira Thurman is an assistant professor of German and history at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Rochester in 2013 where she also pursued a minor field in musicology through the Eastman School of Music. Her research\, which has appeared in \"German Studies Review\,\" the \"Journal of World History\,\" \"Opera Quarterly\,\" and the \"Journal of the American Musicological Society\" (JAMS)\, focuses on the relationship between race\, music\, and national identity in Central Europe. She is currently writing her first book\, which is titled\, \"Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach\, Beethoven\, and Brahms.\" UID:36551-5716224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,European,History,Inclusion,International,Multicultural,Music LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T153024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Culture\, Democracy\, and Development: An Event in Honor of Ronald Inglehart DESCRIPTION:This special occasion celebrates Ron’s career and tremendous contributions to the social sciences and to our center and our department at the University of Michigan.\n\nOur distinguished speakers include: \nAmaney Jamal. Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and Director\, Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University\nAlejandro Moreno\, Professor of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and the Director of public opinion polling at Reforma\nRoberto Stefan Foa\, Lecturer in Political Science\, School of Social and Political Sciences\, The University of Melbourne UID:37520-6610221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Politics LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161209T121554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Redefining Identity DESCRIPTION:Stamps in Color (SiC) is a student led organization dedicated to increasing the creative\, social\, and professional opportunities of peers\, faculty\, and staff of color at the Stamps School of Art & Design. SiC organizes an annual winter semester exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery in partnership with the U-M MLK Symposium. The 2017 exhibition theme: ​​Redefining Identity.\n\n​​Redefining Identity seeks to reject/reveal/debunk society’s definitions of identity and replace it with one’s own vision through a variety of mediums. Judges will look for artwork that best portrays an individual’s sense of self awareness\, ability to challenge misconceptions of ethnic groups\, and best expression of personal or group identities. ​​Redefining Identity features work by undergraduate and graduate students at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and across the U-M campus. \n\n​​Redefining Identity\nJanuary 9 - 21\, 2017 \nDuderstadt Gallery\n​Reception: Monday\, January 16\, 2017 from 7 - 8 pm\n\nSubmit Your Work\n\nAll graduate and undergraduate students at U-M are invited and encouraged to submit up to two pieces to the show.  Deadline to submit work is 10:00 pm on Saturday\, December 31\, 2016. Accepted work will be announced via email on Sunday\, January 1\, 2017.\n\nSubmit your work to Retaining Identity → UID:36752-5819978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170107T062204 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Internet Finance in China DESCRIPTION:This lecture is an overview of the latest development of internet finance in China. internet finance\, similar to Fintech in the U.S.\, has been a burgeoning industry in China in recent years\; it plays a significant role in promoting efficiency and equality of finance development in China. Professor Luo Yu will discuss three main topics. First\, he will discuss the logic behind the rising of internet finance in China and its impact on China’s economy. Second\, he will introduce major business models of internet finance with representative cases including Third-Party Payment\, Online P2PLending\, Credit Reporting and Rating\, and more. Last\, he will analyze the risks of Internet finance\, the supervision policy from China’s financial supervisory authorities\, and future development of the internet finance industry. Insufficient regulation on internet finance at its early stage has resulted in numerous risk scandals in China\, and an integrated supervision framework is being formed.\n\nProfessor LUO Yu is an assistant professor at the School of Finance\, Renmin University of China (RUC). He also serves as the research fellow for various Chinese think-tanks\, such as International Monetary Institute and Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies. His research interest covers money\, banking and financial development. He gives lectures on banking and internet finance. Prior to joining RUC\, he worked for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. He earned his PhD degree in finance from RUC in 2014. UID:37467-6553119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37467 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Business,Chinese Studies,colloquium,Culture,Free,Lecture,Talk LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170105T112354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Social Area Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Title: Affiliation and Social Norm Violation Detection UID:37331-6502335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37331 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Psychology,Social LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160822T143211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T133000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Social Area Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:TBD UID:32344-4555100@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T093232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Writing With Power DESCRIPTION:To attract the attention of today’s busy readers\, you must respond to their need for clarity and brevity in written communication. Learn to overcome “writer’s block\,” and to recognize and avoid common mistakes to deliver information powerfully\, persuasively\, and professionally.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nConstruct sentences that get and hold your readers’ attention\nEdit your writing for clarity and ease of reading\nDetermine when to avoid archaic expressions and common grammar\, punctuation\, and usage errors\nStructure sentences that put more impact into your communication\nIntegrate sound writing techniques to create more powerful letters and e-mails\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nUpdating and improving your business writing skills for more effective and persuasive letters\, reports\, and e-mails\nOrganizing your documents with your readers’ needs in mind\nCreating reader-friendly layouts to highlight important information\nOvercoming obstacles that cause “writers block”\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone who handles correspondence\, develops publications\, prepares reports\, and needs to be able to write quickly under pressure UID:36967-6096071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36967 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - LPD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Carillon Recital DESCRIPTION:The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals\, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing\, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells. UID:35477-5235965@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Music LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170126T123023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T143000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Myers Briggs Program- Senior Capstone (BME 452) DESCRIPTION:This session is only open to Senior Capstone (BME 452) this program is designed to use the MBTI to help students identify their type\, their teammates' type and how it affects the way they approach the project. UID:37010-6108948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37010 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Room 224 Gorguze Family Laboratory 2609 Draper Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170110T142754 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Join the Arts Ambassadors! DESCRIPTION:Want to share your love of the arts? Arts at Michigan is seeking students for our Arts Ambassadors program who live in a Residence Hall or living community (fraternity or sorority house\, co-op\, etc.) and are eager to share their passion for the arts with their peers! Deadline to apply is January 20th. UID:37592-6635781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Culture,Dance,Film,Literature,Music,Networking,Social,Theater,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170215T162330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 SUMMARY:Other:LSA Opportunity Hub Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Drop in (no appointment needed!) to the LSA Opportunity Hub's office hours to talk about opportunities in the US and abroad. UID:33562-6457672@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Internship LOCATION:LSA Building - 1100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T181728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RTG Seminar on Geometry\, Dynamics and Topology DESCRIPTION:In 1900\, Hilbert asked (among many other things) if there are only finitely many n-manifolds locally isometrically modeled on Euclidean n-space. About 10 years later\, Bieberbach proved that all such manifolds have virtually abelian fundamental group\, and used this to solve Hilbert's problem. Inspired by this\, we could study compact manifolds that have an affine structure (instead of a Euclidean structure) and ask what their fundamental groups can be. The Auslander conjecture states that the fundamental group of these manifolds are virtually solvable\, and is still open. I will discuss the proof of this conjecture in dimension 2 (classical) and dimension 3 (Fried-Goldman).\n\n* Not conjectured by Auslander\, but proven** by him. However\, asked*** by Milnor.\n**: Auslander's proof contains a flaw.\n***: For complete affine manifolds\, not necessarily compact ones. Noncompact counterexamples have been found by Margulis. Speaker(s): Wouter Van Limbeek (University of Michigan) UID:37230-6464067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37230 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170126T123030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T163000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Are You LinkedIn? DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a great tool for professional branding\, networking\, and exploration. The University Career Center will provide a hands-on workshop that allows PhD students to learn to effectively use LinkedInto accomplish their career development goals. UID:37586-6635774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37586 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Amphitheatre Rackham 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109,USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170105T122219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS African American Workshop: On Hannah Mary Tabbs: Black Womanhood\, Sex\, Violence\, and Sovereignty DESCRIPTION:Kali Gross is Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University. Her research concentrates on black women’s experiences in the United States criminal justice system between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nShe is author of the award-winning book\,Colored Amazons:Crime\, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love 1880-1910\, and the acclaimed Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race\, Sex and Violence in America. Dr. Gross's writing frequently explores how historical legacies of race\, gender\, and justice shape mass incarceration today. Her short essays and opinion pieces have been featured in BBC News\, The Washington Post\, The Huffington Post\, The Root\, Warscapes\, Ebony\, Truthout\, New Black Man (In Exile)\, the American Prospect and Jet. \nDr. Gross has taught a range of students from those in housing projects in New York City to prisoners at the State Correctional Institution-SCI Muncy to students at colleges and universities across the country. \nShe is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants including a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship\, a Lindback Research Grant\, and two residencies at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.\nDr. Gross received her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. UID:37347-6508675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Women's Studies LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T181729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Financial/Actuarial Mathematics DESCRIPTION:We determine the optimal strategies for purchasing deductible insurance and for investing in a risky financial market in order to minimize the probability of lifetime ruin when the individual is subject to an insurable loss that occurs at a Poisson rate. We specialize to the case for which the casualty loss is constant and insurance is priced actuarially fairly. We learn that the optimal deductible strategy is for the individual to purchase no insurance when her wealth is below a so-called {\it buy level}. However\, when wealth is greater than the buy level\, the individual optimally purchases full insurance coverage.\n Speaker(s): Jenny Young (UM) UID:35695-5305476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35695 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170126T123017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Government Career Track: Using usajobs.gov More Effectively DESCRIPTION:Government Career Track & U-M Students interested in government internships & jobs:\nTraining Session for using usajobs.gov more effectively\n\nUsing usajobs.gov More Effectively\nWed.\, Jan. 11\, 2017\n4:00 - 5:00pm\nMaize & Blue Auditorium - SAB 1st Floor\nConducted by U-M Student Ambassador Kyle Finnegan\, Partnership for Public Service and PSIP Alum\nHosted by the University Career Center UID:36500-5639317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Maize and Blue Auditorium Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170103T085150 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting:LSA Cross Campus Transfer Info Session DESCRIPTION:Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation\, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process\, LSA requirements\, and LSA Advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals. UID:37195-6451143@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37195 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160809T131701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Moving from Career Success to Retirement Success DESCRIPTION:For those anticipating retirement in the next 24 months\, this six-session group on preparing for a satisfying retirement will combine exploration of relevant topics with creative expression and supportive discussion. The focus of this group will be on the transition of retirement and the challenges that come with it -- from questions like \"How will I define myself?\" to “How will I establish priorities and spend my time?”\n\nThe series will help you plan for the non-financial aspects of retirement\, such as redefining who you are\, revisiting what is most important to you\, exploring new interests and opportunities\, and maintaining social connections. You will also learn about what researchers find makes for a fulfilling retirement.\n \nThis series has the capacity for 14 participants\, and is open to all U-M staff\, faculty and students\, as well as the general public. Register here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/moving-career-success-retirement-success/20160805 UID:31888-4437147@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31888 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Retirement,Workshop LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women - Large Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T081845 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Positive Links Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:January 11\, 2017\n4:00-5:30 p.m.\n\nDue to an overwhelming interest in this event\, we have reached seating capacity in our venues. We are sorry for the inconvenience. A video\, requiring U-M login credentials\, of Grant’s session will be posted to our website a week after the event.\n\nMichigan Ross Campus\nRoss Building\n701 Tappan \nRobertson Auditorium\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48109-1234\n\nPositive Links:\nGain inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in people. Learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics\, students\, staff\, and leaders.\n\nPositive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross\, and are free and open to the public.\n\nAbout Grant:\nAdam Grant is Wharton’s top-rated professor and a New York Times writer on work and psychology. He has been recognized as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers\, Fortune's 40 under 40\, and the 100 most creative people in business. Previously\, he was a record-setting advertising director\, a junior Olympic springboard diver\, and a professional magician.\n \nGrant is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 35 languages. Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink and Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success.\n \nWatch Grant’s TED talk with over 4 million views: “The surprising habits of original thinkers.”\n\nHosted by: \nJane Dutton\, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations\; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology\n\nSponsors:\nThe Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Learning & Professional Development\, Sanger Leadership Center\, Tauber Institute for Global Operations\, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies\, and Diane and Paul Jones (MBA ‘75)\, for their support of the 2016-17 Positive Links Speaker Series. UID:36742-5800712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Discussion,Free,Leadership,Lecture,Research LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T114200 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:RC Festiforum DESCRIPTION:A chance for RC students to investigate RC forums and join with like-minded students. RC Forums are student-led groups formed around a shared interest. UID:37492-6603856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Service,Festival,Food,Free,Inclusion,Leadership,Networking,Social LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Lower Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T181730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry DESCRIPTION: Kodaira vanishing is the most famous vanishing theorem in algebraic geometry. After reviewing Kodaira-Nakano vanishing\, I will introduce its generalization to mixed Hodge modules due to Saito and a recent Kawamata-Viehweg type vanishing for pure Hodge modules. In order to understand Q-divisors with normal crossing support\, I will introduce log-D modules and construct a special kind of log-D modules\, Multi-indexed Deligne extensions from C-local systems. After this\, I will deduce a Kawamata-Viehweg type vanishing for log-variations of Hodge structures (log-VHS). If time allowed\, I will also mention how to construct multiplier subsheaves for Hodge modules based on log-VHS which generalizes multiplier ideal sheaves. Speaker(s): Lei Wu (Northwestern University) UID:37234-6470392@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37234 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170126T123030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Are You LinkedIn? DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a great tool for professional branding\, networking\, and exploration. The University Career Center will provide a hands-on workshop that allows PhD students to learn to effectively use LinkedInto accomplish their career development goals. UID:37588-6635776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37588 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Amphitheatre Rackham 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109,USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161215T135202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session. \nPresentations are every weekday class is in session from 5–5:30pm in the CGIS Office\, G155 Angell Hall. \nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more. \nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. UID:31885-5974174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Diversity,Environment,Inclusion,International,Multicultural,Networking,Scholarships,Social Justice,Student Org,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Volunteer LOCATION:Angell Hall - CGIS Office, G155 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170126T123019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T194500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Great Career Expo-PREP-Tacular! DESCRIPTION:Come one\, come all! \n\nWinter Career Expo is right around the corner\, so join the University Career Center to prepare yourself for a successful Expo!\n\nThe Great Career Expo-PREP-Tacular will give you all the tools for success at the Expo:\n -5:00-5:30 p.m.: \"Preparing for the Winter Expo\" Presentation \n -5:30-7:45 p.m.- Drop in Advising on resume andCareer Expo quick questions\n\nWe'll also have popcorn\, hot chocolate\, and games!\n\n*Drop in hours are for undergraduate students. Graduate students are encouraged to make an appointment through Handshake for a resume review. \n UID:36913-5999942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36913 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center office University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T105141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Bonderman Info Session (Michigan Union) DESCRIPTION:The Bonderman Fellowship offers graduating LSA seniors $20\,000 to travel the world. They must travel to 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations. Bonderman Fellows engage with cultures\, people\, and areas of the world with which they are not familiar\, providing them the opportunity to develop entirely new perspectives.\n\nUM is one of only two schools—along with the University of Washington—to offer the Bonderman award. David Bonderman traveled internationally as a Sheldon Fellow after graduating from Harvard Law School in the 1960s\, and that experience shaped the rest of his life. He created the Bonderman Travel Fellowship in 1995 to provide students with a similar opportunity. Fellows make their own travel itineraries and\, because this is meant to be an individual experience\, cannot engage in formal study at a foreign university\, conduct formal research\, or travel with a guest or organized group.\n\nPizza and other refreshments will be served at all Bonderman info sessions.\n\nAfter this 30-minute info session in the Union\, advisors will be available for another 30 minutes to answer questions. UID:35270-5154630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35270 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Asia,Graduate,International,Latin America,Middle East Studies,Southeast Asia,Study Abroad LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180332 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Biweekly meeting DESCRIPTION:Free pizza and an event that varies week-to-week! Possible meetings include: speakers\, documentaries\, working meetings and more. UID:37278-6489405@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37278 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Baer Room (2906 Cooley) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Bystander Intervention Training DESCRIPTION:Central Student Government is deeply committed to changing the culture around sexual misconduct and alcohol and other drug misuse on campus. This is why we want to empower Michigan students to receive Bystander Intervention training around these important and challenging issues.We have instituted a pilot funding policy\, in which a student organization will only be eligible to claim\, at most\, $1\,000 per semester from SOFC until that group sends at least two of its authorized signers to one Bystander Intervention training facilitated by campus partners. This pilot policy will go in effect at the beginning of next semester\, Winter 2017.** Please only register for one event and mark this in your calendar. Registration is a commitment to attend. Not attending will cause a delay in allowing your organization to claim more than $1\,000. ** UID:36524-5671375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36524 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Wolverine Room, Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170328T132423 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:PCAP Membership Meeting DESCRIPTION:PCAP MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS are held every other Wednesday from 6-8pm in East Quad\, at 701 E. University Avenue\, in the RC. The strength of the PCAP Community rests on an enduring commitment to consistently show up\, engage in open dialogue and access supportive resources. Workshop Facilitators who are NOT students must attend all meetings. UID:37038-6128209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37038 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Service,Music,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org,Theater,Visual Arts,Volunteer LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1423 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:PPSO Mass Meeting! DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in Pre-Pharmacy? Are you interested in joining a club that connects you with more Pre-Pharmacy students? Join PPSO! The only Pre-Pharmacy Student Organization on campus! Our mass meetings are: Tuesday\, Jan. 10th\, 7-8 pm (3330 Mason Hall) and Wednesday\, Jan. 11th\, 6-7 pm (3330 Mason Hall). Any and all students interested in pharmacy are welcome! Also\, you do NOT have to attend both meetings if you are interested. If you have any questions\, email us: prepharmexec1617@umich.edu.  UID:37175-6312198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37175 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:3330 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170109T001734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T193000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:First MLift Meeting! DESCRIPTION:Crush your New Year's resolution with MLift workouts and seminars on nutrition\, training\, and other health and fitness topics given by local health and fitness companies and professionals within the University! \n\nJoin us in room 1469 in Mason Hall on January 11 for our first meeting to learn more and get involved! UID:37478-6597503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Fitness,Health & Wellness,Inclusion,Kinesiology,Nutrition,Student Org LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1469 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T193000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:First MLift Meeting! DESCRIPTION:Crush your New Year's resolution with MLift workouts and seminars on nutrition\, training\, and other health and fitness topics given by local health and fitness companies and professionals within the University!Join us in room 1469 in Mason Hall on January 11 for our first MLift meeting to learn more!  UID:37479-6603474@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1469 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T134421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Native Plant Seed Cleaning and Exchange DESCRIPTION:Come and celebrate a new growing season with a demonstration of seed cleaning techniques (includes ritual fire for the milkweed). Bring your own native plant seeds to share or just leave with what you need. Presented with Wild Ones Ann Arbor. UID:36790-5897150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36790 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Environment LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170403T094320 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Environmental Justice Learning Circles DESCRIPTION:The last Environmental Justice Learning Circle will focus on technology access and environmental justice. Please join us! UID:36646-5761797@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Environment,Social Justice,Sustainability LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Conference Room A (second floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161031T163417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Orientation Leader Informational Mass Meeting DESCRIPTION:How will you spend your summer? \n\nIf you are interested in gaining critical skills that employers are looking for\, would like to have a positive impact on the campus community\, and want to have a summer you will never forget\; come and learn more about applying to be a 2017 Orientation Leader.\n\nThis meeting will go over the responsibilities and remuneration of the position\, skills you will gain\, and include a panel of former Orientation Leaders to discuss their experience. UID:35541-5269417@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Mass Meeting LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170322T090002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T203000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Peer Led Support Group DESCRIPTION:SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly\, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities\, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault\, intimate partner violence\, sexual harassment\, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities\, ages\, and genders are welcome to participate\, as long as they are University of Michigan students. UID:37669-6655056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37669 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact,Social Justice LOCATION:Michigan Union - 1551 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161202T100324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Startup Career Fair: Startup Panel DESCRIPTION:Hear from entrepreneurs from various startups about the startup culture and why you should work for a startup! There will be time at the end to network with companies attending.\n\nFor registration\, sponsorship and other information\, visit cfe.umich.edu/scf UID:36488-5632896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career Fair,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneurship,Innovate Blue,Startup LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180100 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T220000 SUMMARY:Auditions:Good News Christian A Cappella Auditions DESCRIPTION:Good News Christian A Cappella is looking for students passionate about their Christian faith and interested in singing. We are a co-ed a cappella group comprised of 10-15 undergraduate and graduate student singers at the University of Michigan. Auditions are drop in and will last about 15 minutes. To audition please prepare the verse and chorus of a song to sing for us. You will also be asked to complete short sight reading and rhythm exercises and to share a little of your testimony. We are looking for all voice parts\, but are especially in need of basses. If you have any questions contact gnsteam@umich.edu. Auditions will be in the basement of the MLB.  UID:37276-6489071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Modern Languages Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T220000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Mswing Open Dance DESCRIPTION:Come and Learn how to swing dance in a casual and fun environment. No experience needed.  UID:36126-5450839@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36126 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Room D 3rd Floor Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170111T180057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170111T220000 SUMMARY:Auditions:Auditions for \"The Pirates of Penzance!\" DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society (UMGASS) is holding auditions for The Pirates of Penzance\; or\, the Slave of Duty\, music by A.S. Sullivan\, book and lyrics by W.S. Gilbert\, on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday\, January 9\, 10\, and 11\, 2017\, from 7:00 – 10:00 pm at the Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) at 1202 Kipke Dr. (near Crisler Center and the U-M Stadium).\n\n\"The Pirates have gathered at Penzance to celebrate the natal day of one of their own - pirate-in-training Frederic\, who is to be released from his indentures on his 21st birthday. Frederic\, who values the concept of 'duty' above all else\, has vowed\, upon his emancipation\, to vanquish his former comrades. Soon the Pirates find themselves preparing for battle with Major-General Stanley\, who escaped from their clutches by prevarication\, even as Frederic finds himself falling in love with Mabel\, the Major-General's daughter. Then suddenly\, new alliances are turned topsy-turvy when Frederic discovers he might not have completely fulifilled the terms of his indentures\, and his duty may once again place him on the side of piracy\, and against both his future father-in-law\, and his chosen bride!\"\n\nAll principal and ensemble roles are available for SATB\, including Frederic (Tenor)\, Mabel (Soprano)\, Major-General Stanley (Comic Baritone)\, Ruth (Alto)\, The Pirate King (Baritone)\, the Sergeant of Police (Bass Baritone)\, and others.\n\nAuditioners are encouraged to attend the UMGASS Mass Meeting on Sunday\, January 8\, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Kalamazoo Room at the Michigan League\, 911 N. University Avenue\, on the U-M Central Campus\, to hear about the production from the directors and designers\, and to sign up from prime audition appointments. Audition times are also available by e-mail at umgassexec@umich.edu\, and walk-ins are always welcome on audition nights.\n\nFor the audition\, please prepare ~32 bars of a selection from musical theater\, comic opera\, or opera\, in English\, and bring a copy of the sheet music for the (provided) accompanist. Also be prepared to read scenes from the libretto. Callbacks may be held on Thursday\, January 12 at 7:00 pm. Production dates for The Pirates of Penzance are April 13-16\, 2017 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League building.\n\nCome join us for a rollicking good time! UID:36825-6667461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Student Theater Arts Complex (STAC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR